User talk:Sam Sailor

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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 17, 2026)

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

Minibus

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Previous selections: Rainmaking (ritual) • Agriculture in Haiti

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The Signpost: 21 April 2026

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CS1 error on Villa Giulia

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Villa Giulia, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

A URL error. References show this error when one of the URL-containing parameters contains an invalid URL. Please edit the article to add the valid URL. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 13:26, 23 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed in this diff. –Sam Sailor 13:45, 23 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2026)

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

Saucer

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Previous selections: Minibus • Rainmaking (ritual)

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Deletion: Giovanni Bucchieri

Hello, I noticed that you recently removed the deletion notice from the article Giovanni Bucchieri. Please be aware that according to Wikipedia's deletion policy, the deletion template should not be removed while a discussion is ongoing, even if you disagree with the nomination. The tag serves to notify the community and invite broader participation. You are, of course, more than welcome to share your perspective and provide sources in the actual deletion discussion thread here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Giovanni_Bucchieri Thank you! Virtuella (talk) 22:10, 27 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Virtuella: Giovanni Bucchieri showed up in WP:BADAFD, and at the time of removing the orphaned AFD template, you had not been editing for 6+ hours:

Sam Sailor @ 05:19, 27 April 2026: : Rm incomplete AFD
Virtuella @ 22:51, 26 April 2026: [no edit summary]

I'll restore the AFD template on the article and leave you a welcome message on your talk page in a bit. Let me know if you need a little human help with anything. All the best, Sam Sailor 04:57, 28 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol May 2026 Backlog drive

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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2026)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: Work–life balance Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Saucer • Minibus Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 4 May 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Ester Volicerová - Removed Change

Hi, as you mentioned in my talk page I'm writing a notice for you. Ester Volicerová's birth year wrongly added to her page as 1971 without any source. She was born in 1973 and you can see it on European Volleyball Confederation's website. I changed it to correct year but since there is no day or month info in CEV's page I didn't add it as a source. I think it should be updated to 1973. Her Italian League profile page also confirms that her birth year is 1973. Pedeshtrian (talk) 14:50, 10 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I edited the page by adding her profile page in Czech Volleyball Federation website as a source. It states her exact birthday. --Pedeshtrian (talk) 15:01, 10 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. When the article was created in 2015, it used this page ("02.06.71") as the source. I would regard any non-dated source since 2021 that gave her birth year as 1973 with some scepticism, but the Czech profile page is convincing, as it apparently is from 2015. And is Czech. I have updated Wikidata. Best, Sam Sailor 15:23, 10 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2026)

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

Wings of Fire (novel series)

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Previous selections: Work–life balance • Saucer

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Stub promotions

Hey there. I've noticed you've recently promoted a number of short stub articles to start-class, using the deprecated ORES tool. Have you been manually reviewing the suggestions that this tool makes? I ask because there's been several cases in which you have promoted articles and removed stub tags, despite them falling well below the 250-300 word threshold for article length; some are so short that they only consist of a single line of prose, yet these have been promoted anyway. I worry that removing the tags and promoting such short articles will only make it harder to identify stubs that are in need of expansion, so I just wanted to check in with you about this. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:02, 11 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Sam Sailor,

Backlog update

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

2024 and 2025 NPP Awards

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

January–February backlog drive

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

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An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026.

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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2026)

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

Harbor

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Previous selections: Wings of Fire (novel series) • Work–life balance

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