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Shann editor (talk) 22:06, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
Dear Sam,
I'm writing you because, you have requested the page that is Draft:Model Livestock Institute Dhaka for the speedily deleted from Wikipedia.
Actually, This is a different type of educational institution in Bangladesh and it should be kept in Wikipedia. I've written the details of the institution so mightbe it seems like promotional. I will edit it as like neutral.
Thank you
Dear Shann editor. Draft:Model Livestock Institute Dhaka was, if memory serves, identical to this revision of your sandbox, complete with details of the training programs the institute offers and contact information. That is not an encyclopedic article, that is simply promotion. And it is not "might seems" it is "blatantly".
Perhaps a line or two could be stuck in the article about the foundation Model Livestock Advancement Foundation? That article was a decent little stub when Legacypac published the draft to article space, but it has since been bloated out of proportions, looking like an About page for the foundation, complete with a mission statement such as "The area of operation of the Society shall be everywhere in Bangladesh and any part of the world."I have pruned and copy-edited in Special:Diff/843693966/843755114.
I know you meant no harm when you created multiple new categories, but please, stop creating them.
Since your account was initially named Dr. Salma Sultana, is it a fair assumption to think that you are the Salma Sultana who runs the Model Livestock Advancement Foundation as well as Model Livestock Institute Dhaka? I will post a notice on your user talk page about our conflict of interest-policy.
Shann editor (talk) 12:20, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Dear Sam,
Thanks for your concern. I declare that,there is no conflict of interest. I have learnt from you a lot and in future I will try to write page with maintaining proper rules and regulation of wikipedia.
Warm regards,
Shann
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Hi Sam, I just added in this little nugget and thought you would be interested? "A stowaway. A teenager the 17 year old Billy Gawronski swam the Hudson River to stow away on board, he was soon caught. He was soon to make another attempt on the Bolling and get caught again. However despite all this he did get invited onto the expedition, joining and sailing before his 18th birthday. Meet the Teen Who Snuck Aboard a Polar Expedition Link to the source here: [National Geographic]. Best regards, Broichmore (talk) 18:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Wonderful find, Broichmore, old "swabby" here thoroughly enjoyed it. I added a cite news to this NYP article that goes into more details about Laurie Gwen Shapiro's book about Billy Gawronski. The book certainly got a lot of attention in January, I just finished reading the preview on Google Play (did you know that William's father arrived in the U.S. on the SS Campania?). I have applied for my NewspaperARCHIVE.com access to be renewed, there ought to be sources to build a little bio on Billy Gawronski. Should we, in the mean time, work on a DYK for City of New York (1885 ship)? Best regards, SamSailor21:22, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Sam, this ship just keeps giving. Have a look at Paul Siple and this story. I didn't know about the Carpathia; it's all good. Yes there's plenty of scope for a DYK, multiples of them!. I was thinking about exploring Byrd and "fund raising" as a topic, he may be an unsung pioneer of it. I've just finished an article on "Oscar Parkes", if your interested in reviewing it, I'll move it out of draft on your say so. Best regards, Jim. Broichmore (talk) 12:48, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Thank you, Jim for the link to the Scoutingradio page about Paul Siple, that's a great read. I'll be happy to look at Oscar Parkes; should we do the DYK preparation of City first? I'll continue on the article talk. SamSailor16:53, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Sam, Thanks for sorting the error problem, it was giving me a headache. Any ideas for this DYK? Stowaway? Linked to Amundsen, Shackleton (tenuous), and Byrd. Born in Norway, coupled with floating museum on Eastern seaboard and Great Lakes?Broichmore (talk) 14:23, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Yes Sam, he named her when he was completing repairs in New York, no doubt fundraising was in mind. Do I need to do more on the article? Many thanks for you help already... - Broichmore (talk) 19:28, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
@Broichmore: The message above yours was actually by Gerda Arendt; judging from a Google Books search on Byrd fundraising antarctica, the subject of fundraising is at least worth a mention in Byrd's article. I think we are good in regards to The City. What is next, Draft:Oscar Parkes? Best, SamSailor06:26, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Sam, Many thanks for introducing me to inline citation, wish I'd made the effort a long time ago... The main Byrd article is pretty weak when it comes to the expedition, but my cup is overflowing with Byrd for the moment. I have two articles complete Draft:Oscar_Parkes and Draft:Birkdale (1892). I wrote Birkdale to showcase a particular marine artist's work, unfortunately we're two years away from his work being PD; so its missing an amazing gallery I'd planned. I still have to finish Draft:SS Yarmouth, which would be more to your liking I would think. I'll move whatever over to mainspace when your ready. Jim - Broichmore (talk) 18:16, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks Sam very much. Very helpful. Looks very complicated. I'll look at it tomorrow, hopefully I can get my head around it. I noticed all the dollar amounts in the article disappeared, was that intentional? Best Jim. Broichmore (talk) 18:58, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
No, heaven forbid! There's an ID at the end of the URL string. Unlikely to be a safety hazard, I guess. (I would love ProQuest access.) SamSailor20:41, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata, presented at the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics by Lucie Kaffee and Hady Elsahar (see the poster and the paper)
Developing a prototype for usability testing for how the term box (labels, descriptions, aliases) could work on mobile
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Working on including the dispatch lag in the maxlag API to make it easier for bots to see when they should stop editing because of performance reasons (phabricator:T194950)
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Created an API that returns constraint violations for an item in TTL format in preparation for making constraint violations queryable in the query service (phabricator:T194762)
Started planning for support for Senses
Added more helpful text on Special:NewLexeme to make it easier to understand what information is required (phabricator:T193602)
Working on pre-filling the spelling variant for a new Form's representation (phabricator:T195708)
Hi Sam,
I am reaching out as I saw that you recommended that a wiki page featuring me and my work be deleted. I am very happy that someone finally nominated it for deletion. I just wanted to make sure you knew that I support your nomination to delete the page as soon as possible. I posted a note in the discussion but wasn't sure you were going to be able to see it. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcoaponte (talk • contribs) 00:37, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
Noted. If you want to start editing about anything else than yourself, your mother, your theatre group, please let me know if I can be of any assistance. SamSailor14:52, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello Sam Sailor, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Draft:Fahad Khan - Canada Prime Marketing, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. LinguistunEinsuno (Linguist111) 20:15, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
AfD is different from CSD. You don’t have to have a lot of experience in voting in AfD to understand what does and doesn’t qualify for CSD. You tagged a page for G11 that wasn’t obvious advertising. LinguistunEinsuno (Linguist111) 20:50, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi again! I wanted to notify that months ago article mg:Jose Rafael Cordero Sanchéz was created. I already tagged it for deletion, but an IP tried it to revert it and out of caution I was wondering if it was possible to delete the article and block the IPs. Thanks beforehand! --Jamez42 (talk) 20:29, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
HolaJamez42! Qué tal? How did you find the JRCS case? We have a regex set up in the global blacklist on Meta, and it should catch most of his attempts. G*d knows how he could create mg:Jose Rafael Cordero Sanchéz in February, I'll have a chat with a steward one of the next days. (In nl:Speciaal:Diff/51791524/51791543 and in nl:Speciaal:Diff/51791543/next you updated with multiple {{Bez}} in the "Salted" column. Nothing wrong with that per se, but the attempts at creating the titles are caught be the blacklist regex. :-) In any case, the only thing that really matters with the LTA file, is to update with new cases and update the total number of known deletions. Forget about updating the list of IPs, José is on a dynamic connection anyway.) And to your question in regards to the Malagasy Wikipedia: In my experience, most of the small Wikipedias has for convenience a WP:SYSOP shortcut, that leads to the local version of a project page about administrators. Here mg:Wikipedia:Mpandrindra. I trust you have Navigation Popups set globally and disabled locally, hover over the names in the list and notice that only Jagwar and BeGasy have edited recently. Perhaps they get a notification from this message and will delete mg:Jose Rafael Cordero Sanchéz? Normally, I will leave a message on an admins talk page on the small Wikipedias asking them to delete. Recently with mt:José Rafael Cordero Sanchez on Maltese Wikipedia we had the same scenario as on Malagasy Wiki: an IP would return and remove the {{delete}} template, and none of the admins there had been online for weeks or even months. In such a case, it is easier to go to an active global sysop, I always go to nl:Gebruiker:MoiraMoira as she knows the case (example). Global sysops can use their global permissions on Wikipedias with fewer than 10 admins or fewer than three active admins within the past two months. It is a pleasure to have somebody else onboard the case, I have been doing much of the sweeping for the last 3+ years, and if you have any questions, just ask. Thank you. SamSailor07:08, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
¡Hola! Sorry! I forgot to answer this! Thanks for the thorough response! Last year I knew about JRCS' vandalism, and last week I just reminded of the issue, searched for it and found it in the mgwiki. Since I read about the global blacklist, I asked in Meta if said diacritical variation was already in the list; seems that it wasn't and as such it was updated. I also did some browsing through other Wikia and Media Wiki projects; if I happen to find another article I'll notify MoiraMoira, since you are so involved in the case I thought you were one! In any case, being a member of Wikimedia Venezuela I feel some responsability in keeping track of this case, please let me know if I can be of any help. Cheers! --Jamez42 (talk) 23:41, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Jamez42, it is wonderful if you would keep an eye on that case, believe me, it does get kind of boring after a few years. Thanks for getting an update on the global blacklist. Yes, Wikiquote and Wikinews also need to be monitored from time to time. Does Crosswatch work for you? I get a server failure error message, and that's a shame: Crosswatch was such an effective tool once you had updated your watchlists on all projects. It's likely not of any importance now we have the global blacklist entry. Thanks again. SamSailor06:17, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
Crosswatch seems to work alright for me, although I haven't used it before. I can keep a look at it from time to time if needed. --Jamez42 (talk) 14:48, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
Hey homie! thanks for the encouragement on my wiki page. i get that making a wiki page about myself wont get me famous lol but i just wanna do it because like, why not!
I do focus alot on music and trying to make myself better but I was having writers block so i got bored and wrote a wiki page on myself! LMAO have a good one sam and if you want listen to my music! XD ok peace homie! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lil Moist (talk • contribs) 01:45, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Lil Moist, good to hear you're from you! Do you believe this: I do remember being your age. I do remember questioning everything the old folks said. Disobeying orders. Doing what they said I should not do. ... Now, 4 reælz homie, stop submitting that draft about yourself. You want respect? Give us a little respect! ... And if a few years from now you want to write about something else than yourself, come back here and I'll try to guide you the best I can. Take care, SamSailor signing out at 06:07, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi! Replying to the grammatical question posed by the user Gerda, I've personally never heard gosos being used as a plurale tantum. Rather, I've read "canto dei gosos" (gosos chant) or "cantare i gosos (di...)" (sing the gosos of...). But then again, I wouldn't count on Italian grammar to define Sardinian words, being from another language. Some of them, for example, are incorrectly used in their plural form to indicate a singular Sardinian noun, like a seadas instead of a seada. On the matter of the ban, I'd like to provide a detailed reply but as of now, I'd need to do some further research.--Dk1919 (talk) 08:41, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
Ciao e benvenuto!Ho vissuto a Roma per 1 anno 30 anni fa, e capisco ancora la lingua scritta in una certa misura. Soprattutto se scrivi lentamente. ;-) (A) on the matter of sing./plur.: Goolge returns no hits on "un gosos" "un goso" and, as I wrote on DYK, a few examples were found where "un gosos" is in fact used. But perhaps we don't need to investigate this further, I think Gerda asked out of curiosity, and I freely admit that I love that kind of question and found it interesting to try and provide an answer. If clarification is needed, I do have an old contact on Sardegna, and if he is still alive, he may be able to either tell us the about the local use or to ask around. (B) regarding the ban: that would be lovely, 1000 grazie, and if you can give me some keywords in either Italian or English, I will see what sources I can find. A piú tardi, SamSailor09:29, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
(watching) I formatted a bit (both nom and article), please try to combine one-sentence paragraphs, - a sequence of "In year, ..." is particularly discouraged. Congrats for the ship on the Main page! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:19, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Broichmore, I'd be delighted to have a look. I did a few small things and hid a dupe mention of his first book. I'm off now, so perhaps in 12 hours from now or so. A few quick ideas: level-3 sections for life periods? No "In 19xx" beginnings as Gerda remarked. Book titles in italics, not straight quotes. The usual "refs in order" requirement at DYK. ... There are numerous books where he is mentioned, I'll see what we can use. Gerda Arendt, thank you as always. Here you said "spell out numbers until twelve", but just FYI: "Integers from zero to nine are spelled out in words", cf. MOS:NUMERAL ... dewiki is actually even more relaxed, and: Die alte Regel, nach der Zahlen von 0 bis 12 generell in Buchstaben und Zahlen ab 13 in Ziffern zu schreiben sind, gilt heute nicht mehr., siehe de:WP:SVZ. :) Have a good evening, both! SamSailor19:39, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
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On 2 July 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Qabaniso Malewezi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Q wrote "Wikipedia"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Qabaniso Malewezi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Qabaniso Malewezi), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
For someone who has just begun to edit things in my case that would be one thing, because I knew it to be a fact, what is the best place to go to read about the best way to do this in the future and how to add citations? Thank you very much in advance.
Kate Ladyarcher64 (talk) 05:33, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
Kate, I've posted a welcome message on your talk page. If you give me details on where and which citations you wish to add, I'll be happy to help you. SamSailor05:52, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
My wiki page got rejected with comment "Small, young, non-notable company. This basically amounts to promo.". Thanks for your quick review. Can you help me with a little more clarity on the following
1. I do have more reference links for the content. If I provide more reference links from reputed source will it get my companies wiki page to pass through?
2. What is the criteria that makes and organisation to fall under small and young company? How to comply this criteria?
3. The comment also said "do not resubmit" but after complying with above 2 pointers, can I resubmit?
Recently my organisation's wiki page got rejected with comment "Small, young, non-notable company. This basically amounts to promo.". Can you help me with more clarity on the following
1. We do have additional reference links (atleast 10). If we update those reference links from magazines will it get my organisations wiki page to pass through?
2. What is the criteria that makes my organisation to fall under small and young company? How to comply this criteria?
3. The comment also said "do not resubmit" but after complying with above 2 points, can I resubmit?
Murali2013 (talk) 13:11, 9 July 2018 (UTC)}}
The short answer here is: we are trying to be an encyclopædia. We are not the yelllow pages where people can create pages about their company or organisation. Please respect that. Do you want to edit about anything else than your company? SamSailor13:54, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
DYK for Oscar Parkes
On 10 July 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oscar Parkes, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that naval historian and artist Oscar Parkes became interested in ships after seeing a picture of the USS Baltimore(pictured) on a biscuit tin? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oscar Parkes. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Oscar Parkes), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Hi! Just wanted to give a friendly reminder to make sure you aren't changing file names without moving the image first, I just reverted two of your edits 12 which added a hyphen breaking the images. All the best, KatnissMay the odds be ever in your favor ♥16:13, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing that mistake of mine, KatnissEverdeen, that's very kind of you! Changing file names both here and on Commons is, I'm afraid, not as straightforward as it is moving a page from a title that does not comply with the NCs, as were the case for a lot of the articles in Category:Naval guns of the United Kingdom and still is for quite a few. And if a regex then mistakenly changes a text string per MOS:HYPHEN post-move, and the mover is not alert, then he is thankful that a sharp-eyed colleague spots it afterwards. Kind regards, SamSailor19:36, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
Ah okay, my mistake then. I had presumed since you were moving the page that you were also trying to move the image, though clearly it was just an error on your part. No worries and it can happen to the best of us. Cheers, KatnissMay the odds be ever in your favor ♥04:51, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Errors like the ones I made typically happen when one should have gone for a brisk walk half an hour ago: we lose focus, and make sloppy mistakes. It also highlights the inherent risks of depending on scripts for MOS corrections. It is just fine that you draw attention to this. Since you patrol a place like CAT:MISSFILE, would WP:DBR be a starting point of inspiration for you? One of my own favourite places to "poke around" is CAT:ALS, see the instructions at the largely forgotten WP:URA. SamSailor06:17, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Hey Sam, no need to explain yourself. I fully understand how easy it is to make that kind of mistake, and have made sloppy errors several times throughout my few years on Wikipedia. To be honest, I'm not 100% certain how I stumbled upon CAT:MISSFILE, I sort of do Wiki-gnomish things most of the time and occasionally enjoy exploring new areas of Wikipedia, so I imagine I found it that way. I've never heard of WP:DBR before this, actually. Currently, it's sort of become a project between myself and fellow editor KylieTastic to help clear the backlog in CAT:MISSFILE. I actually had it down to 9 pages last night, and at the time of writing this it's about 50+, which gives you an idea how fast the category fills up. At the moment, Kylie is on a long Wikibreak due to some personal issues, so I believe I'm the only one regularly checking it (like WP:URA it's quite a forgotten category). Would love to do more, though with how busy my real-life is, my editing is unfortunately very sporadic and on-and-off. I'll sometimes make 50+ edits a day and other days I won't even have time to log on, so CAT:MISSFILE is sort of a side-project of mine at the moment along with reviewing pending changes and of course regularly checking several articles which are sort of my "comfort" articles (just meaning I'll quick check those for vandalism/unsourced content, etc if I don't have time to edit anything in-depth). KatnissMay the odds be ever in your favor ♥19:48, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! If you ever feel inspired, we could always use more help clearing the category whenever you get the chance, especially now with Kylie gone for a while. There are eight road-related shields which I've had to specially request at WP:USRD/S/R and WP:HWY/S, so you can just ignore those as there's nothing we can do until they get around to creating them. So 18 left! All the best, KatnissMay the odds be ever in your favor ♥20:14, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Namaste and welcome! Sorry, the answer to your suggestion is "no", and you ought to follow WP:BRD and post on the article page, if you feel there are compelling reasons for your removal of images from the article. Here's what I can see happened:
In your next edit to Vistara, here, the copyright violation is removed, that's good, and the BUNDLING is nice as well. In the department of absolute minor "transgressions" you stick both authors of the source in one |author= parameter in the citation resulting in |author=Aditi Shah, Jamie Freed. "Author" is singular. Common sense would suggest using either (a) the quick and dirty solution of sticking in an |author2= parameter where you have the comma, or (b) the nicer solution that only takes a few more seconds: |first1=Aditi |last1=Shah |first2=Jamie |last2=Freed The template documentation for {{Cite news}} says it quite clearly: author: this parameter is used to hold the complete name of a single author (first and last) or to hold the name of a corporate author. This parameter should never hold the names of more than one author. In an article like Vistara that is a GA, pay attention to details like this, please. Also, when an article is tagged with {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} and the format is well established in both the article body text and, except for a few cases, in the citations, please do spend the extra seconds and use |accessdate=12 July 2018|date=11 July 2018| instead of |accessdate=2018-07-12|date=2018-07-11. MOS:DATEUNIFY has the details.
But you forgot one major thing when you removed the copyvio. Please read the policy, identify, what you forgot, and follow up. If in doubt, return here and I'll guide you.
A few hours later, you visited IndiGo, another GA. The previous edit happened to be by Krghanta, whom you had issued a uw-copyright earlier that morning. In Special:Diff/849946620 you removed the images File:IndiGo Airbus A320neo F-WWDG (to VT-ITI) (28915135713).jpg and File:DSC 3886-VT-IFE (10386595974).jpg, and you left Krghanta's upload File:Indigo_ATR_72-600.jpg in the article. Anyone who had paid close attention when visiting Krghanta's user talk as you did in Special:Diff/849896141 would have noticed that Indigo_ATR_72-600.jpg was up for WP:F7c-deletion, and by the time you edited IndiGo at 13:59 UTC, we were well beyond the two-days grace period and the file would already be listed in CAT:F7 ready to be zapped by the next admin taking a turn with the backlog. Good faith mistake, any one of us could have overlooked the details here. A script that can be helpful to avoid a situation like this is User:Anomie/linkclassifier that will add a red frame to a file nominated for deletion.
What is not a good faith mistake is that you return after a 9+ hours editing break and as your first edit again remove the images with the factually flawed edit summary "same type of aircraft in all the pictures". I have inserted them again. Feel free to open a talk page discussion about your wish to remove them, but please refrain from edit war further over this.
Listen, not everyone is interested in each and every aspect of an article. I saw a copy-vio in the text, I removed it. I honestly don't focus on images as such in any article, but rather on the content more inclined to aircraft, airport and airline articles. So, in your edit summary, when your main aim was to not just remove the ATR image, but also revert my removal, you should've been clear in your edit summary rather than masquerading your edit with a summary of only the intent to remove the ATR image or at least you should've left a message on my talk page on the same if it was an honest mistake in your edit summary. Talk about mistakes.
There are situations where editors have come and added useful content or removed unsourced content or basically made some useful edit on top of a vandalism. Now, I can;t keep bickering over this since these are editors who rarely edit such articles and are trying to help. It is rather someone familiar with the content who would undo the vandalism and also retain the good faith edits. — LeoFrank Talk15:59, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
FYI, I edit conflicted here on your talk page. And yes, you don't have to try to think that common sense prevails only with you like you mentioned above. I may have not known about the author2 parameter, but that does not give you the right to attack in the manner above. As such the discussion here was solely related to IndiGo, I wonder why you had to bring in the edits to Vistara here. Common sense prevails. — LeoFrank Talk16:07, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
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Hi, Sam. Thank you for helping out. Appreciate it. I can use all the help I can get from experienced editors, like you and others. Looking forward to seeing the article go through the motions ("Wikimotions"), maybe ultimately making its way to Wiki's mainspace. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tqiwiki (talk • contribs) 15:25, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
Here's 1: Seeking guidance to get a good Visual Edit Mode resource for adding Info Boxes for a Subject (person) when starting an Article (Draft).Tqiwiki (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:09, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
I was under the impression the photo was good to go. The photo was of the subject, taken by a photographer at the photographer's studio, the copyright given to the subject, the photo being uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, without mentioning that the photographer transferred the copyright to the subject. Wondering if there's some particular protocol to be followed for uploading the photo to Wikimedia Commons that was somehow missed last time. Any idea what's going on? Please advise. Thank you.Tqiwiki (talk) 11:30, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
Got it. 1st time observing, albeit remotely. Relatively new here. Multiple technicalities to appreciate. Subject matter interest. Observed photo activity via WikiMedia Commons, triggered by Watchlist alert. Thank you.Tqiwiki (talk) 21:10, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, Lugnuts. And thanks for starting the essay. I've been thinking about starting one since Dec. 2015, and today was going to be the day ... only to discover that my "old" mentor beat me with 5 weeks. Have a nice evening. SamSailor20:18, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
Heh! Both essays are probably fine under their current titles. I'll try to find some of the old examples of redirect-hijacking that prompted the creation of the template. ... "Great minds" ... You know, I wake up every morning determined to win the eternal battle against procrastination; only to postpone the fight till tomorrow. ;) On a much more serious and note: did you lot solve the problem with CO2 shortage your breweries had? SamSailor20:41, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
I think it's solved now, but you may now view me as the Antichrist, as I don't drink! At least we're having the first decent summer in a while... LugnutsFire Walk with Me04:54, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
I don't view you any different, Lugnuts. On a side note (without any gravedancing), did you notice this username change and the outcome of the situation? SamSailor06:49, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
Dear Kathrine, My colleague GSS has already reviewed the draft, and has correctly declined it again. I repeat what I said in my review: please do not pursue this further for the time being. Moslund has had very minor roles in two productions, and is not yet anywhere near a pass of WP:NACTOR or WP:BASIC/WP:GNG. If you want to edit about anything else, I will be happy to guide and help you. SamSailor06:14, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Sam, I edited the Hemmingwell article to ask you a question but I forgot to log in and my IP is showing could you remove that, please?
--Buntz06 (talk) 13:17, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Sam, so I get this a lot with Wikipedia and other websites like it, what does it mean when I have made a Unsourced Edit? For example, the Hemmingwell article, if I sourced that article could it stay there without being redirected or not? Besides, could you please explain to me what sourcing is and how to do it.
Thanks Mate.
Brandon, again, as Wikipedia:Verifiability says "all material must be attributable to reliable, published sources." Assuming you are from Wellingborough, isn't that a good place to get you started with editing based on sources? We need a source for the 1959 "white footprint" incident – can you find one? Then we can format a citation together. Let me hear from you. SamSailor06:07, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Sam Sailor, I ran across your edit on Young Dangerous Heart where you removed the 'short pages monitor' and stated No need for monitoring. I'm not disagreeing with your edit, just trying to understand - I was under the impression that all disambiguation with only a few items should have a {{subst:long comment}}. Could you explain please? Thanks, Leschnei (talk) 13:06, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Leschnei. It is to my knowledge not a well-described corner of Wikipedia. I frequently visit Special:ShortPages, it's a good place to catch page blanking or very short new articles that need incubation in draft space. I keep a {{subst:Long comment}} rubber stamp handy for pages about or shorter than 120 bytes, cf. the template documentation, that legitimately can be left in main space, but that we want off Special:ShortPages. As you know, {{long comment}} transcludes {{short pages monitor}}, the template that puts the pages into Category:Monitored short pages and its subcats. I have never seen a WP page that deals with Monitored short pages, the closest thing that comes to documentation AFAIK is Template talk:Short pages monitor. I can't say I ever go cleaning out in Category:Long monitored short pages or any of the other sub-categories, but judging from the template talk, that seems to have been the intention. I don't know if it is suggested anywhere exactly when to remove the monitor template and the long comment, and I guess you can argue, that since the smallest category is Category:Monitored short pages length 701 to 800 then both elements should stay until the page reaches 701 bytes? In which case Young Dangerous Heart was 41 bytes too short. Let me know what you know and what you think. SamSailor15:22, 10 August 2018 (UTC) P.S. I have no problem with you adding a long comment again if you wish.
Maybe not. There are, from time to time, instances where a long-term regular editor will spew out a bunch of small stubs, typically bot generated genus stubs. Or astro stubs. Then "long comment" is nice to have in the tool box. Other than that ... since we got the possibility to WP:DRAFTIFY on NPP, I guess my use is limited to short DABs and soft redirects to Wiktionary. But if nobody is is patrolling those categories and cleaning them out, as TexasAndroid used to do, then I wonder if the whole concept serves any purpose. On the other hand, you are not likely to hear anybody complain if you add a long comment. This conversation is the first in 5+ years I have had with anyone about the matter, and I had to read for 30+ minutes before I replied. :-) SamSailor20:41, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
I'm sorry for any inconveniences that i may have caused, but it was a task given to me,and i needed it to prove my capability in my work place. please i appreciate your effort. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fabregado (talk • contribs) 07:57, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
Fabregado (talk) 07:43, 12 August 2018 (UTC)I have not seen your response.
However, For the record the article is not for me, but for a young man who has excelled in the Entertainment industry and he deserves some recognition on Wikipedia.Fabregado (talk) 07:43, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
Adalberto Maria Merli
Thanks for helping me edit the page about this particular actor. Perhaps you can help me put in citations since I don't know how to do that.
You are welcome, 20SS00. On your Italian user talk page, you disclosed that you are Scottish. I'll gladly help you formatting citations, it's dead easy, like most other things, when you try it 10 times. SamSailor19:19, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello, what seems to be the trouble with these? I have been waiting for quite some time for a review and there has been none aside from your comment. -- A Certain White Catchi? 09:59, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Thundertentronkh. It is really simple: "If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it." SamSailor07:08, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Seeking article advice on: Resurrection of Christ, Proof of[[]]
Greetings Sam Sailor. I new here, no doubt. The format is foreign to my mind. I suppose its kinda like going from flying a single engine plane to a passenger plane. So the learning curve here is though, especially when I aim to cut through a tough bias out there against Christianity. So I know the writing challenges here and its all good with me. I didn't think you would approve the article and I knew there was problems with the format but still am trying to learn this format here as it is beyond what I'm used to.
I was informed the title was not original enough as Wikipedia already has the Resurrection of Christ page. I did see that page before choosing the title but thought the subject content was unique enough, dealing with modern evidence and all. But if you say a title change needs to be done then that I can do. I am also a little skeptical about referencing websites as its not my style to do that. But to keep the article simple I referenced links so anyone can click on them to see the reference. Though to be honest I'm not sure if that method goes over well here or not?
As for the subject content itself. Why not? The prophecies all nicely harmonize with well known historical events. My method of research is very scientific but my formatting skills on this particular site does, I admit, need improvement.
@Krzylig: You are welcome. We can't link while the article is in draft space, which was why I made a note about the Polish version. I added an infobox, what can I do for you to get you going? I do not speak Polish, but Google translate does an OK job. SamSailor15:14, 30 August 2018 (UTC) (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.)
@Sam Sailor: Thank you again. I've just received late notifications as you anticipated my thoughts. It is all done and we just need to wait for the review.
I have not used Wiki for while and felt lost. Thank you for your support. Best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krzylig (talk • contribs) 15:28, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm Vexations. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Treaty of Ulm (1326), and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.
Sorry, something went wrong there. The page showed as unreviewed in my queue. I meant to mark as reviewed, not unreview. Vexations (talk) 00:03, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
Hey Sam, thank you for noticing that I was creating a full blown Wikipedia page instead of my User page. It's just today I started to take contributing to Wikipedia a bit more seriously and this happened. I added the db-author thing at the top and the page is now deleted. Thanks for being that first stranger who helps you when you move to a new town! Konquetty (talk) 14:03, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Sorry, Bob515678, but right now I have a few other things on my plate. I tried to draftify Dato Star, only to realize that you started Draft:Dato Star a week ago. There is really no hurry here with getting pages into main space. And we do not get bonus points for the number of articles we create. That said, you are always welcome here if you need a helping hand with anything. Happy editing. SamSailor12:02, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
And how do i get waiting patiently to come up when i type his name and can you get a picture of the horse to put on the article Bob515678 (talk) 12:25, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
Larasam93 (talk) 21:05, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
Sir, I have published a Wikipedia page about one of my favorite singer and its in the following link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Sheera_Jasvir and the request to publish was declined due to page being not sourced. So i have edited it to be more sourced and i need to know whether its ok now or not. Thank you very much sir.
I saw that you cleaned up the little mess I made trying to add an image.
Thanks.
Yesterday, beginners luck day, I successfully added to the driving simulator page the image called "truck sim virage", one of the two images that I had uploaded to wiki commons. Today I tried unsuccessfully to add the second image "car sim virage".
I do not know what I did differently but I received a Permission error.
Great job fixing my attempts to edit. Much appreciated. The same page has a section on Simulator Sickness that has no references. I coauthored a chapter on that subject for a text book. I could summarize the high points of that chapter and give a single reference that would lead to all the other references. Reducing 14 pages down to one of two would be a challenge but it might be worthwhile. What do you think? DriverSafety (talk) 19:21, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi DriverSafety. I would advice against using a book where you have co-authored a chapter as a source for two reasons, (a) there may be risk of connecting you online identity with your real life identity, and (b) depending on who edited and published the book it may fall under WP:SPS. On the other hand, it may not fall under SPS, it all depends ... I'd be happy to help you format nice {{cite book}}s for the references you know, just dump a list of URLs here. SamSailor10:59, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
my wife and I did our separate fieldwork ventures in an area where it was quite bad - the less said the better in one sense JarrahTree23:55, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Sam. Hope you're well. I don't know if you can help with this AfD in any way? I think maybe my comment for redirect would be the best, but if you have a spare minute to take a look, I'd be grateful. Thanks. LugnutsFire Walk with Me17:23, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
@Lugnuts: Thanks for dropping by, hope you are well too. It is a classical example of something that could just have been redirected per WP:ATD-R, few would likely have noticed and objected. She does not meet NACTOR, the question is if sources are available to expand and make a decent little article that meets BASIC. I will look into that tomorrow. SamSailor19:32, 19 September 2018 (UTC) P.S. Could be handy from time to time if you had email enabled.
Well, at least enable it and drop me a line, and then disable it. I remember that user who claimed that you had send him death treats in reply to an email he had send you ... "wait a min, Lugnuts has not enabled email!" IndefSamSailor19:50, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure what you've done but you've managed to add your vector.js page to the category of pages requiring RevDel for copyvio reasons. I suspect it might be because you have used {{Copyvio-revdel}} in a comment and the software is picking it up as a transclusion of the template. Nthep (talk) 21:35, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for your Belated Welcome to Wiki message and invitation to TWA. It was quite helpful and I had fun completing it (and learned a thing or two as well). My good wishes to you, kind stranger. chaos1618 (talk) 10:44, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
@Pizzahut2: Absolutely. Apparently Sagittarius can't read the HTML anchor and reports an error at the redirect. Allow me to try and see if it likes {{anchor}} any better. Hang on. SamSailor15:04, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
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@Insertcleverphrasehere: I'm doing next to nothing. It should be me and a crowd of other editors that came to your talk page and thanked you for the many hours you have spend with NPP. And your resilience to several knee jerk remarks along the way did not go unnoticed. Keep it up, friend! SamSailor16:53, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
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