User:Sam Sailor/Notes/Mea culpa

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Post-observational learning from own mistakes.

July
All goes decently well until I discover Twinkle three weeks into editing.
 * 2013-07-13
 * Special:Diff/564129841 (Requesting speedy deletion (CSD G3). (TW))
 * What went wrong? That Mohammad Javad Abedi Ostad should be a football or tennis player is, I guess, a young man's fantasy (see User talk:Mohammad Javad Abedi Ostad), but tagging G3 here was wrong, it is just an article being hijacked.
 * What should I have done differently? Looked more carefully in the article history.
 * Mitigating actions? Yes, I realized the mistake, and half a minute later I undid myself in Special:Diff/564129841/564129898. Then I undid the vandalizing edit in Special:Diff/564129898/next. I also checked what else User:Mohammad Javad Abedi Ostad had been doing, tagged Mohammad Javad Abedi Ostad with G3, reverted him on Persepolis F.C. in Special:Diff/564131697, and, considering the many previous warnings on his talk page, reported him at AIV in Special:Diff/564132049. The account was blocked.
 * Notes: What I failed to also do was to remove the (Notification: speedy deletion nomination of William Atashkadeh. (TW)) posted in Special:Diff/564129865. I have since removed it in Special:Diff/844012276.
 * 2013-07-14
 * Special:Diff/564219929 (Added unreferenced tag to article (TW))
 * What went wrong? First, since this is a BLP, it is the wrong template, the right one would have been BLP unsourced. But it is simply plain laziness not to try and source the article.
 * What should I have done differently? Found at least one good source to add.
 * Mitigating actions? No, and it gets worse: two days later I add a prod blp in Special:PermaLink/564519859 But several years later: added citations in Special:Diff/844082192/844102785 and Special:Diff/844102785/next.
 * Notes: I can see other cases like this in the following weeks where I add either unreferenced or BLP unsourced to articles instead of making an effort.
 * 2013-07-16
 * Special:Diff/564498181, Special:Diff/564498309, and Special:Diff/564499329 all were (Proposing article for deletion per WP:BLPPROD. (TW))
 * What went wrong? It is not against the rules to tag unsourced BLPs with BLPPROD, but it can result in blue links in one's PROD log.
 * What should I have done differently? A bit of WP:BEFORE and try to source the articles.
 * Mitigating actions? Years later, I added sources to all three articles in Special:Diff/841449468/844207695, Special:Diff/818902918/844208367, and in Special:Diff/824395269/844209402.
 * Notes: Every time you feel like tagging, ask yourself "can I do something else, something that will help build the encyclopedia?"
 * Special:Diff/564504653/564505064 (Requesting speedy deletion (CSD A7). (TW))
 * What went wrong? Seriously misfire with the Twinkle gun only 13 minutes after article creation.
 * What should I have done differently? Either stayed away or, as always, helped with sourcing. "first Malaysian (and first Tamil) to conquer the summit of Mount Everest" is a WP:CCS.
 * Mitigating actions? Years later, source added in Special:Diff/838473586/844210355
 * Notes: This is a typical newbie mistake. We discover Twinkle and think we are oh-so-efficient.
 * Special:Diff/564539840 (Added no footnotes tag to article (TW))
 * What went wrong? The tag is correct, but it's another one of those "I'm too lazy to help out with building the article"-tags.
 * What should I have done differently? I could have made citations out of the bare URLs, and stuck them into the article instead.
 * Mitigating actions? I actually returned four days later and added a cite book in Special:Diff/565071945, good try. Back in 2013, I was oblivious of WP:SPS, and I have discovered in June 2018 that the book was published via CreateSpace, a title that is on WP:LSP, so I have removed it and added a better citation.
 * Notes: The learning curve can be steep.