Wikipedia:Triple Crown

The Triple Crown is an award that honours outstanding contributions to Wikipedia, and is given to users who achieve three specific milestones throughout their time as a Wikipedia editor. Higher tiers of the award are available for users who achieve multiple sets of Triple Crowns, and several special and WikiProject-focused Triple Crowns are also awarded. To be eligible for a Triple Crown, you must satisfy all of the following: Be a major contributor to an article that gets highlighted at "Did you know". Be a major contributor to a good article or good topic. Be a major contributor to a piece of featured content. Any editor can nominate themselves or others. For the purpose of these awards, a "major contributor" should have substantially written, referenced or overhauled an article. Copyediting, formatting changes or nominating for the good or featured processes is not sufficient in itself. An authorship of 25% or higher than any other editor, as shown by XTools Edit Counter (example), is evidence of this. A single article can count for all three categories, if the editor was a major contributor at the time of its appearance at DYK, and both its good and featured promotions. Becoming a major contributor to an article after its promotion will not qualify, unless the work helped prevent the article from losing its good or featured status, such as edits done to address concerns during a featured article review. A "major contributor" to a topic needs to have been a major contributor to at least half of the topic's content; for featured topics they need to have been a major contributor to at least two featured articles within it as well. A topic counts as an additional good or featured item, even if all the individual content within it has already been counted separately for the award. Any type of featured content counts toward a Triple Crown. Editors may mix and match different types of featured material when requesting the Imperial Triple Crown Jewels and beyond. For featured pictures, a nominator who is not the original uploader may qualify if they did other significant work that was needed for the picture to become featured, such as image cleanup or description research. Please note that Triple Crowns are awarded in sets. This means that an editor who earned twelve featured pictures, twenty "Did you know" credits, and two good articles will only be eligible for two standard Triple Crowns. Please select submissions accordingly, and thank you for helping Wikipedia.

Nominations

To nominate yourself or another editor for a new Triple Crown or an upgrade, please see:

• Wikipedia:Triple Crown/Nominations.

Standard Triple Crowns

	Standard Triple Crown qualifies once in each category	435 winners
	Imperial Triple Crown Jewels qualifies for 2–4 standard triple crowns	272 winners
	Imperial Napoleonic Triple Crown qualifies for 5–14 standard triple crowns	127 winners
	Alexander the Great Edition Triple Laurel Crown qualifies for 15–39 standard triple crowns	50 winners
	Genghis Khan Edition Conquest of the Wiki World Triple Crown qualifies for 40 or more standard triple crowns	11 winners
	Marco Polo Centurion Triple Crown qualifies for 100 or more standard triple crowns	3 winners
	Ultimate Triple Crown qualifies for 250 or more standard triple crowns	0 winners

Special Triple Crowns

	Universal Triple Crown qualifies for pieces of content that reach featured status on three or more Wikipedias. Only Wikipedias with an established featured content process are eligible. Wikimedia Commons is eligible for featured pictures. Only users who are significant contributors to all featured versions of the article(s) are eligible for this award.	5 winners
	Timeless Triple Crown qualifies for pieces of content that keep their status five or more years after being promoted, and have already been used to qualify for an Imperial or higher Triple Crown. "Did you know" credits are not included for this Triple Crown. The five year period is taken from the newest promoted piece. If needed, all or selected pieces shall face reasessment to make sure they meet up-to-date standards.	15 winners
	Valiant Return Triple Crown qualifies for users who have had an Arbitration sanction or a community siteban lifted Community topic-bans and restrictions are eligible for this Triple Crown. Discretionary sanctions, one-account restrictions and blocks/bans as a result of accounts being hacked do not apply. Content created before the ban does not count; all award-related content must be created after restrictions were lifted.	5 winners

WikiProject Triple Crowns

Special edition Triple Crown awards are available to WikiProjects. To qualify for a WikiProject Triple Crown, an editor must be a member of that project, and must reach all three milestones on articles that have been accessed as being within the scope of the project. To create a Triple Crown for a project not already listed, simple make a custom image similar to those below from freely licensed images and add it to the list.

	WikiProject Australia Triple Crown	20 winners
	WikiProject The Simpsons Triple Crown	5 winners
	WikiProject U.S. Roads Triple Crown	17 winners
	WikiProject Elements Triple Crown	6 winners
	WikiProject Video games Triple Crown	20 winners
	WikiProject Oregon Triple Crown	14 winners
	WikiProject Food and drink Triple Crown	0 winners
	WikiProject Anime and manga Triple Crown	1 winner
	WikiProject Birds Triple Crown	6 winners

Retired Triple Crowns

The following Triple Crown awards were issued at points in the past but have since been retired. Further nominations for these awards will not be considered.

	Steeplechase Triple Crown Was given to a major contributor to at least five of Wikipedia's then six types of featured content. This award is now redundant as the portal and sound features are no longer active, meaning there are only four types of featured content remaining eligible for promotion.	6 winners
A unique image was given to each winner	Golden Steeplechase Triple Crown Was awarded for editors who were major contributors to featured content in all six areas. Retired for same reason as above.	4 winners
A unique image was given to each winner	Great Triple Crown Race of 2008 Special edition award given to editors who met the requirements for the Triple Crown between January 1 and February 14, 2008.	2 winners

See also

• The Four Award
• Wikipedia:Barnstars
• Wikipedia:Other awards
• Wikipedia:Personal user awards
• Wikipedia:Awards by WikiProject