Wikipedia:Editor review/Thesocialistesq

User:Thesocialistesq
Hello. I've been here for about a year, originally doing gnome-work but increasingly involving myself in the community. I've started contributing a lot more recently, and I'd like to see how I'm doing and how I could improve. In the interest of full disclosure, I'm also considering going out for an Rfa in the near future. -- Thesocialistesq/M.Lesocialiste 23:01, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

 Reviews 

 Comments 
 * As an editor, there's not much to criticise. I like what I see, for example your constructive work on Criticism of George W. Bush and its talk page. – If it's RfA you're concerned about, with about 1000 edits and about 70 Wikipedia: namespace edits you'll fail nearly everyone's experience criteria by far at this time, sorry. About four times that numbers and some XfD participation is more usual. Also, my very personal policy is to oppose any candidate who espouses any particular viewpoint in a very prominent manner, as your username does. This is not assuming bad faith - you're perfecly on the WP:NPOV line as an editor as far as I can see -, but it just creates a wrong impression and probably more trouble than it's worth. Consider e.g. clueless newbies screaming on their right-wing blogs about how Wikipedia has been taken over by Communists because you rolled back linkspam for exactly those right-wing blogs... Consider a username change. Sandstein 23:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * If there is one thing I am not good at, it's ERs :) Your contributions seem, for the most part, sound and of a high quality. I like what you've done with Criticism of George W. Bush...lot's of WP:GNOMEing is good - eg: this diff. However, your user subpage, User:Thesocialistesq/Essays, raises POV questions (even if it is a user page) especially under the Esperanza essay ("...never mind, victory is ours...") - highly contravertial topics like EA's deletion shouldn't be written about like so. I backup Sandstein's advice about a username change - see Wikipedia:Changing username where you can post a request for one of the Bureaucrats can change your username if you desire. Lastly, count out a RfA - editors 10x more experienced than yourself with way more XfD particpation have crashed and burned their request for adminship, so it's likely yours would be prematurely ended by a 'crat; just concentrate on that editing, and maybe a little welcoming and RCP work - oh, and XfD participation. Otherwise, well done, keep up the work, always remain WP:CIVIL, even in the face of trolls and Happy Editing! Regards, Anthony  cfc  [ T &bull; C] 21:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


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 Questions


 * 1) Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * I'm proud of what I've done for the Viscount Castlereagh article and a few of the new pages I've created on former MPs and aces from the first world war. They still need a lot of help, though...
 * 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?
 * The closest I've come to an argument with someone on Wikipedia was when I was asked to mediate a dispute on the French Turn and wound up sending Jacrosse to an arbitration. I like to think that if I had a serious conflict with another user, I'd act pretty much as I did then --- detach myself emotionally and try to find and eliminate the matter of the dispute. I always thought one of the charms of communicating with people on wikis or forums was that if you ever got really angry at something that was said, you could just get up and go for a walk: It's not like they're right there in the room with you, or even like they require an immediate response. You can stop and breathe if you need to, and I've always tried to do that.
 * The closest I've come to an argument with someone on Wikipedia was when I was asked to mediate a dispute on the French Turn and wound up sending Jacrosse to an arbitration. I like to think that if I had a serious conflict with another user, I'd act pretty much as I did then --- detach myself emotionally and try to find and eliminate the matter of the dispute. I always thought one of the charms of communicating with people on wikis or forums was that if you ever got really angry at something that was said, you could just get up and go for a walk: It's not like they're right there in the room with you, or even like they require an immediate response. You can stop and breathe if you need to, and I've always tried to do that.