User talk:Sam Sailor

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"Webi Ughasate" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Webi Ughasate has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 May 23 § Webi Ughasate until a consensus is reached. Doug Weller talk 19:25, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maqdi

Thanks. I blocked the IP who was editing related articles. Doug Weller talk 20:09, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

​Good call. I restored an older revision of Maqdi, please review. Sam Sailor 20:17, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stiil a mess but I don't know if I care enough to try to fix. Title doesn't match lead, this seems to be a confederation and certainly not a tribe as the article suggests. I copied some stuff from another article onto the talk page. Doug Weller talk 07:18, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone back further to the version calling it a confederation, also added stuff to talk page from another article. Quite a few establsihed editors in the recent histoy. Doug Weller talk 07:24, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2025)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: Garden Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Headquarters • Pneumatics Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 26 May 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Women in Red June 2025

Women in Red | June 2025, Vol 11, Issue 6, Nos. 326, 327, 339, 340 Online events: New: LGBTQ+ | Alphabet run K & L Continuing, year-long initiatives: #1day1woman | Music Announcements: Who are the most overlooked and interesting Women in Red? We've no idea, but we're putting together our list of the 100 most interesting ex-Women in Red. We are creating the list to celebrate 10 years of Women in Red and we hope to present it at Wikimania. We are ignoring the obvious, so do you have a name or subject we should consider? Can you suggest a DYK style hook? If you are shy about editing that page, you are welcome to add ideas and comments on the talk page. The World Destubathon, 16 June - 13 July, 2025 Progress ("moving the needle"): Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,492 articles during this period! 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women) 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% (2,061,363 bios; 414,126 women) Tip of the month: Every language Wikipedia has its own policies regarding notability and reliable sources. Before translating an article from one language Wikipedia into English Wikipedia, research the subject and verify that the translated article will meet English Wikipedia's policy requirements. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Sam Sailor! I'm glad that you are joining the June 2025 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 04:00, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2025)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: Remote sensing Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Garden • Headquarters Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 2 June 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2025)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: Classificatory disputes about art Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Remote sensing • Garden Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 9 June 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2025)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: Modern Pagan views on LGBT people Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Classificatory disputes about art • Remote sensing Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:08, 16 June 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Your common.js

Hi Sam. Can you edit your common.js and remove the double brackets around Copyvio-revdel in line 359. Even though it's in a comment section the software is pulling it up as a link to {{Copyvio-revdel}} and is adding your common.js to Category:Requested RD1 redactions. Bizarre I know and I had it happen to me previously. Nthep (talk) 11:55, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done, and thanks for telling me, Nthep. Embarrassingly, I have made this mistake before, and I know that at least some templates mentioned in js file comments should not include curly brackets as that will make the js file end up in a maintenance category. My apologies for sleeping on the watch and missing this instance. Best, Sam Sailor 12:14, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not vandalism

Regarding your post on User talk:2A02:C7C:5113:D200:CD36:10CE:CA63:CEDE; please be aware that malformed edits that were intended (however mistakenly) to be a positive contribution are not vandalism and should not be described as such. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:48, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, Andy, thanks for reminding me. Warning has been redacted and a notice appended. Best, Sam Sailor 13:07, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very minor, very old backwards copy. What do I do?

Eyereland wrote an article containing this section in 2006. Frank Sharp cut and incorporated it into this page in 2010. There, he claims a copyright to the page, even though it contains Eyreland's uncredited work. I've read Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks and Wikipedia:Standard CC BY-SA violation letter and I'm confused. Eyreland is he copyright owner but hasn't been active here in four and a half years. But the article's been tagged for copyvio. I'd be grateful for advice. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 22:42, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Oona Wikiwalker: If you are certain, then follow WP:BACKWARDSCOPY: add a {{backwards copy}} to Talk:A-MAC, then remove {{Copypaste|date=October 2021}} from the article.

I notice that the editor who added {{copypaste}} to the article in this diff did so manually, and had to correct a typo in the next diff. They did not include a |url=, which in my opinion makes the tag less useful – are other editors supposed to guess from where some of the text supposedly was copied? (I'm surprised to see that |url= is optional, see the template documentation.) The editor left no comment on Talk:A-MAC.

I also notice that in this diff two minutes earlier, they manually tagged with {{Unsourced|date=October 2021}}. {{Unsourced}} is a redirect to {{unreferenced}}. That is an incorrect tag, as the article contained a general reference listed in the ==External links== section, but some editors are unaware of the explicit restriction listed in the template documentation:

Watch out for lists of general references that someone has incorrectly listed under ==External links==. If the link leads to a reliable source that supports some article content, then that website is a reference, not just an external link.

But that would have required opening the link and confirming that the source is reliable and supports some content, and ideally converting the URL to a {{cite web}}, moving it inline, changing the ==External links== section to a ==References== section, and adding a {{reflist}}. Then the correct maintenance template would have been {{one source}}.

I have sourced the article with three additional book sources in this diff. Sam Sailor 08:16, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for your careful attention and advice. It's certain that Eyreland posted the content in question and that Mr. Sharp posted his five years later, but I do not know for certain where Mr. Sharp got it. He says on his blog that he makes himself difficult to contact and, indeed, I don't find an email address for him, even searching through the page source. What is the best thing to do for Wikipedia? Is this small enough and old enough that I should just tag the talk page with {{ backwards copy}} and let things go at that? Should I pursue the Non-compliance process? I realize our interaction doesn't qualify me to expect legal advice from you or absolve me of responsibility for my actions; I'm just asking you what you would do in my position. I really have no idea. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 22:19, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Monasteries

SS, where are you finding sources that cap "Shoreti Monastery" and the others? Dicklyon (talk) 05:48, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]