Wikipedia:Editor review/Smtchahal

Smtchahal
I am requesting this review simply because I want to know what others think of my behaviour on Wikipedia. Smtchahal (talk) 12:34, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

 Questions


 * 1) What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
 * I am primarily a vandal fighter on Wikipedia. I'm not much of a content editor, but I have reviewed some AfCs. Since I have not made any major contributions apart from reverting vandalism, I am not really pleased about any of my contributions.
 * 1) Have you been in editing disputes 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? If you have never been in an editing dispute, explain how you would respond to one.
 * I remember being involved in a dispute with a user (where it was admittedly my fault) in an AfD (this one) where I refused to believe that a foreign-language newspaper qualified as a reliable source. After arguing for a long time, when I finally admitted I was wrong, I was stressed out. I kept thinking I should not have been that ignorant. In the future, I wish to make sure that I get my facts right before taking any actions. This incident made me think that perhaps I am too persistent in believing that what I did the first time has to be right – you could count this as another reason why I am requesting an editor review.
 * 1) What do you want to get out of this editor review? Are you thinking of running for adminship? Would you like feedback on a specific area of your editing? Or would you just like a general review of your edits?
 * I have no plans of applying for adminship in the near future. I appreciate the fact that I can be a good editor without being an administrator and for that reason I am requesting this review – to get feedback on my behaviour and how I can improve it as an editor and be of more use to the project.

 Reviews 

I had a look at your talk page and contributions. If fixing vandalism is what you are really interested in, then you should definitely carry on doing that. If you have any knowledge or skill with writing Wikipedia tools or if you're interested in software development, it would be great to see if you could write a program to automatically catch vandalism. However, this is simply a suggestion and is obviously in no way required for you to be a quality contributor. These communicative skills also flow into fighting vandalism and AFDs, which I think you are doing well. Pertaining to your AfC reviews, the fact that you worked on those tasks is extremely helpful and greatly affects the overall structure and organization that is Wikipedia. I also want to bring up the fact that your use of an alternate User account (User:Smtchahal alt) for the reason of not revealing your IP address is a smart concept and I applaud the idea.

After reading through the article’s talk page, I am of the opinion that being occupied with arguing your case seemed unnecessary and based on the fact that you were at fault unproductive to the editing process. Therefore, in the future you might want to keep in mind that there are many articles that could benefit from your attention, and that the time you lost being consumed by such an edit war could have been used more efficiently. However, based on what you said in your response, I see that you have realized this and are back on track to be the best contributor you can be.

I’ve looked through your edit history, specifically the articles that you brought up in your responses. Overall, I would say that you have made several quality edits to articles. Based on your vandalism fighting, I would say that you have done a lot of good by fixing up minor mistakes to major acts of vandalism. As an avid vandal fighter I’m sure you are familiar with the different tools for it (such as I see that you use Huggle predominately), but if not you should look into tools like Twinkle that are helpful for speeding up the vandal fighting process and all around makes your job easier. Other than that, keep doing what you are doing and if you feel like moving away from simply fighting vandalism, SuggestBot is a helpful tool created to point you towards articles that you might be interested in. Rajzwyn (talk) 21:34, 12 March 2014 (UTC)