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Hello thank you for reviewing the Frozen II FAC three years ago. Can you also review Frozen's FAC too? Wingwatchers (talk) 17:22, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you do that I will also do a review for Fly. Wingwatchers (talk) 17:29, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, thanks for the request here! I'll see what I can do for the FAC, expect some kind of comments after I finish the FAC request above. GeraldWL 03:27, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

All right, since the above person is closing their FAC review does that mean you can prioritize on mine? Thanks. Wingwatchers (talk) 13:49, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry I dont mean to rush you but I felt is in dire need of attention. While you are doing that I will look into Fly. Wingwatchers (talk) 03:25, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh no worries! I can understand that; some FACs unfortunately don't get immediate attention. I'll wait for the image review to be done then I'll move on to the rest. And thanks for stopping by To Fly. GeraldWL 03:29, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for the late review. You article is very well-written and refined, and I don't have any fundamental complaints. I will support it at its FAC in the near-future once you decide it is ready. Wingwatchers (talk) 04:43, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Gerald, Just wanted to give you a heads up on that peer review for Begotten. I also discovered that one of the literary sources is dead but have found an alternate place for it on Google Play. However I do not know how to cite it. Anyways, I did remove some of the more unreliable sources and have replaced them with more reliable ones though I have still been trying to check on some online ones like The Pitsburger. Hopefully everything turns out well considering this article has been something I have been trying to get to FA for several years now.

• https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=n6cnDgAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PP1&hl=en

Paleface Jack (talk) 18:04, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Paleface Jack, that sounds wonderful and I wish all the best on the source digging! As for the Google Play, I believe its not mandated to cite any links for books, since anyone can google it. Not having URL doesnt reduce reliability :) GeraldWL 18:19, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I like doing it so the reader and the reviewer has something to look at, so I will cite it. As for The Pitsberger I will add it and if reviews dictate its removal I will do so. Paleface Jack (talk) 18:27, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

• BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
• Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
• Epicgenius with 1518 points
• MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
• BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
• AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
• Sammi Brie with 520 points
• Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
• Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
• BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
• LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
• Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am sure nobody would read this, but if anyone does, I hope I am able to relay this message clearly and without offense.

Since the start of COVID I have dedicated part of my life to this encyclopedia, and making it a creative, fun, and eye-opening look into various topics, especially the arts and Indonesia, occassionally helping with current events and whatnot. I am blessed to be able to retain over the years with the company of so many wonderful users who, despite me never knowing much about most of you all, have supported my work and continued to build me up as an English speaker and writer. Believe me, your contributions to my editing has affected me in real life, and in such tremendous way. I am writing here not to announce an eventual resignation. That is something I will never plan to do until I die or am unable to write anymore, for this has always been the most amazing place in the Internet I've discovered.

As you may have known, the world has been torn apart recently by the atrocities committed in Israel and Palestine. Wars are not something I generally look at-- and for that I admit shame. I pass by this year's war on Ukraine and Sudan just like the clouds pass by the city (although I did put a certain focus on Ukraine). This time, however, the wave surrounding the atrocities committed in Gaza has shattered me like no other atrocity committed in modern times. My earliest memory of Gaza was in 2014, when I heard songs about it juxtaposed with buildings destroyed. Right now we are seeing the same images repeating but on a larger scale, and it is killing me. I am a legal adult but by Wikipedia's definition still a teenager, and seeing my fellow teenagers losing their future in such brutal fashion haunts me all day, all night.

I am not here to spark a fire of debates-- that does not belong in Wikipedia. I will not debate about this war on Wikipedia, and whatever views you hold I am not trying to combat in this forum. But I have seen a barrage of misinformation even in the sources we most trust here when editing. RSes like CNN are actively censoring information about Gaza (they do cover some, but it doesn't hold the weight of the Israeli coverage), and blindly trusting the Israel Defense Forces despite the objective fakeness exposed by independent sources. I have seen many people attacking Palestinians despite their facade of "only condemning Hamas", and attacking me under accusations of antisemitism and homophobia.

My distrust in the media right now I feel can heavily affect my research on Wikipedia topics. I do not want to execute the habit of cherrypicking sources, ignoring sources from media I and many others distrust. And in this climate where I am actively participating in the pro-Palestinian movement, I cannot find myself able to write on Wikipedia-- the energy just isn't there now. I shall go on a hiatus from writing for now, but this shall not be for long, for I have big plans on my editing in the future. I will continue to make minor edits whenever I feel like it, but do not expect major edits or replies. Thank you for everyone who has been majorly or minorly been a part of my editing journey-- and I wish to edit war with y'all again very soon.

Regards. GeraldWL 09:49, 16 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]

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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) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey GWL, hope all is well with you. Not sure how active you are these days, but I noticed you participating in a FAC review recently, so thought I'd ask since you were previously involved in taking one of their lists to FL status. I've decided to rework and improve their main article and have nominated it. I was wondering if you would have time and interest to provide feedback on my current FAC? Not to worry if things are busy IRL, I would totally understand. Pseud 14 (talk) 20:57, 27 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]

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Issue 61, January – February 2024

• Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
• 1Lib1Ref results

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