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DYK for KTAB-TV

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On 24 September 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article KTAB-TV, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an oil rig trailer and winch were used to help build a Texas TV station? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/KTAB-TV. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, KTAB-TV), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:04, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for WVNY

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On 28 September 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article WVNY, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Montreal Canadiens hockey team threatened to force a Vermont TV station to stop airing Boston Bruins games? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WVNY. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, WVNY), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Van Hackett

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On 28 September 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Van Hackett, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that broadcaster Van Hackett returned to the industry a decade after lamenting the "trivialization" of television news? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Van Hackett. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Van Hackett), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

October 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

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October 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

  • On 1 October 2025, a one-month backlog drive for good article nomination reviews will begin in hopes of addressing the growing backlog and to reduce old nominations.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number, length, and age of nominations reviewed.
  • Each article review will earn 1 point; for each 90 days an article has been in the backlog, an additional half-point is awarded; one extra point will be awarded for every 2500 total reviewed words.
  • Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list or alternatively to opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of Wyoming PBS is under review

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Your good article nomination of the article Wyoming PBS is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of ZKang123 -- ZKang123 (talk) 00:30, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for WMDT

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On 2 October 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article WMDT, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Maryland TV station's facilities originally housed a drug store and restaurant? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WMDT. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, WMDT), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

Launchballer 00:02, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of Wyoming PBS is on hold

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Your good article nomination of the article Wyoming PBS has been placed on hold, as the article needs some changes. See the review page for more information. If these are addressed within 7 days, the nomination will pass; otherwise, it may fail. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of ZKang123 -- ZKang123 (talk) 01:31, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of Wyoming PBS has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article Wyoming PBS has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of ZKang123 -- ZKang123 (talk) 10:48, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question

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How are you, long time no see? Also, I wanted to ask if you would like to review Hunter Schafer's FAC nom or Fire (1996 film)'s GAN nom- I will review WYFF if you review either. HSLover/DWF (talk) 06:46, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DoctorWhoFan91 I'll be traveling through October 10, so I can't commit to reviews right now, but I do appreciate the thought and I do plan on doing reviews when I get back. Hope you're doing well. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 14:29, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, sure, you can review either/both when you get back. I'm doing well. HSLover/DWF (talk) 07:59, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Reminder- sorry for asking again/reminding but I don't want HS to get archived due to lack of reviews, so that's why I'm asking again. HSLover/DWF (talk) 17:11, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your review of Fire, it was a great review. I'm not sure if your pings are on- so also came here to tell you I have made the changes or replied for the stuff you said. You can check if it's in a passing state now. HSLover/DWF (talk) 04:33, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry @DoctorWhoFan91, I've had it up but just not done anything with it and that's entirely on me. Let me take a look. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 06:27, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No need for sorry- I pinged here just to ensure that you know I have replied to the review, as I wasn't sure if your pings were on. Take your time, I don't have any issue with that. HSLover/DWF (talk) 15:36, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your edits

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Hi, Sammi Brie, I just wanted to thank you for making the additional edits to the John Torry article. Your improvements are much appreciated! Best, KnowledgeMaple (talk) 03:29, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if you have the right article @KnowledgeMaple but I appreciate it. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:13, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of WYFF is under review

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Your good article nomination of the article WYFF is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DoctorWhoFan91 -- DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) 08:25, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of WYFF has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article WYFF has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of DoctorWhoFan91 -- DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) 05:44, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

KEXP-FM scheduled for TFA

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This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 29 November 2025. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 2025, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 2025. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there by those who assist the coordinators by reviewing the blurbs. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 15:37, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jp33442 This is actually how I discovered KEXP, too. It was 2022. The Suns were being so badly blown out by the Mavericks in Game 7 of the Western Conference playoffs (no joke) that I needed to channel my anger. I looked for the most popular (by pageviews) US station I could work on. KEXP stood out, and I knew I could write into Seattle. The rest is history. This was the first new FA on a radio station in 10 years. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 03:34, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WLNR

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I was checking to see what was linked to when reading another article and saw no reason for the redirect. If the topic being redirected is not mentioned in the rarget article, then there's no reason to redirect.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 22:54, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Newspapers.com stats

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Hello! Thanks for reviewing my DYK nom. How can I check where I rank in Newspapers.com links added? I gotta be making my way up there... JTtheOG (talk) 03:58, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@JTtheOG Here (it might take a bit to load). You've added on net 1,005 links, 28th all-time. I'm fifth all-time with 3,333, which is quite off to me. Patriarca12 is #1 and is a machine at citing college football results. It's funny and makes a lot of sense that three of the top five clip-adders are sports editors because there is so much U.S. sports content possible with that site. It's strange because older versions of this data set give a five-digit number, which makes quite a bit more sense for me with 40K clippings. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 04:36, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wow.. 22k is utterly unfathomable. "Machine" is right. On another note, the value of Newspapers.com really cannot be over-exaggerated. It's crazy to think about the troves of information buried in those archives, ready to be found decades or centuries later and brought back to life... JTtheOG (talk) 05:01, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@JTtheOG SounderBruce told me about TWL in 2019. It was a turning point for me as an editor. TV and radio stations used to be a backwater where we had to have an RfC about adhering to the Manual of Style. Now? We had the first new radio station FA in a decade and six more in TV stations, and I have more than 200 Good Articles and all-time 800 DYKs (660 of them since 2019). Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 05:07, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well done. Those are similarly impressive numbers. For some reason, up until extremely recently, DYKs were sort of one of those things I've always been aware of but never bothered to find out anything about..? But I'm glad I'm tapped in now. You can expect to see my name around.
P.S. I was going to ask if you've worked on anything in San Diego County before, but I see that you've edited XHITZ-FM more than a couple times. XHFG-FM is another local binational station that might be of interest to you. :) JTtheOG (talk) 05:46, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@JTtheOG I have KUSI-TV as a GA, KSWB-TV at GAN pending someone to review it, and KNSD to send up at some point. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 18:15, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I love it! Thank you and keep up the amazing work. JTtheOG (talk) 03:46, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) Apparently I added more newspapers.com links than you, Sammi? Well that's a first. I swear you had a lot more than I did But seriously, I second the comment by JTtheOG. Great work! – Epicgenius (talk) 19:29, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) Ooh that's a cool list. Looks like I'm seventh with 2,420 – and six of the top nine are football editors! I have no idea how I've done one more link than Cbl62 (42,000 clips) though... BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:53, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article Gazette, Issue 3

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Issue 3, 10 October 2025
News
Current statistics
  • Number of GAs: 42,670 (+318)
  • Number of nominations: 865 (+53)
  • GAs for reassessment: 56 (–5)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:08, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of KSNB-TV is under review

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Your good article nomination of the article KSNB-TV is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Bgsu98 -- Bgsu98 (talk) 17:06, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of KSNB-TV has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article KSNB-TV has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Bgsu98 -- Bgsu98 (talk) 22:26, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for WLAJ

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On 16 October 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article WLAJ, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a Michigan TV station was designed to serve a smaller area so it could obtain a network affiliation? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WLAJ. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, WLAJ), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 00:03, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of WSKG-TV is under review

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Your good article nomination of the article WSKG-TV is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Pi.1415926535 -- Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:24, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request recreation of article "List of MyNetworkTV affiliates"

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You could at least give a chance for at least merging the List of MyNetworkTV affiliates onto the List of Fox Broadcasting Company affiliates, rather than deleting the article entirely. Besides, its now impossible to maintain a list for a number of TV stations (especially low-powered Class A stations) with specific call sign letters that are important to remember in each DMA since the article was deleted. 2600:6C50:57F:BA33:B5E0:125F:4375:76B2 (talk) 02:10, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That is inadvisable because they are separate entities. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 02:21, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
They are not separate entities, as a number of the stations affiliated with the syndication service have made it more of a brand extension of the Fox network rather than being a completely separate broadcast network with its own branding; Besides, only a handful of stations (particularly the Fox-owned stations and Gray Media-owned KPDX) have changed their branding to align itself as an extension to the sister station's branding. 2600:6C50:57F:BA33:B5E0:125F:4375:76B2 (talk) 02:38, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You are completely incorrect. The list article is not coming back and quit spamming us over it. Nathan Obral • he/him/🦝 • t • c • 02:41, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I wish Ion Television shuts down its over-the-air operations completely as it converts to an internet-only FAST channel within a few years, because I want Qubo to relaunch and take over the channel space occupied by Ion. Besides, Qubo Channel had more variety in its schedule as it aired more children's programming than Ion Television, which just airs endless crime drama reruns that are boring and repetitive as local programming virtually non-existent on their stations. It upsets me why the E.W. Scripps Company acquired Ion Media in 2021 and decided to shutdown Qubo entirely because they didn't view it as "mature" enough compared to the Katz Broadcasting specialty networks that Scripps acquired in 2017. 2600:6C50:57F:BA33:B5E0:125F:4375:76B2 (talk) 02:59, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia is not a place for your wishes to come true. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 03:01, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Stop harassing me and Sammi over this. Nathan Obral • he/him/🦝 • t • c • 02:22, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of WKMG-TV is under review

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Your good article nomination of the article WKMG-TV is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of It is a wonderful world -- It is a wonderful world (talk) 22:22, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of WSKG-TV has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article WSKG-TV has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Pi.1415926535 -- Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:03, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of WKMG-TV has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article WKMG-TV has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of It is a wonderful world -- It is a wonderful world (talk) 11:21, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

Congratulations: what an amazing flow of GAs since I looked last! - My story today is for a composer's 70th birthday, and expect a centenary tomorrow ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:05, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I actually need to send up my next batch of pages... Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:37, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article Gazette, Issue 4

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Issue 4, 24 October 2025
News
Current statistics
  • Number of GAs: 42,811 (+141)
  • Number of nominations: 824 (–41)
  • GAs for reassessment: 55 (–1)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:51, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Wyoming PBS

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On 28 October 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wyoming PBS, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Wyoming PBS is only available to satellite-television customers in five of the state's twenty-three counties? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wyoming PBS. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Wyoming PBS), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

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Hello, Sammi Brie. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

Editing from a temporary account
  • When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
  • All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
  • A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
  • As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
    • There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
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Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WNWE has launched

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According to RabbitEars (https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=776263#station), WNWE seemed to have been launched, but I don't know if its own station, or as an ATSC station. OWaunTon (talk) 14:59, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@OWaunTon I really don't know where this should go right now other than List of television stations in Wisconsin. The L2C was filed in early September per Jon Ellis. They've built it out as a very low-power facility. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:31, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of WKMG-TV

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Hello! Your submission of WKMG-TV at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! ArionStar (talk) 12:16, 1 November 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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The WikiCup

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Awarded to Sammi Brie for being one of the eight finalists in the 2025 WikiCup.

– Epicgenius (talk) 23:36, 1 November 2025 (UTC) [reply]

story · music · places

Congratulations to this great achievement! - Today I remember a singer who impressed me on stage. - You are invited to the peer review after FAC, - in a poll, you could simply mark yes or no for the four open questions. It's an experiment. The piece has its 300th anniversary on Christmas Day, and should be as good as possible by then. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:59, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have three biographies on the main page today, miss a fourth one, nominated a fifth, that means little time for other matters. My places now include La Scala, - see music, Verdi three times, and twice in my story! - I have been persuaded to try GA reviewing, - do you have one open that would fit a newcomer? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:03, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I need to nominate a batch, @Gerda Arendt, so I will do this. Go to User:Sammi Brie/Pipeline and pick out a page and I will nominate it. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:08, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Good idea, I hope to get to it soon. - Look, today's image, - she "portrayed" herself with her husband at the end of the table, - would have been good for Thanksgiving ;) - I opened the FAC again, - feedback welcome. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:34, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:GARC invitation

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I am posting this message because you have recently participated in a good article review circle and currently have unreviewed articles at WP:GAN. As you know, GARC is an excellent way to get a GAN reviewed more quickly and help reduce the backlog. I hope you will consider participating again: feel free to ping me if there are any questions or concerns. Happy editing! Z1720 (talk) 18:26, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WHOI: Thank You!

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Thank you very much, Sammi, for the incredible spade work you've done on the channel. I've turned it over in my mind for a few days, but I finally got a GeneaologyBank account and started looking through articles on the deintermixture side of the equation, starting with the genesis and the conclusion. What sealed the decision to get the account was the fact that there was only one vague blurb in Broadcasting on WIRL losing the channel 25 CP in 1963, leaving it open for WEEK-TV to snap up the channel months later; I have the results here and will update WEEK-TV's page shortly. Something will come of this digging soon; I will update you with more.[1][2][3][4] Gatorman (talk) 05:05, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ "FCC Asked to Refuse VHF Here". The Peoria Journal. September 23, 1954. p. B-10.
  2. ^ "Channel 8 Plea Rejected by FCC". The Peoria Journal. November 4, 1954. p. D-12.
  3. ^ "FCC Cancels WIRL's Permit for Channel 25 TV Station". The Peoria Journal-Star. June 13, 1963. p. A-14.
  4. ^ "Channel 43 Switch to 25 OK'd". The Peoria Journal-Star. September 1, 1963. p. A-10.

Gatorman (talk) 05:05, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Peoria paper was essential to doing 19, @Gatorman. Broadcasting has a wrong start date for WTVH/19 (October 12), which does not match with anything said in the Peoria papers. In fact, we had October 20 as the listed start date until I rewrote this article. WHOI was an interesting station. Doug Quick identified shortcomings in its early history, but they were not insurmountable. What was not was the IBEW strike in 1982–83, which Quick's summary fails to mention, and the 20-plus years of just increasingly meh owners that followed. Forward ran good stations; KCAU-TV was a market leader for all but the last few years of the company's ownership, for instance. (If you're wondering, KCAU and WRAU were almost certainly named as callbacks to WSAU in Wausau, the company's home office.) But the 80s saw many of them get lapped in various ways. The fact that Gray passed on this station in 2002 speaks volumes.
Are you on WP:DISCORD? We should really talk. As you can tell, there are many, many articles on broadcasting that need improvement. GenealogyBank users are extremely rare and can work on a number of markets that aren't in Newspapers.com or are missing key newspapers there, with highlights being Denver, New Orleans (Newspapers.com's Times-Picayune ends in 1977), Milwaukee... Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 05:24, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes; I am joeygatorman there. Please hit me up sometime!
P.S. While on the subject of Forward's call signs, we also have WKAU—found in a brochure in the middle of Quick's page—but it was probably a sheer coincidence they were licensed to Kaukauna, Wisconsin, serving the Green Bay–Fox Cities region. Gatorman (talk) 05:32, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

TV channel infobox

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Hello👋🏼. Please see Template talk:Infobox television channel#'Online' field. Kllom (talk) 17:25, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

October 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

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The Premium Reviewer Barnstar
This award is given to Sammi Brie for accumulating at least 20 points in the October 2025 GAN Backlog Drive. Your dedicated reviews contributed to the successful reduction of the backlog and helped improve the quality of articles. Here's our token of appreciation. Thank you for your time and efforts, and hopefully we'll see you soon again! Fade258 (talk) 02:04, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article Gazette, Issue 5

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Discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents § User:R2025kt

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 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents § User:R2025kt. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 10:58, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of KSWB-TV is under review

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Your nomination of KSWB-TV is on hold

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hello

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Hello! (XLs6 (talk) 17:38, 16 November 2025 (UTC))[reply]

Hi @XLs6, might I ask what this is about? Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:39, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Teach me how to create an article step by step! (XLs6 (talk) 02:06, 17 November 2025 (UTC))[reply]
@XLs6 First off, it helps to have a topic that you enjoy writing about and is notable. What brings you to the English Wikipedia? Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 02:11, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I like geography! (XLs6 (talk) 07:59, 17 November 2025 (UTC))[reply]

Your nomination of WJZY is under review

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Proposed deletion of Arizona Agribusiness and Equine Center

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DYK for WYFF

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On 21 November 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article WYFF, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a South Carolina TV station began broadcasting just in time to ring in the New Year? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/WYFF. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, WYFF), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

Dclemens1971 (talk) 00:03, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

KAAL

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I appreciate that; I was more concerned about the TJMaxx link-out more than anything else so I wanted to neutralize that and search later to make sure it was indeed the "TJMaxx Shopping Center" just because of how generic it was, or if it was still officially known as that by the mall's manager (when WP:RETAIL and WP:TV crossover in an article, it's like two interest areas that mix otherwise like oil and water 😐). Nathannah • 📮 00:24, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

All indications are that the TJ Maxx Plaza name came about before I was even born, so... Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 00:45, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article Gazette, Issue 6

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Issue 6, 21 November 2025
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A barnstar for you!

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The Original Barnstar
... is that right? 10 months in a row? With your help, the WikiProject's top 5000 list of short descriptions has been cleared for November 2025, an especially huge milestone when the list used to "only" be 3000 articles per month! Well done. Your work has made Wikipedia better :-). LR.127 (talk) 19:07, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wow @LR.127 I didn't even realize it had become a top 5000 this month! Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 19:14, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, it's been requested for a while, and it was officially changed in the middle of September. Cheers :-) LR.127 (talk) 19:17, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Re: DWPM and DZMM

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Around a week ago, I stumbled upon a discussion regarding merging DZMM to DWPM. I was one of the two editors who voted to "selective merge" and I explained why merging all info from May 29, 2025 onwards from DZMM to DWPM as per naming conventions. I felt that the discussion is going nowhere since it has been there for a few months and only 5 editors (including me) participated. Should I boldly move the said contents or just wait for the discussion to close? Superastig (talk) 22:24, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYCM

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Another one to look at at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DYCM. Nathannah • 📮 01:13, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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