User talk:GiftedIceCream

The first round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As some of you may have noticed, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP. This point increase has been retroactively applied to all good article reviews for which competitors have claimed points in this round. Peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

Round 1 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and the top 16 contestants all scored more than 300 round points. The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

• Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1,467 round points, largely gained from 1 featured article, 5 featured lists, 15 good articles, and 42 FAC and GAN reviews;
• Olliefant (submissions) with 1,246 round points, largely from 4 featured lists, 9 good articles, 2 featured topic articles, 4 did you know articles, and 75 FAC and GAN reviews;
• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,095 round points, largely from 3 featured articles, 6 good articles, and 5 did you know articles;
• MCE89 (submissions) with 848 round points, largely from 1 featured article, 8 good articles, 1 did you know article, and 32 FAC and GAN reviews; and
• Rollinginhisgrave (submissions) with 838 round points, largely from 1 featured article, 8 good articles, 1 did you know article, and 14 FAC, GAN, and peer reviews.

The full scores for round 1 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 7 featured articles, 16 featured lists, 2 featured-topic articles, 168 good articles, 13 good-topic articles and more than 50 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 14 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 700 reviews. The tournament points table will be updated within the next few days.

Remember that any content promoted after 26 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:56, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello! Your submission of Hurricane Hone 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! TarnishedPath^talk 09:59, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello, GiftedIceCream. You have new messages at Template:Did you know nominations/Hurricane Hone.
Message added 02:26, 5 March 2026 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:26, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi. I'm curious about the reasoning behind this edit. Are you a clerk? Uhoj (talk) 04:55, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi, the correct format for prelim statements is"Statement by X". I was making a bold edit by fixing the heading. GiftedIceCream 05:18, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Re: this edit, the party posted a statement saying they were busy IRL for the next week or so. Valereee (talk) 15:48, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Yeah but they were still actively editing today and yesterday. GiftedIceCream 16:48, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Workers there undoubtedly are fully aware and absolutely are fully capable of dealing with a party who seems to be blowing them off. FWIW, unless you actually have something valuable to add because you have experience in the topic/with one or more of the parties, an ArbCom case is not a great place to stick one's nose in. Valereee (talk) 17:09, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Likely why I'm not editing that much anymore.GiftedIceCream 18:52, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I heard you wanna join HHW soon. 🌀 Mastercane F X 🌀 🌀 Talk Page! 🌀 12:25, 18 March 2026 (UTC)