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WikiCup 2026 May newsletter
editThe second round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 April. As a reminder for contestants who just joined or are unaware of recent changes to our round-points system, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP. Peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.
Round 2 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; nine scored over 500; and fourteen scored over 300. The top seven contestants had at least one featured article (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:
MCE89 (submissions) with 1,333 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography
Generalissima (submissions) with 1,169 points, mainly from good and featured articles related to shipping ethics controversy in fanfiction, waterways, and Gu Yanwu
Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1,149 points, mainly from good articles, featured articles, and featured lists about figure skating, along with many article reviews and two good topics
Olliefant (submissions) with 830 points, mainly from good and featured articles about television shows, episodes and media, along with nearly four dozen good and featured article reviews
Gommeh (submissions) with 827 points, mainly from good and featured articles related to Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail
The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 13 featured lists, 2 featured-topic articles, 106 good articles, 22 good-topic articles and more than 40 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 3 In the News articles, and they have conducted over 200 reviews. The tournament points table has been updated.
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) 14:49, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
Lake Superior and Ishpeming Consolidation locomotives
editSo this anonymous numbered user has created a bunch of drafts for individual surviving locomotives of the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad (Draft:19, Draft:20, 21, 22, and 24), and I helped him since I have reliable sources for them, but the thing is that most of them share a history under the same ownership until the mid-1980s, and it got me pondering if they should be kept the way they are or if they should be redirected into a single page that details all of the railroad's consolidations (like the East Broad Top Railroad Mikado locomotives page, for reference) but with, say, the pages for 18 and 23 kept, since their own histories are long enough. But it you'd like to look over each of them and let me know if you think they should be left alone or not, I'd appreciate it, and I think the anonymous user would, too. Someone who likes train writing (talk) 15:58, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
- My sincere apologies for deleting your talk page post my friend, I know it's against Wikipedia's rules to delete talk page posts and I should have know better. I misunderstood what you were discussing with him and I originally thought you wanted the articles to be permanently deleted forever after all the hard work I've put I to them. It turns out it was a miscommunication and I misunderstood what you meant until I reed your talk page post again. ~2026-28738-16 (talk) 18:38, 12 May 2026 (UTC) ~2026-28738-16 (talk) 18:38, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
- Regardless if you agree with someone's talk page post or not, it's not acceptable to delete things off of other people's talk pages without their permission. Please don't do that again. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 14:53, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
- I will look into this when I have a chance and get back to you. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 14:53, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
- I understand, I promise not to do it again and I sincerely apologize for it. Also, I just spoke too Some who like a train writing about this, are you both still planning to merge them into one article like the East Broad Top locomotives? Because I'm still a little hesitant about this idea because we both worked very hard on them. In my point of view, I think them having their own articles by themselves is fine, merging them into the one article listing all of them is kind of a waste of them. No offense about it, it's just my opinion. Even Someone who likes train writing told me he thinks the pages are alright just the way they are. ~2026-31299-59 (talk) 15:33, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026
editHello Trainsandotherthings,
Backlog update
At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.
After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.
2024 and 2025 NPP Awards
Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.
Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.
BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.
January–February backlog drive
The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.
May backlog drive
An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026.
PageTriage
An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket if you're interested in following along.
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