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A belated welcome!
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A barnstar for you!
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For the trains per hour template... excellent stuff! ''Cheerio, Mattdaviesfsic. Talk to me.'' 16:22, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
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:Thank you for this and for the other barnstar, which I never even got around to replying to. Templates are always fun to play with and I'll look at if a national rail timetable template would actually add value. <span style="color:#41c6ff">'''JacobTheRox'''</span><sup>(<b style="color:#ff3087">talk</b> | <b style="color:#ff3087">contributions</b>)</sup> 10:44, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
Portugal
Hello JacobTheRox, I'm reaching out to see if you might have time and interest in reviewing ↗ this article. I thought of asking you specifically because Z1720 recommended I seek your help for mentorship ↗. The article has now been at FAC for three weeks and it has passed the media, prose, MOS compliance, and cite/source formatting review. I'd really appreciate it if you had the chance to take a look. GumballNine1Nine (talk) 14:06, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
:Wow – I'm honoured! I am quite busy this week but I will do a proper review this weekend. I've had a quick read of the article and it looks in generally good shape. <span style="color:#41c6ff">'''JacobTheRox'''</span><sup>(<b style="color:#ff3087">talk</b> | <b style="color:#ff3087">contributions</b>)</sup> 10:51, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
WikiCup 2026 July newsletter
The third round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 June at 23:59 (UTC). As a reminder, good article nomination reviews ↗ now receive 10 points, while peer reviews ↗, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews ↗, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.
Round 3 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; eight scored over 500; and thirteen scored over 300. The top three contestants had at least one featured article ↗ (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:
- {{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant17|MCE89}} with 1567 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography, as well as some article reviews
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The full scores for round 3 can be seen here ↗. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 7 featured-topic articles, 117 good articles, 74 good-topic articles and more than 30 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 13 In the News ↗ articles, and they have conducted nearly 180 reviews. The tournament points table ↗ has been updated.
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The 2026 Core Contest Winners!
The winners of the 2026 Core Contest ↗ are announced 🎉. A ''huge'' turnout that resulted in one of our trickiest deliberation sessions. The judges ({{noping|Aza24}}, {{noping|Femke}} and {{noping|Casliber}}) would like to thank everybody who joined and congratulate the winners!
- First place (and a prize of £120) goes to {{user|Vigilantcosmicpenguin}} for his dual efforts on Flatbread ↗ and Tortilla ↗! One, formerly an unsourced list-like article, and the other, once a poorly sourced and spotty overview, both now number 250+ citations from an impressively academic source pool. We particularly commend the efforts to globalize content, treat the topics comprehensively and thoughtfully select illustrations. Both articles (one now a GA ↗) are of a uniquely high quality amid the often underserved food topics on Wikipedia. Bravo!
- Second place (and a prize of £100) goes to {{user|Phlsph7}}, a Core Contest regular who has once again shown a mastery of big topics, with his dual efforts on Agnosticism ↗ and Premise ↗—both now GA ↗s (one, with a review by our first place winner!). With immensely thorough sourcing improvements, alongside carefully nuanced text on these often misunderstood topics, both articles are a pleasure to read.
- Third place (and a prize of £80) goes to {{user|MCE89}}, whose improvements to the Heard Island and McDonald Islands ↗ article have led to a triumphant FA ↗ declaration. The incredible balance of detail between human, geographical and flora-fauna elements is a great achievement, and sets a high standard for future island articles.
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