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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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475		Henry the Young King (talk)	Add sources
32		Basset family (talk)	Add sources
14		Sibyl de Neufmarché (talk)	Add sources
43		Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey (talk)	Add sources
3,122		Rajya Sabha (talk)	Add sources
7		Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Pretoria (talk)	Cleanup
32		Trevor Martin (talk)	Cleanup
40		Darius Boyd (talk)	Cleanup
284		Syrian Revolution (talk)	Expand
833		Armed factions in the Syrian civil war (talk)	Expand
11,989		Syrian civil war (talk)	Expand
1,425		Tallulah Bankhead (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
663		Companion (Doctor Who) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
222		Ravens of the Tower of London (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
23		Modal fallacy (talk)	Merge
8		Proterra (album) (talk)	Merge
14		SDSS J1228+1040 b (talk)	Merge
1,377		Quds Force (talk)	Wikify
2		Suleiman Danladi (talk)	Wikify
3		Brymbo Institute Cricket and Football Club (talk)	Wikify
4		Abu Farwa (talk)	Orphan
2		Badnawar (Dewas district) (talk)	Orphan
3		Boione (talk)	Orphan
9		Anund from Russia (talk)	Stub
8		Robert Ling Kui Ee (talk)	Stub
94		Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center (talk)	Stub
7		The Costello School (talk)	Stub
4		Wan Sukairi Wan Abdullah (talk)	Stub
15		Ahmad Yunus Hairi (talk)	Stub

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Hi @Ealdgyth I was wondering if I could get your opinion on the change to Edward Hull (knight) at 06:58, 19 February 2025. The user removed the post nominals,stating they did so as per MOS. I looked at MOS and it appears that home country post nominals can be included? Am I correct or am I incorrect. Regards Newm30 (talk) 04:36, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this is complicated by the fact that the editor in question got indefinitely blocked for disruptive editing soon after making the edit you asked about, so that probably means you could restore based on the disruptiveness. On the other hand, I'm not seeing anything in MOS:POSTNOM that allows for any postnoms in the lead sentence - but then we have the "under discussion" tag on that bit of MOS so it's not sure if it's going to stick around. I'll tell you my own opinion (which isn't very strong or I'd be involved in the MOS discussion) is that as a non-Brit, postnoms are silly looking and annoying and tend to give too much prominence to arcane aspects of the British honours system. Frankly, I'd eliminate all the gratitous "sir/dame"s from our articles as well as the "honorific" sections of infoboxes but I know a losing fight when I see it so I stay out of that. In short - you can probably restore them but frankly, it's a silly system and the rest of the world has little knowledge of them and is usually just confused by the insistence some folks have in strewing articles with them. Ealdgyth (talk) 13:32, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and understand your opinion and position. Regards Newm30 (talk) 05:19, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(watching:) I think that our MoS tries to keep the lead concise, so - whatever the outcome of the discussion - I'd not put honorifics into the lead sentence. In the infobox, where people don't read from left to right but look where they expect the answer to what they want to know, they'd be less distracting, and might even be what someone wants to know. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:46, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Noted Newm30 (talk) 05:19, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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34		Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester (talk)	Add sources
62		Earl of Surrey (talk)	Add sources
46		Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester (talk)	Add sources
32		Odo, Count of Penthièvre (talk)	Add sources
14		Integrated Architecture Framework (talk)	Add sources
16		Alice de Warenne, Countess of Arundel (talk)	Add sources
95		Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale (talk)	Cleanup
330		Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale (talk)	Cleanup
33		Richard Scrope (bishop) (talk)	Cleanup
17		History of Murcia (talk)	Expand
83		Imperator totius Hispaniae (talk)	Expand
4		1177 in Ireland (talk)	Expand
4		Manor of Shirwell (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6		Whitechapel, Bishops Nympton (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
8		Hall, Bishop's Tawton (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
127		Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke (talk)	Merge
3		National Security Advisor (Sri Lanka) (talk)	Merge
308		Virtual band (talk)	Merge
39		Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou (talk)	Wikify
6		Hugh I, Count of Dammartin (talk)	Wikify
4		Odo, Count of Dammartin (talk)	Wikify
2		John I de Vaux of Dirleton (talk)	Orphan
3		Thomas de Canville (talk)	Orphan
2		Roger Devereux of Norfolk (talk)	Orphan
73		Neil Bell (actor) (talk)	Stub
26		William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel (talk)	Stub
4		Hugh of Eu (talk)	Stub
20		Raoul II of Tosny (talk)	Stub
14		Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville (talk)	Stub
29		Billecart-Salmon (talk)	Stub

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The first round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As a reminder, we are no longer disqualifying the lowest-scoring contestants; everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned from Wikipedia. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. Unlike the round points in the main WikiCup table, which are reset at the end of each round, tournament points are carried over between rounds and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far.

Round 1 was very competitive compared with previous years; two contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and the top 16 contestants all scored more than 500 round points. The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

• Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,168 round points, mainly from 4 featured articles and 4 good articles on old military history, in addition to an assortment of GA and FA reviews.
• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,095 round points, mainly from 2 FAs, 2 featured lists, 8 GAs, and 16 Did You Know articles mainly on historical topics.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions), with 866 round points from 20 GAs, 23 DYKs, and 2 In the News articles primarily about athletes.
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with 846 round points from 16 GAs about radio and TV stations, 45 GA reviews, and 3 DYKs.
• Hey man im josh (submissions), with 816 round points from 5 FLs about sports and Olympic topics, 46 FL reviews, 3 ITN articles, and a large number of bonus points.
• MaranoFan (submissions), with 815 round points primarily from 3 FAs and 1 GA about music, in addition to 9 article reviews.

The full scores for round 1 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 18 featured articles, 26 featured lists, 1 featured-topic article, 197 good articles, 38 good-topic articles and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 23 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 550 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 26 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2, which begins on 1 March. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. 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) 14:12, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

Administrator changes

• Jarry1250
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CheckUser changes

• AmandaNP
• Drmies

Oversighter changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
• A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
• A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.

Technical news

• A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378

Miscellaneous

• The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.

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122		Adeliza of Louvain (talk)	Add sources
156		Cappadocia (Roman province) (talk)	Add sources
63		Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (talk)	Add sources
521		Kingdom of Pontus (talk)	Add sources
28		John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings (talk)	Add sources
1,168		Endonym and exonym (talk)	Add sources
89		Classical Anatolia (talk)	Cleanup
12		310s BC (talk)	Cleanup
4		Counts of Meaux (talk)	Cleanup
125		King's War (talk)	Expand
13		88 BC (talk)	Expand
31		Seleucid Dynastic Wars (talk)	Expand
104		Zhang Liang (Western Han) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
50		Roman–Latin wars (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
8		Roman–Hernici conflicts (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11		Rose Quarter Transit Center (talk)	Merge
15		Coconut cup (talk)	Merge
4		Battle of Booda-Cadde (talk)	Merge
12		Roman relations with the Armenians (talk)	Wikify
6		Alberic I, Count of Dammartin (talk)	Wikify
4		Lucius Papirius Crassus (consul 336 BC) (talk)	Wikify
2		August Hoffmann von Vestenhof (talk)	Orphan
10		Central Café (talk)	Orphan
4		Antennas Up (talk)	Orphan
62		Battle of Tupraq Qaleh (talk)	Stub
20		Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia (talk)	Stub
15		Hugh I, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis (talk)	Stub
21		Reginald de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton (talk)	Stub
12		William Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny (talk)	Stub
8		Philip le Despenser (talk)	Stub

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I stumbled upon an IP that has an interesting editing pattern.[1] --Kansas Bear 21:39, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If it's Pipera, they've learned to put refs after punctuation at least.... we'll see if they pick up the rest of the behavior. Ealdgyth (talk) 21:55, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]