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List of freshwater islands in Scotland

Thanks for your note about List of freshwater islands in Scotland and TFL - much obliged. I have had a quick read through and the text still looks fine to me. Ben MacDui 13:24, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

List of Major League Baseball single-inning home run leaders FLC

In case you didn't get the mention alert – I think a consensus has now been reached on this FLC. And 2+ months is more than enough time. What do you think? —Bloom6132 (talk) 01:27, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Giants! Could I trouble you for another dedicated source review, this time for List of Roman Catholic bishops of Hong Kong? Cheers! —Bloom6132 (talk) 22:11, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

The 50 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal

		The 50 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
		Good work! --evrik (talk) 23:54, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 May newsletter

The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

• Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
• Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
• The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
• Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
• Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Hog Farm with 801, Kingsif with 719, SounderBruce with 710, Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. 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. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

List removal candidate

Hi. Could you or User:PresN or User:The Rambling Man be so kind and review the issue and come to a verdict? The nomination has been going on for two months, altogether even for almost half a year. Thanks. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 23:14, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

List of Major League Baseball players with a home run in their first major league at bat FLC

Hi Giants! In case you didn't get the notification alert from almost a week ago, I'd appreciate either your or PresN's input into the comments made by Therapyisgood at the above FLC. Cheers! —Bloom6132 (talk) 14:49, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Withdrawn FLCs

Hi Giants, hope you are well and safe in these crazy times. You may well already be aware, but just in case - there's a couple of FLCs which were withdrawn a while ago but which haven't been archived. Presumably the bot overlooked them...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:12, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 July newsletter

The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
• The Rambling Man , with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
• Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. 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. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak

Hello! Your submission of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:08, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

RE: TFL posting of 60th Academy Awards

Hi there,

I approve of the posting of 60th Academy Awards for Today's Featured list on July 24. In fact, you may post any of the Oscar ceremony list on any date with the exception of ones from the 73rd Academy Awards and beyond since those will be used as future TFLs on the day of/after future Oscar ceremony dates.

--Birdienest81 (talk) 02:51, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Signpost Interview

Hello! I'm Puddleglum2.0, a writer for the Wikipedia newsletter The Signpost. I was planning on putting together an interview with coordinators and delegates involved in the Featured Content projects for the August edition, but before putting together the questions, I wanted to gauge coords interest to see if it will be worth doing. Thanks for your work and thoughts! Cheers -- puddleglum^2.0 19:55, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Shilpa Shetty filmography

Greetings mate. The list has got three supports in order to achieve FL status. Just wanted to know what is the tentative time to close the nomination. Thanks in advance--25 CENTS VICTORIOUS ^☣✅ 13:21, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

• Hello, list has got sufficient support. Till what time it will have FL status?--25 CENTS VICTORIOUS ^☣✅ 15:42, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak

On 17 July 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the record 56-game hitting streak of Major League Baseball player Joe DiMaggio (pictured), which ended 79 years ago today, is considered unbreakable? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Wug·a·po·des​ 00:37, 15 July 2020 (UTC) 12:01, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

TFL List of India national football team hat-tricks

The blurb looks good, but one thing that is missing is Neville D'Souza's hat-trick. It's most celebrated hat-trick in India's football history, it's also the first Asian hat-trick in Olympic. It will be good if can be included. One thing I want to ask, is it always one picture that can be added or can be more?? Drat8sub (talk) 06:43, 25 July 2020 (UTC)

Seen the blurb, it looks fine now. No issues with picture, just wanted to know. Thank you. Drat8sub (talk) 07:51, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Wikimedian of the Year/archive1

Probably needs to be promoted. With 7 supports; passed the source review. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 00:34, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

New message from 25 Cents FC

Hello, Giants2008. You have new messages at 25 Cents FC's talk page.
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Hi, FYI. 25 CENTS VICTORIOUS ^☣✅ 13:35, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

re TFL for Territorial evolution of the United States

Thank you so much for this being an upcoming featured list! I do have one major request though - that gif. It's not from the article, it doesn't match the visual style at all, and I have reservations about its accuracy and usefulness. I have a gif I made of the list that I can upload to commons when I have internet back (I'm in Cedar Rapids and we're going through some stuff right now), or if that's not an option, I would much rather include a single map from the article, perhaps December 11, 1816, which contains pretty much all the mapping techniques I used - zooms to show details, inter-state conflicts, etc. etc. I'll check in next time I'm somewhere with internet in the next few days, thanks :) --Golbez (talk) 17:30, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Whee, we got internet back. I've uploaded the gif at File:United States evolution.gif. --Golbez (talk) 12:48, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Done! --Golbez (talk) 02:23, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Hrm. I mean, yes, but if there's no way for it to animate then I'd rather get something else, maybe that frame from Dec 11 1816. What do you think? --Golbez (talk) 03:06, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

August

August

Sunflowers in Walsdorf

A first for me today, thanks to you: a featured list (= a featured topic in this case) on the Main page, see Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 August 21, an initiative by Aza24 in memory of Brian. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:25, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Rhythm Is It! - I expanded that stub on my dad's birthday because we saw the film together back then, and were impressed. As a ref said: every educator should see it. Don't miss the trailer, for a starter. - A welcome chance to present yet another article by Brian on the Main page, Le Sacre du printemps. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:22, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

TFL for September 21, 2020

Many thanks for this. Re-reading the blurb now, it occurs to me that it comes across as rather military. Perhaps we might modify it to end with

... Henry Chichele; four field marshals; commanders of both Fighter Command and Bomber Command during the Second World War; two Viceroys of India; and six Chancellors of the Exchequer.

I suppose we might add " including Rishi Sunak" at the end of that, depending on space and people's views on recentism. I'll be happy however you choose to play it. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:00, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Bloom6132, with 1478 points gained mainly from 5 featured lists, 12 DYKs and 63 in the news items;
• HaEr48 with 1318 points gained mainly from 2 featured articles, 5 good articles and 8 DYKs;
• Lee Vilenski with 1201 points mainly gained from 2 featured articles and 10 good articles.

Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to 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. 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 yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

DYK for 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game

On 3 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Indiana Hoosiers' victory in the 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game completed the last undefeated season in NCAA Division I men's college basketball? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 12:02, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for promoting List of accolades received by Avengers: Endgame to Featured List Status. Surge_Elec (talk) 12:56, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Double daggers and accessibility

Hi there,

I have a question. User:Iveagh Gardens is disputing about the markup of winners using double daggers for accessibility in the Oscar ceremony lists because he or she thinks the listing of winners first and boldface is enough to suffice for screen readers. Who is right?

--Birdienest81 (talk) 19:51, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks @Birdienest81 for raising it here with other editors. The reason I noticed it was that on Mobile Wikipedia, it can create an unncecessary extra line where it's already difficult to read tables. In this instance, the tables are in the form of a grid, so not sortable. Was this perhaps a holdover from an older layout where they were sortable? I don't see any benefit in this context of this layout. –Iveagh Gardens (talk) 09:04, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

TFL

Got the notice re Wikipedia:Today's featured list/October 12, 2020 - Thanks. I wasn't completely certain about the blurb and I also had quite a hard time making up my mind about which photo (of the many in the List) to use. Glad they passed muster. Shearonink (talk) 03:57, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Sorting for Film Accolades

Hi there,

Is there a template or method so that sorting for accolades can be arranged starting with "Won" and descending thereafter and vice versa (i.e.: Won-> Runner-Up/2nd Place -> 3rd Place -> 4th place -> Nominated)? I nominated List of accolades received by 1917 (2019 film) for featured list status. However, User:ChrisTheDude noted the sorting was weird.

--Birdienest81 (talk) 03:25, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Asin filmography

Hi there mate. Hope you are well and doing fine. I have nominated Asin filmography for FL. List has got three support. However, a user had raised certain points (which are solved) in spite of issues highlighted addressed have not received response from the user. Would be glad if you look into it. Thanks in advance.--25 CENTS VICTORIOUS ^☣✅ 15:26, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Denise Wescott

Hello! Your submission of Denise Wescott at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:23, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:53, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

WikiCup 2020 November newsletter

The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is Lee Vilenski (submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by Gog the Mild (submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points. The Rambling Man (submissions) was in third place with 4 FAs and 8 GAs on football topics, with Epicgenius (submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.

The other finalists were Hog Farm (submissions), HaEr48 (submissions), Harrias (submissions) and Bloom6132 (submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.

• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 14 FAs during the course of the competition.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) win the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in round 4.
• Rhododendrites (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 3 FPs in round 3 and 5 overall.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured article reviewer prize, for 23 FAC reviews in round 5.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 45 GAs in round 2 and 113 overall.
• MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 33 articles in good topics in round 2.
• The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, for 100 good article reviews in round 2.
• Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 22 Did you know articles in round 4 and 94 overall.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 63 In the news articles in round 4 and 136 overall.

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 2021 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Sushmita Sen filmography

Hello there. Sushmita Sen filmography is FL nominee. Has secured required support. It's been couple weeks, two users have not responded to my query if I have solved issues they had raised.--25 CENTS VICTORIOUS ^☣✅ 14:13, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

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DYK for Denise Wescott

On 27 November 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Denise Wescott, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that National Lacrosse Hall of Fame member Denise Wescott also coached the Germany women's national lacrosse team? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Denise Wescott. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Denise Wescott), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

FL-nom removal

Hey, how's it been? I was wondering if you could "speedy close" or just close my nomination for List of accolades received by Black Panther (film) which can be found here. I realized that I was not a "significant" editor on the page, and that I wanted to nominate a different page in which I was. Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 15:53, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Caldecott TFL

Hi Giants. I don't know how TFL works, but is there anyway Caldecott could go on January 25th? That's the day this year's winners will be announced so it's a day that there should be above average interest in the award. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 23:28, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Tri-Cornered Baseball Game

On 11 December 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tri-Cornered Baseball Game, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, and New York Yankees played in a three-way baseball game in 1944? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tri-Cornered Baseball Game. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Tri-Cornered Baseball Game), and it may be added to the statistics page if it received over 400 views per hour. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Willie Mays

Well, I not only got the article down past 13,000 words, but I succeeded in cutting it to about 8,500! Just nominated for FA status, feel free to comment. Thanks for your help with the peer review! Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 11:37, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Broadway Theaters TFL

Hi There, that you for choosing List of Broadway Theaters for TFL on January 8th. The blurb is fantastic. The only qualm I have is I was hoping to submit it to be the TFL for the day of the Tony Awards this year. The problem is that the awards were postponed and there is no new date announced yet. If you think waiting for the Tony Awards makes sense I'd be happy to wait longer for it to be TFL, but if you think that it wouldn't work for that day I'm happy to leave it as is.--Found5dollar (talk) 15:33, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Greetings of the season

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott		Happy holidays
		Dear Giants, For you and all your loved ones, "Let there be mercy". Wishing you health, peace and happiness this holiday season and in the coming year. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:46, 25 December 2020 (UTC)