Monday, April 13, 2009

Wikipedia Life (part 1)

Man I'm in a tough position right now on Wikipedia. Just accepted an Request for Adminship by Dylan620, and received comments like this:
I've been reviewing your edits for about an hour now... and can't support---even with my more liberal view on adminship. You made over 17K edits last month alone---this shows an over reliance upon tools. There is very little of Versus22 in any of your edits. I can't find too much in the way of legitimate discussions---it's all done via various templates. You indicate that you want to work with CSD, and area where I have a lot of concern, yet you have minimal experience there---in your last 500 deleted edits probably less than 30 are where you are requesting CSD and most of those are when the author has blanked the page. So how about your participation at AFD? In your last 1000 edits to the Wikipedia space, I'd guess that 750 of them are simply to report somebody to AIV. About 100 of them are to AFD's. Of those, I counted 6 keeps. That's roughly 94% delete, and 6% keep? So what about your article work? There is none. What about policy discussion? I couldn't find any. Sorry. Also when 2/3rds of the edits to your talk page are either vandalism or reversions of vandalism, it sends up a huge red flag---and while it may be unfair, you didn't answer question 3, I have to conclude that the reason you didn't answer question 3 is the result of repeated and ongoing vandalism... which should have been a deterent to running right now. If you are currently be targetted on your own talk page to the extent that it is, you had to have some incling that those who were targetting you, might come here to be disruptive as well? ---I'm Spartacus!

And this...
I'm sorry, you do great work with vandal-fighting and other areas, but I'm still concerned about your temperament. In mid-March I had to warn you against using edit summaries that attacked Grawp, and you cited frustration. As an admin, you'll be dealing with some far more frustrating issues, and losing your cool in those situations won't be helpful to you or others. Retiring and unretiring so recently also strengthens my concern about temperament. ---PeterSymonds

Well in reply to all of this, I have to agree with PeterSymonds with this, but... his concern with my recent retiring and unretiring issues? Perhaps, I should have stopped being at Wikipedia, instead of making up my mind of continuing and not continuing at the wiki. This is one of the big reasons why I possibly have lost the RfA if it went seven days, and I'm not very good at article work since I can only do stuff in simple English pretty much (which is why I work a bit more on articles at the Simple English Wikipedia).

However, now the big question is: "Should I continue editing at the English Wikipedia, or should my era there truly come to an end? Post your comments below.

Note: Part 2 will come in the future, watch this section.

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