Wikipedia:Editor review/Tikuko

Tikuko*
I've been on and off Wikipedia on this account nearly since I was in 8th grade - I am now a sophomore in college. Although my activity the last month or so has been spotty, in part because I work a full time job, a part time job, and attend college full time, now that summer's arrived I'd like some critique so I can improve my editing. I am aware that I can get a little hot-headed at times, I'm working on it the best I can.  T K K  bark !  13:48, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * 1) What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
 * My primary contributions to Wikipedia have been almost exclusively in the domain of WP:DOGS. I spent a lot of time weeding out "my german shepherd accidently mated with a chihuahua and wow look at this designer dog!" type pages that are unheard of except for the owners of the dogs themselves; i feel it might not be in the spirit of Wikipedia to say I'm proud of this but I am. I also completely rewrote several pages, two of which are now good articles - Whippet and Bedlington Terrier. I made substantial changes to Giant Schnauzer and Sled dog as well. I am also proud of my work creating the pages for the best in show winners of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
 * 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.
 * Yes and yes. One of my first major 'things' on Wikipedia was nominating Tamaskan Dog for its third deletion; i was promptly attacked by numerous breeders of this particular type of dog and it has left a rather bad taste in my mouth. The same events occurred when I nominated the Murray River Curly Coated Retriever - the members of their breed club attacked me, calling into question my intelligence and accusing me of being ignorant; one of their messages remains on my talk page actually. With the both articles, I was unable to find any sources outside of self-published sources and so promptly put the articles up for AfD, as one would do when finding a (apparently) non-notable, self-promotional article. (I still can't find sources for either breed). When the MRCCR group began to snap at me, I reacted in anger, having expended my patience with the Tamaskan dog group. I should have kept my cool, stepped away from the Wiki, made myself some tea and maybe ignored them; I admit I made a mistake and I'm surprised no one noticed it to slap me on the wrist for it.
 * 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 am primarily looking for general feedback on my editing and behavior on the Wiki. I would run for adminship, but none of the tools seem like they would serve the kind of editing I like to do and it would be more of a "wow cool im a wikipedia admin" - if I did run, it would be so I could work on the various fD projects, but I feel like I have not participated enough in these areas to really need adminship.
 * 1) What kind of checks do you perform before you nominate an article for deletion on grounds of CSD? I am asking because this edit just caused problems, as explained here. I am not aware of having crossed paths with you otherwise, so don't have further remarks or questions. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 16:18, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The site that I found the copy on, ReadCubed, didn't really have any liscensing information that I could find other than 'free access' at the top, which doesn't tell you anything about the liscensing of the article; since I scrolled though and didn't see anything pertaining to the CC license, and navigating the site was proving to be painful to my rather shoddy computer, I just presumed it to be incompatible.
 * Now that I scroll the article, I see copyright information at the start, which is not where I'm familiar with it being. Part of the problem, then, is indeed on my end with sheer ignorance of the article formatting. -- T K K  bark !  19:30, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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