User:John/highlights
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- User:Gwernol's highlights for my RfA; I thought it was worth keeping.
During Guinnog's RfA his use of AWB became an issue. I decided to investigate this further. I downloaded his entire contribution history and wrote a short Java program to distinguish his AWB edits to articles from the rest. Of a total of 13301 edits, 10341 were to articles. Of these 4193 were made using AWB, of which 2795 were spelling corrections. That leaves 6148 (i.e. 59.4%) of his article edits that were not performed using AWB.
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[edit] A sampling of Guinnog's contributions
FreakOfNurture asked to see some of Guinnog's non-AWB edits. There are a couple of existing places to start. His RfA nomination and his userpage both list a number of contributions he's made. I've also done some random sampling of his contributions list to find the following. It's important to note that a lot of Guinnog's work is WikiGnome-ish: small but important edits that over time add up to a major improvement.
[edit] Vandalism patroling
- reverting vandalism
- reverting unsourced POV
- Again removing unsoruced speculation
- Removing linkspam
- Removing subtle POV-poisoning from a controversial article
- Appropriate vandalism warning (user was later indef blocked)
- More linkspam reversion
- Reverting vandalism
[edit] Editor interactions
- Attempting to help a troubled editor stay on the project
- Ability to acknowledge a mistake and help a new user
- Discussing article improvements with CoolCat
- Further civil attempt to help a newbie in trouble
- Good interaction with a user to help calm a difficult situation
- A small act of civility that makes Wikipedia a better place by encouraging good editors
[edit] Article contributions
- The Cortinas - Originator and so far only contributor
- Good contributions to Apartheid article
- Significant copywriting improvement
- Adding well-sourced information to an article
- Maintaining neutral tone of voice in article
- Good, well sourced additions
- Starting a new article
- And another
- More NPOV copy editing
- Another article he originated
- Maintining neutral language and facts
- Adding good, encyclopedic content