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On 11 July 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chenqiao mutiny, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that according to the official history of the Song dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin's soldiers stormed his bedroom and proclaimed him emperor, to his surprise? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chenqiao Mutiny. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Chenqiao mutiny), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 29 August 2024. 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/August 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/August 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there by user:JennyOz, who assists the coordinators by reviewing the blurbs, or by others. 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! Gog the Mild (talk) 15:40, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, Gog-- and thanks to @JennyOz too for the great blurb. I confirm that the article needs no amendments at this point. Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 21:57, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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On 28 August 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Liebfrauenkirche, Zurich, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Liebfrauenkirche (pictured), a Catholic church in Zurich, was designed with Italian influences to distinguish it from churches of other denominations? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Liebfrauenkirche, Zurich. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Liebfrauenkirche, Zurich), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 00:02, 28 August 2024 (UTC) [reply]

story · music · places

Thank you for the article, enriching the Main page! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:29, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And thank you for reviewing it and helping to bring it to the Main page! Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 22:03, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Cross Temple, Fangshan, "about the only surviving site of the Church of the East in China. I think I have exhausted the research material I can find to ensure it is comprehensive and well-researched, and I am pretty sure the images involved are in the public domain, either because they are user contributions from the Commons, or because they were published before 1928."! I missed the FAC. - My story today is a 2019 hook, about a concert I heard and you can watch, and if you look at my talk today, there's a similar concert this year that you can watch, and both feature different people, but the same composer: Antonín Dvořák. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:49, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Much appreciated, Gerda! I love Dvořák a lot. I'll certainly listen to his Stabat Mater later today. And no worries for missing the FAC-- I hope I can make another FAC next year. It's a hard process, as you surely know. Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 13:09, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I know, surely, have a FAC open which will probably best archived and then I can turn to the next ;) I'm in the process of making Alexander Goehr's article decent enough for the Main page which is hard enough, - third day today, - at least we have an obit now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:17, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For your exceptional work on Cross Temple, Fangshan, I award you this barnstar! ~ Pbritti (talk) 23:07, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you–and I hope you emerged unscathed from the land of John Knox! Never knew that this star existed, reminds me of the lines...

O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do.

They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 01:55, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
• Arconning (submissions) with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews;
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on Genghis Khan and 2 good articles; and
• BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Susanna Hoffs, 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. 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 for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

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