Wikipedia:Editor review/Argentino

User:Argentino

Argentino (talk · contribs) I'd like to know if the community would support me in an RfA. I started in June, 2005 and now I have reached a reasonable ammount of experience: I've made a template to superimpose text to images, started the portal of Argentina, and many other things. Most of my contributions are related to Argentina but as soon as I can get Internet back in my personal PC I will return to VandalProof and the IRC (unfortunately this PC is not only mine). Please support me, Argentino (talk/cont.) 00:37, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Reviews

• Hi there, Argentino. Since you are asking advice for your future RFA, I will be straightforward (thus some points may sound harsh) and point what goes against you in a RFA if you present yourself today:
  • Just 59 Wikipedia namespace edits, that is an extremely low amount. My personal feeling is that at least 10% of your total edits must be in Wikipedia namespace, or at least 1,000 if you are above 10,000. While article edits indicate how much you develop, Wikipedia namespace edits say how much interaction you have at a higher level, discussing guidelines and policies, interacting with administrators and other users in WikiProjects, etc. A lack of WP edits is usually the main reason (along with lack of total edit count and not enough time as member of Wikipedia) people can't become admins.
  • You are not active enough. An administrator is expected to spend at least some minutes per day every day with administrator chores. You have gaps between your contributions (skipping 5-7 days, and almost three weeks in September). Of course, the amount of time you spend in Wikipedia can't be used to estimate the worth of your actions, but it is supposed that, if you are innactive, you don't need the tools right now.
  • It is good you admit you may become hot headed in certain topics (as the second question reply states), however you need to try to stay cool. If the topic is too controversial for you (as an argentinian myself, I know it can be), maybe it is better to stop contributing to it, at least temporarily. Wikipedia:Staying cool when the editing gets hot is a useful essay.
  • Although you were active against vandals, in the last time (due reasons you already explained) you have stopped reporting users, patrolling new pages or massively reverting vandalism. Neither you participate in other chores that may need administator tools (XFD discussions, page protection/unprotection, etc).
  • If you do want to be an administrator, you need to prove others you need the tools. Thus, I suggest you to start participating in deletion discussions, spend more time at RFAs to see what other users request from candidates, try to increase the amount of articles in your watchlist to be able to cover vandal attacks faster, etc. Your summary usage is excellent, so don't be discouraged! -- ReyBrujo 03:53, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
• Well, since much of what I'd normally said has already been covered above (Rey has given you one of the most comprehensive reviews I've ever seen), I suggest that you hold off on a request for adminship until you've met as users' requirements as possible. I suggest you aim for ~1,000 article edits (also, try to make a fair number of those big edits, to prove that you can really help with writing articles), ~400 Talk and Wikipedia page edits, and at least 250 User Talk edits. You could aim to spend at least ten minutes per day on recent change patrol, and make sure to always warn users whose edits you revert. Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 02:29, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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Questions

1. Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?

   Until now the contribution about which i'm most pleased is an image, the Argentine map of Argentina, because it meant a lot of hard work.

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?

   Of course I have; the worst was, and still is, the ever-lasting conficlts in the Falkland Islands article. I try not to be rude, unfortunately once or twice I have been a bit too stressed but I generally want to be as reasonable as I can.