Ah yes, those days were particularly difficult for pickle editors. Some of my ancestors accidentally chiseled themselves into spears. Anyway, thanks for the message and happy new year! I am constantly learning incrediblethings thanks to editors like you. Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 16:19, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
Start the new year with a pickle award!
The Pickle Barnstar
Hi Crunchydillpickle, you have been awarded the Pickle Barnstar for inspiring a revolution! I don't think our paths have ever crossed, but saw your name on the Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2025 page, and based on your user name, think you deserve one of these awards I made a while back. Feel free to share it with anyone you think is worthy of a pickle award. Happy new year.
Netherzone (talk) 01:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC) (a.k.a. Picklezone)
Oh wow, thank you. Will you be at Wikipedia Day? I'd love to meet you! I hope you've had happy holidays and that your new year is extra crunchy. Out of curiosity, what made you such a hot springs aficionado? Are there any particularly interesting springs I should read about? Thanks for all you do for Wikipedia! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 16:04, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
Japanese Macaque soaking in an Onsen (hot spring) Hi, sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I think hot springs are such amazing natural phenomena and have an interesting history in terms of human use since ancient times. Even animals like hot springs, here's an image of Japanese macaque monkeys using hot springs and a link to some capybara soaking in hot springs which has been covered in scientific literature. What's not to like? Netherzone (talk) 17:09, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
Autopatrolled
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Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! voorts (talk/contributions) 21:20, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Hi, why did you vandalise the duct tape article? I hope it was a mistake, you have an interesting user page. Thanks! Opok2021 (talk) 00:52, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
Oh my goodness, that was not intentional. I was testing some wikitext/formatting stuff and meant to just preview the changes, not publish them. Apologies for the mistake. I will be more careful! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 04:37, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
No worries Opok2021 (talk) 15:27, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 67
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 67, January – February 2025
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Okay, I'll do at least a few:-) Thanks, @User:Robertsky! By the way, I think I briefly met you at Wikimania a couple years ago?! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 20:06, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes Issue 69, May–June 2025
In this issue we highlight a new partnership, Citation Watchlist and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 70
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A horse hatnote for you
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I was reading your (really fun!) userpage and saw your idea about a list of all the horse name disambiguations. I actually stumbled across this one earlier today, maybe you already know of it but just in case you don't: Newspaper of record
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Books & Bytes – Issue 71
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes Issue 71, September–October 2025
Your wiki anniversary is just around the corner, in 2 days! What a wonderful milestone of 4 years on Wiki (as per SUL). Your incredible contributions, with over 13,342 edits, have truly made a difference. Here's to another amazing year of collaboration and knowledge sharing!
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Awwww, thank you @User:DaniloDaysOfOurLives! I think you were the first person to wish me a happy birthday as I'm a few hours behind UTC, and it made me happy.:-)Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 07:58, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
I am so so happy to hear that! I hope you have a gorgeous rest of your day and continue getting lots of lovely messages 🥰🫂 DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:17, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
Happy birthday, Crunchydillpickle! I was trying to think of an appropriately pickly adjective for you. I hope your birthday is...sour? Hmm, that doesn't sound great. Trying again — I hope your birthday is...crunchy? Not sure what that'd mean. I hope your birthday is...briny? ...well-preserved? Maybe there's something related to the dill part ...weedy? Nope, that's even worse. Anyways, I'm at a loss. But I hope you have an excellent birthday filled with whatever it is that a crunchy dill pickle's heart desires! Sdkbtalk 19:31, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
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Nice job on the John C. Holden article! I had never heard of him, what an interesting person. Another continentally concerned conceptual artists you might be interested in is Lowell Darling. Darling did a series of performances in the 1970s that included attempting to stitch up the San Andreas Fault. He also ran for governor. - Wil540 art (talk) 05:20, 12 June 2026 (UTC)
Thank you! I didn't know about Lowell Darling until now, and it looks like his page could use some updates and improvements... maybe I'll do it this weekend:-) Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 19:18, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
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