User talk:Sam Sailor

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The guests are coming through
The open-hearted many
The broken-hearted few

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— Leonard Cohen, "The Guests"
based on a 13th-century Persian poem

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This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2026)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is:

Hope chest

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Mormon pornography • Battle of Messana

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NPP Award for 2025

		The New Page Reviewer's Iron Award
		For over 360 article reviews during 2025. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:10, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2026)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is:

Magic 8-Ball

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Previous selections: Hope chest • Mormon pornography

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Books & Bytes – Issue 72

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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2026)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: Hinge Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Magic 8-Ball • Hope chest Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 2 February 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Source verification

Hi, following up on [[1]], have you had a chance to use the script? Alaexis_¿question? 21:33, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2026)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is:

Romina Pourmokhtari

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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2026)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is:

Arabic coffee

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Previous selections: Romina Pourmokhtari • Hinge

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In the media: Global powers see Wikipedia as fundamental target for manipulation
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