Wikipedia:Editor review/Yao Ziyuan

User:Yao Ziyuan

Yao Ziyuan (talk · contribs) I have been here since March 2004. I have made about 6600 edits at English Wikipedia and uploaded over 200 images at Commons. I want to know if the community would support me to be an administrator. I am a programmer currently live in Beijing. My interest include space and astronomy, rail, and China-related topics. Yao Ziyuan 21:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Reviews

• Since you are requesting opinion about RFA, I will give you tips I noticed are necessary when wanting to become an administrator. As always, I think I am civil, but if I sound harsh, sorry :)
  • Something I noticed (which mathbot verified) is that your summary percentage is very low. You need to increase it, as everytime you do something without explaining in a summary, someone must go check what you did. With summaries like "adding information about latest tour, including reference", "removing unnecessary information from leading, creating new section with leftovers", etc, you are giving users more knowledge about what you are doing, effectively lessening the amount of time others spend checking your contributions (which, in time, becomes trust, necessary for any administrator). If necessary, at your Special:Preferences you should find an "Editing" tab. Check the last option ("Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary") which will force Wikipedia to ask for a summary everytime you submit a change without one.
  • Most, if not all, your last 2,000 edits are marked as minor. That is pretty strange. In other words, since April you have made no big contribution to Wikipedia (expanding or creating an article, rewriting another, etc)? While maintenance edits are necessary, administrator tools are not necessary for those kind of tasks. You may consider using something like the AutoWikiBrowser to make those kind of edits.
  • Your amount of contributions in the Wikipedia namespace is pretty low. Personally, I like candidates to have at least 10% of their total edits in the Wikipedia namespace. In your case, that would mean around 600 edits, but you currently only have around 150. You should consider participating more in discussions at an organization level than at an article level.
  • You don't appear to have experience (at least in the last months) about dealing with vandals. Consider patrolling the newly created pages, or connect to the IRC antivandal channel (wish I could remember its address right now, sorry), to give a hand against vandalism.
  • You don't participate in discussions about deletion, nor tag pages with speedy tags or copyvio.
  • Although you are active, there is nothing that indicates you need administator tools. If you disagree, please tell us why you need them. -- ReyBrujo 04:49, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
• A quick review, since Rey's stolen all the things I would normally say (damn you! :) ). While you do have an excellent history of contributing, I'd like to back him up on every point above, particularly about marking your edits as minor: generally, a minor edit is really small, like changing a link or fixing a typo. Anything larger, and adding any new information, is usually considered enough to mark the edit normally. It's not a big thing, but it's very likely to gain some attention if you request adminship. You should also try to make and discuss major changes to articles on their talk pages - anything that somebody may want to know about, you should note on the Talk page. You're doing well, but these things should be dealt with before you run for adminship. Daveydweeb (^chat/_patch) 02:41, 24 September 2006 (UTC)