Wikipedia talk:Seven-millionth topic pool

Discussing the 7 millionth article

The 7 millionth is coming up soon – discussion here may be interesting to folks: Wikipedia talk:Seven million articles#Hashing out the 7 millionth article - Fuzheado | Talk 20:47, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm looking forward to this pool's results! Brightgalrs and I discussed the 6M and 5M topic pools, so hopefully Brightgalrs will be back! --User101010 (talk) 05:14, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, hello, hello, I am here. Damn, I meant to enter this one, only had 5 years to do it! But to recap: For 5M, only one person predicted a species or taxon, so it was easy. For 6M, there were only two predictions for people, but both rather vague. We went for the "politician" prediction one over the "actor" prediction. Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)^[ᴛ] 09:50, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy, Brightgalrs Great to see you again!!! Welcome to the show, Fuzheado --User101010 (talk) 02:55, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the main candidates are a Belorussian fencer, a belorussian political subdivision, a species of dandelion, a schizophrenic's autobigraphy, a 1955 flood in california, and a hospital in Peru. Very interesting stuff. Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)^[ᴛ] 15:14, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, pools should not have some nonsense sections, but they add it for fun, though. The n-millionth articles are always chosen so that it represents the best of Wikipedia. Just a random Wikipedian^(talk) 17:08, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 7M!!! OK, that's a fun set of candidates! --User101010 (talk) 18:39, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Deciding the winner

Looks like they're going to go with Operators and Things. "an anonymous 1958 autobiographical account of a woman's onset of and recovery from schizophrenia"

This feels a little tricky, a lot of the predictions are like "biography about person X", but they almost certainly meant it as an article about person X, not an article about the biography of person X.

User:Misc Practice's prediction specially mentions an autobiographer. So that's a neat detail.

User:pythoncoder's prediction is specifically about women. Maybe points for that.

User:85.76.68.148 predicted Biography of a living person, amusing. But points subtracted for vagueness and they thought it would be vandalism.

User:Bigboykrank seems to have the only book-like prediction: "an erotic story about horses. very epic" Hmmm! Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)^[ᴛ] 12:55, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)^[ᴛ] 12:55, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think the prediction from User:Misc Practice is the closest match since autobiography is more specific than women or biography. --User101010 (talk) 15:18, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Their prediction wasn't about an "autobiography", it was a prediction about an article on an "autobiographer". It was listed under "People". ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 16:03, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. It's not the same and not a close match, but to me, the use of the word "autobiographer" makes it more of a match than some of the other entries. --User101010 (talk) 15:20, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflicted with Brightgalrs before posting this) This pool is kind of moot now since we aren't actually picking the true seven-millionth topic, the community is just picking the "best" article from the above list that Brightgalrs mentioned. At Wikipedia_talk:Five_million_articles#Thread_for_determining_5_millionth_article, there wasn't a big discussion about what the "best" article was, they just picked what the true five millionth article was. It ended up being a one-line stub about a species, which caused me to win the Wikipedia:Five-millionth topic pool, lol. at Wikipedia_talk:Seven_million_articles#Template_drafting, it looks like they are leaning towards picking the book so how do we determine the winner of this pool? No one guessed a book. They did guess some of the other stuff though. The closest votes I see are in bold below:

Belorussian fencer (Nikolay Alyokhin): "A biography of a living person, maybe Asian.--MaoGo (talk) 10:22, 24 January 2020 (UTC)" The fencer isn't alive though.
Belorussian political subdivision (Khorastava rural council): "Waridaad, Somaliland - some minor town/place in some country --Pithon314 (talk) 16:38, 4 January 2021 (UTC)"
Species of dandelion (Taraxacum angustisectum): "Some stupid plant.-Ich (talk) 12:20, 21 January 2021 (UTC)"
Schizophrenic's autobigraphy (Operators and Things): No close votes. (revised: I do see where Brightgalrs pointed out that User:Bigboykrank left "an erotic story about horses. very epic")
1955 flood in california (1955 Yuba–Sutter floods): No close votes.
Hospital in Peru (British American Hospital): No close votes.

Given how many of those Belorussian political subdivision articles were being cranked out, I'd lean towards Khorastava rural council being the true 7 millionth article, which would make Pithon314 the winner of the pool. However, Ich's vote for species is very precise in actually specifying that it was a plant. (revised: I do see where Brightgalrs pointed out that User:Bigboykrank left "an erotic story about horses. very epic", so if the book is selected this would probably be the winner.... even if it's not the true 7 millionth article...) ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 13:19, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The method for deciding the Nth million article is esoteric and ambiguous, but ultimately it does work out, avoiding the stinkers like Khorastava rural council :p. But yeah, I really think whatever is at the top of Wikipedia:Seven_million_articles really is the 7th million article, even if it's just symbolic. And we can do second places for the others. Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)^[ᴛ] 20:49, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. It's been a week and I think I like User:pythoncoder's prediction the best. "Biography of a scientist, created as part of the Women in Red initiative. This submission is very original as well." It feels in line with the themes of Operators and Things (maybe, I never read it). It wasn't, but it feels like it could have been Wikipedia:Women in Red-related (woman in the business/professional world). Schizophrenia/psychoanalysis gives a science-y flavor. Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)^[ᴛ] 17:15, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Biography of a scientist" was listed under people. That prediction was for an article about a scientist, not a book. Operators and Things is a book. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 18:08, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:JrandWP already selected a winner by the way. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 18:15, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]