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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

  • United States Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
  • Germany FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
  • India Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
  • United States Ceranthor, India Numerounovedant, Minnesota Carbrera, Netherlands Farang Rak Tham and Romania Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, 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 it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2018)

Medieval world religions
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History of religions

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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2018)

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Ted Gärdestad

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Dear friend,

I am extremely sorry for the change of names in awards,plz forgive !e done by mistake 😢😢😢😢😢 NARUTO FAN (talk) 08:51, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2018)

A composite satellite image of the contiguous United States and surrounding areas
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Environment of the United States

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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2018)

The Grand Bazaar, held in Istanbul, is one of the oldest existing examples of a bazaar.
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20:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Can you assess this article?

Hello @K6ka:, can you assess Riksbyggen?, It is not assessed. Please? Newroderick895 (talk) 15:45, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

@Newroderick895: Sorry, I am completely unfamiliar with this topic and am probably not the best person to assess this article. Consider asking at WikiProject Sweden? —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 16:03, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

Hi

okay this might be the last time i talk to your talk page but would you help me right there Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants? im trying there as a participants can you see it, i didnt mean it as a spam please sorry newroderick895 (talk) 11:30, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

@Newroderick895: I can see the request you've filed there just fine. What seems to be the problem? —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 11:55, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
im afraid this can be a spam newroderick895 (talk) 12:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
and if that is the big deal would you like to accept it or decline @K6ka: newroderick895 (talk) 12:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
(edit conflict) @Newroderick895: No, it's not. On Wikipedia we have a specific definition of what spam is; your edit doesn't come anywhere close to that definition. Plus, it was filed in good faith and you weren't trying to harm Wikipedia, so all's well on your end. Even if your request gets declined, it won't be because it was spam.
As to who's going to approve or decline the request, I am not involved in AFC so I'm not in a position to approve or decline it. Be patient :) —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:04, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2018)

Camp Ciara is a military base and home to the Irish battalion in the UN Mission in Chad and the Central African Republic, MINURCAT.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

added 331dotCordless LarryClueBot NG
removed Gogo DodoPb30SebastiankesselSeicerSoLando

Guideline and policy news

  • Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
  • Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
  • The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
  • The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

  • A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2018)

Natural sponges for sale at a market in Crete
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Sponge (material)

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User page copies

Hi! I recently encountered a userpage, User:AlwiZaman30 that looked to be a copy of your userpage with little changes. Do you have any idea as to what the appropriate course of action would be here? And is this some sort of LTA? hiàn 03:23, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

@Hiàn: Majora just blanked their userpage. Their edits sure do look suspicious; new users don't exactly join Wikipedia copypasta-ing an admin's userpage and creating templates to replace MediaWiki system messages. I'm not in the business of sniffing out LTAs but I am inclined to believe that this is probably someone's sock. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 03:44, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2018)

Spanish transition to democracy – People waiting to vote in the 1977 general election in Toledo, Spain. The 1977 general election was the first free election since February 1936.
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A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Thank you for keeping up on those sock puppet accounts and for taking care of them so quickly - your actions make a big difference and I hope you know that it doesn't go unnoticed. For your diligence, I present you with this barnstar. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 01:07, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2018)

The Wikipedia Fried potatoes article is presently a Disambiguation page that has been identified as qualifying for a standalone article.
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The Signpost: 26 April 2018

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2018)

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Paul Anka

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WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

  • Scotland Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
  • Republic of Texas Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
  • India Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
  • Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
  • United States Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
  • San Francisco Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
  • South Carolina Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed ChochopkCoffeeGryffindorJimpKnowledge SeekerLankiveilPeridonRjd0060

Guideline and policy news

  • The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
  • A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

  • AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
  • When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
  • The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
  • There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2018)

The entrance of Kerobokan Prison
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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2018)

A view of the Sargasso art installation at the BCE Place for Luminato arts festival in 2011
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Arts festival

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Phab report

Following instructions at WP:AWB/FR, I'm trying to make a report about AWB. When I try to log-in at mediawiki, I seem to get directed to "make a new account" instead of being able to log-in with my global account/password. The instructions at AWB clearly say "You do not need to create another account there". Can you help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MB (talkcontribs) 21:27, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi MB. It's been a while since I registered for Phabricator but to my knowledge Phabricator accounts are connected to Wikimedia accounts via OAuth. I guess the instructions on that page are a little misleading; you don't have to *register* for an account (in that you don't need to come up with a new password or anything) but you do need to create an account on Phabricator in order to use it. When you log in to Phabricator, you will use your Wikimedia login to do so; the Phabricator account is linked to your Wikimedia login. To create a Phabricator account:
  1. Log in to your Wikimedia account (if you haven't already)
  2. Go to the Phabricator login page
  3. Click on the "Login or Register - MediaWiki" button
  4. You will be asked to approve connecting to your Wikimedia account. Click "Yes" or "OK".
  5. You should be able to create a Phabricator account; you can use any username (you can use your Wikimedia username if you want)
If you need more help you can see this page to see if your question is answered there. I'm not a Phabricator expert but this to my knowledge is how you register for Phabricator. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 01:01, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
OK, I had done all that but got confused at the last step of creating a Phabricator account because I was trying to use my global username MB and couldn't because that is in use at Phabricator. Since you confirmed I was doing it correctly, I went ahead and used MB_phab instead and now have an account there and was able to open a report. I didn't want to open an account under a different user name unless I really had to. Thanks for the help. MB 03:48, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
No worries; glad I could be of help! —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 02:38, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

22:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

This is for welcoming me so graciously to this platform! SidhantUnnithan (talk) 14:01, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Untitled

I've already changed the name and now I need to change it since it has the username I choose has similar, but how can I change it that my name and I don't have any other option.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Billionairebank (talkcontribs) 16:06, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

@Billionairebank: Sorry, I am afraid I do not understand your question. Could you please rephrase that? —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:13, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2018)

The Uzi is a weapon.
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Draft article in sandbox

Hi k6ka, thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia! I have a question...I submitted an article and now it's in my sandbox as a draft artcile. I can't use my sandbox to draft another article. It looks like this...

User:Skybabfp/sandbox From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < User:Skybabfp Redirect page

Draft:Whyte Horses From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.

Do I need to wait until the article is approved before I draft another article?

Any help appreciated. Thank you!

--Skybabfp (talk) 16:54, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi Skybabfp. The page you're referring to, User:Skybabfp/sandbox, is currently a redirect. You can access redirect pages either by going to the page and then clicking on the "(Redirected from <page name>)" link, or type "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAME_OF_PAGE?redirect=no" into the address bar (in this case, it would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Skybabfp/sandbox?redirect=no); this will allow you to go directly to the redirect page without being redirected. From there, you can click the Edit button and remove the redirect, and then you're free to reuse that page to draft another article. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 20:54, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
Wow, thank you so much k6ka, that is incredibly helpful; I really appreciate it! - Skybabfp (talk) 08:38, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 May 2018

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2018)

Henri Nestlé was a German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company as of 2014.
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171.79.25.175

171.79.25.175 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Could you disable this IP's talkpage access? Thanks. 179.216.241.140 (talk) 15:16, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

 Donek6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 15:20, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Bot flag

Hi k6ka, thanks for your reply here - I didn't catch it before it got archived. I've commented at VPT per your suggestion. Cheers,  — Scott talk 11:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed Al Ameer sonAliveFreeHappyCenariumLupoMichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
  • There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
  • It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

  • A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous


A barnstar for you!

The Canadian Barnstar
For your exceptional photos of Canadian transportation! -- Dane talk 05:01, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2018)

Richard Rohr OFM (born 1943, pictured at podium) is an American Franciscan friar ordained in 1970. He is a known inspirational speaker and has published numerous recorded talks and books.
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June 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2018 News

Welcome to the June 2018 GOCE newsletter, in which you will find Guild updates since the February edition. Progress continues to be made on the copyediting backlog, which has been reduced to 7 months and reached a new all-time low. Requests continue to be handled efficiently this year, with 272 completed by the end of May (an average completion time of 10.5 days). Fewer than 10% of these waited longer than 20 days, and the longest wait time was 29 days.

Wikipedia in general, and the Guild in particular, experienced a deep loss with the death on 20 March of Corinne. Corinne (a GOCE coordinator since 1 July 2016) was a tireless aide on the requests page, and her peerless copyediting is a part of innumerable GAs and FAs. Her good cheer, courtesy and tact are very much missed.

March drive: The goal was to remove June, July and August 2017 from our backlog and all February 2018 Requests (a total of 219 articles). This drive was an outstanding success, and by the end of the month all but eight of these articles were cleared. Of the 33 editors who signed up, 19 recorded 277 copy edits (425,758 words).

April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 15 through 21 April, focusing on Requests and the last eight articles tagged in August 2017. At the end of the week there were only 17 pending requests, with none older than 17 days. Of the nine editors who signed up, eight editors completed 22 copy edits (62,412 words).

May drive: We set out to remove September, October and November 2017 from our backlog and all April 2018 Requests (a total of 298 articles). There was great success this month with the backlog more than halved from 1,449 articles at the beginning of the month to a record low of 716 articles. Officially, of the 20 who signed up, 15 editors recorded 151 copy edits (248,813 words).

Coordinator elections: It's election time again. Nominations for Guild coordinators (who will serve a six-month term for the second half of 2018) have begun, and will close at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible, and self-nominations are encouraged. Voting will take place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June.

June blitz: Stay tuned for this one-week copy-editing blitz, which will take place in mid-June.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Corinne, Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tdslk.

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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2018)

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Xenophobia

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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2018)

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Civil ceremony

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A kitten for you!

Nice to meet you!

Setkva357 (talk) 17:24, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2018)

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Matthew Feeman, builds a fire to help combat frostbite and hypothermia during a survival, evasion, resistance and escape exercise in Alaska. Note that there is a draft for the Survival page located at Draft:Survival.
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The Signpost: 29 June 2018

This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2018)

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Popular culture

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WikiCup 2018 July newsletter

The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  • South Carolina Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
  • Scotland Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
  • Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

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