Wikipedia:Editor review/Yuanchosaan

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[edit] Yuanchosaan

Yuanchosaan (talk • contribs) Hi, I'm Yuanchosaan and I am a Wikiholic. I would like an editor review because it would allow me to:

• a)Explore my flaws and strengths
• b)Improve those areas that need improvement
• and c) Recieve advice from more experienced editors from which I could benefit.
  It is my hope that I will benefit from constructive comments in this review and will thus become a better editor, helping to make Wikipedia a better place.
  Yuanchosaan^Salutations! 10:23, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Reviews

• First off let me say that I was very impressed by your answers to the below questions. It looks like you have a really good grasp on what Wikipedia is about, and you are very good at communicating that idea. After reading the answers to the questions, I was a bit surprised by your edit count, because it was a bit lower than I expected. I am, however, a strong believer that edit counts do not necessarily reflect the value of one's contributions to Wikipedia. Your edits are certainly meaningful - even though many of them are on user spaces and talk spaces, your userbox hobby and insightful comments on talk pages are impressive. From your edit count breakdown it also looks like you are becoming a much more active editor, and I am confident in saying that I think it will very much be to the benefit of Wikipedia. My only suggestion would be to explore more mainspace edits. Keep up the good work. Verkhovensky 17:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

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Questions

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

   Most of my edits are minor(I aspire to be a WikiGnome) but I do enjoy creating userboxes for many users and consider this a useful pursuit. Another pursuit of mine is to be kind to every user in this community and hope to guide and teach others though I am but a junior Wikipedian.

2. 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 never really felt that I have been part of a conflict. For this I am sincerely grateful. Though a very small minority of users have irritated me, I respect their right to contribute to Wikipedia and hope that I remain civil to them. Generally I try to act calmly and kindly to everyone and retain good relations. Being fairly passive I will usually try to incorporate any changes so that they will work better for Wikipedia as a whole.

3. How many barnstars have you given out? The Transhumanist   05:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

   Only 1, to User:Woohookitty for his/her work in fighting vandalism.

4. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Barnstar. Are there any essential barnstars missing from Wikipedia's collection of barnstars? The Transhumanist   05:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

   I'd like to see a barnstar for those people who make templates, those who contribute regularly and thoughtfully to discussions and one for those who, with conscientious effort, try to create ideas, compromises or policies that benefit Wikipedia, especially in times of stress eg the Essjay controversy.

5. What's your favorite wikignome activity? The Transhumanist   05:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

   I enjoy copyediting and adding infoboxes to articles. I also believe that reverting vandalism is also of the utmost importance(even though that really isn't a Wikignome activity). When I'm really stressed, I work on Wikipedia to calm myself down

6. What other Wikignome activities have you learned about? The Transhumanist   05:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

   I sometimes fix broken links, wikify pages and create redirects. I have not yet found the oppurtunity to merge a page(the tag was removed). I'd like to try my hand at citing and adding links sometime soon.

7. What's your favorite thing in or about or of Wikipedia so far? The Transhumanist   05:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

   This is a very hard question. I love WIkipedia in general but if I had to choose two things I would say the sheer amount of information so easily accessible and also the friendly atmosphere of this community. I find the freedom here, to say what you think and have other people listen, one of the most wonderful things about Wikipedia. Though there are still some people who degrade Wikipedia, the spirit of trust and growth remains. I think Wikipedia is the closest thing to a utopia(if there is one) because it is a sanctuary for so many people all around the globe, no matter what age or race.

8. First thanks for your excellent and constructive suggestion on the Wiki Hall meeting. Your activism impressed me. Congratulations. I would like to ask you where do you see yourself, say two years from now vis a vis your work in Wikipedia? Finally are you planning to be active on the main namespace or are you inclined to be more active in other areas? Dr.K. 01:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

   I'd like to be more active in the mainspace area, particularly in reverting vandalism and creating new articles. However, I would also like to expand to include making templates _{see my first}(other than simple userboxes), helping with categories and increase edits in the Wikipedia space. I've just started to expand to AfDs and XfDs so I will increase activity there. I think I will also focus on helping new Wikipedians in the future (eg at the help desk, welcoming, teaching etc) when I become more experienced, as they hold Wikipedia's future. As an aside I will probably try to increase Commons input which can then be transferred to Wikipedia. Most probably I will try to expand to all areas of Wikipedia but mainly focus on copyediting and vandalism watch, with welcoming new users as a secondary.

   Two years from now? That's a long way away but of course Wikipedia will still be here! By then I will probably be far more experienced and able to help in many different areas. I would really like to help out new users and create templates, possibly try my hand at mediating. Perhaps even one day I could be the one writing Editor Reviews ^-^! I don't think I could be an admin(maybe a few years after that, but now I'm too busy. Anyway, you never know), but I hope that I can still help out with Wikipedia in general. Wikipedia will probably have some 5 million articles and be rather more efficient but there will always be plenty of jobs and plenty of hard working contributors, of whom I would like to join the ranks of. By then, I may and hope to have achieved all the goals stated above and perhaps more(anything for Wikipedia). And maybe, just maybe, I too could inspire new Wikipedians the way other senior editors (and Jimbo) have inspired me too, to help out in a growing community.