Wikipedia:Editor review/Wintonian

Wintonian
I have been editing Wikipedia for a few weeks now and thought it might be useful to gain some insight to how I need to improve and what I am doing well. I know I haven’t created any new articles (I can't think of one that hasn't been created) and that I don't always get it right, for example I got into a bit of a pickle over reverting vandalism on an article yesterday and accidently put it up for speedy deletion, causing me to remove the tag and then try and revert the vandalism as well as my request, and I messed it up a bit and an admin came round and sorted it for me. I try and abide by the 1 revert rule as I believe if someone has disagreed with my decision then it needs to be discussed - this has proven to be a prudent. I have mainly been involved in minor edits like updating and vandal fighting as well as the odd peep into new page patrol. approach Wintonian (talk) 01:18, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

 Questions


 * 1) What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
 * My main contributions are vandal fighting and minor edits and updating, normally in areas that interest me, often as I read through Wikipedia to learn about something.
 * 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?
 * I redirected some articles regarding prospective candidates for the then forthcoming general election in the United Kingdom, per my understanding of WP:POlIICIAN (as a new editor I was following by example.) Another editor reverted some of them, so I explained that I would put the articles up for AFD with my reasons for doing so in order to give the community the chance to discuss them. Some of the articles were maintained others were deleted. In hind sight I should have asked for advice on the relevant projects talk page or put them up for AfD with my recommendation and reasons for them in the first place. Also an editor disagreed with a decision of mine to apparently delete an article and left what I would consider to be a personal attack on my talk page, which I chose to ignore instead of getting involved in a heated dispute, I still do not know which article they were referring to as it was not made clear, but I chose not to respond to what I considered to be a personal attack instead of making an issue out of a one off incident. I will not tolerate repeated personal attacks on me and will seek advice from an admin if such a case occurs before responding directly.
 * I redirected some articles regarding prospective candidates for the then forthcoming general election in the United Kingdom, per my understanding of WP:POlIICIAN (as a new editor I was following by example.) Another editor reverted some of them, so I explained that I would put the articles up for AFD with my reasons for doing so in order to give the community the chance to discuss them. Some of the articles were maintained others were deleted. In hind sight I should have asked for advice on the relevant projects talk page or put them up for AfD with my recommendation and reasons for them in the first place. Also an editor disagreed with a decision of mine to apparently delete an article and left what I would consider to be a personal attack on my talk page, which I chose to ignore instead of getting involved in a heated dispute, I still do not know which article they were referring to as it was not made clear, but I chose not to respond to what I considered to be a personal attack instead of making an issue out of a one off incident. I will not tolerate repeated personal attacks on me and will seek advice from an admin if such a case occurs before responding directly.

 Reviews 


 * You are doing great. Your edit summaries are good and your vandal fighting looks excellent. The AFD thing doesn't seem to be an issue at all. Your edit count looks good too. In all, you seem to be a great editor. Homework2  Talk What I do!  02:19, 8 June 2010 (UTC)