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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
• Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
• Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

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 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Query about categories

Hello, IJReid,

It looks like you have emptied most of the categories in Category:Mesozoic dinosaurs except for Category:Mesozoic dinosaurs of Asia, is that coming next? And as I was going through tagging these empty categories for different continents, I was wondering, why aren't there dinosaur categories for the continent of Africa? That seems to be missing here. Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:59, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

Yes I am in the process of recategorizing everything within Category:Mesozoic dinosaurs of Asia following the guidelines established at WP:PALEO that are much more in line with general categorization rules. The lack of category for dinosaurs of Africa is a good example of the historic patchwork and inconsistency of these categories and why they are being deprecated, there is now a Category:Dinosaurs of Africa that is in use instead of the inconsistent [age] dinosaurs of [place] categorization. IJReid ^{{{T - C - D - R}}} 20:47, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Geological timeline

Template:Geological timeline has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 08:14, 14 July 2025 (UTC)