Wikipedia:Editor review/Dspradau

{{user2|Dspradau}} I have been an active Wikipedian for over three years. I feel that it is about time I get an editor review. Feel free to review as you please.  Dspradau → talk  16:09, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Reviews

You've waited a long time to be reviewed, so I thought I would give some feedback - sorry that you've had to wait so long for someone to do this!

Overall, I see that you mainly work on anti-vandalism and cleaning up articles, including typos. Of your edits, more than 82% of them are using tools (see [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/autoedits/index.php?name=Dspradau Soxred93's tools]). This is good, but have you thought of doing editing of articles (either creation from scratch, or adding information)? There is no particular reason for you to do so (WikiGnomes are important!), but it's something that came across clearly when looking at your contribs.

There is not much I can say about your interactions with other users - most of it is automated by Huggle and Twinkle or using the standard templates. However, I've also don't see criticism of you from others (apart from one reminder about not using AWB for minor edits), and some complements!

With regard to your mention of a future RfA, my advice would be to do some more work on articles (not just the WikiGnoming, useful though that is) as a lot of folks at RfA like to see evidence of editing rather than just 'tidying up' articles. Also, a lot of the RfA crowd like to see 10k+ edits - but that is down to the individual !voting. I see that you contributed to 1 MfD, 1 FfD and 15 AfD - personally, I find that contributing to xfDs is useful - not only can I help to remove articles which shouldn't be present, I learn about why some articles should be kept - and learning about policies/guidelines in more depth, or about p/gs I wasn't aware of! I would certainly advise you to continue contributing in this area.

I see that you have been pretty quiet since 31st July - I hope that wasn't because of the lack of response you got here! Hopefully, you will find this review useful - this is the first one I've done!

Regards, -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 15:17, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Questions

1. What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?
2. : My primary contributions mainly are related to reverting Vandalism. I am also involved in the New Pages Patrol. Through the NPP, I am also involved with many proposed deletions and AfD's. I have the rollback right which allows me to use Huggle. Along with Huggle I have used many other tools. (Ex. AWB, Twinkle, and VandalProof). Currently, I am working on improving the St. Paul's Cathedral, Fond du Lac article and uploading pictures to the Commons for this National Register of Historic Places list.
4. 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?
5. : Sometimes there are users who are still new to Wikipedia and are unsure of the policies and such. After a while it does get stressful seeing these users creating articles that do not meet the standards. However, to relieve the stress a simple welcome template on their user page will do.
7. Are you doing this editor review just to improve yourself, to see your standing within the community, or are you considering adminship? Royalbroil 01:20, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
8. : At the current time, I feel that this editor review is to get an idea on how my edits have helped or not helped the community. For example, one may provide an answer to the questions of, “What areas have I succeeded in?” or “What areas need improvement?” Feedback like that would greatly benefit me in my future edits. I would use the feedback I receive to improve my edits enough to submit a request for adminship, which I have been considering for a while. So I will answer yes to all three of your statements regarding this review.

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