Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Apply/Tomtomn00

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a unsuccessful Online Ambassador application.

Tomtomn00

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1. Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?

   I want to promote WikiProjects, especially WikiProject Computing.

2. In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.

   I am active mostly on en.wikipedia.org - however I do edit commons, meta, fr, de, lv, uk and some other languages. I have Rollback here.

3. Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).

   Western Digital SmartWare, Roblox, Lizard Creek (Iowa), Sprowston Community High School.

4. How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?

   I often add welcome templates to users pages.

5. What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?

   Probaly adopt them or help them get involved in a WikiProject.

6. Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.

7. How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions? Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?

   I will be able to be around at least 2 hours a week, probaly lots more. I edit lots every day and look at AIV, UAA and AN/I.

8. What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?

   CSD Log: User:Tomtomn00/CSD log - PROD Log: User:Tomtomn00/PROD log - Articles Created: User:Tomtomn00/Articles Created - Non-Admin Closures: User:Tomtomn00/Non-Admin Closures.

Discussion

• Hold for a moment - TomTomn, just as a heads up we are going through a process to look at improving how we bring in new Online Ambassadors - although you look to have the right type of credentials; I am going to ask you to politely sit tight a moment (hopefully just a few days to a week) till the new questions concerning plagiarism are added to the list (or at least the prelim version are given a once over and given to you). Epistemophiliac (talk) 15:41, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Okay! :) ~ ⇒TomTomN00 @ 19:34, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

TomTomn, the three questions that have been agreed upon, and you get to be the first applicant to get asked them and they are:

• How would you make sure your students were not violating Copyright laws?
• If one of your students had an issue with Copyright Violation how would resolve it?
• In your own words describe what Copyright Violation is.

Epistemophiliac (talk) 02:44, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

1. I would check most of their contributions and file uploads, and checking throught the internet for things is something I'm quite good at. Or CopyTracker.

   I would notify them with their talk page, then if needed, CSD the page or remove the violation.

   A Copyright Violation is when non-free content/images are published. ~ ⇒TomTomN00 @ 07:58, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

• On reflection Neutral Your answers in regards to copy-right violation are terribly bland - which makes me wonder if you thought about them for a moment versus, just copy/pasted a generic response. Epistemophiliac (talk) 19:52, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose per hat collecting --Guerillero | My Talk 04:53, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

I would not class this as hat collecting, more of me wanting to help.~ ⇒TomTomN00 @ 07:58, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose I want to see a longer history of involvement (big burst of activity in the last five weeks, less than 350 edits in en:WP before then). I'm also concerned that the user has almost as many edits in user space as in article space. -- Donald Albury 12:15, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

I am trying not to make any user edits, other than updating CSD/PROD logs, until I have 50% article edits. Also, toolserver took 400 article edits off during the lag. ~ ⇒TomTomN00 @ 12:25, 5 April 2012