User talk:Sam Sailor

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The broken-hearted few

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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 41, 2024)

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

Navy

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Currency of Spain • Human geography

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What should be done to install IllWill?

Could you let me know what files need to be changed to install IllWill?Naraht (talk) 19:18, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Naraht: Sure, install it by adding the following line:

mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ACobaltcigs%2FIllWill.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); // User:Cobaltcigs/IllWill.js

to your common.js or your skin script file, save, and bypass your browser cache. Best, Sam Sailor 19:31, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2024)

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

Longshore drift

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Rewriting of a page

Hello Sam,

I've just uploaded a draft for submission ( Nonso Okapla) but it's been flagged as advertising.

I would much appreciate any pointers on how to rewrite it to become encyclopedic. Thanks. Tobeaninyei (talk) 10:27, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The best way would be to spend some months becoming acquainted with Wikipedia and the it's writing style. Draft:Nonso Okpala as it stands is unbearably promotional, and, not to much surprise, many sentences are copied directly from the sources. Sam Sailor 10:35, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject Unreferenced articles November 2024 backlog drive

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2024)

Hello, Sam Sailor. The article for improvement of the week is: Image Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Longshore drift • Navy Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 21 October 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Editor experience invitation

Hi Sam. I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 13:50, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red November 2024

Women in Red | November 2024, Vol 10, Issue 11, Nos 293, 294, 321, 322, 323

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New: Asian women | Geofocus: Islands Q-Z | Women in engineering

Continuing: #1day1woman | Education (year-long initiative)

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Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Sam Sailor! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 13:02, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]