Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Apply/AstroHurricane001


 * ''The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful Online Ambassador application.

I'm not sure how this application was overlooked, but you seem to be fully qualified. Sorry for the wait, and welcome to the Online Ambassador Team! Nikkimaria (talk) 02:01, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

AstroHurricane001

 * 1) Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
 * I noticed this program being in effect a year or two ago, and earlier on saw some university professors who helped their students created featured articles. As an editor with over five years of experience and 16,000 edits, I see the Ambassador program as an excellent new way to improve Wikipedia in many areas. University students are often at the frontier of knowledge and have a great opportunity to improve the project. ~ AH1 (discuss!) 00:46, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
 * Most of my Wikimedia participation has been on the English Wikipedia, though I have a few hundred edits and other contributions to close to a dozen sister projects and interwikis. On Wikipedia, about half of my edits have been mainspace–I've created 60 articles on the English Wikipedia. In terms of project space, I have been fairly active on such places as the Reference Desks, In the News, Motto of the Day, and more occasionally on Help Desk, Village Pump, Administrators' Noticeboard (despite not being an admin), content assessment nominations, RFA, XFD and other areas. ~ AH1 (discuss!) 00:46, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
 * I have contributed to several DYKs, two meteorology-related examples being January 31–February 2, 2011 North American winter storm and William Rankin, and two astronomy-related examples are Virginids and C/2009 R1. Most GAs and FAs I was not the main contributor, yet I think the quality of articles I create has been generally improving (for example, my most recent article was MicroFIT). Current event articles, especially on floods and earthquakes, are commonly ones I expand greatly, including the 2010 China floods, 2010 Russian wildfires and 2011 Burma earthquake, all of which made it to ITN. ~ AH1 (discuss!) 00:46, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
 * I sometimes help new users get accustomed to Wikipedia by being friendly on WP:HD and other places; a few of my acquaintances in real life I have also assisted, despite their vandalism and rude demeanor. I also received a "guidance barnstar" from a new user I helped a few years ago, and occasionally stood up for users who others assumed violated certain rules but in my opinion did not (see one of my recent editor reviews). ~ AH1 (discuss!) 00:46, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
 * It is of utmost importance to remain patient and welcoming, suggest ways that editors can improve the encyclopedia, introduce Wikipedia as a community, protect newbies from being ensnared in obscure policy violations, and ensure that editors and readers know how to avoid plagiarism and copyright infringements, either from Wikipedia or to the project itself. ~ AH1 (discuss!) 00:46, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
 * I haven't had any major conflicts or blocks. There was one arbitration case that I took interest in, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Climate change, which I tried to get a background on and wasn't able to due to the length of its history, yet never got involved in it. I continue to be an active editor within the aforementioned topic area. ~ AH1 (discuss!) 00:46, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions?  Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?
 * There rarely goes by a week without my making several edits to the encyclopedia or commenting on areas of Wikipedia such as the reference desk. In my duties as an online ambassador, I should have ample time. Although I may forget to check any individual discussion every day, there will be no problem for me to participate in current university projects provided that the links are easily accessible when I log in to the project. ~ AH1 (discuss!) 00:46, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
 * Everything. Seriously though, I tend to be most active in science and environment-related topic areas, and have membership in several WikiProjects. It would be a great experience to be involved in this ambassador project, especially in areas where I actively take interest. ~ AH1 (discuss!) 00:43, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Discussion

 * 1) support AstroHurricane001 knows how to do things here and has kept out of trouble. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:30, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 2) yes --Guerillero &#124;  My Talk  22:23, 1 February 2012 (UTC)