Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Apply/Carptrash


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

Support from all discussion participants. Welcome to the Ambassador Program!--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:23, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Carptrash

 * 1) Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
 * I have been touting wikipedia for years and after I convinced my father (age 90) that it was a worthwhile use of my time I discovered this program and decided to try it.
 * 1) In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
 * I started out mostly creating and/or editing articles about American sculpture history or architectural history, branching out now and again onto mostly areas that I am interested in. I have a large library at home and use it to reference edits, mostly my own, but also of other editors.  I have perhaps 2,000 articles on my watchlist  and check them for vandalism on a more-or-less daily basis.
 * 1) Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
 * Pioneer Woman a recent effort (with another editor), and my only known DYK. Caspar Buberl, an article I wrote, illustrated and consider to be the main source of information on this little known sculptor. Alexander Phimister Proctor an early effort that I need to get back to and make the citations inline.
 * 1) How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
 * I have a pretty standard blurb that i use when I run across an edit by a new editor whose user name appears in red ink suggesting that he/she put something on their user page and change their signature to blue.
 * 1) What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
 * Acknowledge their good faith efforts and encourage them to do more editing.
 * 1) Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
 * A few skirmishes. I am currently just getting into a 3 revert situation at Española, New Mexico, but there is, I believe, no rancor involved, just a difference of opinion that will probably require outside input to resolve.
 * 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?
 * I am pretty much a daily editor and do not see two hours a week as being a problem. In fact it is what I think I am asking for.
 * 1) What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
 * I have added a lot of images to wikipedia. That is one of my loves. I also  have a bit of history in this sort of thing already,  here  http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html and here  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/2009/10/rushes-sequences-einar-kvaran.shtml
 * The next day or two Carptrash (talk) 21:26, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Strong support The thing that struck me is how calm and levelheaded you are during our exchange yesterday. Your photography is stunning (Are you a featured picture contributer?) and your writing looks good. --Guerillero &#124; My Talk  &#124; Review Me  17:47, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Since I don't know what a "featured picture contributer" is I probably am not one. But thanks for the support. Carptrash (talk) 20:00, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
 * No objections here, Sadads (talk) 22:10, 9 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Support. Seems like a solid editor with no red flags that I notice.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:18, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Well I am not sure about the "no red flags", but thanks for your support. Carptrash (talk) 19:11, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Cute.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:06, 12 April 2011 (UTC)