Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Contest/Spooky Species Contest

Welcome to the first annual Spooky Species contest!

Contest structure
The Spooky Species contest will run from Sept 24-Oct 31, with the winner announced in the first week of November! I'm starting it with a week left in September to give articles time to work through the DYK process and appear on the main page (if they aren't reserved for the special occasions hooks for Halloween).

Improving article class will be rewarded with points, with bigger improvements and higher classes rewarded more points. I have gone through nearly all the species in the table and updated their classes if necessary, so the starting class listed should hopefully be accurate. You can update classes of articles you improve, but please do so honestly.
 * Participants will get an extra 3 points for each DYK that appears on the main page (for new and expanded articles or recent GAs)
 * You will also get 3 points for reviewing someone else's spooky species GA
 * There will also be a bonus system for page views
 * If you collaborate with another editor for an article, you can each claim points

So if I improve zombie worm from C to GA, my base points would be 8. With the 1.3x multiplier for page views, I would have 10.4 points. If it appeared on the main page as a DYK, I would have 13.4 points for this article in total.

Contestants
If you would like to participate, please copy the blank table below into a new subsection of this section with your username as the title.

Cwmhiraeth

 * I have left Enwebb to decide what, if anything, I deserve for the Halloween darter, as I started expanding it before the contest began, and my participation after that was minimal, but it did appear on DYK at Halloween because I nominated it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:56, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I'd say we were collaborators. Fine by me to say it went from stub to GA. Enwebb (talk) 17:14, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Prizes
Definitely some kind of awesome Halloween barnstar, TBD!

Species list
This list is not exhaustive for spooky species on Wikipedia&mdash;you can add articles to the table!