Wikipedia:Editor review/Spebi

Spebi
I'm requesting editor review again, because I'd like to get a thorough review of what I'm doing wrong, and what I can do to improve. Note: Please no automated reviews or copy-and-pasted reviews. – sebi 10:33, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

 Reviews 


 * I have interacted with (or at least "seen round") Spebi for quite some time, and I have found him/her (sorry if your gender is actually common knowledge, and I have just missed it somewhere...) to be a productive and civil editor who knows policy here and is a good article writer. I look forward to the day that Spebi, if interested, submits an RFA, and hopefully passes on to become a true asset to the ranks of administrators. All I can advise is that you continue with what you are doing, and continue to flourish in the areas in which you already actively participate. Cheers -- Anonymous Dissident  Talk 06:42, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, AD :) Yeah, I'm a "he", but I haven't exactly made that clear in recent times due to to the fact that I don't feel like wasting time creating a user page that I'll constantly update to fix every minor detail.  Sebi  [talk] 08:03, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Spebi

run at Sun Sep 9 06:33:41 2007 GMT

Category:	36 Image talk:	1 Image:	62 Mainspace	1673 Portal talk:	3 Portal:	91 Talk:	368 Template talk:	16 Template:	203 User talk:	1224 User:	968 Wikipedia talk:	93 Wikipedia:	830 avg edits per page	3.30 earliest	04:27, 30 January 2007 number of unique pages	1686 total	5568

290 edits to Habbo Hotel, and it still isn't GA? The dedication is good, but I really don't know what's holding it back...something I do notice is that a lot of the edits are reversions of your previous edits, or very minor changes. Perhaps you could use the preview button more, and compile more into one edit. By the way, like all the anti-vandal warnings commented in the article...but it still gets a good deal of vandalism :(

Apart from that, you've also done a good deal of work on some other articles, which is great to see. Anyone who likes The Chaser's War on Everything is in my good books ;) I think that article is at GA status, you just need fair use rationales on images, and it should be good.

Good to see active talk page discussion - that can be a rare commodity.

A lot of edits to your talk, but I don't recall you replying there actively? Maybe it's just because I'm #2 on the list :P

Help Desk work is good, but you don't seem to do much in other areas. This could get picked on in an RfA.

An overwhelming impression I get in your edits, except to mainspace, is that you edit anything, anywhere...with no specific "area of interest." Nice to see the gnoming - but you might enjoy yourself more in one set area. Try focusing more (maybe do some wikiproject collaboration or something), see how you like that.

Anyway, I hope these suggestions help - sometimes I can't write anything in an ER, and sometimes I get plenty out...like now. Enjoy! Dihydrogen Monoxide 06:47, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow, that was rather thorough... ;) Probably the reason I can't get a GA out of Habbo Hotel is the fact that all the peer reviews requested for the article are along the lines of "article is an ad, work on it", and never actually state what parts of the article make the whole thing seem like an advertisement.
 * Er...yeah...about that :P Dihydrogen Monoxide 07:39, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I try to avoid responding on my talk page unless it's for something really minor that isn't worth bothering the person with a new messages bar about, and the new messages bar was implemented to serve a purpose. I guess that some editors find it easy to reply on their talk page.
 * Then the exceeding number of edits too it is odd - all I was saying. Not an issue though! Dihydrogen Monoxide 07:39, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I try to edit in as many Wikipedia: pages I can, but sometimes I find it a little difficult to find certain places to work at. I've been more active in RFCN, other XfDs other than just TfD, and was a clerk for a short while at RFCU. This weekend I've started to become a little more active at WP:AUS and started Portal:Knitting. And I don't help out as much on the help desk due to my Internet being rather slow lately, and you know how the help desk is... *shudder* ;)
 * Thanks again for the review :)  Sebi  [talk] 08:03, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Spebi, sorry it's taken a while. First off a minor thing is that your link at the top of this page doesn't link to your second ER but your first instead. I looked at the tagging and I don't see why it doesn't.
 * Review by -- Flyguy649 talk contribs

I've read through the other reviews, so I'll try to approach things somewhat differently (and I'm the only non-Aussie ;) ). I'm also concentrating on your past two months. Email enabled is good. Bare userpage, but fine -- no one can pull the "too many userboxes" b.s. on you. You may want an obvious but discrete link to your talkpage so newer editors don't leave messages on your user page (I see you used to have that).

I like that you've been involved in the template standardisation drive, which show a readiness to collaborate with others on a project that is important to all users. Also nice are contributions to WP:ACC, portals and WikiProjects. Your contributions to article talk pages are good. I didn't notice any civility issues in your talk page contributions. Vandalism work seems pretty good. I think giving uw-bv to is a bit excessive for this edit seeing as it was their first non-userspace edit. It might have been accidental. Mind you, I find my tolerance for vandalism can depend on whether I've had lunch, time of day, time in front of the computer, etc. I'd probably have used uw-v2. I save uw-bv for more serious hate or profane vandalism. There are also a few instances where you revert vandalism and the user wasn't warned. I imagine it's probably because someone else warned for you. It certainly isn't frequent enough to cause me concern. One suggestion is to note which warning you're giving in the edit summary. For example, I will put "v2" in the summary when I warn with uw-v2. This is useful for when users blank their talk pages as it allows other editors to more quickly determine what other warnings the user has received without looking at earlier versions. Only one click different, but it saves a bit of time for future editors/RC patrollers. And I do see that you have done that in the past. Your deleted contributions show that you don't do a lot of new page patrol -- relatively few articles tagged for deletion. I don't think it's a big deal, mind you.

Most of your edit summaries are informative, which is definitely a good thing. And you always seem to use them -- also good. Try to remember to mark minor changes (like most WP:MOS-type changes, e.g. here) as minor. (As an aside, month-and-day, e.g. April 17, should be wiki-linked for user viewing preferences purposes.)

One suggestion for when you're making lots of changes to a page (e.g. Bali Nine, List of units in the Age of Mythology series) is to use the inuse template to warn other users not to edit. Then you can use the preview button more, and fewer multiple small edits. That's not really an Editor Review thing, just a general comment.

One thing I will also reiterate what has been stated before is the high proportion of edits you have to User space. Part of it is because you have so many subpages and you do a lot of testing there. Your deleted contributions are also full of User space contributions. I don't really think it's a problem, but just be prepared to either give a pre-emptive reason or have one ready if anyone fires that off at you. It's also readily apparent that you spend a lot of your time on a few articles and also Wikipedia space. Also fine, just be aware.

Ok. I'll end there for now. In summary, mostly good stuff. Feel free to ask for clarification. Cheers! -- Flyguy649 talk contribs 06:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Wow, thanks a lot for that. I really appreciate your suggestions, I'll try and take them all into account. :)  Sebi  [talk] 07:14, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

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 Questions


 * Questions answered by  Sebi  [talk], 04:02, 9 September 2007 (UTC).


 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * Habbo Hotel, List of units in the Age of Mythology series, Guns N' Roses, WikiProject Guns N' Roses and Portal:Knitting. I haven't promoted any of them to featured status or good article status of yet, but all of them are pretty close.
 * 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 believe I have a strong history of civility in all areas, and in all of my conflicts in the past and recently I believe I have been civil to all users. I have been stressed many times from conflicts, and I'm sure that in the future I'll be tackling even bigger conflicts. When I'm communicating with other users, whether it be through an edit summary or on a talk page, I always try to assume good faith and make my comments as harmonious as possible, and using positive instructions ("please make constructive contributions" as opposed to "don't make unconstructive contributions"), so when I get really stressed out, I can make comments less harmonious and still be civil towards other users. Another way to avoid wikistress that I use is to just take a break from the computer screen, and forget about Wikipedia for about an hour or so; not much is going to change while you are away, and sometimes wikibreaks can be too long. I also avoid putting a wikistress meter on my user pages, this helps a lot! ;) Many of the conflicts I get into either end up in an agreement, or the users involved in the conflicts are very co-operative and are open for suggestions on how to solve the conflict.
 * I believe I have a strong history of civility in all areas, and in all of my conflicts in the past and recently I believe I have been civil to all users. I have been stressed many times from conflicts, and I'm sure that in the future I'll be tackling even bigger conflicts. When I'm communicating with other users, whether it be through an edit summary or on a talk page, I always try to assume good faith and make my comments as harmonious as possible, and using positive instructions ("please make constructive contributions" as opposed to "don't make unconstructive contributions"), so when I get really stressed out, I can make comments less harmonious and still be civil towards other users. Another way to avoid wikistress that I use is to just take a break from the computer screen, and forget about Wikipedia for about an hour or so; not much is going to change while you are away, and sometimes wikibreaks can be too long. I also avoid putting a wikistress meter on my user pages, this helps a lot! ;) Many of the conflicts I get into either end up in an agreement, or the users involved in the conflicts are very co-operative and are open for suggestions on how to solve the conflict.