46:) I have been actively editing on Knowledge (XXG) since January, and am quite interested in how I could step my game up a little. Although I am not interested in adminship at the time being, I have been working on improving my communication skills as well as becoming involved in behind the scenes activities such as AfD discussions and reviewing FACs. As for editing, I am mostly involved in biographies as well as film and literature articles. I would appreciate any suggestions regarding my editing habits (research, utilization of policy) and ways that I can improve in order to help the encyclopedia. Thanks!
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something of which I have been guilty of in the past. Other editors can be stressful, mostly because we (all of us!) forget somethings to AGF. I had a problem not too long ago with another editor who, despite every way I tried to explain to them that they had me pegged wrong, honestly believed I was attempting to brainwash them, all because I linked them to a couple policies in order to help them with future AfD discussions. After a while, you just have to say "okay, fine" and walk away. Also, I've been using my smilies lately on talk pages, because I find they lighten the mood. :)
124:, stub templates are "placed at the end of the article, after the External links section, any navigation templates, and the category tags, so that the stub category will appear last. It is usually desirable to leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it." I fixed that edit, but it was at then end of a series of edits you just made where you moved the stub template off the bottom, so you may want to go back an fix them.
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Like most everyone, I've had my troubles with WikiStress and edit conflicts. This is one of the main reasons why I put myself up for review. I have a tendency to become defensive, but I've come to understand that talking things through works much better than reverting with a snippy comment,
236:. With more time and less laziness, I aim to improve these articles ten-fold in the future. I think every little bit helps, and because these three individuals are inspiring to me, personally, I find great joy in knowing that I've done them proud -- so far. There's a long way to go.
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look solid. From the diffs it looked like you had added some uncited material, but I realized you'd just moved it. Not a gig against you, but you might consider seeing if you can find citations for the older material. One almost trivial item I picked up on in this
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must fix! In the past I've reverted people who change "misspellings" on articles, so I'm aware that it's a common problem. I'll definitely be more careful of this in the future, though, so thank you for bringing it to my attention!
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Because I didn't know much about speedy delete procedures, I did read up on it before trying my hand at this, FYI. I'm also an exclusionist at heart, but I'm basing my answers on policy, not opinion.
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At the moment I have not had the pleasure to bring an article to GA status, but that's next on my list. Articles I have greatly improved by a sufficient amount of research include
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