Wikipedia:Editor review/CultureDrone

CultureDrone
Since tomorrow (11th June) will be my first anniversary editing (ta da!), I thought it was time I got an opinion on what I'd been doing to date. Most of my edits have been small - categorising, fixing redlinks etc., but I have been wikifying articles where I can, with some redirecting, CSDs, prods and AfD's throw in, and have started a few new articles. Since I may consider applying for admin coaching in 6 months or so, I need to be sure that I've got the day-to-day stuff correct before I move into the more contentious areas required for potential admins - more AfDs, comments on RfAs, vandal fighting etc. Or in other words, I want to be sure I can walk before I even think about running... ! CultureDrone (talk) 09:11, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

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Review by LAAFan I see many good things about you. You provide an edit summary, a majority of your edits are to the mainspace, and you rarely talk to other users. My suggestions for you would be to find one article that you can maybe get a DYK, or GA, out of, since I saw your most edited page was only edited 14 times. I would also try to find an admin area you're very good. By quickly looking through your contributions, I see you're familiar with the deletion process, so I would suggest that. Also, try to cut down on the maintenance tags, especially if you can fix it on the spot. Finally, I hate to do this, but since I reviewed you, would you mind reviewing me? It would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.-- LAA Fan sign review 00:38, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

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 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * When I've looked at other editors' answer to this question - both here and on the RfA pages, the majority seem to say they're most happy about articles x, y and z which they created. Since I haven't created many pages yet, and the ones I have are fairly small, I can't claim pride about some Wikipedia equivalent of 'War and Peace'. However, I'm happy with the ones I've created - and none have been deleted yet - I guess most of my pleasure so far has come from my, what has been termed, 'Wikignome' activity in terms of numerous general small improvements (hopefully !) to Wikipedia as a whole. However, this Wikignome has ambitions - turn into a swan/butterfly/stained glass window/mushroom... whatever gnomes turn into.... bigger gnomes I suspect !
 * 1) Have you been in any conflicts 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?
 * The closest I came to a conflict was the AfD for Back garden - I proposed it for deletion, believing it to non-notable in itself, and the author became somewhat over enthusiastic in their responses, accusing me of making "wild and false accusations" - which I hadn't (it's still on his talk page if you're interested). However, once I saw that the consensus was to keep the article, my opinion was 'fair enough, that's what the community wants' and moved onto another article - no big deal - it's not a declaration of war after all :-) In this case, since consensus was against me, I accepted the decision, and that's the policy I'll always adopt, as it's one of the main principles of WP.
 * The closest I came to a conflict was the AfD for Back garden - I proposed it for deletion, believing it to non-notable in itself, and the author became somewhat over enthusiastic in their responses, accusing me of making "wild and false accusations" - which I hadn't (it's still on his talk page if you're interested). However, once I saw that the consensus was to keep the article, my opinion was 'fair enough, that's what the community wants' and moved onto another article - no big deal - it's not a declaration of war after all :-) In this case, since consensus was against me, I accepted the decision, and that's the policy I'll always adopt, as it's one of the main principles of WP.