Wikipedia:Editor review/Voyagerfan5761

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Voyagerfan5761 (talk • contribs) I've been editing Wikipedia pretty much continuously since last Spring. I've been making a lot of minor edits, mostly vandal reversions using Popups and spelling/grammar corrections, for most of that time. While I have little interest in becoming an Admin at the present time, I would like to know if there is anything I should change about my editing. Style changes, things to ignore, etc. And while my signature is kind of long (to preempt this comment), I am currently researching how to keep the appearance and make it shorter. Any suggestions are welcome as part of this review.  Tuvok^Talk|Desk|Contribs  03:40, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Reviews
Review by delldot:

  • You apparently don't do much interacting with other users in the user talk namespace: I noticed on your talk page no one had left you a note for over a month. On the one hand, this is good, in that you're not starting any fights or controversies. On the other hand, you may not be discussing important changes with other users enough. (Although you did mention that most of your edits are minor, so this might be why you're staying under the radar). You've also only made 612 edits, so you may not have caught many users' attention yet.
  • You do a fair amount of discussion on article talk pages, and what I looked at was civil, so that's good.
  • Be sure your edit summaries couldn't be seen as incivil, since it's more difficult to get rid of those. You don't want people to think you're attacking them or their edits. I thought this one was a little mean. I didn't see anything else in your contribs that I thought was problematic this way though.
  • Excellent use of edit summaries, both in consistent use and informativeness of the summaries themselves.
  • You mentioned that you'd like reviews of stylistic stuff, sorry to be unable to give you much help in that area. I didn't find any problems other than what I mention here.
  • When you're categorizing articles, you don't need to put them into both a subcategory and a parent category (e.g. here); the subcategory is in the parent category, so putting Category:genetic disorders on an article automatically puts it under category:genetics. Keeping cats to the minimum and most specific helps prevent broad categories like genetics from getting too full and difficult to navigate. A very minor point, I know.
  • Thanks for helping with chores at Wikipedia:Requested articles.
  • Did this user give you permission to edit his page? It's generally discouraged to edit others' user pages without permission.
  • As you say, you do a lot of minor cleanup like spelling corrections, etc. I'd love to see some substantial content contributions from you, e.g. creating articles. It looks like you may be in college, do you have any areas of expertise?
  • All in all, nice work! I'd say the biggest problem I saw was that potentially incivil edit summary. Other than that, you appear to be an asset to the project. Thanks for all the gruntwork. delldot | talk 04:58, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm actually a sophomore in high school. I know some about several areas, but they're all either documented on WP already or I don't know enough about them to start an article. Maybe over the summer I'll research something and write an article. Thanks for taking the time to review me; not many people did, obviously. ;-)
Just FYI, that user did give me permission to edit his page. We know each other in real life, and we were usually in IM communication at the times when I edited his page. He's also helped me with my page; see this edit for an example of that.
As for that edit summary you mentioned...eh-heh... Oops, I suppose I wasn't thinking on that one. I'm avoiding those now. Thanks! -- Tuvok^Talk|Desk|Contribs  22:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Hello Voyagerfan5761, since you requested my input I'll be glad to give it. Delldot pretty much put the thumb on the majority of things you can work on in the future. My only suggestion would be to participate on Wiki-space a bit more often, particularly some more XfD participation. Also, I believe Delldot brought up a good point about civility when leaving edit summaries. I caught this edit summary in your past contributions which is a bit bite-ish in my opinion. Whether vandal, established editor, or otherwise its better to avoid insults and keep your cool ;). Hope these breif suggestions help you.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 02:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, especially for being so quick. I'll start taking a look at XfD debates, and I'll try to avoid such bite-ish edit summaries as "kind of dumb vandalism". That one just slipped out ;-). I've also read the links you posted, and I'll take them into account for later participation. Thanks again! -- Tuvok^Talk|Desk|Contribs  23:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
  • This is not a valid reason to base keeping an article. Simply treating AfD as a vote will get your opinion struck or discounted in the final overview. Also, basing the argument on "inclusionism" is a bit divisive to the community. Please red through WP:AADD --Wafulz 18:04, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Your signature is 433 characters long. While I generally don't have any problem with excessive coloring, WP:SIG recommends that each signature should be less than 200 character long to avoid making discussion more difficult. Please shorten it. Michaelas10 (Talk) 15:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
    • Apart from the fact that it is indeed way too long, it is also very confusing that you use a completely different name in your signature than your actual username. Fram 15:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
      • I have shortened it since this review was posted. As for the username, I've been using it since I started. If I change now, it might be even more confusing, and my signature would be longer. Any suggestions are welcome, though. Thanks for the comments, both of you! — Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 00:19, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Review by Emperor Walter Humala:

  • Hehe you might get many enemies if you keep telling others what to do, only a few like that. So for your own good...be careful with your comments. Cheers --– Emperor Walter Humala · ( shout! · sign? ) 23:17, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
    • I see where you're coming from, but I was expressing an opinion and making a suggestion. If you feel I was telling you what to do, I am truly sorry; my intention was only to bring a potential annoyance to your attention. — Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 04:42, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Questions

  1. Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
    I don't really have any "favorite" edits. I like them all, though my favorites are reverting major vandalism.
  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?
    I can think of only one edit conflict/war I have been involved in. It's in the Gmail article, and is still continuing. It centers around the amount of storage Gmail offers, and many anon users have kept changing the storage numbers incorrectly. I just deal with it by fixing the edit if it hasn't been already. In the future, I plan to do the same thing, and discuss the problem through a member of the Mediation Committee. That is, if I can't get the other user to talk to me directly.
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