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The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
• SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
• voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

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Your GA nomination of Addie Viola Smith

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tags on redirects

Aloha voorts, you made a message on my talk page about tagging redirects and I think you also tagged some of my redirects, so thank you for that. I noticed that there are a lot of automated gadgets on Wikipedia. Is there one for tagging redirects? Coop (talk) 22:12, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Howdy Coop. There are several gadgets. I just started using User:Eejit43/scripts/redirect-helper, but before that I was using Twinkle. Best, voorts (talk/contributions) 01:09, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Looks great. I've installed it, thank you! Coop (talk) 03:20, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

Feedback request: Social sciences and society Good Article nomination

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May music

story · music · places

Regarding your comment in the MoS discussion: I also once "voted" per someone else, but in general I recommend to provide your own thoughts rather than only referring to those of others. I supported the view that Voceditenore detailed for Mozart:

"Infoboxes are an integral part of editing and more importantly of the reader experience. They allow us to cater both to the reader who is looking only for the basic facts concerning the person quickly and easily presented and to those who want a lengthy and more detailed artcle. The "repetition" argument is simply a canard. The Encyclopædia Britannica doesn't have a problem with "repetition" via infoboxes [1]. Nor does the Australian Dictionary of Biography [2].

The other "oppose" reasons are equally weak.

• They contain "unimportant factoids"?? The dates and places of birth and death, the subject's primary occupation are not factoids, they are highly salient and essential facts of a biography ...
• There is no evidence for the assertion that vandalism is harder to detect in infoboxes than in the article text ...
• The notion that an infobox attracts less valuable editors and its absence will somehow make them edit the article text instead is equally preposterous and patronizing ..."

Please read it full length, and tell me here - and better all in the discussion - what you think? -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:35, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Please have a look at this AfD closure

Please have a look at this AfD closure. For me it was wrong closure as each of KEEP & DELETE got 3 votes excluding the nomination. Twinkle1990 (talk) 16:50, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Twinkle. Deletion discussions are not a vote. Consensus is established not by numbers, but by strength of argument. I believe that I correctly assessed the consensus in this case.

In my view, the editors advocating to keep the article referred to specific sourcing that meets GNG and explained why the article subject has received sustained coverage over the course of several years.

There were three editors in favor of deletion. One of those editors acknowledged that she marginally satisfies the WP:GNG. One delete !vote believed that she had not received sustained coverage and that The available coverage is limited in depth, often focusing on her arrest for hate speech or her association with notable figures, rather than any significant achievements or unique contributions. The latter point was effectively rebutted by other editors who pointed out that notability is not derived from achievements or contributions, but from how a person is covered in reliable sources. Finally, I did not find your delete !vote to be particularly strong since you merely stated that you were not in favor of keeping the article without explaining why. voorts (talk/contributions) 20:07, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

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		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

Hey man in josh submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Voorts to be Editor of the Week for their exemplary content work. Since October of '23, they have worked to promote Running Out of Time (song), Well he would, wouldn't he?, Cora Agnes Benneson, as well as a number of other articles to featured and good article status. This is no small feat for someone who has been editing for less than a year, but Editor Voorts dove in and has done exceptionally well in a short time. In addition to his excellent content work, he has also been quickly taking to internal processes like new page patrol. I have a feeling this is only the beginning of a long and barnstar-studded on-wiki career. Seconded by Eddie891 and TechnoSquirrel69

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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 13:08, 4 May 2024 (UTC)