Wikipedia:Editor review/Tom Morris

Tom Morris
I've been on Wikipedia for a while and would like to find potential ways to improve my editing, possibly find new strengths or areas to explore editing, and uncover potential weaknesses so I can undo those. (Oh, and maybe I'll run for admin someday.) —Tom Morris (talk) 20:52, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

 Questions


 * 1) What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
 * My main content contributions have been Black Bear Ranch (5x expand DYK on a topic I came across completely by random while reading an unrelated book) and the history section of Dignity in Dying. I've created some images and put them on Commons and added them to the articles (Bournemouth University, Søren Kierkegaard bibliography, Sex shop, Abortion in the United Kingdom, Mayfield and Five Ashes).
 * But the vast majority of my edits are gnomish: vandalism reversion (with Huggle and Twinkle), deletion sorting, categorisation, new page patrolling and participation in the deletion process.
 * 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 haven't been in any editing disputes. When an article is going in the wrong direction in my humble opinion, I'll chime in with a comment, but I don't get into revert wars or have massive disputes over things. If I were to somehow find myself in an editing dispute, I'd try and approach things calmly, seek consensus in a civil way. If I'm unable to do that, I'll disengage and have faith in the community to sort things out without me making it worse. I think I'm reasonably able to detect the limits of my patience and disengage before reaching them. Thankfully, I haven't had to deal with those kinds of situations. I have been accused of being an administrator (which I'm not) in a shadowy cabal that involves getting paid off by the CIA and Microsoft, but that was more funny than enraging.

Nearly a year with no reviews? Sad panda is sad.

—Tom Morris (talk) 22:21, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

 Reviews