QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Tue 15th June 2010, 5:22pm)
Would somebody like to clue me on what these people do? If it involves reviewing IP-edits in some queue for articles that are sprotected, I'm certainly not playing. Personally, they can stay there in limbo forever, as far as I'm concerned.
Does this in any way affect my ability to edit as a nameuser?
yes, it
seems so (I assume "Autoconfirmed" = nameuser):
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Can edit; a new revision is available immediately, but not displayed by default until a reviewer or administrator accepts the edit.
I loved this explanation:
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Reviewers are experienced users who are granted the ability to accept other user's edits on pages protected by pending changes. Reviewers are expected to have a minimal editing history, know what is and what is not vandalism and be familiar with basic content policies. More details are provided at Wikipedia:Reviewing#Becoming a reviewer.
Reviewer rights can be granted by administrators, at their discretion based on the above guidelines.
...given that, as of now, Jimbo's userpage still defiantly proclaims:
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Statement of principles
[...] For example: rather than trust humans to identify "regulars" correctly, we must use a simple, transparent, and open algorithm, so that people are automatically given full privileges once they have been around the community for a very short period of time.
[...]"You can edit this page right now" is a core guiding check on everything that we do. We must respect this principle as sacred.
so, meh.
This post has been edited by Subtle Bee: 
Wikipedia:Pending changes
