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Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Z1720! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:07, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

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Everyone who competed in Round 4 will advance to Round 5 unless they have withdrawn.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.

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Hi @Z1720, I was wondering if you would be able to initiate a new circle considering that 5 articles are in the pool. Thanks! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:41, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Bunnypranav: I saw the number of noms on GARC, but haven't had time to set up a circle. If there are still lots of noms when I do have time I will set it up. If it is not in a week, please ping me. Z1720 (talk) 15:21, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Oh alright. Thanks! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 16:26, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi Z1720, please if you have time, take a look at Wikipedia:Peer review/Independence Day (Nigeria)/archive1 and your comments would be greatly appreciated (after looking at the article itself). Thank you. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:08, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Vanderwaalforces: I cannot promise that I have time to review, but I will try. Z1720 (talk) 17:55, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

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I really do not appreciate you leave it until midnight UTC to screw things up so that I cannot fix it, there are a lot of people on "eligible" died on this day and you chose a third birthday instead. Ikhouvanjou14 (talk) 01:09, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

• @Ikhouvanjou14: No, the edit did not "screw things up": it replaced an article that ran in at OTD in 2024 with an article that has never been on the Main Page. Having the same number of birth and deaths is not a requirement at OTD. If you would like it to be a requirement, please open a discussion at WT:OTD. Z1720 (talk) 14:18, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

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Hello Z1720, I have a question about citations in regards to airline fleets. I have been currently editing the Qantaslink page and am unsure about how to provide effective citations for fleet in service. Planespotters.net is not an approved source so I was linking Flightradar24 with the newest aircrafts registration. As airline fleets change quickly there are no articles that show current of up to date fleet numbers that I could cite. I have never had a problem with this before on any airline page, always using Flightradar24's aircraft flight data but recent edits have been reverted and labelled WP:SYNTH. Not sure how to go forward and efficiently cite these changes and information under Wikipedias guidelines. Thanks, Jay330 --Jay330 (talk) 00:25, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

@Jay330: Thanks for your question. Can you give an example of an article where the SYNTH concerns happened, so I can take a closer look? Z1720 (talk) 00:27, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=QantasLink&action=history Jay330 (talk) 02:17, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

• @Jay330: I think the other user is correct: the source only verifies that the plane is used by an airline. It doesn't verify that there are seven aircraft in the airline, so a different source will need to be found. Z1720 (talk) 02:19, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

  In terms of aviation page citations broadly moving forward, only Flightradar24 & planespotters.net (not an approved source) provide current up to date fleet information (rest are either behind a pay wall or outdated). There are articles that detail the initial aircraft orders but nothing as the aircraft are slowly introduced to airline fleets. On prior edits due to this issue most airline pages would not usually cite these changes (fleet data is often also segmented on a few websites as well). In my opinion flightradar24 is the best choice as this shows all registrations in a fleet and when you click on each aircraft you can see it's flight activity and whether the aircraft is active. This is how I got the information for the previous edits, just wanting a second opinion. Thanks Jay330 (talk) 05:28, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

• @Jay330: The link that you have in the above paragraph is able to verify how many aircraft are in the QantasLink fleet, so that is what it is able to verify. I think clicking through each of the aircraft to see if it is active is not necessary, as it is still in the aircraft's fleet and might be too detailed for a Wikipedia article. Wikipedia also doesn't want to have to constantly update an article as aircraft become active or unactive. It might be better just to cite the fleet number and not check to see if the plane is active or not. Z1720 (talk) 13:43, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

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A good story today, about a mezzo as a thinking person, DYK? - see also video. Thank you for the DYK review! I didn't see her, but the Carmen production at the Bastille Opéra that she was in last. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:51, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Happy birthday, Margaret Medlyn! (I found the article - not by me - when searching for someone whose birthday is today.) - I took a cat pic, presented by Rosiestep today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:16, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Happy 50th birthday, Alain Altinoglu!) - I let the video begin with a closeup of the octobass ;) Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:18, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

My latest: Roberta Alexander, - listen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:40, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for the review! I appreciate the apology for the quick-reject, but you were entirely justified—those paragraphs without citations were ones that I mostly left alone when rewriting the article. I've gone back and added citations to statements that I could find sources for, and I've rewritten the Flash System section to contain verifiable and cited statements. Thanks for the feedback! :) Serebit (talk) 13:34, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

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Hey, thanks for your lightning talk at WCNA! Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-11-28/Op-Ed is the text I mentioned when we chatted, which at least partially overlaps with the topic of your lightning talk. /Julle (talk) 02:18, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

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

1. BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,604 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
2. Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,075 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
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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!

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• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, submitting the only featured picture in the entire contest during round 3
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I don't know how "most popular" would be measured. I don't think I'm interested in helping with this idea. Z1720 (talk) 04:17, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Z, you do good work with identifying problematic GAs for reasssessment, but I would ask that you don't open any more MILHIST GARs for the rest of November. There are three open right now (Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (level-4 vital), Battle of Borodino (level-5 vital), and Battle of Long Island) which all cover particularly significant topics and MILHIST is running Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/November 2025 Article Improvement Drive right now, so the amount of attention that will be available for GARs is going to be lower for a bit. Hog Farm _Talk 00:13, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

• @Hog Farm: Thanks for letting me know. I try to open MilHist GARs on a variety of topics (ie different wars, different geographic places, different time periods) so that a single editor's interest isn't being overwhelmed. Sometimes I get it wrong, like opening Nelson at the same time as Borodino, which are both Napoleonic War-centred. I wasn't planning on opening any more MILHIST GARs while these were open (except maybe a military ship, but most of the ship articles are in excellent shape) and I'll hold off nominating MilHist articles until some of the ones that are open right now are closed. Hopefully, after this improvement drive, MilHist editors will be inspired to review their favourite GA topics to ensure the articles still meet the criteria. Z1720 (talk) 00:36, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

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Good morning! I currently have these articles up for Featured article or Featured list consideration if you are so inclined:

• Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Hungarian Figure Skating Championships/archive1
• Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final/archive1
• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/2025 World Figure Skating Championships/archive1

Any assistance would be appreciated! 😃 Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:14, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

I think this G&M article is mentioning you, for your work on Mackenzie? https://en.wikipedia.orghttps://wikious.com/en/Wikipedia_talk:Canadian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board#c-Mr_Serjeant_Buzfuz-20251123183100-Globe_&_Mail_article_on_two_Canadian_wikipedians! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:04, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

• @Mr Serjeant Buzfuz: Yep, that's me! The G&M also did a follow-up podcast episode link here. Z1720 (talk) 01:27, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

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Interesting! Nice to meet you and hear you speaking! What I came to say was: thank you for your OTD efforts! - Look, today's image, - she "portrayed" herself with her husband at the end of the table, - would have been good for Thanksgiving ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:21, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

I'll reference Helmut Lachenmann more, and will do more tomorrow, only: tomorrow I will not be able to change the selection. - It's a featured article in German. The articles to cite will appear on his birthday, I'm afraid. English subtitles - I'll add from this now (instead of going outside, improving Jean-Claude Éloy, uploading more photos ...) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:08, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

• @Gerda Arendt: Ping me or post on my talk page once this is completed, and I'll take a look. For the future, it is easier if suggestions are posted several days ahead of time so that problems can be identified and fixed early. Opera is a great category at OTD births/deaths because it is underrepresented (most entries are politicians or modern-day pop culture) so I'm hoping that more opera articles can be deemed eligible. Z1720 (talk) 16:19, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

  I will. This month, recent deaths have been overwhelming, and they become ineligible after a week. Sorry that long-time planning suffered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:30, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

  Please check again. The best list of his works seems to be IRCAM, and each work has it's own page, - there could be much more but only a bit more today. Please let me know. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:35, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

I just wanted to personally thank you for reviewing the Andreas Papandreou article. I know that it must have been daunting process. Your comments and changes were of great help. Happy editing! A.Cython (talk) 04:12, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

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Two days ago, I went to see Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Paris where Guy Morançon worked, quite a place. On his birthday, my story is about the organist (although I have two entries on the main page, Lorenz Weinrich and Sequenza III, who will have to wait for another day). - If you have little time just listen - with documentation images - to his pioneering recording on one of the most important organs of the composer's period, in Rouen. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:28, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

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Hi, thanks for the reassessment note for Henry, I haven't taken a look at his article for a few years. I am slower these days but should be able to the necessary patching up. Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 14:26, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

• @Amitchell125: Thanks for the heads up. I suggest posting on the GAR letting editors know that you are interested in fixing up the article. Z1720 (talk) 16:01, 16 December 2025 (UTC)