Wikipedia:Editor review/Nosleep

Nosleep
Hello all. Looking for a little comment here. I think my situation is a unique one, and I'd like to know how the community sees it. I first registered here in May of last year, and there's not much from those first few months I'm proud of. I was basically a textbook "punk kid" to a lot of people and didn't accomplish much of anything constructive in those first six months. I had a tumultuous membership with the pro wrestling WikiProject WP:PW that ended very badly in an extreme personality clash with another editor. It's amazing to me how much I've grown as a person in that time. I left the project last October after that clash, and I honestly don't remember how it started. I'm actually quite embarrassed about it, and have taken to considering my July '08 return as my join date. I wish I had simply registered again so that bad history would be just that - history. Looking at my edit statistics, you'll notice that July of '07 was my most prodigious month as it involved editing on behalf of the WikiProject in which I've become an active member since rejoining Wikipedia, and that's the cycling WikiProject WP:CYC. I, like thousands of us, was also very active in updating for the Olympics last month. The editing I've done over the last two months-plus is so much more indicative of what I offer than the six from '07. I've recently been granted rollback, installed Huggle, regularly new page patrol, and try to participate in AFD discussions whenever possible. Don't fall asleep zzzzzz 07:26, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

 Reviews 

Review by Leonard^Bloom

I like what I see (Such as the little stuff, the fun stuff, and the underrated stuff.) You could use more edit summaries though, and, to poke at this like NuclearWarfare, you do know there is a pref. setting right? :P Moving on though, I think it's awesome how varied you are; you have vandalism reversion, image/copyright experience, and you take part in XfDs (though, I've noticed, that sometimes you have a strange stance or weird way of looking at policy). Awesome. Nice work, and keep it up, ya' punk. Leonard(Bloom) 01:57, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the comments. I'm trying to become more active in XFD's, but I often find what I want to say has either been said already, and better than I probably could have said it anyway, or I can't really form much of a coherent stance. Like I said above, I consider myself relatively new here, and I think I have a fair grasp of policy, but it certainly could be improved, thanks for pointing that out (and....you needn't give examples, I think I know what you're referring to :P ). I definitely try to be well-rounded and at once both broad and devoted to particular articles (which I think my statistics reflect). Don't fall asleep  zzzzzz 09:47, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

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 Questions


 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * I'm happy with the coverage I helped provide for the 2007 Tour de France, the 2008 Tour de France, and the 2008 Vuelta a España, but the article of which I'm most proud is definitely Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's road race. I think I can say objectively that I was the biggest contributor to the initial writing of the article as the event unfolded, and in the days after, and I was also the one who drove it to pass GA. I was not, however, the one who drove it to pass FA, which it did less than a month after the event it describes took place, and that amazes me. I also wasn't too involved in revising the article up to FA snuff, but to me this all amounts to a fantastic community effort among the members of the cycling WikiProject, the Olympics WikiProject, interested people who just happened to stop by, the FA reviewers, and yes, even a few anons. We all helped, and the result was, to quote WP:FA, something "considered to be [among] the best articles in Wikipedia." I couldn't be more proud of that.
 * 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?
 * There have been no major issues this year. There have been a few disagreements over formatting, particularly because my computer screen is evidently fundamentally different in some way to other members of WP:CYC (such that page layouts that looked fine to them involved elements overlapping as I saw them), but they were all handled in an orderly and equanimous way. There was the aforementioned personality conflict with a member of the pro wrestling project, but I've simply not returned to that project and don't imagine I will. I've no ill will against them, it's just that I associate that Project with the poor editor I was in 2007.
 * There have been no major issues this year. There have been a few disagreements over formatting, particularly because my computer screen is evidently fundamentally different in some way to other members of WP:CYC (such that page layouts that looked fine to them involved elements overlapping as I saw them), but they were all handled in an orderly and equanimous way. There was the aforementioned personality conflict with a member of the pro wrestling project, but I've simply not returned to that project and don't imagine I will. I've no ill will against them, it's just that I associate that Project with the poor editor I was in 2007.

Question from User:NuclearWarfare
 * 1) Do you know of the feature in "my preferences" that doesn't allow you to post an edit without an edit summary? If so, why haven't you turned it on ;).
 * I'd heard of it, but I'm not really sure if I want to turn it on. I assume you characterize my "lack" of edit summaries by discounting the ones that are simply section headers, because counting those I'm 97%+ on edit summary usage. I find it rather stupid, to be blunt, to give an edit summary for a comment on a talk page. I see them some times, and they're either single letters or the word "comment" (or a word akin like "question," "reply," et cetera). My, how helpful. If I were to opt for this, I'd pretty much have to stop editing any articles with heavy traffic, because I would be induced into those darling hair-pulling-out moments otherwise known as edit conflicts. And, well, I suppose I could do that, but it's not really something I'm itching to do. Don't fall asleep  zzzzzz 09:47, 10 September 2008 (UTC)