User:Cremastra/contest

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 featured article status (120 pts)
  • Featured topic: +20 pts per article which you nominated, including co-nominations
• Raising an article to 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 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.

Bonus points 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 arthropods, 9 articles about molluscs, 2 articles about sponges, and 1 article about echinoderms, 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.