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Alphabet: Create (or expand from redirect) an article beginning with every letter of the alphabet (verbatim title or default sort). Bonus for getting each digit 0–9 too.
Phoenix: Recreate an article that has been deleted; bring a delisted good article back to good article status; and bring a former featured article back to featured article status.
Translation: Create an article on the English Wikipedia that does not exist in any other language edition and is later translated into five other languages. Bonus for ten languages.
Animal, vegetable, mineral: Receive a DYK credit for three articles, one in the category of animal, one in the category of vegetable and one in the category of mineral. (For instance, horse, VeggieTales and Isabella Karle would be such a set.)
Chef: Get an article about a dish and articles containing three of its ingredients in the title to good article status. (For instance, with the dish BLT, qualifying articles include Bacon's Rebellion, Lettuce club and Tomato Kaji.)
Explorer: Create an article about a populated place in each of the 30 climates of the Köppen climate classification. (Formerly populated places and research stations are permitted).
Marathon: Get two articles about places to good article status such that the shortest distance between them is the length of a marathon (26.2 miles (42.2 km), within one mile).
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