Wikipedia:Editor review/Dar-Ape

User:Dar-Ape

Dar-Ape (talk · contribs) I have a great interest in Wikipedia, and want to contribute where I can do the most good. I ask the community, then, to help me focus on both where I can improve and where I am doing the most good. Thanks! Dar-Ape 18:45, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Reviews

• I'm impressed. The vast majority of your edits belongs to the mainspace and that's always most commendable. You also seem to perform well in different tasks such as article improvement, categorization, vandal fight, etc.. My only suggestion for the moment would be more participation in WP:AFD. If you have great interest in a specific area, I can also recommend joining a WikiProject related to it. Anyway, you are a very promising editor, keep up the great work. Regards.--Húsönd 19:16, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Why thank you! I haven't been too active in AFDs, but will begin involving myself more there. Just for the record, I am a member of the typo team (I try to compensate for my own poor spelling by fixing others') and the Lego WikiProject. Dar-Ape 22:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

• Hello! Here are some comments you may find useful:

  • Wikipedia is built with a community sense. People work together in order to create, polish and correct articles. It is the continous interaction between the members of the community that enables us to keep Wikipedia as accurate in terms of verifications as possible. One of the ways of interacting between members is through talk pages, both article and user talk pages. Communications done in user talk pages are usually "personal", where you are personally communicating with someone else. Talk page edits indicate a willingness to co-participate with several other editors in order to improve a determined article. Thus, having a good number of article talk edits is always necessary, because it indicates you are willing to give advice and, more important, listen to others. Your amount of article talk pages is just 3% or so of your total edits. I heavily suggest to focus in sane discussions with others. In example, choose an article with several active editors, probably of a topic you like, and, through the talk page, coordinate efforts in order to expand or correct it. You can also find an article about something you don't know, review the article, and post in the talk page where the article fails (in example, if it is a maths article, you can read it and then explain in the talk page why the article should be modified, in example, because it is hard to read for common people, it lacks verifications for some sentences, it contradicts itself, etc). I would like to expand Husond's comments as well. Joining a WikiProject is a good way of interacting with other users in order to expand content in Wikipedia.
  • Your edit summary usage is pretty high, however I would prefer not "abbreviating" them, it is not more difficult to write revert than "rv", or revert vandalism than "rvv", as we should always think about the casual users, not the regular ones who already understand what that means. You do a good use of minor edit marks, wanted to say that :-)
  • I notice you do a lot of reverting. However, it would be good if you could be a bit more specific in the edit summary about what type of vandalism. In example, this and this are blanking vandalism. Also, when using the warning templates, don't forget to substitute them (use {{subst:test1-n}} instead of {{test1-n}}, as those templates are meant to be substituted. Maybe you should consider not saying "warn" when the user has not many contributions, as it may be intimidating.
  • As Husond said, maybe you should participate in XFDs (templates, categories and articles for deletion) as it will help you get some experience in the management process, always necessary when explaining new users why their articles have been deleted.
  • By the way, when uploading image, try to add a fair use rationale. Also, fair use images should not be uploaded in high resolution. Try uploading them just a little bigger than the necessary (in example, if it is used in a 200px infobox, upload one as much as 300px, as it is not necessary to have a high resolution). Some examples are Image:Outrage box.jpg, Image:Crosstrack box.jpg and Image:Treasure Island (1934 film).JPG.

  Overall, you are a pretty good user, but need to get more interaction with other users in discussions. I suggest participating in XFDs, becoming member of a WikiProject of a subject you like, and discussing in talk article pages. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 17:27, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks! I greatly appreciate your time in giving me such precise and detailed suggestions. Although my number of talk page edits has since gone through the roof because of removing the {{talkheader}} template from hundreds of pages where it was definitely not needed, I have taken your suggestion and am indeed trying to use the talk pages more. Also, as said above, I'm a member of the typo team and the Lego WikiProject. I have done my best to implement all of your other insightful suggestions, save AFDs which I haven't done too many of as of yet. Again, thank you. Dar-Ape 22:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

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Questions

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

   I am most proud of my article creations and my vandal fighting. I have created articles on somewhat obscure things, such as Treasure Island (1934 film), Songs from the Trilogy, Crosstrack, Outrage! (game), and others. Many of these are subjects which have very little other information on them available on the internet. Here are a few random examples of my vandal fighting: [1], [2], [3], [4] and my warnings to users: User talk:65.186.219.122, User talk:69.31.228.155, User talk:65.184.41.230, User talk:129.44.110.181, (see contributions for more).

1. 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?

   I have had disagreements with some users, but all have been resolved peacefully. One discussion I learned quite a bit from was that at Talk:Popo. I always try to maintain a level head, and I think a good example of this is when I was accused of vandalism, and replied thus. (only second comment in green)