Wikipedia:Editor review/Buggie111

Buggie111
I feel that, since my regestration at the end of November, I have improved a bit by editing mainspace articles and reverting vandalisim, but I am trying to do more, and want to know in whch areas I could help the most Buggie111 (talk) 03:45, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

 Questions


 * 1) What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
 * Most of my contributions are either Russian, Military History or Vide Game related. I am particuarly proud of my start on Bronnitsy, and my "work" on Battle of Resaca.
 * 1) Have you been in any disputes over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * Nope, never. Besides once. The user did not answer on his talk page. No biggie. Here is the incident: and, edit and talk page respectivly.
 * Nope, never. Besides once. The user did not answer on his talk page. No biggie. Here is the incident: and, edit and talk page respectivly.

 Reviews 


 * Okay, this is my first review, so tell me if you want some expansion on it.
 * From what I can see, your vandalism reversion is pretty good. A couple leapt out at me though, such as this. In that case, it was pretty obvious vandalism. Editing tests are usually of the "can I really edit this?" variety or altering coding in a minor way to see what it does. The random gibberish letters and the insertion of maths coding (???) pretty much guarantees that it is vandalism.
 * You seem to have some confidence issues here and there. Take this edit for example. If you think a page is being hit too hard by vandals, say so. Read the protection policies and, if you think you've got a chance at getting the page protected, go here to request it. It sometimes takes a while to get around to your report, but it'll happen (and sometimes, by the time it gets checked, the vandalism has died down to the extent that it doesn't need protecting any more, which works to Wikipedia's benefit).
 * To expand on Juliancolton's response to your question here, contributions are only deleted when the article is. Your edits themselves are not a problem. If an edit on its own is deleted, then it was oversighted. For most people, this happens when you're reverting an edit made by something that needs to be oversighted (sometimes your edit summary is blanked out when it contains "Reverted edits by [highly offensive username here] to last revision by User:Normal Guy" or the likes of that). If one of your edits needs to be oversighted, trust me when I say that you'll know about it.
 * One concern I have is your edit count to your userspace. Wikipedia generally frowns upon those with huge amounts of edits to their userspace. While I appreciate that the articles you're working on there contribute to this, you have a lot of edits simply to your userpage.
 * One question I have is who was the user that you had a disagreement with? I couldn't see who it was. Can you provide diffs of your message to them and your issue with them? I may have some advice on how to better handle things in future depending on what I see.
 * Moving back to vandalism, you seem to do a fairly good job of it. If I were you, I'd start experimenting with Twinkle. It allows an easier time reverting vandalism and warning people (and reporting to Administrator intervention against vandalism if it comes to it). When you've read the Twinkle manual, you can experiment on this page if you feel you need to. If you're uncertain, this page details the types of warnings you can hand out rather well. I see you requested rollback, but failed. After a while using Twinkle to revert vandalism (anywhere between a few weeks and a few months, depending on how many vandals you revert), you should think about re-applying for it. It's a very useful tool and allows you to use Huggle to revert vandalism incredibly quickly.
 * All in all, I'd say you're a fairly good editor, probably a bit above the standard I generally expect with users who've been around the length of time you have. Keep up the good work and, like I said, if you want me to expand on anything, give me a prod. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 22:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Update: Thank you for the diffs. While I'm not familiar with the fandom, so I can't say the terminology for certain, I would be inclined to say that, while arguments can be made for both, I personally agree that it should be "Orcish" rather than "Orc." However, I believe you handled yourself fairly well. You were cool and collected. You stated your reasons, both in the edit summary of the original edit and again to Izno's talk page with no hostility present in either. If that was your only dispute so far (trust me, there will be others), then great job. I hope you can handle all future situations like that.
 * One thing I missed was a count of your edit summary usage. From the looks of that, it's almost perfect. Again, good job. Leaving helpful edit summaries tells other users exactly what you're doing and can prevent heated arguments.
 * I think this is about everything I have to say. Keep up the good work and I hope to see you around in the future. If you need any help or advice, feel free to ask me. I'm always happy to help out. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 13:46, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Just a quick review from me. You are off to a good start, and I cannot really think of anything to say that Thejadefalcon didn't already cover. Keep up the good work, continue using edit summaries 100% of the time, and never be worried to ask another user if you have any questions. I am sure either myself or Thejadefalcon would be happy to help any time. In your initial statement you asked if there were any other areas that could use help, and for those I have two suggestions. The first is broad, try joining a WikiProject which falls under your interest, as most maintain a list of areas to improve, and have noticeboards for relevant discussions and such. The second suggestion is Redirects for Discussion, an area which gets little discussion compared to others. It is used to discuss the usefulness of redirects and delete misleading/confusing ones. However this is not to everyones taste, so if you have no interest in the behind-the-scenes navigational aids then it may not be for you, but if it sounds interesting I encourage you to check it out! Anyway, keep up the good work, hope this review helps, feel free to contact me with any questions. --Taelus (talk) 16:31, 4 February 2010 (UTC)