User:Tamzin

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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"

"Jew Trans Soul Rebel" (with apologies to Against Me!)

NameThis user's name is Tamzin Hadasa Kelly.

🤷This user refers to themself 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 non-binary, and is trans in the sense of having transitioned, but does not consider xemself transgender, as xe rejects 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:

• special:random
• wikipedia:basic copyediting
• wikipedia:backlog
• special:logout

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

Content

• All non-automated mainspace edits
• Dynamic lists of redirects:
  • created (~4,000)
  • retargeted or refined (~800)

		Started as...
		Existing page	Redirect	Redlink
Is now...	Good or featured article	Ca­pri-Sun  Cov­er-up tat­too  Loz­man v. Cit­y of Riv­i­er­a Beach (2018)	Bell­weth­er, Mi­ra  Mi She­bei­rach	7F08, Ad­vi­sor­y Neigh­bor­hood Com­mis­sion dis­trict  Ash­ton-Cir­il­lo, Sar­ah  Ce­leb­ri­ty Num­ber Six  Driv­ing in Mad­a­gas­car  Er­ie, Lake, sky­div­ing dis­as­ter, 1967  Fuc­king Trans Wom­en  Ma­ny Fa­ces of Je­sus, The  Ty­son, Mike, tat­toos of  When a man ar­gues a­gainst two beau­ti­ful la­dies like this, they are go­ing to have the last word
	Relatively complete article	Swanson, Richard, death of		Ash Street shoot­out  Gay Je­sus film hoax  Hur­ri­cane Shark  Loz­man v. Cit­y of Riv­i­er­a Beach (2013)  Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1997  No­vak v. Cit­y of Par­ma  Out of the Blue (book)  This War of Mine: The Board Game
	Less complete article	At­kin­son Hy­per­leg­i­ble Quar­ry, The (pain­ting) Walshe, Ana, dis­ap­pear­ance of	End Poem  Ray cat	F1NN­5TER  Grant, Ulys­ses S., ar­rests of Bomb­ing of Bor­o­dian­ka  Cray­on-eat­ing Ma­rine trope Matthew, MV, interdiction of  Pres­i­den­tial im­mu­ni­ty in the U­ni­ted States Re­tal­i­a­tor­y ar­rest and pro­se­cu­tion  Three Stu­dies of Lu­cian Freud
	List	Pres­i­den­tial li­brar­y Year of the Three Kings	In­va­sions and oc­cu­pa­tions of U­kraine, list of Self-in­flicted wound Year of three prime min­i­sters	H.R. 1  Jour­nal­ists killed dur­ing the Rus­so-U­krain­i­an War, list of  Trans­gen­der a­na­to­my, ter­min­o­lo­gy of Works de­pic­ting Je­sus as LGBT, list of
	DAB or DAB-like list

Technical

• Created:
  • 'zinbot
  • rc_scanner
• Contributor to:
  • cuStaleness
  • DiscordWikiBot
  • Navigation popups
  • mediawiki-tokipona
  • spihelper
  • Twinkle
• Dynamic lists of all changes to:
  • Template
  • Module
  • Template talk
  • Module talk
  • MediaWiki
  • MediaWiki talk

Essays

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	WP:NOTVIDEOGAME, WP:NOTGAME	So don't treat it like one.

Notes

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Details

Disclosures

• User:'zinbot
• meta:Special:CentralAuth/Tamzin
• /Disclosures and commitments

Several things that make editing easier

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.

Here are all the scripts I'm using. I especially recommend User:Wugapodes/Capricorn, User:PleaseStand/userinfo.js, and User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/massRollback.js (requires rollback).

// 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:Evad37/OneClickArchiver]]: Archive discussion-page content importScript('User:Evad37/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

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

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.

Cetaceans acquired

https://wikis.world/@tamzin