Wikipedia:Editor review/Electricbassguy2

Electricbassguy
I am looking for advice on how to be a better user. Electricbassguy (talk) 02:56, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

 Reviews 


 * Review by %% -SYKKO- %% (talk to me) 23:57, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, so I started off looking at your user talk page, and right away I saw the warning you got for the linkin park page. That was a long time ago so I am going to skip over it and try to stick to more recent stuff. The big thing that stands out is the many many delete tags which has me thinking that WP:Notable might be something worth reading and rereading if you haven't already pretty much committed it to memory yet (joking) because not only does it tell you what not to write about but it also helps out for how to keep what you write up and online WP:REF has some great help on that type of thing as well.


 * So then I moved to your diffs, saw a lot of baseball articles and very few edit summaries. I took a look at your previous ER, and saw how the advice was to focus your interests in articles and to not be "sarcastic" in your summaries. To me, I think you took that a little too literally. I would say branching out a bit might help you to enjoy Wikipedia more. As far as the edit summaries go, I would say just state the obvious. so for example in this edit you could have said "Adding section: Scott Hollerman" which has 2 benefits, first it helps other editors to know what you did without even needing to look at the diff, they can just consider what they read in the article and know what it is you are talking about, and the other thing it does is protects you from over-active RC patrollers. Many people are using scripts and programs and rush through recent changes without really paying much attention, if you were deleting a section and someone really didn’t know that it didn’t belong they might revert it.


 * Hope that this info is helpful

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 Questions


 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * My edits to the Baseball Mogul page and my creation of pages for obscure baseball players.
 * 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?
 * Not really, though I have re-created a couple of speedily deleted pages that I thought were unfairly deleted, and that was frowned upon. I also used to (more than a year ago) use sarcasm on my edit summaries.