Wikipedia:Editor review/Picaroon9288

User:Picaroon9288
Hello all. I've been editing Wikipedia since late March, but have only been actively editing since mid-June. I'm requesting an editor review because I'm interested in what people think of my editing so far, and what they think of the possibility of me applying for adminship somewhere between November 06 and January 07.

As of 23:03, 7 October 2006 (UTC), I have 2078 edits, but at least 100 (and probably more like 125) article space edits where I've tagged pages for WP:PROD and WP:CSD don't appear, of course. I'll save the rest for the questions below, and I hope to recieve your comments/additional questions. Picaroon9288 02:35, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I've trimmed my statement and answers; see page history for original ones. Picaroon9288 13:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

 Reviews 


 * I'll forgive you for asking me to give up my awesome sig ;-).

Didn't really see your around until recently, but to me you seem to be a very good, mild-mannered and polite editor. The fact that you've never had an edit conflict with your experience really says a lot about your demeanor and editing style. I also find it incredibly impressive that you have cleared out the entire stubs category twice!

You seem to have improved many articles, and your edit summary usage is flawless. Keep up the good work! - Mike  ( Trick or treat ) 02:59, 7 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I certainly don't mean to say I've never been reverted; that's happened several times, as I mentioned in q2. But an edit conflict as in a revert war, that I've never had. Thanks for the review! Picaroon9288 03:15, 7 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I believe the amount of article talk pages you have is low compared with your other statistics. Thus, I advice you to participate in them, maybe by choosing an article and asking other editors for ideas about how to improve an article. Good edit summary usage for sure, with pretty good descriptions. I like the fact that you take the time to explain to novices why you have reverted or removed an addition. As for your idea of applying, I believe you have some chances. However, maybe you should participate in some more AFDs, especially those that are not unanimous (in example, as many keeps as delete), so that others would be able to determine your points of view. Overall, you are a very solid editor, however I would like to hear why you would need adminship status before determining if you have chances of becoming one. -- ReyBrujo 16:44, 7 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree, I don't comment on article talk pages that much; I try to explain everything in an edit summary, or occasionally a hidden comment, if possible. But I do leave a message whenever I make a removal that needs a longer explanation; see Talk:Pervez_Musharraf, Talk:National Liberation Front of Angola, and Talk:Pan-African colours for examples.


 * Well, I have about 40-50 unique afd comments, so it isn't as if I'm a stranger to the process. But you have a point; I haven't commented in many where there was an even amount. However, see Articles for deletion/Judea Declares War on Germany, Articles_for_deletion/Benardete, and Articles_for_deletion/Batman_Triumphant. I had keeps before such consensus was established in the first two, and established a case for deletion on the last that was probably partly responsible for the later comments.


 * I've added a question below explaining why I'm considering running for adminship in a couple months. Thanks very much for the review. Picaroon9288 19:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I see. As you know, administrators can do a lot of different tasks, and yours would be focused primarily at deletion tasks. I am a bit more worried at 3RR patrolling, as your last edit in the Administrator intervention against vandalism was in July, and have warned 4 users only in September and none in October. I have no doubt that you would become a good maintenance administrator, but such candidates usually have a hard time convincing others to support their nomination. My advice is that, if you do want to apply for adminship, to make it very clear you will be focusing on backlogs. Unless you begin working with vandals (warning and reverting them more often), you won't gain experience enough to deal with them by the time you plan on requesting adminship. Of course, this is my personal view, and nothing warrants it to be the correct one ;-) Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 21:10, 7 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I think your view is the correct one, in fact. Anyways, that's a good point, I'll leave out 3RR and vandal-blocking from q1 and make it clear that I'd be more focused on deletion. Thanks again. Picaroon9288 23:03, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

 Comments 


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 Questions


 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * I'm especially pleased with the amount work I've done at Pierce Butler (justice); compare the versions before my two expansionary edits and after. I've created no articles of note; I'm more of an editor than a writer, but I'm also happy with the wikification work I've done via new page patrol and stub sorting. I'm also pleased with the fact that I've emptied category:stubs twice, and with the large amount of repetetive work I did on eliminating links to several dab pages.
 * 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've never been in a real conflict, actually, nor have I ever been wiki-stressed, to my knowledge. Occasionally, changes of mine have been reverted, but these have been resolved on user talk pages. For example: I made this edit to a portal, I was reverted by Ideogram, and even though I'm pretty sure that my edit gave the portal a more NPOV, I didn't revert. Instead, I explained my edit on his talk page, and he responded.
 * 1) What adminship related chores would you help out with?
 * Cleaning out speedy deletion requests at Category:CSD would be a primary goal; I understand the criteria quite well. I'd also work on trimming Category:Protected deleted pages, deleting pages that have been protected and forgotten about. I'd help out with the deleting of expired prods if I noticed or was made aware of a backlog in that area, but probably wouldn't be very active in closing afds until I've commented in those well over a hundred times. Lastly, I already monitor WP:AN, and were I sysoped I'd extend this to the incidents and 3rr violation subpages, giving short blocks for disruption and revert warring (which is disruption, but you know what I mean.)
 * ReyBrujo made a good point; I'll probably skip those areas that I've crossed out because I don't interact with them much now.