Wikipedia:Editor review/Fbifriday

Fbifriday
STATEMENT Fbifriday (talk) 09:01, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

 Questions


 * 1) What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
 * Patrolling New Pages and Recent Changes and informing people of their mistakes when they make them. Reporting vandals, nominating pages that don't meet the GNG for AfD, CSD tagging articles that need to be speedy deleted, requesting page protection for pages that need it...just in general doing all kinds of housekeeping thing. I don't do much in the way of actually contributing to articles, simply because I'm not too good at that.
 * 1) Have you been in any disputes 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?
 * Never been in a real editing dispute. Have helped to solve a few, whether by requesting protection, giving a third opinion, etc. Never really felt stressed, just sometimes disappointed under by how many people vandalize, often just for fun.
 * Never been in a real editing dispute. Have helped to solve a few, whether by requesting protection, giving a third opinion, etc. Never really felt stressed, just sometimes disappointed under by how many people vandalize, often just for fun.

 Reviews 


 * Review by VictorianMutant:
 * Civility towards the community: No problems here...
 * Article contributions: You say you're not very good at writing articles. Well, you may be right, but I don't think writing is one of those things people are either good at or not good at; the more you write- the better you write. I personally think almost everyone here can write a featured article if they feel passionately enough about the subject they are writing about. My advice is to pick an article in a subject you are interested in which needs help, preferably one which is in a "low traffic area" in Wikipedia and work on it. I bet after 50 edits, it will be much improved. After 100 edits, you'll have it up to GA status. Give it a try... you really haven't given it a shot yet.
 * Edit count analysis: You are a great vandal fighter and it shows... I mean you fight with Igloo AND Twinkle at the same time
 * RfA-worthiness: I'm one of those people who tend to prefer seeing a lot of article contributions when deciding how to vote in RfA, so don't take it personal when I say it would be hard for me to support you right now. That of course could change. Find your FA- I know you have it in you.
 * Final thoughts: Okay, I've beaten the "article writing horse" to death already so I won't mention it again. One other way you can contribute is to copyedit to build your confidence. One way I do copyediting is to type common misspellings in "search" i.e. I'll type "beleive" and get a list of articles with that misspelling in it. Fix them all and you've made a major contribution, believe it or not without having to write a single word. Or go to random pages for a couple of hours- I find when I do that, I end up having to fix something on 50% of the pages. This will help broaden your contribution which is already very good. You are a proven vandal fighter already, you just need to branch out into other areas a little. Thanks, VictorianMutant (talk) 06:29, 21 September 2010 (UTC)