User:Logical2u/EditorReviewTest1
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EditorReviewTest1 (talk • contribs) :I've been around since about March 06 (Earlier, if you look at Logical2u2, which is a 2nd account I used for maybe 3 edits), with, maybe, about 1500 edits. It shows 1500 on Wannabe Kate, and 1300 + 200 deleted on "Edit Count", if you're interested.
I basically entered Wikipedia during a "bad" time. Throughout the entirety of my stay I have been primarily a vandal-fighter, though I refuse to say so on my userpage. I participated in what was, essentially, a slow edit/revert war on Moon for sale as some of my first edits. This basically taught me a crash course in Wikipedia editing, from RFCU to AN/I, from {{Subst}} to popups.
Two of my created pages, which may not have survived in today's wiki world (and its abundance of eager taggers), continue to garner the occasional edit, and my 3rd created page was of much better quality than the first two. I have since then used popups to do recent changes patrolling, visited AFC from time to time, checked out New Pages to request speedy deletions (How I've done most of the 200 deleted edits. However, some come from articles).
However, I have also bee consistently avoiding certain areas, particular AFD, simply because most deletions end up being prime examples of the snowball clause. I've been guilty of at least 2 incidents of newbie biting. (Insert Bishizilla Joke here?). I've done my best since then to avoid using my own wordings on various warnings (particularly Copyvios), simply because when it's the 15th such page of randomness you've DB'ed, you end up being quite sharp with the tongue.
At times, I have avoided Wikipedia. This is because, at times, the actions of others, even longstanding community members (Admins, even), continued soapboxing (IE: Admin Abuse essays), and the overuse of bureaucracy in pages like WP:AN have eroded my patience. These, combined with real world stuff, is particularly hard on editors. Wikibreaks are good for the soul at times, as is adding 0 wikipedia.org to your hosts file.
I have my own Subst:nn-warn template, and a series of essays on my views on wikipedia, most of which are OR and not of a NPOV, but hopefully they don't bite the newbies (I still feel bad about that, I really overreacted on those people). Logical2uTalk 23:12, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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Questions
- Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
- I'm always pleased when an article garners attention, and avoids speedy deletion. In my case, Newton's Wake: A Space Opera, Adiamante, and Melnikov are all very pleasing to me, and their final versions being radically different from my original one is even better. As well, I'm pleased with the various attack pages and nonsense I've removed, simply because it helps keep Wikipedia safe for people to cite. And finally, I'm very pleased with WP:FUCK, simply because it has become, in my opinion, one of the funnier, and more accurate, essays out there since my early contribution. Logical2uTalk
- 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 was involved in an edit war, as I mentioned earlier, and two at least two cases of newbie editing. The main users that cause me stress are the ones that start soapboxing on various pages, particularly my own. (Example Here ) I find soapboxing only encourages me to avoid/delete it. Especially when it's done in a sarcastic point of view. I was pleased, however, with the "No diatribes" rule on WP:AN. So far, I've dealt with this sort of stuff through IRC, AIV, prepared templates, and court comments (Which may be in violation WP:BITE). Occasionally I've taken Wikibreaks to avoid stress in the real world. In the future I will avoid using court comments (Simply because I end up ranting), and attempt to avoid multiple edits on things like copyvios. Logical2uTalk 17:46, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
