Joe Gazz84[edit]

Joe Gazz84 (talk · contribs) I have been on Wikipedia for 5 months and made about 1000 edits. I have been reverting vandalism since day one. I would like to be reviewed so I can have a good idea of how I can improve. Joe Gazz84^user•_talk•^contribs•_{Editor Review} 01:49, 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 contributions to Wikipedia are mainly reverting vandalism but also include reviewing articles at Articles For Creation and reporting users that have inappropriate usernames or that do not comply with the username policy. I am pleased with most of my actions but there are some that I am not so pleased.

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?

   I have only had one minor dispute and that was with a user about the AAC. I had not been given access but felt I deserved it so I went to ask for a reconsideration and I was told no. I got kind of upset and we had some constant debate going on about it and then an admin decided to stop it and direct all the comments to him. (For the sake of discreetness I will not mention the administrator's name) In the future if there is a good legitimate reason to not have something I will accept it and take any advise given and try again in another few months.

Reviews

• Review by VictorianMutant:
  • Civility towards the community: Don't see any glaring problems and that's a good thing...
  • Article contributions: As was mentioned in your recent RfA, you need more work on content. That doesn't mean you have to entirely restrict yourself to article space forever, but try it for a while. You've worked on Augustus Nathaniel Lushington some- why not make it a goal to bring it up to FA status? Here is a list of featured articles. Find a few biographical articles and use those as your guide. Some specific advice on sources- try to do a better job on citing your sources- three sources is not nearly enough. Most FA's have 100+ citations.
  • Edit count analysis: A quick check of your graph here shows way too much time in user space. Your user page looks nice- now leave it the way it is unless something really important changes. And do away with the online/offline edits... it's not really that important. If you feel some sort of need to let people know you are offline, add it to your last edit summary of the day (eg. copyedit third paragraph, last edit today). Try to make at least 50% of your edits be article edits- you're only at 15% now.
  • RfA-worthiness: Forget about RfA for now. It's not important. I'm sure someday you will be there...
  • Final thoughts: You've done a lot of good editing and should be proud of your contributions to the community. I'd like to challenge you though: you've made 1500 edits or so, make your next 500 edits be entirely article contributions. No vandal fighting(I recommended to another person today that he start vandal fighting so he will pick up your slack), no edits to Wikipedia space(including username reporting), no user talk space edits(unless someone asks about one of your content edits, then by all means reply), and definitely no user page edits(unless it is an article in your sandbox). Just pure content edits. Get Augustus Nathaniel Lushington up to GA status or find some other articles which interest you. I do look forward to seeing you in article space and supporting you in some future RfA. Thanks, VictorianMutant (talk) 21:14, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]