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DYK queue status

There are currently 2 filled queues. Admin assistance in moving preps is requested.

When modifying a hook in a queue or prep area (other than minor formatting fixes), please notify the nominator by including a link of the form [[User:JoeEditor]] in your edit summary. (Ping templates like {{u|JoeEditor}} don't work in edit summaries.)

Administrators: Please ensure that there is always at least one queue filled at all times, to prevent overdue updates to the Main Page.

This page gives an overview of all DYK hooks currently scheduled for promotion to the Main Page. By showing the content of all queues and prep areas in one place, the overview helps administrators see how full the queues are, and also makes it easier for users to check that their hook has been promoted or to find hooks for copy-editing. Hooks removed from queues or prep areas for unresolved issues should have their nominations reopened and retranscluded at the nomination page.

You may need to purge this page to get it to display the latest edits.

The next update will be produced from Queue 4. After performing a manual update, please update the pointer to the next queue.

Current number of hooks on the nominations page

Note: See WP:DYKROTATE for when we change between one and two sets per day.

Section	# of Hooks	# Verified
Count of DYK Hooks
September 18	1
September 19	1	1
September 20	1
September 22	1	1
September 23	1
September 24	1
September 26	2
September 27	2	1
September 28	2	1
October 2	1
October 3	1
October 4	1
October 5	3
October 6	1
October 7	3	2
October 8	2
October 9	5	2
October 10	3
October 11	3
October 12	2	1
October 13	9	2
October 14	1	1
October 15	6	1
October 16	6	3
October 17	4	2
October 18	7	1
October 19	9	6
October 20	5	3
October 21	1	1
October 22	12	3
October 23	9	4
October 24	5	2
October 25	8	6
October 26	6	2
October 27	7	4
October 28	9	4
October 29	7	6
October 30	10	5
October 31	10	3
November 1	12	7
November 2	9	5
November 3	18	10
November 4	7	3
November 5	13	5
November 6	6	2
November 7	9	3
November 8	7	1
November 9	8	3
November 10	12	2
November 11	5	2
November 12	5	1
November 13
November 14	2	2
November 15
Total	281	114
Last updated 16:43, 15 November 2024 UTC Current time is 17:58, 15 November 2024 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There are currently 2 filled queues. Admin assistance in moving preps is requested.

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Current time: 17:58, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 17 hours ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London (UTC)	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 4	15 November 16:00	15 November 19:00	16 November 00:00	16 November 00:00	16 November 05:30	16 November 09:00	16 November 11:00
Queue 5	16 November 16:00	16 November 19:00	17 November 00:00	17 November 00:00	17 November 05:30	17 November 09:00	17 November 11:00
Queue 6 Prep 6	17 November 16:00	17 November 19:00	18 November 00:00	18 November 00:00	18 November 05:30	18 November 09:00	18 November 11:00
Queue 7 Prep 7	18 November 16:00	18 November 19:00	19 November 00:00	19 November 00:00	19 November 05:30	19 November 09:00	19 November 11:00
Queue 1 Prep 1	19 November 16:00	19 November 19:00	20 November 00:00	20 November 00:00	20 November 05:30	20 November 09:00	20 November 11:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	20 November 16:00	20 November 19:00	21 November 00:00	21 November 00:00	21 November 05:30	21 November 09:00	21 November 11:00
Queue 3 Prep 3	21 November 16:00	21 November 19:00	22 November 00:00	22 November 00:00	22 November 05:30	22 November 09:00	22 November 11:00
Prep 4	22 November 16:00	22 November 19:00	23 November 00:00	23 November 00:00	23 November 05:30	23 November 09:00	23 November 11:00
Prep 5	23 November 16:00	23 November 19:00	24 November 00:00	24 November 00:00	24 November 05:30	24 November 09:00	24 November 11:00

Queues

Queue 4 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (RoySmith (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Rincón Chileno

... that Rincón Chileno (pictured) was nicknamed the "second Chilean consulate" by the Chilean immigrant community in Los Angeles?
... that before selling chicken and pies, 5-foot-9-inch (1.75 m) Eddie Sheldrake broke UCLA's single-game scoring record in basketball?
... that a book known as the "Polish Pinocchio" was published a hundred years ago?
... that Sun Jianai co-founded one of China's first national universities in 1898?
... that in its 1962 election campaign, the Socialist Party of India demanded that twice-yearly inter-caste dining be made a mandatory criterion for government employment?
... that the 2000 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was the first to be broadcast live over the internet?
... that the cast of The Perfect Couple created a WhatsApp group to avoid filming a dance sequence to the theme song?
... that Negussie Roba was an Olympic sprinter who later became a top marathon coach?
... that ontologists disagree on whether green is real?

Queue 5 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Cwmhiraeth (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Campaign poster for the 1917 Łódź City Council election

... that socialists received 31 percent of the vote in the 1917 Łódź City Council election (campaign poster pictured), but the system implemented by the German occupying authorities only gave them 8 percent of the seats?
... that Samuel Lander founded the Williamston Female College in an abandoned hotel?
... that Leon Trotsky frequented a Jewish dairy restaurant in the Bronx but refused to tip, and the waiters retaliated by spilling hot soup on him?
... that Roger Farmer, the first NFL player from Barbados, reached the league after playing for schools that a newspaper described as having "terrible records"?
... that a recurrent famine has haunted Madagascar's southern regions since the 1930s?
... that Georgina Sutton was the first woman to be appointed the chief pilot of an Australian airline?
... that the ballot summary for 2024 Ohio Issue 1 was a flashpoint for legal action?
... that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva served the Bolshoi Ballet and its school for over 70 years?
... that Eternity in Flames, now commonly shown in Chinese schools, was banned during the Cultural Revolution?

Queue 6 [edit]

Queue 7 [edit]

Queue 1 [edit]

Queue 2 [edit]

Queue 3 [edit]

Instructions on how to promote a hook

At-a-glance instructions on how to promote an approved hook to a prep area

See Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas for details on verifying a hook's acceptability.
Promoters should not promote their own nomination or their own review.
When promoting hooks intended for a particular date, keep in mind that when the number of available approved nominations exceeds 120 we switch to two sets per day, and when that number drops below 60 we return to one set per day.

Check list for nomination review completeness

Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post: .
Check to make sure basic review requirements were completed.
- Any outstanding issue following needs to be addressed before promoting.
Check the article history for any substantive changes since it was nominated or reviewed.
Images for the lead slot must be freely licensed. Fair-use images are not permitted. Images loaded on Commons that appear on the Main Page are automatically protected by KrinkleBot.
Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
Hook should make sense grammatically.
Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
Try to select a funny, quirky or otherwise upbeat hook for the last or bottom hook in the set.

Steps to add a hook to prep

In one tab, open the nomination page of the hook you want to promote.
In a second tab, open the prep set you intend to add the hook to.

Wanna skip all this fuss? Install WP:PSHAW instead! Does most of the heavy lifting for ya :)

For hooks held for specific dates, refer to "Local update times" section on DYK Queue.
- Completed Prep area number sets will be promoted by an administrator to corresponding Queue number.
Copy and paste the hook into a chosen slot.
- Make sure there's a space between ... and that, and a ? at the end.
- Check that there's a bold link to the article.
If it's the lead (first) hook, paste the image where indicated at the top of the template.
Copy and paste ALL the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) at the bottom
Check your work in the prep's Preview mode.
- At the bottom under "Credits", to the right of each article should have the link "View nom subpage" ; if not, a subpage parameter will need to be added to the DYKmake.
Save the Prep page.

Closing the DYK nomination page

At the upper left
- Change {{DYKsubpage to {{subst:DYKsubpage
- Change |passed= to |passed=yes
At the bottom
- Just above the line containing
  }}
  insert a new, separate line containing one of the following:
  To [[T:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]
- Also paste the same thing into the edit summary.
Check in Preview mode. Make sure everything is against a pale blue background (nothing outside) and there are no stray characters, like }}, at the top or bottom.
Save.

For more information, please see T:TDYK#How to promote an accepted hook.

Handy copy sources:

To [[T:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
To [[T:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
To [[T:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
To [[T:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
To [[T:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
To [[T:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
To [[T:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]

Prep areas

Note: The next prep set to move into the queue is Prep 6 [update count].

Prep area 6 [edit]

Taylor Swift performing "How You Get the Girl"

... that the choreography of "How You Get the Girl" during the 1989 World Tour (pictured) resembled the 1952 musical Singin' in the Rain?
... that Czarodziejski okręt is a Polish robinsonade from 1914 inspired by the works of Jules Verne?
... that the members of Nocturna met for the first time while recording their debut album, as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns in Italy?
... that according to the Laws of London, also known as "IV Æthelred", merchants from lands ruled by the German emperor enjoyed special trading privileges in 11th-century London?
... that Johnny Fripp was "a bundle of football-toting dynamite"?
... that a Chinese poet wrote about a Syriac church in Sichuan without knowing what it was?
... that Pablo Barragán originally wanted to be a jazz saxophonist, but was more attracted to the clarinet because he thought it resembled the human voice?
... that tyromancy, a form of fortune-telling using cheese, draws on numerology, antique spell manuals, and dream interpretation?
... that Ross Mihara "didn't know a yorikiri from hara-kiri" when he was hired as a sumo commentator by NHK?

Prep area 7 [edit]

Elogio del Horizonte

... that Elogio del Horizonte (pictured) has been nicknamed "King Kong's toilet"?
... that after fleeing to Argentina as a Spanish Civil War refugee, Maria Muntañola Cvetković became one of Yugoslavia's first experts on microfungi?
... that a modern Polish fairy tale, written during the period of martial law in Poland in the 1980s, mixes the themes of real-world environmental protection and fantasy-like gnomes?
... that the Japanese TV show Iron Chef gained a cult following on a San Francisco TV station before it was dubbed into English and aired on national television?
... that Malik Arslan, a Dulkadirid ruler in southern Anatolia, was assassinated on the orders of the Mamluk sultan Sayf al-Din Khushqadam due to his ties to the Ottomans?
... that The Gust of Wind is Renoir's attempt to paint air?
... that Equatorial Guinea's national abortion law is one of only eleven (as of 2022) that requires a woman to get her spouse's approval to receive an abortion?
... that Wasswa Serwanga and his twin brother were the first two NFL players from Uganda?
... that mosquitoes are scared by "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites"?

Prep area 1 [edit]

Texas and Pacific 610

... that after being bought for $1 to save it from being scrapped, Texas and Pacific 610 (pictured) was one of three steam locomotives to pull the 1976 American Freedom Train commemorating the United States Bicentennial?
... that the 1913 Polish novel The Cross and the Crescent is one of the earliest examples of military science fiction genre in Polish literature?
... that Benjamin Franklin Shumard's assistant named an oak species after him, and then sabotaged his reinstatement after he was fired?
... that the restoration of Neknampur Lake was recognised "as the best model of lake restoration in India"?
... that a review described He Fucked the Girl Out of Me as being about "all the ways in which American society fails its most vulnerable"?
... that Johann Friedrich Hartknoch published the first edition of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason?
... that under a Nazi plan for a coup, Jews were to be deprived of food rations?
... that the 2024 Talerddig train collision was the first collision between passenger trains in Wales since 1991?
... that cavalry officer Harvey Tuckett retired from the British Army to become an actor, but was shot in a duel by his former commanding officer?

Prep area 2 [edit]

Song Zhenzhong

... that Song Zhenzhong (pictured), the son of Song Qiyun and Xu Linxia, was detained by the Kuomintang before his first birthday and executed at the age of eight?
... that cultural heritage sites damaged during the Israeli invasion of Gaza include the Great Mosque of Gaza, an ancient port, a university's library, and numerous cemeteries?
... that Sankar Montoute became the first NFL player from Trinidad and Tobago in 1987?
... that a San Francisco–area radio station sometimes had to be quiet to not disturb patients of a nearby dentist's office?
... that Helmut Bauer, who was responsible for church music in the Diocese of Würzburg and president of the commission for the hymnal Gotteslob, confirmed around 150,000 young people, including 500 in Tanzania?
... that the 1909 Polish novel Bloody Bread, about the struggles of Polish immigrants in the US, was briefly criticized by Polish communist censors in the 1950s for "glorifying the United States"?
... that Leonardo DiCaprio was set to star in the film adaptation of Leonardo da Vinci?
... that the fishing cat mainly inhabits wetlands and preys predominantly on fish species?
... that Ewa Ligocka cooked another mathematician's goose?

Prep area 3 [edit]

Light Vessel 95

... that Light Vessel 95 (pictured) is now a recording studio?
... that Polish journalist and resistance member Kazimierz Sakowicz spent three years recording the murder of tens of thousands in his diary, which was published decades later?
... that the 2013 book Brick by Brick, about how The Lego Group reinvented itself, became a popular business text?
... that language activist Hasan Ali spent more than 20 years compiling a dictionary of the Osing language?
... that Napoleon III was buried in St Mary's Church, Chislehurst, before his remains were moved to Farnborough Abbey 15 years later?
... that housewives were encouraged to keep Edmonds baking-powder tins to be used as bombs in case New Zealand was invaded during World War II?
... that Veylma Falaeo is the first woman to be President of the Congress of New Caledonia?
... that Malfunction Junction in Birmingham, Alabama, carried 160,000 vehicles in 2018, instead of 80,000 as it was intended to hold?
... that ...

Prep area 4 [edit]

Panhandle Gap

... although rated "possibly the best day hike" in Mount Rainier National Park, you cannot see Rainier from Panhandle Gap (pictured)?
... that despite her father wanting her to become a music teacher, Marcia Moore ran away to Chicago to star in silent film, vaudeville, cabaret, and burlesque performances?
... that al-Shaykh Badr was the hometown of Salih al-Ali, who led the Alawite revolt against the French in Syria?
... that a charity founded by Henry Smith in 1628 now has assets of over £1 billion?
... that during the Afghan sacking of Delhi, between 30 and 300 million rupees worth of goods were plundered?
... that X's rules were changed when StoneToss sought help from Elon Musk after an anti-fascist group published materials claiming to have revealed their identity?
... that upon its opening in 2011, New World Mall was the largest Asian shopping mall in the Northeastern United States?
... that the Volkslied "Bunt sind schon die Wälder" (Colourful are the forests already) has remained popular with the 1799 melody by Johann Friedrich Reichardt?
... that working at a post office was how Derrick Harden became an NFL player?

Prep area 5 [edit]

Zooming in on the Andromeda Galaxy

... that more than one hundred million stars are visible in Zooming in on the Andromeda Galaxy (pictured)?
... that Charles J. M. Gwinn was the first state's attorney of Baltimore elected under the constitution he helped draft?
... that ...
... that the weightlifter Oun Yao-ling was asked to compete in the South African Games, but the opportunity was swiftly rescinded once the organisers found out he was Chinese, not white?
... that Bishop John Dunn continued to celebrate Mass after a fire broke out in the choir loft of St. Cecilia Cathedral during the Sixth National Eucharistic Congress?
... that ...
... that ...
... that ...
... that ...