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WikiCup 2021 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished with over 500 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants, The Rambling Man and Epicgenius, each scoring over 3000 points, and six contestants scoring over 1000. All but one of the finalists achieved one or more FAs during the round, the exception being Bloom6132 who demonstrated that 61 "in the news" items produces an impressive number of points. Other contestants who made it to the final are Gog the Mild, Lee Vilenski, BennyOnTheLoose, Amakuru and Hog Farm. However, all their points are now swept away and everyone starts afresh in the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 18 featured articles and 157 good articles. Bilorv scored for a 25-article good topic on Black Mirror but narrowly missed out on qualifying for the final round. There was enthusiasm for FARs, with 89 being performed, and there were 63 GARs and around 100 DYKs during the round. As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it to the final round; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For other contestants, 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 14 days of "earning" them.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Daljit Singh

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A tag has been placed on Daljit Singh requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Template:Did you know nominations/Osa Maliki

Soman, I was wondering whether you'd be willing to return to update your proposed ALT1 hook into an ALT1a or ALT2 per the comments there. And while you're at it, should that be "army commander" (a specific one only) or "army commanders"? Thank you very much. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:32, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for League of Socialist Youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina

On 7 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article League of Socialist Youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Socialist Youth League candidate in the 1990 Bosnian general election registered his ethnicity as 'Eskimo' as an apparent protest against ethnic registry requirements for candidates? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/League of Socialist Youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, League of Socialist Youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Half Die

On 10 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Half Die, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Banjul sector Half Die was reportedly given its name due to an epidemic outbreak in the 19th century? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Half Die. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Half Die), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of K.P. Ramaiah for deletion

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Aloolkaparatha (talk) 14:03, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for February 28 Popular Leagues

On 20 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article February 28 Popular Leagues, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the February 28 Popular Leagues would seize foreign embassies in protest against the military junta in El Salvador? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/February 28 Popular Leagues. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, February 28 Popular Leagues), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Russia election result templates

Hello, Soman, the templates you created and I've gone through only a few of them, don't seem to have any practical information or purpose. For some of them, you stated in the edit summaries these were tests. Do you think they should be kept because going through a Tfd process in my view would not be able to be the right venue?

I'd ask they be kept, or at least transcluded to the relevant articles. --Soman (talk) 22:34, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

So you'd be in favor of a substitution where they are no longer in template space, but as tables that are part of the articles. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 22:56, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

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