Wikipedia:Editor review/Dacheatcode

Dacheatcode
uhm..? Dacheatcode 22:35, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

 Reviews  Before I begin I want to say that 1)I am not an administrator; and 2)I don't know everything. You don't have to take any of the advice I give you in this review, but I think the advice that follows will help make you a better editor.

Okay, sorry it has taken so long to get you a review, looks like there's quite a backlog of users requesting review. I went through some of your more recent contribs and editing statistics and this is my humble opinion.

First thing I noticed was a spotty use of edit summaries. Using edit summaries allows other editors to more quickly see what you're doing and what your motive was. There's an option in your preferences that you can set up so it warns you if you didn't use an edit summary. If you want to turn that option on and can't find it, let me know.

Second, some of your edit summaries are bitey, such as this, this, and this. Some, such as this one could even be construed as a personal attack. Your edit summaries should only include what you did and/or why you did it, instead of making comments about the previous editor. And some of your edit summaries were not really all that helpful, such as this one.

Third, was this edit. That tag was not vandalism, it was an attempt to mark the article as one that could use some more work from dedicated editors such as yourself. Or me. Or anyone that saw the tag. Even if the article was great and didn't require any clean up, I still wouldn't consider the adding of the tag as vandalism, but rather a good faith edit.

On a more positive note, I like your contributions to the mainspace, meaning the edits in which you were working on the encyclopedia, adding content, adding links, etc. Your adding of warnings onto user talk pages is also good, but I'd recommend also pasting the warning tag into the edit summary. Makes it easier on the rest of us.

Overall, you're doing a good job, just need to be sure to avoid making confrontational comments and use edit summaries more often. Useight 22:53, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
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 * 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?
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'''Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why? ''' I tried to talk a vandal into being a helpful person.



'''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? '''
 * Yes, sometimes I have. There was this baddest vandal you have ever seen, a school account. There are so many warnings and such and i had a reeeaallly bad day and came to see that he vandalized the VMK page like 10 times. (The vmk page is my favorite page, go figure.) I made his warning a little too harsh, and removed. I deal with this in the future by saying to myself: Vandals are people who want to have fun destroying sites because they have a little too much time in their hands, either way vandalism is pointless.(My quote) That’s also how I dealt with it then.