User talk:Tamzin/Nice things

DYK for List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War
— Maile (talk) 12:02, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach (2013)
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach (2018)
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Sarah Ashton-Cirillo
~  ONUnicorn (Talk&#124;Contribs) problem solving 04:39, 29 September 2022 (UTC) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 20:59, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Novak v. City of Parma
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Hurricane Shark
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 18:25, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

...at Hurricane Shark! Randy Kryn (talk) 15:43, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Credit where credit is due to Elli and theleekycauldron. Definitely the most fun I've had writing an article. Both because it's a silly topic and because it was one of those rare times where all the fun correlations you want to draw in an article but it would be SYNTH to, the reliable sources actually do draw!  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 12:27, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, one of the more fun articles I've had the pleasure to collaborate on for sure! Elli (talk &#124; contribs) 13:07, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

...and here! — Jeff G. ツ 23:36, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Out of the Blue (book)
— Maile (talk) 12:03, 1 November 2022 (UTC) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 02:20, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

GA for Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach (2018)
The article Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach (2018) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach (2018) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MaxnaCarta -- MaxnaCarta (talk) 04:02, 11 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Ayyyyy, nice job! High five :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 04:06, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Tamzin did a great job @Theleekycauldron! MaxnaCarta (talk) 04:14, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * We can only hope we see more, :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 04:15, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Indeed! Tamzin, once you have a moment to self congratulate and enjoy your success, please do consider the page rename. Cheers MaxnaCarta (talk) 04:22, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Congrats on the GA! —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 04:42, 11 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Wow, I'm finally ready to RfA now! Seriously though, thank y'all for your kind words. Six months to the day after the article was on DYK; and ten years, a week, and a day after I registered this account. Very nice symmetry. Thank you, MaxnaCarta, for being a great GA reviewer and amicus encyclopediae. I'd enumerate the ways, but res ipsa loquitor. Regarding your comment obiter dictum, ex rel. whether the article should remain sub this nomine, I'll ping you from talk, as any other option would be either in camera or ex parte. Your further thoughts are welcome in re this in rem matter, even as functus officio.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 06:23, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * In the matter of using Latin terms ad nauseum, respectfully, I dissent. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 06:28, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * That...required Google translating. Catch you about! MaxnaCarta (talk) 06:43, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * TIL of bcc. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 14:06, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Atkinson Hyperlegible
— Maile (talk) 00:03, 22 November 2022 (UTC) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 04:07, 23 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Congrats Tamzin! I have to wonder how you can make hooks get lots of views... ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 04:14, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * A quirky taste in article topics, a former middle school teaching aide's sense of what keeps people engaged, and, of course, a large botnet with spoofed useragents.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 05:32, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

GA for Fucking Trans Women
The article Fucking Trans Women you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Fucking Trans Women for comments about the article, and Talk:Fucking Trans Women/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 00:02, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Fuccboi (novel) [minor contributor]
BorgQueen (talk) 00:03, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

I think we can all agree, truly, for each of us, our greatest accomplishment on Wikipedia. -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 00:17, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Well...hmm...yes...but Chicken fried bacon got 26,500 views... I had a seven-fold DYK at Template:Did you know nominations/Going to the Dogs, which was fun... And obviously y'all did most of the work on this... Drmies (talk) 00:22, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh, I did little here myself but cheerlead. Don't think I'll give myself the topicon for the few sentences I did write. Now, Fucking Trans Women, on the other hand, that was quite an effort, and a worthy conclusion of the / Fuck Boy (disambiguation) trilogy. We'll see if its eventual DYK run scandalizes anyone.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 00:27, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh I saw that while you were working on it: very impressive. Aaaah you young people, scandalizing folks... Must be lovely to have such drive... ;) Drmies (talk) 00:33, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * When that day comes, I’ll be ready with the popcorn! ◇  Helen   Degenerate  ◆ 02:18, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I'm off to place a Retired template on my talk :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 02:48, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Mi Shebeirach
BorgQueen (talk) 00:02, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

GA for Sarah Ashton-Cirillo
The article Sarah Ashton-Cirillo you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Sarah Ashton-Cirillo for comments about the article, and Talk:Sarah Ashton-Cirillo/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Vami IV -- Vami IV (talk) 17:20, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Fucking Trans Women
BorgQueen (talk) 12:02, 15 January 2023 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Ash Street shootout
BorgQueen (talk) 00:03, 28 January 2023 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 05:05, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Driving in Madagascar
Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Capri-Sun
BorgQueen (talk) 00:02, 26 February 2023 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Mike Tyson's tattoos
Aoidh (talk) 00:02, 18 March 2023 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

GA for Mi Shebeirach
The article Mi Shebeirach you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mi Shebeirach for comments about the article, and Talk:Mi Shebeirach/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Lingzhi.Renascence -- Lingzhi.Renascence (talk) 03:46, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Mira Bellwether
Aoidh (talk) 12:02, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Presidential immunity in the United States
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

GA for Mike Tyson's tattoos
The article Mike Tyson's tattoos you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mike Tyson's tattoos for comments about the article, and Talk:Mike Tyson's tattoos/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of MaxnaCarta -- MaxnaCarta (talk) 04:04, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Arrests of Ulysses S. Grant
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 24 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Kudos on your work. Terrific writing. Funny. Current. So sweet. Thanks! BusterD (talk) 23:43, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

DYK for End Poem (and my response to many barnstars)
Aoidh (talk) 00:02, 28 June 2023 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * To segue from that, there's a bit in Julian Gough's blog post about the poem that stuck with me:"I had, essentially, given my story as a gift to a couple of hundred million people all around the world [...]; but I had refused to allow any of them to give me anything in return. And that was a kind of arrogance, too. A blockage in the flow of love.Indeed, I had actively hidden away from love. [...] I frequently got Twitter DMs, and emails, and messages through my website, that told me how much the End Poem had meant to people. [...] All kinds of beautiful, generous, vulnerable messages. But, often, too overwhelmed by emotion [...], I wouldn't even reply.[... T]he universe told me that it wasn’t acceptable for me to give love, but then refuse to receive it. That was just fake humility; another form of arrogance, of ego. I had to allow people to say thank you; I had to accept whatever gifts people might wish to offer in return, because too much charge was building up along that blocked circuit.I had to complete the circuit. Let it flow."If I have one overriding challenge on this site, it's having a clinically fucked-up memory. The upshot of my dissociative condition is that I tend to index things by topic, not by time, such that I can drop something for months and then pick up right where I left off. Here, in an environment where that would at times not be acceptable, I force myself to respond promptly to admin accountability inquiries and time-sensitive editorial concerns... but otherwise I often let things linger. And I'd told myself that that wasn't hurting anyone, and I guess I was right in the direct sense, because I've never been slow to respond to something where someone was owed a speedy response. But the quote from Gough got me to see it a bit differently. I've gotten a lot of WikiLove and often I've just never gotten around to responding to it, and that does have a harm in its own way, because it fails to create the circuit someone tried to initiate. And as much as I'd like to blame that all on a shitty memory, maybe some of it is a feeling that I don't deserve that gratitude. But that's unfair to the people who've felt I do deserve it.So, going back to November... Thank you. That means a lot. It was a tough situation.  Thanks, trying my best not to blow anything up.  mu.  Glad to help.  Thanks! Got the article to GA right after that! One of my proudest.  Glad to help!  Thanks.       Unfairly good sources, really. Still looking for another tattoo with scholarly coverage.  I'll take my pizza New Jersey–style or Provençal-style, thanks.  Thank you, that means a lot.  🐋.  You're welcome!  It really meant a lot to see I'd helped that many people. Hopefully I'm being as helpful or more this year.Sorry-not-sorry for all the pings. Hope this completes a few circuits.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 04:20, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Tamzin I felt the urge to reply, on top of the "thanks", because this kind of honesty and vulnerability is in my (limited) experience quite rare on en-wiki. You deserve all the gratitude.1
 * 1. Source: my strong personal opinion.
 * Ppt91   talk   20:11, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

DYK for 1967 Lake Erie skydiving disaster
—Kusma (talk) 12:02, 19 July 2023 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 20 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Well I'll be damned. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 04:30, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Highest of the month so far -- congratulations! I'm experimenting with hook placements a little; I'm not sure how much the "quirky last slot" structure is borne out by user experience data (as opposed to pageviews data). Placing this one in the second slot seems to have worked out for it. That makes 7/10 top hooks this month so far ones I promoted, including 4 of the top 5, with 2/5 from that set alone. Vaticidalprophet 04:36, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Pretty impressive,, given you've only made about a quarter of the month's promotions :) ya love to see a good eye for this kind of thing. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 04:57, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Crayon-eating Marine trope
Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 29 October 2023 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

DYK for This War of Mine: The Board Game
theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:02, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Your essay made me buy the game. I suspect I will be overwhelmed by the gameplay and rules. :D Valereee (talk) 14:46, 4 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @Valereee: Well if you have any questions, let me know! I recommend playing when in a decent headspace emotionally, with a free schedule the day after. Solitaire is more satisfying than coöp IMO, but if you do solitaire I recommend having someone around you can talk to as you play.Also, we actually gave away our own copy after the playthrough recounted in the essay—felt wrong to keep playing—which came around to annoy me when writing the article on the game. The picture I uploaded of the status tokens, I had to crop from an old one I took mid-game. So if you feel like taking a better picture of tokens, and/or a picture of the cover of the Book of Scripts (which, like the tokens, I believe to be copyrightable in Poland but not the U.S., so eligible for local upload), feel free! -- Tamzin  &#91;cetacean needed&#93; (they&#124;xe&#124;she) 15:17, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I was planning on solitaire as the hubs isn't a huge board gamer, but he's always around and after 30 years still mostly charmed rather than otherwise by the rabbit holes I go down and the bees I get in my bonnet. Totally happy to take photos, which will in all likelihood show I'm Doing It Wrong. Okay, first of questions likely to become annoying...after having recently discovered that a jigsaw puzzle needs one of these to ensure it won't require a trip to the vet to see if the missing pieces are inside the cat...can this be be put away between sessions? Valereee (talk) 16:50, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Valereee: Yes, there's a save system built in! Although I'd recommend taking a picture of everything too just to be safe, at least if you're an anxious type to me. That's actually why I have the pic that the tokens are cropped from. Also, a ping to @BiomatrixBackup in case she has any insights on the intersection of cats and boardgames, both of which she happens to be an expert on. -- Tamzin  &#91;cetacean needed&#93; (they&#124;xe&#124;she) 17:17, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, like, actually medically? I thought you were joking, lol. There are many good intersections of cats and board games, such as Calico, The Isle of Cats series, etc. The bad intersections involving cats eating pieces, I must say I've never actually run into. You so rarely get feline patients who have eaten something ridiculous, it's the canines who eat everything, and when it does happen, it's never been a board game piece in the history of my practice. Hmmm. Clearly I need more experience. BiomatrixBackup (talk) 17:23, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Not a thought behind those eyes.jpg Having once called a vet to ask about the dangers of eating cat poop and being asked, "And how old is your lab?", quite agree on the general higher likelihood of dogs to eat things. I've had cats who have eaten yarn and tinsel, but it turned out there was no evidence the cat had done anything but steal, play with, and eventually hide the puzzle pieces. The yarn appeared to be the bigger issue as I had no idea how long a piece of yarn had been ingested. They admitted her, stupid thing. Valereee (talk) 17:49, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * "But that cat", the dogs say, "I like her. She's one of the dogs. You see what she did with that yarn?" -- Tamzin  &#91;cetacean needed&#93; (they&#124;xe&#124;she) 17:55, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Right? Not every cat could actually eat what turned out to be nearly three feet of yarn. I mean, it's not that easy. I actually knew yarn had been eaten rather than having simply disappeared only because I noticed her, Bill the Cat-like, yacking as the final couple inches disappeared into her gullet. I was like...what do you do? Trying to pull it back out didn't seem to be ideal. Valereee (talk) 18:07, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've taken photos of literally everything during unboxing. I believe we can use under fair use anything that is discussed in the text in a way that would make a photo helpful to illustrate, but I'm not familiar with the game at all at this point. Would you want me to put them into a gallery there so you can put them where they should go? I think there are probably a few that could even go to commons -- a photo of the open box with the various pieces in their slots, etc., may be okay for commons? Valereee (talk) 13:55, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

DYK for 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Aoidh (talk) 00:03, 3 December 2023 (UTC) GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Special Barnstar from Edwardx

 * Thank you! This is going to be one of my go-to gnomish tasks for a while—not surname articles specifically, but more generally pages in, "Possible non-CONCISE titles on enwiki", which looks for cases where the primary landing page for a term is a redirect to something other than a DAB page or list containing the page title as a substring. Per WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT, many such pages are valid, and with name articles I'm skipping past any that redirect to a specific person (even if—between you, me, and 132 talkpage watchers—I think that some editors are a bit overzealous in declaring people the primary topic for a mononymous forename or surname). You're welcome to help out with the query if you'd like, as is anyone else; maybe work from the back, or skip a few thousand rows, to avoid collisions. (N.B.: I may revise and re-run the query later if I run into a streak where I'm getting a lot of false positives for a specific scenario, like I did with DAB pages and lists.) Either way, again, thanks for the acknowledgment. Been doing other stuff the past few weeks, but when I get back to this query you'll probably see me lighting up your watchlist again.   --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 04:23, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Barnstar of Diligence from I dream of horses

 * That's a very fancy barnstar for a few edits, but I'll take it!  It's interesting how easily cruft accumulates on some DABs when it's not obvious spam (or, sometimes, even when it is).  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 18:57, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Admin's Barnstar from Chipmunkdavis

 * Been meaning to reply to this for uh... 3 months apparently. Thanks! I don't think it's even an IAR situation, really. We protect pages for as long as disruption can be reasonably expected to last. People are going to keep randomly posting their phone numbers on that page until phone numbers stop existing or people stop getting lost on the Internet. I think both of those can be fairly described as "indefinite"ly far away. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 16:50, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Admin's Barnstar from Scorpions1325 and The Night Watch
Seriously though. I am impressed by the time you dedicate to effectively warn editors violating policies (as opposed to templates), and your work in general. Scorpions13256 (talk) 19:46, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I second this. Thank you for your service! CollectiveSolidarity (talk) 04:38, 21 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I try.   --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 16:52, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Admin's Barnstar from Blanchey

 * Thank you, Blanchey.   --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 16:48, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

Special Barnstar from Timtrent
I've been following a few of these. See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Mass%C3%A9nat_Emmanuel. Should Global locks be requested in view of cross wiki abuse? 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:48, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Good call. . In addition, You might want to take a look at fr:Spécial:Contributions/TOP_MAG_WORLD, fr:Spécial:Contributions/MJ.edit, and fr:Spécial:Contributions/RichardGPierre (cf. Sockpuppet investigations/TOP MAG WORLD and block of fr:Spécial:Contributions/Massénat_Emmanuel).  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 00:41, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 11:39, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * According to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Mass%C3%A9nat_Emmanuel there is a link with Greatnessdev, which has not so far edited here. Knowing that blocks are intended to be preventative I am wondering what, if any, action here ought to be taken, or whether you might again use your knowledge of the global lock process to consider whether they are appropriate for thsi editor too. 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 12:23, 3 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Timtrent.   --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 12:28, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I am in awe of SPI folk. While I'm capable of making a report, you all have the determination to get the drains up and deciding if all of our reports have merit. 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 13:42, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you! --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 12:33, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Admin's Barnstar from Huldra

 * I'm going to try to break my streak of not replying to barnstars for three months... Thank you. I genuinely never enjoy indeffing someone who's here to build an encyclopedia, which I do believe that user was. But we've still found no better way at handling long-term conduct issues than escalating blocks, and escalating blocks do, sadly, escalate. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 00:26, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Socratic Barnstar from GRuban
Thanks. You know, I have my share of regrets as a Wikipedian, but answering that question honestly isn't one, nor is giving the community the chance to decide whether that kind of disposition made me more or less qualified to be an arb. The answer seems to have been "less", and I'm quite content with that. Just means I'm too cool. I've already been to the land of burnout and back—drafted and deleted resignation statements twice—and found new priorities both off- and on-wiki. I'm happy in my current niche, wandering back and forth between content-creation periods and projectspace periods. Maybe someday I'll be stupid enough to run again, and maybe that time the community will punish me for that folly by electing me.

P.S. I always feel like it's tacky to thank someone for !voting "per" oneself, but in this case I did less for the agreement and more because it's been ages since anyone picked the third pronoun option. I've been working today on a piece of fiction where a lot of the characters take Spivak pronouns, and was thinking about how neglected my poor neopronouns are. Thanks for looking after them... Maybe someday they'll fix the Echo bug that forced me to randomize the order in my signature. Or... hey, Sammy, would some sysadmin yell at me if I wrote a script to change my signature every minute? -- Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 01:30, 28 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I would yell at you 😌 — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 01:35, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Goat from EpicPupper
Thanks for giving me that SPI idea, and for the guidance that came with it!

🐶 EpicPupper (he/him 03:21, 26 June 2021 (UTC) 


 * TIL I can win a goat just by being too lazy to write an SPI myself.  Guess I should have been careful what I wished for in the above section when I said I only wanted to deal with normal socks.  -- Tamzin  (she/they) &#124; o toki tawa mi. 03:25, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, and, I forgot to say: You did great! -- Tamzin  (she/they) &#124; o toki tawa mi. 03:51, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Again, thanks so much :) 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him 03:54, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Kitten from MaxnaCarta
Well, I just finished your GA review. Because you have worked so hard, it was not a difficult task. Well done on a great piece of work. I came here to congratulate you and saw the above drama. It also made me recall - we have "interacted" in the sense I opposed your RFA.

I've decided to leave some love for a few reasons.

First, I was inexperienced at voting there and I do not think my vote was quite fair in hindsight. While I remain opposed to what you had said about being open to desysoping Trump supporters (or whatever it was you said, and keep in mind I do not like him either), there was no evidence I had to support a presumption you may be biased in future.

Second, if I were to vote again, I'd support this time.

Third, I liked working with you, even if only briefly. You are nice!

Fourth, you write amazing content, and if that is not a reason to let someone know they are valued on Wikipedia, I do not know what is.

Happy tenth anniversary Tamzin. You are kind, you are doing your best, and that is all anyone can ask.

“When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious truths that we discover in our brief existence in this world. Just before fatigue envelopes us, taking us into sleep. We think of what our lives actually mean. And then we know how lucky we are if we still enjoy consciousness, rationality and love. But the greatest of these is love.” ― Michael Kirby

MaxnaCarta (talk) 04:10, 11 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Well, I guess this goes to show I took Liz' advice to heart in terms of forgetting who voted which way. Granted, with >450 names to remember, it was pretty easy to let those fall out of my mind.Thank you for the further compliments on my content work. I'd like to put the article up for FAC soon, I think. I'll take one more dive to see if I can dig up any post-Nieves analysis beynd Mills, and maybe add a teeny bit to §§ Prior jurisprudence and Lozman and Riviera Beach, but your comments solidify my impression that it's close to complete.That's a lovely quote. If I may get personal for a moment, as someone who is plural/multiple, if I've spent a whole day focused on the outer world, then the moment I go to sleep will often be the one moment I check in with the others I share a brain and body with. Often what I see is love, from another self within a divided self. Which makes me think which of The Four Loves that would be, if any, which makes me think of this quote from :"Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would say, 'Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.' A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?"Which I think rather nicely ties together several threads here. Or maybe just seems confusing because Till We Have Faces is a weird book.P.S. MOS:CURLY    --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 12:10, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Kitten from Sj
Thanks for introducing me to some excellent templates on your userpage :)

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Kitten from Drmies
NO KITTENS ALLOWED AT NEWARK CAUSE KITTENS ARE NICE AND KILL THE NEWARK VIBE

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Kitten from PaulHammond
Hey Tamzin. I noticed you had a message talking about harassment on your User Page, and that you've had people vandalising your page. So just wanted to send some love in your direction.

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Kitten from Ohnoitsnoah17
Your User page is just neat! :33

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Chai from The Aafi

 * If this was possibble! I admire your works on the platform, and mostly those at the RMT. ─ The Aafī   (talk)|undefined  11:33, 7 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Well pink has always been my color, and I woke up at 2 PM yesterday and am trying to power through till like 6 PM today, so yes, I'll gladly accept. I hope it's strongly caffeinated.  I enjoy seeing you around as well. sips.  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 11:44, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Update: I have drunk a medium Dunkin' "chai" in honor of this gift. I am guessing tastes nothing like the drink in the image, as Dunkin' beverages have a weird ability to all taste the same by the time you're done drinking them, no matter what you ordered. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 16:51, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I feel honoured imho. The chai (tea) I offered is salty in nature. 😌 ─ The Aafī on Mobile   (talk)|undefined  16:54, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah. This definitely was not salty. More sickly-sweet. --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she/they) 17:04, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Toast sandwich from DoctorWho42

 * Thanks!  (Working through talkpage backlog!)  --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 21:41, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Cookie from BDD

 * Thanks, BDD—and to those who've expressed similar sentiments privately. To be honest, I'm relieved. For a number of personal reasons I felt somewhat obliged to run—most notably because I think it's easy to stand on the sidelines and criticize, and a lot harder to do the work, and, having done the former, it seemed only fair to submit myself for consideration for the latter. But I'm pretty happy with the niche I've carved out for myself here, especially the past few months, mostly working on articles with some admin work mixed in. (Don't think I could ever be a pure "content admin" to the extent that you are, with 5 indefs ever, 4 of them self-requested, but seeking a balance more in the vein of my other RfA nom.) So, yeah, happy to keep on with what I've been doing. Looking to get Out of the Blue (book), Mi Shebeirach, and maybe Sarah Ashton-Cirillo to GA, Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach (2018) to FA, and got one page I think I can bring from redirect to FA. Much more pleasant than diving deeper into administrative areas. Feel free to make me your sixth indef if I try running again anytime soon.   --  Tamzin  [ cetacean needed ] (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 00:57, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy Pizza Day from Europe, from Der-Wir-Ing


And happy International Transgender Day of Visibility. Pizza Der-Wir-Ing (talk) 22:52, 30 March 2023 (UTC) [31st march CET]

Brownie and pork roll from Queen of Hearts, darling, A smart kitten, Schwede66, GRuban, DMacks, and Gerda Arendt

 * . Take as much time as you need. But I hope you’re okay. <sup style="letter-spacing:-.1em;color:#737373;font-family:monospace">user:  A smart kitten <sub style="color:#b842b8;font-family:monospace">meow  17:59, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
 * All the best from me as well. Look after yourself!  Schwede 66  05:21, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * --GRuban (talk) 05:37, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Hope whatever is happening in Real Life eventually settles down with a reasonable (to whatever extent possible) resolution. DMacks (talk) 17:47, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:03, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you all very much. Thank G-d, things have settled down a bit. Some things are still unclear, but without getting into details, the potential contigency where this situation would have become my overriding focus for months/years has not come to pass. I'm taking the opportunity to remain away from admin work a bit, get some content work done (Draft:LGBT synagogue in process, and something more audacious planned after that), and hopefully return to admin work sharper and better-rested when I'm ready. -- Tamzin  &#91;<i style="color:#E6007A">cetacean needed</i>&#93; (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 02:20, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Glad you're back. Clyde  &#91;trout needed&#93; 14:39, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Glad you're back. Clyde  &#91;trout needed&#93; 14:39, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Relatedly
I saw your note on your userpage, I'm sorry and I hope you feel better soon, I know things can get really stressful sometimes. Take as much time as you need, take care. <span style="text-shadow: 4px 4px 12px #00B140, -4px -4px 12px #00B140;">FatalFit &#124; &#9993; &#124; ✓ 04:05, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
 * +1 Infinity Knight (talk) 22:43, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Wanted to add that you shine brilliantly through your poem and it reminded me of a type of art that can be created on a street sidewalk. Infinity Knight (talk) 08:37, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Return to adminship
Thanks for taking your mop out of the closet. Your help will be appreciated. Thanks. Cullen328 (talk) 04:46, 20 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks, @Cullen328. Well, glad to be back, because where else could I be called an "idiot Jew" by someone I blocked for pushing an Israeli(!) POV? Gotta love this place, right? Be seeing you around, I'm sure.  --  Tamzin  &#91;<i style="color:#E6007A">cetacean needed</i>&#93; (she&#124;they&#124;xe) 23:22, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * For a while, some troll liked to send me emails calling me a "self-hating Jew" and worse. Clearly pertaining to Wikipedia, but not through Wikipedia email. That troll seems to have lost interest. Cullen328 (talk) 01:46, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I got called an antisemite for reverting an unreferenced addition to a BLP about a group the subject tweeted about years ago. I don't understand how people determine the motivations of others. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 01:51, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I long ago gave up paying attention to the names people called me on the Internet. And segregated emails into folders. But I came to say the same thing: welcome back, Tamzin, and thank you for your efforts to make Wikipedia a better place. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 21:37, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * What they all said. Welcome back, o Jew Trans Soul Rebel. (Didn't know we needed one ... until you were gone.) GRuban (talk) 02:39, 23 October 2023 (UTC)