Welcome, welcome, welcome Mooonswimmer! I'm glad that you are joining the June 2025 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Cielquiparle (talk) 04:12, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, sorry for the late follow-up. If you are still interested in improving and/or nominating this article, I look forward to it. I took a quick look at the article and I think a couple things that I would note would be to double-check the licenses of the images in the article and to see if the "Influence and media" section needs to be reworked to be something other than a bullet list. (Also, someone else added the Piranesi part to that section a while ago and I'm not sure if that interview source is notable enough for it to be mentioned...) If you need access to any of the sources I used, please let me know and I'll do my best. DanCherek (talk) 14:51, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mooonswimmer

This is a follow-up regarding the maintenance templates you added to the Asef Bayat article in January 2023.

I previously pinged you on the article’s talk page, where I have posted a detailed explanation showing that the issues you flagged—lack of inline citations and insufficient sourcing for a living person (BLP)—have been fully addressed. The section is here:

Talk:Asef Bayat#Request for template removal: Inline citations and BLP sourcing resolved

Since there has been no response so far, I’d appreciate it if you could review that section and, if appropriate, remove the templates accordingly.

If I do not hear back within a reasonable timeframe, I will proceed with removing the tags myself, in line with Wikipedia policy.

Thank you, ~~~~ Mahdi Fahimi (talk) 14:08, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Mooonswimmer, for the second running of the Developing Countries WikiContest, it is now open for submissions. Welcome to the contest! You can now list your work at your submissions page to earn points. The coordinators have addressed some of the queries at the last contest and we are hopeful that it'll turn out great for you—yes, you! If you haven't done so already, please review the following:

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Hi, just a courtesy message to notify you in case you haven't seen the Wikipedia:The World Destubathon contest update in the last few days that we've decided to run the full month until the 16th of July. For those who have been too busy to contribute, we would love some help in reaching 4000 articles by Wednesday night! At present we're about 480 articles short!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:41, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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We're a month into the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest, with stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard already! Our current top five contestants are:

1. Spookyaki (submissions) – 256 points, mostly from a handful of GAs about women's history in Latin America as well as the 1991 Haitian coup d'état.
2. vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) – 229 points, back with a number of articles on abortion in various African countries.
3. simongraham (submissions) – 213 points, mainly from GAs on species of jumping spiders in both Africa and Azerbaijan.
4. PizzaKing13 (submissions) – 200 points, with five GAs on articles relating to Salvadoran politics, history, and griddle cakes.
5. BeanieFan11 (submissions) – 168 points from a few GAs, a few DYKs, and a few ITNs on athletes from a variety of countries.

Looking for ways to climb up the leaderboard yourself? Help out your fellow participants by answering a few review requests, particularly the older entries. Several more nominations needing attention are listed at eligible reviews, and highlighed entries receive a 1.5× multiplier!

On behalf of the coordinators, we'd like to thank all the participants for helping to combat systemic bias on Wikipedia! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 03:36, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on File:Bubaque Airport runway.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.

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Hey Mooonswimmer, thanks for your participation in the Developing Countries WikiContest! I wanted to let you know I had to decline your ITN submission of Mariuxi Sánchez. Per the scoring rules, you must have contributed significantly to the article at the time of nomination, and you have insufficient authorship to qualify for points. Please let me or one of the other DCWC coordinators know if you have any questions! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 00:47, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know TechnoSquirrel. Is there a minimum baseline for "significant contribution" in terms of readable prose, even just an approximate, when it comes to these ITN submissions? I appreciate the guidance. Mooonswimmer 01:44, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the question, Mooonswimmer! The scoring rules are intentionally open-ended on this point to allow for calls to be taken on a case-by-case basis. It does advise that "you [do not have] to be the primary author, though it is preferable", so I would aim to submit articles where you've written as much as possible. In this case, the majority of your contribution to the article was within this edit — definitely improvements to the prose, but it seems like there was more copyediting than writing. I hope that helps! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 01:42, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission of Hernán Romero at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! GreenLipstickLesbian💌🦋 02:46, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Two weeks ago, the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest came to a close! After three months of stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard, we have our winners. vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions), continuing his work on covering abortion in Africa, comes in third with 692 points. simongraham (submissions) comes in second with 763 points, largely from a slew of good articles about jumping spiders. And returning to the podium for the second year in a row, BeanieFan11 (submissions) takes the Gold Belt Buckle with a mind-boggling 946 points from his series of articles on sportpersons. Congratulations to our winners!

Amazingly, the award for the most countries covered goes to both BeanieFan11 (submissions) and simongraham (submissions), who each submitted articles under 30 flags! BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins for writing the most quality articles (16 good articles). For submitting 16 articles related to El Salvador, PizzaKing13 (submissions) wins the award for most submissions under one country. The award for most submissions related to women goes to both Spookyaki (submissions) (7 biographies about women) and vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) (21 related articles). And for the second year, simongraham (submissions) wins for the most reviews, having submitted 21!

Among the participants' contributions were 2 FAs, 5 FLs, 124 GAs, and an uncounted number of DYKs, ITNs, and reviews of every kind! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed towards a major step in countering the systemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating with us in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year, and we look forward to seeing you contribute again! However, before that...

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Dclemens1971 (talk) 00:03, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 17,208 views (717.0 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of October 2025 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:29, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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