Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Apply/Gaijin42

User:Gaijin42

 * 1) Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
 * To help new editors to create good wiki articles, following good wiki practices, and have a good experience on the wiki. Many new editors come in and have a very frustrating experience, because they have not been shown the ropes.
 * 1) In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
 * My involvement in projects has been fairly limited - however, I have followed several projects to-do lists, and used them as launching points for my own editing activities
 * 1) Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
 * Jesus_C._Gonzalez, Rome_Sweet_Rome, Joshua_Coyne
 * 1) How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
 * Unfortunately my involvement with many new users is a negative one, as I am fairly deletionist in new page patrol, and therefore I am active in hunting down spam and vandalism. However, I try to be helpful with them, especially if they show good faith in wanting to improve (although I am not always successful) here are a few examples of users I attempted to help after initial page patrol interactions User_talk:Xenobia4, User_talk:Santre34 and here is one recent interaction I had with the ambassador program Wikipedia_talk:Ambassadors/Courses/BrunellFeministThought. Also, here is a page I just rescued created by a new user. Obvious horrible initial implementation, that I recovered from CSD, and improved. Lil p-nut
 * 1) What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
 * Make sure they understand the baseline requirements, so that they can have successful edits and creations and not get immediately discouraged.
 * 1) Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
 * Yes, I have had several disagreements with other editors. Most recently and notably with Dr. Blofeld regarding mass creation of stubs. While we continue to disagree, I have tried to be cordial with him in various interactions. Also, I was involved in some BLP disputes regarding Herman Cain and Justin Beiber regarding neutral applicability of standards in BLP, and tried to get consensus and compromise in both areas (although I admittedly could have been less antagonistic in some circumstances. I have never been blocked or banned.
 * 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 spend entirely too much time on wikipedia. Two hours per week is not an issue.