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The '''2025 Invertebrate Cup''' is, pending a better name, a competition open to all Wikipedians to improve articles about [[invertebrates]] – which includes everything from [[annelids]] to [[zygoptera]]. The competition starts on August 1st and will conclude on September 15th, at midnight UTC.

==Points can be earned by...==
*Raising an article to [[WP:FA|featured article]] status (120 pts)
**Featured topic: +20 pts per article which you nominated, including co-nominations
*Raising an article to [[WP:GA|good article]] status (25 pts)
**Good topic: +5 pts per article which you nominated, including co-nominations
*De-stubbing an article (5 pts)
**We follow the same definition of "destubbing" as [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The European Destubathon|The European Destubathon]]: "all you have to do is ensure it is minimum 1.5 kB (1500 characters) of readable prose (excluding infoboxes, references, markup, lists and categories) in total and reasonably well-written, though if there is an abundance of information try to surpass the requirement comfortably." [[Wikipedia:Prosesize]] is a useful tool for calculating this.

''Article creation by itself does not earn points.'' The goal of this competition is to expand and enrich.

<big>''Bonus points''</big> are also available: to encourage contributions to all groups of invertebrates:
*5 bonus points are awarded at the end of the competition per [[phylum]] improved.
**For example, if Jane improves 3 articles about [[arthropod]]s, 9 articles about [[mollusc]]s, 2 articles about [[sponge]]s, and 1 article about [[echinoderm]]s, Jane earns 20 bonus points (5×4).
 
==What's included?==
Articles covered by this competition are:
*Articles of individual invertebrate [[taxa]]
**e.g. ''[[Peripatopsis overbergiensis]]'', ''[[Chalcosoma]]'', ''[[Sepiidae]]''
*Articles about invertebrate-specific anatomy, behaviour, and other topics
**e.g. [[tube feet]], [[insect biodiversity]], [[nuptial flight]]
***This importantly does '''not''' include topics which are not invertebrate-specific. For example, [[r/K selection theory]] applies to invertebrates... but lots of other things as well.
*Articles about individual invertebrates
**e.g. [[Inky (octopus)]]

Articles '''not''' included which some editors might expect to be included:
*Articles about individual biologists
**e.g. [[James Wood-Mason]]
*Articles about conservation areas, aquaria, and museums, even if dedicated primarily to invertebrates; general and specific articles included.
**e.g. [[Senckenberg German Entomological Institute]], [[insectarium]]

The goal is to '''improve articles about the invertebrates themselves''', not articles about the ''study'', etc. of invertebrates. Use this as a benchmark if you're unsure if an article qualifies.