Wikipedia:Editor review/Sjones23

Sjones23
I am an invaluable editor since I have joined in December 2006. At first I did not know about this Wikipedia website, but I found out that anyone can edit Wikipedia. I have been contributing significantly to most articles relating to Final Fantasy, tokusatsu shows, anime and games. Greg Jones II 01:38, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

 Reviews 

Reviewed by Moonriddengirl
Hi. I've spent considerable time trawling through your contributions and your talk page (somewhat challenging given your irregular habit of deleting comments rather than archiving them), and I'm prepared to offer feedback based on what I've seen of your participation in the project primarily since November 1 of this year. (I went back considerably further on your talk.) Since I see that you are an admin hopeful, I will be focusing quite a lot on areas where I feel you might wish to focus improvements. That may make this feel more heavily weighted to the negative, but I assure you that's not my intention. :) Constructive criticism in some areas is not meant to undermine the good work you do in others.

And, I note, you do good work. I see a lot of good wikignoming from you, as you evidently keep an eye on articles of interest to you and maintain their quality usually incrementally. I see you do occasional contributions to WP:AfD, where you demonstrate a reasonable knowledge of policy & guidelines. Since you've gotten in the habit of using them, you for the most part consistently use good edit summaries. For most of your history, I have been highly impressed by your civility. For instance, I like how you responded to criticism, as on cut & paste moves and using edit summaries. The ability to take criticism well is important in all Wikipedia editors, but especially in admins and admin hopefuls. :) Once you start using the tools, you'll hear a whole lot about how you're using them wrong and very little about how you're using them right. :D

I did see a couple of slightly problematic edit summaries with regards to civility. You've already talked about this one and responded well to the advice you were given. But this is definitely not civil. Even if you strongly oppose a candidate, it's rather rude to express your opposition with a "hell no." This one, too, could be interpreted at least as petty incivility. Your talk page history makes it quite obvious that you can be scrupulously polite, and I'd encourage you to exercise that always. :)

Still in terms of civility, I'm a little concerned about a couple of reversions you've made. I'm not a DBZ fan, so there may be something in this that I don't get, but I'm curious about this edit. How do you know it wasn't good faith? Is it not true that the character fights off bad guys to defend the earth? :) I'm also wondering why you think this might be vandalism? original research, yes, and unsourced, but it seems that it might have been well-intended. Given a lack of strong evidence otherwise, at least in the latter case, I think it might have been better to avoid immediately employing the "vandal" word, which can be a bit bitey.

As a final note on civility, I can't quite figure out why you would archive somebody else's talk page, even tagging it as "minor". It's nice that you apologized, but that's a really odd thing to do, particularly given that you don't even archive your own, especially if you agree that it's incredibly rude. It happened a while ago, and I don't know what your rationale might have been, but I'm glad to see that you haven't done anything similar since. It's a bit of a head scratcher. :)

But on that topic, why not archive the comments on your talk page? It is recommended at Talk page guidelines and Help:Archiving a talk page. Is there a reason to ignore this recommendation? Also, is there a reason not to have a TOC on your talk page? It makes it much easier to navigate when you do. :)

Once in a while, I see some edits tagged "minor" in your contributions that aren't really minor edits per Help:Minor edit, for example, restatements of sentences and adding material (or here). It's good to mark minor edits properly, but you want to be careful to avoid overusing that. :)

And this is just a small problem that I'm gathering you've never been told about, but I see several userspace templates you've used which were not "substituted". Please remember to insert "subst:" in front of all userwarning templates (as well as some article templates; a list is tucked behind the word "substituted" above). We should place " on articles, not uw-test1.

That's all of my recommendations based on your contribution history. Since you've expressed an interest in becoming an administrator, my biggest suggestion to you would be to consider how your becoming an administrator will be helpful to the project. You could start with reading the administrators' reading list, if you haven't. What do you want to do with the tools? Once you know that, be sure that you're actively participating in the areas where those tools are used. For instance, if you want to help out with deletions, you might step up your contributions at various XfD discussions and consider doing some new pages patrolling. If you want to help out with vandalism, you might take up recent change patrolling. This will not only help you to decide for sure that these activities are what you want to be doing, but also help other editors assess your commitment to doing them.

As a sort of final wrap, I'll just summarize that you've done a lot of good work on the encyclopedia and that you seem to learn well when people approach you about issues they notice. I think you have great potential and encourage you to continue to learn and grow. :) Be mindful of the impact of your edit summaries...and consider where you want to go as an editor (and an admin-hopeful), which will undoubtedly help you figure out the best way to get there.

Good luck, keep up the good work, and happy editing. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:11, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

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 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * I am particularly pleased with working on the Kingdom Hearts and other articles including films, games and so on because of my interests in them.
 * 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 have been stressed of some incorrect information on some articles and when good users leave. I deal with the incorrect information by reverting it and warning them.
 * I have been stressed of some incorrect information on some articles and when good users leave. I deal with the incorrect information by reverting it and warning them.