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I'm sorry but I do not see consensus on content of the FD article. There seems to be support for 1, 2 and 3/5 and some of the support for 1 is conditional on the article being renamed Floppy disk (traditional) or some such variant. I could add up the numbers if you want. Another issue in declaring consensus is the absence of requirement for WP:Preserve - the article is well referenced for all four generations of FDs, changing it into an article about traditional floppy disks without preserving the material on high-capacity FDs would violate this policy. In the absence of consensus shouldn't the content remain the status quo. On the other hand, if you still feel there is a consensus shouldn't your closing remarks deal with renaming and preserving? Tom94022 (talk) 17:46, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

@Tom94022: There is a clear consensus in that discussion, and it does not favor the approach you supported. Should you want to challenge my close, I'd invite you to follow WP:CLOSECHALLENGE. To answer your points:

1. A rename was a barely discussed or supported option, so it shouldn't be a surprise that I didn't find consensus for that.
2. PRESERVE does not require us to preserve all referenced content ever added to Wikipedia, nor is the RfC's closure preventing you from preserving relevant text by moving it to Floppy disk variants with proper attribution. You could also attempt to make a case that the failed attempt to create a market for high-capacity floppy disks is a notable topic worthy of a separate Wikipedia article. (I did consider and write a draft that included the latter suggestion in my close, but in the end I felt that would be stretching my role as a closer too far by reading too much between the lines.) Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 19:33, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps a closer look at the statistics may change your mind:

More information Editor, Traditional FD #1 ...

Editor	Traditional FD #1	Traditional FD + Odd sizes #2	FD #3 or #5"	Comment
Locke Cole	1			Soft support #2
Celjski Grad	1
ButlerBlog	1
WhatamIdoing	1	1
Tom94022			1	Support #1 if renamed
FaviFake	1
-Snævar		1
Ethmostigmus			1
Pavlor			1
Rich Farmbrough			1
SnowFire	1	1
IndrasBet	1		1
TiggerJay	1			Weak support #2
LCU ActivelyDisinterested			1
MrOllie	1
Markbassett		1		1 could be retitled
Total	9	4	6

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Note that two of the editors who supported #2 did not support #1 arguably making it 8 editors not in favor of #1 versus 9 editors in favor, not exactly consensus. I would add that many of the reasons for #1 were for readers to not be surprised by the content - the point of an encyclopedia is to learn things, isn't it? Fifty years from now when no one knows what is a floppy disk, shouldn't someone coming to this article find the entire history of FDs including its attempted 4^th, high-capacity generation? There are lots of reliable sources for the inclusion - none for exclusion. Tom94022 (talk) 20:56, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

RfC consensus comes from the strength of the arguments made, not the quantity at which they are repeated. This is WP:DETCON 101 stuff. Furthermore, your arguments around preserving and surprising are effectively asking me to make a supervote in a re-determination of the RfC consensus. I decline to do so. Appealing via WP:CLOSECHALLENGE is available. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 21:24, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

May I suggest that this is a case of WP:NOCON and you are in effect casting a supervote by preferring the "quality" the arguments in favor of #1 over those of #3/5? To summarize the arguments:

• #1 Traditional floppy disk: No surprise; high-capacity floppy disks are not currently considered floppy disks
• #3/5 Floppy disk: Two highly reliable sources, Mee and Porter so categorize high-capacity floppy disks; no reliable source for "traditional" floppy disk.

This recent edit to the FD article points out the problem with the "consensus" you endorsed. The Burroughs 8-inch "Super Minidisk" is IMO a "variant" and not a "traditional" FD but since there is no definition of a "traditional" it becomes a matter of opinion. As it turns out this may be a moot point since so far no editor has deemed it necessary to remove any material from the article so I probably won't bother to WP:CLOSECHALLENGE. Tom94022 (talk) 17:29, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

You can suggest that, whether or not it's accurate. :-) As I said above, part of a closer's job is to weigh the strength of the arguments presented, as determining consensus is not the same thing as counting votes. See Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion. I imagine someone will eventually get around to updating the article to align it with the consensus decision as determined through that RfC. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 20:44, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Well then, I guess I will have to pursue an appeal via WP:CLOSECHALLENGE. Would you mind sharing what you found strong about the various arguments in favor of option #1 "Traditional" floppy disk? If one takes literally the arguments you found strong then the article will not have any material on high-capacity floppy disks or other variant floppy disks, only "traditional" floppy disk. It is undisputed that there is no reliable source for such a limitation so this so-call consensus if "viewed through the lens of Wikipedia policy" might be a local consensus violating the policy that information on Wikipedia must be verifiable. My positions are that there was no consensus, that the strongest arguments favor the current article and a literal implementation of the so-called consensus would violate Wikipedia policy. Comments? Tom94022 (talk) 21:31, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

I've said my piece. Please ask for a close review. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 21:43, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

OK, in process and will post in a week or so. Thanks for the dialog. Tom94022 (talk) 22:10, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

@Tom94022 you were informed about WP:CLOSECHALLENGE nearly three weeks ago. You need to make your challenge immediately or you need to stop wasting our time by stonewalling the process with indefinite deadlines like a week or so. If I don't see such a challenge from you by this time tomorrow I will begin editing floppy disk to reflect the consensus reached. —Locke Cole • t • c • b 23:07, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

@Locke Cole According to WP:CLOSECHALLENGEAfter discussing the matter with the closing editor, you may request review at the Administrators' noticeboard.. The clock started yesterday. Your deadline is meaningless. Tom94022 (talk) 19:27, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

There is no clock; the RfC consensus can be enacted at any time. If the close review results in an overturn, the relevant edits would of course be reverted. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 19:53, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi, a brief courtesy note that following your guideance I have submitted a procedural review request at the ANI regarding the RfC closure. I will be placing the required notice on the involved editor’s talk page shortly. I am also holding off notifying article talk pages to allow uninvolved administrators to review first. Thank you again for your time and attention. Tom94022 (talk) 18:44, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

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Horse Eye's Back seems to have come out of retirement to beat their drum about sources in highway articles and it's just getting way more tendentious and circuitous than before. Do you feel an ANI is needed? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 04:21, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

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Here you go: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Bad-faith_edits_from_Horse_Eye's_Back_(talk_·_contribs)..._again Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:31, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

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See; User contributions for ~2025-38677-06 - Wikipedia LeChatiliers Pupper (talk) 19:24, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for flagging! That looks like the same sock, given the infobox edits, but they're innocuous enough that I don't think I have a total justification to unilaterally DUCK the temp account. I'll keep an eye on those contribs for a few days. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 20:50, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

NP if I had concerns about the edits in particular, in one article language was subtly changed such that its suggestive that prisoners were in some way combatants (calling them senderistas) - I find this very problematic

- numbers of casualties were also changed to those that disagreed with the text of the article imo just vandalism

- the removal of the Alan Garcia series is probably also just vandalism

given the history of the account and observations i have made, edit summaries often dont exist, if they are given they dont correspond to whats actually done

often many small changes eg pixel changes, formatting etc are made alongside subtle but important changes in terminology eg senderistas vs prisoners

senderistas literally means hiker but its in most cases applied to fighters of the group.

CHAPTER TWO. Peru's Sendero Luminoso Rebellion: Origins a...

Peru's Sendero Luminoso: The Shining Path Beckons on JSTOR LeChatiliers Pupper (talk) 21:16, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

We're in agreement here! I'm just being cautious with the block hammer (great power, great responsibility, etc., etc.), and I suspect that they've already hopped IPs again. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 05:19, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Canto Grande massacre - Wikipedia

see this rev, then minor changes were made with a second IP address, looks like you are right with the IP hopping

User contributions for ~2025-38860-98 - Wikipedia

both make just one contribution then are unused idk what can really be done tbqh LeChatiliers Pupper (talk) 22:58, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Renewed partnerships
• Spotlight: Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team – 12:43, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

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"Any accidental cross-pollination between the two accounts, such as forgetting to log out, etc"

One way to make sure you can always tell which account you're using is to set your preferences so that the two accounts have different skins. My logged-in UI is very visibly different from logged-out.

(Thank you re: the cat picture thing.) DS (talk) 20:54, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion! Changing the entire skin is an easier solution than what I did have, which was to make my entire left sidebar grey-colored when logged into my WMF account. It's been years since I last confused the two accounts, but at one points it felt like my brain would occasionally shut off (or something) and look past the grey. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 00:09, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

DragonflySixtyseven, forgot to ping. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 00:09, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Regarding this had been discussed in 2015. Maybe you didn't see it on the talkpage. ☆ Bri (talk) 04:49, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

@Bri: Thanks! As you surmised, I had not seen that discussion (or if I did, it was ten years ago). It looks like that involved a hatnote, which was separately removed by Theleekycauldron last month. I made that edit you linked because the see also section isn't a place for a self-referential link, especially one that's already in the article. That's where my thought process stopped. :-) Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 05:49, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Oh, I see it's in the External links section now. That's fine. Agree your delete was good, it should not be linked twice. ☆ Bri (talk) 15:23, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2026).

Administrator changes

Vacant0

• Crisco 1492

• Deepfriedokra
• Hbdragon88
• Karl Dickman
• Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Daniel Quinlan

Vanamonde93

Mkdw

Oversight changes

Daniel Quinlan

Arbitration

• Due to the result of a recent motion, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2026 Steward elections started on 06 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC) and will end on 27 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process for current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Sita Ramam, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

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Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 05:34, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Hi Ed, congratulations on the various major life events noted on your Facebook over recent months! I hope everything is going really well for you and your family. Is it OK if I ask you a WMF-related question here? I'm going to be travelling to South Africa in June, and will visit the South African National Museum of Military History in Johannesburg. It's a government run museum and the South African government has better things to spend money on than military museums, and it appears to charge the equivalent of $A60 for a ticket with photography rights. Does the WMF have any funds available to reimburse costs like this? The coverage of the museum's collection at Commons is OK, but isn't extensive and is rather dated, especially as I understand that the museum has been recently refurbished and updated. Regards, Nick-D (talk) 23:53, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Hey Nick-D! Thanks very much. Life has indeed changed a wee bit. :-) I hope you're doing great as well!

I have a few quick thoughts, but I have to stress that grants are outside what I do for the WMF. I may be wrong, and/or if needed I'd be happy to convey questions to colleagues.

First off, I'd try Wikimedia Australia's grant program for volunteers. Looking at the documentation, I'm pretty sure they'd cover this? If they aren't game, perhaps the WMF WP:Resource support pilot would be an option. It's definitely aimed at getting resources for editors, and I wonder if they'd stretch that definition for a ticket to add material to Commons and Wikipedia. (I'll ask.) The regular WMF grants processes have minimums, so from what I understand I don't think they'd be able to support. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 02:59, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, this is helpful. Nick-D (talk) 03:11, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

@Nick-D: I checked on the resource pilot—this would indeed stretch that pilot's intent too far. If WMAU doesn't come through, let me know and I'll ask around for other options. :-) Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 15:51, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for checking. Nick-D (talk) 07:06, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello! This is Luiysia again. It was amazing seeing so many people come out for Wikipedia Day in January. For March, we will be hosting an edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month supporting Chicago woman writers.

Here is the official meetup page, where you can register for the online and in-person edit-a-thon.

The edit-a-thon will be lasting all of March online, during which time you can contribute via the program's dashboard. On March 24th, we will be meeting in-person at Skunk Cabbage Books, in the Logan Square neighborhood, at 6:30 PM.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:35, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

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) 14:57, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2026).

Administrator changes

• Brendanconway
• Calmer Waters
• Hut 8.5
• Joe Roe
• VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes

Ks0stm

Oversight changes

Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
• A request for comment is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 in favour of handling such redirects through RfD.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
• Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
• The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
• An Unreferenced articles backlog drive is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 73, January–February 2026

• Four new partnerships
• User survey thanks

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team – 12:06, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day! Hi The ed17! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 18:35, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for this reminder, DaniloDaysOfOurLives. 20 years! Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 19:40, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors Annual Report Our 2025 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Introduction Membership news and election results Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page Closing words – Your Guild coordinators To stop receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:36, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SchroCat. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SchroCat/Evidence. Please add your evidence by April 15, 2026 at 23:59 UTC, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SchroCat/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Party Guide/Introduction. For the Arbitration Committee, DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 10:36, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2026).

Administrator changes

• ARandomName123

• Biblioworm
• Causa sui
• Djsasso
• Espresso Addict
• Fenix down
• Firefangledfeathers
• GeneralNotability
• NawlinWiki
• Northamerica1000
• Smalljim

Checkuser changes

Giraffer

Oversight changes

Kj cheetham

Giraffer

Guideline and policy news

• The content of Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models has been updated following a request for comment. It now prohibits using LLMs to generate content, with exceptions for translation and copy-editing.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the GSCASTE extended-confirmed restriction in the Indian military history case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy has been amended accordingly.
• The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been closed.
• The arbitration case Maghreb has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.

Thanks for adding Wikifunctions to Template:Wikipedia's sister projects, but please edit it to correct a small typo with it being spelt Wikifuctions. Occono (talk) 10:39, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

@Occono: Well, that's embarrassing. Thanks for pointing out the issue. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 13:23, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Doyle's comment remains in his/her edit summary: weird, eh? I might have taken it a jocular, but it's a slightly hard stretch. I hope you and your partner are both doing well. Tony (talk) 08:16, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

@Tony1: Not just weird—a bit creepy! I don't know if you peeked at their contribs, but they edited your talk page as far back as last August. Congrats on attracting a fan club, I suppose. :-p Things are well (if tiring) and I hope it's all good for you as well! Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 15:21, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2026 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2025 coordinator election, incumbents Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and Wikieditor662 was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). December 2025 Blitz: 16 of the 31 editors who signed up for the December 2025 Copy Editing Blitz edited 116,064 words in 47 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. January Drive: 35 of the 55 editors who signed up for the January Backlog Elimination Drive edited 498,397 words in 183 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. February Blitz: 19 of the 23 editors who signed up for the February Copy Editing Blitz edited 83,969 words in 43 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. March Drive: 28 of the 48 editors who signed up for the March Backlog Elimination Drive edited 210,064 words in 87 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. April Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 12 to 18 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 09:10, 10 April 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 81 copyediting requests since 1 January 2026. The backlog of articles needing copyediting stands at 1,794 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wikieditor662. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Hello! Your submission of Gaming Historian 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! EvanTech10 (talk) 14:34, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:38, 15 April 2026 (UTC)