Wikipedia:Editor review/Husond

User:Husond

Husond (talk · contribs) I created this account in July and started to get addicted to Wikipedia in August. I am over 1200 edits now and thought that I would appreciate a preliminar review. Most of my edits consist of manual removal of vandalism, spam and flagrant POV edits. I also participate in AfD, Requested moves, and some other Wikipedia sections. I created some stubs and have been developing some material for WikiProject Montenegro, but haven't been much of an article editor really. Hús ö nd 02:32, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reviews

Well, I can't really suggest much in the way of broadening your editing habits, but you might like to involve yourself more in making major contributions to individual articles that interest you. Your answers to the RfA questions will be heavily judged on your article-writing ability, to the point of requiring that you produce at least one Feature Article, so I suggest you pick one stub article that particularly interests you and either suggest changes on its talk page, or make them yourself (after the aforementioned discussion). If you don't like that, then you might consider a still greater involvement in something like recent change patrolling, which can be equally good for building experience in maintaining content. Daveydw ee b (^chat/_patch) 08:18, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Husond - I felt that I'd repay the favour that you gave me over at Wikipedia:Editor review/Daniel.Bryant. Well, I see that in a short space of time (August-present), you have accumulated a nice number of edits. However, what's most pleasing is the distribution of these edits - ¼ being mainspace, ⅓ of your mainspace edits are relected on the talk pages (which, as a general rule, is very good - although some edits don't need to be discussed, it still is good to show interaction on article talk pages). Nice user talk, indicating your willingness to communicate with editors. Some good Wikipedia space edits, although I'm not sure where these would come from mainly (WP:AIV, WP:AN and attaching pages, or maybe policy edits) but wherever they come from, this demonstrates your knowledge and familiarity with Wikipedia policy and procedure.

Now, off the edit count and on to other stuff. I notice from your answer to Question 3 that you had a very bitter conflict, and because of this you created a new account and "purged" yourself of your involvement. Firstly, I must congratulate you on this - it demonstrates a level of maturity as well as resiliance to still be with the project. Your general level of civility is excellent, from all my encounters with you, and those I have browsedthrough recently, and I found your dealing with the IP you mentioned in Q3 to be remarkably well-handled (I checked the diffs).

However, the thing I am most by is your ability to learn from your mistakes. You mentioned how you have been moderating your involvement and method of involvement during disputes, and this shows the ability to learn from your experiences. That is an awesome trait to have on Wikipedia, and one that you will benefit from in the future, and that you have benefitted from in the recent time you have had with this account.

Now, on to my suggestions. Your minor editing pattern to Wikipedia is fantastic, however maybe if you focused on improving one article that you have interest in would be great. Although I understand that some editors are content to proceed with minor editing, and this is great, I guide you to adopting an article and improving it substantially. Why? From personal experience, I found that I personally lost interest with Wikipedia after a while when I was making these small edits. Why? I have no idea. However, humans are all different, and I can understand why you would stick with this.

I see great administrative potential in you, however many people would oppose because of lack of major contributions to article (ignore the low edit count at present, just pretend it was multiplied by four or something). This is about the only area I can see that you would benefit from exploring some more. Otherwise, keep up the great editing! Cheers, Daniel .Bryant 07:23, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you're doing extremely well, and I believe in returning favours :) So, on with it. I don't know how I can put this any better than Daniel above me, but I'll have a go. I had a look over your contributions and they seem to all be in place. I was impressed by the knowledge that you created a new account to distance yourself from previous events. That was very mature of you. It also shows a willingness to learn from your old mistakes, which is very important in an administrator, as their actions will be placed under such close scrutiny from the rest of the community.

The lack of actual article writing may incur a few oppose !votes in a future RfA. So, as David and Daniel say above, pick an article, get it up to FA/GA class, lather, rinse, repeat.

You seem to do some RCP as well, as evidenced by your reverts to my userpage, so there shouldn't be any vandal-fighting complaints.

Overall, I think you're doing great, so up the article edits, and your future RfA should go swimmingly! — riana_dzast a _{wreak havoc|damage report} 01:11, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd just like to commend Husond on his attitude towards self-improvement as an editor. Good judgment is learned with experience, but it takes good character to do so. --bainer (talk) 16:25, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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User's current editing statistics according to Flcelloguy's tool. Daveydw ee b (^chat/_patch) 08:14, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics for: Husond
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- Total: 1210 -
Main: 344
Talk: 109
User: 244
User talk: 266
Wikipedia: 197
Wikipedia talk: 9
Image: 10
Template: 4
Category talk: 20
Portal: 4
Portal talk: 3
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Total edits: 1210
w/ edit summary: 892 (73.71%*)
w/ manual edit summary: 544 (44.95%*)
Minor edits: 113 (9.33%*)
First known edit: Jul 5, 2006
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Questions

Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
There aren't any remarkable contributions of mine. But I'm actually quite pleased to have created the Monserrate Palace stub. It is one of my favorite places in Portugal (where I live) and when I discovered that the article did not exist, I was very proud to give it a start.
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?
Yes. With this account I have only experienced something mildly conflictual (yesterday an IP editor was revolted after I reverted his POV edits from Hugo Chávez. I expressed my position on the talk page and got antagonistic replies). But, with my previous account I had a bitter conflict over the creation of a new Wikipedia project. I was bashed and felt quite stressed/frustrated. So I decided to create this new account to purge myself, hoping that I no longer have to be associated with my previous initiative. I learned much with that bad experience though, and I now have a strict policy against trolling and conflictual behavior.