Wikipedia:Editor review/Jared

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[edit] Jared

Jared (talk · contribs) Hello, I'm Jared (formerly JP06035) and I've been editing for a while now. Basically, I've come here to gauge where I'm at. I've RfA'd myself twice: the first time I know in retrospect was too early. The second, I think a single "conflict" was blown out of proportion. Nevertheless, I think I've amply recovered, and I'd like to see where I should go next.

I focus most of my editing (if not all) on Olympics-related articles. Our WikiProject has been doing well, and I've greatly contributed to the goings-on there. I've looked into admin stuff recently, too, like the noticeboards, and expressed my opinions in XfDs and FXCs. And that's about it! └Jared┘┌talk┐  23:33, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Reviews

I reviewed your answers, your current talk page, your edit distribution, and your most recent RFA.

  • I imagine that you still want to be an admin. I think one of the categories within Wikipedia:What adminship is not is "Adminship is not for everyone." I think you may be better off as a career non-admin because you do so many other valuable activities. The unspoken secret of RFA is that you almost have to establish a record fighting vandalism before anyone will take you seriously. You've helped at WP:RFPP, and that's appreciated, but you'd also need to track recent changes and new pages, and warn miscreants, and report repeat violators to AIV. That would inoculate you against your disgust for uninformed jerks, because I'm telling you from my experience - you haven't seen the half of it. But I'd discourage you from starting RC patrol because it's really boring and your efforts are better directed elsewhere.
  • You sometimes take WP:BOLD a little too far. I recommend you read Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle for a perspective on the balance between bold editing and measured discussion. Looking through your talk page, I saw a surprisingly high count of other editors who wrote and said, "You should be aware of X because you mistakenly edited Y." I think this might be related to the civility issues that were noted in your RFA. The fact that you even call your adversaries "jerks" in your second answer is going in the wrong direction. Just educate them and be done with it.
  • I admire your diversity of interests. I wouldn't change any of that.

I wish you good luck. YechielMan 15:56, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Questions

  1. Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
    Well, I'm pleased with my Olympics-related contributions. There may not be a specific article I am pleased with per se, but there are definitely hundreds of Olympics articles that I have greatly contributed to and some I have brought up to GA. Of them, though, I've done a lot with 2008 Summer Olympics and recently 2012 Summer Olympics bids (although my colleague has done most of the work there to prep for FA, I did a lot of GA prep work). My work seems to be constantly flowing, as I go where I'm needed by the rest of my colleagues at WP:OLYMPICS, only occasionally drifting to work on my own projects.
  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?
    The few conflicts I do get into, they are mostly conflict of opinion things, where I may believe one thing whereas others may believe something else. Sometimes, it seems my strongly opinionated mind gets me in trouble, but I tend to keep a clear, straight head (for the most part). I think my major "problem" is learning to hold back even when I know someone is being a total jerk. It'll just make me mad sometimes, but I pretty much have that under control. I don't stress. In the future, I know that everyone has different opinions, so I have to come at the situation with an open mind knowing this.