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Hi. The only other information I've been able to come up with is the EIU comparing the two editors in question. https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinteract.py?users=Geo+Swan&users=173.66.134.81&users=&startdate=20000101&enddate=20220215&ns=&server=enwiki&allusers=on Regards, Aloha27 talk 16:17, 15 February 2022 (UTC) Aloha27 (EDIT) I do not believe that the indeffed editor chiming in on a 3RR case regarding an IP editor to be in any way coincidental. Have a good day!
Hello, Tamzin,
You seem to have an encyclopedic memory of sockmasters. Wasn't there a sockpuppet that focused on radio stations in the Philippines? So is new editor Jairus 123456789 but I don't know what SPI case to post about it. Liz Read! Talk! 02:40, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
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You mentioned getting some sort of rate limit error with User:Suffusion of Yellow/batchtest-plus.js. I was unable to reproduce this; I was able to test the last 2000 hits of filter 614 without getting an error. Can you tell me what sort of message you saw? (Also User:MusikAnimal has this ever happened to you?) Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 19:57, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
apihighlimits
permission so I probably wouldn't have ran into this anyway. —
MusikAnimal
talk
20:59, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
abusefiltercheckmatch
. Is there a hard limit on POST requests for the entire API?
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk)
21:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
apihighlimits
permission. I too am surprised Tazmin ran into this. Maximum 10 concurrent requests should be safe. —
MusikAnimal
talk
22:14, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
;)
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Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
23:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)window.batchTestPlusMaxConcurrentRequests = 5;
(or even a lower number) to your common.js.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk)
22:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 ()
VM704:1 Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
VM705:1 Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
unexpected token <
... Is it possible the API is giving the standard HTML error page instead of a more specific JSON error message? I have to handle that edge case in 'zinbot
at api.py#L52, and it's come up from time to time when something was just very broken in an API query. Note that there's no network activity, so the cycle is the console repeatedly trying and failing to parse something, rather than repeated 500 errors, despite the console messages making it seem that way.GET https://whois.toolforge.org/w/68.199.96.217/lookup/json net::ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES
ipExtWHOISInline @ index.php?title=User:GeneralNotability/ip-ext-info.js_&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:63
(anonymous) @ index.php?title=User:GeneralNotability/ip-ext-info.js_&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:77
(anonymous) @ index.php?title=User:GeneralNotability/ip-ext-info.js_&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:76
fire @ VM1462:544
getHits @ index.php?title=User:Suffusion_of_Yellow/batchtest-plus.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:171
await in getHits (async)
(anonymous) @ index.php?title=User:Suffusion_of_Yellow/batchtest-plus.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:213
dispatch @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core%2Coojs-ui-widgets%7Cjquery.ui&skin=vector&version=29pq7:70
elemData.handle @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core%2Coojs-ui-widgets%7Cjquery.ui&skin=vector&version=29pq7:66
window.batchTestPlusMaxConcurrentRequests = 1;
didn't stop it, although this time I also spotted the console message Access to fetch at 'https://whois.toolforge.org/w/50.250.32.193/lookup/json' from origin 'https://en.wikipedia.org' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
mw.hook('wikipage.content').fire()
on the results, then starts making abusefiltercheckmatch
calls, at most 10 at a timemw.hook('wikipage.content').fire()
on all of the log entries (including those from step 1), then starts testing them 10 at a timemw.hook('wikipage.content').fire()
on all of the log entries (including those from steps 1 and 3), then starts testing them 10 at a timemw.hook('wikipage.content')
is only fired on the latest 100 entries, not all of them. And, it's only fired after the results are in, so there's less competition with other scripts. That might be enough.The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Unregistered editing already has many problems, for example identities used by multiple people and inability to handle them. There are many reasons to turn it off period, although arguably "casual edits" may outweigh them.
IP masking solves none of them, turns from 1 to 100, and adds more. Not just because there needs to be information on who can find them for governments schools etc but also because it is not IPs, but ranges, which don't exist. They're all seperate. Plus, the "IP unmasker" is just CheckUser but for unregistered editors. So there's one group for those -- but registering lets you hide from those but move to another group? What nonsense is this?
Plus, they want to use not just IP based but session based. Meaning there's no need for proxies anymore, you can just make a browser extension that gives you a new identity. Maybe I'll make one.
IP masking cannot stand. This just takes the many problems IP editing already has and scales them up even more, but without really solving anything other than people who don't read a banner. Tamzin, please help stop this IP masking. Even if you become an IP unmasker, and I become an IP unmasker, and every editor becomes an IP unmasker, that's a ridiculous system that shouldn't have to exist in the first place. Having to run a CU on pretty much everyone always?!?! Just disable unregistered editing.
P.S. My IP address is 162.248.94.163 - there's no need to OS it. Feel free to run the rDNS entry as well, it's naleksuh.com. Naleksuh ( talk) 23:59, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi Tamzin. Regarding the move on List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War, I thought the previous name, "covering", was better, and I see in the summary you also say the previous name is better, but that during is some type of convention. However, each page is different and consensus can go on a case by case basis. In this specific case, the purpose of the page is different from most "List of X during Y" as it's specifically about journalists covering it, otherwise journalists wouldn't be important. Would you mind if I made an RM for the page? Normally, I would just go ahead and do it, but I wanted to ask you first due to the "following other editors around" concern you raised here. Let me know, hope you are doing alright. Naleksuh ( talk) 00:24, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Is this a request you will abide by?Well, it would be pretty rude if I said "no". But I agree, as I've mentioned previously I have been there myself, there has been a problem on another wiki with a particular user who would go through my contributions and just revert anything they didn't like, often with a very short summary or no summary at all, and would go back several weeks just reverting various edits of mine. I'll stop, but I would like to
get into whyand not make people feel so concerned about me, as my intention is to build upon and improve the work of others, just as I hope other people will do to my contributions. Naleksuh ( talk) 01:14, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
I will stop looking at your contributions and intentionally editing pages in the same space you are if you are not happy with it... I think the vast majority of people would be unhappy with that. I'm struggling to explain why that's such an uncomfortable thing to do, because it's kind of like explaining why pain is painful or pleasure is pleasurable. It goes back to a very primal fear of being watched, I think. Now, this is a public wiki, and we're all watched in a sense, but someone editing all the same pages on you, clearly intentionally, then feels like you're being stalked. I don't mean "stalked" in the legal sense, but the hunting sense. Like someone is tracking your paces, waiting for something. I look through other people's contribs all the time, either out of idle curiosity or for SPI reasons. When I do, I keep my hands thoroughly off of the pages they edit, though, because I don't want them to have that sense of being prey. No one deserves that (even people I actually am coming after at SPI).To pick an IRL analogy once more, it's rather like if you went to a department store and, every department you went to, the same person came to the same aisle to do their own shopping. A department store is a public space, so you couldn't say that they're violating your privacy, and they technically haven't done anything they they might not have done on their own. But it will still make you feel uncomfortable, because once more you're that ape that's gotten too far from its tree.It's a big wiki, but in other ways it's a small wiki, and of course I'm sure we'll bump into each other from time to time; that's fine. The issue is entirely with using another editor's contribs as the basis for your own editing. If you're going to stop doing that, then good.
:)
That's all I'd ask. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
01:48, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Tamzin's wish to not be followed around is strangeI didn't say it is strange, or that Tamzin should not feel uncomfortable from it. I just explained, historically, that I never thought anyone would mind: I don't really mind if people do it to me, and I've never had anyone else ask about it before. But since there's a problem with it, I already agreed to stop. So, problem solved. Naleksuh ( talk) 17:00, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
I hope I haven't given you even more work by just reverting my precipitate nomination. I've been around here long enough to know better but then again I've never done an RFD before. No need to reply unless there is something else I should have done. I've already taken enough of your time. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 18:57, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
;)
) --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
20:13, 20 March 2022 (UTC)Thanks for including the link! I didn't know it existed before, and I believe it will be very helpful moving forward.
While I'm here, I 100% agree with controversial opinion #3.
BilledMammal ( talk) 00:56, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
:D
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Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
23:43, 16 March 2022 (UTC)I looked online for sources for those reviews and couldn't find them. Those newspapers don't appear to have archived their movie reviews. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Just Another Cringy Username ( talk • contribs) 06:06, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
chicago tribune "l.a. confidential" book
did the trick. Second result. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
06:28, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Tamzin,
Just wanted to let you know that I've reopened the MikePlant1 SPI with potential new socks. I am aware that you are also a SPI clerk and that you recused yourself from this given you recused yourself as AfD filer, so this is FYI only. Pilaz ( talk) 15:36, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
How did you get 5000 contribs in one listing? I thought they had made that impossible. You used to be able to manually create a URL to do it, but they changed the API to deny that a while ago. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:25, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
I know he totally knows his mistakes, but what's wrong is he can't explain them exactly, that's the problem with blocked users, especially some Filipinos, who has difficulty speaking English, well Sean doesn't have difficulty speaking it, he just can't really explain it well. — Ctrlwìkí ( talk) 00:11, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
But in the base that Deepfiedokra that has been told me, 6 months first before considering unblock here, sorry I cannot do that because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and I am studying.I'd really like for Sean to be able to return to editing (and hey, I'm just one non-admin; I can't prevent someone from unblocking him), but I'm still not convinced he understands how Wikipedia owrks. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 02:36, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Hey Tamzin - I may be wrong (please tell me if so) but while looking through the list of abuse filters there isn't one that has any way to stop the word 'sus' being used in articles to vandalise. If there is one but it is private then it doesn't seem to work or isn't set to disallow, otherwise, would there be an easy way to create a filter or add it to an existing one as I see it used a lot more than usual recently. Thanks, Zippybonzo | talk 19:21, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
\bsus\b
itself. I think the issue is that there's just too many valid usages of that. See
SUS,
Special:Search/~sus, or
this narrower search that attempts to roughly approximate word boundaries since I gather Special:Search can't do those. What the filter does do instead is search for patterns where other context makes Among Us sus-ing, well, sus. Even then, we recently ran into
an FP on "The Story of Susanna" among the booksat Susanna (Book of Daniel). Sadly, if a phrase used in vandalism happens to also be a phrase with lots of valid use cases (see also Owo and Harambe, both recently removed from filters), there's only so much we can do. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 21:06, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
:P
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Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
02:24, 2 April 2022 (UTC)Well - thank you for taking the time to delete said 9% of testwiki’s main space. Zippybonzo | talk 08:57, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
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Hello, I think I need to clarify that this right here is what I get when I cite absolutely everything I've learned in Toki Pona to the Swadesh list at wiktionary:Appendix:Toki Pona Swadesh list, the general list at wiktionary:Appendix:Toki Pona, or the contributor-generated dictionary at glosbe.com. The whole thing really was meant as a joke, and for clarity I need to apologize for the absurdity. Believe me, this is not the first time that being an absolute n00b/not very good at languages has caught me doing some really strange things. With regrets, — 3PPYB6 — TALK — CONTRIBS — 00:57, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi Tamzin! Your page
User:Tamzin/common.css is accidentally included in
Category:CS1 maint: url-status. To fix this, could you please change the text /* from [[Category:CS1 maint: url-status]] */
to /* from [[:Category:CS1 maint: url-status]] */
(i.e. add a colon to change the category to a category link)? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
04:42, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
If you add the previous RfD template above the nomination, the XFDCloser buttons will stop appearing. I have moved it below. Jay (talk) 06:34, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
Howdy! Sorry if this is not the right place to go; however, I've come across your work in RfD before and I ended up stumbling upon your user page and saw your opinion about BLPs and I also fundamentally agree. There was a recently closed AfD that closed at keep where WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE was part of the discussion. I came across it not long after it closed and I was seeing some argue that WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE should generally go through WP:VRT, which makes sense; however in this instance, there was an edit, removed from the page, from who I credibly believed to be the subject of the page. I had some evidence for this, but the AfD had already closed by the time I had gathered the information as to why I think the person was legitimately the subject. I guess my question is, is there a good way to invoke a WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE argument at AfD without having to go through WP:VRT. I think that lots and lots of people to whom WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE apply likely don't understand the procedures of wikipedia and an edit that can very likely be attributed to the subject specifically requesting deletion should probably be taken as a valid. I apologize if this has turned into a bit of a rant; I just was not entirely sure where to go and seeing your opinion on BLPs, I thought your talk page would be a good place to go. I do not plan on taking the AfD to WP:DRV, so I am hoping this does not count as WP:Canvassing. snood1205( Say Hi! (talk)) 23:36, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MrBoldBald has been sitting for days; it needs a merge, can you help as a clerk? wizzito | say hello! 23:44, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
But l definitely get a paywall. It would be better to use a Central or South American text anyway, since the topic is Central and South American reaction. Also, I have been tasked with summarizing/moving this section, so although I understand why you're guarding the article, I don't think that revert was constructive and I am going to refer you to the talk page and/or ErnestKrause, who just asked me why I am not doing this faster Elinruby ( talk) 01:16, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
|url-access=subscription
. Before submitting the edit, I thought to check whether it actually was paywalled, and found that it wasn't, at least for me. It occurred to me that perhaps you'd put the template on the wrong reference, so I thought it better to
revert and prompt eiher correction or discussion. If you're saying that it's paywalled for you, then my apologies. I have no objection to you re-inserting a paywall note, although again I'd encourage the |url-access=subscription
approach over {{
paywall}}. Thanks for reaching out. :)
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Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
01:20, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
|url-access=limited
: there are other constraints (such as a cap on daily views, a restriction to certain day or night times, or providing the contents only to certain IP ranges/locales on behalf of the provider of the source) to freely access this source as a whole. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 01:40, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
:)
Far from a big deal in the grand picture of things. Glad you're working to keep that article manageable. This inspired me to go make publishable a draft I'd earlier translated from frwiki, and thus now we have
Bombing of Borodianka, which was the last redlink on {{
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine}}. Always more battles and attacks to write about, though. Sigh.On a lighter note, I assume you're thinking of the Tibetan name
Tenzin. Tamzin actually has a totally different etymology, a variant of
Thomasina, which is the feminine form of my birth name. There's also a Persian name, Tasnim, and an Arabic name, Tasmin (which also exists in English, sometimes as Tazmin, as a variant of "Jasmine"), and both of those are also totally unrelated to Tamzin. So it seems a lot of cultures like putting those consonants in similar orders. I get called "Tazmin" a lot (including in a lot of ping attempts), but you're only the second person to connect it to Tenzin. This puts you in good company, as the one other person is
someone I deeply admire. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
06:06, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
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Hi. The only other information I've been able to come up with is the EIU comparing the two editors in question. https://sigma.toolforge.org/editorinteract.py?users=Geo+Swan&users=173.66.134.81&users=&startdate=20000101&enddate=20220215&ns=&server=enwiki&allusers=on Regards, Aloha27 talk 16:17, 15 February 2022 (UTC) Aloha27 (EDIT) I do not believe that the indeffed editor chiming in on a 3RR case regarding an IP editor to be in any way coincidental. Have a good day!
Hello, Tamzin,
You seem to have an encyclopedic memory of sockmasters. Wasn't there a sockpuppet that focused on radio stations in the Philippines? So is new editor Jairus 123456789 but I don't know what SPI case to post about it. Liz Read! Talk! 02:40, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Tamzin! I've
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You mentioned getting some sort of rate limit error with User:Suffusion of Yellow/batchtest-plus.js. I was unable to reproduce this; I was able to test the last 2000 hits of filter 614 without getting an error. Can you tell me what sort of message you saw? (Also User:MusikAnimal has this ever happened to you?) Suffusion of Yellow ( talk) 19:57, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
apihighlimits
permission so I probably wouldn't have ran into this anyway. —
MusikAnimal
talk
20:59, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
abusefiltercheckmatch
. Is there a hard limit on POST requests for the entire API?
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk)
21:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
apihighlimits
permission. I too am surprised Tazmin ran into this. Maximum 10 concurrent requests should be safe. —
MusikAnimal
talk
22:14, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
;)
--
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
23:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)window.batchTestPlusMaxConcurrentRequests = 5;
(or even a lower number) to your common.js.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk)
22:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 ()
VM704:1 Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
VM705:1 Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
unexpected token <
... Is it possible the API is giving the standard HTML error page instead of a more specific JSON error message? I have to handle that edge case in 'zinbot
at api.py#L52, and it's come up from time to time when something was just very broken in an API query. Note that there's no network activity, so the cycle is the console repeatedly trying and failing to parse something, rather than repeated 500 errors, despite the console messages making it seem that way.GET https://whois.toolforge.org/w/68.199.96.217/lookup/json net::ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES
ipExtWHOISInline @ index.php?title=User:GeneralNotability/ip-ext-info.js_&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:63
(anonymous) @ index.php?title=User:GeneralNotability/ip-ext-info.js_&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:77
(anonymous) @ index.php?title=User:GeneralNotability/ip-ext-info.js_&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:76
fire @ VM1462:544
getHits @ index.php?title=User:Suffusion_of_Yellow/batchtest-plus.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:171
await in getHits (async)
(anonymous) @ index.php?title=User:Suffusion_of_Yellow/batchtest-plus.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:213
dispatch @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core%2Coojs-ui-widgets%7Cjquery.ui&skin=vector&version=29pq7:70
elemData.handle @ load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery%2Coojs-ui-core%2Coojs-ui-widgets%7Cjquery.ui&skin=vector&version=29pq7:66
window.batchTestPlusMaxConcurrentRequests = 1;
didn't stop it, although this time I also spotted the console message Access to fetch at 'https://whois.toolforge.org/w/50.250.32.193/lookup/json' from origin 'https://en.wikipedia.org' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.
mw.hook('wikipage.content').fire()
on the results, then starts making abusefiltercheckmatch
calls, at most 10 at a timemw.hook('wikipage.content').fire()
on all of the log entries (including those from step 1), then starts testing them 10 at a timemw.hook('wikipage.content').fire()
on all of the log entries (including those from steps 1 and 3), then starts testing them 10 at a timemw.hook('wikipage.content')
is only fired on the latest 100 entries, not all of them. And, it's only fired after the results are in, so there's less competition with other scripts. That might be enough.The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Unregistered editing already has many problems, for example identities used by multiple people and inability to handle them. There are many reasons to turn it off period, although arguably "casual edits" may outweigh them.
IP masking solves none of them, turns from 1 to 100, and adds more. Not just because there needs to be information on who can find them for governments schools etc but also because it is not IPs, but ranges, which don't exist. They're all seperate. Plus, the "IP unmasker" is just CheckUser but for unregistered editors. So there's one group for those -- but registering lets you hide from those but move to another group? What nonsense is this?
Plus, they want to use not just IP based but session based. Meaning there's no need for proxies anymore, you can just make a browser extension that gives you a new identity. Maybe I'll make one.
IP masking cannot stand. This just takes the many problems IP editing already has and scales them up even more, but without really solving anything other than people who don't read a banner. Tamzin, please help stop this IP masking. Even if you become an IP unmasker, and I become an IP unmasker, and every editor becomes an IP unmasker, that's a ridiculous system that shouldn't have to exist in the first place. Having to run a CU on pretty much everyone always?!?! Just disable unregistered editing.
P.S. My IP address is 162.248.94.163 - there's no need to OS it. Feel free to run the rDNS entry as well, it's naleksuh.com. Naleksuh ( talk) 23:59, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi Tamzin. Regarding the move on List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War, I thought the previous name, "covering", was better, and I see in the summary you also say the previous name is better, but that during is some type of convention. However, each page is different and consensus can go on a case by case basis. In this specific case, the purpose of the page is different from most "List of X during Y" as it's specifically about journalists covering it, otherwise journalists wouldn't be important. Would you mind if I made an RM for the page? Normally, I would just go ahead and do it, but I wanted to ask you first due to the "following other editors around" concern you raised here. Let me know, hope you are doing alright. Naleksuh ( talk) 00:24, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Is this a request you will abide by?Well, it would be pretty rude if I said "no". But I agree, as I've mentioned previously I have been there myself, there has been a problem on another wiki with a particular user who would go through my contributions and just revert anything they didn't like, often with a very short summary or no summary at all, and would go back several weeks just reverting various edits of mine. I'll stop, but I would like to
get into whyand not make people feel so concerned about me, as my intention is to build upon and improve the work of others, just as I hope other people will do to my contributions. Naleksuh ( talk) 01:14, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
I will stop looking at your contributions and intentionally editing pages in the same space you are if you are not happy with it... I think the vast majority of people would be unhappy with that. I'm struggling to explain why that's such an uncomfortable thing to do, because it's kind of like explaining why pain is painful or pleasure is pleasurable. It goes back to a very primal fear of being watched, I think. Now, this is a public wiki, and we're all watched in a sense, but someone editing all the same pages on you, clearly intentionally, then feels like you're being stalked. I don't mean "stalked" in the legal sense, but the hunting sense. Like someone is tracking your paces, waiting for something. I look through other people's contribs all the time, either out of idle curiosity or for SPI reasons. When I do, I keep my hands thoroughly off of the pages they edit, though, because I don't want them to have that sense of being prey. No one deserves that (even people I actually am coming after at SPI).To pick an IRL analogy once more, it's rather like if you went to a department store and, every department you went to, the same person came to the same aisle to do their own shopping. A department store is a public space, so you couldn't say that they're violating your privacy, and they technically haven't done anything they they might not have done on their own. But it will still make you feel uncomfortable, because once more you're that ape that's gotten too far from its tree.It's a big wiki, but in other ways it's a small wiki, and of course I'm sure we'll bump into each other from time to time; that's fine. The issue is entirely with using another editor's contribs as the basis for your own editing. If you're going to stop doing that, then good.
:)
That's all I'd ask. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
01:48, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
Tamzin's wish to not be followed around is strangeI didn't say it is strange, or that Tamzin should not feel uncomfortable from it. I just explained, historically, that I never thought anyone would mind: I don't really mind if people do it to me, and I've never had anyone else ask about it before. But since there's a problem with it, I already agreed to stop. So, problem solved. Naleksuh ( talk) 17:00, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
I hope I haven't given you even more work by just reverting my precipitate nomination. I've been around here long enough to know better but then again I've never done an RFD before. No need to reply unless there is something else I should have done. I've already taken enough of your time. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 18:57, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
;)
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Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
20:13, 20 March 2022 (UTC)Thanks for including the link! I didn't know it existed before, and I believe it will be very helpful moving forward.
While I'm here, I 100% agree with controversial opinion #3.
BilledMammal ( talk) 00:56, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
:D
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Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
23:43, 16 March 2022 (UTC)I looked online for sources for those reviews and couldn't find them. Those newspapers don't appear to have archived their movie reviews. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Just Another Cringy Username ( talk • contribs) 06:06, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
chicago tribune "l.a. confidential" book
did the trick. Second result. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
06:28, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Tamzin,
Just wanted to let you know that I've reopened the MikePlant1 SPI with potential new socks. I am aware that you are also a SPI clerk and that you recused yourself from this given you recused yourself as AfD filer, so this is FYI only. Pilaz ( talk) 15:36, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
How did you get 5000 contribs in one listing? I thought they had made that impossible. You used to be able to manually create a URL to do it, but they changed the API to deny that a while ago. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:25, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
I know he totally knows his mistakes, but what's wrong is he can't explain them exactly, that's the problem with blocked users, especially some Filipinos, who has difficulty speaking English, well Sean doesn't have difficulty speaking it, he just can't really explain it well. — Ctrlwìkí ( talk) 00:11, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
But in the base that Deepfiedokra that has been told me, 6 months first before considering unblock here, sorry I cannot do that because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and I am studying.I'd really like for Sean to be able to return to editing (and hey, I'm just one non-admin; I can't prevent someone from unblocking him), but I'm still not convinced he understands how Wikipedia owrks. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 02:36, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Hey Tamzin - I may be wrong (please tell me if so) but while looking through the list of abuse filters there isn't one that has any way to stop the word 'sus' being used in articles to vandalise. If there is one but it is private then it doesn't seem to work or isn't set to disallow, otherwise, would there be an easy way to create a filter or add it to an existing one as I see it used a lot more than usual recently. Thanks, Zippybonzo | talk 19:21, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
\bsus\b
itself. I think the issue is that there's just too many valid usages of that. See
SUS,
Special:Search/~sus, or
this narrower search that attempts to roughly approximate word boundaries since I gather Special:Search can't do those. What the filter does do instead is search for patterns where other context makes Among Us sus-ing, well, sus. Even then, we recently ran into
an FP on "The Story of Susanna" among the booksat Susanna (Book of Daniel). Sadly, if a phrase used in vandalism happens to also be a phrase with lots of valid use cases (see also Owo and Harambe, both recently removed from filters), there's only so much we can do. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 21:06, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
:P
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Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
02:24, 2 April 2022 (UTC)Well - thank you for taking the time to delete said 9% of testwiki’s main space. Zippybonzo | talk 08:57, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Hey Tamzin,
You have been
successfully nominated to receive a free t-shirt from the Wikimedia Foundation through our
Merchandise Giveaway program. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work! Please email us at merchandisewikimedia.org and we will send you full details on how to accept your free shirt. Thanks!
On behalf of the Merchandise Giveaway program,
-- janbery ( talk) 13:09, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I think I need to clarify that this right here is what I get when I cite absolutely everything I've learned in Toki Pona to the Swadesh list at wiktionary:Appendix:Toki Pona Swadesh list, the general list at wiktionary:Appendix:Toki Pona, or the contributor-generated dictionary at glosbe.com. The whole thing really was meant as a joke, and for clarity I need to apologize for the absurdity. Believe me, this is not the first time that being an absolute n00b/not very good at languages has caught me doing some really strange things. With regrets, — 3PPYB6 — TALK — CONTRIBS — 00:57, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi Tamzin! Your page
User:Tamzin/common.css is accidentally included in
Category:CS1 maint: url-status. To fix this, could you please change the text /* from [[Category:CS1 maint: url-status]] */
to /* from [[:Category:CS1 maint: url-status]] */
(i.e. add a colon to change the category to a category link)? Thanks!
GoingBatty (
talk)
04:42, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
If you add the previous RfD template above the nomination, the XFDCloser buttons will stop appearing. I have moved it below. Jay (talk) 06:34, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
Howdy! Sorry if this is not the right place to go; however, I've come across your work in RfD before and I ended up stumbling upon your user page and saw your opinion about BLPs and I also fundamentally agree. There was a recently closed AfD that closed at keep where WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE was part of the discussion. I came across it not long after it closed and I was seeing some argue that WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE should generally go through WP:VRT, which makes sense; however in this instance, there was an edit, removed from the page, from who I credibly believed to be the subject of the page. I had some evidence for this, but the AfD had already closed by the time I had gathered the information as to why I think the person was legitimately the subject. I guess my question is, is there a good way to invoke a WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE argument at AfD without having to go through WP:VRT. I think that lots and lots of people to whom WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE apply likely don't understand the procedures of wikipedia and an edit that can very likely be attributed to the subject specifically requesting deletion should probably be taken as a valid. I apologize if this has turned into a bit of a rant; I just was not entirely sure where to go and seeing your opinion on BLPs, I thought your talk page would be a good place to go. I do not plan on taking the AfD to WP:DRV, so I am hoping this does not count as WP:Canvassing. snood1205( Say Hi! (talk)) 23:36, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MrBoldBald has been sitting for days; it needs a merge, can you help as a clerk? wizzito | say hello! 23:44, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
But l definitely get a paywall. It would be better to use a Central or South American text anyway, since the topic is Central and South American reaction. Also, I have been tasked with summarizing/moving this section, so although I understand why you're guarding the article, I don't think that revert was constructive and I am going to refer you to the talk page and/or ErnestKrause, who just asked me why I am not doing this faster Elinruby ( talk) 01:16, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
|url-access=subscription
. Before submitting the edit, I thought to check whether it actually was paywalled, and found that it wasn't, at least for me. It occurred to me that perhaps you'd put the template on the wrong reference, so I thought it better to
revert and prompt eiher correction or discussion. If you're saying that it's paywalled for you, then my apologies. I have no objection to you re-inserting a paywall note, although again I'd encourage the |url-access=subscription
approach over {{
paywall}}. Thanks for reaching out. :)
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Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
01:20, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
|url-access=limited
: there are other constraints (such as a cap on daily views, a restriction to certain day or night times, or providing the contents only to certain IP ranges/locales on behalf of the provider of the source) to freely access this source as a whole. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she/they) 01:40, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
:)
Far from a big deal in the grand picture of things. Glad you're working to keep that article manageable. This inspired me to go make publishable a draft I'd earlier translated from frwiki, and thus now we have
Bombing of Borodianka, which was the last redlink on {{
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine}}. Always more battles and attacks to write about, though. Sigh.On a lighter note, I assume you're thinking of the Tibetan name
Tenzin. Tamzin actually has a totally different etymology, a variant of
Thomasina, which is the feminine form of my birth name. There's also a Persian name, Tasnim, and an Arabic name, Tasmin (which also exists in English, sometimes as Tazmin, as a variant of "Jasmine"), and both of those are also totally unrelated to Tamzin. So it seems a lot of cultures like putting those consonants in similar orders. I get called "Tazmin" a lot (including in a lot of ping attempts), but you're only the second person to connect it to Tenzin. This puts you in good company, as the one other person is
someone I deeply admire. --
Tamzin
cetacean needed (she/they)
06:06, 14 April 2022 (UTC)