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Welcome to the first annual Spooky Species contest!

Contest structure

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The Spooky Species contest will run from Sept 24-Oct 31, with the winner announced in the first week of November! I'm starting it with a week left in September to give articles time to work through the DYK process and appear on the main page (if they aren't reserved for the special occasions hooks for Halloween).

Improving article class will be rewarded with points, with bigger improvements and higher classes rewarded more points. I have gone through nearly all the species in the table and updated their classes if necessary, so the starting class listed should hopefully be accurate. You can update classes of articles you improve, but please do so honestly.

  • Participants will get an extra 3 points for each DYK that appears on the main page (for new and expanded articles or recent GAs)
  • You will also get 3 points for reviewing someone else's spooky species GA
  • There will also be a bonus system for page views
  • If you collaborate with another editor for an article, you can each claim points
Points table
Ending class
Start
/List
C/
CL
B/
BL
GA FA/
FL
Beginning
class
None/Stub +1 +3 +6 +11 +26
Start/List +2 +5 +10 +25
C/CL +3 +8 +23
B/BL +5 +20
GA +15
Page view bonus
30 day views Bonus points
>500 1.1x
>1000 1.2x
>2000 1.3x
>3000 1.4x
>4000 1.5x
>5000 1.6x

So if I improve zombie worm from C to GA, my base points would be 8. With the 1.3x multiplier for page views, I would have 10.4 points. If it appeared on the main page as a DYK, I would have 13.4 points for this article in total.

Contestants

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If you would like to participate, please copy the blank table below into a new subsection of this section with your username as the title.

Article name Beginning class Ending class Page view bonus DYK bonus Total

Enwebb

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Article name Beginning class Ending class Page view bonus DYK bonus Total
Halloween darter Stub GA 0 3 14
Coffin Cave mold beetle Stub C 0 3 6
Singapore graveyard flower Stub start 1.2x 1.2
Devils Hole pupfish C B 1.3x 3.9
Deathwatch beetle NA GA NA NA 3
Total 28.1
Article name Beginning class Ending class Page view bonus DYK bonus Total
Longan witches broom-associated virus🍈🧙‍♀️🧹🦠 redlink c? TBD TBD TBD
Example Example Example Example Example Example
Example Example Example Example Example Example

Cwmhiraeth

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Article name Beginning class Ending class Page view bonus DYK bonus Total
Death's-head hawkmoth Start C 1.6x - 3.2
Hildegarde's tomb bat Stub Start 0 3 4
Naked-rumped tomb bat Stub C 0 3 5
Deathwatch beetle Start GA 1.5x - 15
Poison devil's-pepper Stub Start 1.2x - 1.2
Halloween darter Stub GA 0 3 14
I'd say we were collaborators. Fine by me to say it went from stub to GA. Enwebb (talk) 17:14, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

starsandwhales

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Article name Beginning class Ending class Page view bonus DYK bonus Total
Boophis popi 👻 redlink C x1.6 +3 7.8

Prizes

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Definitely some kind of awesome Halloween barnstar, TBD!

Species list

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taxon order kingdom class 30 day views
Phantom shiner Cypriniformes Animalia Start 276
Phantom blindcat Siluriformes Animalia Stub 32
Phantom cardinalfish Kurtiformes Animalia Stub 8
Natal ghost frog Anura Animalia Stub 35
Hewitt's ghost frog Anura Animalia Stub 24
Eastern ghost frog Anura Animalia Stub 43
Purcell's ghost frog Anura Animalia Stub 17
Royal ghost frog Anura Animalia Start 30
Rose's ghost frog Anura Animalia Start 115
Skeleton frog (80 spp.) Anura Animalia C 279
Northern ghost bat Chiroptera Animalia C 307
Greater ghost bat Chiroptera Animalia Stub 57
Isabelle's ghost bat Chiroptera Animalia Stub 56
Lesser ghost bat Chiroptera Animalia C 56
Ghost-faced bat Chiroptera Animalia C 537
Antillean ghost-faced bat Chiroptera Animalia C 130
Giant ghost-faced bat Chiroptera Animalia C 37
Ghost bat Chiroptera Animalia B 1218
Hildegarde's tomb bat Chiroptera Animalia Stub 24
Ghost knifefish (89 spp.) Gymnotiformes Animalia Start 422
Ghost nudibranch Nudibranchia Animalia Start 19
Ghost yellow Lepidoptera Animalia Stub 30
Ghost moth Lepidoptera Animalia B 604
Ghost crab (22 spp.) Decapoda Animalia C 6,254
American ghost orchid Asparagales Plantae C 3,343
European ghost orchid Asparagales Plantae Start 368
Blanchard's ghost Lepidoptera Animalia Stub 13
Ghost pipefish (6 spp.) Syngnathiformes Animalia Start 201
Pale ghost shark Chimaeriformes Animalia Start 122
Whitespot ghost shark Chimaeriformes Animalia C 30
Black ghostshark Chimaeriformes Animalia C 109
Bight ghostshark Chimaeriformes Animalia Stub 21
Marbled ghostshark Chimaeriformes Animalia Stub 4
Galápagos ghostshark Chimaeriformes Animalia B 16
Eastern Pacific black ghostshark Chimaeriformes Animalia Stub 43
Dark ghostshark Chimaeriformes Animalia Stub 51
Ogilby's ghostshark Chimaeriformes Animalia Stub 35
Ghost shiner Cypriniformes Animalia C 40
Javan ghost shrew Eulipotyphla Animalia Stub 9
Panama ghost catshark Carcharhiniformes Animalia Stub 53
Ghost catshark Carcharhiniformes Animalia Start 92
White ghost catshark Carcharhiniformes Animalia Stub 77
Australian ghostshark Chimaeriformes Animalia Start 3,092
Thorny devil Squamata Animalia C 6,208
Devil rays (8 spp. w/ "devil" in common name) Myliobatiformes Animalia variable 3,344
Beelzebufo Anura Animalia Start 3,372
Devil's coach horse beetle Coleoptera Animalia C 12,655
Devil's tree Gentianales Plantae C 5,440
Devil's walking stick Apiales Plantae C 2,204
Black seadevil Lophiiformes Animalia C 1,733
Southern seadevil Lophiiformes Animalia Stub 33
Stargazing seadevil Lophiiformes Animalia Stub 36
Triplewart seadevil Lophiiformes Animalia C 516
Satanic leaf-tailed gecko Squamata Animalia C 4,784
Daemonosaurus Saurischia Animalia B 946
Diabloceratops Ornithischia Animalia C 1,386
Zuul Ornithischia Animalia B 2,133
Sauroniops Saurischia Animalia Start 481
Satan Siluriformes Animalia Start 514
Demon-duck of doom Gastornithiformes Animalia Stub 1,452
Hellbender Urodela Animalia B 11,482
Diabolotherium Pilosa Animalia Stub 150
Demon African mole-rat Rodentia Animalia Stub 94
Beelzebub's tube-nosed bat Chiroptera Animalia C 348
Shortnose demon catshark Carcharhiniformes Animalia Stub 46
Satanic nightjar Caprimulgiformes Animalia Stub 181
Goblin spiders (2500 spp.) Araneae Animalia variable 434
Ogre-faced spiders (51 spp.) Araneae Animalia variable 689
Goblin flea Siphonaptera Animalia Start 22
Ogre catfish Siluriformes Animalia Start 607
Zombie worm Sabellida Animalia C 2,380
Leucochloridium (turns snails into zombies; 8 spp.) Diplostomida Animalia Variable 8,250
Ophiocordyceps (turns ants into zombies; 140 spp.) Hypocreales Fungi Variable 1,483
Cordyceps (zombifies humans in a fiction novel; 400 spp.) Hypocreales Fungi Variable 26,831
Vampire bat Chiroptera Animalia B 17,611
Hairy-legged vampire bat Chiroptera Animalia C 1,516
White-winged vampire bat Chiroptera Animalia B 1,619
Vampire ground finch Passeriformes Animalia Start 1,075
Vampire moths (18 spp.) Lepidoptera Animalia Variable 1,750
Vampire squid Vampyromorphida Animalia C 9,817
Vampire tree frog Anura Animalia C 109
Pteropus vampyrus Chiroptera Animalia B 6,599
Lygniodes vampyrus Lepidoptera Animalia Stub 7
Draculoides bramstokeri Schizomida Animalia Stub 92
Dracula fish Cypriniformes Animalia Start 166
Dracula vampira Asparagales Plantae Start 161
Stonogobiops dracula Gobiiformes Animalia Stub 21
Desmodus draculae Chiroptera Animalia C 2,087
American witch hazel Saxifragales Plantae C 3,296
Black witch Lepidoptera Animalia Start 4,816
Chinese witch hazel Saxifragales Plantae Start 727
Fall Witch-grass Poales Plantae Stub 82
Lilac witches'-broom Acholeplasmatales Bacteria C 92
Longan witches broom-associated virus Riboviria incertae sedis Virus nonexistent
white witch moth Lepidoptera Animalia Start 3,512
Witch (lefteye flounder) Pleuronectiformes Animalia Stub 67
Witch (righteye flounder) Pleuronectiformes Animalia B 874
Witch-elm Rosales Plantae C 3,758
Witch Hazel Dagger Moth Lepidoptera Animalia Stub 13
Witch-hobble Dipsacales Plantae Stub 623
Witch's moneybags Saxifragales Plantae Stub 1,432
Witches broom disease Agaricales Fungi C 266
corpse lily Malpighiales Plantae C 10,712
Skeleton tarantula Araneae Animalia C 689
skull spider Araneae Animalia Start 9,677
Deathwatch beetle Coleoptera Animalia Start 4,298
death adders (9 spp.) Squamata Animalia Variable 2,765
Death-banded snake-eel Anguilliformes Animalia Stub 15
East Asian brown deathcap Agaricales Fungi Start 147
Death's-head hawkmoth Lepidoptera Animalia Start 10,592
dead man's rope Laminariales Chromista Start 160
Red dead man's fingers Alcyonacea Animalia Start 46
Coffin Cave mold beetle Coleoptera Animalia Stub 34
Blood-eared parakeet Psittaciformes Animalia Stub 55
Blood-colored woodpecker Piciformes Animalia Start 42
Bloody Bay poison frog Anura Animalia Stub 49
bloody butcher Liliales Plantae Stub 90
bloody frogfish Lophiiformes Animalia Start 10
Halloween darter Perciformes Animalia Stub 18
Xylaria polymorpha (Dead man's fingers) Xylariales Fungi Start 2,217
Alcyonium digitatum (Dead man's fingers) Alcyonacea Animalia Start 554
Codium fragile (Dead man's fingers) Bryopsidales Algae C 974
Decaisnea (Dead man's fingers) Ranunculales Plantae Start 684
Bathyphysa conifera (flying spaghetti monster) Siphonophorae Animalia C 393
Tullimonstrum (Tully monster) Incertae sedis Animalia C 1711
Lucifer sheartail Apodiformes Animalia Start 176
Lucifer titi Primates Animalia Stub 187
Poecilanthrax lucifer Diptera Animalia Stub 28
Pseudagrion lucifer Odonata Animalia Stub 4
Paraxerus lucifer Rodentia Animalia Stub 57
Hyposmocoma lucifer Lepidoptera Animalia Stub 4
Cychropsis lucifer Coleoptera Animalia Stub 5
Lucigadus lucifer Gadiformes Animalia Stub 8
Devil's club Apiales Plantae C 3,157
Devil's snare Solanales Plantae C 76,780
Devil's tongue Alismatales Plantae C 31,571
Devils Hole pupfish Cyprinodontiformes Animalia C 2,178
Devil's beggartick Asterales Plantae Start 1,520
Devil's horsewhip Caryophyllales Plantae Start 5,949
Devil's bush Apiales Plantae C 3,664
Devil’s-bit Scabious Dipsacales Plantae Start 1,310
Devil's Hair Ranunculales Plantae Stub 2,138
Devil's eyelashes Zygophyllales Plantae C 17,615
Purple-flowered devil's-claw Lamiales Plantae C 761
Poison devil's pepper Gentianales Plantae Stub 1,037
Grand Devil's-Claws Caryophyllales Plantae Start 426
Devil's paint-brush Asterales Plantae Start 1,085
Devil's hand tree Malvales Plantae Start 406
Devils River minnow Cypriniformes Animalia C 42
Devil's-bit conch Lepidoptera Animalia Stub 6
Devil's spineflower Caryophyllales Plantae Start 39
Eastern blue devil incertae sedis (fish) Animalia Start 88
Alison’s blue devil incertae sedis (fish) Animalia Stub 7
Blue damselfish incertae sedis (fish) Animalia Stub 222
Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus (and genus, family, order...) Vampirovibrionales bacteria C 224
Crypt-keeper wasp Hymenoptera Animalia Start 925
Green terror Cichliformes Animalia Start 2,345
Terror skink Squamata Animalia Start 377
Singapore graveyard flower Gentianales Plantae Stub 1,655
Proboscidea althaeifolia (yellow-flowered devil's claw) Lamiales Plantae Stub 100
Proboscidea parviflora (red devil's-claw) Lamiales Plantae Stub 243
Proboscidea sabulosa (dune devil's claw) Lamiales Plantae Stub 46
Hell Hollow slender salamander Caudata Animalia Stub 24
Ganonema dracula[1] Trichoptera Animalia red n/a
Halloween moon crab Decapoda Animalia Start 1421
Halloween hermit crab Decapoda Animalia C 297
Goblin shark Lamniformes Animalia FA 15613
Mitsukurinidae (goblin sharks) Lamniformes Animalia Stub 16
Skeletonema and many species Thalassiosirales Algae start 637
Gothic (moth) Lepidoptera Animalia start
Elysia frankenstein Sacoglossa Animalia red n/a

This list is not exhaustive for spooky species on Wikipedia—you can add articles to the table!

References

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  1. ^ Malicky, Hans (1994). "Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis asiatischer Calamoceratidae (Trichoptera). (Artikel über thailändische Köcherfliegen Nr. 13)" [A contribution to the knowledge of Asian Calamoceratidae (Trichoptera). (Article about Thai caddis fly No. 13)] (PDF). Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen (in German). 46 (69): 62–79. ISSN 0375-5223. OCLC 635723128.