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The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
• Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
• Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

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

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:46, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
393		Ottoman–Habsburg wars (talk)	Add sources
675		History of Mexico (talk)	Add sources
677		Cossack Hetmanate (talk)	Add sources
381		Ottoman wars in Europe (talk)	Add sources
207		Sejo of Joseon (talk)	Add sources
12		Chimtay (talk)	Add sources
54		Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (talk)	Cleanup
59		Tây Sơn wars (talk)	Cleanup
101		Annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire (talk)	Cleanup
4		1580 in Ireland (talk)	Expand
216		Catholic League (German) (talk)	Expand
58		Great Wrath (talk)	Expand
1,806		Shaun the Sheep (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
965		Wars of the Three Kingdoms (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
233		Thomas Müntzer (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
73		Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629) (talk)	Merge
117		New Laws (talk)	Merge
55		Cartoonito (Central and Eastern European TV channel) (talk)	Merge
137		Swedish War of Liberation (talk)	Wikify
82		Kabardia (talk)	Wikify
9		Mainas missions (talk)	Wikify
4		Battle of Guidjel (talk)	Orphan
3		Paul Kukubo (talk)	Orphan
3		Dar Es-Sultan (talk)	Orphan
16		Matsukura Katsuie (talk)	Stub
17		Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge (talk)	Stub
13		Battle of Horodok (1655) (talk)	Stub
10		Terazawa Hirotaka (talk)	Stub
103		Right-bank Ukraine (talk)	Stub
13		Qaplan I Giray (talk)	Stub

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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2025 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor, we hope the WikiCup will give you a chance to improve your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page.

For the 2025 WikiCup, we've implemented several changes to the scoring system. The highest-ranking contestants will now receive tournament points at the end of each round, and final rankings are decided by the number of tournament points each contestant has. If you're busy and can't sign up in January, don't worry: Signups are now open throughout the year. To make things fairer for latecomers, the lowest-scoring contestants will no longer be eliminated at the end of each round.

The first round will end on 26 February. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:13, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

Removed:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Children_of_Henry_I_of_Englandland
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Illegitimate_children_of_Henry_I_of_England
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mistresses_of_Henry_I_of_England

They ae categories here in Wikipedia and are linked to Henry I of England and have been added previously by others here at Wikipedia. Pipera (talk) 22:36, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Are you saying you're after all not one of the mistresses of Henry I of England? Disappointment! Bishonen | tålk 23:30, 5 January 2025 (UTC).[reply]

since I’m not one of the living dead…I’m afraid I’m not. Le sigh. Ealdgyth (talk) 23:36, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
289		Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (talk)	Add sources
5		Wan Hassan Mohd Ramli (talk)	Add sources
576		Viet Minh (talk)	Add sources
36		Dallas (1978 TV series) season 13 (talk)	Add sources
3,768		Jim Broadbent (talk)	Add sources
30		Robert Fitzhamon (talk)	Add sources
95		Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (talk)	Cleanup
1,412		Babylon Berlin (talk)	Cleanup
791		Climate change denial (talk)	Cleanup
57		Robert fitz Martin (talk)	Expand
568		History of Syria (talk)	Expand
19,995		Bashar al-Assad (talk)	Expand
362		The Mighty Boosh (TV series) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6		Nicholas de Moels (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
10		2010–11 Israeli Premier League (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
260		General Intelligence Directorate (Syria) (talk)	Merge
198		Syrian National Council (talk)	Merge
111		International recognition of the Syrian National Council (talk)	Merge
176		Ninja Tune (talk)	Wikify
76		Rememory (talk)	Wikify
15		FitzMartin (talk)	Wikify
2		Arosyat Al-Naloti (talk)	Orphan
2		Evelina Betancourt-Anthony (talk)	Orphan
18		Seamoriow Sports (talk)	Orphan
6		Ocracoke Island Airport (talk)	Stub
3		Najmi Ahmad (talk)	Stub
5		Hassen Belkhodja (talk)	Stub
26		Amiruddin Hamzah (talk)	Stub
11		Hishamuddin Abdul Karim (talk)	Stub
8		Ahmad Fakhruddin Fakhrurazi (talk)	Stub

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Wishing Ealdgyth a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:48, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Sorry for the lateness! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:48, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Victoria, thanks for the ping. My last edit was tidying up after another editor but his stuff kept popping up on my watchlist and I was impressed you lasted so long before taking the action you did. AGF yes, but competence too. I was tempted to do something like that myself but held off because you're much better versed in the subject than I. Anyway, here's to more productive uses of everyone's time... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 11:01, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, your recent edits have left the reference {{harvnb|White|1949|pp=105–121}} (in the "Illegitimate" section) undefined, meaning that readers cannot look it up and the article is added to Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. If you could supply the missing source, or replace the reference with one to a better source if appropriate, it would be appreciated. It's a common problem with harv and sfn references. DuncanHill (talk) 11:04, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]