Wikipedia:Editor review/Toa Nidhiki05

Toa Nidhiki05
I'm a less active contributor, but want to see what others think about my work.  TN  05  17:22, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

 Questions


 * 1) What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
 * Football articles; My revision of Double Trouble (nickname), my creation of Template:Avalon (band)
 * 1) Have you been in any disputes 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?
 * Nope.
 * Nope.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a few errors and delays, the answers above were given in March 2010. BigK HeX (talk) 01:55, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

 Reviews 

I approach this editor review somewhat hesitantly because I've done a lot of these reviews and usually the person asking for the review "tells it like it is" in the two questions asked. It didn't take long to question the veracity of your answers to the questions... (1) You say your primary contributions are to football articles. Sure, I see a lot your early edits were (American) football articles with a smattering here and there in your most recent 500 edits, but politics make up the bulk of your edits. Heck, you even contradict your answer to #1 on your user page by saying you mainly contribute to CCM articles. After your really good early contributions to CCM, I see you haven't edited much there lately either. And then you answer question #2 with a simple nope disregarding this and this. I'm going to assume good faith though and hope maybe you simply view your contribution idealistically and not realistically... with that in mind, here are my thoughts: ''I stand corrected. My bad, should have been more careful.'' But the essence of the rest of the review is still applicable IMHO:
 * Review by VictorianMutant:
 * Civility towards the community: I'm not going to dwell on this very long. It seems what bogs you down is political contributions. I myself have strong political contributions(and based on a quick glance at your userboxes, they aren't too different than yours). Political editing on Wikipedia is very tricky and not for those who have hot tempers. It's actually not a good idea to tackle those articles if your are seem to be too much of an interested party.
 * Article contributions: I've seen a lot of Christian rock articles which need a lot of work. I myself work on a lot of football articles and sometimes want to tear my hair out when I see what people have done to some of those articles. Early on, you did a great job in those two areas, but you've gotten away from them. Go back to them and stay away from the political articles for a while. One edit which did concern me is this one. Many of us (oldtimers) consider "glam metal" to be a subgenre of "heavy metal." I was there when Europe's The Final Countdown came out... it was called Heavy Metal not Glam Metal when it came out. But forget what I think... you went against the article's long time history without asking for consensus. And then got into a mini "edit-war" over it. If you feel strongly about something, ask other peoples' opinions, don't edit war over it.
 * Edit count analysis: You do spend a lot of time working in mainspace according to your graph which is a good thing. Just stay focused on what you ought to be working on and you'll be okay. Why not add some vandal fighting to your editing? Spend some time editing, ask for rollback and help out in new ways.
 * RfA-worthiness: Maybe someday, but not today...
 * Final thoughts: You are basically a good editor who can be a great editor. You have the potential to do a lot of good for the project; here are some specific recommendations: (1) Get rid of most of your political userboxes and eliminate most of your "political views" essay on your user page. I'm not going to quote any specific Wikipedia policy or guideline because I don't suggest it for that reason. But wearing your political colors on your sleeve here only weakens your hand when editing. I only have one political userbox on my page and it's one listing myself as a "classical liberal." That keeps it simple and if anyone wants to know more they can ask. (2) Get away from political articles, get back to CCM and Football articles. That's what you do best and that's where you can and will make your mark on Wikipedia. (3) Try your hand at vandal fighting. Get twinkle and fight vandals from time to time. (4) Read this and pick either a zero or one revert rule for yourself to follow. Sure, you can safely avoid a block by following the two-revert rule, but hold yourself to a higher standard... Good luck and hope to see you around. VictorianMutant (talk) 05:57, 6 October 2010 (UTC)