User talk:Sainsf

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)Reply

Hello Sainsf -- it's been a week since you indicated an interest in reviewing Junko Tabei, so I thought I would check in. Are you still able to take on this review? I've noticed you're handling quite a few GA reviews at once right now, which must be challenging. Alanna the Brave (talk) 00:32, 2 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi :) Sorry for the delay. I thought I'll be able to finish off all the reviews last week but I got caught up with a few articles of mine and couldn't devote more time as I was busy irl. I was actually going to finish adding all my comments to my four remaining reviews today. Cheers, Sainsf · (How ya doin'?) 02:56, 2 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Alrighty -- I understand. I look forward to your comments. :-) Alanna the Brave (talk) 13:21, 3 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

I posted all of them yesterday. Cheers, Sainsf · (How ya doin'?) 16:18, 3 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

I've just completed my edits and responded to your comments. Let me know if there's anything else! Alanna the Brave (talk) 18:47, 8 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

The article Meerkat you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Meerkat for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:21, 2 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

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April 2020—Issue 013

Tree of Life

Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

Newly recognized content

Danuvius guggenmosi by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by J Milburn Neanderthal by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Homo luzonensis by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Lythronax by FunkMonk, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Ichthyovenator by PaleoGeekSquared, reviewed by FunkMonk Secretarybird by LittleJerry, Aa77zz and Casliber, reviewed by The Rambling Man James John Joicey by RLO1729, reviewed by The Rambling Man Homo naledi by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Vermilion flycatcher by CaptainEek, reviewed by HickoryOughtShirt?4 Canada lynx by Sainsf, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77 Alice Gray by Rhododendrites, reviewed by The Rambling Man Caryodendron orinocense by CPC273, reviewed by Chiswick Chap Jaguarundi by Sainsf, reviewed by Usernameunique Gigantopithecus by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Starsandwhales Denisovan by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Starsandwhales Disease X by Britishfinance, reviewed by DannyS712

Newly nominated content

Lythronax by FunkMonk, Lythronaxargestes and IJReid Ichthyovenator by PaleoGeekSquared Neanderthal by Dunkleosteus77 Alpine newt by Tylototriton Secretarybird by LittleJerry, Aa77zz and Casliber List of ursids by PresN Borchgrevinkium by Super Dromaeosaurus Caryodendron orinocense by CPC273 Siamosaurus by PaleoGeekSquared Canada lynx by Sainsf Vietnam mouse-deer by Sainsf Jaguarundi by Sainsf Vermilion flycatcher by CaptainEek Alice Gray by Rhododendrites Gigantopithecus by Dunkleosteus77 Paleobiota of the Posidonia Shale by Yewtharaptor Meerkat by Sainsf

News at a glance

WikiProject Birds gained a new task force. A discussion determined that WikiProject Poultry might be more successful as a task force, with the move completed 15 April. Round 2 of the WikiCup wrapped up this month. Several editors moved on to Round 3 by scoring points in biodiversity-related areas, including Sainsf, Casliber, Dunkleosteus77, CaptainEek, Guettarda, and Enwebb. Dunkleosteus77 finished at the top of the Tree of Life pack with 608 points, finishing 9th overall in the round. After a relatively quiet February and March, with only 11 total articles nominated for GA and none for FAC, April brought a shower of nominations. In total, 5 articles were nominated for FAC, 1 for FLC, and 11 for GA.

Tree of Life's growing featured content

Inspired by a March 2020 post at WikiProject Medicine detailing the growth of Featured Articles over time, we decided to reproduce that table here, adding a second table showing the growth of Good Articles. Tree of Life articles are placed in the "Biology" category for FAs, which has seen a growth of 381% since 2008. Only two other subjects had a greater growth than Biology: Business, economics, and finance; and Warfare. Percentage Growth in FA Categories, 2008–2019, Legend: Considerably above average, Above average, Average Below average , Considerably below average, Poor Featured Article Category as of Feb 23, 2008 Sep 16, 2008 Sep 16, 2010 Dec 1, 2011 Jan 1, 2015 Jan 1, 2020 Pct chg Feb 2008 to 2011 Pct chg Feb 2008 to 2020 Art, architecture and archaeology 65 72 117 128 175 271 97% 317% Awards, decorations and vexillology 24 26 28 27 26 24 1.3% 0% Biology 130 155 261 326 456 625 151% 381% Business, economics and finance 16 19 22 44 73 116 175% 625% Chemistry and mineralogy 29 31 34 37 40 46 28% 59% Computing 17 17 17 18 16 14 5.9% −18% Culture and society 40 48 61 65 77 104B 63% 160% Education 30 34 36 38 40 40 27% 33% Engineering and technology 35 37 38 40 43 49 14% 40% Food and drink 11 11 9 13 17 21B 18% 91% Geography and places 148 158 181 185 213 232 25% 57% Geology and geophysics 9 12 18 20 23 29 122% 222% Health and medicine 31 36 42 43 51 52 39% 68% History 146 154 189 201 239 308 38% 111% Language and linguistics 17 15 13 13 12 15 −24% −12% Law 29 34 41 49 65 72 69% 148% Literature and theatre 108 134 161 191 258 316B 77% 193% Mathematics 13 14 19 17 18 18 31% 38% Media 159 171 221 231 324 424 45% 167% Meteorology 61 78 111 126 147 168 107% 175% Music 153 182 232 254 331 398 66% 160% Philosophy and psychology 12 13 12 12 12 14 0% 17% Physics and astronomy 67 82 98 101 127 153 51% 128% Politics and government 62 67 98 117 166 217 89% 250% Religion, mysticism and mythology 36 44 73 84 105 121 133% 236% Royalty, nobility and heraldry 75 90 94 108 124 173 44% 131% Sport and recreation 119 162 268 298 365 449 150% 277% Transport 47 74 107 128 171 213 172% 353% Video gaming 72 96 127 137 180 222 90% 208% Warfare 145 173 318 366 537 729 152% 403% Total 1,906 2,239 3,046 3,417 4,431 5,695 A 79.3% 198.8% Note A: Total is off by one; not worth looking for the error. Note B Three food biographies moved per discussion at WT:FAC Note: The very odd dates used in earlier years result from pulling old data from the talk page at WP:FAS. Good Article Category as of Feb 23, 2008 Sep 16, 2008 Sep 16, 2010 Dec 1, 2011 Jan 1, 2015 Jan 1, 2020 Pct chg Feb 2008 to 2011 Pct chg Feb 2008 to 2020 Agriculture, food and drink 27 34 37 55 113 226 104% 737% Art and architecture 134 188 321 450 683 1022 236% 663% Engineering and technology 256 396 882 1198 1828 2407 368% 840% Geography and places 191 248 424 523 716 1052 174% 451% History 261 312 651 825 1219 1894 216% 626% Language and literature 173 215 377 462 686 982 167% 468% Mathematics 19 22 27 30 36 67 58% 253% Media and drama 403 658 1352 1300 3070 3961 223% 883% Music 357 527 997 1437 2532 3892 303% 990% Natural sciences 544 686 1275 1717 2404 3426 216% 530% Philosophy and religion 134 174 244 294 365 557 119% 316% Social sciences and society 468 549 790 998 1430 1854 113% 296% Sports and recreation 384 546 1074 1402 2350 3802 265% 890% Video games 168 220 373 443 684 1349 164% 703% Warfare 155 241 989 1654 2544 3996 967% 2478% Total 3674 5016 9813 12788 20660 30487 248% 730% Organisms* 119 130 402 528 685 1017 344% 755% *subset of natural sciences Unsurprisingly, the number of GAs has increased more rapidly than the number of FAs. Organisms, which is a subcategory of Natural sciences, has seen a GA growth of 755% since 2008, besting the Natural sciences overall growth of 530%. While Warfare had far and away the most significant growth of GAs, it's a clear outlier relative to other categories.

April DYKs

Jenny White-throated round-eared bat Formica fusca ants tending mealybugs ... that the human-like behaviour of Jenny (depicted), a resident of London Zoo, reinforced Charles Darwin's view that humans were "created from animals"? (3 April) ... that white-throated round-eared bats (example pictured) roost in cavities in active termite mounds excavated by the males? (4 April) ... that flatter mires in montane regions of Europe are often dominated by deergrass and cottongrass? (5 April) ... that the white-browed tit-warbler has been found to practice cooperative breeding? (6 April) ... that most species in the palm genus Desmoncus climb using grappling hook–like structures called acanthopylls? (7 April) ... that some ants herd scale insects (example pictured)? (10 April) ... that birds, bats and humans are the main hosts of members of the bed bug family? (12 April) ... that the sponge Aplysina cavernicola (pictured) has been used as a model organism to monitor the presence of isotopes such as americium-241 in seawater? (16 April) ... that although the alpine bartsia has a wide range in Europe and North America, it is known in the British Isles only from a few locations in northern England and the central Scottish Highlands? (19 April) ... that the orange-band surgeonfish (pictured) can change colour from dark to light almost instantaneously? (21 April) ... that the parasitic greater broomrape usually grows on the roots of the common broom or the European gorse? (24 April) ... that the tree Macaranga triloba encourages the ants that defend it by providing them with food bodies? (25 April) ... that amateur entomologist James John Joicey had a collection of 1.5 million butterflies? (28 April) ... that the globe chamomile (pictured), a member of the daisy family native to South Africa, infests parts of Arizona and California? (28 April) ... that the bicoloured sedge (pictured) was part of an attempted botanical fraud? (30 April) A. cavernicola Orange-band surgeonfish Bicoloured sedge Globe chamomile blooms

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:40, 5 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Sainsf, I've just nominated the (short!) article Frederick Vincent Theobald for GA review and hoped you might consider taking it under your wing. Cheers :).  ~ RLO1729^💬 02:00, 7 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, I really want to work with short articles for a while! Taken :) Sainsf · (How ya doin'?) 02:21, 7 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

The article Vietnam mouse-deer you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Vietnam mouse-deer for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Usernameunique -- Usernameunique (talk) 06:01, 10 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Sun bear you nominated for GA-status according to the 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 Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:00, 10 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

		The Reviewer Barnstar
		For excellence in Good Article reviews of Thomas Stephens (historian), The Red Dragon (magazine), and Frederick Vincent Theobald. Thanks! ~ RLO1729💬 07:26, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks also for your calm, friendly, and collegial approach to these reviews – much appreciated! :)  ~ RLO1729^💬 07:26, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Sainsf, the Peter Hammersley article is a recent short biography I came across today and I which thought you might be interested in reviewing for GA status. The main author, Dumelow, is happy for me to take it through the process and will help as needed (see the article talk page).

Also, re the Christie review, I feel we have responded to the other editors' additional comments and, as they have made no further comments, I wondered what your thoughts were on taking that review forward. Thanks again.  ~ RLO1729^💬 07:30, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hello again :) Thank you so much for the award and the kind words! It has been a pleasure working with you and getting to know you and your work. About the review proposal, I think I will take a break from reviews for a few weeks as I wish to focus more on content creation, so I will be happy to take this up if it is still unreviewed in June. Don't worry about the Christie review, I am going to return to it later today. It should be good enough to address an editor's comments and any further issues they may point out and if it's not an issue big enough to stall promotion then we can move ahead. Sainsf · (How ya doin'?) 07:49, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

The article Sun bear you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Sun bear for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi, a reviewer had a go at Talk:Genetic assimilation/GA1 but got stuck. The article is quite short; maybe you wouldn't mind taking a look at it? Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:00, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi! As I said in a message above, I am thinking of taking a break from new GA reviews for the next few weeks. But as yours is an already open review, I will take this one after a week to refresh myself and give a detailed review. I saw the review comments and the article, seems we need a complete review here before promotion. Let me know if this works, and I will leave a note on the review page. Cheers, Sainsf · (How ya doin'?) 11:55, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Many thanks, that'll be super. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:06, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Excellent, I have notified the reviewer on the page. Sainsf · (How ya doin'?) 12:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

This was a particularly long and complex review for which you deserve a separate, special barnstar! Cheers, :).  ~ RLO1729^💬 14:21, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Omg there is a barnstar dedicated to her?! I am overwhelmed! Thank you so very much! Sainsf · (How ya doin'?) 14:26, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Banteng you nominated for GA-status according to the 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 Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:20, 15 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Heuglin's gazelle you nominated for GA-status according to the 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 The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 12:21, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

The article Banteng you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Banteng for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:41, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

May · Mary · Monteverdi

Thank you for article improvements in May! - DYK our list of people for whose life I'm thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:29, 17 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

today a composer pictured who wrote a triple concerto for violin, harp and double bass, in honour of the composer who died and my brother who plays double bass. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:42, 26 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Gerda Arendt, yeah I noticed this in the DYK queue, beautiful read :) Belated happy birthday to your brother! Sainsf (t · c) 16:02, 27 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hello! Your submission of Banteng 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! HaEr48 (talk) 03:58, 20 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Canada lynx has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Best of luck with the FAC moving forward.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 12:43, 20 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thank you so much for all your efforts, the article looks excellent now :) Sainsf (t · c) 13:27, 20 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

The article Heuglin's gazelle you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Heuglin's gazelle for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 10:01, 21 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

The article Heuglin's gazelle you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Heuglin's gazelle for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The Rambling Man -- The Rambling Man (talk) 10:21, 22 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I don't know you and you don't know me, but that doesn't mean you're not excellent, and it doesn't mean I can't recognize it. So here's to you for your oh-so-numerous contributions to make Canada Lynx what it is today! DRosenbach (Talk | Contribs) 17:15, 24 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

@DRosenbach: This is lovely! You just made my day :D Now that I know you, I took some time out to know your work better and I am amazed by your efforts, most notably on articles in the field of medicine, over 15 years to make Wikipedia what it is today :) A big thank you, and stay safe! Sainsf (t · c) 17:35, 24 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Sainsf: Hey there...I fixed two typos in my barnstar for you, and fixed them here but can't seem to find where it is located on your user page. Maybe you could repost it. Sorry for the inconvenience! DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 23:39, 16 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

DRosenbach, no problem at all! I will update it on my user page later :) Sainsf (t · c) 00:37, 18 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article Cheetah has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Parts of the section on Taming were hard for me to decipher. Please have a look at the changes I made to ensure I have not introduced any errors.

Best of luck moving forward with the article.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:29, 25 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thank you so much for your work on the article. Your edits are completely fine, and that line in Taming is much simpler now. Cheers, Sainsf (t · c) 14:47, 25 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hello! Your submission of Jaguarundi 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:49, 26 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Re the Banteng change, the source can be found in the preceding sentence in the article, which links to the wikipedia entry for Jembrana disease. I thought it was redundant to cite again, but maybe that's against the protocol. Do I need to make the edit again? How do I resolve this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimmytarrant (talk • contribs) 15:22, 27 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Jimmytarrant, thanks for the clarification and updating the material. Even if something is supported by citations in another article linked in your article, you have to provide the same citation in your article so it is not redundant. I have changed it back to your version and added the necessary citation. Cheers, Sainsf (t · c) 15:33, 27 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

On 1 June 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jaguarundi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that despite being a member of the cat family, the jaguarundi has several features in common with mustelids such as otters and weasels? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jaguarundi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Jaguarundi), 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.

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		You have made some articles into GA as they are interesting topic for readers such as banteng, a first successfully cloned animals and a prominent animals such as Cheetah and sun bear. Thank you as they are helpful for readers. 126.65.212.179 (talk) 12:41, 1 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

I was hoping also if you can also do on extinct on the wild Spix's Macaw as they are prominent bird being featured in Rio movie. 126.65.212.179 (talk) 12:41, 1 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

@126.65.212.179: Thank you! I am sorry but I don't work on bird articles. Sainsf (t · c) 13:46, 1 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 15:10, 3 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Chris troutman, thank you so much! I would be glad to join :) Sainsf (t · c) 15:39, 3 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

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May 2020—Issue 014

Tree of Life

Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

Newly recognized content

Lythronax by FunkMonk, Lythronaxargestes and IJReid Meerkat by Sainsf, reviewed by Chiswick Chap Borchgrevinkium by Super Dromaeosaurus, reviewed by Amitchell125 Nakalipithecus by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Gog the Mild Scanisaurus by Ichthyovenator, reviewed by Gog the Mild Sand cat by BhagyaMani, reviewed by Aven13 Pigs in culture by Chiswick Chap, reviewed by Sainsf Sun bear by Sainsf, reviewed by Chiswick Chap Megacephalosaurus by Macrophyseter, reviewed by Aven13 Cinnamon red bat by Enwebb, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77 Banteng by Sainsf, reviewed by Chiswick Chap Cartorhynchus by Lythronaxargestes, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77 Black-footed cat by BhagyaMani, reviewed by Amitchell125 Homo ergaster by Ichthyovenator, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77 Black coral by Aven13, reviewed by Sainsf Heuglin's gazelle by Sainsf, reviewed by The Rambling Man Australopithecus garhi by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Hog Farm Chororapithecus by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by IJReid Ornithocheiromorpha by JurassicClassic767, reviewed by IJReid

Newly nominated content

Gigantorhynchus by Mattximus Leech by LittleJerry, Chiswick Chap and Cwmhiraeth List of mephitids by PesN Sand cat by BhagyaMani Cinnamon red bat by Enwebb Kristianstad Basin by Ichthyovenator Nakalipithecus by Dunkleosteus77 Scanisaurus by Ichthyovenator Sun bear by Sainsf Heuglin's gazelle by Sainsf Black coral by Aven13 Australopithecus garhi by Dunkleosteus77 Chororapithecus by Dunkleosteus77 Northern crested newt by Tylototriton Megacephalosaurus by Macrophyseter Banteng by Sainsf Cartorhynchus by Lythronaxargestes Ornithocheiromorpha by JurassicClassic767 Black-footed cat by BhagyaMani Bat virome by Enwebb Echinodon by IJReid Homo ergaster by Ichthyovenator Dwarf dog-faced bat by Enwebb Doedicurus by Dunkleosteus77 Zebra by LittleJerry

News at a glance

This month saw two Tree of Life editors gain the mop: CaptainEek (WikiProjects Birds and Plants) and Cwmhiraeth (familiar name at DYK, WikiProjects Plants, Animals, and Insects) The April – May GAN backlog drive finished up, clearing the queue from nearly 700 outstanding nominations to about 350.

Interview with Jts1882

This month we're joined by Jts1882, who is active in depicting evolutionary relationship of taxa via cladograms. Part of this includes responding to cladogram requests, where interested editors can have cladograms made without using the templates themselves. How did you come to be interested in systematics? Are you interested in systematics broadly, or is there a particular group you're most fond of? As long as I can remember I’ve been interested in nature, starting with the animals and plants in the garden, school grounds, and local wood, and then more general wildlife worldwide. An interest in how things are classified grew from this. I like things to be organised and understanding the relationships between things and systems (not just living things) is a big part of that. Biology was always my favourite subject in school and took up a disproportionate part of my time. My interest in systematics is broad as I’d like to comprehend the whole tree of life, but the cat family is my favourite group. What's the background behind cladogram requests? I see that it isn't a very old part of the Tree of Life Well I can’t take any credit for the cladogram requests page, although I help out there sometimes. It was created by IJReid and there are several people who have helped there more than me. I think the motivation is that creating cladograms requires a knowledge of the templates that is daunting for many editors. It was one way of helping people who want to focus on content creation. My main contribution to the cladograms is converting the {{clade}} template to use a Lua module. The template code was extremely difficult to follow and had to be repetitive (I can only admire the efforts of those who got the thing to work in the first place). The conversion to Lua made it more efficient, allowed larger and deeper cladograms, plus facilitating the introduction of new features. The cladogram request page was recently the venue for discussion on making time calibrated cladograms, which is now possible, if not particularly user friendly. What advice do you have for an editor who wants to learn how to make cladograms? The same advice I would give to someone facing any computer problem, just try it out. Start by taking existing code for a cladogram and make changes yourself. The main advice would be to format it properly so indents match the brackets vertically. Of course, not everyone wants to learn and if someone prefers to focus on article content there is the cladogram request page. Examples of cladograms Jts1882 has created, showing different proposed clades for Neoaves Jarvis et al (2014) Prum et al (2015) Suh (2016) — a hard polytomy Columbea Mirandornithes (flamingos, grebes) Columbimorphae (pigeons, mesites, sandgrouse) Passerea Otidae Otidimorphae (cuckoos, bustards, turacos) Strisores (hummingbirds, swifts, nightbirds) Gruae Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) Gruimorphae Gruiformes (cranes, rails) Charadriiformes (shorebirds) Ardeae Aequornithes (core waterbirds) Eurypgimorphae (sunbittern, kagu, tropicbirds) Telluraves Afroaves Australaves (core landbirds) Strisores (hummingbirds, swifts, nightbirds) Columbaves Columbimorphae (pigeons, mesites, sandgrouse) Otidimorphae (cuckoos, bustards, turacos) Gruiformes (cranes, rails) Aequorlitornithes Charadriiformes (shorebirds) Mirandornithes(flamingoes, grebes) Ardeae Aequornithes (core waterbirds) Eurypgimorphae (sunbittern, kagu, tropicbirds) (waterbirds) Inopinaves Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) Telluraves Afroaves Australaves (core landbirds) Columbimorphae (pigeons, mesites, sandgrouse) Otidimorphae (cuckoos, bustards, turacos) Strisores (hummingbirds, swifts, nightbirds) Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) Gruiformes (cranes, rails) Charadriiformes (shorebirds) Mirandornithes (flamingoes, grebes) Ardeae Aequornithes (core waterbirds) Eurypgimorphae (sunbittern, kagu, tropicbirds) Telluraves Afroaves Australaves (core landbirds) Do you have any personal projects or goals you're working towards on Wikipedia? As I said I like organisation and systems. So I find efforts like the automated taxobox system and {{taxonbar}} appealing. I would like to see more reuse of the major phylogenetic trees on Wikipedia with more use of consensus trees on the higher taxa. Too often they get edited based on one recent report and/or without proper citation. Animals and bilateria are examples where this is a problem. Towards this I have been working on a system of phylogeny templates that can be reused flexibly. The {{Clade transclude}} template allows selective transclusion, so the phylogenetic trees on one page can be reused with modifications, i.e. can be pruned and grafted, used with or without images, with or without collapsible elements, etc. I have an example for the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (see {{Phylogeny/APG IV}}) and one for squamates that also includes collapsible elements (see {{Phylogeny/Squamata}}). A second project is to have a modular reference system for taxonomic resources. I have made some progress along this lines with the {{BioRef}} template. This started off simply as a way of hardlinking to Catalog of Fishes pages and I’ve gradually expanded it to cover other groups (e..g. FishBase, AmphibiaWeb and Amphibian Species of the World, Reptile Database, the Mammalian Diversity Database). The modular nature is still rudimentary and needs a rewrite before it is ready for wider use. What would surprise your fellow editors to learn about your life off-Wikipedia? I don’t think there is anything particularly surprising or interesting about my life. I’ve had an academic career as a research scientist but I don't think anyone could guess the area from my Wikipedia edits. I prefer to work on areas where I am learning at the same time. This why I spend more time with neglected topics (e.g. mosses at the moment). I start reading and then find that I’m not getting the information I want. Anything else you'd like us to know? My interest in the classification of things goes beyond biology. I am fascinated by mediaeval attempts to classify knowledge, such as Bacon in his The Advancement of Learning and Diderot and d’Alembert in their Encyclopédie. They were trying to come up with a universal scheme of knowledge just as the printing press was allowing greater dissemination of knowledge. With the internet we are seeing a new revolution in knowledge dissemination. Just look at how we could read research papers on the COVID virus within weeks of its discovery. With an open internet, everyone has access, not just those with the luxury of books at home or good libraries. Sites like the Biodiversity Heritage Library allow you to read old scientific works without having to visit dusty university library stack rooms, while the taxonomic and checklist databases provide instant information on millions of living species. In principle, the whole world can now find out about anything, even if Douglas Adams warned we might be disinclined to do so. This is why I like Wikipedia, with all its warts, it’s a means of organising the knowledge on the internet. In just two decades it’s become a first stop for knowledge and hopefully a gateway to more specialised sources. Perhaps developing this latter aspect, beyond providing good sources for what we say, is the next challenge for Wikipedia.

May DYKs

Slender Scotch burnet moth on a flower Northern plains gray langur Male vermilion flycatcher Canada lynx Meerkats Hilarimorphites burmanica Sun bear ... that coconut mites can be dispersed by wind, or perhaps by hitching a lift? (1 May) ... that Neanderthals went fishing? (1 May) ... that the Rowridge Valley in the Isle of Wight is the only known location for the wood calamint in Britain? (1 May) ... that Tetraponera penzigi is one of several species of ant that protect whistling thorn trees in East Africa from grazing giraffes and rhinoceroses? (3 May) ... that the Vietnam mouse-deer, which had been feared to have gone extinct nearly 30 years ago, was sighted again in 2019? (4 May) ... that most branchiobdellids use crayfish as hosts, living on their heads, carapaces, or claws, but in some instances inside their gill cavities? (5 May) ... that the song of the Madagascan hoopoe differs markedly from that of the African hoopoe? (5 May) ... that populations of the slender Scotch burnet (pictured), a European moth that lives in dry, lime-rich areas, have been declining? (6 May) ... that the spinosaurid dinosaur Ichthyovenator had two sails on its back? (9 May) ... that the scale insect Saissetia coffeae attacks many other plants besides coffee? (9 May) ... that entomologist Frederick Vincent Theobald wrote a five-volume monograph and sixty scientific papers on mosquitoes? (12 May) ... that the northern plains gray langur monkey (example pictured) is killed in India for food and to prevent crop raiding, despite being considered sacred by Hindus? (12 May) ... that the leech Limnatis nilotica can affect humans and livestock, entering hosts through the mouth, nose, or other orifices? (12 May) ... that while the termite Pterotermes occidentis inhabits dead blue palo verde in the Sonoran Desert, Marginitermes hubbardi prefers dead saguaro? (14 May) ... that the tree Barteria fistulosa is associated with Tetraponera aethiops, an aggressive species of ant that lives in its hollow branches and twigs? (15 May) ... that Miller's langur, one of the rarest primates in Borneo, was feared to be extinct until a 2012 study rediscovered it in an area where it was previously unknown? (16 May) ... that most of the known Gigantopithecus fossils are of teeth because the other bones are likely to have been eaten by porcupines? (17 May) ... that Tetraponera tessmanni, a very aggressive ant, is able to establish dominance over the whole of the liana in which it lives, which may be 50 m (164 ft) long? (17 May) ... that mesophyletid weevils have only been found in Burmese amber? (18 May) ... that Pyrocephalus, the genus name of the vermilion flycatcher (example pictured), literally means 'fire head'? (19 May) ... that the male bigtooth cardinalfish broods a ball of eggs in his mouth? (20 May) ... that in the Australian Journal of Herpetology, a first-year student and a high school teacher reassessed the taxonomy of Australia's entire reptile class, naming 33 novel genera and 214 new species? (20 May) ... that the Arizona dampwood termite exclusively colonizes dead parts of standing trees? (22 May) ... that Megaceroides algericus is one of only two deer species known to have been native to Africa, alongside the Barbary stag? (23 May) ... that besides eating ants and termites, the waved woodpecker feeds on fruits, berries, and seeds? (24 May) ... that populations of the Canada lynx (pictured) undergo cyclic rises and falls in line with those of the snowshoe hare? (25 May) ... that despite being known as the Mexican hydrangea, Clerodendrum bungei is neither from Mexico nor a species of hydrangea? (25 May) ... that meerkats (examples pictured) use alarm calls that can identify the type of predator posing the risk, the level of danger, and the caller itself? (27 May) ... that the frog Boophis fayi can be identified by its unusual green-and-turquoise eyes? (30 May) ... that members of the fly family Apystomyiidae (example depicted) have been found in Late Jurassic sediments in Kazakhstan? (30 May) ... that the sun bear (pictured) is the smallest of all bear species? (31 May)

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Enwebb (talk) 19:40, 3 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

On 11 June 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Heuglin's gazelle, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Heuglin's gazelle (illustrated), reportedly last seen in Eritrea over a century earlier during Italian colonial rule, was sighted again in the country last year? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Heuglin's gazelle. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Heuglin's gazelle), 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.

June

Vespro della Beata Vergine

Thank you for improving articles in June. I can proudly present a FA, quite a gift after a year without, and a FL is in the making, comments welcome. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:49, 21 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Would you be able to do a quick spotcheck of some of the sources for reliability? Its all we need. Thank you. LittleJerry (talk) 18:17, 11 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

@LittleJerry: I am busy IRL but I will try to do the review this weekend. Cheers, Sainsf (t · c) 10:07, 12 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hello Sainsf. I found you from the page Albert Camus; as Camus in one of my fev. writers. I read your user page, and it inspired me to make this request. I just nominated my article Siddhantasara (written by Indian Gujarati language writer Manilal Dwivedi) for GA. Could you review it, if you find it interesting. If you can't help, no problem at all. --Gazal world (talk) 18:04, 17 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Gazal world! I would be happy to take a look at this next week. A bit busy just now. Cheers and stay safe, Sainsf (t · c) 00:35, 18 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

OK. Thank you. --Gazal world (talk) 07:47, 18 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

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) 12:34, 2 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

July

pale globe-thistle above the Rhine

Thank you for improving articles in July! Now a FTN is open. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:29, 20 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

	The Quarter Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Canada lynx (estimated annual readership: 277,000) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Enwebb (talk) 19:14, 25 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thank you so much for this Enwebb! It made my day :) Sainsf (t · c) 13:04, 29 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

Newly recognized content

Canada lynx by Sainsf Gigantorhynchus by Mattximus Leech by LittleJerry, Chiswick Chap and Cwmhiraeth Orangutan by LittleJerry Secretarybird by LittleJerry, Aa77zz and Casliber Vermilion flycatcher by CaptainEek Bat virome by Enwebb, reviewed by Chidgk1 Doedicurus by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Hog Farm Dwarf dog-faced bat by Enwebb, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77 Echinodon by IJReid, reviewed by JurassicClassic767 Edvard August Vainio by Esculenta, reviewed by ChiswickCahp Hammer-headed bat by Enwebb, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Homo rudolfensis by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by JurassicClassic767 Nina Demme by SusunW, reviewed by Enwebb Northern crested newt by Tylototriton, reviewed by Enwebb Pterodactylus by JurassicClassic767, reviewed by ChiswickCahp Zebra by LittleJerry, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77

Newly nominated content

Horseshoe bat by Enwebb Siamosaurus by PaleoGeekSquared Zebra by LittleJerry Australopithecus afarensis by Dunkleosteus77 Australopithecus africanus by Dunkleosteus77 Australopithecus bahrelghazali by Dunkleosteus77 Australopithecus deyiremeda by Dunkleosteus77 Australopithecus sediba by Dunkleosteus77 Bonelli's eagle by Sandhillcrane Great flying fox by Enwebb Homo habilis by Dunkleosteus77 Markham's storm petrel by Therapyisgood Ornithocheiridae by JurassicClassic767 Paranthropus aethiopicus by Dunkleosteus77 Paranthropus boisei by Dunkleosteus77 Paranthropus robustus by Dunkleosteus77 Tatenectes by Slate Weasel

News at a glance

This issue is a double issue, but the plan is to return to monthly henceforth. A discussion at WikiProject Palaeontology about internal peer review processes led to the creation of a peer review space. In contrast to the more formal Peer Review, PalaeoPR focuses on short "fact checks", emphasizing content over style. Reviews are meant to be low commitment, with "drive-by reviews" encouraged. Since its inception on 8 July, seven articles have been submitted to PalaeoPR. After a highly competitive third round, two Tree of Life editors advanced to the fourth round of the WikiCup: Dunkleosteus77 and Sainsf A February 2020 paper published in PLOS noted that Mammalian Species is one of the most over-cited journals on Wikipedia relative to how frequently it is cited in other academic works.

Categorizing life with DexDor

DexDor is a WikiGnome with a particular interest in article categorization, including how organisms are categorized. How did you become interested in editing biodiversity topics on Wikipedia? I'm a wikignome who tries to remove unnecessary complexity and confusion in Wikipedia.  I specialise in categorization. I've worked on categorization of several topic areas (e.g. military equipment) - anywhere where I see things like category tags on articles that the category text doesn't support.  Categorization of organisms is one area I'm currently looking at (my essay on this). You seem to be particularly interested in geographic categorization of organisms. What are some issues in this area? One issue is that there are several possible relationships between an organism and a region (i.e. what the "of" in a "Xs of Y" means) - the organism may be found throughout the region, somewhere in the region, only in the region (i.e. endemic to that region) - there are categories for each of these (and others) and some categories have been unclear about their exact meaning. Then there's introductions by man, locally extinct species, occasional visitors... Another issue is that some editors have thought it's appropriate to create categories for very small areas ("Spiders of Vatican City" is only a slight exaggeration) and put a few articles in them, thus creating a category that is both massively incomplete and non-defining for the articles in it. There have been several (now blocked) editors who have been disruptive in this area, but a confusing and sprawling categorization scheme is also partly due to editors from a particular background categorizing a particular article in a way that appears to make sense, but doesn't really make sense in the wider categorization scheme - for example, if an article mentions the countries at the extremes of an animal's distribution, the animal is categorized just for those countries. What potential solutions do you see for categorizing organisms by geography? How can other editors help address this issue, or at least, not make it worse? We should have some guidelines that tell editors how to categorize any article about an organism (including any geographical categorization). I've started drafting guidelines at User:DexDor/BioCat. The guidelines are also a good way to ensure that the categorization of articles about organisms is aligned with categorization of other articles and may help us to identify where there are problems, inconsistencies etc in the categorization. I welcome suggestions for improvement of the guidelines (which should at some point be moved into WP:TOL). Regarding geographical categorization of animals the main advice for editors would be to not create categories for any new areas and to only create a new category if you intend to populate it. What have you learned from being a Wikipedia editor? That lots of people (from varied backgrounds) each making (mostly) small improvements (like ants in an ants nest?) and only understanding some parts of Wikipedia can produce such a wonderful resource. But also, how that tends to result in ever-increasing complexity which negatively affects editors and readers. Is there anything about your life outside Wikipedia that would surprise us? Not sure - I'm a member of a band.

June DYKs

Blue calamintha bee Culture of S. aureus Ambay pumpwood Heuglin's gazelle Gold-striped frog ... that despite being a member of the cat family, the jaguarundi has several features in common with mustelids such as otters and weasels? (2 June) ... that scientists were unsure whether the blue calamintha bee (pictured) still existed until it was observed again in March 2020? (2 June) ... that many of the animals regarded as pests have co-evolved with humans, adapting to the warm, sheltered conditions that a building provides? (3 June) ... that the banteng is the second endangered species to be successfully cloned, and the first clone to survive beyond infancy? (5 June) ... that the colonial morphology of Staphylococcus species (culture pictured) is described as "creamy"? (5 June) ... that ant gardens are cultivated by several species of ant, including Crematogaster carinata? (6 June) ... that the presence of the beetle Coelomera ruficornis on its host tree (pictured) is tolerated by the ant Azteca alfari, but not by the ant Azteca muelleri? (8 June) ... that cattle and deer sometimes stand under trees where southern plains gray langurs are feeding in order to consume the edible pieces that the monkeys drop? (10 June) ... that Singaporean authorities hope that the Mandai Wildlife Bridge will reduce the risk of animals such as Sunda pangolins and leopard cats becoming roadkill? (13 June) ... that the gold-striped frog (pictured) sometimes breeds inside an active nest of leafcutter ants? (13 June) ... that Heuglin's gazelle (illustrated), reportedly last seen in Eritrea over a century earlier during Italian colonial rule, was sighted again in the country last year? (12 June) ... that Siamosaurus, a large bipedal carnivore from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand, is the first crocodilian-like dinosaur named from Asia? (14 June) ... that Homo ergaster may have been the first species of archaic humans to control fire? (14 June) ... that the small frog Cochranella nola has yellow intestines, a green tongue, and dark green bones? (16 June) ... that Nigel, nicknamed "the world's loneliest gannet" (species pictured), attempted to mate with a concrete decoy bird on Mana Island, New Zealand? (17 June) ... that the male giant glass frog has a hooked spur on his upper arm which is used when fighting rivals? (19 June) ... that vestigial organs in the Brazilian Callichirus major population (example species pictured) suggest Callichirus may be the only crustacean genus with basal, yet not universal, hermaphroditism? (20 June) ... that Megacephalosaurus was one of the last known pliosaurs and coexisted with some of the earliest mosasaurs? (21 June) ... that when boiled in milk, black coral (example pictured) emits a faint scent of myrrh? (21 June) ... that one of the factors affecting the future of the Huanchaca mouse is the increased cultivation of biofuels? (22 June) ... that the Strawberries and Cream Tree (pictured) is noted for producing pink blossoms on one side of the tree and white on the other, when it blooms every spring? (23 June) ... that the Chilean seaside cinclodes bobs its tail while it walks and flares its wings while it sings? (24 June) ... that Boie's frog (pictured) and the Banhado frog both resemble dead leaves on the floor of the forest? (25 June) ... that the extinct sumac species Rhus republicensis is named for Republic, Washington? (30 June) Australasian gannet C. brasiliensis, a species in the C. major complex Deep-sea Antipathes dendrochristos Strawberries and Cream Tree in full bloom in April 2020 Boie's frog

July DYKs

Amazon parrot Life reconstruction of Pterodactylus antiquus ... that the Newland Oak in Gloucestershire took "200 years to grow, 200 years to exist, and 200 to die"? (2 July) ... that the hollow trunk of Queen Elizabeth's Oak was used as a prison? (4 July) ... that Markham's storm petrel, which nests in Peru and northern Chile, has been described as "one of the least known seabirds in the world"? (7 July) ... that the Asian freshwater leech Barbronia weberi has invaded North Carolina? (11 July) ... that a large, elderly, "decently behaved" Russian brown bear once lived in the Leeds suburb of Headingley? (12 July) ... that the female Andes marsupial frog carries her developing young in a pouch on her back? (14 July) ... that the Amazon parrot (depicted) was implicated as a source of the great parrot fever pandemic of 1929–30, in which more than 100 people died? (17 July) ... that the frog Corythomantis greeningi retreats into a hole, blocks the entrance with its spiny head, and injects venom into anything that tries to dislodge it? (18 July) ... that the reef box crab uses its powerful pincers to break open the shells of snails? (21 July) ... that carnivorous wildlife of North Macedonia as small as the Balkan lynx have been reported to attack not just livestock, but humans too? (22 July) ... that the sea slug Discodoris boholiensis exhibits photokinesis? (22 July) ... that the genus Pterodactylus (species depicted), the scientific name for a pterodactyl, had been considered a "wastebasket taxon" as many species were assigned to it and later reassigned? (23 July) ... that the sea urchin Abatus cordatus broods its young for nine months in pockets on its upper surface? (24 July) ... that Harold Clyde Bingham trailed a troop of gorillas for 100 hours in 1929? (25 July) ... that the sea urchin Goniocidaris umbraculum moves its eggs with its tube feet, assisted by cilia, to an area near its mouth where they can be brooded? (27 July)

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Delivered on behalf of Enwebb (talk) 16:33, 1 August 2020 (UTC) Reply

Hello, after you finish getting cheetah to FA, would you like to work with me on polar bear? LittleJerry (talk) 23:06, 23 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

LittleJerry, sure! I will be busy for the next few months but I will put up Cheetah for FA in a month or two. So I'll be free by the end of this year I guess. Cheers, Sainsf (t · c) 13:13, 25 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

• Long time no see, I was also wondering about the cheetah article, any plans for its FAC? FunkMonk (talk) 21:57, 17 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

• Hey FunkMonk, sorry I have been away for like a year now. I did plan to return but honestly the FAC for Cheetah seems like a lot of work as the sole nominator for me at the moment, so the plans remain but maybe I will have time after a few months. LittleJerry, I am sorry I could not get back to you on Polar bear for so long. I hope that has not kept you waiting.. doesn't seem like I can do a lot of work at least for now but do let me know what your plans were or are for the article. All the best with it! Sainsf (t · c) 11:49, 26 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Nice to hear back from you, as for cheetah, remember you'll already get my instant support, since I reviewed it with FAC in mind back then!

That's fine. I was working on other things. I plan on getting to polar bear after Indian roller and Turtle get passed FAC. Roller is at GAC and Turtle is almost at GAC. LittleJerry (talk) 21:19, 26 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

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) 19:53, 1 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Tree of Life

Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

Newly recognized content

Horseshoe bat by Enwebb Siamosaurus by PaleoGeekSquared Australopithecus sediba by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Homo habilis by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Enwebb Tatenectes by Slate Weasel, reviewed by FunkMonk

Newly nominated content

Black-and-red broadbill by AryKun Turtle by LittleJerry Symphyotrichum lateriflorum by Eewilson Dracophyllum fiordense by Dracophyllum Scarlet-and-white tanager by AryKun Viatkogorgon by FunkMonk Punctelia borreri by Esculenta Chivi vireo by AryKun Mountain kingfisher by AryKun Kererū by Ambrosia10

Hoax taxon sniffed out after nearly fifteen years

Cross posted from the Signpost On August 7, WikiProject Palaeontology member Rextron discovered a suspicious taxon article, Mustelodon, which was created in November 2005. The article lacked references and the subsequent discussion on WikiProject Palaeontology found that the alleged type locality (where the fossil was first discovered) of Lago Nandarajo "near the northern border of Panama" was nonexistent. In fact, Panama does not even really have a northern border, as it is bounded along the north by the Caribbean Sea. No other publications or databases mentioned Mustelodon, save a fleeting mention in a 2019 book that presumably followed Wikipedia, Felines of the World. The article also appeared in four other languages, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, and Serbian. In Serbian Wikipedia, a note at the bottom of the page warned: "It is important to note here that there is no data on this genus in the official scientific literature, and all attached data on the genus Mustelodon on this page are taken from the English Wikipedia and are the only known data on this genus of mammals, so the validity of this genus is questionable." Editors took action to alert our counterparts on other projects, and these versions were removed also. As the editor who reached out to Spanish and Catalan Wikipedia, it was somewhat challenging to navigate these mostly foreign languages (I have a limited grasp of Spanish). I doubted that the article had very many watchers, so I knew I had to find some WikiProjects where I could post a machine translation advising of the hoax, and asking that users follow local protocols to remove the article. I was surprised to find, however, that Catalan Wikipedia does not tag articles for WikiProjects on talk pages, meaning I had to fumble around to find what I needed (turns out that WikiProjects are Viquiprojectes in Catalan!) Mustelodon remains on Wikidata, where its "instance of" property was swapped from "taxon" to "fictional taxon". How did this article have such a long lifespan? Early intervention is critical for removing hoaxes. A 2016 report found that a hoax article that survives its first day has an 18% chance of lasting a year.[1] Additionally, hoax articles tend to have longer lifespans if they are in inconspicuous parts of Wikipedia, where they do not receive many views. Mustelodon was only viewed a couple times a day, on average. Mustelodon survived a brush with death three years into its lifespan. The article was proposed for deletion in September 2008, with a deletion rationale of "No references given; cannot find any evidence in peer-reviewed journals that this alleged genus actually exists". Unfortunately, the proposed deletion was contested and the template removed, though the declining editor did not give a rationale. Upon its rediscovery in August 2020, Mustelodon was tagged for speedy deletion under CSD G3 as a "blatant hoax". This was challenged, and an Articles for Deletion discussion followed. On 12 August, the AfD was closed as a SNOW delete. WikiProject Palaeontology members ensured that any trace of it was scrubbed from legitimate articles. The fictional mammal was finally, truly extinct. At the ripe old age of 14 years, 9 months, this is the longest-lived documented hoax on Wikipedia, topping the previous documented record of 14 years, 5 months, set by The Gates of Saturn, a fictitious television show, which was incidentally also discovered in August 2020. How do we discover other hoax taxa? Could we use Wikidata to discover taxa are not linked to databases like ITIS, Fossilworks, and others? ↑ Kumar, Srijan; West, Robert; Leskovec, Jure (April 2016). "Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes" (PDF). Proceedings of the 25th International World Wide Web Conference: 591–602. doi:10.1145/2872427.2883085.

Spotlight with Mattximus

This month's spotlight is with Mattximus, author of two Featured Articles and 29 Featured Lists at current count. How did you become involved with editing biodiversity articles? I think I have a compulsion to make lists, it doesn't show up in my real life, but online I secretly get a lot of satisfaction making orderly lists and tables. It's a bit of a secret of mine, because it doesn't manifest in any other part of my life. My background is in biology, so this was a natural (haha) fit. You have an impressive number of FAs under your belt. Two of your more recent ones, Apororhynchus and Gigantorhynchus, are part of what you referred to as an "experiment". How did you choose these articles, and what's next for you in this experiment? This experiment was just to see if I could get any random article to FA status, so I picked the very first alphabetical animal species according to the taxonomy and made that attempt. Technically, there isn't enough information for a species page so I just merged the species into a genus and went from there. It was a fun exercise, but doing it alone is not the most fun so it's probably on pause for the foreseeable future. Note: Aporhynchus is the first alphabetical taxon as follows: Animalia, Acanthocephala, Archiacanthocephala, Apororhynchida, Apororhynchidae, Apororhynchus What advice would you give to someone who wants to nominate their first FAC? I would recommend getting a good article nominated, then a featured list up before tackling the FA. Lists are a bit more forgiving but give you a taste of what standards to expect from FA. The most time consuming thing is proper citations so make sure that is in order before starting either. Is there anything that would surprise us to learn about your life off-Wikipedia? My personality in real life does not match my wikipedia persona. I'm not a very organized, or orderly in real life, but the wikipedia pages I brought to FL or FA are all very organized. Maybe it's my outlet for a more free-flowing life as a scientist/teacher. Anything else you'd like us to know? The fact that wikipedia exists free of profit motive and free for everyone really is something special and I encourage everyone to donate a few dollars to the cause.

August DYKs

Woolly thistle Life reconstruction of Ankylorhiza tiedemani Female cicada laying eggs Acampe rigida ... that in the Brazilian state of Bahia, cerrado mice are often caught by barn owls, but seldom by researchers? (1 August) ... that ornithologist Corina Newsome and herpetologist Earyn McGee held events as part of the inaugural Black Birders Week, an effort to highlight the challenges faced by Black nature enthusiasts? (5 August) ... that the flower buds of the woolly thistle (pictured) can be eaten in a similar way to artichokes? (8 August) ... that the French peanut is native to Brazil? (10 August) ... that the 800-year-old Minchenden Oak is one of the oldest trees in London? (14 August) ... that the forward-facing incisors of the extinct dolphin Ankylorhiza (restoration pictured) may have been used for ramming their prey, similar to a hunting method used by modern orcas? (16 August) ... that scientists accidentally created a hybrid of two endangered fish species, called the sturddlefish? (17 August) ... that despite having the widest distribution in the United States, the arid-land subterranean termite causes less structural damage than other members of its genus? (19 August) ... that the Eocene leaf species Tetracentron hopkinsii was not confirmed from Washington state until 2018? (19 August) ... that Helen Ballard was a hellebore horticulturist? (22 August) ... that in 2021, the dwarf periodical cicada (pictured) is due to emerge in parts of eastern North America, not having been seen for 17 years? (24 August) ... that the fossil sumac Rhus boothillensis is named for a public fossil digging site in Republic, Washington? (25 August) ... that the orchid Acampe rigida (pictured) is pollinated by raindrops? (28 August) ... that fossils identified as Pentacentron sternhartae may actually be the fruits of another fossil species? (29 August) ... that American naturalist William Harvey Brown, who went to Africa to collect specimens, ended up fighting in two wars there? (30 August) ... that the rosy spindle cowry, a species of sea snail, lives exclusively on gorgonians? (30 August)

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Horseshoe bat by Enwebb Siamosaurus by PaleoGeekSquared Australopithecus sediba by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Homo habilis by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Enwebb Tatenectes by Slate Weasel, reviewed by FunkMonk

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Black-and-red broadbill by AryKun Turtle by LittleJerry Symphyotrichum lateriflorum by Eewilson Dracophyllum fiordense by Dracophyllum Scarlet-and-white tanager by AryKun Viatkogorgon by FunkMonk Punctelia borreri by Esculenta Chivi vireo by AryKun Mountain kingfisher by AryKun Kererū by Ambrosia10

Hoax taxon sniffed out after nearly fifteen years

Cross posted from the Signpost On August 7, WikiProject Palaeontology member Rextron discovered a suspicious taxon article, Mustelodon, which was created in November 2005. The article lacked references and the subsequent discussion on WikiProject Palaeontology found that the alleged type locality (where the fossil was first discovered) of Lago Nandarajo "near the northern border of Panama" was nonexistent. In fact, Panama does not even really have a northern border, as it is bounded along the north by the Caribbean Sea. No other publications or databases mentioned Mustelodon, save a fleeting mention in a 2019 book that presumably followed Wikipedia, Felines of the World. The article also appeared in four other languages, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, and Serbian. In Serbian Wikipedia, a note at the bottom of the page warned: "It is important to note here that there is no data on this genus in the official scientific literature, and all attached data on the genus Mustelodon on this page are taken from the English Wikipedia and are the only known data on this genus of mammals, so the validity of this genus is questionable." Editors took action to alert our counterparts on other projects, and these versions were removed also. As the editor who reached out to Spanish and Catalan Wikipedia, it was somewhat challenging to navigate these mostly foreign languages (I have a limited grasp of Spanish). I doubted that the article had very many watchers, so I knew I had to find some WikiProjects where I could post a machine translation advising of the hoax, and asking that users follow local protocols to remove the article. I was surprised to find, however, that Catalan Wikipedia does not tag articles for WikiProjects on talk pages, meaning I had to fumble around to find what I needed (turns out that WikiProjects are Viquiprojectes in Catalan!) Mustelodon remains on Wikidata, where its "instance of" property was swapped from "taxon" to "fictional taxon". How did this article have such a long lifespan? Early intervention is critical for removing hoaxes. A 2016 report found that a hoax article that survives its first day has an 18% chance of lasting a year.[1] Additionally, hoax articles tend to have longer lifespans if they are in inconspicuous parts of Wikipedia, where they do not receive many views. Mustelodon was only viewed a couple times a day, on average. Mustelodon survived a brush with death three years into its lifespan. The article was proposed for deletion in September 2008, with a deletion rationale of "No references given; cannot find any evidence in peer-reviewed journals that this alleged genus actually exists". Unfortunately, the proposed deletion was contested and the template removed, though the declining editor did not give a rationale. Upon its rediscovery in August 2020, Mustelodon was tagged for speedy deletion under CSD G3 as a "blatant hoax". This was challenged, and an Articles for Deletion discussion followed. On 12 August, the AfD was closed as a SNOW delete. WikiProject Palaeontology members ensured that any trace of it was scrubbed from legitimate articles. The fictional mammal was finally, truly extinct. At the ripe old age of 14 years, 9 months, this is the longest-lived documented hoax on Wikipedia, topping the previous documented record of 14 years, 5 months, set by The Gates of Saturn, a fictitious television show, which was incidentally also discovered in August 2020. How do we discover other hoax taxa? Could we use Wikidata to discover taxa are not linked to databases like ITIS, Fossilworks, and others? ↑ Kumar, Srijan; West, Robert; Leskovec, Jure (April 2016). "Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes" (PDF). Proceedings of the 25th International World Wide Web Conference: 591–602. doi:10.1145/2872427.2883085.

Spotlight with Mattximus

This month's spotlight is with Mattximus, author of two Featured Articles and 29 Featured Lists at current count. How did you become involved with editing biodiversity articles? I think I have a compulsion to make lists, it doesn't show up in my real life, but online I secretly get a lot of satisfaction making orderly lists and tables. It's a bit of a secret of mine, because it doesn't manifest in any other part of my life. My background is in biology, so this was a natural (haha) fit. You have an impressive number of FAs under your belt. Two of your more recent ones, Apororhynchus and Gigantorhynchus, are part of what you referred to as an "experiment". How did you choose these articles, and what's next for you in this experiment? This experiment was just to see if I could get any random article to FA status, so I picked the very first alphabetical animal species according to the taxonomy and made that attempt. Technically, there isn't enough information for a species page so I just merged the species into a genus and went from there. It was a fun exercise, but doing it alone is not the most fun so it's probably on pause for the foreseeable future. Note: Aporhynchus is the first alphabetical taxon as follows: Animalia, Acanthocephala, Archiacanthocephala, Apororhynchida, Apororhynchidae, Apororhynchus What advice would you give to someone who wants to nominate their first FAC? I would recommend getting a good article nominated, then a featured list up before tackling the FA. Lists are a bit more forgiving but give you a taste of what standards to expect from FA. The most time consuming thing is proper citations so make sure that is in order before starting either. Is there anything that would surprise us to learn about your life off-Wikipedia? My personality in real life does not match my wikipedia persona. I'm not a very organized, or orderly in real life, but the wikipedia pages I brought to FL or FA are all very organized. Maybe it's my outlet for a more free-flowing life as a scientist/teacher. Anything else you'd like us to know? The fact that wikipedia exists free of profit motive and free for everyone really is something special and I encourage everyone to donate a few dollars to the cause.

August DYKs

Woolly thistle Life reconstruction of Ankylorhiza tiedemani Female cicada laying eggs Acampe rigida ... that in the Brazilian state of Bahia, cerrado mice are often caught by barn owls, but seldom by researchers? (1 August) ... that ornithologist Corina Newsome and herpetologist Earyn McGee held events as part of the inaugural Black Birders Week, an effort to highlight the challenges faced by Black nature enthusiasts? (5 August) ... that the flower buds of the woolly thistle (pictured) can be eaten in a similar way to artichokes? (8 August) ... that the French peanut is native to Brazil? (10 August) ... that the 800-year-old Minchenden Oak is one of the oldest trees in London? (14 August) ... that the forward-facing incisors of the extinct dolphin Ankylorhiza (restoration pictured) may have been used for ramming their prey, similar to a hunting method used by modern orcas? (16 August) ... that scientists accidentally created a hybrid of two endangered fish species, called the sturddlefish? (17 August) ... that despite having the widest distribution in the United States, the arid-land subterranean termite causes less structural damage than other members of its genus? (19 August) ... that the Eocene leaf species Tetracentron hopkinsii was not confirmed from Washington state until 2018? (19 August) ... that Helen Ballard was a hellebore horticulturist? (22 August) ... that in 2021, the dwarf periodical cicada (pictured) is due to emerge in parts of eastern North America, not having been seen for 17 years? (24 August) ... that the fossil sumac Rhus boothillensis is named for a public fossil digging site in Republic, Washington? (25 August) ... that the orchid Acampe rigida (pictured) is pollinated by raindrops? (28 August) ... that fossils identified as Pentacentron sternhartae may actually be the fruits of another fossil species? (29 August) ... that American naturalist William Harvey Brown, who went to Africa to collect specimens, ended up fighting in two wars there? (30 August) ... that the rosy spindle cowry, a species of sea snail, lives exclusively on gorgonians? (30 August)

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Hi, I'm planning to run Canada lynx as a TFA in October. I'm about to start scheduling that month, and just woundered if you wanted to do the TFA blurb? No problem if you don't fancy it, I'll do it otherwise, cheers Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:46, 8 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Ok, I've got to the lynx, so I'll do the blurb Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:24, 10 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

This is to let you know that the Canada lynx article has been scheduled as today's featured article for October 18, 2020. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 18, 2020, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.

For Featured Articles promoted recently, there will be an existing blurb linked from the FAC talk page, which is likely to be transferred to the TFA page by a coordinator at some point.

We suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:47, 10 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the article, introduced: "a North American cat that I came across when I was looking for information on lynxes, and I realized our article on it can be improved a lot. I was fascinated by its unique appearance and its strong correlation with snowshoe hare populations."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:02, 18 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Dona nobis pacem

Thank you for your article work! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 18 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Gerda Arendt: Dear sister, you never fail to make me smile :) I promise to work harder once I return after I get some control over my extremely busy online college life. Thank you for making us all feel appreciated even in our absence! Sainsf (t · c) 10:38, 20 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. Interesting that it made you smile when I shared my toughest promise ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:44, 20 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Sainsf. I was reading Scaly-breasted munia, an article you GARed back in 2012. I'm writing to you now as I saw you were deeply invested with its GA review. I strongly feel that the Foraging section in the article is far too long and not relevant enough to the bird itself. I think it should be removed from the munia article, and put into one in its own right - the research and effort that the original writers put into it, and the significance of the research they cited, is too significant for it to simply be deleted. What do you think? Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI ^{converse | fings wot i hav dun} 11:30, 3 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI, hi and apologies for such a late reply, I have been inactive here for months now. Thanks for approaching me but I think this is a discussion that should happen on the article's dedicated talk page or maybe on the relevant WikiProject. Personally yes, I do see the length of the section and not having gone through it fully on my own and not being quite experienced in this field, I can only suggest compression and not exactly evaluate the relevance of the material or whether it merits its own article. Cheers, Sainsf (t · c) 08:04, 30 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

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) 11:38, 3 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

Precious

Seven years!

I tried to give 2021 a good start by updating the QAI project topics. Please check and correct, - did you know that - at almost five years - you belong to the project's "oldest" active members? For moar private "happy new year" see here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:31, 6 January 2021 (UTC)Reply