Wikipedia:Editor review/Verkhovensky
Verkhovensky (talk · contribs) I've been at Wikipedia for a while now, and I was just curious about how I've been doing. I haven't been getting a lot of feedback from other editors so far, so I just wanted to know where I stand, and what I can do to improve. Verkhovensky 17:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Reviews
If I had to give you a letter grade, it would be an A. You are doing very useful work in your article creations, especially those relating to Tolstoy. Your sorting and fixing of dead-end pages - one of my old habits, but I'm not as active there as before - is also quite useful. I don't see a lot of XFD participation, which I bring up because there are two schools of thought for handling WP:DEP. One school of thought is that these pages are missing wikilinks, so let's put in the wikilinks and move on. The other school of thought is that these articles are problematic, and if we're looking at them, we should try to fix all the problems, or at least note them with templates. Thus: wikify by splitting into sections, add a category or stub type, fix grammatical errors, etc. Then there are some articles which don't seem to belong at all; don't be shy about nominating them for deletion - or if you're unwilling to do that, you could try using the {{notability}} tag. As you may understand, I advocate this second school of thought, but the general rule is, as long as you're trying to improve the encyclopedia, that's all we ask for.
If you have access to electronic versions of Tolstoy's short stories, you should consider copying them to Wikisource, the "free library" that is a sister project of Wikipedia. Short of that, you could link to Bibliography of Leo Tolstoy as a "See also" of your short story articles, or you could make a template similar to the Fyodor Dostoyevsky template if you know how to do that.
That's all the advice I have. Keep up the good work, and I wish you good luck. YechielMan 04:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
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Questions
- Of your contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
- I am very pleased with my original content contributions with the short stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy. The stories of Leo Tolstoy are particularly difficult to find information on elsewhere on the web, and I'm pleased that I've had the opportunity to make Wikipedia a better resource for that information.
- 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?
- There was one time when I cam across a troll while editing the Hollywoodland article. I tried explaining the Wikipedia policies to the user, because they didn't seem to understand why their edits were being reverted. I remained civil and did what I could, and my advice was unheeded I participated in the notice to bring the attention of an administrator to the problem.