User talk:CactiStaccingCrane

WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
• Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
• Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

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 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Untagged unreferenced articles

Good morning! I was looking up poetic terms and found Syzygy (poetry) which was utterly unreferenced but not tagged as such. This is an area of great concern to me - the known unknown quantity of articles that have no references but have never been identified and are flying under the radar. Do you have any ideas on how we could search for them? There's the search for mistagged articles (super useful) but not in the opposite direction. Do you think it would be possible to create something like this? Hopefully it would be a relatively small number but I think these represent a hole in our efforts to improve Wikipedia as most of those articles probably quite old and don't see daylight, metaphorically speaking, very often. Kazamzam (talk) 11:37, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

@Kazamzam IMO the best way is to ask for a WP:Query for all articles that don't have <ref> or {{sfn}} tags and go from there. Some ideas about how to deal with this also were also thrown about at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Cite_more_articles_faster_and_with_better_quality_sources as well. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 13:32, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) No need for a query; start here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:40, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@Jonesey95 @CactiStaccingCrane - the search using the No footnotes template is not useful at all as every link that I checked had at least some references, if only as a general references page, generic bibliography, further reading section, etc. What I'm referring to are articles that have no footnotes, no references, no bib, no external links, nothing. The lack of <ref> or {{sfn}} tags do not necessarily indicate that those meet the criteria of what I'm looking for. Kazamzam (talk) 15:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

How about using the Unreferenced tag then? That's 138,000 articles, and the template instructions say: You should only add this template to articles that contain no citations or references of any kind. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:18, 7 May 2024 (UTC)