Sam Sailor
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Ester Volicerová - Removed Change
editHi, 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)
- 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)
- 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)
This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2026)
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Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Work–life balance • Saucer Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 May 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Stub promotions
editHey 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)
New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026
editHello 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
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.
May backlog drive
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.
PageTriage
An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket if you're interested in following along.
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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2026)
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Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Wings of Fire (novel series) • Work–life balance Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 May 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 22 May 2026
edit- News and notes: Offline: Osama Khalid still in prison
He has been imprisoned since 2020 for his Wikipedia edits. A fresh campaign is calling for his release.
- In the media: Indonesian editors, you shall return!
And lawspam, may you be away.
- Disinformation report: Who is a typical paid editor? Who are their typical clients?
Remember the golden rule!
- Recent research: WikiLambda the Ultimate
Does Abstract Wikipedia help fight "One ring to rule them all" solutions for knowledge access - or does it implement one itself?
- Traffic report: This is where I'll be, so heavenly, so come and dance with me Michael!
A real off the wall thriller, invincible, can't beat it, or is it dangerous and just bad?
- Forum: WikiAnnotate: help us build a dataset of article quality evaluations
A research project to build better automated article assessment tools.
- In focus: Demystifying the 2026-27 Annual Plan
A guide to WMF's Tech Annual Plan for the next year.
- Opinion: Wikipedia isn't a battleground. So why does it feel like one?
Do we really have to fight?
- Serendipity: Wikinews: Into the Wikiverse
The early suggestions for what the wiki could have been.
- Special report: Wikimedia Foundation closes Wikinews after 21 years
Displaces 700 active editors among 31 language editions.
- Community view: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness
Which topics are dropping, and is the pattern the same everywhere?
- Gallery: Earth Day and Mother's Day
Earth Day was on 22 April, and Mother's Day was on 10 May (in the US and many other countries).
- Comix: Brother, can you spare a page?
What would you say?
This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2026)
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Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Harbor • Wings of Fire (novel series) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 May 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Women in Red - June 2026
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Announcements, tips, participation... Announcements from other communities: Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
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--Rosiestep (talk) 22:52, 25 May 2026 (UTC) via MassMessaging
This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2026)
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Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Partnership for Peace • Harbor Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 June 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Neal Ludevig page
editHi Sam!
Wasn't sure the best way to be in touch, and I had responded to your comment but didn't hear back. Are you able to see if the tweaks made to the Neal Ludevig page to improved it and make it qualify? Thinking about some other pages for other folks, but feel like this will help provide a foundation for what goes and what doesn't, so wanted to check-in with you since you gave some good advice earlier. Thanks! Hiztorybuph (talk) 13:37, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 74
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Issue 74, March–April 2026
- New partnership: Swissdox
- User survey results
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team – 10:34, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
(This message was sent to User:Sam Sailor and is being posted here due to a redirect.)