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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Touched by His Noodly Appendage HD.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 21:51, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! - My story is about music that Bach and Picander gave the world 300 years (and 19 days) ago, - listen (on the conductor's birthday) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:27, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I finally managed to upload the pics I meant for Easter, see places. - Also finally, I managed a FAC, Easter Oratorio. I wanted that on the main page for Easter Sunday, but no, twice. You are invited to join a discussion about what "On this day" means, day or date. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very nice picture – the trees in the background are great. Cremastra _talk 20:55, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Chtonobdella limbata

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Chtonobdella limbata 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 ChristieBot, on behalf of ZKevinTheCat -- ZKevinTheCat (talk) 16:41, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

April blitz bling

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Cremastra for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2025 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:29, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Chtonobdella limbata

The article Chtonobdella limbata you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article needs changes or clarifications to meet the good article criteria. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Chtonobdella limbata and Talk:Chtonobdella limbata/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of ZKevinTheCat -- ZKevinTheCat (talk) 16:22, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maxillopoda

Hi Cremastra, In your comments regarding your reinstatement of the Maxillopoda article, you mentioned that it should be retained because articles on other non-valid taxa also exist (WP:OTHER). However, in general we are trying to eliminate such articles on non-valid taxa across the Tree of Life projects.

The 2022 changes of Maxillopoda to a redirect were part of a larger clean up where older (and now unaccepted) taxonomy was deleted and the former taxon information included in a taxonomically accepted related article. The status of the Maxillopoda article and its information was previously discussed on WikiProject Arthropods (here and here).

If information on a disused taxon is still relevant to the encyclopedia it should instead be presented as a subtopic of an accepted taxon. 'Cheers, Loopy30 (talk) 23:52, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you for the explanation.

I think we'll have to have {{maxillopoda-stub}} deleted in that case. Cremastra _talk 00:19, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:25, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Crinochaeta template

Absence of |extinct= has no impact on the functioning of a taxonomy template. I routinely remove it for extant taxa. I guess what happened it that I saved Template:Taxonomy/Crinocheta before I created the parent taxonomy template. Usually if do that, I go back and make a null edit to the child template once I've created the parent, which fixes things. I guess I failed to do that in this case, but I'm really surprised the problem persisted for so long. The system usually finds the once missing parent template on it's own, and my impression was that it does so fairly quickly (like, less than an hour).

On the other end of things, if a chain of taxonomy templates is created in quick succession a child template may fail to pick up a parent template that was just created. The time frame on that being a possible problem is very short; maybe a couple seconds at most. But if the child is saved within that time frame, it can take awhile for the problem to resolve if nobody makes a subsequent edit (but again, "awhile" in that scenario should be the same as if the child was saved before the parent; I'd expect it to work out on it's own within an hour).

How did you notice the problem? Were you checking an error tracking category for taxonomy templates, or do you notice a woodlouse article with a broken taxobox? Plantdrew (talk) 01:12, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see. I thought that maybe the extinct parameter was mandatory, since the documentation implied it should only be left blank. I noticed several woodlouse articles with broken taxoboxes. Cremastra _talk 12:25, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Chtonobdella limbata

The article Chtonobdella limbata you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Chtonobdella limbata for comments about the article, and Talk:Chtonobdella limbata/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of ZKevinTheCat -- ZKevinTheCat (talk) 06:22, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 May newsletter

The second round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 April at 23:59 UTC. To reiterate what we said in the previous newsletter, we are no longer disqualifying contestants based on how many points (now known as round points) they received. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. These tournament points are carried over between rounds, and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers at the end of each round. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned.

Round 2 was quite competitive. Four contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and eight scored more than 500 points (including one who has withdrawn). The following competitors scored at least 800 points:

BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,233 round points from 24 good articles, 28 Did you know articles, and one In the news nomination, mainly about athletes and politicians
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 1,127 round points, almost entirely from two high-multiplier featured articles on Black Widow (Natasha Romanova) and Grace Coolidge, in addition to two GAs and two reviews
History6042 (submissions) with 1,088 round points from four featured lists about Michelin-starred restaurants, nine good articles and a good topic mostly on Olympic-related subjects, seven ITN articles, and dozens of reviews
Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,085 round points from three FAs, one GA, and four DYKs on military history, as well as 18 reviews
Arconning (submissions) with 887 round points, mostly from four FLs, six GAs, and seven DYKs on Olympic topics, along with more than two dozen reviews

In addition, we would like to recognize Generalissima (submissions) for her efforts; she scored 801 round points but withdrew before the end of the round.

The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 13 featured articles, 20 featured lists, 4 featured-topic articles, 138 good articles, 7 good-topic articles, and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 19 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 300 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. 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 Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges 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) 01:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Oniscus asellus

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Oniscus asellus 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 ChristieBot, on behalf of Fritzmann2002 -- Fritzmann2002 (talk) 13:05, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]