Wikipedia:Editor review/Diez2 (2nd review)

Diez2
Previous review:Editor review/Diez2 I am pretty much a WikiGnome and do a lot of maintainance work here on Wikipedia. I do some Afd work, WP:ACID work, WP:WPNN/CAT:NN work, and lots of work on Special:recentchanges and Special:newpages, which explains why I have such a high User Talk edit count. I just started doing work for WP:MEDCAB as well. I have also created several templates and edited others, all of which proved to be quite useful to the intended audience. I do not do much article editing, though, which is a drawback. Diez2 02:46, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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I looked at your most recent talk page and the distribution of your edits using the tool. The maximum number of edits to any one article is 8, and some of those were trivial. I think article writing is important for appreciating the maintenance work you do on Wikipedia. For example, you have participated on WP:ACID and WP:GAR. You will be much better able to evaluate and assist in creating good articles if you've tried to do it yourself with a subject you know. Pick a subject you know well, search the web or the local library for references, and incorporate new material with the references. This will give you a better feel for what a good article should look like, and will help you evaluate other contributors' work.

It will also imbue you with a greater optimism about the whole project. I do a lot of new pages patrolling and deletion work, and sometimes it just gets depressing to see how much crap there is to deal with. You were criticized not long ago for proposing deletion of chemical compounds. I didn't see the examples, but as a rule of thumb, if a chemical compound verifiably exists (i.e. a Google search for it turns up more than 100 results), AFD is the most appropriate forum for discussing deletion. I assume that your thinking was, "These are short articles, just like all those silly autobiographies and nonsense pages I see on New Pages Patrol, so let's just get rid of it." It's useful to learn that deleting half an article may be better than deleting all of it.

One more point: on New Pages Patrol, I sometimes tag pages with, etc. or stub/categorize them. You can do the same there, or with articles on the WP:DEAD list. I wish you good luck YechielMan 04:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * As I said above, I do not do much article editing. I have a little over 800 mainspace edits, mostly from anti-vandal reverting. I should have a lot more from all of the db tags I have placed on new articles, but those edits get erased when the article is deleted. So, I really should have about 1800 mainspace edits. I am planning to work on BZFlag, though, to get that out of the rut that it's in.
 * 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?
 * Yes, I have had my share of conflicts with other users. I deal with these conflicts by tossing (not throwing) Wikipedia policy at them. If worst comes to worse, I would seek mediation. (It has never come to that). Also, if the other person is indeed right, then I just back away and let him have the joy.
 * Yes, I have had my share of conflicts with other users. I deal with these conflicts by tossing (not throwing) Wikipedia policy at them. If worst comes to worse, I would seek mediation. (It has never come to that). Also, if the other person is indeed right, then I just back away and let him have the joy.