User:Tamzin/Disclosures and commitments

Accounts

Previous usernames

I used the username

" and made my old usernames slightly hard to find without outright hiding them. At this point, though, I just see them as regular past usernames.

Alts and logged-out edits

I have two currently-active

alternate accounts

, and have used several others in the past.

Account	Purpose
Active
'zinbot	Bot (BRFA )
'zin is short for Tamzin	Multi-purpose alt account
Inactive
TamzinHadasa	Doppelgänger[a]
Tamzin Kelly
Tamzin Hadasa Kelly
PinkAmpers&
Francophonie&Androphilie	Former username[b]
PublicAmpersand	Public-computer account for former username
Francophonie&Aardvark	Testing/demonstration
Example male
Example female
Never attached on the English Wikipedia
AmpersandBot (Wikidata)	Bot
PinkAmpersand2 (testwiki)	Testing
Tamzin~foundationwiki (Foundation Wiki)	Local account split from my global account due to technical reasons; now locked

There may be one or two other testing accounts I've forgotten.

I occasionally edited mainspace logged out (in a policy-compliant manner) in my first few months of having this account, but stopped doing so to avoid any appearance of impropriety. I was never blocked or warned for any of those IP edits, and would link them but for the fact that I can't remember what they were. I have not (intentionally) edited logged-out since.

Connections to other users

The two people I live with full-time both have accounts (

WP:CENT

).

A previous shared-IP situation (with my brother, who made all of one edit) was disclosed to ArbCom at the time (c. 2013).

Before this account

Prior to becoming a Wikipedian, I edited occasionally from IP, including sometimes engaging in bored after-school vandalism. I made two throwaway accounts,

" line sounded amusingly flirtatious. To the extent that it matters, after almost a decade's tenure, much of it devoted to anti-vandalism work: Yes, I do regret the one vandalistic edit I made with SnowflakeAZ, and the handful I made as an IP. Don't vandalize, kids.

Blocks, and what we can learn from them

I was blocked once, about a month into my editing tenure, after being mistaken for a sockpuppet. I was unblocked by the same admin three hours later "with apologies". I'm reminded often of what the blocking admin, Coren, said when unblocking me (emphasis added):

“

Please accept my apologies for the block. I realise now in retrospect that I should have discussed this matter with you before blocking the account. I'll still offer a piece of advice, however: don't delve too deeply and quickly in the back-office aspects of the project – it's rather seedy back there and you'll end up with a jaundiced view. Not unlike mine, I suppose.

”

As someone who now does a lot of anti-sockpuppetry work, I do try to keep those words in mind.

More recently, my alternate account, 'zin is short for Tamzin, was briefly blocked when it was... mistaken for a sockpuppet, just in a different way! I'd used it to test one edit filter and instead had tripped a scarier edit filter, and the blocking admin assumed based on the username that it was some troll trying to harass me. My only takeaway from that is that sometimes things get messy and mistakes get made.

Privacy

MOBFUSCATEyOBFUSCATE OBFUSCATEnOBFUSCATEamOBFUSCATEe iOBFUSCATEs Tamzin Hadasa Kelly. There you go. Only person in the world with that name. Everyone I know who cares a lot about being outed seems to stress constantly about it, so I decided a long time ago to not care. This does not constitute consent to being harassed.

I live in Cape May County, New Jersey. If you're in town or going to be soon, shoot me an email. We can get lunch or something.

Wikimedia is the only public-facing context^[d] where I use the username Tamzin (extending to accounts on non-SUL Wikimedia sites and to wikis.world). I use the username TamzinHadasa on Discord, GitHub, Reddit (eww), and Twitter (double eww). If you see a "TamzinHadasa" or "Tamzin" in any other public-facing context,^[d] it is probably not me.

I waive any privilege under

team, if referring to me in a way that would normally violate OUTING, you should probably link to this section and explain why this waiver applies to the situation. This is for your benefit and the OS team's benefit, not mine.)

COI

Just by virtue of my background, I know an unusually high number of

and disclosed the connection.

I have never edited Wikipedia for compensation, and never will.

Wellness

I have dissociative identity disorder(DID) or something similar to it, and either have bipolar disorder or have DID symptoms that manifest the same way. Hopefully this is the only time you need consider that information; I am strongly committed to not letting my condition(s) adversely affect my editing or my fellow editors. When I need to take a break from editing to straighten things out, I do.

However, if I ever seem a bit forgetful, or I seem to flit from one project to the next a bit erratically, now you know why.

Accountability

I am committed to responding civilly and open-mindedly to any good-faith challenges to my actions as a holder of any permission or role, as well as to any good-faith suggestion that I should resign.

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