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Precious anniversary

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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:

BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,175 round points, mainly from sports-related articles, including 17 good articles, 27 did you know articles, and 9 in the news articles
Arconning (submissions) with 1,090 round points, mainly from articles about athletes and politicians, including a featured article on Philippines at the 1924 Summer Olympics, 9 good articles, 28 did you know articles, and a wide assortment of featured and good article reviews
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 854 round points, mostly from a high-scoring featured article on the Indian leader Rani of Jhansi and two good articles, in addition to 13 featured and good article reviews

Everyone who competed in Round 4 will advance to Round 5 unless they have withdrawn.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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Bejeweled (video game) scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 12 November 2025. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 2025, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 2025. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there by those who assist the coordinators by reviewing the blurbs. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 14:26, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for the article, about "a 2000 match-three video game developed and published by PopCap Games. If you're even slightly interested in casual gaming, then even if you haven't heard of this game, you will most certainly recognize the ubiquitous match-three mechanic, which Bejeweled popularized."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:03, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you

		The Reviewer Barnstar
		Well done for doing such extensive spot checks on Swaay/GA1. It's often thankless work. Consider adding cleanup tags to the article where your spot checks failed so your work counts for something outside the GA review. IAWW (talk) 11:09, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested GOCE copy edit of Tetris

Hello, Lazman321. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for Tetris at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Dhtwiki (talk) 23:43, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tetris

Lazman, I was very happy to see that you brought Tetris to FAC. I wanted to let you know that you are appreciated and that I enjoy reading your articles. I didn't realize that Bejeweled (video game) was also your nomination. See you around! 3df (talk) 06:25, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A fox for you!

Even though it didn't pass, thank you for dedicating so much of your time over the past couple of weeks to helping improve the article for The Click (album) and providing the notes for me to be a better editor in the future.

Popturtle (talk) 07:40, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Lazman321! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2025 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 07:04, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

October 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	This award is given to Lazman321 for accumulating at least 7 points in the October 2025 GAN Backlog Drive. Your dedicated reviews contributed to the successful reduction of the backlog and helped improve the quality of articles. Here's our token of appreciation. Thank you for your time and efforts, and hopefully we'll see you soon again! Bgsu98 (Talk) 23:07, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I liked how your reviews systematically checked every criteria and uncovered issues that often wouldn't be caught in a GA review. Just a little feedback: I think on Talk:Swaay/GA1, some specific actionable examples would have been very helpful to the nominator, especially considering how long the article was in the queue. IAWW (talk) 14:37, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 November newsletter

The 2025 WikiCup has come to an end. Our top scorers, based on the tournament point rankings (which can be seen here), are:

BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,604 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,075 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
Arconning (submissions) with 860 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
History6042 (submissions) with 804 tournament points
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 635 tournament points
TheDoctorWho (submissions) with 386 tournament points
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 373 tournament points
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 362 tournament points

Our high scorers in the final round were:

BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,035 round points, mostly from 19 good articles and 21 did you know articles about athletes
vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) with 819 round points, mostly from 13 good articles and 11 did you know articles about a wide range of topics from abortion topics to African cities
TheNuggeteer (submissions) with 508 round points from 9 good articles, 4 good topic articles and 6 did you know articles mainly about Philippines topics, along with 19 good article reviews

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 2 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 106 good articles, 5 good topic articles, 178 article reviews, 76 did you know articles, and 9 in the news articles. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

The top eight scorers will receive awards shortly. The following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. These prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field during the competition.

Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, with 12 featured articles total, and the featured topic prize, with 9 featured topic articles in total
Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize, with 10 featured lists total
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, submitting the only featured picture in the entire contest during round 3
History6042 (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize, with 127 featured content reviews. He will also share the ITN prize, with 20 in the news articles in total.
BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize, with 100 good articles total, and the DYK prize, with 147 did you know articles in total. He will also share the ITN prize, with 20 in the news articles in total.
TheDoctorWho (submissions) wins the good topic prize, with 16 good topic entries in total
Arconning (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, with 68 good article reviews in total

A special mention also goes to these users who scored the highest in a particular category in a single round:

Sammi Brie (submissions), with 27 good articles in round 3, and 45 good article reviews in round 1
Tails Wx (submissions), with 10 in the news articles in round 3

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 2026 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!

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Swaay

Hi Lazman321. You tagged this article with {{Close paraphrasing}} but didn't provide an URL. Do you happen to remember what this article is paraphrasing from? — Tenshi! (Talk page) 00:21, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Tenshi Hinanawi: It's not just one source; it's multiple. Much of the article is paraphrased from the sources already cited, which was why I failed its GAN nomination. Lazman321 (talk) 02:50, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, it might be possible to add support for multiple sources in the template, though that's probably an in the future thing. Thanks anyway. Tenshi! (Talk page) 14:13, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

List of television shows considered the best

Dexerto is not reliable on WP:RS/PS and Parade's reliability has not been established yet. I think these two are compromising the list that is populated with only reliable sources. MSAOM (talk) 05:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RSP says that Dexerto can be used on a case-by-case basis, and since editorial opinions on entertainment are rarely controversial, I think they can be used for this list, similar to how it's already used on List of video games considered the best.

As for Parade, just because a particular source has not been litigated by the community does not mean it shouldn't be used. As far as I can tell, it is an established magazine, one that used to be in print, that has editorial policies. Not to mention, List of video games considered the best also used Parade. Unless, there's reason to assume otherwise, I believe that Parade is usable. Lazman321 (talk) 05:52, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If there's case to case basis on Dexerto, I would propose to not give it benefit of the doubt. And as for Parade, the magazine's reliability has nothing to do with the web one unless it specifies that the list is directly lifted from the magazine. Besides, the 2019 Parade already fails because it explicitly mentions 20 best Emmy-winning shows, not best ever. MSAOM (talk) 06:06, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, you have a point on a Parade list. Can't include a list that limits itself to Emmy-winning shows. As for the Dexerto list, I recommend posting about it on the talk page to see if there is consensus for your side. Lazman321 (talk) 06:14, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

November 2025 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Lazman321 for collecting more than 20 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV25 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 6,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 15:25, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

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