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Turlo Lomon (talk · contribs) I have no desire to be an admin, but I am constantly trying to improve the quality of my work. I have recently started major edits on articles. Turlo Lomon 10:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Reviews

You are a fantastic wikignome, particularly in vandal fighting. You continually revert nonsense, insulting and outright bad changes to articles. You should take great pride in those efforts.

From the few number of article improvement edits you have made, I would encourage you to spend a little more time towards those efforts. I believe you have a solid potential to be an excellant contributor. This is not to disparage your vandal fighting, but rather to compliment your sense of writing and reason. Participating in some peer reviews might help you get started towards that, while also answering requests for input. For other ideas about how to dive in to article contributions, there is also always a number of backlogs, especially articles that need cleanup.

I would also urge you to consider participating in WP:XFD and other editor review requests. Both need more user participation, XFD often having entries with few contributors and ER having a backlog. Once you feel comfortable with editor reviews, I'd also recommend participating in WP:RFA.

Overall, you are an excellant and tireless vandal fighter, but I'd encourage you to become more active in other areas. Vassyana 11:08, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Questions

  1. Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
    Very recently, Drizzt Do'Urden's scimitars. I am quite pleased with the end result.
  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?
    This recently came up with the Drizzt Do'Urden's scimitars merger (from Twinkle (scimitar) and Icingdeath. First I made sure we had a group consensus on the action. We had one person who disagreed, and has been fighting a merger for a long time. None of his feedback was productive. Quite simply, I asked what he was displeased with and what would he like to see. I didn't hear from him again, and was still receiving votes of support, so I continued with the merger.
  3. Optional question from Vassyana: Did you contact the dissenting user on their talk page? Did anyone else express any reservations about the merge? What kind of conflict occured?
    Yes. I specifically asked for their input on the article before the merger was done. I created a temporary page for just that reason. I never did get a reply, although he did visit the talk page regarding other discussions. The end result was a great deal of positive feedback. I have not heard of one complaint about the resulting article. Turlo Lomon 12:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
  4. Optional question from Vassyana: How do you feel about your edits on polar region and Jason? How do you feel about the current state of those articles?
    The polar region article was my first major edit. It was on the challenges section of on recent changes, and I thought I would give it a go. I am pleased with how it turned out, and as a result, I learned a great deal more about the different methods information can be displayed with. The Jason article has been mostly a reversion of vandalism. It is a well written article, and one that I am personally attached to. I have done my best to keep unrelated material off of it, going so far as making sure it was properly documented on the Jason (disamiguation) page. I really can't take credit for the material there as being my own. However, I would have no qualms making changes if I saw something I felt was in error. Turlo Lomon 12:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Your editor review

I posted a couple questions for you on your editor review. Cheers!! Vassyana 11:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I have posted a review for you. Please respond there with any questions you have and I will provide responses. Cheers!! Vassyana 11:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

RFA

When a bot went a little whacked and starting tagging a ton of RPG articles with the wrong templates, I was one of the individuals asked to help fix them. During this timee, it gave me a chance to look over what is part of the project I joined. Honestly, the quality and frivilousness of articles amazed me. The only way to properly and fully clean up this mess would be to have admin powers. There are hundreds of articles that I am currently going through and tagging accordingly.

Gavin - This is aimed at you. I very much want to cleanup the mess that RPG Project has become, and I want to do it in the right way. My comments on the RFC, more specifically, the requests on the quality of articles that I cleanup... I need your input on. Also, before I continue down the path of an RFA, I would like your blessings.

Now, I am sure you have some questions that would come up during the RFA about how I would handle certain situations, so here are some of my answers now.

  1. How would I handle AFDs? I plan to continue to participate in debates, but will stay out of closing if there not a 100% consensus on results because I believe that may be a COI (specific to RPGs).
  2. How would I use my admin powers? Clean up redirects, disambiguation pages, etc. for the RPG Project that have a clear consensus on how to proceed.

Anyway... let me know if you have any questions, input, what ever. I look forward to your reply. Turlo Lomon 06:47, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

  • Response I don't think you are serious about putting your name forward for administrator, but if you do, you might be advised not to mention your involvement in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Gavin.collins, which is starting to look like a contraversial attempt to subdue an editor with whom you disagree. Also your reference to the RFC in AfD debates[1] may be also be working against you in this regard. --Gavin Collins 12:58, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
"A contraversial [sic] attempt to subdue an editor"??? Don't you ever, even in the wee hours of the night, get the shade of the glimpse of an idea that you might not be completely, absolutely right? That the editors disagreeing with you are not trying to subdue, nor "hang" you, but are simply to get a better Wikipedia, exactly like you? Happy editing, Goochelaar 14:25, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
It can't be that - an RfC is by definition an attempt at dispute resolution and dialogue. It has no authority to impose sanctions or forbid editing. --Kizor 16:37, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Turlo Lomon, I've seen nothing in your behavior on Gavin's RFC to indicate that you're trying to "subdue" anything other than another editor's misuse of the AfD system here. Gavin's comment above seems more like an attempt to bully you into not publicly taking a stand against his inappropriate editing practices here. It's not a new technique either; Gavin has often told people that if they revert his edits that he'll consider their revert an attempt to start an edit war. It's not a subtle way of bullying people no matter how "politely" it's supposedly phrased. Rray 15:27, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your support. Now the question remains, should I wait to be nominated or nominate myself? My only concern is cleaning up the RPG Project, and without applying a ton of DB templates, it will take forever to move these articles around. (I am concerned most about the redirects that shouldn't belong, etc. - unlikely typos). Turlo Lomon 02:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I think you should nominate yourself rather than wait to be nominated. :) Rray 16:07, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Agreed. Just look at me! -Jéské(v^_^v) 18:41, 11 October 2007 (UTC)