Wikipedia:Editor review/GB fan 2

GB fan

GB fan (talk · contribs · count) Hello everyone. It has been a while since I came here and asked for others opinions about how I am doing and what I can do to improve my editing. I have been here (using this account since September 2008). This account was originally named A new name 2008 but based on feedback at my failed RFA I requested a username change. Before anyone asks I have used another username in the past, it is registered with ARBCOM as recommended by the cleanstart policy. Nothing has changed on that account since prior to the creation of this account. (from this point forward I am only going to refer to things I have done with this account, please ee RFA for reasoning) I have dabbled in quite a few areas of the Wikipedia. Lately most of my work has been behind the scenes doing cleanup work. It started when I saw the great backlog drive earlier this year. I started working on cleaning up the backlogs on biographical articles. Fixing the {{WikiProject Biography}} banner parameters. I also watch the help desks and give answers when I can. I am not much of an article writer and have only created a few articles. I have also spent time at recent changes cleaning up vandalism. GB fan 15:01, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Questions

1. What are your primary contributions to Wikipedia? Are there any about which you are particularly pleased? Why?

   As stated above most of my edits are doing cleanup and watching for vandalism. What I think is some of my best work though is working on articles that I have found at AFD and keeping them in the encyclopedia. One article that I worked on and IMO saved from being deleted is Alice Powell. I came across it at AFD and it looked like this. After doing some research, I knew nothing about her when I started, I ended up with a referenced article that established her notability. Other editors have worked on it more since and made it even better.

3. Have you been in editing disputes 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? If you have never been in an editing dispute, explain how you would respond to one.

   I have been in many editing disputes over the course of my involvement here. I am a fairly laid back guy and things don't cause me stress so I can't point to any disputes that stressed me out. Earlier in my career I mostly reverted and explained in edit summaries why I was reverting. Now I am using the talk pages more. I still use edit summaries but I try to start conversations on talk page when my reversions are reverted. If I were to get stressed about a dispute, I would disengage and ask for help from other editors through one of the dispute resolution avenues. I have used these in the past, not that I was stressed, but because without it we weren't getting anywhere.

Reviews

GB fan is a vandal who deletes people's doings to promote his own views and opinions and software who pays him money! What he does has nothing to do with the ideas of Wikipedia! I really hope he looses his rights to mess here any more! Nalit (talk) 00:45, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

If anyone is interested in what this is about please review Talk:GPS_navigation_software#Link_removal along with the article history and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jannej. GB fan please review my editing 01:43, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Nalit's complaint was entirely without merit, and Nalit has been indefblocked as a sockpuppet of an indefblocked user. GB fan, you handled this with extraordinary grace. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 13:19, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

GB fan, thank-you for your work cleaning the links on the referenced GPS_navigation_software page.198.168.103.11 (talk) 20:49, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

GB fan made a some good revision of one of my edits. He made it more accurate and less biased. (Jrberlet (talk) 20:29, 20 August 2011 (UTC))