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The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
• Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
• Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

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I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Welcome, welcome, welcome Ealdgyth! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:46, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

Greetings, can I ask for a bit of help with assessing certain popcultural sources in this FAC? I am wondering if they meet the "high-quality" prong. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:56, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
19		Battle of Maxen (talk)	Add sources
39		Battle of Hastenbeck (talk)	Add sources
90		Timeline of the Muslim presence in the Iberian Peninsula (talk)	Add sources
95		Byzantine–Bulgarian wars (talk)	Add sources
18		Battle of Wilhelmsthal (talk)	Add sources
61		Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria (talk)	Add sources
341		Prithvi Narayan Shah (talk)	Cleanup
13		Vamsharaj Pande (talk)	Cleanup
687		Hussar (talk)	Cleanup
40		History of Toulouse (talk)	Expand
36		Íñigo Arista (talk)	Expand
1,500		Thoroughbred (talk)	Expand
538		Hari Singh Nalwa (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
54		Battle of Ongal (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
265		Anglo-Nepalese War (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11		This Is Us (Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris song) (talk)	Merge
6		Congregation Beth Israel (Austin, Texas) (talk)	Merge
8		Paddington Ward (talk)	Merge
199		Invasions of the British Isles (talk)	Wikify
711		Lexington (horse) (talk)	Wikify
104		Siege of Pensacola (talk)	Wikify
2		Alfred Jansson (talk)	Orphan
2		Anfila (talk)	Orphan
7		CYSNERGY (talk)	Orphan
83		Buhid script (talk)	Stub
9		Battle of Guadalacete (talk)	Stub
8		Battle of Lutterberg (1758) (talk)	Stub
24		Basahan (talk)	Stub
33		Al-Mundhir of Córdoba (talk)	Stub
17		Siege of Lahore (1761) (talk)	Stub

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8		Jeffrey W. Hayzlett (talk)	Add sources
48		Capture of Savannah (talk)	Add sources
163		Battle of Germantown (talk)	Add sources
39		Foreign relations of the Arab League (talk)	Add sources
10		2nd New Jersey Regiment (talk)	Add sources
639		Otto the Great (talk)	Add sources
14		American colonial marines (talk)	Cleanup
40		Georgia in the American Revolution (talk)	Cleanup
264		Muslim Sicily (talk)	Cleanup
44		Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War after Saratoga (talk)	Expand
95		Drums Along the Mohawk (talk)	Expand
35		History of Baton Rouge, Louisiana (talk)	Expand
24		Generation P (film) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
21		Bloody Bill Cunningham (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
27		David III of Tao (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
26		Sycamore Shoals (talk)	Merge
21		Depeche Mode videography (talk)	Merge
2		Listed buildings in Castley (talk)	Merge
11		14th Continental Regiment (talk)	Wikify
4		George Wait Babcock (talk)	Wikify
27		Battle of Fort Charlotte (talk)	Wikify
1		Ash Shanin (talk)	Orphan
3		Aurangzebpur (talk)	Orphan
2		Charles Belle (talk)	Orphan
9		Fort New Richmond (talk)	Stub
94		Bulcsú (chieftain) (talk)	Stub
10		Marlin Skiles (talk)	Stub
5		Albert Voorhies (talk)	Stub
2		John Bogas (talk)	Stub
17		Siege of Dyrrhachium (1107–1108) (talk)	Stub

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