Wikipedia:Editor review/GorillaWarfare

GorillaWarfare

GorillaWarfare (talk · contribs · count) I would love to receive feedback on my editing history mostly because I eventually may request adminship. However, I'm not entirely sure I'm ready for adminship yet and would like to get feedback regarding that. I've edited Wikipedia for just over four years (for about a year with my account theunicyclegirl, and for about three years with this account) and mainly do vandal patrol. I've been trying to branch out more recently. I also was recently granted admin rights on enwiki. GorillaWarfare ^talk 17:19, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Questions

1. What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?

   Like I said before, I mainly do vandal patrol using Twinkle and Huggle. I also do some content editing, but not huge amounts. Often my content edits have to do with fixing citation formatting, although I have created some articles such as Richard Riddell and Nigel Levings. I have experience with CSDs, AfDs, PRODs, new page patrol, etc. I also step in from time to time when I see editors being uncivil. I'm pleased with the articles I've created myself (more so with this account than my previous). I'm also pleased with my cleanup job of Stage lighting instrument because the article definitely needed an overhaul and I could provide that. Additionally, I went through, added to, and cited XOXO, Panda and the New Kid Revival after finding it on the list of pages needing citation cleanup.

2. Have you been in any disputes 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've been involved in some disputes, but most of those were just blatant personal attacks that were easily dealt with. I haven't really had much trouble with 3RR or anything, although recently I got into a bit of a revert war with a user on a user talk page. As soon as I realized I'd violated the 3RR, I stopped reverting. I wrote on his talk page to try to figure out what was going on, and left a message on the talk page that was being warred over. I believe the sock has been blocked. Also, sometimes when I am going through recent changes, I see uncivil behavior and will step in to remind users to be civil. I always remain civil with users, and will remind them of policies such as WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA, WP:Don't bite the newbies, and other relevant pages. If it's something that can't be resolved between the users involved, I will report to Wikiquette alerts, RfC on users, or the admin noticeboard. I haven't really had to do that in the past, aside from blatant attacks, but I know to do so and will.

Reviews

• Note: Comments can also be found at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/GorillaWarfare. Airplaneman ✈ 02:03, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
• Congratulations on becoming an admin. A comment rather than a full review... Yours was the only !vote in the recent Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EHealth. If you're wishing to spend a lot of time on AfDs, perhaps you might wish to consider why you were out of step with consensus on this one. Was everyone else wrong? Was the non-admin closure appropriate? Have you revised your understanding of policy in the light of the result? Have you changed your view of the article subject? Bondegezou (talk) 09:44, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
• Congrats on the adminship. You're doing great so far. :) œ^™ 02:54, 20 August 2010 (UTC)