Wikipedia:Editor review/Mobile Snail

Mobile Snail
Well the posting of myself for review will be my 2,000th edit. I began editing in July 2009, and edited for about 3 months. I got my first DYK in Auguest 2009, and went on a sudden hiatus. I did not edit until I returned in mid-March (the 11th? can't remember for sure. A couple days ago I obtained Reviewer and Rollback rights, which has allowed my number of edits to explode by using Huggle In the time from my hiatus to now I have upped my edit count from about 700 to 2000. Anyway, enough blather. If you would like to read more about me or what I do, just check out my userpage. MobileSnail 03:49, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

 Questions


 * 1) What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
 * By far my best article work is Boone Kirkman, while it is not "my article", I have been the primary editor of it and managed to 5x expand it to DYK upon my return. Some of the other things I am proud of are my vigorous vandalism reverts with Huggle. I am a little heavy-handed, as I try to dig a bit deeper, reverting factual errors and NPOV stuff quite frequently. But I am rapidly learning Huggle from my mistakes, and my goal is to gradually decrease my number of mistakes on Huggle and to identify and undo them when they happen. I currently do my best to fix my mistakes immediately.
 * 1) Have you been in editing disputes 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? If you have never been in an editing dispute, explain how you would respond to one.
 * I have never been in a moderate editing dispute (that I can recall), just a few very minor ones, so why don't I talk about my approach to conflicts. The main thing you want to do is remain respectful and calm when it comes to confronting an issue with another editor. I have found that in my experiences and reading other users' experiences that the one thing that consistently gets a negative response from the other side is disrespect and resentment. I always at least try to come off as the "nice guy" when I am pointing something out to someone or approaching them on a disagreement. This way it is almost always taken as constructive criticism or at least that I am not trying to attack them.
 * I have never been in a moderate editing dispute (that I can recall), just a few very minor ones, so why don't I talk about my approach to conflicts. The main thing you want to do is remain respectful and calm when it comes to confronting an issue with another editor. I have found that in my experiences and reading other users' experiences that the one thing that consistently gets a negative response from the other side is disrespect and resentment. I always at least try to come off as the "nice guy" when I am pointing something out to someone or approaching them on a disagreement. This way it is almost always taken as constructive criticism or at least that I am not trying to attack them.

 Reviews 
 * I think you're doing a great job as an editor; good, standard method of handling disputes, well-displayed habit of leaving edit summaries, diligent reversal of vandalism, and valuable addition of encyclopedic content - Boone Kirkman is an excellent article, BTW. Keep it up! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 00:15, 22 October 2011 (UTC)