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The second round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 April at 23:59 UTC. To reiterate what we said in the previous newsletter, we are no longer disqualifying contestants based on how many points (now known as round points) they received. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points ↗ at the end of each round. These tournament points are carried over between rounds, and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers at the end of each round. This table ↗ shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned.

Round 2 was quite competitive. Four contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and eight scored more than 500 points (including one who has withdrawn). The following competitors scored at least 800 points:


In addition, we would like to recognize {{Wikipedia:WikiCup/Participant16|Generalissima}} for her efforts; she scored 801 round points but withdrew before the end of the round.

The full scores for round 2 can be seen here ↗. During this round, contestants have claimed 13 featured articles, 20 featured lists, 4 featured-topic articles, 138 good articles, 7 good-topic articles, and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 19 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 300 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. 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 it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed ↗. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup ↗, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send ↗.</small> MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2025 July newsletter



The third round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 June. This round was again competitive, with three contestants scoring more than 1,000 round points:


Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn. This table ↗ shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for round 3 can be seen here ↗. During this round, contestants have claimed 4 featured articles, 16 featured lists ↗, 1 featured picture ↗, 9 featured-topic articles, 149 good articles, 27 good-topic articles, and more than 90 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 18 In the News ↗ articles, and they have conducted more than 200 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. 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 it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed ↗. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup ↗, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! <small>If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send ↗.</small> MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:49, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2025 September newsletter



The fourth round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 29 August. The penultimate round saw three contestants score more than 800 points:


Everyone who competed in Round 4 will advance to Round 5 unless they have withdrawn. This table ↗ shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for Round 4 can be seen here ↗. During this round, contestants have claimed 9 featured articles, 12 featured lists ↗, 98 good articles, 9 good topic ↗ articles, more than 150 reviews, nearly 100 did you know articles, and 18 in the news articles.

In advance of the fifth and final round, the judges would like to thank every contestant for their hard work. As a reminder, any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed in Round 5. In addition, note that Round 5 will end on 31 October at 23:59 UTC. Awards at the end of Round 5 will be distributed based on who has the most tournament points over all five rounds, and special awards will be distributed based on high performance in particular areas of content creation (e.g., most featured articles in a single round).

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:@Dylan Hackworth1 Thank you very much for the anti-vandalism barnstar :). I really appreciate it, means a lot to me that someone is recognizing the silent work that happens with AV, and the fact that you're getting in on it to is even better. Keep doing what you're doing and spread the cheer! <span style="color:#1666E5">'''Kline'''</span> • <span style="color:#E4117A ">'''talk'''</span> • <span style="color:#1666E5">'''contribs'''</span> ↗ 01:20, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Important information about an LTA



If you didn't already know, the recent vandals at the Donald Trump ↗ article ({{u|Yarizzi v}}, as well as {{u|Дильмурат Кадиров}}) are sockpuppets of a particularly nasty LTA known as Salebot1 ↗. They create dozens of accounts using proxies ↗, game extended confirmed ↗, and then vandalize Wikipedia:Popular pages ↗. If you see anything like this happen again, I recommend ''not'' giving them any warnings so to deny recognition ↗; just report the account(s) to WP:AIV ↗ and request locks at SRG ↗. More info can be found at WP:LTA/SB1 ↗.

Thank you for helping to clean up their vandalism, by the way! SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 16:14, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

:Thank you very much for the info, @SuperPianoMan9167! I knew the name but I looked for an LTA page but never ended up finding it for some reason, thanks for the instructions. Cheers, <span style="color:#1666E5">'''Kline'''</span> • <span style="color:#E4117A ">'''talk'''</span> • <span style="color:#1666E5">'''contribs'''</span> ↗ 19:41, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Edit-Tomasz Golka



The edit was accurate. He is her boss and employer. He is the concertmaster and she is the assistant concertmaster. I'm not sure why you're censoring. 2600:1700:AEE0:CD0:2155:7EE2:953C:9E82 ↗ (talk) 04:14, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

:Hello, it is not regarding the content but rather the way you worded the relationship. Perhaps I misread it, but it seemed like you were trying to make it into something more nefarious than it needed to be. Both of their roles were already stated; I didn't see a need to have "employee and subordinate" worded in the article. Let me know if I misread it, cheers. <span style="color:#1666E5">'''Kline'''</span> • <span style="color:#E4117A ">'''talk'''</span> • <span style="color:#1666E5">'''contribs'''</span> ↗ 04:16, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
::You must have misread it. Pointing out that he married a subordinate is factual. You drawing inferences that facts are nefarious is your subjective. Not sure why you're opposed to clear factual communication. 2600:1700:AEE0:CD0:2155:7EE2:953C:9E82 ↗ (talk) 04:20, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
:::Just to note, I am not opposed to clear and factual communication; if I was, I would not be talking to you right now. In my personal experience, people who word their edits (or anything else related like that) have had the intention to mislead or villainize the person they were writing about. I also found it unnecessary since both their roles were already previous mentioned. <span style="color:#1666E5">'''Kline'''</span> • <span style="color:#E4117A ">'''talk'''</span> • <span style="color:#1666E5">'''contribs'''</span> ↗ 04:24, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
::::I have no intention of villainizing him, as you suggest. Simply because the roles "were mentioned" at different points in the page doesn't help the reader connect the dots. Quit shifting the goalposts. Either you're saying that edits are designed to be nefarious or they're designed to mislead and villainize. Pick a narrative, and stick with it, so I can respond appropriately, please. 2600:1700:AEE0:CD0:2155:7EE2:953C:9E82 ↗ (talk) 04:27, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
:::::I must have misunderstood your intention, and that's a fault on my part. Personally, I think right now with just subordinate is good enough wording for me to drop the stick and move on. Cheers, <span style="color:#1666E5">'''Kline'''</span> • <span style="color:#E4117A ">'''talk'''</span> • <span style="color:#1666E5">'''contribs'''</span> ↗ 04:29, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

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Jakub Dobeš



Hi there,

I noticed that you recently restored some information to the Jakub Dobeš ↗ page; thanks for that!

With that said, I believe there is a slight typo with respect to GA for the 2019 World Junior A Challenge ↗ as included under the International table within the Career statistics ↗ section.

This should read as "12" and not "14" as per stats drawn from official tournament site:https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/national-championships/men/world-junior-a/2019/stats/player-profile?playerid=15424

Do you mind facilitating this change?

Take care. 24.224.209.8 ↗ (talk) 17:31, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

:@Kline fair warning that this IP is likely WP:LTA/HABS ↗. <span style="color:#333f42;">'''The'''</span> <span style="color:#b4975a;">'''Kip'''</span> <span style="color:#C8102E;"><small><sup>(contribs ↗)</sup></small></span> 19:19, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
::@The Kip I figured, but it is worth changing as it is incorrect. Stuck between a rock and a hard place <span style="color:#1666E5">'''Kline'''</span> • <span style="color:#E4117A ">'''talk'''</span> • <span style="color:#1666E5">'''contribs'''</span> ↗ 22:24, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

Alt account creation?



Hi Kline! It's good to talk to you again! I noticed that an account was just created with the username {{noping|Kline (alt)}} and a user page stating that this is an alt account of yours. Is this correct and true? I just want to make sure so that no bad faith impersonation attempts make it through and are able to cause confusion. ;-) Cheers - <b><span style="color:#C00000">~Oshwah~</span></b><sup><small><b><span style="color:blue">(talk)</span> ↗ <span style="color:green">(contribs)</span> ↗</b></small></sup> 22:48, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

:@Oshwah Yuppers, that's me. Probably would've sent this over the Wikimedia Discord.. but my account is in a pickle right now. Cheers, <span style="color:#1666E5">'''Kline'''</span> • <span style="color:#E4117A ">'''talk'''</span> • <span style="color:#1666E5">'''contribs'''</span> ↗ 23:04, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
::No worries, thanks for letting me know! :-) <b><span style="color:#C00000">~Oshwah~</span></b><sup><small><b><span style="color:blue">(talk)</span> ↗ <span style="color:green">(contribs)</span> ↗</b></small></sup> 23:05, 15 October 2025 (UTC)

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Adnan Ahmadzada ↗



Turns out that the IP editor you reverted ↗ was actually right ↗, though it didn't matter without sources. This looks to be a huge deal - surprised I haven't seen anything about it elsewhere. -- <span style="color:#4E8321">Recon</span><span class="skin-invert" style="color:#073131">rabbit</span> 21:58, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

:@Reconrabbit: Well that sure is interesting. Unfortunately that edit flat out fails BLP ↗ so I think you can see why I reverted it. Cheers, <span style="color:#1666E5">'''Kline'''</span> • <span style="color:#E4117A ">'''talk'''</span> • <span style="color:#1666E5">'''contribs'''</span> ↗ 22:07, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

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:Yay, new good article! If you're looking for inspiration, there's a fellow by the name of Nathan MacKinnon ↗ whose article is just dying to be developed, for a large readership at that... Not quite so much as Sidney Crosby ↗ but as far as Nova Scotian hockey legends go, MacKinnon isn't far behind. He might not interest you at all, but I thought it was worth putting the bug in your ear. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 13:52, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
::@MediaKyle Thanks! I might take a stab at MacKinnon as there is actually more content than I expected but I can't promise I'll be able to bring it to GA.. because all that info is a LOT! Anywho, thanks for the pass and the suggestion. Cheers, <span style="color:#1666E5">'''Kline'''</span> • <span style="color:#E4117A ">'''talk'''</span> • <span style="color:#1666E5">'''contribs'''</span> ↗ 13:54, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

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Thanks for your help at Kenai Central High School ↗, I was trying to avoid 3RR. Do you know if there is any process where I could go in future to deal with a niche disruptive edit like that? I started a talk page discussion but on a low traffic article and with someone who isn't engaging in substantive discussion I'm not sure how to handle it other than leave it there and go through the whole wp:RFC ↗ process? -- Lenny Marks (talk) 22:52, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

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Possible sock?



Howdy, asking as you're one of the others that's been active on WP:LTA/HABS ↗; I'm a bit sussed out by the edits of {{user|MakaveliRIP}}, but they've also edited enough non-Habs topics that I'm not entirely convinced it's them. Wanted to get a second opinion before potentially opening an SPI. <span style="color:#333f42;">'''The'''</span> <span style="color:#b4975a;">'''Kip'''</span> <span style="color:#C8102E;"><small><sup>(contribs ↗)</sup></small></span> 22:31, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

:Also pinging @MFTP Dan here for their opinion. <span style="color:#333f42;">'''The'''</span> <span style="color:#b4975a;">'''Kip'''</span> <span style="color:#C8102E;"><small><sup>(contribs ↗)</sup></small></span> 22:32, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
::From my perspective, I think there is not sufficient behavioral evidence to conclude this is Mang. Sammy Blais and the Habs season catches my eye, and an edit to a PEI location is interesting, but there's too much overlap to conclusively call this one right now in my opinion. It's possible, but I think it's too early. '''<small>mftp</small> <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">dan</span>''' <sup> oops </sup> 23:02, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
:@MFTP Dan I saw this editor on my watchlist.. not fully sure whether they are or are not but I have my suspicions. Might be better to analyze with some SPI tools and wait for more evidence. <span style="color:#1666E5">'''Kline'''</span> • <span style="color:#E4117A ">'''talk'''</span> • <span style="color:#1666E5">'''contribs'''</span> ↗ 00:46, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
:@Kline @MFTP Dan Think I'm gonna end up launching an SPI at somepoint this weekend. The edits to Sammy Blais ↗ regarding his siblings are juuuust similar enough to set off some alarm bells, and the username tracks with past Eminem references ↗ (see: {{tq|Makaveli, rest in peace}}) such as Rubbaband Mang. It's very well possible it's a different user, but I think there's enough worth looking into. <span style="color:#333f42;">'''The'''</span> <span style="color:#b4975a;">'''Kip'''</span> <span style="color:#C8102E;"><small><sup>(contribs ↗)</sup></small></span> 08:25, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
::That's an Em lyric I didn't pick up on, it just made me think Tupac. Wouldn't be surprising if he happened to like both rappers. Good catch, Kip. Still not ''entirely'' sold that this is socking but the pattern on Blais does raise at least one red flag. I'm interested in seeing what the result is. '''<small>mftp</small> <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">dan</span>''' <sup> oops </sup> 14:22, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
:::@MFTP Dan Filed it here ↗. After doing some digging in the process, far more convinced - the edit to the Habs season page is a smoking gun. <span style="color:#333f42;">'''The'''</span> <span style="color:#b4975a;">'''Kip'''</span> <span style="color:#C8102E;"><small><sup>(contribs ↗)</sup></small></span> 08:20, 26 January 2026 (UTC)
::::Sure enough, they've been confirmed to another sock and are highly likely to the LTA/HABS sockfarm. <span style="color:#333f42;">'''The'''</span> <span style="color:#b4975a;">'''Kip'''</span> <span style="color:#C8102E;"><small><sup>(contribs ↗)</sup></small></span> 18:10, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

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Hi. I sourced the updated Personal life correctly using her own TikTok account. That falls under a self published media. &#126;2026-69057-0 ↗ (talk) 06:42, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

:@~2026-69057-0 You would need to add a citation into the article itself, not the edit summary. Cheers, kline / talk / contribs ↗ 21:16, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

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And rampant speculation from TERF island about whether a shooter is trans is undue under BLP grounds. Please self-revert. Simonm223 (talk) 14:28, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

:@Simonm223 The claim is backed up by multiple reliable sources.. and calling them TERF island is quite a certain way of describing the situation. I will not be self-reverting and if someone else comes in and reverts me instead, I'll be glad to discuss it on the talk page. kline / talk / contribs ↗ 14:31, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
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As the title asks, are you daft?

I couldn't help but notice multiple of your edits on the S.S Marine Electric article ↗, where you removed, multiple times, citations to the 3 hour, 15 minute long investigation video on the subject by the YouTube channel "Brick Immortar", citing not only "pop culture", but IRRELEVANT, "pop culture", and having quite a gratingly shitty attitude about it for no reason as well, on top of everything.

I can't tell if you genuinely drool over yourself around the clock, and / or speak a remarkably small amount of English, even basic, or what.

But consider first consulting the Dictionary definition of "Irrelevant", 1, 2, consider reading the literal definition for "pop culture" YOUR OWN WEBSITE YOU PEARL CLUTCH THIS HARD OVER, HIGHLIGHTS ↗, where it literally says;

"is properly sourced and consistent with policies and guidelines, such as neutral point of view, no original research, and what Wikipedia is not"

and I am extremely curious to hear where you get off on actually ANY of these following claims that the video in question is NOT: "properly sourced and consistent with policies and guidelines, such as neutral point of view, no original research, and what Wikipedia is not.". Because I'd say that not only are exactly all of those claims just so hysterically wrong, but especially some of them are downright insulting.

And 3, consider consulting a therapist that specializes in the mentally and behaviorally stunted, as it seems to me nothing other than either jealousy and / or a mix of that, and just.. some ass backwards WattPad level fanfiction you've hallucinated to yourself about what a "proper Wikipedia article is and is supposed to look like", because with this behavior you're absolutely nothing but an utter and remarkable embarrassment to everything Wikipedia is supposed to be and stand for. If you're going to insist on being an arse about something and disregard absolutely everything else, then AT LEAST don't disregard having at least some class and elegance in how you conduct yourself.

Have a good rest of your day / night. &#126;2026-27438-79 ↗ (talk) 06:11, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

:Greetings fellow collaborator,
:It's difficult to build an encyclopedia together if we don't treat each other as we expect to be treated.
:Please be nice, Augmented Seventh (talk) 06:21, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
:@~2026-27438-79 Hello, and thanks for bringing up these concerns on my talk page. I'm glad you decided to discuss this rather than rambunctiously revert my edits with no apparent reason.
:Admittedly, you shot yourself in the foot with your own guideline you provided. I don't recall YouTube being a reliable source, nor is it indicative in any way of inclusion on Wikipedia. I could go make a 3-hour-long YouTube video if I wanted and that won't make me magically notable or a reliable source for other articles, so why would it be for this one?
:Also, I'm not exactly appreciative of you calling me "daft" or an "arse".
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Regarding an old draft of yours.



Hello there. I found this old draft of Mejiro Dober that is on a subpage on your userpage. I was wondering if you wanted to do anything with it. ItzAPotato2009 (talk) 14:58, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

:Hello @ItzAPotato2009; as per usual with my drafts, it's one of those where if I get interested in it again, I'll work on it, but I also don't mind if you use the content to port it elsewhere into an actual draft. Feel free to edit it as you wish. Cheers, kline / talk / contribs ↗ 15:59, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
::I have in fact used some of the content from your draft into a separate draft ↗. I also did edit your draft a bit though I only added a Expand Japanese and Draft Article template. ItzAPotato2009 (talk) 02:50, 24 June 2026 (UTC)
:::@ItzAPotato2009 All cool, have fun developing the Dober draft! Way more interesting once you deep dive versus the surface. Cheers, kline / talk / contribs ↗ 19:57, 24 June 2026 (UTC)
::::Update: Mejiro Dober ↗ is now a published article on Wikipedia. ItzAPotato2009 (talk) 02:16, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

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