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On 9 September 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article United States Marine Hospital (Lahaina, Hawaii), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the U.S. Marine Hospital in Lahaina collapsed due to vibrations from neighboring construction, was rebuilt, and then was destroyed by the 2023 Hawaii wildfires? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/United States Marine Hospital (Lahaina, Hawaii). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, United States Marine Hospital (Lahaina, Hawaii)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Aoidh (talk) 00:02, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Rail line infobox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 20:00, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On 14 September 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Covanta Hempstead, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Covanta Hempstead's predecessor smelled so bad that it caused nearby shoppers to vomit and its workers to strike? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Covanta Hempstead. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Covanta Hempstead), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On 20 September 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Georgia's racketeering law has been used to prosecute an assisted-suicide group, schoolteachers in a cheating scandal, a fake dentist, and Donald Trump? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Antony-22. Thank you for your work on 1981, 1984, and 1986 U.S. federal government shutdowns. User:SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

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✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 12:49, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank for helpful visual of Trump coconspirators, and please ignore this note if you made editorial choices to leave this off, but

SCOTT HALL actually fits in a number of circles, Imthink all (?). You correctly list him in coffee county breach circle (Acts 134,144 to 149; Counts 32 to 37) bottom right, but he is involved in overt acts 127 and 128, pp 59-60 (but not charged with Kutti, et al in Cts 30-31, p.89) and with Jeffrey Clark in Act 110, pg 50, but not charged in his act. Hall is the only person touching all/nearly all bubbles, so might be the sole link to bring a the RICO charge (?).

Ignore if you only bubbled co-count-charged folks. Great visual. good teaching tool. ThanKs CiteFinder (talk) 02:04, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@CiteFinder: I'm glad you found it useful! Yes, the diagram is only based on the criminal counts, and not on the overt acts that are part of the racketeering count. It turned out to be quite a project to understand how the 41 criminal counts related to each other and the defendants. Doing the same for the 161 overt acts would be even more work! Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 22:39, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Love you added colors! Really nice touch! CiteFinder (talk) 06:01, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It was great to meet you at Wikiconference North America! Thank you for coming to my talk and sharing your thoughts/ideas/concerns about AI & the future of Wikipedia throughout the conference – stay in touch and keep the ideas coming, please! :)

Accedie^{talk to me} 22:53, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Accedie: It was great talking to you too! I will follow up soon. Also, take a look at List of crossings of the Dnieper: I imported a lot of information from Ukrainian Wikipedia some time ago, but I used Google Translate and probably didn't get all the transliterations right. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 23:18, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On 25 November 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Michigan prosecution of fake electors, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that some of the Michigan fake electors attempted to enter the State Capitol, but were turned away by the state police? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Michigan prosecution of fake electors. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Michigan prosecution of fake electors), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving 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. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), and Frostly (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) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
• Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
• MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
• Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
• voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) 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) 17:57, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. 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) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]