Wikipedia:Editor review/Electricbassguy

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Electricbassguy (talk • contribs) I am looking for help on how to work better at Wikipedia.

Reviews

• Hello, Electricbassguy, how are you doing? A few comments you may hopefully find useful.

  • I see you are contributing massively through October. Not bad at all! You will have to contribute through some months, I would say 6, in order to request adminship as you did earlier this month.
  • Mathbot indicates you use edit summaries in 25% of your major edits and 73% of your minor ones. That is a pretty low amount, and it is apparent you are trying to use them more regularly now. Remember that an objection in your RFA stated you lacked civility and some were abusive. Try not to use summaries like this, this (note that you may have a conflict of interest here, thus I recommend not editing articles from companies where you work at), this and this. Note that I usually check the latest 2500 edits, or the last two months, whichever has the more amount of edits, that is why I am including diffs from August.
  • Remember that Wikipedia is about verifiability, that is, things we can check through reliable sources. The fact that you add information knowing it is original research makes me think you still don't understand this fact.
  • Some cold numbers: 25 user talk and 17 article talk edits in 361 edits is not a bad amount. However, I believe you should spend some more time discussing in article talk pages, gathering ideas about how to improve a determined article, talk with others to think what they think, etc.

  Overall, you are a starting user who is willing to contribute. I suggest picking four or five articles about a topic you like and that need some expansion, and begin working on them, remembering to gather reliable sources and cite them (probably with m:cite/cite.php, while writing the article. Remember, we are about things that can be verified, not personal opinions. Everytime you add something, try to add a source to back it up. Also, I would suggest doing "style runs". In other words, read about the manual of style, choose one of the suggestions, and then click the Special:Random. You will arrive to a random article, review if the article is faulty at the manual of style suggestion you have chosen, and if so, fix it accordingly. As a good amount of articles in Wikipedia need work, you are likely to find several needing improvement. It will also help you learn the manual of style suggestions faster. Just remember to stay civil at all times, and that some comments you may find common may offend others. This is specially true with sarcasm and irony, so be extremely careful with them (or better yet, don't use them at all). Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 19:17, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

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Questions

1. Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

   Mostly my poetry.com and AMC edits. I also created the Hollywood Mogul page which has developed nicely with help from others as well.

1. Have you been in any conflicts 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 tend to make sarcastic comments on my edits sometimes. I haven't had any fights with other members too much though.