Wikipedia:Editor review/Mlaffs

Mlaffs
I've been a user of this site for a number of years, and a registered editor since November of 2007. I was directed here by someone who I was asking to look at my contributions for a potential RfA, and have to admit that this was one of the nooks and crannies that I'd never seen before. So, I'm here primarily for that, but also because feedback is never a bad thing — well, constructive feedback isn't, anyway. BTW, please take my edit count with a grain of salt. It's high-ish, but it's a nature of the type of things I've been doing and I don't have any illusions that it's in any way a reflection of the value of those contributions. 'Taint nothin' but a number. Mlaffs (talk) 19:40, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

 Reviews 


 * I'm going to start off by saying that you have done a ton of gnome work. I'm impressed with the time you must have put in to such tedious tasks, and what you have done looks pretty good. The only area I find you could improve in is content contribution such as good articles, did you knows, in the news, and featured content. While this is not essential for adminship, many users look for these contributions in potential administrators.  Other than this, there's really not much to criticize.  Actually, reviewing your edits I have come to think that you would make an excellent administrator now.  I'll send you a query over on your talk page. Malinaccier (talk) 21:52, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello! Just to reaffirm what I wrote in your successful RfA in which I have you almost a strong support per User:A_Nobody as this candidate has several good things going, including having never been blocked, making strong arguments rather than just votes in such discussions as Articles for deletion/Canadian Girls in Training, being an article creator per User:Mlaffs, and for receiving User:Mlaffs/Awards.  So, with at least four distinctive positives that demonstrate recognition by fellow editors, persuasive arguing skills, and evidence of being here to indeed contribute to our compendium of knowledge, I feel reasonably good about this editor.  Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk 17:11, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

 Questions


 * 1) What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
 * My contributions to Wikipedia are easily summed up as gnome-like. I tend to look for a task or project and then work the heck out of it. The project I'm most proud of took place through last summer, where I cleaned up incoming links to almost every single disambiguation page that included radio or television call signs. Probably 7-8K edits in total with only about a hundred that I wasn't able to solve. My most recent big project was doing a run through the FCC's radio station database to develop a list of our gaps in coverage (building and maintaining that list accounts for what looks like an inordinately large number of edits in Userspace — it's a sub-page). That work led to dozens of page moves to get articles named correctly, and adding project tags to numerous talk pages that hadn't yet been identified. It was the page move piece of that work that got me thinking about an RfA in the first place.
 * 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 think I can honestly say that the vast majority of my interactions with other editors have been positive, or at least no worse than neutral. That being said, I have been involved with the ongoing date delinking arbitration case. I'm not an involved party, but I'm certainly an interested one. I have absolutely no opinion about date autoformatting, nor am I particularly wedded to most date links themselves. However, I did take part in some AN/ANI threads about the process piece of this — the manner in which the mass delinking effort was effected — and so I've been involved with the Arbcom case from that perspective. All that being said, there's little here that's stressful. I do big thinking involving big risks all day long at work. This is where I come to do bite-sized, repetitive tasks to wind down at night or while I'm watching a ball game on the weekends, so I'm simply not prepared to let stress mess with that. Deep breaths, and all that.
 * 1) What work would you be doing with the administrative tools? (Malinaccier (talk) 19:57, 22 June 2009 (UTC))
 * Well, I can certainly tell you what I would not be doing with them. I would not be closing deletion debates, nor would I be heavily involved in issuing blocks. I'm not planning to step into areas where I haven't built a lot of experience already as an editor. In the short-term, I think I'd likely be using the tools for the sort of gnomish tasks that got me thinking about them in the first place. For example, radio stations change call signs a lot, which result in page moves, new disambiguations, undoing disambiguations, and the like. Deletions are often necessary as part of that process, and so I'd probably be on the lookout for G6 speedy deletion requests, particularly where they're in support of a subject area with which I'm familiar. I've also found myself getting a bit interested in categorization lately, and so I might dip a toe into C2 speedy requests as well or category renames resulting from CfD. Beyond that, I suspect my tool use would develop the same way my editing patterns have — I run into something that seems interesting, learn about it, ask questions, and then dig in. I'll probably also be watching for more mundane areas where there are regularly backlogs, to see if there's a load that I can lift from other admins who can (and might want to) add value on the complex stuff. I'm certainly not going to be the most active admin out of the box. Ultimately, I guess I look at it like I look at living in my condo building — it's not that I think my life is incomplete unless I own a wrench and a screwdriver, but there are times when it's easier to do things myself rather than calling the super or hiring a handyman, and I may even find that I start to like home improvement and want to do it more regularly. Of course, that's just a handy analogy — IRL, I always call the super or hire a handyman. Mlaffs (talk) 21:01, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Are there any particular mistakes that you've made as an admin that others could learn from?Smallman12q (talk) 13:02, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Are there any particular mistakes that you've made as an admin that others could learn from?Smallman12q (talk) 13:02, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Discussion


 * Edit count posted on talk page. - Dank (push to talk) 01:48, 12 May 2009 (UTC)