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My story today is about a song a friend gave me, very literally: inventing a melody to a poem, singing and playing guitar.Yesterday's was about a great singer, and you can listen. In case you like Barber better than Mozart, trythis. --Gerda Arendt (talk)18:20, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for introducing me toWP:OVERLAP on theBorlet AfD. I had not come across it before, so I learned something. Cheers,SunloungerFrog (talk)08:21, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You’re very welcome; I’m glad to hear my comments are appreciated :)UpTheOctave! • 8^va?13:01, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The 2025 WikiCup has come to an end. Our top scorers, based on the tournament point rankings (which can be seenhere), are:

1. BeanieFan11 (submissions) with1,604 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
2. Gog the Mild (submissions) with1,075 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
3. Arconning (submissions) with860 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
4. History6042 (submissions) with804 tournament points
5. Sammi Brie (submissions) with635 tournament points
6. TheDoctorWho (submissions) with386 tournament points
7. AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with373 tournament points
8. Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with362 tournament points

Our high scorers in the final round were:

• BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,035 round points, mostly from 19 good articles and 21 did you know articles about athletes
• vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) with 819 round points, mostly from 13 good articles and 11 did you know articles about a wide range of topics from abortion topics to African cities
• TheNuggeteer (submissions) with 508 round points from 9 good articles, 4 good topic articles and 6 did you know articles mainly about Philippines topics, along with 19 good article reviews

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 2featured articles, 4featured lists, 106good articles, 5good topic articles, 178 article reviews, 76did you know articles, and 9in the news articles. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

The top eight scorers will receive awards shortly. The following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. These prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field during the competition.

• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, with 12 featured articles total, and the featured topic prize, with 9 featured topic articles in total
• Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize, with 10 featured lists total
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, submitting the only featured picture in the entire contest during round 3
• History6042 (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize, with 127 featured content reviews. He will also share the ITN prize, with 20 in the news articles in total.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize, with 100 good articles total, and the DYK prize, with 147 did you know articles in total. He will also share the ITN prize, with 20 in the news articles in total.
• TheDoctorWho (submissions) wins the good topic prize, with 16 good topic entries in total
• Arconning (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, with 68 good article reviews in total

A special mention also goes to these users who scored the highest in a particular category in a single round:

• Sammi Brie (submissions), with 27 good articles in round 3, and 45 good article reviews in round 1
• Tails Wx (submissions), with 10 in the news articles in round 3

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited tosign up to participate. The WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2026 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!

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Hello UpTheOctave!. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion ofUser:Cheikh Tourad Traore/sandbox, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: G8 does not apply to user subpages. Thank you.CoconutOctopustalk23:04, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @CoconutOctopus! I usually apply this tag when I see broken redirects in sandboxes and subpages, mainly since I've seen other admins delete these pages under G8 themselves. As such, I assumed these tags would be fine. Now that I re-readWP:G8, I see you're entirely right. In the past I've blanked these pages instead: I'll go back to this method for user subpages. Thank you so much! All the best,UpTheOctave! • 8^va?23:13, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For user subpages there's honestly no need to bother blanking even; a user can have broken redirects if they really want to, it's not causing any harm to the encyclopedia.CoconutOctopustalk23:14, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I can certainly see your point. I know some admins that look through broken redirects on their own, so they may delete/blank them anyway. I think in the past it's been a case of dealing with userpages while I'm dealing with the rest, but in the future I'll leave those to admin judgement and focus mainly on broken redirects in other namespaces. Thanks again for your advice,CoconutOctopus :)UpTheOctave! • 8^va?23:40, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		The Reviewers Award
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of the thorough, detailed and actionable reviews you have carried out at FAC. This work is very much appreciated.Gog the Mild (talk)13:17, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much Gog :)UpTheOctave! • 8^va?14:05, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Many thanks,Sohom.UpTheOctave! • 8^va?11:31, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]