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Holy cow, your avarage page size leapfrogged from just below 10K to 38K!, which is definitely one of the greatest avarages for users with at least 500 articles. I'm sure you are very proud of this achievment. Congrats. Luis7M (talk) 20:33, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think average page size stats are a little flawed to draw any conclusions from that, but thank you! --Habst (talk) 23:54, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relay substitutions

I have an athletics-related question, maybe you are able to help. Do you happen to know where it is specified how many substitutions can be made in relays at area and world championships and the Olympics? It seems to vary from year to year. – Editør (talk) 20:24, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Editør, thanks for reaching out. I asked a buddy about this and he pointed to World Athletics Series regulations, which has different rules per competition (see the "Entry Rules" section for each competition type):

World Athletics Championships: 6 per relay
World Athletics U20 Championships: Unclear to me but seems like only 4 may be entered per team
World Athletics Indoor Championships: 8 per relay (i.e. you can do completely different teams between semis and final)
World Athletics Cross Country Championships (mixed relay): 4 men and 4 women, 2 men and 2 women start
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships (marathon mixed relay): 3 teams per country can start
World Athletics Relays: 8 per relay

-- Habst (talk) 01:22, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both. From the maximum number of team members it follows which athletes can be selected or substituted, but I am not completely convinced that the allowed substitution total can be inferred from this maximum as well. I noticed that appendix 6 about substitutions is unavailable online (source), not sure if this (also) covers this kind of substitution. In this short video from the Olympics channel, the commentator said "You can change out one runner" in the mixed relay, so it seemed that only one substitution was allowed between round 1 and the final of the mixed relay, but I couldn't find any text document to directly support or refute that, I found no information about this in this text about qualification or elsewehere. – Editør (talk) 09:09, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:PZLA

Template:PZLA has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:38, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Khaled Khalifa Al-Shammari

This is a question regarding his purported tenure as an international footballer. For football we have a resource https://www.national-football-teams.com which doesn't go as far back as 1972 for Kuwait. On the other hand, I don't find the claim believeable: "Khalifa began his athletic career as a goalkeeper for the Kuwait national football team in 1972". It's not common to begin one's career in the national team, they typically get selected following other accomplishments. Also, he was 15 years old in 1972, which makes the international play even less likely - not impossible, but highly unlikely. Do you remember what the source said, and is it reliable? Is it supposed to be a national youth team? Geschichte (talk) 22:33, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Geschichte, thanks for reaching out.

I'm not an expert in football so will try to get this right. My source for the football claims were the reference at the end of that paragraph, which says in the third paragraph (translated), "As for the hero Khalifa [...] he began his career as a goalkeeper for the Khaitan football team in 1972, before moving on to track and field, winning 38 medals, the most famous of which was the silver medal in the 800m at the 1981 Asian Championships in Tokyo".

On re-read, it seems like "Khatian" is a reference to Khaitan SC so I'll update the sentence to say that instead -- I think I misread that as "Kuwaiti" or an earlier translation I used was inaccurate. Thanks for catching.

P.S. Can you please reconsider taking action on User talk:Geschichte#Re: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mopeli Molapo now that the AfD has closed? I'm aware that the debate is archived but I don't agree with the "gaming the system" accusation, I don't think it's assuming good faith, and would appreciate if you could either strike that or clarify on the AfD talk page. Thanks, --Habst (talk) 02:33, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

August 2025

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@Fram, you are the other party in the content dispute. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Olympics#Creating a list of Olympic competitors. --Habst (talk) 12:59, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of List of Olympic competitors (Aa–Ak) for deletion

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Reverted edits

Hi Habst, I reverted this edit. The RFC is already ongoing with !votes already on the board, and indeed editors stating that it is a useful discussion to have. The question therefore should not be change halfway through. If you wish to add additional questions, do this in an additional discussion or separate RFC. FOARP (talk) 13:40, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I've responded here. --Habst (talk) 13:56, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Green's 9th Edit-a-thon

Hello Habst:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Editathon event in October 2025!

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