User:Tol

Hello! I'm Tol Wassman. I mostly do project-focused/backlog work. I do write some articles, but I mostly write code. Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page — I appreciate feedback!

I run a bot, TolBot; I also have a legitimate alternate account for testing purposes, TolTest. I have other testing accounts; you can see them at Special:Log/newusers/Tol.

Some pages:

Dashboard and Regexes
Scripts:
- VisualEditor Citation Needed, adds a citation needed button in VE (stable)
- Logs, adds a button to view a page's logs in the content actions menu ("more" tab) (stable)
- RealSVG, replaces SVG thumbnails with real SVGs (stable, some minor bugs)
- AutoCleanup, which uses regexes to clean up pages (in progress)
- Sparkle, a general purpose mess (nowhere near ready)
Logs (
- Speedy
- Proposed
)
Sandbox
/diff.css, some CSS for formatting fake diffs
My userboxes
My common.js and common.css
Templates
Discussions that I opened or closed

Userboxes

en-5

This user can contribute with a professional level of English.

zh-2

該用戶能以一般的中文進行交流。
该用户能以一般的中文进行交流。

py-3

This user is an advanced Python programmer.

This user has various ~~fancy hats~~ rights. (Verify)

This user tries to do the right thing. If he or she makes a mistake, please let him or her know.

Mix

This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.

Licensing

More information Type, License ...

Quick reference table
Type	License
All edits	CC BY-SA 3.0/4.0 & GNU FDL
Minor edits	CC0 (public domain)
≥50 years old	CC0 (public domain)

Introduction & scope

These licensing terms were last updated and are effective as of 3 June 2025, and are intended to be backward-compatible with (i.e. no more restrictive than) all previous revisions.

These terms cover all edits to the English Wikipedia made by this account, User:Tol, and all alternative accounts disclosed on or by this user page. This includes, but is not limited to, User:TolBot and User:TolTest, as well as any accounts that I have created through this account or another disclosed alternative account.

Abbreviations

CC BY-SA 3.0: The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license
CC BY-SA 4.0: The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license
GNU FDL: The GNU Free Documentation License, unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts
CC0 1.0: The Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication

Standard Wikipedia licensing

Under Wikipedia's copyright terms, all of my text contributions on and after 7 June 2023 are licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 and GNU FDL licenses.

Under previous revisions of Wikipedia's copyright terms, all of my text contributions prior to 7 June 2023 are licensed under the CC BY-SA 3.0 and GNU FDL licenses.

My additional licensing

In addition to Wikipedia's terms, I hereby agree to multi-license my text contributions to the English Wikipedia as follows:

All of my text contributions are released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0 licenses. (Thus, all of my text contributions — regardless of time — are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, and GNU FDL.)

All of my text contributions that I marked as a minor edit are released under CC0 1.0.

Each of my text contributions is released under the terms that, after 50 years from the date of publication, it shall be released under CC0 1.0.

Previous versions

Previous versions of these terms:

Miscellaneous

Userboxes

en-5

This user can contribute with a professional level of English.

zh-2

該用戶能以一般的中文進行交流。
该用户能以一般的中文进行交流。

py-3

This user is an advanced Python programmer.

This user has various ~~fancy hats~~ rights. (Verify)

This user tries to do the right thing. If he or she makes a mistake, please let him or her know.

Mix

This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently.

This user condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This user develops Sparkle, a ~~total mess~~ user script.

This user may be a bit eccentric, but is definitely not demented.

i +

This user has made over i contributions to Wikipedia and, as a result, may be slightly insane.

they?

This user dislikes the singular they grammatically, but sympathises with the desire for gender neutrality.

—

This user gets very annoyed when people use hyphens when they should be using dashes.

A, B, and C

This user prefers the
serial comma.

js-1

This user is a beginning JavaScript programmer.

Awards

	The Citation Barnstar
	Thank you for making that new feature for me! TigerScientist Chat > contribs 20:29, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

		The Articles for Creation Barnstar
		Congratulations! You have earned The Articles for Creation Barnstar for reviewing 178 drafts during the WikiProject Articles for creation July 2021 Backlog Drive. Thank you for your work to improve Wikipedia! On behalf of WikiProject Articles for Creation, Enterprisey (talk!) 00:17, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

For working on this request. I also like your method of showing the diffs for edit requests - it's very creative! (Although I sure wish we had a way to do that automatically... I'm working on it!) Enterprisey (talk!) 07:07, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with AfC! S0091 (talk) 22:01, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

		The Guidance Barnstar
		Thank you for your help and guidance in article creation! - Dynamiccookies (talk \| contribs) 15:57, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For reviewing at least 25 articles during the drive. Thank you for reviewing or re-reviewing 41 articles, which helped contribute to an overall 1276-article reduction in the backlog during the drive. And an extra thanks for creating the leaderboard software that made this drive possible! (t · c) buidhe 12:40, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

review gnome

Thank you for quality reviewing of new pages, for gnomish improvements such as adding template:authority control, for explaining "you need to copy edit the draft for tone and remove vague but positive wording", for the quiet Stanley Kubrick RfC close that ended a decade+ of warring, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:15, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for coordinating the November 2021 New pages patrol backlog drive. Usedtobecool ☎️ 15:08, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For your great work and contributions with TolBot. Thank you for helping to improve the site the way that you do. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:05, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you for making TolBot work for the NPP drive - I'm just giving barnstars and thought I should give you this one. Zippybonzo \| Talk (he\|him) 09:22, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

		Bot Operator's Barnstar
		Zippybonzo and I would like to award this to you, for updating the bot to count redirects, as well as altering the code to consider the patrol log (in addition to the curation log), during the NPP May 2023 Redirect backlog drive. Thank you. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:14, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	You deserve it! – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:51, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Pages

Articles

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Page	From	To	Date
Ke Lingling	Transl. zh (permalink)	Start	2021-09-13
Benzylpiperazine	GAR	Good	2021-09-01 – 2022-02-17
Uvariopsis dicaprio	Created	C, DYK	2022-01-06 – 2022-01-28
Squatina mapama	Created	C, DYK	2022-01-26 – 2022-02-18