User talk:Sam Sailor

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This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2025)

The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks. A family contains one or more genera. Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: Genus Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Biting • Firefighting Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 6 October 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

September 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award

Order of the Lesser Scribe of Wikipedia This award is given in recognition to Sam Sailor for accumulating at least 350 points the September 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 19,000+ articles reviewed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Utopes (talk / cont) 03:11, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 2025 NPP backlog drive – Streak award

		Worm Gear Award
		This award is given in recognition to Sam Sailor for accumulating at least 7 points during each week of the September 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 19,000+ articles reviewed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Utopes (talk / cont) 04:18, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dancing, Alone cover

Hi Sam,

I'm sorry about this, but my internet was out all night, so I couldn't upload the cover for Dancing, Alone. This was my fault. But you did not have to take away the file name like this. Besides, I already know how WP:UPIMAGE works, so you kind of ticked me off with reverting this and sharing a guideline I already knew, and I was more ticked off because my internet went out. But thank you anyway for your assistance, in a sense.

Think before reverting,

Jibblesnark86 (talk) 19:12, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Jibblesnark86.

Thanks for creating Dancing, Alone. I'm sorry to hear that your Internet connection went out. It is good practice to upload images first and then add the file name to the article. That way, we avoid having redlinked file names in main space. In this case, the file name was added 01:28 and removed again 03:06, after I had checked your local uploads to see if the error was due to a misspelling.

All in all, there is little to worry about here; should it happen again, just undo the editor who reverted you, when you find time to upload the image. Happy editing, Sam Sailor 19:36, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, but whatever.

No, but in all seriousness, thanks for the tip, but I like to do it the other way around. But I guess this way isn't efficient, so I guess I'll have to switch it up.

Thanks, I guess.

Best,

Jibblesnark86 (talk) 19:46, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2025)

A woman in a crocheted cape Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: Cape Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Genus • Biting Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 13 October 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Article declined

I am trying to create a very simple article that will add some secondary information to a list of multiple school districts. The citations I have are not plentiful, but the information is true and also at the same level as other articles linked in the list.

Jmurray1285 (talk) 17:43, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Jim.

If the primary sources currently used in Draft:Burnham Elementary School District are all there is, then it may prove a challenge to write a sourced article that goes much beyond a one-liner. Could other articles in Category:School districts in Cook County, Illinois serve as inspiration? Since the district only holds one school, did you try to search for sources about the school rather than the district?

Best, Sam Sailor 03:42, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced articles November 2025 backlog drive

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2025)

A sign at an anti-monarchy protest in the United Kingdom Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: Criticism of monarchy Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cape • Genus Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 20 October 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

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This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2025)

The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory, granting a 99-year lease on the New Territories Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: 99-year lease Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Criticism of monarchy • Cape Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 27 October 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Women in Red - November 2025

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Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, Sam Sailor. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

Editing from a temporary account

• When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
• All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
• A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
• As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
  • There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
  • There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.

Temporary account IP viewer user right

How to enable IP Reveal

• Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
• Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.

Impact for administrators

• It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
• It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
• Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

• Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
• Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
• See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

• It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
  • This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
• Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
• Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
• The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

• How to use Special:IPContributions
• How automatic IP reveal works
• How to use IP Info
• How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

• For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the drive!

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

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 05:20, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2025)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: Performance Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: 99-year lease • Criticism of monarchy Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 3 November 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]