Wikipedia:Editor review/Seddon

Seddon

Seddon (talk · contribs) I have been an editor on Wikipedia for the last 19 months, joining in November 2006 with sporadic but good faith editing for the next 10 months, but have been consistently active since September 2007. At first my contributions were mostly centered around Wikiproject:Tropical Cyclones, updating current storms and learning how to edit wikipedia. I then started helping out the US Road wikiproject in the article space continuing to expand my knowledge. In January 2008 I successfully got 1988 Atlantic hurricane season to featured article status. Since then i have taken part in anti-vandalism patrols, have become an active mediator with the Mediation cabal got my first DYK article. Currently on Wikipedia, I am working on:

• Getting Hurricane Henriette (2007), something of a working side project, to GA status.
• Mediating a case for the Mediation Committee and also to continue mediating for MedCab.
• Creating my next hopeful DYK

I would like to know where i could be looking to improve over the next 3 or so months. ŠeDDøΛ ^talk 20:22, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Reviews

• Review from Mitch32 - Seddon, you are one of my best friends on Wiki, and I've decided to take the time to review you today. You're making great contributions all around and are certainly useful in mediating. Other than the hopeful future adminship, I would love to see you be on the Mediation Commitee at some point. There's really not much more to say but good luck man! You're great, and we know it well. Cya later.^Mitch32^contribs 21:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
• Review from Juliancolton (talk · contribs) — Hey Seddon. I know you well, so I'll give a quick review. First, as Mitch said, your work for MedCab is great, and it'd be good to see you on MedCom someday. The Henriette article you worked hard on is looking great! It's good to see that you have around 100% edit summary useage, and you should try to keep that up. The vandal fighting work you do is good, as well. The only thing I can think of is you should try to make more mainspace edits and less userspace edits, but it's fine as it is. I think adminship is right arount the corner, mate! Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 21:41, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

  Thanks for the review JC and Mitch. I just thought id pick up on the comment you raised with the amount of userspace edits i have. The one thing i tend to do is do a lot of sandbox work before posting into mainspace. This is especially true when it comes to template work/creation. Something that can be seen from interiot's tool when you look at where those edits are, 200 coming from 2 sandboxes. Seddσn ^talk 21:50, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

  Ah, but when you move a sandbox article to mainspace, all the edits change to mainspace as well. ;)In any event, that's fine. Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 22:38, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

• Review from MBisanz (talk · contribs) I've reviewed your work and am very impressed with what you have done. You do yourself too little credit to not mention your featured pictures. Also, you work in content, which is a primary purpose around here, so another good point. My suggestion for thigns you could do in the next 3 months would be to get more involved with meta aspects of Wikipedia. You already do Medcab/com work, and I'd suggest getting involved more in XfDs and noticeboards. Your voice of reason will server you well in those situations. Other than that, keep on the straight and narrow and avoid crossing AGK (lulz!). MBisanz ^talk 20:24, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Comments

• View this user's edit count using Interiot's 'Wannabe Kate' Tool
• Seddon has been accepted as a member of the mediation committee. Anthøny 12:42, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Questions

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

   Although I do not see myself as a strong article editor I think getting 1988 Atlantic hurricane season to featured article status was something I was pleased with, as would any editor getting something to featured status. It was not only done as a contribution to but also it was done in response to a good editor who had left and so i felt that I had done her work justice by getting an article she had worked on to FA. For work that has nearly been entirely my own, Hurricane Henriette (2007) has been something i quite proud of even and something im going to keep working on so i can get it to GA and eventually FA. I have taken the article from this to this. For me, I am not brilliant at writing articles but for me these 2 have be what has made me certainly feel proud of. I have also contributed in other areas but my main contributions have occurred in the area of WP:DR. My most recent closed case was originally an area where one user was singled out for mentoring and no real ground had been gained with solving the problem. When the cased was closed, an article improvement drive had been set up with one article reaching GA status and work is ongoing with the other articles involved.

3. 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?

   Being a mediator means I have been involved greatly in various disputes from the dispute resolution side of things but I suppose the best example of an instance where I was put under greatest stress was when I was accused of being sock puppeteer back in April. It can be very difficult to remain calm and to keep a clear head in these sort of situations but I found that by keeping in communication with the filer of the sock puppet case and getting advice from other people was the best thing to do. This is often the best to do in any difficult situation whether it be a dispute or a decision you have to make and in my opinion one of the most important things to do on wiki. Talking and discussing with people I think is something that I would do in similar disputes and just making sure you keeping a cool head and if an any point I felt that it was becoming difficult, its best to just walk away and cool down.