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GA review timeline

Just a quick question. You picked up my article for GA review a couple days ago now, but haven't begun reviewing dispite being fairly active on Wikipedia? (Edit: Woah! Over 1000 edits so far.) By all means, there's no rush, and I have no issue waiting—I'm just confused is all. Is there a reason you're waiting? If so, when are you planning to start? I'm gonna try to keep my schedule clear. – Farkle Griffen (talk) 18:49, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Remsemse? – Farkle Griffen (talk) 16:05, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Was just tabbing to it, my bad! Remsense ‥ 论 16:05, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously, take your time. I'm in no rush. Just wondering what's going on. – Farkle Griffen (talk) 16:10, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Remsense, all right then, keep your secrets. – Farkle Griffen (talk) 23:56, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Remsense, if it's possible, could you give me an idea of when you're wanting to start? I'm free for the next few days... and after next week, I might not be free until May. – Farkle Griffen (talk) 20:52, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very sorry for this—was planning on getting the bulk done today. Thanks for letting me know. Remsense ‥ 论 20:55, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Farkle Griffen I am beyond sorry about my disappearance—I had a family emergency and wasn't able to edit. Are you okay with me resuming the bulk of the work now and possibly wrapping up after you're able to address any concerns I bring up? Remsense ‥ 论 00:05, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Remsense I understand, and I hope everything is okay! That's alright with me, but I might not be able to make any large edits until May, if you're okay waiting a bit. – Farkle Griffen (talk) 00:54, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Remsense To be clear, I'm okay with you resuming now. The "if you're okay waiting a bit" was specifically about large edits. Sorry if that was confusing. – Farkle Griffen (talk) 18:31, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese characters scheduled for TFA

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Looking forward! - My story today is about an opera singer born OTD in 1870. I have problems to say something as informative about Mirella Freni, as the DYK nom shows. -Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:57, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Freni hook was improved while I wrote this ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:19, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tout est lumière. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:32, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Check out my talk: for a great woman's Johannes-Passion (listen!), our music in detail, and three people who recently died and are on the main page (where she isn't). My call for collaboration has the first "no", and the second - for the Easter Oratorio - seems inevitable. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:36, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My story is about music that Bach and Picander gave the world 300 years (and 19 days) ago, - listen (on the conductor's birthday) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:59, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I finally managed to upload the pics I meant for Easter, see places. - Also finally, I managed a FAC, Easter Oratorio. I wanted that on the main page for Easter Sunday, but no, twice. You are invited to join a discussion about what "On this day" means, day or date. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:26, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: Language and literature Good Article nomination

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Disruptive reverts of constructive adds

Hi @Remsense, your changes to Portugal have been disruptive per WP:DISRUPT, in that particular case, I added important information that up until that point was misleading the reader, namely the fact that no treaty whatsoever has been reported to have been signed at Zamora in 1143, that does not run afoul of WP:RGW since, even though is not well reported, and is extremely often and erroneously reported that there was a treaty, it's a well established fact that no such thing happened, it's only mentioned that there was a meeting between 4 and 5 of october 1143 at Zamora, and that Afonso I began refering to himself as king on the 5th, that fact lead to the misunderstanding that there was a treaty, which is false. This fact has been already cited in the article, yet you seem to have chosen to ignore it, also, your revert undid other additions that positively contributed to the article, again reinforcing WP:DISRUPT. If there's a new revert on Portugal without any reply by you on this topic, I'm afraid I'll have to make a report on this activityConsuela9890 (talk) 17:58, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You seem likely to deduce that each edit you care to make is well established by virtue of you wanting to make it, and not according to anything our site policies say. Please actually become familiar with said policies so you can stop trying to brute force your way through processes and concepts you have so far chosen not to understand. It is increasingly difficult to assume good faith when you are cavalierly blowing past the obvious directions given on pages like WP:Technical move requests. Remsense ‥ 论 18:08, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's not an assumption made by me, that conclusion was totally uncalled for. All me additions on Portugal were made citing sources, that particular source also quotes bibliography which, in case there's a worry of the nature of it, supports it. Plus, we are talking about historical events, and an important one of that, that makes your case for the use of WP:RGW very difficult to make, because of the amount of bibliography, some of which is cited on that said source, is considerable. I'm here explaining to you the reasons of my changes and I'm absolutly happy to talk about my record here on wiki when it pertains of wheter or not there should be an assumption of good behaviour. Please take care into reading the source I provided to support my modification to Portugal before making any further mislead conclusions.Consuela9890 (talk) 18:17, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Someone's blog drawing original conclusions synthesized from other sources is original research, no matter whether those sources are themselves reliable. You would know that if you bothered looking at the policy you've been linked at all. Remsense ‥ 论 18:18, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very well, so if I cite bibliography on the article instead of the blog will I still have the assurance that you won't reverse those additions? I'm willing to do that if I'm assured about thatConsuela9890 (talk) 18:27, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you have an English-language reliable source that uses your preferred terminology, then that lets you start the discussion—you still don't get to cherrypick your preferred language, we're required to to weigh what aspects and terminology are most representative in our sources for each given topic. There are already multiple sources on Treaty of Zamora (not to mention the ones in Spanish and Portuguese) that use that term, so you have to demonstrate that those sources represent a minority position in the literature.. Remsense ‥ 论 18:34, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm an uninvolved administrator. I'm ready to start blocking when any of you resume your edit warring in live pagespace. You know what I don't see? A vigorous discussion about this disagreement on Talk:Portugal. I see Remsense warning Oos88, but I see no discussion on the merits of this disagreement. That's my recipe for fully protecting the page against anybody editing while you folks finally hash it out in talk. BusterD (talk) 18:45, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not saying anything to recuse myself save that it should be somewhat evident from their talk so far that they do not engage in talk discussions—they have been flagged down multiple times by multiple editors and have so far refused. I had to throw my hands up and go to WP:RMUM to prevent a move war there, even though I have page mover. It's been completely nervewracking cleaning up after this person. I've already described the situation every way I know how, so if whatever pages are out of sorts in whatever way from now on I guess it's mostly not my fault. Remsense ‥ 论 19:02, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very good then, I'll be adding those as soon as I'm available. I hope next time, we can have a discussion like this before we start undoing each other's contributions. Even though I'm certain I'm correct about the substance of Zamora, It was my mistake citing that particular source, a blog is not an acceptable source at all I'm appreciated for the clarification about thatConsuela9890 (talk) 18:46, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The procedure is BOLD, REVERT, DISCUSS. BOLD, REVERT, REVERT, REVERT, REVERT, GET BLOCKED, is not the preference you guys would like. I've created a talk thread and I'm going around now warning everybody personally. Let's act in concert, not in disharmony. Learning something new via vigorous disagreement is why I log on every day. Please everyone stop the posturing and get to the merits. BusterD (talk) 18:59, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese war revisionism

It's a true fact that when Abe posed with a plane with numbers 731. It drew angry wide condemnation from China and Korea. I see you constantly remove it in the article by saying people should not mention at all that Chinese and Korean people disliked that notion. That's not against WP:blp to say that his actions drew anger and why. I am willing to go to dispute resolution if you do engage me in talk or edit war with me. 49.186.208.96 (talk) 23:04, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not comfortable given I've already been a bit pigeonholed as if I intend on carrying water for Japanese nationalists. I want anything but, so I figure I've said my piece and others can figure it out on talk. Remsense ‥ 论 23:20, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I probably should have reworded that better. I didn't mean to say you were doing Japanese war revisionism. My topic was on Abe doing historical revisionism on Japanese war crimes and that people were angry at bim. My issue with you is that you made it seem like only one person had issues after you kept removing thay other people besides one Korean politician had issues too. 49.186.208.96 (talk) 23:34, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: Philosophy and religion Good Article nomination

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Rollback of Further reading additions

Please self-revert for the Further reading sections of articles within the area of Serbo-Croatian speakers. Ivan (talk) 05:19, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't a Serbo-Croatian encyclopedia. Even to readers of those articles, the vast majority can't make any use of the resource. Remsense ‥ 论 05:21, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, what I'm trying to do is add links to resources with which to expand articles, mainly stubs. You could rename "Further reading" to "Bibliography". The only reason I kept them separate is so that I know the resources haven't been used yet. Ivan (talk) 05:24, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I really do not understand this argument when it gets proffered—I've just made clear that this resource is not useful, and I don't know how I'm meant to instead treat its inclusion as a stepping stone to further improvements. I've definitely made my point, though. Remsense ‥ 论 05:51, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am not objecting to your reverts for the mountain ranges about which a vast literature already exists, but the linked articles are to what is often a rather large topical bibliography within a special edition of a mountaineering periodical. In the case of many of the smaller ranges and/or peaks, having such a bibliography on hand greatly speeds up the process of writing the articles, which I intend to do for the Dinarics and Julian Alps. All you have to do is delete the "Further reading" and alter "Bibliography" from a subheading to a heading if you object, logically enough, to non-English sources in "Further reading". Ivan (talk) 05:58, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please Stop. I don't think you intended to revert this. Ivan (talk) 05:20, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't, apologies. Remsense ‥ 论 05:21, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted Edit In Conversions related

Hi Man ! Ive made some additions to the para where it said about 'primary' factor of new muslims but not about the conversions which although not an primary factor but has an huge trend in modern world . Ive spoken about it in talk page you can refer it for the sources and claims i have made . Expecting your reply . Thanks ItsTrueNow (talk) 08:14, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You appear to have missed the explanation in the edit summary. Please read WP:LEAD for the long version. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 10:44, 9 April 2025 (UTC) (talk page watcher)[reply]

Oh sorry i'll correct the summary . Thanks for correcting me ! ItsTrueNow (talk) 14:07, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just now noticed sir . The previous reversion of edit said about lack of much source so I've edited with more reliable, authentic sources so in the edit summary i have mentioned that 'added context with reliable sources etc etc' . Isn't this summary enough sir ? ItsTrueNow (talk) 14:15, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Why not a more comprehensive biographical information but a superficial one instead ? Moreover, it used to be like the way I edited it to be. It used to include the titles of field marshal, author, and revolutionary statesman before it's been changed to its current form. All the titles are relevant and serve his persona better. Enigmationn (talk) 16:04, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's simply no need to overload the first sentence to the point of awkwardness. Remsense ‥ 论 21:43, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's no need to keep it incredibly short either then. Besides, get to the page of Che Guevara for example and you'll see the awkwardness. Enigmationn (talk) 07:42, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Jeffrey Tripp

Hello Remsense! I’m sorry if I am bothering you, but could you explain why you reverted my edit citing Jeffrey Tripp? He is a biblical scholar with the relevant phd from Loyola and a member of SBL, as I noted in my edit summary. The article I posted is even critical of Richard Bauckham, so I do not think he is an apologist.

Thank you Birjeta01 (talk) 21:42, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question on revert on Speed of Sound Wiki

Hi, I saw you reverted my edits on the Speed of sound Wiki claiming it was generated by a Large language model. I wish to clarify that I did not do that, and a major part of my contributed text was just a revert. That text was written around two decades ago. I nevertheless checked for AI written content on my changes using QuillBot's AI Detector and it reported 0% AI. It would be great if you could tell me why you thought the text was AI generated. Aishik Nath (talk) 23:40, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed for a template

Hi, Remsense! I needed your your help at wikt:pa:ਮੌਡਿਊਲ:ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰਡੱਬਾ. I'm unable to find the problem as I'm not a programmer and have no experience at all with Lua. _saluere, Ɔþʱʏɾɪʊs^⚔ 10:00, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question on your undo edit in Talk:Saint Augustine of Hippo

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PRODs

Hello, Remsense,

I'm not sure why you are using WP:YOUNGATH as a deletion rationale for subjects who had adult careers playing or coaching in professional sports. YOUNGATH a deletion reason for athletes who primarily played sports in secondary school but not professionally. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:09, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hebrew Bible

Dear Remsense, Thank you for your interest in this article. You removed two images of an illuminated printed historical bible, (Vetus Testamentum, Brescia 1495) per Article is sufficiently illustrated; we do not need two large images of the same manuscript at the already cluttered top. (diff]) That's right, the top is cluttered indeed, however the remainder of the article is quite barren and can stand some illustration?

Is it OK if i put the removed images over there, lower on the page?

I thought the photographed bible pages are gorgeous and worthwhile to show here. Thank you, Hansmuller UBL (talk) 12:26, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings

The AfD hasn't been open for an hour yet, why would you close it? Schazjmd (talk) 13:26, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the tool would give me a box to type in. If you think the SNOW close is inappropriate that's fine and up to you, but this has kneejerk bad faith written all over it. Remsense ‥ 论 13:28, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

When I saw it, you just closed as keep with no explanation, so it was unclear what you were doing. You've since amended the closure statement, thanks. Schazjmd (talk) 13:30, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be smarter about ensuring it doesn't do that for those onlooking in the future. Remsense ‥ 论 13:31, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but that's an out of process AfD close. Amending it isn't enough; it needs to be reopened, because neither speedy keep criteria nor SNOW apply. I'll ask DRV for an admin to undo your close. Jclemens (talk) 03:12, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

SNOW applies plenty, and if your argument is genuinely that I used a tool that made me do it in two edits rather than one, you shouldn't be managing these processes, sorry. In order to avoid further hypocrisy on my part, I won't be throwing more hours into this pit, I hope everyone else who has to get involved knows how little is at stake for their contributions. Remsense ‥ 论 04:09, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review for Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings

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April 2025

Hi Remsense! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of Edward II of England several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.

All editors are expected to discuss content disputes on article talk pages to try to reach consensus. If you are unable to agree at Talk:Edward II of England, please use one of the dispute resolution options to seek input from others. Using this approach instead of reverting can help you avoid getting drawn into an edit war. Warning both sides as I am not entirely sure who is at fault here.. Gommeh (talk/contribs) 16:02, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Preventing schoolchildren from damaging the encyclopedia isn't edit-warring, but thanks—if you actually believe your preferred change to be well-supported, you generally don't need to side with schoolchildren damaging the encyclopedia. Remsense ‥ 论 16:03, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

true lol... but IMO the portrait a few people put there looks more like it belongs, so IDK if that was vandalism per se. This needs to be discussed on the talk page I think, but people were not listening so I requested page protection. Gommeh (talk/contribs) 16:09, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It probably doesn't need it, as long as people who would be interested in the discussion wouldn't be boxed out—I just care about shunting these discussions to talk where they belong—obviously I care more about that with you, someone who's working in good faith, rather than letting school IPs waste our time. Remsense ‥ 论 16:10, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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why did you reverted my edit at mariam yahia ibrahim ishag

why? 2600:480A:4A51:9300:E159:CFC5:9C65:79DD (talk) 20:03, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

unexplained editorializing

Hello, the note under bust of Mark Antony hints that identification has no reliable basis. However if you don't open the note (which few users do), there is no indication in caption that identification is questionable. What do you think? Askelladd (talk) 07:37, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

To my eye, traditionally identified suffices here—we wouldn't specify if that identification were equally accepted presently. Remsense ‥ 论 07:44, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

traditionally identified, in my opinion, implies that chance that the bust depicts him is more than 50%, when in fact chance is less than it, because initially identification was based on fact that all busts from the same era and two of them depict Octavian and Lepidus, which was eventually refuted. Askelladd (talk) 08:11, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Conflict of edits (solved)

Hi, unfortunately there was a conflict of edits in the article you were editing; could you restore your latest changes without affecting mine? Thank you. JacktheBrown (talk) 16:54, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I solved it, don't worry; Done. JacktheBrown (talk) 17:08, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My user page

Hi, on my user page I don't know how to make the userbox scrollable (on mobile devices, only the left half is visible), could you please help me? Thank you in advance. JacktheBrown (talk) 19:09, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sub-referencing: User testing

Hi I’m Johannes from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team. We are making great strides with the new sub-referencing feature and we’d love to invite you to take part in two activities to help us move this work further:

Try it out and share your feedback
Please try the updated wikitext feature on the beta wiki and let us know what you think, either on our talk page or by booking a call with our UX researcher.
Get a sneak peak and help shape the Visual Editor user designs
Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions – sign up here to receive an invite. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will start May 14th.

We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well. Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life!

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Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 14:53, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Incidents noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding another editor you have interacted with. The thread is Dustfreeworld's editing of project-space pages. The discussion is about the topic Wikipedia:POV railroad. — Newslinger talk 16:51, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Basque langauge

Maybe check the formatting and fix it before just undoing my edit. I didn’t mean to delete it all just the pronunciation part under "Example" section. ArianTe (talk) 19:24, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure how I'm supposed to know that, but thank you for clarifying. Remsense ‥ 论 19:25, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of ipblocks, ipblocks_ipindex, and ipblocks_compat are now deprecated. Users can query the block and block_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved Content Translation Dashboard Tool, support for new languages, highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign, results from the Language Onboarding Experiment, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.

Meetings and events

The Let's Connect Learning Clinic will take place on April 29 at 14:30 UTC. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can register now to attend.
The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stonehenge

I think the picture looks better and shows off the landmark in full, instead of a close up. Sorry for the issues caused, and sorry you had to revert my edit.

Kind regards. Derryanne (talk) 20:48, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Rem

The mistake you make for hell was the reverts CoolBaljeetFan12 (talk) 00:04, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 May newsletter

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:

BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,233 round points from 24 good articles, 28 Did you know articles, and one In the news nomination, mainly about athletes and politicians
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 1,127 round points, almost entirely from two high-multiplier featured articles on Black Widow (Natasha Romanova) and Grace Coolidge, in addition to two GAs and two reviews
History6042 (submissions) with 1,088 round points from four featured lists about Michelin-starred restaurants, nine good articles and a good topic mostly on Olympic-related subjects, seven ITN articles, and dozens of reviews
Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,085 round points from three FAs, one GA, and four DYKs on military history, as well as 18 reviews
Arconning (submissions) with 887 round points, mostly from four FLs, six GAs, and seven DYKs on Olympic topics, along with more than two dozen reviews

In addition, we would like to recognize Generalissima (submissions) 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! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:03, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]