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![]() | This page in a nutshell: Simple English Wikipedia administrators (who are trusted users already) may temporarily use or give users a "flood flag" when doing repetitive, non-controversial edits or actions to avoid flooding New changes (NC) and related pages. This is of benefit for NC patrollers and all other parties making use of that page. |
Users who are given the flood
flag can make changes to Wikipedia as normal, but these changes do not show in the New Changes feed. It is normally given to users by administrators for a short time and only while they are making a large number of the same changes to Wikipedia. This stops the changes from making it hard for other editors to use new changes feed to review changes by other users that need it. After the user is done making the high number of changes to Wikipedia, the flood flag is normally removed.