Wikipedia:Editor review/Curtius

User:Curtius
I am a new editor. I have spent a fair bit of time on a couple of pages and am looking for advice on style, level of detail in content, etc. Curtius 06:43, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

 Reviews 


 * Currently, you have almost as many edits to your user page than articles – 67 edits to User:Curtius and 72 total mainspace edits. (See your edit count using the 'Wannabe Kate' tool for the specifics.) Of the 72 mainspace edits, more than half are to Roman Republican coinage. These are not bad things by themselves, but many of your edits come only one or two minutes apart, meaning you could probably be using the 'Show preview' button a little more before you save the page. Frequent saves of small edits – not minor edits, 'cause there's a difference – tend to inflate a user's contributions, and it puts a heavier load on Wikimedia servers. (Have you ever met the "Wikipedia is busy!" page when you've tried to save? If not, you will.) Frequent saves also clutter the recent changes logs for RC patrollers.


 * Your work on Roman Republican coinage is wonderful – I especially love the photos! A minor, tiny, itty-bitty criticism: the tables you've added are a little crowded and could use some more cell padding for clarity and ease of use. Making the cells bigger will take care of a lot of the white space to the right of your tables. There are lots of HTML gurus here if you need help with it. It's unnecessary to label a sub-heading as "Introduction" – that's more or less a given for a lead paragraph of an article or a section. You've used a reference style in this article with which I'm not familiar, but if that's the style WikiProject Numismatics uses, ignore me. ;-) You do have a lot of citations there, but you could always expand the article to more thoroughly cover the subject instead of cutting the number of referenced works.


 * In my opinion, you're on the right track, and you're a real asset to the encyclopedia. I suggest you keep writing and get to know the Manual of Style, and consider expanding into other areas of Wikipedia by participating at Articles for deletion, Articles for creation, Recent changes patrol, and/or doing some of the maintenance work. Above all, have a good time, 'cause it's not any fun if it's not any fun. :-) Let me know if you have questions or need help, and keep up the good work! - Krakatoa  Katie  01:41, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

By the way, you should consider adding db-user to Editor review/CURTIUS, as it seems you won't be using it. That way an administrator will delete it. I repeat KrakatoaKatie's suggestion of reviewing the manual of style, from where you will learn the guidelines for formatting articles. And finally, note that as time passes, your interaction with other users will increase, both through user talk pages (which I state are "personal" or individual communications) and article talk pages (public or group conversations). Remember to always stay civil (not that I think you would not, but it is better to state this earlier so that it is clarified), to never reply attacks with other attacks, and to stay as cool as possible. Try "chatting" with others in article talk pages to discuss how to better expand an article, how to improve and which changes you find good/bad. This is the base for reaching consensus, which is how we editors choose between different alternatives. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 20:40, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello there, Curtius, how are you doing? So, you want tips? Here are mine, I hope they are useful. First of all, I notice you have been contributing for a couple of months. It is a very good start. I admit you have as many user as article namespace edit, but I would attribute that to setting up your user page. I will agree with KrakatoaKatie in that your work with the Roman Republican coinage article is an impressive presentation card, one you should be proud of. It is incredible that such a young (in terms of time spent in Wikipedia) is able to contribute to an article, almost until taking it to a good status alone. Good work with the images too. If not for the watermark, I am betting they would be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, from where other Wikipedias would be able to use them. Can you get images without the watermark? If you want to be credited, instead of releasing them under the GFDL, release them under Creative Commons Share Alike (see Cc-by-sa-2.5 in example).

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 Questions


 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * The article I have done the most work on is Roman Republican coinage. I am pleased by it because I have expanded it substantially, added a number of photos, and greatly increased the verifiability - it seems to have more references than most articles of comparable length; have I overdone it?
 * 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?
 * I am not aware of having been in any conflicts over editing. I have made numerous edits as 64.110.221.122, not appreciating the importance of this. This has led to a revert on my user page.
 * I am not aware of having been in any conflicts over editing. I have made numerous edits as 64.110.221.122, not appreciating the importance of this. This has led to a revert on my user page.