Wikipedia:Editor review/Kayau

Kayau
After gaining rollback rights, I believe it's high timt to seek opinion from fellow Wikipedians about my work. Things I usually do: WP:NPP, WP:RCP, WP:MOTD, and content creation about miscellanous things, from burglars to idioms.  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 04:12, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

 Questions


 * 1) What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
 * My contributions are as above. I am particularly pleased with my most recent article, Land use conflict, and MOTD.
 * 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?
 * Not really. The only 'dispute' I've come across is whether it's OK to use foreign language citations in stand-alone lists. It caused a bit of fuss when another editor was accused of WP:FORUMSHOPPING. So I ended the argument between the accusor and the editor by giving them both a bubble tea. :)
 * Not really. The only 'dispute' I've come across is whether it's OK to use foreign language citations in stand-alone lists. It caused a bit of fuss when another editor was accused of WP:FORUMSHOPPING. So I ended the argument between the accusor and the editor by giving them both a bubble tea. :)

 Reviews 

Hello Kayau,

At WP:Editor Review, you asked for a review of the work you did until now, mostly because you just received the Rollback privilege. I'm pleased to give you my input.

About your article on Land use conflict, I think it is a very good start. By the nature of Wikipedia, an article is never finished, but yours is already a sufficient basis for any one searching about the subject. Your article is linked to appropriate other article and contains good information. Congratulation.

As for anti-vandalism and rollback, you are doing good already. When reviewing your work, I agreed with all the revert you did. You also gave users the proper warning after each of your recovery, which is an essential part of anti-vandalism action. Most time, users receive an L1 warning, assuming good faith as required. One started straight at L2, but I agree with you that the kind of vandalism he did left no room for assuming any good faith at all : he completly deserved that L2. Another important thing that you are doing is to escalate your warning depending of what the user already received by other vandal fighter.

Still, some of your edits would have room for improvement. The most obivous is this one [].

You cleaned vandalism on the page, but did not warned the user. It's not critical, but warnings being an important part of anti-vandalism, try to warn all users when you are doing cleaning. What is more problematic is the vandalism you left on the page.

The line just on top of the vandalism you cleaned is itself pretty obvious vandalism. When you do your review, do not limit yourself to the very last change done to the article. Once vandalism is hidden under good faith edits and / or anti-vandalism recovery, it is much more difficult to find and fix. For finding such cases, you can compare your edit with the article as it was 3 to 5 unreverted edits ago. Finding 3 unreverted edits may require to compare your edit with one 20 edits older depending of the amount of vandalism done in the past. After this second check, you can go even deeper and search for what looks like 3 - 5 good faith edits. People modifiying article in good faith have more chance to leave a clean article behind them, so that gives you a stronger point of comparison for identifying what is vandalism and what is not.

This second edit [] of yours is another one when more vandalism remained in the article you approved as good.

Finally, here is a third case. []. (see in the Plot section).

I did not fixed any of your edit; you will have to double-check them yourself. Once done, just keep in mind that fixing hidden vandalism is the most difficult part, so ensure that you do not left some behind you.

Congratulation for your contribution to Wikipedia and keep up the good work,

Heracles31 (talk) 16:26, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reviewing me. (I often forget to warn the user because the computer suddenly gets paralised. It's pretty old now.) I will try to be more cautious when reverting vandalism.  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 02:18, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi there,

Here's some comments about your edits from me, and I hope you might find them useful. My review may not be as detailed as Heracles31's, so sorry about that.

Your edits seem quite well-spread over the different namespaces, as observed in this pie chart.

Your article Land use conflict is a good start and seems to have the potential to become a GA or FA in future if you continue working on expanding and improving it. I'm not an expert on that topic so I can't comment much about the article.

I looked at your contributions list and noticed that you've been editing a lot of articles in the Wikipedia namespace and doing a lot of maintenance tasks, such as moving pages, reverting vandalism etc. For reverting vandalism and warning vandals, I suggest you use tools such as Huggle or Twinkle, instead of doing those tasks manually. The tools will help you save time.

I see you've also contributed to a wide range of articles in the main namespace, from literature to Chinese history and culture. You seem to have good knowledge of several topics and I think it'd be better if you can focus on editing articles within the topics that you're most interested in.

You haven't been involved in any significant major disputes and have been communicating well with other editors. That's good, as it's essential for good working relations with people on Wikipedia.

Keep up the good work and Kayau (Cantonese for 加油)!

_LDS (talk) 04:46, 21 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for reviewing me - that was a nice surprise! I actually use User:Lupin/Anti-vandal tool, which is helpful for filtering out malicious edits, and provides the uw-vand and uw-test templates for you, so I'm satisfied with that. :) BTW my given name is Ka Yau but they've been joking about it since I was small.  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 05:01, 21 March 2010 (UTC)