Nascar1996 (talk · contribs · count) Hello, I am Nascar1996. I would like to get opinions from other people to see what I can improve on. Eventually, I would like to become an admin. I would really appreciate it if you comment below. Thank You. Nascar1996 23:24, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

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

   My primary contributions are to NASCAR and Motorsport related articles, and I often create NASCAR races. I am particularly pleased with the most recent articles I have expanded. In which one became a good article, just seven days later. I am a big fan of NASCAR and I pay attention to all news. The articles I am most pleased with is 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 and 2010 Carfax 400.

3. 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?

   Sadly, yes I have been in editing disputes. Outside of Wikipedia, I forget everything that happened here. I do not let disputes cause me stress. I have dealt with them by asking a admin to help me. Afterwards, the dispute is done and gone. In the future, I should see if we could agree on anything. If not, I would say lets not so anything until we really know what to do.

Reviews

• Your NASCAR work is great, try going for a FA now! Also, as on Airplaneman's talk page, I agree you might want to try to expand your focus to other article work. I personally think hurricanes while are cool, I don't like them as I'm from Louisiana. As for going for admin, try going into more admin-related areas. I see you have 32 reports to AIV and 12 to RPP, which is good, but when it comes to vandal fighters, many people at RFA like to see a lot of reversion, but not too high a percentage of automated edits which might prove tricky. Though if you go like how you are now for half a year to a full year I think you still may have a decent shot at adminship. Also, out of curiosity, why do you have so many nullifed edits as per here? Keep it up and happy editing.Derild4921☼ 13:24, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm guessing the nullified edits were because of personal info. Check my userboxes page; I have 'em too (see WP:OVERSIGHT). As for admin advice, I'd say take it easy; take it slow. Don't let wanting adminship interfere with your work or cause you any stress. Your handling of disputes has been good so far; keep doing what you said you will do (keep a level head, log off for a while, etc.) and each time, you'll learn a bit more on how to better deal with disputes the next time. I'd suggest getting more familiar with XfD, maybe participating in a few deletion discussions in each venue (AfD, TfD, MfD, SfD, RfD, and FfD—especially the ones with backlogs in sore need of participants). Reading over the policies for each venue a couple times helps as well. Also, familiarize yourself with WP:IMAGE and related file conventions as well as CSD (WP:WIHS is an interesting essay that I encourage you to read). Hang around RFA to get a feel for what that's like. And of course, don't let this interfere with school or life in general! Otherwise, keep on editing. You're doing a superb job. Airplaneman ✈ 03:03, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]