Recently a change was added without consensus here which added Please note that when reviewing days of the year pages, all new additions require a direct citation per WP:DOYCITE.
I feel this goes against General criteria and Acceptable edits and as such removed it. It does not fit any of the exsisting General criteria and is directly opposed to the Acceptable edits part that states It is not necessary for you to ensure compliance with the content policies on neutral point of view, verifiability and original research before accepting, but of course you are free to uphold them as you would normally with any edit you happen to notice. For example, in case of additions for which you can find no reference in the article but estimate unlikely to be vandalism, treat them as you would treat any such edit: do nothing, tag as needing citation, provide an appropriate citation, or revert – depending on the situation at hand.
PackMecEng (talk) 02:58, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Here's a suggestion for a formal RFC at VPP, please feel free to adjust wording as needed: Schazjmd (talk) 16:38, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello friends. I've got a couple hundred PC reviews under my belt, and I'm starting to see all the common scenarios pretty clearly now.
I'd like to suggest that we add an "Optional criteria" section to the guideline, where we can uncontroversially put "suggestions" for common scenarios, without needing to modify the General criteria (aka the minimum criteria/strict criteria). Here's a link to my draft. Wikipedia:Tips for pending changes reviewers. Transcluded below:
This page is an optional, non-binding list of tips, suggestions, and criteria for pending changes reviewers to apply while doing pending changes patrol. This is in addition to the required criteria laid out at Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes § General criteria.
The question to think of when reviewing an edit is If this page was not pending-changes protected, do you think it would be reverted? If the answer is yes, then revert the edit. If the answer is no, then accept it. Also keep in mind these particular exceptions to the rule: