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Hi, I’m new here. I’m having trouble updating the candle wick article. It seems new technology updates are not welcome? Braided candle wicks are very old technology but is the only wick type shown in photo and description. I’ve invited Adamant1, a person removing my updates, to update the wick information in hopes it’s completed to their satisfaction. Any advice to a new person, for this situation? Sail on 😀 ENieves1 (talk) 02:33, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Sam - good to see you around these parts. Hope all is well with you.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 11:19, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Good to hear from you, I am well, thanks; I hope you too are well.
 * In regards to the AFD: Let's for a second assume that "Thage" and "Tage" (different spellings of the same name in Swedish) is the same person, the date of death makes it plausible that "Thage" was a misspelling. Via a genealogy website, I found a grandson (born 1965) of Tage Brauer, who is on FB. Now, if I - or - contacted him, and if he knows anything about his grandfather's participation in the 1912 Olympics, would there be a chance that we can get some closure here with e.g. an explanation like "he sprained his foot the day before the competition"? I think as you have said, it is most likely that TB had signed up, but did not show up. Sam Sailor 12:15, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, all good here thanks. I think with the extra info that has been found, he should now pass WP:GNG, regardless of him taking part. Infact, I'll add that note to the AfD right now. Nice work from you and Julle!  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 12:18, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, thanks. I would still love some closure on this one if we can get it. is the best to judge if contacting the grandson would be inappropriately invasive in Sweden. Sam Sailor 17:23, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

A message from 2400:2410:500:6B00:D1A2:410C:785C:1E11
Hi Sam,

I edited the Pentatonic scales page to include information on Indian classical music. I study Indian classical music, and anyone who studies Indian classical music studies ragas and they know what notes each raga includes. The information is easily verifiable from numerous reliable sources, including the Kramik Pustak Malika, which is a series of textbooks on Indian classical music by Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu_Narayan_Bhatkhande). It can also be verified from online sources, including raga databases such as this:. I tried including a citation in my edit, but as I'm new to editing Wikipedia articles, and my citation did not go through. Perhaps I don't know where exactly in the article to put the citation, as I made changes to several locations.

Could you please let me know how to include the citations, or else republish my revision based on the above links provided?

P.S. Okay, it seems to have gone through now. Thanks.

2400:2410:500:6B00:D1A2:410C:785C:1E11 (talk) 08:06, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Namaste, IP. I added a few citations and linked to the ragas (or raags) I could find, have a look. I'll be happy to help you with citations or anything else, just ask. If you create an account, cf. the welcome message I posted on the IP talk page, you will have the benefit of being able to run java scripts that make cition formatting a lot easier. Best, Sam Sailor 10:15, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

China PX protest article review
Hi! I recently submitted a draft review for the China PX protest article through my sandbox and you were the reviewer! I think I accidentally selected the article for creation category, but now I have updated in the article main page. I was wondering if you can have a look and offer some feedbacks? Rainyyang (talk) 09:13, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Looks good, xiexie ni. Sam Sailor 09:24, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Do you have any suggestions to help it upgrade to C-class? Rainyyang (talk) 11:29, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * It’s B-class, I changed the rating. Sam Sailor 12:30, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

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More creations (see the list at the end). Thank you. Best regards. 190.55.165.42 (talk) 19:28, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you, IP, all have been tagged for deletion. Best regards, Sam Sailor 21:47, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Altered speedy deletion rationale: Talk:What was the main food that the convict of britin ate
Hello Sam Sailor. I am just letting you know that I deleted Talk:What was the main food that the convict of britin ate, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, under a different criterion from the one you provided, which didn't fit the page in question. Thank you. &oelig; &trade; 07:14, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * That's fine with me. Best, Sam Sailor 07:16, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Tagging pages for speedy deletion
Hello, Sam Sailor,

I noticed you recently tagged some pages for CSD G13 speedy deletion. Please set up your Twinkle Preferences to "Notify page creator" so that every time you tag a page for deletion, the page creator receives a talk page notice. It's important that the draft creators know that they can request a restoration of their draft at WP:REFUND and they find this information out in these notices so please do this every time you tag any page for deletion in the future. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 22:01, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello, ,
 * I'm a little surprised by your post. Unless practice recently was changed, there is no requirement that the creator should be notified. Let me know what you are referring to here.
 * I notify page creators when I believe there could be a reasonable chance that they want to get a refund, e.g. Special:Diff/1029755013.
 * For drafts that I believe show no promise, typically made by users with few or no edits outside their draft, I do not notify the page creator.
 * Specifically, which G13-eligible drafts tagged for deletion by me are you referring to? Kind regards, Sam Sailor 22:32, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!
Many thanks! Sam Sailor 01:51, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!
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From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:58, 25 June 2021 (UTC) Many thanks! Sam Sailor 04:55, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

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José Cordero
Hi! Quick question: should Wikidata items about José Cordero be kept for easier detection of future articles, or should they be deleted? Thanks! --NoonIcarus (talk) 11:44, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the question! I don't know if there is a rule about it, but I just leave them for the exact reason you mention: they can be useful for detecting new activity. Do you keep an eye on the case? Would be much appreciated. Best, Sam Sailor 11:47, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Roger that! Yes, I have changed my username, but I continue keeping an eye on advances. I'll continue to make any necessary updates. --NoonIcarus (talk) 16:22, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah, Jamez! Hope you are well! He's certainly still trying to squeeze in articles, I found ht:Jose R. Cordero S. (activista) today. Sam Sailor 16:32, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, you too! I searched for "Politic Monsters (EP)", without finding results. Later on I might to a more in depth search, including of the most recent keywords. --NoonIcarus (talk) 16:41, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

Regards Chinese Metro images
Hey Sam, regards your comment here. When I started working on clearing Category:Articles with missing files 8-ish years ago I used to comment out a lot, but soon came to realise that what happened a lot was people just un-commenting again just adding back the problem, and I've never been aware of someone actually fixing the issues then un-commenting. I do comment out on templates as they do get fixed, but on articles I gave up as I saw no indication it was being practically helpful. The Chinese images have been a problem for years, because of the extremely low "threshold of originality" that China has (see c:COM:TOO China). In the past these issues were fixed correctly at source, but I have this and the previous issues outstanding at Template_talk:Rail-interchange. If fixed in the root template then they can be easily re-introduced, however for some reason at the moment no one is willing to make even obvious protected template fixes. Overall there are more China related deletions in the pipeline (c:Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Logos of rail transport companies of China) and due to the long history I do not expect the images to be replaced. Also as these are non-essential images I do not believe they are covered by WP:FAIRUSE, but maybe I'm just to old and jaded. However I can say I'm very happy to see others fixing CAT:MISSFILE issues which ever way they see fit as I have spent way too many hours/years on that. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 20:25, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi KylieTastic, thanks for your messages, and my apologies for the late reply. Let's see how this turns out, see Marchjuly's message below. How did you become aware of c:Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Logos of rail transport companies of China? I hope you are well. Best, Sam Sailor 02:09, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I knew about that deletion request because it contains one of mine c:File:Guangfo metro (symbol).png so I was alerted on my commons talk page, plus I keep all my commons uploads so got an edit notification when tagged. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 09:19, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I have posted on WT:CHINA and WT:RR about the deletion request on Commons. Best, Sam Sailor 18:11, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

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Hi Sam Sailor. You uploaded File:Guangzhou Metro icon.svg as non-free content the other day, but I believe it's much too simple to be considered eligible for copyright protection not only in the c:COM:TOO United States, but also possibly in c:COM:TOO China. I asked an administrator named about this, and he seems to concur. The file currently has more than 100 uses which is why I was looking into it. There is pretty much no way possible to justify so many uses under WP:NFCC and meet the ten WP:NFCCP for  each use  as relevant Wikipedia policy requires. I'm assuming that the reason the file is being used on so many pages is because you (or perhaps someone else) added the file to some template (which isn't allowed per WP:NFCC).Anyway, in a few days or so, a bot that searches non-free images for WP:NFCC is going to pick up on this and notice that the file is lacking a valid non-free use rationale for each of its uses except for the one in Guangzhou Metro; the bot will then remove the file from these other pages. So, before any of that happens, you might want to sort out either (1) the file's licensing or (2) the excessive number of non-free uses. For reference, a freely-licensed or public domain (PD) file (e.g. an image from Commons) is not subject to WP:NFCC and therefore can be used in templates, etc. However, this will be based on the assumption that the file's licensing is accurate. My opinion is that this file would've probably been OK to upload to Commons, but you might want to ask about it at c:COM:VPC if you want other opinions. If it turns out that Commons cannot accept this file, then there is an option to upload keep it local on English Wikipedia under the license PD-ineligible-USonly (which is sort of a local type of PD for English Wikipedia use only), but it would be better to make sure Commons cannot accept this first. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:15, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Marchjuly. Many thanks for your thorough explanation, and my apologies for not fully understanding NFCC. I appreciate the opportunity to become more acquainted with this.You are correct, the file is used in Rail-interchange/doc/CN, hence the transclusions.I too believe that File:Guangzhou Metro icon.svg is well below c:COM:TOO China. The file was, however, deleted on Commons following this poorly argued and poorly attended bulk deletion request.Tim Wu uploaded it locally on the Chinese Wikipedia, xiexie ni, Tim, from where I took the file and converted it. Tim has, I now see, filed a request for undeletion on Commons (permalink).But until that is settled, should I tag the local file with PD-ineligible-USonly?Again, thanks for your help. Best, Sam Sailor 02:09, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Sam, thanks for uploading the logo to English Wikipedia. When I tried to use PD-ineligible-USonly in Chinese Wikipedia, the bot is still removing the file from other pages, I don't know whether the same thing will happen in enwp. An admin replace it with the Non-free logo then, so I hope the admins in Commons can restore the file since it's below COM:TOO China. It would be great if you can comment on the undeletion page. 谢谢！--Tim Wu (talk) 02:48, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Responded there, thanks again. Best, Sam Sailor 07:06, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Sam, the logos were restored on Commons, and the local file can be deleted. Thank you again for your contribution! Tim Wu (talk) 07:38, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
 * @Sam Sailor: I noticed that the a Commons file of the same logo had been previously discussed and deleted only after I posted above. If it turns out that the consensus on Commons is that the file is too complex to be PD in China, then it should be OK to relicense as "PD-ineligible-USonly" for local use on English Wikipedia. I have no idea what the image use policy is for Chinese Wikipedia, but it would seem that a copyright license specific to the US would not, in principle, be usable on Chinese Wikipedia; moreover, the template wouldn't work on Chinese Wikipedia anyway since it was created for use on English Wikipedia. If you want other opinions on whether this would be PD in the US, you can ask at either WP:MCQ or WT:NFCC, but I'm pretty sure it should be OK to relicense as such. The syntax you want to use for the license is . Whether you use "China" or "People's Republic of China" shouldn't matter. You should also convert the non-free use rationale to the template Information; if you only change the copyright license and leave the non-free use rationale as is, a bot will probably flag the file for a license review by adding Wrong license and the file may still be treated as non-free content. You can also add the template Trademark as well if you want. If the Commons file is restored, a local version of the same file is probably not needed and can be tagged for speedy deletion per WP:F8. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:02, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Done, hopefully correct, thank you for your help. Best, Sam Sailor 17:55, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22
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Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script
 * LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot!

Updated scripts
 * SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn.
 * Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue).
 * ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Pending requests
 * Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages
 * Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot
 * Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books
 * Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek)
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous
 * User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description.
 * Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts
 * Ahecht:
 * draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
 * massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
 * watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
 * Awesome Aasim:
 * Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
 * Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
 * Caburum:
 * UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
 * Chlod:
 * CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's copied templates.
 * DaxServer:
 * BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one inside a   tag block into an.
 * FlightTime:
 * OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend Clear to the top of each section on the archive page.
 * Jon Harald Søby:
 * diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
 * warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
 * JPxG:
 *  PressPass  adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
 * CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
 * TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like track listing and get total runtimes.
 * Nardog:
 * CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
 * IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
 * TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
 * NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
 * ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
 * CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
 * LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
 * QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
 * Novem Linguae:
 * DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
 * NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
 * UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
 * VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
 * WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
 * P.T.Đ:
 * TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
 * Qwerfjkl:
 * editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
 * RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
 * talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: | |  (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a talkback notice). It also adds a [] link next to section headers.
 * Rublov:
 * diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
 * Rummskartoffel:
 * auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
 * generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
 * share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
 * show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
 * Tol:
 * VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a citation needed tag.
 * Venkat TL:
 * ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
 * Vukky:
 * StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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Hello, Sam Sailor,

I came across an edit of yours in a page history and realized that I hadn't seen you in quite a while. I hope you and your family are well and that you had a pleasant holiday season and New Years. I hope we cross paths at some point in 2022! Be well! Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 19:39, 7 January 2022 (UTC)