User talk:JacobTheRox/Archive 4

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article United Kingdom railway station categories is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Respectfully dissenting, Coleisforeditor (talk) 13:12, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Potters Bar Tunnel 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 TheNuggeteer -- TheNuggeteer (talk) 07:33, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Potters Bar Tunnel 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. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of TheNuggeteer -- TheNuggeteer (talk) 09:04, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

I inserted a reference here, which you then arbitrarily removed here. The removal of good citations is bad form IMHO; you asked for help, admittedly my input was small, but tell me why should I bother next time? The joy of all things (talk) 19:06, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Sorry that was a mistake; I have undone. It occurred because I was replacing the old paragraph with the new detailed one and didn't see the cite on the end of a line I thought still had a citation needed tag in the moment. Also please do remember to assume good faith in a situation like this :) JacobTheRox^{(talk | contributions)} 19:29, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

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I remember that just before it opened, a local charity offered guided walks over it. I'm not sure if this is worth a mention. I don't know what I've done with photos of back then. I'll try to find reference to the charity walk. Difficultly north (talk) Time, department skies 13:10, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Done, thank you for the help :) JacobTheRox^{(talk | contributions)} 15:36, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

I assume you meant to add your entries to this year's page: Wikipedia:The Core Contest/Entries. Thanks! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 10:04, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

My mistakes are so silly you can't make them up! Thank you for pointing this out. JacobTheRox^{(talk | contributions)} 10:07, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Copenhagen Tunnel 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 Crisco 1492 -- Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:22, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Copenhagen Tunnel 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 Crisco 1492 -- Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:42, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:28, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Copenhagen Tunnel 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. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Crisco 1492 -- Crisco 1492 (talk) 19:42, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

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Your good article nomination of the article Welwyn Tunnels 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 LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:51, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

On 12 April 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hashi Mohamed, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that British journalist and barrister Hashi Mohamed was a refugee from Somalia when he was aged nine? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hashi Mohamed. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hashi Mohamed), 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.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:04, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

The Core Contest has begun! You have until May 31 (23:59 UTC) to make eligible changes. Although you are most welcome (and encouraged) to continue working on the article, changes after May 31 will not be considered for rankings or prizes.

We are now about a week in, and it's worth sharing some issues we judges have noticed in the past:

• Understandability is extra important for big topics like these. Avoid jargon when possible; give context (and of course, citations), even for things that seem obvious; and always consider the age-old adage from Iridescent: "would a bright 14-year old with no prior knowledge of the topic understand this?"
• The source, the whole source, and nothing but the source. Instead of asking "what do I want to say in this article", ask yourself: "what do most high-quality, reliable and recent sources say about this topic?"
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• Plan, plan, plan! Make an outline, a draft TOC, or some kind of gameplan. Big articles are a different beast, and it's worth figuring out structural and logistical aspects early on.

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Your good article nomination of the article Hitchin Flyover 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 Jacksonvil -- Jacksonvil (talk) 03:02, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Hitchin Flyover 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 Jacksonvil -- Jacksonvil (talk) 11:02, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Hitchin Flyover 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. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jacksonvil -- Jacksonvil (talk) 23:42, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Welwyn Tunnels 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 LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna (talk) 12:26, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:31, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Your good article nomination of the article Welwyn Tunnels 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. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna (talk) 14:47, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

The second round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 April. As a reminder for contestants who just joined or are unaware of recent changes to our round-points system, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP. 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 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

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• MCE89 (submissions) with 1,333 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography
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The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 13 featured lists, 2 featured-topic articles, 106 good articles, 22 good-topic articles and more than 40 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 3 In the News articles, and they have conducted over 200 reviews. The tournament points table has been updated.

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On 2 May 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Potters Bar Tunnel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Thomas Brassey paid his workers with illegal tokens while building the Potters Bar Tunnel? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Potters Bar Tunnel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Potters Bar Tunnel), 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.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:03, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

The discussion phase of the May 2026 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:10, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi, JacobTheRox, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. In this edit on May 6, you added content to the lead of MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak that is incorrect. In particular, the first death on board was at first assumed to be by natural causes (he was elderly). Later, it was suspected, but never proved, to be from hantavirus.

As you know, the lead is a summary of article content, and per WP:LEADCITE it does not need to be separately cited because it summarizes content in the body that should already be cited to reliable sources. When adding uncited material to the lead, it puts an extra burden on us to make sure we are not misinterpreting something in the body. While it is quite natural to assume the man died of hantavirus, and very likely he did, we do not know that for sure, and the article doesn't say that, so neither should the lead, as it is unverified.

In addition, because this article touches on a biomedical topic, the even stricter principles of WP:MEDRS apply on sourcing of content, especially with things like cause of death. Going forward, please take extra care when adding content to the lead, especially when you are not citing the added content. Make sure everything you add complies strictly with WP:Verifiability and that it summarizes already sourced material in the body. When in doubt, add a citation to the lead as well, backing up your content. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 10:02, 14 May 2026 (UTC)