Wikipedia:Editor review/Thief Lord

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User:Thief Lord (t)(c) Started in November, 2005. I am thinking becoming a adminstrator. I clean up articles. I also try to improve articles such as Rugrats. I even tried to help get Rugrats to be a featured article. I don't use edit summary. I have started a couple of articles such as Felix Newton Pitt and Pitt Academy.Thief Lord 20:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

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Reviews

• Hello there, Thief Lord. Here are some tips you may find useful.

  • First of all, the (c) in your signature is broken. Try replacing [[Special:contributions:Thief Lord|(c)]] with [[Special:Contributions/Thief Lord|(c)]] Now, for the review, I notice you have around 550 edits. I must point you at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Standards, where you will see that candidates with less than 1,000 edits are really rare, just 24% this month, and their success rate is null. This is because it is understood that experience in both time and participation is needed in order to become a good administrator. You cite some problems with copyright violations and moving mistakes. These are common during the first weeks as editor, but they can easily be fixed. However, to request the administrator tools you do need to need them. In other words, why one would want to be an administrator if he is not going to act like one? In your case, you specify that you want to be an administrator, but the tasks you say you like doing do not require them. You don't need to be an administrator to clean up, create or improve articles. You would need them to fight vandals, but I see around one edit warning vandals per month, which is extremely low if you are willing to patrol. And only two participations in deletions, extremely low if you want to work with backlogs. Also, as Alex stated, you do need to use edit summaries, they are extremely helpful, and I am not sure even a very good editor would be able to have a successful request for adminship if he does not use them. I believe you should continue doing what you do, expanding and helping in writing articles for the time being. You can learn a lot of style formatting, which is required by adminstrators as they are also editors. Try making all the articles where you participate editing good or maybe even featured articles, although you must know by now that featured articles are rare, and that it is very hard to get the community consensus to achieve that. If you do want to become one someday, then I suggest you to check the recent changes patrol, learn how to use templates to warn people accordingly, and to participate in discussions about articles, templates and categories for deletion. This way you will learn experience about what is appropriate for Wikipedia, and what is not. Remember, there is no need to be an administrator to be a good editor, as that adds a set of responsabilities that may stress those that are not prepared. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 14:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Comments

• If you are thinking of becoming of an administrator, you must use edit summaries for every edit. --Alex (Talk) 17:38, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Questions

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

The aforementioned articles. Some things I do is try to improve the links, get rid of vandalism, and I really do not edit except when I find more information for the article pages. I am a good communicator. I make suggestions and put them on the article's talk pages.

2. 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?

There was some but I contacted the other editor and he realized the mistake I did. The mistakes include copyright violations, and moving mistakes. I also tried to defended a article from deletion.