Wikipedia:Editor review/FireSpike

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FireSpike (talk · contribs) I, FireSpike, would like to know where I stand as far as distance goes from becoming an administrator. I plan on going for an administration position in about 9 months to 1 year. FireSpike 03:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Reviews

  • Keep it up, you're on the right track! Atlantis Hawk 09:32, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Don't take this too critical, just helpful criticism. I see you have nearly 1400 edits in over a year, which, I feel is low, though you have increased in past months and if you keep this up it shows you are active. A lot of your edits can be attributed to just a few pages. I notice 143 edits came from your user page, and a lot of your Wikipedia space edits come from Sandbox and Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense pages (238, that I could see, of 386 total). I also thought you didn't handle our userbox situation as best you could ("Why are you so intent on having it red anyways?"). It would have been better to explain your view in a better tone. Other than those points, you look like you are very active in Big Brother and have been improving many articles for that and you are in the Pittsburgh WikiProject (Steelers rock! despite this year's blunders...). I hope to see more good things come from you and I think you'll make a good administrator if you keep these things in mind. --WillMak050389 22:19, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
  • It doesn't have to be 9 months to one year, but you do have some way to go. Start participating in administrative-oriented tasks such as countervandalism or XfD. You must step up your pace, as your flow of contributions is currently too low and unsteady. Avoid spamming talk pages, some editors are not very fond of it. Always add an edit summary to every single edit of yours, your edit summary usage is very low atm. Anyway you're doing good. Happy editing! Regards.--Húsönd 22:07, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Restricting my comments here to one aspect; having 38 userboxes on your page in addition to the babel boxes may expose you to a number of fair use violations on your userpage. Were you to go up for RfA, and early on in the RfA it was seen that you had fair use violations on your userpage, it might not go down well. I'm not against people having userboxes. I am against fair use violations in userboxes. Having this many userboxes transcluded to your userpage just exposes you to problems, with little gain. Note that at least four of the userboxes there have had fair use violations at one time or another. What does having the userboxes on your userpage do? Not much in my opinion. But, that's just my opinion. Removing all the boxes entirely won't detract from your ability to contribute to the project, and won't change how people interact with you in positive ways, and will remove the possibility of fair use violations on your userpage. *shrug* Your choice. --Durin 17:10, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Edits- I'm not crazy on how your edit's look on Kate's tool so far. Less than half in the mainspace, a nice chunk in your userpage, and not a whole lot of edits copared to join date. That being said, you do have quite a few in the Wikipedia section, and you do contribute to talk pages frequently. I lke your userpage as well, even if durin doesn't. I'd be able to do a better job of reviewing you if i saw more of your work around. At least you do a great job of stopping vandals (and you actually warn them too, yay. I usulally don't see that). From the looks of it I'd probably give you a far better review if you do another one in around 6 months. --Wizardman 22:24, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments

Questions

  1. Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
    I've done a large amount of work with the Big Brother articles, especially Big Brother (USA season 7). The quality of these articles had risen greatly as a part of a team effort that was done mainly by members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Big Brother, one of the members of the project being me.
  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?
    Taking a look at my contribution history, I see about two different things that could possibly be considered conflicts over editing. The first, being over a large amount of fair use images on a page about contestants on Big Brother USA season 7. I was in the wrong, and User:J Di was correct. The other conflict was quite recent, in fact was just today. It was about the color of a Userbox, so I doubt it is very important in the grand scheme of things. As far as dealing with WikiStress, I haven't really had any major stresses yet. I take it all in moderation, and don't get worked up over problems on a virtual encyclopedia.