Wikipedia:Editor review/Wikiwoohoo

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Wikiwoohoo (talk · contribs) I joined Wikipedia over a year ago in August 2005 and have tried to involve myself where possible in WikiProjects that interest me, as well as groups such as the AMA which are very useful in solving disputes. I don't get flustered very easily here, I save that for my work outside Wikipedia! It would be good to see what other users think of both me as a user and also my actions. I will welcome all comments. Thank you! Wikiwoohoo talk 19:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Reviews

  • Hello, Wikiwoohoo. Here is my review, I hope it will be helpful.
    • Almost 2800 edits, with excellent summary edit usage. 270 user talk edits and 130 article talk edits, which personally is a little too low (I would expect some more talk for someone who spends time solving disputes, although since I don't know how the AMA works, I may be mistaken.
    • Another personal note: after participating in a lot of controversies (too many to be counted) in games with a large number of fans (games, literature, computer science, etc) and thus having spent quite a lot of time mediating, I know it is pretty hard to stay cool. I really appreciate your work in solving disputes.
    • I noticed a lot of your edits were related to BBC even before reading your first answer. As you can imagine, there may be a conflict of interest between your work and your edits, thus I suggest sourcing as much as you can from second sources (being BBC sources considered first party ones).
    • I notice you upload a lot of images. There is something I don't understand: Image:BBC Gavin Hewitt.jpg is sourced www.tvnewsroom.co.uk, however that is a very generic link. Is it because you took the picture from a video from the site? Try to link to a more specific address (the site and the video, the video, the page, etc), in example: found at www.tvnewsroom.co.uk, more specifically www.tvnewsroom.co.uk/test/1/movie.wmv, otherwise it is similar to upload an image and write that its source is google.com. Note that images like Image:BBC Gavin Hewitt.jpg and Image:BBC Kirsty Lang.jpg may be tagged with {{fair use replace}} or worse, {{Replaceable fair use}}.
    • It has been almost a year since your last attempt at RFA. In this time you have done over 2000 edits, have understood how the community work by spending time at WikiProject BBC and british tv shows and channels and especially AMA. Your efforts to improve BBC-related articles are good headed, and hopefully you will be able to make as many of them good articles as possible.
    • If you are not using User:Wikiwoohoo/Temp Page anymore, you can tag it with {{db-user}} to get it deleted (redirects in user space are not that useful, and since you are free to create new pages in your user namespace, having it there may not be necessary).
    As I stated, you are a very good editor, improving articles and, especially, working to mediate in conflicts. Since you already have experience at mediating, you may check third opinion and current surveys from time to time to see if you can give an advice to those in conflict. Being a mediator, you have experience that not many of those participating in these events can claim. With time and more experience, you may get a position in the mediation comittee. For now, keep it up. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 00:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC)


Comments

  • Thank you very much ReyBrujo. Your kind comments are very much appreciated. I will try to address your comments in turn.
  1. When talking about my edits on user talk pages, you have mentioned this twice though each with different totals. Were you refering to other types of talk pages?
    Yup, sorry. The second was about your article talk edits. I have fixed the original review.
  2. I had realised that I could be accused of having a conflict of interest when editing BBC related articles which is why I try to add information with sources that can be listed. There is plenty I could enter about the corporation through my work but as I do not have sources to back any of it up, I am unable to include it. Where there are other sources that can be included for information, I will do my best to list them.
    Good to hear. I am not as concerned about your neutrality as I am about thirds not assuming good faith, thus I wanted you to clarify the matter here in case it appears in the future.
  3. I have always thought that images can help to give the reader a sense of what they are reading about; to help them to understand what the article is about, particularly for those outside of the UK who may never have seen the television channel or journalist for example of whom the article is about. I try to ensure image summary pages carry a source link, unless they have been captured or created by a user instead, and that a fair use claim is entered. The images such as those you have mentioned are basically the best for what the article is about, they show newsreaders or correspondents in their work. Other images such as those taken at press conferences or similar as an example are much harder to find but could still be taken. Before anyone suggests it, I can't really go around BBC Television Centre with my camera :). I will however try to clarify the exact pages where such images come from on the websites I found them.
    No problem. I usually ask for two links, a link to the page where the image is situated and a direct link to the image, in case either goes down. However, there is a very strong movement lately to remove fair use images that can be replaced with free images, and images about people with a good amount of contact with common people (in this case, news reporters) are likely to be the target of such movement.
  4. I will list the 'Temp Page' for deletion. I will also do the same for another version of my talk page archive which I made into redirects to pages with better names.
  • I hope these answer your concerns; thank you once more for your comments and suggestions. :) Wikiwoohoo 14:13, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
    Glad to have helped. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 17:17, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Just a pointer towards my two failed RfA self-nominations: 1 and 2. Wikiwoohoo talk 19:40, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Questions

  1. Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
    Answer: I have been actively trying to improve BBC News and BBC One to the good article standard and have been tidying other articles recently. I stick to articles relating to the BBC and BBC News as I work there and my aim is to get most articles in that category to at least good article standard.
  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?
    Answer: I can't think of a conflict I have had with a user as such. Recently however I was accused accidentally of vandalising the BBC News article but that was sorted really as quickly as it came around.