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Revision as of 17:19, 10 January 2009

Nomination

I nominate Hardrock182 to become a member of staff. His/Her edits are of consistant quality and has shown good knowledge of how the wiki works.

Hardrock182, please reply with whether you accept or decline this nomination, and why.

I appreciate and accept the nomination, as it essentially allows me to keep doing what i've been doing for the past few months - and in that time i have aquired a reasonable knowlege of how the this wiki works (how games are named within articles, categorisation, uploading and adding images to pages etc).

My only concern is that I'm not on here everyday, sometimes I am, other times I'm offline for a few days. However, in my opinion, that shouldn't present that much of a problem. Hardrock182 12:39, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Questions

Do you think vandalism is a big problem at GTW? How would you deal with someone who did something like delete all the content on one page? What might be the possible reasons for them doing that? Gboyers ^talk 16:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Personally, I think vandalism isn't that much of a problem on this site, as it only seems to happen every couple of months. If vandalism were to occur however (and assuming I was the only user online), I would revert it and give them a warning - if the vandalism continued, I would have to report them to a staff member with the ability to block the user. As for the reasons people vandalise websites like this, I'd imagine that they simply do it for the 'lulz' - although there is the off chance that, what appears to be vandalism, may simply be a confused/inexperienced user (I think an incident like this occured a couple of months ago). Hardrock182 17:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

What do you think is the hardest thing for new editors to get the hang of (whether a technical skill, a policy or just the way we do things here); how would you spot they were having difficulty; and how would you help them? Maybe explain what was the hardest thing you've had to learn whilst being here? Gboyers ^talk 16:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I think the most difficult thing for a new user to learn is creating/editing/formatting an article - this was what seemed daunting to me at first (when I first joined I would simply correct errors and add general information). The easiest way to know if someone is having trouble is if they make numerous 'bad' edits to the same page - for example if they are trying to get an image to display properly. Upon seeing this I would either direct them to the help articles and/or provide help myself, or recommend that they use the 'Preview' button (if the problem is only minor). Hardrock182 17:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

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 Do you think vandalism is a big problem at GTW? How would you deal with someone who did something like delete all the content on one page? What might be the possible reasons for them doing that? [[w:c:gta:User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] <sup>[[:w:c:gta:User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 16:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
-:Personally, I think vandalism isn't that much of a problem on this site, as it only seems to happen ever couple of months. If vandalsims were to occur however (and assuming I was the only user online), I would revert it and give them a warning - if the vandalism continued, I would have to report them to a staff member with the ability to block the user. As for the reasons people vandalise websites like this, I'd imagine that they simply do it for the 'lulz' - although there is the off chance that, what ''appears'' to be vandalism, may simply be a confused/inexperienced user (I think an incident like this occured a couple of months ago). [[User:Hardrock182|Hardrock182]] 17:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
+:Personally, I think vandalism isn't that much of a problem on this site, as it only seems to happen every couple of months. If vandalism were to occur however (and assuming I was the only user online), I would revert it and give them a warning - if the vandalism continued, I would have to report them to a staff member with the ability to block the user. As for the reasons people vandalise websites like this, I'd imagine that they simply do it for the 'lulz' - although there is the off chance that, what ''appears'' to be vandalism, may simply be a confused/inexperienced user (I think an incident like this occured a couple of months ago). [[User:Hardrock182|Hardrock182]] 17:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 What do you think is the hardest thing for new editors to get the hang of (whether a technical skill, a policy or just the way we do things here); how would you spot they were having difficulty; and how would you help them? Maybe explain what was the hardest thing you've had to learn whilst being here? [[w:c:gta:User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] <sup>[[:w:c:gta:User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 16:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)