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On 12 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hold On Baby, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the late Foo Fighters member Taylor Hawkins plays the drums on the closing track of King Princess's album Hold On Baby? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hold On Baby. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hold On Baby), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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) 00:02, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

	The Quarter Million Award
	For your contributions to bring What did I tell you?" 📝 "Don't get complacent..." 07:03, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply ]

Thanks again! —VersaceSpace 🌃 11:28, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

August songs

that's great! - pics and thoughts on 13 August - I'll look at WAP, promised. -Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:22, 13 August 2022 (UTC)-[reply]

Appreciate it Gerda. —VersaceSpace 🌃 23:11, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

today: "my" concert of the year (so far) is on the Main page, but not pictured, and I don't understand why --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

will you return to the FAC for WAP? Because if not now, I'll look at the next one. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:08, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for commenting. Since I got pulled away due to family issues, I think I'll take the advice and work more on the article over the following months. I'm not sure yet. You can move on to the next FAC; I don't like wasting peoples' time. —VersaceSpace 🌃 14:09, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging Gerda Arendt —VersaceSpace 🌃 14:09, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I understand about family first, but then saw you editing again. - Perhaps, if you have a few minutes, go over my my points and fix what's small now, because I'm afraid that in a few months, I'll have forgotten what I meant. I'm ready to look again any time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:24, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your (moral) support. I'll try to fix the smaller stuff soon. —VersaceSpace 🌃 14:26, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, also for your comments for Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56! - images of a rich summer, especially in music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:04, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article

The article

On 20 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wheelie (song), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in the music video for her song "Wheelie", Latto shows off a diamond cryptocurrency wallet made by celebrity jeweler Greg Yuna? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wheelie (song). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Wheelie (song)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I honestly do not appreciate this. I literally found an artist I that found on a high searched respected blog so I decided to make that my first article about him because I don’t see that he has a Wikipedia page now if there’s someone things on there that may not be true okay understandable but I don’t know because I’m literally finding things and writing about it that’s all Sunnyday87 (talk) 14:49, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Sunnyday87: I already responded on the draft's talk page. Next time please keep the discussion in one place. —VersaceSpace 🌃 15:00, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article

criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of FrB.TG -- FrB.TG (talk) 15:21, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply

On 27 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article For the Girls (song), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hayley Kiyoko aimed for a fully LGBT cast while casting the video for her song "For the Girls"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/For the Girls (song). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, For the Girls (song)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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If possible, would you mind reviewing my current GAN for

Ippantekina (talk) 10:53, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply

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Sure —VersaceSpace 🌃 22:23, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 8 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Alpha (Shenseea album), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Shenseea almost named Alpha after her dead mother? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alpha (Shenseea album). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Alpha (Shenseea album)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 9 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Surprise (song), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Surprise" by Chloe Bailey was hand-picked by Beyoncé? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Surprise (song). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Surprise (song)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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) 12:03, 9 September 2022 (UTC) [reply]

September songs

Thank you for this and other music! - This rose pic was taken on 11 Sep 2021, and that day in 2022 was full of music, Tag des offenen Denkmals, not only singing in church and rehearsals for Verdi's Requiem, but two concerts at special places pictured, one a synagogue (pictured on its wall). Today three DYK: a piece we'll perform on Sunday, a violinist we heard in June playing the Berg Concerto (my brother played in the orchestra), and a Youth Orchestra shaped by a conductor who recently died. Almost too much of a good thing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:46, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: thanks for these. —VersaceSpace 🌃 19:15, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! - Today, we sang old music for two choirs at church, pictured, scroll to the image of the organ of the month of the Diocese of Limburg (my perspective), and if you have time, watch the video about it --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:32, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

... and today I wrote an article about music premiered today, Like as the hart. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:17, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

travel and strings sound --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:01, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 12 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Treat Me, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Chloe Bailey dances next to a leopard in the music video for her song "Treat Me"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Treat Me. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Treat Me), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi VersaceSpace. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group. Please check back at

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Apologies, but I'd unreviewed

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WP:GNG though. If it was performed on the Judy Garland show it may have accrued coverage. Oh well. Let's see. —VersaceSpace 🌃 01:22, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply

]

Hi VersaceSpace and VickKiang. First, CONGRATS VersaceSpace for getting the rights!! Vick, I marked the song as reviewed and tagged it as needing more sources. This song is one of the reasons for the banner at the top of my training page. See this example: Early in 1961, Peggy Lee recorded an album from her new musical home called Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee, featuring performances of some of her signature songs, including her original hit “I Love Being Here With You” and a sped-up version of her successful single “Fever.” The singer unfortunately had a cold the night of the live recording, and overdubbed her voice later in the studio. But you’d never be able to tell. The song title + Peggy Lee brings up about 12,100,000 hits on Google. It's more of a jazz oldie that dates back to the 60s before the internet, back when everything was in print media, and still not available to you in a Google Search; thus, NEXIST. I want you both to go find at least 3 more sources, because it will help you understand the points I'm trying to drive home about a topic or subject being note worthy, and meeting notability but because of the era, you have to work harder to find the sources. We don't want WP to overlook notable topics in history, and as reviewers, you will be coming across quite a few topics that never went viral on the internet because there was no internet. See the write-up on that song in American Songwriter. It's time for critical thinking to kick in and ask yourselves where you would look to find historic material. Is the singer notable? What did the singer do to become notable? Why is she notable? If you are not signed up for WP:TWL, please do so. It picks up where Google leaves off. I'm always available to my trainees if you have any questions. Atsme 💬 📧 20:40, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Atsme: thank you! I am signed up for TWL. I do have an idea of where to look for sources, although I will seize the opportunity and ask you a question. If you were to look for sources pertaining to an old thing that wouldn't appear on Google, what is the absolute first place you would look? —VersaceSpace 🌃 20:44, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Depending on the topic - TWL access to Newspaper archives for persons, and socially popular things. For science, I'd go to Jstor, et al. Atsme 💬 📧 20:51, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You pinged my old username and then failed to correct the ping again (you need to do your full signature + timestamp in order for the ping to work). Also, thank you for the advice on the closure of that AFD. I tend to be rather bad at doing a decent

Nice to see you've been doing well, Blaze. —VersaceSpace 🌃 20:20, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, I'm not sure if it's the

The script automatically adds that tag when I mark the drafts as BLPs. I'll look into it more. Perhaps I should just leave that field empty and do that part manually. —VersaceSpace 🌃 17:21, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 30 September 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 7/11 (song), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the video for "7/11" by Beyoncé contains a cameo from her daughter Blue Ivy? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/7/11 (song). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 7/11 (song)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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) 02:38, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 17 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Icy Chain, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in her song "Icy Chain", Saweetie disses PETA, telling them she wears fur? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Icy Chain. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Icy Chain), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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) 00:03, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello VersaceSpace,

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October songs

... for reviewing Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:17, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: No problem! —VersaceSpace 🌃 18:20, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

leaving the month with reformation and a cat treat --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:28, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 27 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Don't Forget (Sky Ferreira song), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a negative review of Sky Ferreira's "Don't Forget" on Pitchfork caused a large amount of controversy? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Don't Forget (Sky Ferreira song). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Don't Forget (Sky Ferreira song)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

Vanamonde 00:02, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On 27 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Conceited (song), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that on the song "Conceited", Flo Milli raps that she's been important since she was a fetus? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Conceited (song). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Conceited (song)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Ever since my What did I tell you?" 📝 "Don't get complacent..." 02:29, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply ]

Small tangent, but you forgot to list "

What did I tell you?"
_{📝 "Don't get complacent..."} 02:30, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply

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Let me get that fixed rn —VersaceSpace 🌃 03:20, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Anyway, thanks so much for this Barnstar! Reviewing your work has been nothing short of a joy. Having that one editor that sticks by you while you're still figuring the site out is so important. For me that editor was Cybertrip (who at the time went by HeyItsBen). Being able to reciprocate that energy is a very important thing to me. Maybe we should start talking about a collaboration: any articles or topics you were thinking of? —VersaceSpace 🌃 03:34, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I spent hours adding to DJ Akademiks' Wikipedia page but then you restored the page back to its original form under the false explanation of vandalism. Did you even read the contents I wrote or is this just a powertrip exercise you people on Wikipedia like to engage in? I included a plethora of information with sources so maybe afford it some time and due diligence rather than ruining someone's hard work. 2001:56A:F47A:7100:70C0:E02A:A135:BAE4 (talk) 18:06, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

hi, this edit was tagged as possible vandalism, so that's what I based the reversion on. You sourced the edit to YouTube, which is not normally acceptable. —VersaceSpace 🌃 20:19, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The source might not be acceptable but the source in this case is factual as it is straight from the person the article is about - DJ Akademiks. Since the person in question is mainly a YouTuber by profession, the source would have to be derived from his own YouTube channel. Please allow the page to remain under the new update as the information is all factual I can guarantee it. 2001:56A:F47A:7100:A046:C6B8:6E33:F271 (talk) 21:06, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Brother VersaceSpace, please go through my entire revision and match up the information with the sources I listed. Please note that there is no other way to get this information other than from the horses mouth himself - DJ Akademiks and sadly for Wikipedia standards, he is a YouTuber so the source would have to come from his own YouTube channels and not ScienceDirect. Nonetheless, I hope to visit this page soon and not see my hours or hard work ruined by one button click. I hope you can put some trust in me and my credibility, however I don't know about your temperament. Please also note that I wrote the article with the best of intentions and to shed a brighter light onto DJ Akademiks himself and not vandalise the page or spread misinformation. 2001:56A:F47A:7100:A046:C6B8:6E33:F271 (talk) 21:27, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The 2022 WikiCup has drawn to a close with the final round going down to the wire. The 2022 champion is

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Hello VersaceSpace,

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

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Hello, VersaceSpace. It has been over six months since you last edited the

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:12, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, VersaceSpace. It has been over six months since you last edited the

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:58, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, VersaceSpace! You might be interested in

MIA no mo if you can hear this

Epigrammed (talk) 18:39, 7 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, VersaceSpace. It has been over six months since you last edited the

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:07, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I'm new to Wikipedia and I'd like to spend my free time updating pages about my favourite musicians and their discographies, but most of my edits are rejected for formatting reasons. So I'd love to have a mentor for this because, as a researcher by profession I am good in source identification, so I believe my improvements should focus on the visual aspects of editing the articles. Thank you in advance! SunshineKSH (talk) 22:00, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I want to congratulate you on achieving GA status several times. That's impressive! I like music and am interested in editing my favorite artists' discography at some point in the future. I was wondering if you would be interested in adopting me. I've contacted 2 users so far, no reply yet from one of them, and the other (who is an admin) said he didn't have time for that. I've made numerous edits so far though I started my wiki account in February. I've created two music related articles; one is published and the other is a draft. Hit me up if you're interested.

Purplelavendermidnights 17 (talk) 20:47, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So ends the first round of the 2023 WikiCup. Everyone with a positive score moved on to Round 2, with 54 contestants qualifying. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Unlimitedlead with 1205 points, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with two featured articles on historical figures and several featured article candidate reviews.
• Epicgenius was in second place with 789 points; a seasoned WikiCup competitor he specialises in buildings and locations in New York.
• FrB.TG was in third place with 625 points, garnered from a featured article on a filmmaker which qualified for an impressive number of bonus points.
• TheJoebro64, another WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points gained from two featured articles on video games.
• Iazyges was in fifth place with 532 points, from two featured articles on classical history.

The top sixteen contestants at the end of Round 1 had all scored over 300 points; these included LunaEatsTuna, Thebiguglyalien, Sammi Brie, Trainsandotherthings, Lee Vilenski, Juxlos, Unexpectedlydian, SounderBruce, Kosack, BennyOnTheLoose and PCN02WPS. It was a high-scoring start to the competition.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start again from scratch. The first round finished on February 26. Remember that any content promoted after that date but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. 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

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The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:

• Iazyges (1040) with three FAs on Byzantine emperors, and lots of bonus points.
• Unlimitedlead (847), with three FAs on ancient history, one GA and nine reviews.
• Epicgenius (636), a WikiCup veteran, with one FA on the New Amsterdam Theatre, four GAs and eleven DYKs
• BennyOnTheLoose (553), a seasoned competitor, with one FA on snooker, six GAs and seven reviews.
• FrB.TG (525), with one FA, a Lady Gaga song and a mass of bonus points.

Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie, Thebiguglyalien, MyCatIsAChonk, PCN02WPS, and AirshipJungleman29.

So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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Hello, VersaceSpace. It has been over six months since you last edited the

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:26, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, VersaceSpace. It has been over six months since you last edited the

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:17, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, VersaceSpace,

I just noticed that you suddenly stopped editing last fall. I hope you are okay and are just busy with off-wiki life. You are missed! I hope you return when you have the time and interest to do so. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:24, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, VersaceSpace. It has been over six months since you last edited the

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:09, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello VersaceSpace,

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

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The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Thebiguglyalien, with 919 points from a featured article on Frances Cleveland as well as five good articles and many reviews,
• Unlimitedlead, with 862 points from a high-scoring featured articles on Henry II of England and numerous reviews,
• Iazyges, with 560 points from a high-scoring featured article on Tiberius III.

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, 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.

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• Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
• Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
• Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and 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.

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I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

New Page Patrol | October 2023 Backlog Drive
On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Articles will earn 3x as many points compared to redirects. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Hello!!! I wanted to see if you can help take a look at this draft I submitted for review Draft:Trendupp Awards. I'm still looking at ways to make it better. However, I really believe it is ready to be published. Kindly help take a look if you can as this will also improve my editing as well. Thank you very much Olakunle Rufai (talk) 23:31, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello VersaceSpace,

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello VersaceSpace:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 2400 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:25, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

• BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
• Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
• Epicgenius with 1518 points
• MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
• BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
• AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
• Sammi Brie with 520 points
• Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
• Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
• BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
• LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
• Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:52, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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New Page Patrol | January 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
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Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2024 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close on 31 January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), and Frostly (talk · contribs · 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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:21, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
• Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
• MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
• Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
• voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. 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

Hello VersaceSpace,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

• GAs
  about radio and television;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
• FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC
  and two GAs;
• Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
• Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) 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) 15:06, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol | May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
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