User talk:Gerald Waldo Luis/Archive 10

Archive of talks, archived November 2021.

List of World Heritage Sites in Indonesia copyedit request
Thanks for requesting a copyedit for List of World Heritage Sites in Indonesia, and I wanted to make sure you understood why it was declined. I don't routinely run Earwig's tool before a copyedit, but probably had a reason to suspect copyright problems. Wikipedia has a number of UNESCO World Heritage Site articles, some of which I've copyedited. The organization's copyright policy is unclear, but many of their images seem to be licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0. Text, however, must be rewritten in your own words with attribution; any word-for-word copying must be enclosed in quotation marks (again with attribution), and be in accordance with WP's fair-use policy. Stay well and all the best,  Mini  apolis  16:02, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , it was not declined, I withdrew it. But thanks for the license explanation.  Gerald WL  01:49, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Good Dinosaur
The article The Good Dinosaur you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:The Good Dinosaur for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 12:21, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Good Dinosaur
The article The Good Dinosaur you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Good Dinosaur for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Some Dude From North Carolina -- Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 12:41, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

La Carreta Mexican Restaurant
If you're interested, I've nominated La Carreta Mexican Restaurant for Good article status. Either way, I'm curious if you're comfortable with how I sourced the restaurant's opening date based on the official website? I've searched hard but been unable to find the year of establishment in a journalistic source. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 22:44, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , I've picked up the GAN! If there's really no searchable secondaries for the date, primaries are fine. I mean, secondary sources won't exist without primary sources, so...  Gerald WL  06:14, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , Great, thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 14:22, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Ave Maryam
the novel of Lady Chaterley was read in the beginning by main character as she gone to bed Please rewatch the movie carefully, thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duskerin (talk • contribs) 07:11, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , feel free to add it back, but please leave a detailed edit summary every time you do such edits.  Gerald WL  13:44, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Also, don't add a reference to Wikipedia per WP:RSP.  Gerald WL  13:44, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Plandemic
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:01, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

New message from SounderBruce
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 * If you are able to, please continue with your FAC review, as it is the only uncompleted review for the article. If you are unable to continue, then please leave a note on the review page.  Sounder Bruce  19:46, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2021
 The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter

Volume 13, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2021

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Help with FAC nomination for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered
Hi. Having been one of the users that contributed to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered's peer review earlier in the year, I was wondering if you would help contribute in reviewing the article for its FAC nomination? It has been open for a few days but I've received no responses from any editors. It would be really appreciated if you could give any feedback and help move the article further towards reaching FA standard. Wikibenboy94 (talk) 17:23, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Plandemic

 * Hi Gerald Waldo Luis, I've made a lot of changes to the article's structure and layout, and I completely removed the section titled "Sinclair Broadcasting Group", which is off-topic for this article but it might be useful at Judy Mikovits or elsewhere—it's on the talk page if you want it. Good luck with the article and cheers,  Baffle☿gab  03:20, 19 April 2021 (UTC).

You are invited to help in KRI Nanggala (402) article!
I've seen that you have done quite a job with Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 and I invite you to develop the KRI Nanggala article. --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 12:31, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

WikiCup 2021 May newsletter
The second round of the 2021 WikiCup has now finished; it was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 61 points to advance to Round 3. There were some impressive efforts in the round, with the top eight contestants all scoring more than 400 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 110 good articles achieved in total by contestants, as well as the 216 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in Round 2 were:


 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 2963 points from three featured articles, 20 featured article reviews, 37 good articles, 73 good article reviews, as well as 22 DYKs.
 * Epicgenius, with 1718 points from one featured article, 29 good articles, 16 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
 * Bloom6132, with 990 points from 13 DYKs and 64 "In the news" items, mostly recent deaths.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, with 834 points from two featured articles, five good articles, 14 featured article reviews and 15 good article reviews.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, with 524 points from two featured articles and four featured article reviews.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski, with 501 points from one featured article, three good articles, six featured article reviews and 25 good article reviews.
 * Transgender Pride flag.svg Sammi Brie, with 485 points from four good articles, eight good article reviews and 27 DYKs, on US radio and television stations.
 * Flag of the United Nations.svg Ktin, with 436 points from four good articles, seven DYKs and 11 "In the news" items.

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TFL notification
Hi, Gerald. I'm just posting to let you know that List of Latvian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for June 7. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008  ( Talk ) 00:19, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Did Dr. Fauci Create COVID-19?.jpg
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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Plandemic behind the scene.jpg
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 * , hey there, I've updated the description box, can you take a look? Personally I can't see why this meets the deletion criteria of F7. There is Rashid Buttar in the film-- that photo-- which is unconveyable via text, so I used the image. It also gives readers more sense as to the conspiratorial nature of the film. Thank you!  Gerald WL  13:33, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for responding. If it's significant that Rashid Buttar is in the film and it's a significant fact, then it should be sourced to a reliable third-party source. If you're relying on a screenshot of a BTS footage, then that would qualify as original research. If you think it doesn't meet the criteria for speedy deletion, we can convert to a deletion discussion. Ytoyoda (talk) 13:39, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , well, it's not just a BTS footage. It's a photo published by Ojai Valley News, a third-party newspaper.  Gerald WL  13:53, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Akane Yamaguchi
Hello. Help copy edit. Thank you. Vnosm (talk) 12:45, 23 May 2021 (UTC)


 * , hi there. But I'm sorry that I can't copyedit for the moment, because of real-life work. You can post this on WP:GOCE/R and others would be happy to copy edit.  Gerald WL  01:44, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of See You in the Cosmos
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Ratings tables
Film and game ratings

I understand that because a template exists it might seem like good idea to use it. But there were discussions at Project Film and they actively discouraged using them. (IIRC Project Games isn't enthusiastic about them either. But I'm having difficulty finding the old archived discussions, because I can't guess exactly the right search keywords.) Unfortunately MOSFILM doesn't document their all advice very well, you have to also look at what Good articles and Featured articles do and more importantly don't do.

That's why there are almost no film articles are using them. (Except this one The Tracey Fragments (film) and maybe some recent articles.)

The Raid was one of the last few film articles using the table but it was removed, diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Raid_(2011_film)&diff=961243311&oldid=959157800 (... I did add it back temporarily, but only to make sure all the reviews were included as PROSE and then I removed it again.) You could ask User:Bovineboy2008

If you don't believe me you should go to WT:MOSFILM and start a discussion, ask them if you should add review ratings tables to film articles. -- 109.78.194.208 (talk) 22:41, 3 June 2021 (UTC)


 * This is very funny actually, because an editor also recently removed the table at another article I created, who also cited the thing you cited. But that's, like, a loooong time ago, and it uses a different template. At it's core, I don't find rating tables harmful: it just lists what some reviewers rate the film as a supplement to the prose. As you said, it's old; if you look now, WP:VideoGames has now reached an agreement that rating tables are allowed.  Gerald WL  01:03, 4 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I saw in the edit history where you said there was a discussion. There was no discussion on the article talk page. You did not link to any discussion in your edit summary.
 * Project Video Games, Project Film, and Project Television all have slightly different rules. They really should make more of an effort to sort that out. But you can't assume the rules from one project apply to another.
 * Even if the rules have changed, please remember that WP:PROSE comes first. I'm sure some editors will complain that ratings tables are both reductive and redundant.
 * But again, please clearly link to this discussion that you say supports the use of Film and game ratings in Wikipedia film articles. -- 109.78.194.208 (talk) 01:37, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I see a discussion was started at Project Film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film#Rating_table
 * The discussion has not yet concluded, there is no sign of consensus for or against. Please wait until the discussion concludes before adding Ratings tables to any more articles. -- 109.78.194.208 (talk) 01:43, 4 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I'll continue to use your talk page. Just continue the discussion there.  Gerald WL  01:44, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of See You in the Cosmos
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Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:


 * Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
 * The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences.

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GAN Backlog Drive - July 2021
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Your GA nomination of Jojo Rabbit
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WikiCup 2021 July newsletter
The third round of the 2021 WikiCup has now come to an end. Each of the sixteen contestants who made it into the fourth round had at least 294 points, and our top six scorers all had over 600 points. They were:


 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1825 points from 3 featured articles, 44 featured article reviews, 14 good articles, 30 good article reviews and 10 DYKs. In addition, he completed a 34-article good topic on the EFL Championship play-offs.
 * Epicgenius, a New York specialist, with 1083 points from 2 featured article reviews, 18 good articles, 30 DYKs and plenty of bonus points.
 * Bloom6132, with 869 points from 11 DYKs, all with bonus points, and 54 "In the news" items, mostly covering people who had recently died.
 * Standard of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1659).svg Gog the Mild, with 817 points from 3 featured articles on historic battles in Europe, 5 featured article reviews and 3 good articles.
 * Bennington Flag.svg Hog Farm, with 659 points from 2 featured articles and 2 good articles on American Civil War battles, 18 featured article reviews, 2 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 4 DYKs.
 * ICS Zulu.svg BennyOnTheLoose, a snooker specialist and new to the Cup, with 647 points from a featured article, 2 featured article reviews, 6 good articles, 6 good article reviews and 3 DYKs.

In round three, contestants achieved 19 featured articles, 7 featured lists, 106 featured article reviews, 72 good articles, 1 good topic, 62 good article reviews, 165 DYKs and 96 ITN items. We enter the fourth round with scores reset to zero; any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (one contestant in round 3 lost out because of this). When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

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Your GA nomination of Jojo Rabbit
The article Jojo Rabbit you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Jojo Rabbit for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MSG17 -- MSG17 (talk) 21:42, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
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Jojo Rabbit improvements
Hi, Gerald Waldo Luis. Thanks for all your work improving Jojo Rabbit! Apologies for my mistaken revert earlier, too. I only meant to add back one of the citations that seemed helpful to have. Please take care, and thanks again for your efforts. – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 18:30, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

, thanks again. But I have reverted your edit, reason given in the summary.  Gerald WL  18:33, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I actually just restored that citation again, because it is very helpful given that the paragraph cites multiple different sources. Having a citation at the end of each of the sentences (as opposed to relying on the citation in the middle of the next sentence) helps readers and other editors know where each piece of information came from, and also helps maintain the integrity of the sourcing if another editor adds addition content to that paragraph. I don't think this has any major negative impact, and I hope you will take this to the article's talk page to explain what the negative impact is if you continue to disagree. – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 18:44, 9 July 2021 (UTC)


 * , it's just vague. It's common practice that, if two sentences use the same cite, that it be put at the last sentence only. It's also consistent this way throughout the article, so adding this will be inconsistent.  Gerald WL  04:12, 10 July 2021 (UTC)


 * As an addition, if an editor were to add another claim, there should be enough awareness to add that citation again. If no, then I'm watchlisting the article, and I'm going to be that person. There's really no benefit in duplicate citations— it's duplicate, just like duplicate links.  Gerald WL  04:21, 10 July 2021 (UTC)


 * As an example, FAs like MAX Orange Line—today's featured article— also employs this.  Gerald WL  04:25, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of See You in the Cosmos
The article See You in the Cosmos you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:See You in the Cosmos for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kingsif -- Kingsif (talk) 19:41, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for DYK review
I appreciate your review of the dyk for Van Dorn Hooker. About the "Selected Publications" — only 3 of his books are listed. He also published a war memoir, "The War In Which I Did Not Fight", which I couldn't find, and the rest of his publications are listed on Google Scholar. When I approved the article at AfC, I did not add any of the multiple pdfs... too lazy. Cheers! — Grand&#39;mere Eugene (talk) 16:49, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
 * , thanks for clarifying. Technically you're not obligated to read the memoir in order to list it: you just need to know the title, publisher, identifier if available, and put it in Template:Cite book. I can tolerate the Scholar bit for DYK standard, though note that if you were to bring it up to GA or FA, you're gonna need to list all of em. PDFs are not required, though can significantly improve the article. Also archive them whenever possible.
 * On a lighter note, I also have Template:Did you know nominations/Jojo Rabbit unreviewed; maybe you can try do so? Again, just a note if you're interested. Cheers!  Gerald WL  17:08, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ — Grand&#39;mere Eugene (talk) 17:35, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ — Grand&#39;mere Eugene (talk) 17:35, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for Jojo Rabbit
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DYK for Living in the Age of Airplanes
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Reddit is still blocked in Indonesia
Yesterday a post in Reddit points out China, Bangladesh, and Indonesia as the only three countries blocking Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/ot6o6z

It got crossposted to r/Indonesia, and in turn someone linked the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit that claim Reddit is already unblocked based on https://www.cilacap.info/platform-reddit-kini-dibuka-blokir-di-indonesia

That reporter experience is just a common situation where some ISPs didn't sync their blocklist correctly with the government-mandated blocklist. The official ministry database https://trustpositif.kominfo.go.id/ still listed reddit.com as one of the blocked domain, so officially Reddit is still blocked.

I'd edit the page myself but it's semi-protected. Martheencp (talk) 03:37, 29 July 2021 (UTC)


 * , thanks for pointing this out! I was also feeling suspicious when I couldn't open Reddit without my VPN. Immediately removed that bit.  Gerald WL  03:47, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Life science
Too hard to find some answers in my book Jmn joyze (talk) 17:56, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * , what do you mean?  Gerald WL  00:52, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Removed content
Hi Gerald Waldo Luis, I have unfortunately had to suppress some of your edits because they reveal too much personally identifiable information about you. We have a policy of protecting editors' safety by hiding such information if they share it. I'm really sorry about having to suppress your edits, and I know it's annoying, but it's for the best. Please don't re-add the information. For some useful information on privacy and safety, you can take a look at Guidance for younger editors and On privacy, confidentiality and discretion. Thanks, and sorry for messing about with your pages! ~TNT (she/they • talk) 09:53, 12 August 2021 (UTC)


 * , hi there, thanks for notifying me about it. I am well aware of WP:YOUNG, and I don't consider myself giving excess information, as it is just (if i remember correctly) my age. It doesn't seem to be explicitly covered in WP:YOUNG; even if it is covered, I've got no harm so far, if I do I've been trained to respond to them. I'm also confused: what counts as a minor? 16 and below? 17 and below? A response would be highly appreciated.  Gerald WL  13:01, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Killer (2016 film)
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WikiCup 2021 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski,  BennyOnTheLoose, 🇷🇼 Amakuru and  Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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Talk:Will P. Brady/GA1
Gerald Waldo Luis, a friendly reminder that you opened this nomination for review over two months ago, and while you made some progress, there's over half of the article unreviewed and you haven't posted to it in over a month. Do you think you will be able to finish it soon, or should it be put back into the pool of unreviewed nominations in the hopes of finding someone who will be able to finish it more quickly? (The WikiCup is in its final two-month phase, and around 125 reviews have been completed since the beginning of the month, so finding a new reviewer is likely to be easier at the moment, especially with this being the fifth oldest GAN, far older than any unreviewed nomination.) Please let me know. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:32, 11 September 2021 (UTC)


 * , apologies for the delay! I would recommend finding a new reviewer, since I am only able to review on desktop and it is experiencing a problem where I couldn't type in the editor. Sorry for the delay and this inconvenience, your article is already good and I wish the GAN good luck.  Gerald WL  08:04, 13 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you for letting me know. I've put it back into the pool for a new reviewer. I didn't realize at the time that you also have Talk:Interlingue/GA1 open. Should I do the same for that nomination? It looks like it, too, was not completed. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:17, 14 September 2021 (UTC)


 * , sorry for the late reply (again!) And yes please, do the same for Interlingue. Wish that nomination good luck, and hopefully I can fix my device ASAP.  Gerald WL  14:15, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is, who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:


 * 1) with 5072 points
 * 2) with 3276 points
 * 3) with 3197 points
 * 4) with 1611 points
 * 5) with 1571 points
 * 6) with 1420 points
 * 7) with 1043 points
 * 8) with 528 points

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.


 * wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
 * wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
 * wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
 * wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
 * wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
 * wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
 * wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
 * wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.

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 WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)