Wikipedia:Editor review/Martinp23 2

User:Martinp23
About 2 months ago, I underwent an RFA at Requests_for_adminship/Martinp23. I am listing myself for editor review to ask the community to identify areas in which I should improve. I currentyl run four bots: MartinBot (a TawkerBot2 clone), AMABot (a bot which updates the cases awaiting advocates for the WP:AMA, RefDeskBot (which archives the Reference Desk and (possibly soon) the help desk) and MartinBotII (see User:MartinBotII - I expect to have it doing a lot more soon). As a member of the AMA, which tries to explain policy to members, I have taken on three cases so far - two of which were content disputes.  All three have been closed.  I am active on IRC - online almost whenever I'm editing wikipedia, and carefully monitor a couple of channels where I am a chanop.  I have tested WikiDisucssion manager for User:Eagle_101 and am currently writing a prgram which will close WP:AFCs - something which I hope to complete soon.  Finally, I am, when not writng bots, active on RC patrol and AfD debates, using VP2 and WDM, as well as the more traditional methods. I invite the community to review me :) M  a  rtinp23  13:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)  M  a  rtinp23  13:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

 Reviews 


 * I've been in contact with Martin over the last few weeks as he was working on RefDeskBot for us over at the reference desk, and I guess I can give him a mini-review here. Lately, though many of his edits are bot-related, he really seems to be keen on spending his time improving Wikipedia, and there are many who are really thankful for what he has done. His talk page is rather active but I found his responses prompt and helpful, and I really liked the way he handled questions coming from many different users concerning his edits and proposals. Overall, Martin seems like a really cool guy and is of obvious great value to Wikipedia and similar projects. freshofftheufo  ΓΛĿЌ  04:48, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your review Freshgavin - do you feel that I am ready to take part in an RfA? M a rtinp23 17:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I would support you, but I have only known you for a rather short time and I can't really say how others would feel. I rarely participate in RfAs, for personal reasons, but I wish you luck whatever you decide! freshofftheufo  ΓΛĿЌ  08:00, 28 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I see that the main opposition to his original RfA seems to have been that he was not well-known/established enough, but I have seen Martin's name popping up in a few different places now, with good comments and useful edits. Martin seems to be an active and helpful Wikipedian. Walkerma 06:30, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your review Walkerma - do you feel that I am ready to take part in an RfA? M a rtinp23 17:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

 Comments 
 * Hello there, Martinp23. Here are some opinions you may find useful.
 * No problem with the edit summary, although I am no friend of "shortcuts" like "rmv", "re", etc. But this is a personal opinion.
 * An awesome amount of user talk edits. I notice a good amount of vandalism revert and several AIV reports. But I must point the low amount of article edits. While you seem to talk with users personally, you don't appear to be doing so with group of editors working in a single article. You have experience in AMA, but still it may be said you are green when talking about improving articles. The fact that your best contributions is a template kind of confirm this.
 * I divide editors in those that focusing in improving articles (those who create articles, expand existing ones, take them to good or featured standards, etc) and those focusing in monitoring. You fit this last category, a user who is more interested in keeping Wikipedia clean of vandalism. As such, I would have expected more participation in XFDs. In the last month, you have seven edits in Articles for deletion (nine in the last two months). one edit in Templates for deletion, three in Categories for deletion, one in Redirects for discussion, and only two edits in Copyright problems. Now, I also divide administrators in two classes: those article-oriented and those user-oriented. In this case, you would fit the user-oriented one, where you have plenty of experience reverting vandalism, warning users and reporting Administrator intervention against vandalism (although only two Administrators' Noticeboard reports). You may be trusted when blocking users, but I am not sure you have the experience required for working with articles (in example, copyright violation reports, requests for article protections, etc). While you have been pretty active in the past in AFDs, nowadays you are not anymore.
 * I don't use automated reversion tools, so I am not sure if they are configurable. But this edit does appear to be valid (albeit unreferenced), so instead of a test1 I would have used a needsource. This does not seem to be an "add nonsense" problem, but a probable blanking. All the other reverts (around 15) I checked were appropriately warned.
 * So, my suggestion is to focus a bit in articles, to improve your edits, the different style guides and sourcing material. Also, try to participate more in XFDs, as that will give us an idea of your methodology when working with articles for deletion. And finally, to continue with your work in mediation-like situations, as these are very necessary, especially with new users. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 19:45, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) - I've started to do some cleanup of articles after being asked to on IRC ), and it's something I can forsee myself continuing with. On the XfD front, I'd love to contribute more (and probably will soon), but a lot of my wiki-time in the last few months has been taken up by writing bots - first RefDeskBot and AMABot, then the wikiprojects requests at MartinBotII (still working on them :P).  I'll do a load more XfD soon - ideally within the next few days.  However, as you correctly identified, I consider vandalfighting to be my major "assumed role" on wikipedia, and this is the region that I will probably focous on for the majority of my non-bot wikitime.  I think, looking at my edit habits over the past few days, I'm starting to move slightly towards articles - something I hope continues.  Again, thanks for your opinions -- M a rtinp23 22:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Personally, I have no reservations about having you be an admin. Unfortunately, I know that others demand to see that any candidate they support has to have been involved in promoting at least one article to Featured article status. I don't know if you've done that yet. Neither have I (one of the reasons I don't look for that), but if you could do that, in addition to following the suggestions above, I can't imagine that there would be many reservations from anyone about your becoming an admin. Badbilltucker 21:17, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 * WP:1FA - my favourite thing! I probably can't see this happening soon, but I thank you for your comments and will see if there's anything I can really work on :) M a rtinp23 22:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 * As this applies to a few comments above, I've decided that I'm going to do a bit of translation, so I can broaded my mainspace experience.


 * I'd also like to thank everyone for reviewing me :) M a rtinp23 22:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)


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 Questions


 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * Answer Firstarticle - I have created this template to post on the talk pages of new suers, after one of their first submissions is tagged for speedy deletion. It was created in the hope that it will be able to reverse the WP:BITE of the SD process.  Hopefully, it has worked.  Apart from this, I am a metapedian, and hope that at least some of my edits to the WP space and talk space have helped to improve wikipedia, along with my vandalism reversions.
 * 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?
 * Answer Well, I sort of volunteer for conflicts, having taken cases from the WP:AMA and from WP:3O. Almost all of these have been closed amicably - the exception being Sculpture of Ancient Greece - which lead to User:Ste4k being indefblocked.
 * Answer Well, I sort of volunteer for conflicts, having taken cases from the WP:AMA and from WP:3O. Almost all of these have been closed amicably - the exception being Sculpture of Ancient Greece - which lead to User:Ste4k being indefblocked.