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)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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Block for recreating User talk:Yamla/talk (they're a proxy). Myrealnamm (💬pros · ✏️cons) 15:10, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for 72 hours. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:12, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just a heads-up, wanted you to be aware of a post that struck me as somewhat personal... Oh and now I see they're off to the races. Would revert the latest but considering their already aggressively snarky tone have decided to not poke the bear. - Shearonink (talk) 02:04, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Shearonink, I have blocked them indefinitely. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:13, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is a factual situation outlined in numerous books. How can it not be included in his political career? The public also deserves to see his voting record, is that not factual as well? I think this needs to be made public if the blocking continues. ArnoldPalmer44 (talk) 15:20, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ArnoldPalmer44, that he worked for Edwards is already in the bio. What you're adding, attempting to call it a "scandal", is a WP:POV violation. The only Edwards "scandal" anyone knows is his extramarital affair. Not being named CoS because Elizabeth didn't like him is not a "scandal". – Muboshgu (talk) 15:29, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok then it’s adding context to not being named chief of staff and coming home to run for office. He was mentioned in several sources as this being why he came back to Raleigh. It’s factually correct and adds context. ArnoldPalmer44 (talk) 15:34, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not seeing any sources from an initial search of "Josh Stein" and "Elizabeth Edwards" other than to acknowledge that Stein worked on Edwards' 1998 campaign. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:29, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, just answer this for me. Is this a factual page on Josh Stein or his personal narrative? ArnoldPalmer44 (talk) 19:39, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When you answer this for me: what is factual about a John Edwards 1998 US Senate campaign scandal[1] or that Josh Stein was exposed[2]? That's your personal narrative. And what isn't factual about my edit? – Muboshgu (talk) 19:53, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I’m asking a simple question not related to that issue. ArnoldPalmer44 (talk) 19:56, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a factual page. Calling anything regarding Edwards' election to the U.S. Senate a "scandal" is not factual. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:40, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Protect it to indef-admin-create-only as well? Myrealnamm (💬pros · ✏️cons) 15:51, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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