* **630 landmarks join the atlas, 8,135 → 8,764, each one looked at before it entered.** Every Wikidata item in the castle, fort, château, palace, citadel, fortification, ksar, kasbah and dzong trees that had a photograph, coordinates, an article and five or more Wikipedia editions, and was not yet on the map, was a candidate: 2,954 of them. A first gate removed plans, prints, paintings, photographs from before 1950, bunkers, city gates, settlements and landforms. The 1,828 left were read one at a time on contact sheets, beside their Wikidata description, classes, heritage status, founding year and sixty-day readership, and what turned out to be a town palace, a hotel, a winery, a house museum, a motte, a hillfort, a fragment of wall or a part of a complex already on the map stayed out. Twenty-five photographs were replaced from the landmarks’ own Commons categories where the current one was small, old or of something else. France gains 149, Germany 113, Italy and India 41 each, Scotland 39, Belgium 28, Austria 22, Czechia 19, Croatia 18. Four countries appear for the first time: Honduras (the Fortaleza de San Fernando de Omoa), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Fort Charlotte), Senegal (Fort d’Estrées on Gorée) and Togo (Château Vial). * **Romania, after Jurnalul’s review.** Diana Scarlat’s piece of 17 September said important sites were missing and that Transylvanian manors pass as castles. Both were right. Neamț Citadel is on the map now; the atlas had never found it because its English label on Wikidata has read “Bihor” since an anonymous edit in 2020. The Roman fort of Argamum joins it. The “Țepeș Castle” in Bucharest’s Carol Park, a water tower of 1906 built to look like the keep at Poenari, leaves. Feldioara’s photograph from around 1900 gives way to the restored fortress. And 22 country houses that carry the Hungarian label _kastély_ are filed as palaces; six fortified ones, Bran, Huniade, Bonțida Bánffy, Lázár, Bethlen at Criș and Sükösd-Bethlen at Racoș, stay castles. * **Three that readers asked for.** Mearns Castle in East Renfrewshire, named as missing on Mastodon in July; the castle of La Roche-en-Ardenne, asked for by email on 13 September; and the Sheremetev Castle at Yurino on the Volga, whose team wrote on 12 September. Twenty ruins whose articles say so in words the atlas’s rules did not read, and thirty-odd residences that English Wikipedia titles “Castle” because that is how it translates a château, a Schloss or a zámek, were filed by hand as well.

* **630 landmarks join the atlas, 8,135 → 8,764, each one looked at before it entered.** Every Wikidata item in the castle, fort, château, palace, citadel, fortification, ksar, kasbah and dzong trees that had a photograph, coordinates, an article and five or more Wikipedia editions, and was not yet on the map, was a candidate: 2,954 of them. A first gate removed plans, prints, paintings, photographs from before 1950, bunkers, city gates, settlements and landforms. The 1,828 left were read one at a time on contact sheets, beside their Wikidata description, classes, heritage status, founding year and sixty-day readership, and what turned out to be a town palace, a hotel, a winery, a house museum, a motte, a hillfort, a fragment of wall or a part of a complex already on the map stayed out. Twenty-five photographs were replaced from the landmarks’ own Commons categories where the current one was small, old or of something else. France gains 149, Germany 113, Italy and India 41 each, Scotland 39, Belgium 28, Austria 22, Czechia 19, Croatia 18. Four countries appear for the first time: Honduras (the Fortaleza de San Fernando de Omoa), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Fort Charlotte), Senegal (Fort d’Estrées on Gorée) and Togo (Château Vial). * **Romania, after Jurnalul’s review.** Diana Scarlat’s piece of 17 September said important sites were missing and that Transylvanian manors pass as castles. Both were right. Neamț Citadel is on the map now; the atlas had never found it because its English label on Wikidata has read “Bihor” since an anonymous edit in 2020. The Roman fort of Argamum joins it. The “Țepeș Castle” in Bucharest’s Carol Park, a water tower of 1906 built to look like the keep at Poenari, leaves. Feldioara’s photograph from around 1900 gives way to the restored fortress. And 22 country houses that carry the Hungarian label _kastély_ are filed as palaces; six fortified ones, Bran, Huniade, Bonțida Bánffy, Lázár, Bethlen at Criș and Sükösd-Bethlen at Racoș, stay castles. * **Three that readers asked for.** Mearns Castle in East Renfrewshire, named as missing on Mastodon in July; the castle of La Roche-en-Ardenne, asked for by email on 13 September; and the Sheremetev Castle at Yurino on the Volga, whose team wrote on 12 September. Twenty ruins whose articles say so in words the atlas’s rules did not read, and thirty-odd residences that English Wikipedia titles “Castle” because that is how it translates a château, a Schloss or a zámek, were filed by hand as well.

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* **630 landmarks join the atlas, 8,135 → 8,764, each one looked at before it entered.** Every Wikidata item in the castle, fort, château, palace, citadel, fortification, ksar, kasbah and dzong trees that had a photograph, coordinates, an article and five or more Wikipedia editions, and was not yet on the map, was a candidate: 2,954 of them. A first gate removed plans, prints, paintings, photographs from before 1950, bunkers, city gates, settlements and landforms. The 1,828 left were read one at a time on contact sheets, beside their Wikidata description, classes, heritage status, founding year and sixty-day readership, and what turned out to be a town palace, a hotel, a winery, a house museum, a motte, a hillfort, a fragment of wall or a part of a complex already on the map stayed out. Twenty-five photographs were replaced from the landmarks’ own Commons categories where the current one was small, old or of something else. France gains 149, Germany 113, Italy and India 41 each, Scotland 39, Belgium 28, Austria 22, Czechia 19, Croatia 18. Four countries appear for the first time: Honduras (the Fortaleza de San Fernando de Omoa), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Fort Charlotte), Senegal (Fort d’Estrées on Gorée) and Togo (Château Vial). * **Romania, after Jurnalul’s review.** Diana Scarlat’s piece of 17 September said important sites were missing and that Transylvanian manors pass as castles. Both were right. Neamț Citadel is on the map now; the atlas had never found it because its English label on Wikidata has read “Bihor” since an anonymous edit in 2020. The Roman fort of Argamum joins it. The “Țepeș Castle” in Bucharest’s Carol Park, a water tower of 1906 built to look like the keep at Poenari, leaves. Feldioara’s photograph from around 1900 gives way to the restored fortress. And 22 country houses that carry the Hungarian label _kastély_ are filed as palaces; six fortified ones, Bran, Huniade, Bonțida Bánffy, Lázár, Bethlen at Criș and Sükösd-Bethlen at Racoș, stay castles. * **Three that readers asked for.** Mearns Castle in East Renfrewshire, named as missing on Mastodon in July; the castle of La Roche-en-Ardenne, asked for by email on 13 September; and the Sheremetev Castle at Yurino on the Volga, whose team wrote on 12 September. Twenty ruins whose articles say so in words the atlas’s rules did not read, and thirty-odd residences that English Wikipedia titles “Castle” because that is how it translates a château, a Schloss or a zámek, were filed by hand as well.

* **630 landmarks join the atlas, 8,135 → 8,764, each one looked at before it entered.** Every Wikidata item in the castle, fort, château, palace, citadel, fortification, ksar, kasbah and dzong trees that had a photograph, coordinates, an article and five or more Wikipedia editions, and was not yet on the map, was a candidate: 2,954 of them. A first gate removed plans, prints, paintings, photographs from before 1950, bunkers, city gates, settlements and landforms. The 1,828 left were read one at a time on contact sheets, beside their Wikidata description, classes, heritage status, founding year and sixty-day readership, and what turned out to be a town palace, a hotel, a winery, a house museum, a motte, a hillfort, a fragment of wall or a part of a complex already on the map stayed out. Twenty-five photographs were replaced from the landmarks’ own Commons categories where the current one was small, old or of something else. France gains 149, Germany 113, Italy and India 41 each, Scotland 39, Belgium 28, Austria 22, Czechia 19, Croatia 18. Four countries appear for the first time: Honduras (the Fortaleza de San Fernando de Omoa), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Fort Charlotte), Senegal (Fort d’Estrées on Gorée) and Togo (Château Vial). * **Romania, after Jurnalul’s review.** Diana Scarlat’s piece of 17 September said important sites were missing and that Transylvanian manors pass as castles. Both were right. Neamț Citadel is on the map now; the atlas had never found it because its English label on Wikidata has read “Bihor” since an anonymous edit in 2020. The Roman fort of Argamum joins it. The “Țepeș Castle” in Bucharest’s Carol Park, a water tower of 1906 built to look like the keep at Poenari, leaves. Feldioara’s photograph from around 1900 gives way to the restored fortress. And 22 country houses that carry the Hungarian label _kastély_ are filed as palaces; six fortified ones, Bran, Huniade, Bonțida Bánffy, Lázár, Bethlen at Criș and Sükösd-Bethlen at Racoș, stay castles. * **Three that readers asked for.** Mearns Castle in East Renfrewshire, named as missing on Mastodon in July; the castle of La Roche-en-Ardenne, asked for by email on 13 September; and the Sheremetev Castle at Yurino on the Volga, whose team wrote on 12 September. Twenty ruins whose articles say so in words the atlas’s rules did not read, and thirty-odd residences that English Wikipedia titles “Castle” because that is how it translates a château, a Schloss or a zámek, were filed by hand as well.

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