Wikipedia:Editor review/Dsims209

DSims209
Hi Ive been on wikipedia for just over a year now and feel it is time to get others to judge my performance. I write a lot about music and football. I have created many articles which you can see here. I dont do much work on reverts and spelling mistakes that much which is why my edit count isn't particularly high (about 9 a week). One of my created articles Ernold Same was featured on Did you know in October 2006. Dsims209 11:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

 Reviews  Review by Delldot: You are a good writer and an asset to the project. Keep it up! Don't hesitate to leave me a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this review or anything else, or if you need anything or want to discuss anything. delldot  talk  19:11, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow, prolific writer! Nice articles, too. I'm especially impressed by your tendency to create an entire, long, nicely formatted article, with an image and an infobox, in the first edit.  Some writing suggestions:
 * Don't forget to add your articles to categories. To find the right subcategory, I usually look in the supercategory and browse through the subcategories till I find one that fits.
 * It's very helpful to other users if you add edit summaries, for example if your edits show up in their watchlists, if they're monitoring the recent changes, or if they're trying to review you ;) It looks like you've been getting better about it lately, but still don't do 100% of the time.  You can set it in your preferences to prompt you if you go to save without one.
 * In the lead sentence of an article you create, bold the name of the subject. e.g. in Banana: Bananas are a fruit... (Oh, looking through later creations, it looks like you've been doing this)
 * Don't forget to sign your posts on talk pages.
 * You have made very few talk and user talk edits. This could suggest (though not necessarily) that you don't discuss large or potentially controversial changes enough (or that you don't make many of them).  It's important to gain consensus for any large or controversial changes you make, like removing others' info, etc.  Just leave a note on the talk page saying, "hey, just a heads up that I did this..." so folks can discuss it if necessary.
 * You handled yourself OK in the conflict you bring up in your answer to question 2, but could have done better (e.g. "How many times do I have to write this before you pay any attention to it?" could have been a little more nicely worded). You noted your bias, which is good, since you seem to have some perspective on the fact that this is a matter of opinion, not Truth.  And other than that one sentence, it wasn't a hostile post.  You did a good job thoroughly explaining your perspective.  So that was good.  My only suggestion for improvement would be to word your communications to other users very carefully to avoid giving the impression of hostility, which might cause the interaction to become more confrontational and less productive.
 * Always, always, be sure to be nice in edit summaries. they are permanent (usually) and if you say something you regret, you can't take it back. Granted, most vandals probably aren't the brightest, but that doesn't mean we should provoke them.  The no personal attacks policy applies even to people who have themselves misbehaved terribly.  Ok, after all that fussing, I have to admit, this wasn't that huge of an infraction ;)
 * I see you have edits to WP:RA, suggesting that you fill requests (though I couldn't find the edits in the massive history, so you could also be requesting them). If you're filling them, that's excellent, a highly needed thing around here.
 * I see that you're also working to get articles up to GA status! This is great.

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 Questions


 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * My best contributions were on the You've Got to Hide Your Love Away article which was in a very sorry state here (April 16 2006) but here (April 26 2006) the article was in my opinion much better thanks to my edits. I am proud of the Timeline of Britpop bands which I created on the Britpop article. I have added lots of bands, albums and songs onto the site and, as I said above, the song Ernold Same that I created was on DYK. In addition, just now I have added loads of info to the "For Tomorrow" article
 * 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?
 * Well not so long ago I had a conflict with User:ErleGrey over the Modern Life is Rubbish article. What he wrote was that the album only got #6 in the best albums ever list because it was the first britpop album, well as that was obviously wrong (ie the first shoegaze/punk/rap album is nowhere near the top 10) so I wrote this on his userpage and it took a while to resolve things but it did in the end. Overall though very few conflicts.
 * Well not so long ago I had a conflict with User:ErleGrey over the Modern Life is Rubbish article. What he wrote was that the album only got #6 in the best albums ever list because it was the first britpop album, well as that was obviously wrong (ie the first shoegaze/punk/rap album is nowhere near the top 10) so I wrote this on his userpage and it took a while to resolve things but it did in the end. Overall though very few conflicts.