Wikipedia:Editor review/Kimon

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[edit] Kimon

Kimon (talk ยท contribs) I've been a registered user on the English Wikipedia since September 26th, 2005 and made my first edit on the next day. My username, when I registered, was Kimonandreou but I had it renamed on March 20th, 2007.
At first, my contributions were pretty small but, starting this year (2007) I started contributing heavily, amassing about 10K edits this year alone; even though I took a wikibreak for a few months due to real-life obligations.
So, after a year of heavy editing, vandal fighting, wikiproject work, etc. I wanted to get some feedback from the community at large. I would like to also add that I don't have any intentions to submit a RfA (in the short term at least). Kimontalk 21:00, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Review by delldot:
Hey, we joined within three weeks of each other and we're both from Florida! Cool! You're kind of a tough one to review since you have so little activity on your talk page, which I usually rely heavily on. But here are some thoughts:

  • I will say, though, that I found the note requesting that I be civil a little off-putting, I don't know why. I kind of doubt it works...
  • Great use of edit summaries. I see a ton of vandalfighting, with proper warnings, so that's great. I also see a lot of talk page tagging and AWB edits. In all this, I may have missed the relatively few, big edits. Having missed them, though, I'll say I'd love to see more article writing from you.
  • Looks like you're really active in Portal:Chile, so that's great that you have a project that you're responsibile for. Looks like you're the backbone of that project.
  • A couple of your talk edits, e.g. to Talk:Chalkidiki and this made me think you might need to be more careful about how you word your replies to people so they don't think you're being confrontational. In the diff I gave, I don't think you were being hostile, you were just expressing dissatisfaction with the general situation. But some people are sensitive or prone to interpret things as criticism of them, so you should preface your replies with something that sets a friendly tone, or otherwise make sure to be clear about your meaning.
  • Looks like you've done well with Constantine Andreou, any thoughts about expanding it further? I see that you put a lot of care into the article over a protracted period. I also appreciated that you apparently didn't freak out, but rather discussed calmly, when people brought up problems and even suggested deletion at one point. That shows very good restraint, kudos. Are you related to him? I assume you're aware of the WP:COI guideline? If you are, at the very least you should explain this on the talk page so others are aware of the possible bias.
  • Some points about writing in the article itself:
    • I'd suggest rewording some stuff to avoid weasel wording ("has been praised by many") and peacock terms ("with a highly successful career"). Rather than telling the reader that he was successful, give some fact that indicates his success and let the reader decide (e.g. "he sold 2,000 paintings" or something).
    • The article also has a couple one sentence paragraphs; maybe these can be combined into other paragraphs for better flow.
    • Only whole dates (e.g. January 21, 1980) should be linked; you normally wouldn't link a year (e.g. "in 1925..." = no) except in unusual circumstances.
    • You had "from which he graduated" but didn't give the name of a school. Can you give more detail?
    • You should link to as specific an article as possible. For example, rather than [[Italy|Italian]], I changed it to [[Military history of Italy during World War II|Italian occupation]]. This isn't a great fix, since easter egg links are discouraged. Maybe you can figure out a better way to work it.
    • I noticed a couple run-on sentences and split them.
    • I noticed a couple times where you have two independent phrases separated by a conjunction, and had left out the comma (if both phrases have a subject and verb, they should be separated by a comma. If the second phrase has no subject, then no comma is needed, but you can add one if you need it for clarity. I believe). So for example, this sentence requires a comma before the third and: "The war years and occupation did not stop Andreou from continuing his artwork and studies and in 1945, he won a French scholarship to go to France."
    • The article is excellently referenced, great job!
    • You should add a caption to the image of the painting.
    • I'd integrate the "Later years and return to Greece" and "Legacy" sections into other sections. Either that or split the France section up differently so you don't end up with single sentence sections. You could just have two subsections in the bio section: early and late. Similarly, I'd integrate the "Andreou's Work" section into the lead until you have more for it. As a side note, section headers shouldn't repeat the name of the article, so it should be "work", not "Andreou's Work" or "His work". Also note that only the first letter in a section header or article title needs to be capitalized, unless there are proper nouns.
    • The main thing about the article, of course, is that it could use some expanding? Any plans to work on it more when your real life responsibilities thin out?
    • I made a couple of style and prose edits to the article you can look at if you like. I'm a total hypocrite for suggesting it, but if you ever have the time, you might want to reread WP:MOS or the parts of it most relevant to your work.
  • Overall, it looks like you're doing a great job. You've shown clear dedication to the project and I think you're an asset to it. Hope the real life issues clear up and leave you time to rejoin us with the force you've had in past months.

I think it makes sense for ER to be a dialog, so if you have any responses or questions, or want more detail on anything, definitely leave them here (and give me a poke on my talk page if I miss it in my watchlist). delldot on a public computer talk 10:56, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

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Comments

Questions

  1. Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
    I am particularly please with the knowledge I gained in trying to better Constantine Andreou but especially my work with WikiProject Greece and the various templates I've created for WikiProject Greece, Florida, Chile, and others.
  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 have had a couple of conflicts in the past but, they solved themselves out by reaching a compromise. In the future, I plan on continuing the negotiation skills available to reach an agreeable to all solution, provided that the Wikipedia rules are not violated.