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How are you, Octave, hope you are well? I wanted to ask if you would like to review my FAC nom of Hunter Schafer, and/or my two GA noms? I'll review/expand any article you want, if you like, as thanks? HSLover/DWF (talk) 12:38, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DWF, nice to see you back. I'm quite well, thanks for asking. I have a couple of FLC reviews to sort out just now, but I could probably contribute a source review for HS if no-one takes it quickly. I don't need anything in return: writing has been a bit slow lately anyway. Thanks, UpTheOctave! • 8va? 15:33, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No one is likely too- it's been 21 days and all it has recieved is a image review. You can ask me anytime if you ever have anything you want reviewed/want help with. HSLover/DWF (talk) 16:35, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'll keep that in mind; thank you for the kind offer. UpTheOctave! • 8va? 16:58, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, Octave, just a reminder ping, sorry for the ping. HSLover/DWF (talk) 06:39, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

October music

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story · music · places

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, try this. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:20, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:OVERLAP - thanks!

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Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for introducing me to WP:OVERLAP on the Borlet 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! • 8va? 13:01, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 November newsletter

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

  1. Delaware BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,604 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
  2. English Island, South Australia Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,075 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
  3. Arconning (submissions) with 860 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
  4. Canada History6042 (submissions) with 804 tournament points
  5. Sammi Brie (submissions) with 635 tournament points
  6. Oklahoma TheDoctorWho (submissions) with 386 tournament points
  7. AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 373 tournament points
  8. Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 362 tournament points

Our high scorers in the final round were:

  • Delaware 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 2 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 106 good articles, 5 good topic articles, 178 article reviews, 76 did you know articles, and 9 in 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.

  • English Island, South Australia 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
  • Canada 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
  • Canada 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.
  • Delaware 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.
  • Oklahoma 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:

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign 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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Speedy deletion declined: User:Cheikh Tourad Traore/sandbox

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Hello UpTheOctave!. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User: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. CoconutOctopus talk 23:04, 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-read WP: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! • 8va? 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. CoconutOctopus talk 23:14, 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! • 8va? 23:40, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In appreciation

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The Reviewers Award 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! • 8va? 14:05, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]