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WikiCup 2024 July newsletter

The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). 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 for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further 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) 21:29, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

July 2024

Information icon Hello, I'm Sumanuil. I noticed that you recently made an edit to Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Article requests in which your edit summary did not appear to describe the change you made. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. - Sumanuil. (talk to me) 04:34, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

List of inventoried conifers in Canada

I don't understand this edit; it seems to be de-italicizing a binomial name for some species, and leaving others italicized. - Dank (push to talk) 02:24, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

It seems to be the bot not knowing what to do with the rarely used "at" parameter. I'll mention it on the bot's talk page. Abductive (reasoning) 02:28, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
Thanks much. - Dank (push to talk) 02:33, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 August newsletter

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. 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 for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further 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) 03:11, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Talk:2024 Barsalogho attack

Please revert this move and reopen the discussion. You closed it only 9 hours after it started, and move discussions should generally run for a week. There was an objection to the change from "battle" to "attack" in the comment just preceding the move discussion, less than a day ago, so this was not an uncontroversial move. Thanks, Dekimasuよ! 08:46, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Naw, it's on the Front Page and was an embarrassment. There was a clear trend on talk. Abductive (reasoning) 08:50, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
There were three comments, and the close was performed incorrectly. It is still showing as a broken move request at Wikipedia:Requested moves#Malformed requests. I have no opinion on this move, but I don't see why an out-of-process move should be performed over objections in service of something cosmetic. For that matter the close would have made more sense if there was a summary or link to the discussion of the nomination at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates, which also didn't use the "attack" title. At the least please clean up the close and then maybe no one else will object. Dekimasuよ! 09:00, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
It got turned from an embarrassment for all of Wikipedia to an embarrassment for me, I guess. This was no battle, as it is quite likely that any soldiers involved were not there to protect the victims, and the statement the "Burkinabe soldiers, auxiliaries, and air support responded to the attack, reportedly killing several militants and diverting a deadlier attack" is a lie. Abductive (reasoning) 09:05, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
The template is still broken and the reasoning behind the early close is still not explained. That can be fixed on the talk page regardless of content issues. Best, Dekimasuよ! 09:28, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I don't know how. Having it broken on talk is a consequence of a title so embarrassing that an editor such as myself is motivated to move it even though that is not something they usually do. It would be best in the future to avoid such eventualities by titling articles better. Abductive (reasoning) 09:32, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
I agree that titles should be chosen better; that's why I work on move requests and why there are procedures for performing them. In this case I have never edited that article or its talk page, and have never been involved in its titling. My pared-down request is simply for you to write a sentence after "page moved" to explain why the page was moved (there isn't anything to learn—it's just writing the reason—mention WP:RMEC and WP:SNOW if that's your reasoning) and then to remove Template:Requested move/dated, as it says to do in the text of the template when you now visit the page. Dekimasuよ! 09:45, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
Like I said, this is an embarrassment for me. I'm sorry I can't be of any more help. Abductive (reasoning) 09:47, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Pseudosciaena

The redirect "Pseudosciaena" is not mentioned on the target page Larimichthys. Apparently from e.g. Pseudosciaena polyactis it should be mentioned as a synonym in the infobox? In any event, I marked that as an {{R from alternative scientific name}} since {{R to former name}} didn't make sense to me. wbm1058 (talk) 17:36, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

When I created that redir in 2010, Pseudosciaena was synonym of Larimichthys. Now it is a synonym of Argyrosomus. All synonyms should be checked in the various databases before adding them to infoboxes. Abductive (reasoning) 18:07, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. That's why I brought this to your talk. You obviously have more experience in this topic area than I do. I don't have a particularly high level of confidence that I know what I'm doing when I "check the databases". – wbm1058 (talk) 18:54, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
I don't either. But they are shown in the taxonbar. Abductive (reasoning) 23:47, 11 September 2024 (UTC)


Coord template and mobile viwers

Which ones dose it break? The foundation ones simply don't render it.©Geni (talk) 17:37, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Re: Hawaii series by Georgia O'Keeffe

Are you knowledgeable about copyright? There’s a Commons user who claims all of the paintings in this series might be in the public domain because the copyright was not renewed, but I’m not sure how to verify all of this or confirm it. This is regarding Hawaii series by Georgia O'Keeffe. Only one painting in the series has been uploaded to Commons so far, but I have no idea if the series qualities in total. Viriditas (talk) 23:09, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm afraid not, sorry. Abductive (reasoning) 23:10, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Hammersmith Brewery

I apologize for not checking the coordinates. I was editing to fix a script error and had assumed that the existing coordinates were correct. I'll be more vigilant about such edits. — hike395 (talk) 02:47, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Great, sorry to bother you. Abductive (reasoning) 02:49, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Date format throughout article tool?

I notice in this edit you changed all the month-day-year formatted dates in the article to day-month-year. Since Homer House is a United States associated article, the former is correct. Not a big deal, we all make mistakes. However, since other people made good edits since, reverting them will be a pain. Did you use some sort of automatic tool to change them all (I hope!) and can you tell me the tool, so I (or you) can use it to change them back? --GRuban (talk) 08:37, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

I changed the article to mdy. The script is linked in the edit summary, but here it is too: User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates. Abductive (reasoning) 15:40, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! --GRuban (talk) 21:29, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

Moraea villosa

Please note that it is not nice to snark at someone for being slow to add all the bells and whistles to a new wikipedia page, as you did with this addition to my talk page. I was working on a mess that had been created at peacock flower, which necessitated adding citations and new pages to justify restoring what had been deleted. Believe it or not, the work involved plus the repeated crashes of the wikimedia site made the process a bit slow. It is hard enough to maintain cheerfulness about the state of wikipedia; please do not leave such negative comments on my talk page again. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 01:45, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your apology. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 02:02, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
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