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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) 00:14, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean by add more sources? these are the most sources I could find for the season. I'm confused by what you mean? Can you please explain? Logan Z Man 2022! (talk) 02:34, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Logan Z Man 2022!: If the best sources currently available are press releases from the team itself, then the article is not ready for mainspace. WP:GNG requires in-depth coverage from third-party sources. JTtheOG (talk) 02:37, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To have already reached the number of points for the highest JAN25 award before the first week is done? JJP_Master (she/they) 20:30, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It feels like there's still a lot of work to be done to demolish the backlog! Unfortunately, it will most likely very quickly return to previous levels after the drive is done, so I want to bring it down as much as possible in the meantime. Thank you for the message (I thought I was in trouble when I first saw a glimpse of the section title) and good luck the rest of the way! JTtheOG (talk) 20:40, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		New Page Reviewer of the Year
		This award is given in recognition to JTtheOG for conducting 15,132 article reviews and 855 redirect reviews in 2024. You reviewed more articles than anybody else in 2024, and you're officially our top reviewer of the year, congratulations! On behalf of the NPP coordination team, I'd like to thank you and tell you just how grateful we are for all that you do. Thank you so much for all your excellent work, keep it up! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:01, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Hey man im josh: Thanks for deeming we worthy of the honor and, more importantly, thanks for your tireless dedication to the project! JTtheOG (talk) 19:04, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats, JT! Please feel free to use the {{Wikipedia:New pages patrol/CoY userbox|year=2024}} on your user page, if you want. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:05, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MPGuy2824: Very cool 😎 I'll definitely be adding that. Thank you. JTtheOG (talk) 08:47, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Quite an achievement, considering you were also able to create 28 new articles over the year.--Ipigott (talk) 08:25, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ipigott: Thank you, sir. Your efforts are greatly appreciated as well. However, I'm afraid four of those were incorrectly attributed to me when I draftified them. Would you know of any way to remove those four from my "Pages Created"? JTtheOG (talk) 08:47, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm no expert on attribution problems but perhaps you can provide Guettarda with the details as he recently resolved a similar problem in connection with WikiEdu.--Ipigott (talk) 09:24, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reading my article "École Émile-Cohl" ǃ Jeanne Angerie (talk) 17:40, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just want to point out that you nominated Zach Peterson for AFD just 23 minutes after it was created and per WP:NPPHOUR, Unless there are serious content problems, wait at least an hour before nominating an article for deletion, blank-and-redirecting it, or moving it to draftspace. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 10:51, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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--Lajmmoore (talk 08:55, 26 January 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Hello. Congrats! You have already reviewed over 100 of my articles. Do you have any constructive criticism?

Kind regards Barr Theo (talk) 19:19, 3 February 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@Barr Theo: Hey there. Your work on here is fantastic and I enjoy reading the new articles you turn out. Not just the bios, but the tournament season articles as well.

I guess my only concern would be that some of the newer bios seem to lack SIGCOV and only cite databases or passing mentions of the subject, such as Enrique Rubio (footballer) or René Bonnet (footballer), while others cite sources of questionable reliability, such as this blog used to cite Luis Guzmán (footballer). I do understand the difficulty of compiling sources for subjects this old, as well as the frustration of not being able to find reliable sources for subjects which were clearly notable in their time. I created John McAlery a few years back and included a questionable source as well. While I think one should always strive to find the best sourcing available, I also think it's important to cover subjects which normally don't have a light shone on them, as you said in your userpage. Keep up the fine work, meu irmão. JTtheOG (talk) 20:39, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, I wasn't expecting such a thoughtful and thorough reply.

Yeah, I agree with your concern about those who lack SIGCOV, but they only represent like 3% of my overall work (nearly 600 pages). Regarding Guzmán, that was a mistake, and I have just removed that questionable source and replaced it with a better one. But yeah, sometimes I have "no choice" but to include a questionable source, such as Charles Hereford, John Henry Ball, or José Maria Zamacois.

Also, if you enjoy reading my new articles so much, perhaps you should give me a star.

Thank you for your encouragement and I hope you keep up the fine work as well

Kind regards. Barr Theo (talk) 15:25, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello JTtheOG,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Germany's Next Topmodel (season 20) for deletion, because it's a redirect from an article title to a namespace that's not for articles.

If you don't want Germany's Next Topmodel (season 20) to be deleted, you can , but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

harrz ^talk 22:27, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Canoeing at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Marca.

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Hey, thanks for picking these up. I've cleaned up the rest. Still getting used to mobile editing evidently ... or perhaps I need glasses. Jevansen (talk) 10:41, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jevansen: No worries; happens to the best of us. I use HotCat myself. Keep up the great work, JTtheOG (talk) 19:56, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
		This award is given in recognition to JTtheOG for accumulating at least 500 points during the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:26, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		Unnecessarily complicated Gears Award
		This award is given in recognition to JTtheOG for accumulating at least 150 points during each week of the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:41, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		The Content Review Medal of Merit
		This award is given in recognition to JTtheOG for accumulating the most points during January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions, which involved over 2,000 article reviews, played a huge part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and all that you do to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:44, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]