Wikipedia:Editor review/Richard D. LeCour

Richard D. LeCour
I spend most of my time editing random articles and fighting vandalism. Sometimes I provide vandalism warnings that are a bit tongue-in-cheek, and I'm curious as to what the community's reaction is. For example, if a vandal posts "I am the greatest person in the world", I am likely to give him/her a "introduced factual errors" warning rather than a vandalism warning. That may be part of the reason that I don't often have to make a lot of posts to WP:AIV. Thoughts? Comments? --  LeCour  T:C 21:34, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

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I don't have much to say. I didn't examine the specific types of vandalism warnings you give to users. Often the most important thing is to make any kind of communication. The purpose of anti-vandal warnings is to prevent further vandalism, so the only reason for the various forms of uw-test, uw-joke, etc. is to tailor the warning to the particular situation. Of course, a personal note in addition to the template warning is advisable if you think it's a new user making a good-faith mistake. User:Phaedriel has created a particularly humorous example, which you can find at User:YechielMan/Other stuff (my subpage).

Generally, if you want to make more posts to WP:AIV, number one, you're nuts, because it's really not so much fun. Number two, what you need to do is track the activity of vandals by checking their contribs. If the contribs reveal ten edits within the last half hour, and one of them is vandalism, there's a very good chance the other nine are also vandalism. If you see the word "(top)" next to the edit summary, it's the most recent edit, and it may need to be corrected.

I would describe you as a WikiGnome. You make a few corrections here and there, but you have not yet become an active participant in building and maintaining the encyclopedia. That's perfectly fine, of course. What you may discover is that there are various levels at which a user may experience Wikipedia: as a reader, as a spell-checker, as a patroller, as an author, as a voter in deletion discussions, etc. You may find more areas to experiment with. The community portal (see link on the left sidebar) is a good place to start.

I wish you good luck. Yechiel Man 20:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * Not to any particular articles, although I keep watch on a few dozen. I tend to spread my edits because of vandal fighting and clicking on the "random article" link.
 * 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?
 * None at all. Edit conflicts do not cause me any stress, and I don't believe I've actually gotten into one. I tend to walk away and edit something else.
 * None at all. Edit conflicts do not cause me any stress, and I don't believe I've actually gotten into one. I tend to walk away and edit something else.