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Tamzin

Joined 3 November 2012

partly retired
this user mostly avoids the parts of wikipedia that suck.

Because love's such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves

— Queen and David Bowie, "Under Pressure"

NameThis user's name is Tamzin Hadasa Kelly.

🤷This user refers to xemself with the pronouns they/them or xe/xem, but gender is a social construct, so you can use whatever pronouns feel right to you.

This user lives in
Cape May Co., N.J..

This user is a native of the U.S. District of Columbia.

This editor used to be an ad­min­i­stra­tor and does not wish to ever be one again.

BLOCKThis user has been blocked for cause before, and would like to be again someday. (fulfill)
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

fr-3Cette utilisatrice peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

tok-3mi sona pona e toki pona.

4This user has 4 tattoos.

This user is nonbinary, and is trans in the sense of having transitioned, but does not consider themself transgender, as they reject the concept of gender identity.

This user is a member of a polycule that is structured as an LLC to create a marriage-like relationship.

i used to be a very active administrator here. eventually i got disillusioned by the way we treat one another in the shitty backrooms where meta-level decisions are made. (that's a "we", not a "they"; i was absolutely part of the problem.) i'm still around to work on writing articles—which is, you know, what wikipedia is actually for—as well as a limited amount of non-user-conduct-related "projectspace" work. please take no offense if i do not respond to messages or pings in other contexts.

if you find yourself spending more time talking about the people who write wikipedia than being one of those people, remember that you can fix that today:

On the backrooms

may your memory forever be for a blessing, O Comrade Vami_IV (1999–2024). you gave this community so much and you deserved so much better than what it gave you—and you still kept giving, nevertheless.

Things I've written

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Content creations, expansions, and translations

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  • All non-automated mainspace edits
  • Dynamic lists of redirects:
Started as...
Existing page Redirect Redlink
Is now... Good or featured article
Relatively complete article
Less complete article
List[g]
DAB or DAB-like list

Technical

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Essays

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Essay Shortcut(s) Summary
User:Tamzin/Adverse possession unblock Sometimes people sock so constructively that we decide not to block them.
Wikipedia:Content that could reasonably be challenged Explaining a phrase used in the GA and DYK criteria.
Wikipedia:Don't edit-war with vandals or sockpuppets WP:NOROLLBACK, WP:STOPIT Just because it's 3RR-exempt doesn't mean it isn't disruptive.
Wikipedia:Editors' pronouns WP:EDPRONOUNS Try to get people's pronouns right.
User:Tamzin/Guidance for editors with mental illnesses Don't let Wikipedia hurt you, don't hurt other Wikipedians, and don't hurt Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:Hate is disruptive WP:HATEDISRUPT, WP:HID Promoting hatred is a form of disruptive editing.
User:Tamzin/Lot's wife Advice for sox.
User:Tamzin/Plurality and multiplicity FAQ How plurality and multiplicity (dissociative identity disorder, etc.) interact with Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:Salting is usually a bad idea WP:NOSALT, WP:DONTSALT Salting deleted titles often makes it harder to find sockpuppets.
User:Tamzin/Sockblocks, deceit, and ambiguous loss Sometimes it really hurts when someone is deceptive on Wikipedia.
User:Tamzin/Soft clean start Something I did that maybe others might want to do too.
User:Tamzin/SPI is expensive Advice for sock-hunters.
Wikipedia:There's a reason you don't know WP:OPAQUE, WP:NEEDTOKNOW When information is kept private, it's often for good reason.
Wikipedia:When sources are wrong WP:WSAW Several strategies for handling source error.
User:Tamzin/Wikipedia is a lambskin condom It's the little things that will kill you.
Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a video game[co 9][co 16] WP:NOTVIDEOGAME, WP:NOTGAME So don't treat it like one.

Notes

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Collaboration with...

  1. ^ a b c d e theleekycauldron.
  2. ^ Dreamyshade.
  3. ^ a b Elli.
  4. ^ Red-tailed hawk.
  5. ^ PerfectSoundWhatever.
  6. ^ SuperbowserX.
  7. ^ Alalch E..
  8. ^ Espresso Addict.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Fellow RfD participants.
  10. ^ Generalissima.
  11. ^ John123521.
  12. ^ Thryduulf (as a DAB, drafted together at Gender violence); converted to SIA by BD2412.
  13. ^ TheresNoTime
  14. ^ Writ Keeper
  15. ^ Stjn
  16. ^ Many people who'd made essentially the same point before me.

Expanded or translated from...

  1. ^ a b An earlier version by various editors.
  2. ^ An earlier version by Lord Roem and others.
  3. ^ An earlier version by Bsoyka.
  4. ^ An abandoned draft by Sir-Joshi01.
  5. ^ fr:La Curée, chasse au chevreuil dans les forêts du Grand Jura, by Marc-AntoineV, expanding on an earlier English version by several editors.
  6. ^ A small portion of Julian Gough.
  7. ^ fr:Masacre de Borodianka, by Laurent Jerry, Baldurar, and others.
  8. ^ a b c An existing DAB page.
  9. ^ List of journalists murdered in Ukraine, by Gauaren erregina and others.
  10. ^ A much shorter disambiguation page.
  11. ^ An unsourced BCA by 77.254.148.212 and others.

Details

  1. ^ The local list is incomplete due to limitations in how MediaWiki detects redirect creation. On the other hand, it includes blank-and-redirects and redirects that were later turned into content pages, which XTools omits. Neither list includes soft redirects, but some can be seen around the 340-byte mark here.
  2. ^ Appeared at DYK prior to my involvement.
  3. ^ Redirect I had created to an article I wrote.
  4. ^ Redirect pointed to a secondary sense of the name.
  5. ^ AfD survivor.
  6. ^ Merge request survivor.
  7. ^ Includes SIAs with prose content.
  8. ^ Overwrote redirect at Invasion of Ukraine and then moved.
  9. ^ Since turned into a referenced prose SIA by HueSurname.
  10. ^ Boldly merged to Haw 2016, restored at RfD 2022.
  11. ^ Led to the creations of Fuccboi (novel) (mostly by theleekycauldron) and Fuccbois (mostly by HelenDegenerate), with me and Drmies as minority contributors and cheerleaders. I received DYK credit for my minority contributions to the former, but don't really feel I earned the topicon, and so instead will celebrate with a single ASCII question mark: ?
  12. ^ Work in progress.
  13. ^ Coäuthors are only noted on projects with a small number of contributors.
  14. ^ Not in use on Wikimedia yet.

Disclosures

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Several things that make editing easier

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The pipe trick exists and I feel like a lot of people don't know about that because it doesn't show up in diffs. (Update: This has since been confirmed by multiple functionaries telling me they hadn't heard of it till they read this.)

I use Twinkle, RedWarn, and popups for a whole bunch of useful things. The first two's relevance depends on your editing style, but I think popups is indispensable to any editor. At XfDs I use XFDCloser. 

// General
// [[m:MoreMenu]]: Whole bunch of useful buttons
mw.loader.using(['mediawiki.util', 'mediawiki.api'], function () {
	mw.loader.load('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-MoreMenu.enwiki.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
});
// [[WP:JWB]]
mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Joeytje50/JWB.js/load.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
// [[User:SD0001/deleted-metadata-link.js]]: See metadata of deleted pages
importScript('User:SD0001/deleted-metadata-link.js');

// Mainspace-oriented
// [[User:Dr pda/prosesize.js]]: Get a page's prose wordcount
importScript('User:Dr pda/prosesize.js');
// [[User:Andy M. Wang/pageswap]]: Swap pages' histories
importScript('User:Andy M. Wang/pageswap.js');
// [[User:Wugapodes/Capricorn]]: Redirect categorization
mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Wugapodes/Capricorn.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
// [[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter]]: Highlight source quality
importScript('User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter.js');
 // [[User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js]]
importScript('User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js');
importScript( 'User:Qwertyytrewqqwerty/DisamAssist.js' ); // Backlink: [[User:Qwertyytrewqqwerty/DisamAssist.js]]

// Anti-abuse
// [[Wikipedia:Redwarn]]: Mostly counter-vandalism-oriented
mw.loader.load( '/w/index.php?title=User:RedWarn/.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' );
// Mark locked accounts
importScript('User:GeneralNotability/mark-locked.js');
// All the IP information you want, in one place
importScript('User:GeneralNotability/ip-ext-info.js ');
// Rollback summaries and more (requires `rollback`)
mw.loader.load("https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Blablubbs/rbk.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript");
// [[User:Tamzin/scripts/massRollbackWithBotMode.js]]: Mass rollback (requires `rollback` and `markbotedits`)
importScript('User:Tamzin/scripts/massRollbackWithBotMode.js');
//Mass revdel (admin-only)
importScript( 'User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRevdel.js' );
// [[User:Mr. Stradivarius/gadgets/SpamUserPage.js]] (admin-only)
importScript('User:Mr. Stradivarius/gadgets/SpamUserPage.js');


// Other-namespace-oriented
// [[User:PleaseStand/userinfo.js]]: Information when you view a userpage
importScript("User:PleaseStand/userinfo.js");
// [[User:Elli/OneClickArchiver]]: Archive discussion-page content
importScript('User:Elli/OneClickArchiver.js');

// Specific venues
importScript('User:SD0001/RFUD-helper.js'); // [[User:SD0001/RFUD-helper.js]]
// [[WP:SPI]]
/* [[User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/cuStaleness.js]] & [[User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/sockStaleness.js]]:
   See whether accounts/IPs are likely stale for CU; see who created them */
importScript('User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/cuStaleness.js'); // I wrote part of this one!
importScript('User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/sockStaleness.js');
// [[WP:SPIHELPER]]: If you're not a clerk/CU/patrolling admin, you don't need this
importScript('User:GeneralNotability/spihelper.js'); // And a much smaller part of this one
maxUsersCUStaleness = 100;
lazyCheckCUStaleness = false;
// [[User:RoySmith/tag-check.js]]: Ditto
importScript('User:RoySmith/tag-check.js');
// [[WP:EFFP]]
// [[User:Suffusion of Yellow/effp-helper.js]]: Proxy edits caught in the filter
importScript( 'User:Suffusion of Yellow/effp-helper.js' );
// [[User:Suffusion of Yellow/batchtest-plus.js]]: Test new filters against old hits
importScript( 'User:Suffusion of Yellow/batchtest-plus.js' );
window.batchTestPlusMaxConcurrentRequests = 5;

// Wikidata
// [[User:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js]]: Information about a page's Wikidata item
mw.loader.load("//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript");
Here's how I've messed with my CSS. If you do template work, I strongly recommend the bit that sets all the -show classes to visible.
/* Look here! Tutorial on how to see all of the `-show` classes. */
@import url('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=User:Tamzin/-show_classes.css&ctype=text/css');

@import url('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=User:Tamzin/main-page-redirect-checker.css&ctype=text/css');

/* From [[User:theleekycauldron/common.css]] */
.mw-body-content a.mw-redirect {color:#147000}
.mw-body-content a.mw-redirect:visited {color:#5c9e4c}
.mw-body-content a.extiw {color:#a6a825;} /* interwiki links */
.mw-body-content a.extiw:visited {color:#b3960b;}
.mw-body-content a.external {color: #b0048b}
.mw-body-content a.external:visited {color: #6e0152}

/* Correct name */
#toc-mw-content-text > a > div {
	display: none;
}
#toc-mw-content-text > a::after {
	display: inline;
	content: "(Lede)";
}

/* bad eyesight   frequent editing in "night light mode" hours   fairly
reflective laptop screen   often editing in direct sunlight = I often can't
discern link color*/
.mw-parser-output a:not([class*="user-blocked-"]) {
	text-decoration: underline dashed 1px;
}
.mw-parser-output .reference a, .mw-parser-output .toc a, .mw-parser-output .mw-editsection a {
	text-decoration: none !important;
}
.mw-parser-output .reference a:hover, .mw-parser-output .toc a:hover, .mw-parser-output .mw-editsection a:hover,
.mw-parser-output .reference a:focus, .mw-parser-output .toc a:focus, .mw-parser-output .mw-editsection a:focus {
	text-decoration: underline !important;
}
/* watchlists are stressful. scanning contribs for revs that aren't"current" is
more pleasant. this is more pleasant still. */
.mw-contributions-current {
	background-color: Aquamarine;
}
/* still needs troubleshooting */
/*.toc {
	float: left;
	clear: right;
	margin: 0.5em 1.5em 0.5em 0;
}*/
/* All those capital letters make me feel like I'm being yelled at.  Wish I
could say I were joking, but I'm not. */
.mw-anonuserlink {
	text-transform: lowercase;
}
.watchlist-message {
	background-color: pink;
}
.popupPreview {
	font-family: monospace;
}

.popup_diff_dates {
	font-family:initial;
}

/* Flag deprecated HTML */
tt, center, dir, font, menu, xmp { 
	text-decoration: underline red solid;
}
strike {
	text-decoration: line-through red;
}
/* Distinguish del/ins from strikethrough and underline */
del {
    border: 1px red dashed;
}
ins {
    border: 1px green dashed;
}
.selfreference {
	background-color: pink;
}
/* I like seeing things */
.ambox-Orphan{
	display: table !important;
}
/* from [[:Category:CS1 maint: url-status]] */
.mw-parser-output span.cs1-maint {display: inline;} /* display Citation Style 1 maintenance messages */
.mw-parser-output span.cs1-hidden-error {display: inline;} /* display hidden Citation Style 1 error messages */
.harv-error {display: inline !important;} /* display Module:Footnotes errors */
/* from [[Template:Short description/doc]] */
.shortdescription {
  display:block !important;
  white-space: pre-wrap;
}
/* Number entries in history and on special pages.  Forked from https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-historyNumbered.css */
.ns--1 #content ul,
#content #pagehistory {list-style: decimal}
.page-Special_Page {list-style-image: url(bullet.gif)}

/* BETA: [[MOS:LISTGAP]] / [[WP:*:]] violation highlighter.

DISCLAIMER: MW markup and HTML are infinitely complex, and there are valid use
cases for all of these, especially `ol   ol`. Correct flagged markup at your
peril. */

/* List gaps */
.mw-parser-output dl   dl, .mw-parser-output ul   ul, .mw-parser-output ol   ol {
	border-top: 1em solid pink;
	border-top: 1em solid rgba(255,192,203,0.5);
}
/* The common mistake of
* Foo
:* Bar / :: Bar
(At any level of nesting) */
.mw-parser-output ul   dl > dd > ul, .mw-parser-output ul   dl > dd > dl {
	border-left: 1em solid pink;
	border-left: 1em solid rgba(255,192,203,0.5);
}

Three controversial opinions about Wikipedia

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  1. WP:NODISCLAIMERS has outlived its usefulness. As a major provider of information to a global audience, we should hold ourselves to disclaimer standards similar to those of major media organizations.
  2. We should not allow BLPs about people who do not unambiguously meet GNG, as established by references that are actually in their articles. Any BLP subject who has not been the subject of long-term coverage in reliable sources as an adult should be able to have their article deleted on request.
  3. It's spelled "lede".

One lie I've told

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I don't actually need a cetacean. I live quite close to a beach that dolphins routinely swim by. I have all the cetaceans I could ever need.

Three dolphins dive in the midground on the left, swimming toward the right of the frame. In the background on the right, a fairly large vehicle ferry sails toward the left of the frame. In the foreground, a beach of brown sand with some black rock outcroppings toward the waterline.
Cetaceans acquired
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