— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Content I've created
Articles created:
Betula chichibuensis- Kao Ly Ilean Her
- Inspiration Point Wayside Rest
Lauren Mukheibir-
Aniya Holder - Sarah Adam
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Death of Milton King 
⇒ Donald Ramphadi- Mogapeng
- Nikolayevka, Kamchatka Krai
- Esterhof
Articles significantly expanded:
Templates created:
Articles I've edited
Some I've enjoyed editing lately:
- Clarence W. Wigington
- ⇒ Thabana Ntlenyana – destubbed
- South African International Exhibition — WP Reliability drive; digging for sources
- David Stuurman — 400th edit on en.wikipedia; WP Reliability drive; digging for sources and fixing some historical interpretations unsupported by previously-cited works
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Cape Town — 500th edit on en.wikipedia was sourcing information about trained attack cows 🐮 - Harare — probably my most thorough set of article edits so far
Articles I've copyedited for GOCE
Vital articles I've copyedited:
- Sylhet
- Office
- Yahya Khan — section on Presidency
- Harare — heavy overhaul
Some of my favorites:
- History of Adjara
- History of the Jews in Finland
- Said Otaliq Madrasa — pagemove and overhaul
- John Tillmann — uncovered COI violations; still working to regain article neutrality
- Puvunga
- Chan Santa Cruz — planning more complete overhaul of page in future
Ongoing GOCE copyedited word count (no bonuses) as of late July 2024: 48,700
Articles I'm working on
- Donald Ramphadi
- Sarah Adam
- Inspiration Point Wayside Rest
- Vanrhynsdorp
- David Stuurman — need to finish sourcing and getting the article to actually align with known contemporary and scholarly sources
- John Tillmann
I'm also working towards completing some challenges...
Articles for future work
See this page for future plans. Articles I hope to create include:
About me
Hiya! Welcome to my userpage. I'm SunTunnels — but you can also call me Kyr or Lily if you like — and my pronouns are she/they. I've been using Wikipedia almost my whole life and briefly tried editing circa 2016 and 2021, but it didn't take. However, my interest in this strange site was rekindled in 2024 after I broke my talus while lead climbing on Cape Town's Table Mountain and subsequently found myself with more time on my hands and less weight allowed on my feet. Since then I've participated in GOCE drives and blitzes, Women in Red events, and various other WikiProjects. I've written a few articles from scratch, one of which was featured on DYK not long ago. Safe to say I am new here, and I'm excited to contribute to an open-access knowledge base and meet new people!
I currently live among the cornfields of Minnesota, where I'm pursuing an undergraduate degree focused on geography and archaeology. When I'm not editing Wikipedia, I can be found making music, playing video games, or reading Wikipedia. I definitely will not forget to finish this about-me section later. Cheers!
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 | This user is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors. |
| This user has participated in 2 Backlog Elimination Blitzes and 2 Backlog Elimination Drives with the Guild of Copy Editors. |
 | This user has written or expanded 2 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page. |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red (redlinks→blue) |
 | This user contributes to Vital Articles on Wikipedia. |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Reliability. |
 | This user participates in WikiProject Minnesota. |
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 | This user participates in WikiProject Asian Americans. |  |
 | This user participates in WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. |
 | This user proudly participates in WikiProject South Africa. |
 | This user participates in WikiProject Lesotho. |
.svg){kind=small} | This user participates in WikiProject Africa. |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Plants. |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Archaeology. |
 | This user is interested in Geography. |
 | This user is interested in contemporary history. |
 | This user is interested in philately, but prefers to call it stamp collecting. |
 | This user is interested in ecology. |
 | This user is interested in Endangered & Vulnerable Plant Species. |
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| This user currently resides on Planet Earth. |
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This user has set foot in 12 countries of the world. |
_(10E).svg){kind=small} | This user has lived in 5 countries of the world. | 5 |
 | This user has visited 35 of the 50 United States. | 35 |
 | This user has visited 429 of the 3142 counties or county-equivalents in the United States. | 429 |
 | This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of Minnesota. |
 | This user loves Cape Town! |
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This user is your friend, she's not your only friend, but she's a little glowing friend, but really, she's not actually your friend. |
 | This user believes in the rightful rule of the first and only Emperor of the United States, Joshua Norton. |
 | This user lives near temperate broadleaf forest. |
 | This user is transfemme. |
| W | This user has started at least 11 English Wikipedia articles as of September 12, 2024 – the last article was Esterhof. |
 | This user has been awarded 9 barnstars. |
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 | This editor is a Burba and is entitled to display this First Book of Wikipedia. |
| wiki-2 | This user is an intermediate Wikipedia editor. |
 | Oh no: this user has way too many userboxes. |
 | This user scored 219 on the Wikipediholic test (revision 1243908776). |
 | This user previously used another account: KyrKazakh. |
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Awards, status alerts, messages, notices, et alia
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The Cleanup Barnstar | |
| This barnstar is awarded to SunTunnels for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:28, 23 April 2024 (UTC) |
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The (modern) Guild of Copy Editors Barnstar | |
| This barnstar is awarded to SunTunnels for copy edits totaling over 40,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 08:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 2nd Place | |
| This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to SunTunnels for copyediting 21 articles during the GOCE May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 08:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 1st Place | |
| This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to SunTunnels for copyediting 21 old articles during the GOCE May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 08:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC) |
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The Cleanup Barnstar | |
| This barnstar is awarded to SunTunnels for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 03:34, 25 June 2024 (UTC) |
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Thanks for participating in the June 2024 backlog drive!
You scored 204 points while adding citations to articles during WikiProject Reliability's first {{citation needed}} backlog drive, earning you this citation barnstar. Thanks for helping out! Pichpich (talk) 16:09, 9 July 2024 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar |
| Thank you so much for your contributions to WP:OTD! Heart (talk) 14:11, 26 July 2024 (UTC) |
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The Cleanup Barnstar | |
| This barnstar is awarded to SunTunnels for copy edits totaling over 12,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 01:11, 4 August 2024 (UTC) |
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Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place | |
| This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to SunTunnels for copyediting 1 long article during the GOCE July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 01:11, 4 August 2024 (UTC) |
On 5 August 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Aniya Holder, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Aniya Holder secured a spot at the 2024 Summer Olympics by winning a speed climbing competition, for which she had started training without even knowing that it was an Olympics qualifier? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Aniya Holder. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Aniya Holder), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page. ~ theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:04, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
On 11 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jajaira Gonzalez, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that USA Boxing's head coach said that Olympian Jajaira Gonzalez's return to boxing was "like Lazarus coming back from the dead"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jajaira Gonzalez. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jajaira Gonzalez), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page. ~ RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
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