Wikipedia:Editor review/White Shadows (4)

White Shadows (4)
Hey everyone! For those of you who do not know me, I am White Shadows and this is my 4th Editor Review (I believe it is at least...I had a name change last year so it could be my 5th!) Now the reason that I'm requesting yet another editor review is because, after re-stumbling across my failed RFA from last summer, I realize just how unprepared I was in running for the mop. Aside from the obvious fact that I simply was not ready for it due to my character on Wikipedia, my answers were chock-full of typos, and my comments looked like they were written in broken English, which no doubt contributed to my failure. While I personally think that I've addressed most of the issues that were brought up in the RFA, I would like a fresh set of eyes to give me a honest assessment (hopefully) regarding my improvement over the past year and even beyond. To be entirely honest, looking back to edits made last year, January of 2010, and 2009, I cannot believe that I am the same person who made these edits. I almost chuckle when I read through some of my archives and past edits, seeing how immature and childish they were. Hopefully, I've changed and matured for the better as both an editor, as well as a person, since I made that first edit on July 22, 2009. White Shadows Stuck in square one 03:56, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

 Questions


 * 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 my work on Austro-Hungarian Battleships and other naval craft such as U-boats (I consider List of battleships of Austria-Hungary and SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand to be the best examples of my work). Outside of the article space, I am a contributor to DYK as well as a regular Huggler. Recently though, my edits have gravitated towards behind the scenes work rather than article writing. In the past few months, I have been very inactive on Wikipedia. As an uprising Senior in High School, I've been very busy recently, taking AP tests, as well as studying for (and taking) the SAT. However, with the onset of Summer, I hope to return to my normal editing levels and get back to working in the areas of Wikipedia that I love to edit in.
 * 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.
 * Anyone who has had any sort of extended contact with me on Wikipedia knows my checkered past. I have been in several disputes, both relating to editing controversies, and otherwise. Despite these setbacks, I personally believe that I have made great strives in eliminating these almost daily issues from my editing pattern. I have been engaged in very few editing disputes/augments for quite some time. I used to deal with the stress that this caused in the worst way possible; In the past, I held grudges toward editors. This tension built up and occasionally exploded in rather childish rages towards other editors. Having ended this chapter in my Wiki-life, I have not been engaged (Almost all of these incidents were ignited by me, not other editors) in such disputes that used to cause me so much stress (or they simply do not effect me the way they used to). With that in mind, I try to handle (and will continue to handle) any possible future disputes of any kind on this project with a simple sentience in mind: It's just a website. I realize now that not everything is personal on Wikipedia and there will always be different points of view out there, you simply need to deal with them and not let them go to your head. Taking that into mind, I try to remain cool and calm in editing disputes now. However, we all make mistakes, as easily shown by my extensive and heated discussion with another editor regarding the American Civil War. That was the last editing dispute that I've been in to my knowledge. I came out of that episode with the determination to no longer engage in politically heated articles that breed anger between all parties. I've also learned (finally) that Wikipedia is not about winning and losing. Rather, if cooler heads prevail, and teamwork is applied to write neutral, balanced, articles, rather than argue about their content, we're all winners.
 * Anyone who has had any sort of extended contact with me on Wikipedia knows my checkered past. I have been in several disputes, both relating to editing controversies, and otherwise. Despite these setbacks, I personally believe that I have made great strives in eliminating these almost daily issues from my editing pattern. I have been engaged in very few editing disputes/augments for quite some time. I used to deal with the stress that this caused in the worst way possible; In the past, I held grudges toward editors. This tension built up and occasionally exploded in rather childish rages towards other editors. Having ended this chapter in my Wiki-life, I have not been engaged (Almost all of these incidents were ignited by me, not other editors) in such disputes that used to cause me so much stress (or they simply do not effect me the way they used to). With that in mind, I try to handle (and will continue to handle) any possible future disputes of any kind on this project with a simple sentience in mind: It's just a website. I realize now that not everything is personal on Wikipedia and there will always be different points of view out there, you simply need to deal with them and not let them go to your head. Taking that into mind, I try to remain cool and calm in editing disputes now. However, we all make mistakes, as easily shown by my extensive and heated discussion with another editor regarding the American Civil War. That was the last editing dispute that I've been in to my knowledge. I came out of that episode with the determination to no longer engage in politically heated articles that breed anger between all parties. I've also learned (finally) that Wikipedia is not about winning and losing. Rather, if cooler heads prevail, and teamwork is applied to write neutral, balanced, articles, rather than argue about their content, we're all winners.

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 * Note It appears that this editor has retired. Alpha_Quadrant    (talk)  19:20, 28 December 2011 (UTC)