My name is Tamzin. Yes, that'sa real name. I am, from most to least important, a reader of Wikipedia articles, a writer of Wikipedia articles, and someone who does some behind-the-scenes work on Wikipedia. (I am also a lot of other things unrelated to Wikipedia, like atokiponist and a tattoo enthusiast.)The articles I write tend to touch on law, violence, Internet culture, religion, and LGBTQ issues, and the intersections thereof. I hold a few privileged accesses behind the scenes, includingadministrator,global renamer,SPI clerk, andbot operator ('zinbot), but I'm something of a cynic about how this site operates. I think it's amazing what we're doing, and think our culture improves each year, but I remain critical ofour shitty backroom culture that often conflates social capital with moral rectitude, and still limit my involvement in certain administrative areas. When I do administrative work, I have (or try to have) near-infinite patience for people who aretrying to improve the encyclopedia andable to contribute constructively, but very little patience for those who aren't. I find that, a disturbing percentage of the time, our administrative venues take the exact opposite approach.
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:
^Thelocal list is incomplete due to limitations in how MediaWiki detects redirect creation. On the other hand, it includesblank-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 markhere.
^Led to the creations ofFuccboi (novel) (mostly bytheleekycauldron) andFuccbois (mostly byHelenDegenerate), with me andDrmies 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:?
Thepipe 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 multiplefunctionaries telling me they hadn't heard of it till they read this.)
I useTwinkle,RedWarn, andpopups 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 useXFDCloser.
// General// [[m:MoreMenu]]: Whole bunch of useful buttonsmw.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 pagesimportScript('User:SD0001/deleted-metadata-link.js');// Mainspace-oriented// [[User:Dr pda/prosesize.js]]: Get a page's prose wordcountimportScript('User:Dr pda/prosesize.js');// [[User:Andy M. Wang/pageswap]]: Swap pages' historiesimportScript('User:Andy M. Wang/pageswap.js');// [[User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter]]: Highlight source qualityimportScript('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-orientedmw.loader.load('/w/index.php?title=User:RedWarn/.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');// Mark locked accountsimportScript('User:GeneralNotability/mark-locked.js');// All the IP information you want, in one placeimportScript('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 userpageimportScript("User:PleaseStand/userinfo.js");// [[User:Elli/OneClickArchiver]]: Archive discussion-page contentimportScript('User:Elli/OneClickArchiver.js');// Specific venuesimportScript('User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD.js');// [[User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD.js]]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 thisimportScript('User:GeneralNotability/spihelper.js');// And a much smaller part of this onemaxUsersCUStaleness=100;lazyCheckCUStaleness=false;// [[User:RoySmith/tag-check.js]]: DittoimportScript('User:RoySmith/tag-check.js');// [[WP:EFFP]]// [[User:Suffusion of Yellow/effp-helper.js]]: Proxy edits caught in the filterimportScript('User:Suffusion of Yellow/effp-helper.js');// [[User:Suffusion of Yellow/batchtest-plus.js]]: Test new filters against old hitsimportScript('User:Suffusion of Yellow/batchtest-plus.js');window.batchTestPlusMaxConcurrentRequests=5;// Wikidata// [[User:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js]]: Information about a page's Wikidata itemmw.loader.load("//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript");
Here's howI'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. */@importurl('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=User:Tamzin/-show_classes.css&ctype=text/css');@importurl('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=User:Tamzin/main-page-redirect-checker.css&ctype=text/css');@importurl('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=User:Tamzin/dabone-violation-checker.css&ctype=text/css');/* From [[User:theleekycauldron/common.css]] */.mw-body-contenta.mw-redirect{color:#147000}.mw-body-contenta.mw-redirect:visited{color:#5c9e4c}.mw-body-contenta.extiw{color:#a6a825;}/* interwiki links */.mw-body-contenta.extiw:visited{color:#b3960b;}.mw-body-contenta.external{color:#b0048b}.mw-body-contenta.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 + fairlyreflective laptop screen + often editing in direct sunlight = I often can'tdiscern link color*/.mw-parser-outputa:not([class*="user-blocked-"]){text-decoration:underlinedashed1px;}.mw-parser-output.referencea,.mw-parser-output.toca,.mw-parser-output.mw-editsectiona{text-decoration:none!important;}.mw-parser-output.referencea:hover,.mw-parser-output.toca:hover,.mw-parser-output.mw-editsectiona:hover,.mw-parser-output.referencea:focus,.mw-parser-output.toca:focus,.mw-parser-output.mw-editsectiona:focus{text-decoration:underline!important;}/* watchlists are stressful. scanning contribs for revs that aren't"current" ismore 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 Icould 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:underlineredsolid;}strike{text-decoration:line-throughred;}/* Distinguish del/ins from strikethrough and underline */del{border:1pxreddashed;}ins{border:1pxgreendashed;}.selfreference{background-color:pink;}/* I like seeing things */.ambox-Orphan{display:table!important;}/* from [[:Category:CS1 maint: url-status]] */.mw-parser-outputspan.cs1-maint{display:inline;}/* display Citation Style 1 maintenance messages */.mw-parser-outputspan.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#contentul,#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 usecases for all of these, especially `ol + ol`. Correct flagged markup at yourperil. *//* List gaps */.mw-parser-outputdl+dl,.mw-parser-outputul+ul,.mw-parser-outputol+ol{border-top:1emsolidpink;border-top:1emsolidrgba(255,192,203,0.5);}/* The common mistake of* Foo:* Bar / :: Bar(At any level of nesting) */.mw-parser-outputul+dl>dd>ul,.mw-parser-outputul+dl>dd>dl{border-left:1emsolidpink;border-left:1emsolidrgba(255,192,203,0.5);}
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.
We should not allowBLPs about people who do not unambiguously meetGNG, 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.
This section used to say I was lying aboutneeding cetaceans, but as of May 2025, I do in fact find myself lacking in them. I don't really miss America, but I do miss the best neighbors a !girl could ever ask for. Stay safe, my bottlenosed friends.
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