User talk:Miller17CU94/Archive 2

Editor review from November 2 to December 2, 2006.

User:Miller17CU94

Miller17CU94 (talk · contribs) I have contributing to Wikipedia since Memorial Day weekend of 2006 and I am not trying to become an administrator. I just want to do my articles better and I would like a review on how my edits can be better Chris 14:22, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Reviews

• Hello there, Miller17CU94, how are you doing? Here is my review, I hope you find it useful.

  • For someone who has started in May, you have been very active. I see you have increased your participation in this project until October, when you suddenly cut it by half. I hope it does not mean you burned yourself, but instead that you are still trying to find the right amount of edits per month you can do without influencing your life outside Wikipedia.
  • Am I counting right? 13 DYK contributions? Impressive! It not only informs that you have a good number of created articles, but also interesting and pretty long ones! Congratulations!
  • Mathbot indicates you use edit summaries only once every four times for minor edits. You should consider using them more often, There is a check in the Preferences section where you can make Wikipedia ask for an edit summary everytime you write something. It is a good way to remember to use them if you just forget about them.
  • Something curious I noticed: Although you have 5,500 edits in articles, you only have 24 in article talk pages. I think (I may be wrong, of course) that you enjoy editing articles that are, as you say, "long overdue", without active editors, and that may be mostly stubs or new ones. Everyone here is able to choose how to contribute, and I think you prefer editing articles yourself, but consider that Wikipedia is a place where there is a strong sense of community, where users work together in order to build articles. Experience with other users is also needed in order to handle conflicts, which soon or later will arrive. Also, the high edit amount per article indicates you like to spend some more time in articles than most other users, which is understandable since you write them from scratch.
  • The images you have been uploading as of late have been well referenced and sourced, although you may consider adding a fair use rationale for every article the image is being used in.

  You are doing a great job at creating needed articles. I always say that, between a red link and a stub, I prefer the stub, because anonymous editors can contribute to stubs, but can't create articles. You not only create articles, but develop them into reasonable articles. I don't have many suggestions to do, as you seem to know our manual of style perfectly. I may suggest to try to polish some articles into good articles, maybe asking for a peer review in order to get some feedback about how to expand them. Of course, I suggest you to spend some more time in article talk pages, inviting and discussing with others how to continue improving the article. To some users, people sometimes tell them to stop socializing and begin writing. In your case, the opposite may be true: try to gather some help to carry an article to good or even featured article. Our success is not based in our individuality, but in our ability to share the responsabilities with others. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 02:18, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments

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Questions

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

   I am pleased on two things. 1) The articles on the individual FIS Nordic World Ski Championships which were sorely needed and overdue. 2) The articles I am working on right now in food science and technology.

3. 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?

   The main issues I have dealt with previously have been images and the copyright issues, and with capitalization. The eleven images I had first downloaded werre deleted because of my unfamiliarity with the process, but since then I have been able to download without any problems, including two I was able to get permission from the organization officials (Institute of Food Technologists and Phi Tau Sigma). Capitalization has been adjusted on this to where I am not putting it on every single word like I had done previously. My main issue that I am dealing with right now is putting mathematical equations on Wikipedia and I have asked for assistance which I am receiving right now, specifcally on the Thermal death time article.

Brief review

I have had only very little contact with Miller17CU94 but have found this user extremely diplomatic and easy to work with. --Coppertwig 14:21, 21 November 2006 (UTC)