Wikipedia:Editor review/NYKevin

NYKevin
I have been around for a while now and would like to see what the community thinks.  N Y  Kevin  @815, i.e. 18:34, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

 Questions


 * 1) What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
 * I spend a lot of time on WP:XfD these days. In the past I have been involved in anti-vandalism work, though I've grown tired of it recently.  I also do a variety of wiki-gnomeish tasks, and occasionally try to expand high-priority low-quality mathematics articles with simple subjects (e.g. ratio and subtraction).  Unfortunately, as a college student, I don't contribute all that regularly, since I have classes, homework, etc.  As a wiki-gnome, my "top pages" in the edit counter are mostly old business for me.
 * 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.
 * A comment on my user talk was IMAO uncivil and inappropriate. I was quite incensed by it, so to avoid a blowout, I intentionally waited ~48 hours before responding.  Even then, my response was somewhat emotional.  I did not tell the user I thought it was uncivil at the time, however, and I think perhaps I should have.  (An aside about the XfD they referenced: I feel I did a rather poor job of articulating myself there, as it was snowball NAC'd in just six hours; but I digress, obviously this isn't DRV)  It is now sufficiently old that I do not want this commentary to be taken the wrong way by that user, so I will say here that the user clearly had the best interests of the project at heart; I don't wish to revive old discussions at this time, nor to disparage that user, [s]he was probably at least as emotional as I became; instead I'd like to focus on my response to the problem.
 * A comment on my user talk was IMAO uncivil and inappropriate. I was quite incensed by it, so to avoid a blowout, I intentionally waited ~48 hours before responding.  Even then, my response was somewhat emotional.  I did not tell the user I thought it was uncivil at the time, however, and I think perhaps I should have.  (An aside about the XfD they referenced: I feel I did a rather poor job of articulating myself there, as it was snowball NAC'd in just six hours; but I digress, obviously this isn't DRV)  It is now sufficiently old that I do not want this commentary to be taken the wrong way by that user, so I will say here that the user clearly had the best interests of the project at heart; I don't wish to revive old discussions at this time, nor to disparage that user, [s]he was probably at least as emotional as I became; instead I'd like to focus on my response to the problem.

 Reviews 
 * Greetings Kevin. It was a pleasure to reveiw your contributions, thank you for donating your time and efforts to the project. First off, concerning the stressful situation you mentioned above: I would like to commend you on your response: it was calm, respectful, and addressed all of the user's concerns. I wouldn't go so far as to call their note to you uncivil, I would say that it was inappropriate to call your AFD nomination "vandalism". Definitely good thinking - waiting a couple days before responding; it's never a good idea to let your emotions influence your editing. Regarding your wikignome-editing, a method I have found for this type of work is to rotate around different areas of the project. Doing so helps maintain perspective on the overall picture, in an area where getting in a rut is all to easy. I have tended to rotate between recent changes patrol, new pages patrol, and sourcing random BLPs. Congratulations on your recent 5-year birthday as a Wikipedian! Hope this helps, let me know if you ever need anything. Regards,  Jujutacular  talk 05:35, 14 December 2010 (UTC)