On 14 August 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Island, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that islands are home to 50 percent of land species at risk of extinction? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Island. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Island), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 4 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article River, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that rivers form up to 23% of international borders? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/River. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, River), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Hi @FijiAura: and welcome to Wikipedia. I apologize that I did not explain my revert to you earlier, that was my mistake.
A lot of new users approach existing articles by wanting to make their own contribution, adding facts and tidbits from the internet they think are important. Usually this lands on articles about popular subjects like Minecraft. Unfortunately, this results in articles attracting lots of mildly relevant non-notable information over time, and becoming very long. This is something we are trying to avoid.
When writing on Wikipedia, we want to give only the most relevant, highest-quality information to our readers. Your edit was sourced to blog posts. These are not considered high quality reliable sources, so we shouldn't add information from them in most cases.
One thing to understand when we are working on an article is our idea of what is important for people to know may not be what is represented in sources. So, news from Modrinth may be important to the community, but if it's not represented in news articles, academic sources, etc. then it is not relevant for the purposes of Wikipedia. We have to follow what major sources say because we are writing for a general audience. ForksForks (talk) 02:19, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Editor of the Week
Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)
I've nominated several promising newer editors recently, but can we put our hands together for ForksForks? This editor has yet to pass a thousand edits, but has already brought Island and River (both are level-three vital articles and Quarter Million Award–eligible) up to GA, which would be milestone achievements even for those of us with six-figure edit counts. They've made various copyedits and improvements to articles on a number of different subjects, and performed 11 GAN reviews to boot. I hope ForksForks will keep up the good work for many years to come, and I hope you'll join me in sharing your appreciation for them. This nomination was seconded by Vacant0 and QuicoleJR.
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This editor has yet to pass a thousand edits, but has already brought Island and River (both are level-three vital articles and Quarter Million Award–eligible) up to GA, which would be milestone achievements even for those of us with six-figure edit counts. They have made various copyedits and improvements to articles on a number of different subjects, and performed 11 GAN reviews to boot. I hope they will keep up the good work for many years to come.
