Wikipedia:Editor review/HelenKMarks

User:HelenKMarks

HelenKMarks (talk · contribs) I would like to get an idea what I'm doing right, what I'm doing wrong, and maybe get some advice on improvement. --HKMarksTALKCONTRIBS 21:38, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reviews

Hello HelenKMarks, here are some comments I have about you. Hopefully you will find them useful.
- First of all, I think you should consider shrinking your signature a little. A 200 characters one is considered too long by our guideline.
- Now, checking your contributions, I see a pretty good participation in talk pages, 20% of your total edits, implying a lot of communication with group of people to improve articles.
- Mathboth reports summary usage of 53% for major edits and 81% for minor edits. Those numbers are pretty low. The edit summaries are very helpful for other editors, as they are able to locate revisions faster, and prevent misunderstandings. In example, here you did not use a summary, and thus the default summary makes us think you have added an external link, so a WikiProject Spam member watching the article would likely go check to review the external link. I am guesing the ability of using AWB will allow you to increase it, so I am not really worried about that.
- It seems you upload a good amount of comic-related images. You were pretty fast to reduce an image when it was tagged (incidentally by me). Maybe you should review the images you have uploaded and rescale them? I see Image:AmazingSpider-Man530cover.jpg, Image:Amazing spider-girl-1.jpg, and Image:Spider-man man-spider.jpg as possible candidates for reduction. And although you replaced Image:Spider-Man Death-of-Gwen-Stacy.jpg, it apparently is still considered a high resolution image (see the link about downloading a high resolution image just below the image itself). However, since apparently it will be discussed in the Fair use page, as you have noticed, I would not tag it with {{fair use reduce}} again, at least for the time being :-) Oh, also, you should see if you can supply a fair use rationale for images you upload, at least beginning from now, and working with the previous ones as time allows.
- I see some work at reverting vandalism. As with everyone, I suggest not using "rv" or "rvv", as they may be confusing for new users. Personally, I liked the fact that you didn't call vandalism to this revert.
- Most of the changes you do makes me believe you are a wikignome, someone who prefers to do small changes to a large amount of articles than big changes in a single one. Now, you obviously know a lot about comics, and probably have a good collection or means to get information about them. I am guessing you have already thought about this (the Watching long-term section in your user page makes me believe that), but I will ask anyways: have you considered focusing in a single article to make it a good or maybe even a featured article? Although I do not think tagging articles with the {{unencyclopedic}} was a good move, the fact that you quoted the fictional guideline makes me think you have a good knowledge about it, which makes me think you would do a great work polishing articles.
- I like the fact that you took the time to explain why you were removing something.
- Regarding User:HelenKMarks/playpen and User:HelenKMarks/mockup, note that Fair use images can't be used in the user namespace per our Fair use criteria #9, as someone already explained you here. If you want to create a test to propose a change, consider using a free image to illustrate (in example, Image:Wikipe-tan head.png.
- Finally, about the conflict you had: as you say, it is alright to "lose" as long as there is a reason. Note that the definition of consensus is that everyone has to give up a little to agree. I reviewed some parts of the discussion and I think you handled it correctly. Sometimes people are somewhat touchy about things either they have created or they like, and any attempt to modify them may trigger a lot of discussion that, in the end, is interesting but not really necessary. I handle a lot of those discussions related to gaming material, external links and fair use stuff, so I know it can become pretty hard to stay cool. Glad to see you have managed to stay in a reasonable mood throught the discussion.
Personally I believe you are doing an excellent job. It is evident that you feel comfortable working with comics, even participating in discussions when a comic-related article is being considered for deletion. That is why I think you should try to focus in an article, much like the collaboration of the week but at a personal level, to improve it to good article status. With the sources you may have, it is not really hard to do that, and you would then be able to propose to the WikiProject a collaboration in order to reach the featured status. I have Neon Genesis Evangelion in my watchlist at least since May, so I noticed how it was being modified until the end of the collaboration. Reviewing now your specific modifications, I noticed you were a big influence into shaping it. Hopefully you would be able to do something similar with other comics-related articles without the need for the full WikiProject to be behind you. Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 05:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking the time to do this review, ReyBrujo!

Shrunk sig
Promise to use edit summaries! I didn't realize they were important until someone said in ChrisGriswold's RfA "Oh, you only use them 98.6% of the time?... not enough... no good..."
Removed images from user space, that's another thing I didn't realize was important. Working on shrinking my old images, and other ones as I come across them. For the Death of Gwen one, I don't think it has a high-res link anymore, and I'm worried about making it unreadable. Most of the others are getting shrunk, though.
WikiProject Comics has just adopted the rating system, so hopefully improving stuff to GA and FA will be a big priority. I'm quite optimistic about Spider-Man!

Thanks a million again! It's a huge help :D --HKMarks(T/C) 01:50, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Questions

Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
I did some huge reorganizations on Spider-Man, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Spider-Man's powers and equipment, and separated out Gwen Stacy and The Night Gwen Stacy Died. I thought those turned out particularly well. Other than that, just a lot of maintenance and trying to stay out of trouble. I recently started doing some work on simple:Wikipedia, but not much yet. I think it's important to make Wikipedia accessible to anyone.
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?
This TfD discussion (TfD talk and other simultaneous discussion) got quite heated. I thought it was pretty clear the templates had to go, but a handful of editors were sure they had to stay. In the end it was a bit frustrating to explain (over and over) why they weren't needed--and the "compromise" reached at the end was really close to what I intended all along. Just a little stressful. That's about it though. I think it's alright if I "lose" a discussion as long as there's a decent reason it goes the other way.