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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter
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.
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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 to the drive!
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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WikiCup 2026 March newsletter
The first round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As some of you may have noticed, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP. This point increase has been retroactively applied to all good article reviews for which competitors have claimed points in this round. Peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.
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Greetings, can I have a second opinion on the reliability of Practical Fishkeeping for a FA nomination? The question came up here Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:21, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
Flags in infoboxes of historical countries
Flags for preceding and following states in infoboxes of historical countries seem to be systematically used, and are very helpful visually. The paragraphs you invoke in the manual of style are not as clear and final as you seem to believe. Please do stop the massive suppressions you began and reach instead a consensus on the issue. Thank you. Sapphorain (talk) 20:32, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
- ...Alright, I already reverted most of the massive destruction you managed to achieve last month. Will you be so kind as not resuming it unless you obtain a clear consensus on that matter? Thank you.--Sapphorain (talk) 23:10, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
- Actually, they haven't been objected to at all in the last year or so. I'd say that the fact that most folks let them go without a fuss is pretty clear that the MOS is correct here - that they aren't needed. And the MOS is QUITE clear that coats of arms should not be used in infoboxes... see MOS:COA, so any edits that you reverted that had coats of arms should be restored. Note that MOS:INFOBOXFLAG says "Generally, flag icons should not be used in infoboxes, even when there is a "country", "nationality" or equivalent field: they could be unnecessarily distracting and might give undue prominence to one field among many." and "Flag icons should only be inserted in infoboxes in those cases where they convey information in addition to the text." A flag next to the name of a polity is not conveying additional information, it's just a tiny little blob that for most folks conveys nothing because most folks do not recognize most of those flags. Ealdgyth (talk) 23:16, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
- It is clear from MOS:INFOBOXFLAG that the ban on flags in infoboxes is very far from applying to every page. A list of pages where they are allowed is even attempted. I think the main purpose of this ban is to avoid having flags in infoboxes of individual persons and events. But it clearly does not apply to countries, municipalities, and in general to any political entity, past and present, whose infoboxes contain at least one flag or/and coa: their own one (try to remove flags and coa of present countries and municipalities in say Europe from their infoboxes and see what happens…).
- Now the question here is wether flags and coa of preceding and succeeding countries/political entities should be allowed in the infobox of a given country/political entity. The issue is not addressed at all in MOS:INFOBOXFLAG or MOS:COA. Obviously it seems it has been deemed appropriate and useful on a considerable number of pages, since by your own saying you have been constantly suppressing them for a year. If your rate of suppression was comparable to that of this month of February, it must have been thousands of pages. You say you met no objections so far. Well: now you met mine; and if your suppressions had come a year ago to a page on my watchlist, you’d have had my objection right away. So once again: if you wish to resume your suppressions you must first reach a clear consensus on the matter.--Sapphorain (talk) 09:03, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
- I was brought here because of this edit [1]. Having looked at MOS:INFOBOXFLAG I think this very much falls under its purview, having listed out military conflicts, ships and sporting events and does not list out the info boxes of former countries as an appropriate usage. An MOS violation being widespread does not mean that an MOS violation should be permitted. Beyond what the MOS says, I think that in most cases these images are useless as the flags are themselves incredibly obscure and aren't going to be helpful to readers in quickly identifying the country, or, as in the case with the flag of the Kingdom of Tlemcen as used on Spanish Oran, is a flag that has been removed from the Kingdom of Tlemcen's page for being poorly sourced. DervotNum4 (talk) 02:15, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
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