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1. 05:04, 17 February 2025 (UTC) fill out your thing at WP:REFLECTIONS – HouseBlaster (talk • he/they)
2. 02:51, 15 May 2025 (UTC) ban houseblaster from my talk page for messing with the inbox format theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 02:52, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
3. 06:14, 26 January 2026 (UTC) amber

		The DYK Barnstar
		If I deserve two barnstars, then I think you deserve at least as many! Thank you for your part in the gargantuan multi-hook set shenanigans, and for all of your help in getting DYK newbies such as myself settled in to the back end of the process. :)

		The DYK Barnstar
		(insert clever joke about two nickels)

—TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 00:44, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@TechnoSquirrel69: You're the sweetest, thank you!! (I haven't quite figured out what mechanism would allow me to unilaterally ban House from my talk. working on it, though. maybe I can get myself declared a CTOP?) publeek (house · service · theleekycauldron) 01:05, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know... that no BlasterOfHouses can show their face in publeek? (No worries if you'd like to ban me from your talk as well for that one.) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 01:13, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I logged in to the alt for this. And had a good chuckle IRL :) BlasterOfHouses (HouseBlaster's alt • talk • he/they) 01:50, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

insert clever joke about two nickels
If I had a nickel for every time somebody got two barnstars in one, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?

Now, if I had a nickel for all the barnstars given here. I'd have four nickels. That's a lot of nickels. – LuniZunie_(talk) 01:18, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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On 14 February 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article ICE protest songs, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bruce Springsteen's ICE protest song, "Streets of Minneapolis", was written the day Alex Pretti was killed and performed live the same week? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Streets of Minneapolis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, ICE protest songs), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

HurricaneZeta^C 00:03, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'm contacting users who signed up as participants of the Wikipedia:Help Project, about a discussion on brainstorming and choosing the first help page to draft on editing Wikipedia pages assisted by AI.

If you are interested, I'll see you at Wikipedia talk:Help Project#Planning help for AI workflows.

Sincerely,    — The Transhumanist   11:46, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Are you aware of the long-term edit war GalliumBot has been waging with itself and another bot? Every day, MusikBot adds a new date heading to WP:DYKN, correctly preceded by a blank line. Seven minutes later every day, your bot removes the blank line, and then eventually restores it. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:09, 28 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be pinging Janelle Shane had she been a Wikipedian because this reads like a golden material for more ai weirdness. Especially the imagery. 海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk} 05:25, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I mean, GalliumBot doesn't incorporate any neural nets and has very little in the way of decision-making; I'd hesitate to call it an AI at all. That said, yeah, looking into it :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 05:27, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In the same style of training tiny char-rnns with a small set of halloween costumes, maybe I can train something similar with the right formatting of diffs. maybe! 海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk} 05:31, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]