Wikipedia:Editor Review/ChrisGriswold

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ChrisGriswold (talk · contribs) I have been active for a while now, primarily working to organize WP:CMC and to make it more new-editor-friendly. People have begun to come to me for advice and possibly even look up to me, and I want to make sure I am deserving of that respect.

Reviews

  • I can think of nothing you could do to improve yourself - and that's always a good sign. With a history like yours, I have every reason to believe that you deserve whatever respect you get. Good work! :) RandyWang (chat me up/fix me up) 09:46, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
  • A little more involvement in AfD, CfD or something like that would be nice, but other than that looks good. By the way, that is a LOT of talkspace edits (which is a good thing) AdamBiswanger1 13:40, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Your continued efforts to keep up the encyclopedic tone necessary for Wikipedia's longterm credibility are to be very much applauded, as is your gentle insistence on accuracy, citations, and verifability. Tenebrae 17:48, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
  • A thoughtful and helpful Wikipedian, who from what I have seen is civil and understanding, while still rightly insisting on Wikipedia standards as the main argument in discussions. A pleasure to work with, and its mainly thanks to him that the comics project is a good project to be working on. Fram 08:10, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
  • You're a hard working contributor, probably more than Wikipedia deserves. You manage to push for sticking with Wikipedia standards without seeming obsessive-compulsive about it - quite a feat - and still show a sense of humor when appropriate. You show civility and understanding through ongoing edit messes like Civil War, to a degree that I know I personally would have lost my cool with people. You teach by example and by simple, well reasoned explanation, properly citing the style guidelines, general consensus, or plain logic. Even on the rare occasions when I haven't agreed with you (and they really have been rare), I know that I will see a rational, well reasoned presentation of your position. You make the comics article better and the project more fun. Doczilla 21:29, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Yeah, you're a brilliant Wikipedian and to be honest you have no faults when it comes to Wikipedia. However I can still distinctly remember you attempting to verbally slaughter me when I was still a newbie and I really must say I don't like that type of style at all. Otherwise, keep up the good work - Wikipedia needs you!--Anthonycfc (Talk to Me) (sandbox) (E-Count) 09:37 10 Jun 2008 (UTC)
    • That is a misrepresentation. Are you referring to my honest - but in no way mean - response to your editor review, to which you responded by accusing me of attacking you personally? I had no idea you considered yourself a "newbie"; I would expect that an editor would have some edits under his belt before asking to be judged as an editor. Additionally, why submit yourself for an editor review and then react that way when you don't get the reaction you expected? I may not agree with some of the things said in the neutral and negative votes in my RfA, but I accept those as other editors' opinions and respect them for voicing them. Your perception of the events that transpired is strangely skewed, and I don't like your continuing to cast aspersions about me. --Chris Griswold (☎☓)

Comments

Statistics for: ChrisGriswold
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- Total: 7860 -
Main: 4653
Talk: 1410
User: 190
User talk: 387
Wikipedia: 420
Wikipedia talk: 301
Image: 37
Image talk: 5
Template: 280
Template talk: 61
Category: 108
Category talk: 4
Portal: 4
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Total edits: 7860
w/ edit summary: 6987 (88.89%*)
w/ manual edit summary: 5170 (65.77%*)
Minor edits: 2528 (32.16%*)
First known edit: Aug 8, 2005
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Questions

  1. Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
    I am pleased with my contributions to WP:CMC, primarily in re-organizing the main page and directory template, categorizing relevent templates, working with other editors to create our own Wikiproject-specific guidelines, and minding the project's task list. Additionally, I re-worked the introductory page and created the Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Notice Board, which organizes the project's AfDs and merge proposals, and the navboxes discussion, which is formalizing our standards for navigational templates. I did all of this to increase the project's ease-of-use and participation; I want editors to have the applicable resources at hand and new editors to feel more confident in their involvement. I also try to condense a lot of comics articles to justify fair use of the fictional text and to make the articles easier to read for a casual Wikipedia reader. Oh: And I successfully argued for the deletion of an article I worked very hard on when I first got heavily involved with Wikipedia because, with a more-experienced perspective, I felt that while it may have been a fun personal project, it didn't belong on Wikipedia. I just think it shows what I expect from my work and that anything I do to another editor's work is something I would do to myself.
  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?
    It appears to be extremely difficult to edit Wikipedia for a few months without someone being rude or taking an edit personally. As I've edited, I've gotten better at handling conflicts, and that, incidentally, has had a positive effect on the way I interact with people in every facet of my life. I try to be encouraging, I try to use a neutal tone. There was one time a few weeks back where I lost my temper after months of an editor's being rude to a number of other editors and refusing to accept a consensus. What I intended to say was not bad, but the words I used to say it were just over the line of civility. I said, "You are rude" instead of "The way you have been behaving is rude". User:Hiding has helped to guide me from time to time, and this was one of those times. He made it clear to me how to say what I meant. I haven't written that way since. This week, some editors acted very hostile toward me when I listed their article for AfD on the grounds of it being an uncited vanity article about a non-notable subject. I was very calm and even linked them to the information they needed to defend and improve the article. They began to attack articles I had worked on or created, and I continued to stay calm and direct them to information.

Chris Griswold 10:41, 8 August 2006 (UTC)