Wikipedia:Editor review/Gilesbennett

Gilesbennett
I've been an editor since around February / March of this year, but have been most active since April. Whilst a fair chunk of my time is spent vandal fighting, I have also created a series of articles on Ezio, my favourite band, when I was shocked to discover that there was no entry for them! I also monitor and contribute to Wikipedians_looking_for_help and the help desk. I'd like to have an editor review for several purposes - firstly to check that I'm going about things in the right way, secondly to perhaps suggest some areas that I could turn my attention to, to broaden my input, and thirdly to point me in the directions of the knowledge and skills which I should be looking to pick up at this stage in my Wikipedia life to perhaps stand me in good stead for a push for adminship later on. Giles Bennett (Talk, Contribs) 07:57, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

 Reviews 


 * I would recommend contributing more to project space, things such as articles for deletion etc. This is something a lot of people miss out on (I see you have been doing it a bit already, but your wp edit count is low). I would also recommend communicating on talk pages more, WP:RFC is something you might like to try out, if you like that kind of thing. Your help desk contributions are great, I try to be helpful but everyone else is too quick for me :). Thanks, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 11:17, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Ezio is a great first article; it's impressive that you've got straight into looking after all the info boxes, categories, images, redirects etc which editors often take a while to pick up. A suggestion someone made to me which I've found extremely helpful is to pick an existing article on a topic that interests you that's in bad shape -- stubby, unreferenced, unwikified etc -- and attempt to improve it in collaboration with others on the article's talk page. It's a good way of improving your ability to work with others, and the experience will be useful if you aim to stand for adminship. You might also consider joining one or two active WikiProjects and/or looking at the article improvement drives, or even featured article candidates, although the latter get a touch acrimonious at times! One final thing to think about is your edit summary use -- it's pretty high already, but could be even better. (You can turn on a default to warn you if you fail to provide one.) I'm pretty much a beginner here myself, but I hope this is of some assistance. Espresso Addict 21:08, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * The series of articles (still somewhat of a work in progress) on Ezio, a band from Cambridge who I rank as one of my favourites. When I first looked for them on Wikipedia the page pointed to an opera by Handel, so I created a disambiguation page, the necessary redirections, and the band's page (along with those about their albums) that you see now are all my own work. I didn't, perhaps, excel by managing to mis-spell the surname of the lead singer, but nobody's perfect!
 * 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?
 * I haven't been in any editing conflicts, but the majority of my edits are reverting vandalism and warning users, rather than editorial changes to content, so it's not surprising. Whilst I don't necessarily get 'stressed' by vandals, I do wonder about the motivation behind a lot of it - a recent spate of associated vandalism to Darren Shan and Addleshaw Goddard was the first instance I'd seen of concerted vandalism to specific articles by different users (at least, I presume they were different users), and it did make me question their motiviation. I'm the first to admit that my first ever contribution to Wikipedia was a joke page about a friend of mine, but I turned from being a poacher into a gamekeeper immediately thereafter, and hope that I've redeemed myself!
 * I haven't been in any editing conflicts, but the majority of my edits are reverting vandalism and warning users, rather than editorial changes to content, so it's not surprising. Whilst I don't necessarily get 'stressed' by vandals, I do wonder about the motivation behind a lot of it - a recent spate of associated vandalism to Darren Shan and Addleshaw Goddard was the first instance I'd seen of concerted vandalism to specific articles by different users (at least, I presume they were different users), and it did make me question their motiviation. I'm the first to admit that my first ever contribution to Wikipedia was a joke page about a friend of mine, but I turned from being a poacher into a gamekeeper immediately thereafter, and hope that I've redeemed myself!