Wikipedia:Editor review/Ricardiana

Ricardiana
I am relatively new to Wikipedia (except for a few edits years ago) and would like some feedback to help me get better. Any advice would be appreciated, and thank you in advance. Ricardiana (talk) 05:24, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

 Reviews 


 * It's so good to hear that adding citations is one of your favorite things! It's also one of the best things you can do to keep Wikipedia reliable. The cites you add are great. Do you know about Citation templates? They're optional, but a lot of editors (myself included) find them very useful. Your work on Nancy Drew is commendable, as is your work on the other articles you mention. I see you've had experience with non-free images: this is a sticky point for a lot of editors, and it's one I specialize in. Basically, it's rare for a non-free image to be allowed on Wikipedia, except under specific limited circumstances, even if its use would help the article. I'm glad you seemed to not take it personally when non-free images were removed from articles you were working on. I see you make a lot of minor edits. It may help if you use the "preview" button, and make many small edits at once. Sometimes that's not possible, but when it is it make the history easier to look through. Your conflict with njsustain was unfortunate, but I think you handled it fairly well. You definitely came out of the situation looking like the more mature participant. Just try to let personal attacks slide when you can, and let an administrator know if they get out of hand. It's great to have you here! – Quadell (talk) 20:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

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 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * I did a lot of work on the Nancy Drew article, adding pictures and over 100 citations, so that's the article I'm most proud of. I also added between 2 dozen and 4 dozen citations each to Gender neutrality in English, Sexism, Etiquette in Canada and the United States, and Stratemeyer Syndicate. Basically, adding citations is my favourite thing to do on Wikipedia.
 * 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?
 * Yes, unfortunately - see Talk:Etiquette in Canada and the United States. Basically, I found the article because it was tagged as a "how to" - I added a neutral point of view tag and started adding a bunch of citations. This pissed a previous editor off and we had some words. I admit I got pretty hot under the collar, but I guess the issue is resolved in that the other user backtracked from some of her/his claims and has started adding citations to the page periodically, so I would continue to shoot from the hip in the future, just more nicely.
 * Yes, unfortunately - see Talk:Etiquette in Canada and the United States. Basically, I found the article because it was tagged as a "how to" - I added a neutral point of view tag and started adding a bunch of citations. This pissed a previous editor off and we had some words. I admit I got pretty hot under the collar, but I guess the issue is resolved in that the other user backtracked from some of her/his claims and has started adding citations to the page periodically, so I would continue to shoot from the hip in the future, just more nicely.