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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.

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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)

Coming from the novel DYK: I'd have liked a modified hook, but guess that now - with a different one approved - that's no longer needed? - The composer is on the Main page now. If you see details that would add to knowing about him from Polish sources I wouldn't even know to find, that would be great, but obviously it was sufficient what's there. After I asked you, I found Polskie Radio and CDMC by just looking for an opera title. More detail about performances would add life to it. There was a claim in an early version (look at any before he died) that a particular trio was successful in the U.S.. - no source. When I asked it just said two operas were performed abroad", - we have now at least a bit more precision about a few stages and people. - I like to listen to his music! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:05, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Gerda Arendt Always happy to help. For now I've added some missing links (mostly to pl wiki); see also comment on talk about possible minor error. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:59, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you. Next Polish musician died, Ewa Podleś - same request. Recordings need references to make her acceptable for RD. I'll probably manage, but help is always welcome. Let's keep edits short, to avoid edit conflicts ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:50, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The notice of her death is a hopelessly botched copy from Wikipedia, but I saw something more decent-looking in Polish, such as [1]. Can you add that and take from it? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:21, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Gerda Arendt Not sure exactly what you are asking, but I've done a c/e pass on that article. If you cannot find refs for some claim, let me know and I'll see if I can locate it in Polish. Likely useful source: [2]. Links to media articles (its own?) at the bottom, requires free registration. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:31, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm on vacation, have little time for her, and almost any help is welcome. I thought her case would be easy, and just adding ref GSL to what was there would suffice, but no, what it says is often not yet there, or contradicts. I can see only its first page, not the second which would have recordings. So, more precisely:

• All recordings need a ref (and not Discogs).
• Many of the refs in the article don't work any more and need to be replaced (such as Met).
• The article has a lot of detail for some things but misses others, - out of balance. (Somehow none of the regular editor of project opera touched it.)

As said, I'll manage, but she'd deserve mentioning sooner than I would ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:20, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Update: I translated the long Polish obit bit by bit, and found a few pearls among a lot of general cultural rambling. I also found a ref which summarily covers most recordings. Missing Mozart's Requiem and Puccini's Il Trittico, but both not critical to overall impression. I nominated for RD, and please feel free to watch WP:ITNN over the next days, because I'll be mostly.out, so not able to respond quickly. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:24, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:38, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, how about mass-deleting all those bios You suggested today but just include short blurbs about them in an expanded casualties table? --Ouro (blah blah) 08:35, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Ouro I have no objection to any merges, which can be boldy done anytime. But any deletion, mass or otherwise, has to go through AfD. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:40, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You are right of course. I failed to stress the 'mass' portion, as in: single afd for all those persons. --Ouro (blah blah) 09:51, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Ouro I do not know how to make mass (group) afds. If there is a convinient gadget, please let me know, I'd be happy to learn. Doing so manually is a pain :( _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:15, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oh there probably is some tool to aid you much like suggesting an ITN thing is easy. I haven't learned that either. I can do a non-admin closure of an afd, that's as far as I have gotten :) --Ouro (blah blah) 10:25, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --13:36, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Saw this (as I'm guessing you intended me to, seeing as you mentioned and pinged me by linking my username). Congratulations, that's great! TompaDompa (talk) 21:40, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]