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This page is for nominations to appear in the "Did you know" section on the Main Page. For the discussion page see WT:DYK.

Instructions for nominators

Create a subpage for your new DYK suggestion and then list the page below under the date the article was created or the expansion began (not the date you submit it here), with the newest dates at the bottom. Any autoconfirmed registered user may nominate a DYK suggestion (if you are not a registered user, please leave a message at the bottom of the DYK project talk page with the details of the article you would like to nominate and the hook you would like to propose); self-nominations are permitted and encouraged. Thanks for participating and please remember to check back for comments on your nomination (consider watchlisting your nomination page).

If this is your first nomination, please read the DYK rules before continuing: Official DYK criteria: DYK rules and supplementary guidelines Unofficial guide: Learning DYK

How to post a new nomination

For a simplified version of these instructions, see User:Rjanag/Quick DYK 2.
For a step-by-step guide to filling out the {{NewDYKnom}} template, see Template:NewDYKnomination/guide.

Please read the following instructions completely before nominating an article. A nomination is not considered complete until all 3 steps of the instructions below are completed.

I.	Create the nomination subpage. In the box below, enter the name of the article you are nominating (replacing YOUR ARTICLE TITLE) and click the button to create your nomination page. (For nominations of multiple articles together, you can write any or all of the article titles here.)
II.	Write the nomination. On that nomination page, fill out the relevant parts of the pre-loaded {{NewDYKnomination}} template. See Template:NewDYKnomination for further information about filling out the template. Please be aware that you do not need to fill out every line of the template; only fill out the lines that are relevant to your nomination. (For instance, if you are not nominating an image to go with your hook, there is no need to enter anything in the |image= line or related lines.) Please watchlist your nomination page or check back for comments on your nomination. Responding to reasonable objections will help ensure that your article is listed. After filling out the template, save the page.
III.	Post at Template talk:Did you know. After you have created the nomination page, list it at this page by finding the appropriate date and adding {{Template:Did you know nominations/YOUR ARTICLE TITLE}} under that date at the top of the section (above all the other nominations, but below the section header and hidden comment). The date to post your nomination under is the date when the article was created or the expansion of the article began, not necessarily today's date. When saving your suggestion, please add the name of the suggested article to your edit summary. You can also consider posting this same nomination to the article's talkpage, using the same code.

How to review a nomination

Main page: Wikipedia:Did you know/Reviewing guide

Any editor who was not involved in writing/expanding or nominating an article may review it by checking to see that the article meets all the DYK criteria (long enough, new enough, no serious editorial or content issues) and the hook is cited. Editors may also alter the suggested hook to improve it, suggest new hooks, or even lend a hand and make edits to the article which the hook applies so that the hook is supported and accurate. For a more detailed discussion of the DYK rules and review process see the supplementary guidelines and the WP:Did you know/Reviewing guide.

To post a comment or review on a DYK nomination, follow the steps outlined below:

• Look through this page, Template talk:Did you know, to find a nomination you would like to comment on.
• Click the "Review or comment" link at the top of the nomination. You will be taken to the nomination subpage.
• The top of the page includes a list of the DYK criteria. Check the article to ensure it meets all the relevant criteria.
• To indicate the result of the review (i.e., whether the nomination passes, fails, or needs some minor changes), leave a comment on the page. Please indicate all aspects of the article that you have reviewed; your comment should look something like the following:

  Article length and age are fine, no copyvio or plagiarism concerns, reliable sources are used. But the hook needs to be shortened.

  If you are the first person to comment on the nomination, there will be a line :*<!--Make first comment here--> showing you where you can put the comment.
• Save the page.

If there is any problem or concern about a nomination, please consider notifying the nominator by placing {{subst:DYKproblem|Article|header=yes|sig=yes}} on the nominator's talk page.

Frequently asked questions

Backlogged?

This page is often backlogged. As long as your submission is still on the page, it will stay there until an editor reviews it. Since editors are encouraged to review the oldest submissions first (so that those hooks don't grow stale), it may take several days until your submission is reviewed. In the meantime, please consider reviewing another submission (not your own) to help reduce the backlog (see instructions above).

Where is my hook?

If you can't find the hook you submitted to this page, in most cases it means your article has been approved and is in the queue for display on the main page. You can check whether your hook has been moved to the queue by reviewing the queue listings.

If your hook is not in the queue or already on the main page, it has probably been deleted. Deletion occurs if the hook is more than about eight days old and has unresolved issues for which any discussion has gone stale. If you think your hook has been unfairly deleted, you can query its deletion on the discussion page, but as a general rule deleted hooks will only be restored in exceptional circumstances.

Instructions for other editors

How to promote an accepted hook

• In one window, open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to promote. In a separate window, open the prep area you intend to add the hook to.
• Paste the accepted hook and the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) into the prep area. Make sure to follow the guidelines at Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas.
• In the window where the DYK nomination subpage is open, replace the line {{DYKsubpage with {{subst:DYKsubpage, replace |passed= with |passed=yes, and for the |monthyear= fill in the month and year under which the nomination was posted (not the current date)—the format for the month and year should be, e.g., January 2025. Then save the page. This has the effect of wrapping up the discussion on the DYK nomination subpage in a green archive box and stating that the nomination was successful, as well as adding the nomination to a category for archival purposes.
• In your edit summary, please indicate which prep area you are moving the hook to.

How to remove a rejected hook

• Open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to remove. (It's best to wait several days after a reviewer has rejected the hook, just in case someone contests or the article undergoes a large change.)
• In the window where the DYK nomination subpage is open, replace the line {{DYKsubpage with {{subst:DYKsubpage, replace |passed= with |passed=no, and for the |monthyear= fill in the month and year under which the nomination was posted (not the current date)—the format for the month and year should be, e.g., January 2025. Then save the page. This has the effect of wrapping up the discussion on the DYK nomination subpage in a blue archive box and stating that the nomination was unsuccessful, as well as adding the nomination to a category for archival purposes.

How to remove a hook from the prep areas or queue

• Edit the prep area or queue where the hook is and remove the hook and the credits associated with it.
• Go to the hook's nomination subpage (there is usually a link to it in the credits section).
  • View the edit history for that page
  • Go back to the last version before the edit where the hook was promoted, and revert to that version to make the nomination active again.
  • Leave a comment explaining that the hook was removed from the queue, and why, so that later reviewers are aware of this issue.
  • If the day title for the section that contained the hook has been removed from this page, restore that section.
• If you removed the hook from a queue, it is best to either replace it with another hook from one of the prep areas, or to leave a message at WT:DYK asking someone else to do so.
• Add a link to the nomination subpage at Wikipedia:Did you know/Removed

How to move a nomination subpage to a new name

• Don't; it should not ever be necessary, and will break some links which will later need to be repaired. Even if you change the title of the article, you don't need to move the nomination page.

Nominations

Older nominations

Articles created/expanded on February 29

Good, thanks for reviewing :) Mohamed CJ ^(talk) 07:50, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 4

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Current nominations

Articles created/expanded on March 16

Any reviews? Mohamed CJ (talk) 13:24, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

• ALT1 and ALT2 are good, though I'd prefer if the link was clearer (people clicking "political prisoners" won't expect to arrive at "Prisons in Bahrain"). I think the children prison is definitely an eye-catcher, so I'm proposing combining them in ALT4. This seems good to go with ALT1, ALT2 or ALT4. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 18:56, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
• ALT4 ... that the prisons in Bahrain have contained a large number of children and political prisoners?

Good. Thanks for the review. Mohamed CJ (talk) 19:15, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

You say that you "have less than 5 DYK credits", but I do count 5 credits:

1. Template:Did you know nominations/Jalila al-Salman
2. Template:Did you know nominations/Abduljalil Alsingace
3. Template:Did you know nominations/Torture during the 2011–2012 Bahraini uprising 2
4. Template:Did you know nominations/Public Security Forces 2
5. Template:Did you know nominations/Supreme Defence Council (Bahrain)

Assuming that I've got that right (please say so if I don't), would you mind reviewing another nomination? Schwede66 06:52, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

That's because this one has been here for so long. It is older than the last two. Should that count against the nominator, or the reviewers? ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 07:21, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

That reads a lot more negatively than I intended. I mean that since the statement was accurate a month and half ago, we shouldn't hold it against the nominator. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 07:46, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

At date of nomination (17 March), I only had 2 DYK credits. Mohamed CJ (talk) 12:39, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

It's great to see that you have got into the swing of nominating your articles at DYK. Well done. DYK is a project where every nominator should also help to keep the number of unreviewed articles down (your article being one of them). For that reason, the QPQ requirement was introduced some time ago. Granted, you didn't have 5 DYK credits to your name when you nominated this. But now you do. I thus suggest that you undertake a review; this is not holding anything against you, as JohnnyMrNinja suggests, but it merely is a way of keeping this project going. Given that you have other DYK nominations that await approval, you might as well get used to reviewing other editor's nominations. Schwede66 19:28, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough, good point. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 19:38, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Dont think he should be "punished" by our slowness here...hes a regular and does his QPQ's. Now that this is belatedly reviewed we should not just hold it up. He did his nomination job.Lihaas (talk) 13:55, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello Lihaas, I'm not sure we are talking about the same person. I think you mean JohnnyMrNinja. I'm talking about Bahraini Activist, who signs as Mohamed CJ. The latter has, going by the review templates linked above, never reviewed another nomination as part of his own nominations. Schwede66 21:35, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Actually I have reviewed 2 articles, for 2 nominations, one (Abduljalil Alsingace) is shown above [1] [2]. Basically I have nominated 5 articles then started to review articles for the newer nomination despite still not getting the DYK credit for the previous. Oh and by the way, I didn't nominate Jalila al-Salman. Mohamed CJ (talk) 04:58, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Author left the following note at User talk:Schwede66#DYK. Copying it here. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 20:19, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Hey,

I understand it's just a suggestion to get me involved in the team work of reviewing articles, however currently I don't really have time for that and won't have until after 3 weeks at least. Mohamed CJ (talk) 20:32, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Just rubber-stamping here: I think the user is justified in not carrying out a QPQ here, so I'm employing some common-sense and approving ALT4. Harrias ^talk 10:23, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

• I'm concerned that some of the phrasing in this article may be too close to that of its sources. For example, "that no one had been taken by masked men from their home" and "the judge responsible for executing sentences and public prosecutors" are both verbatim from their sources. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:41, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Fixed the second one. The first one simply had mistake with using the quotes, the whole sentence should have been quoted instead. Mohamed CJ (talk) 14:34, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 19

Myth: People are at Increased Risk for Suicide During the Winter Months

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• Did you know that suicide suicide rates peak during winter is actually a myth? In fact, suicide risk is actually greatest during spring and summer months?

Created/expanded by DavidlawsonND (talk). Self nom at 21:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Special occasion holding area

Please do not nominate new articles for a special time in this section. Instead, nominate them in the nominations section above, under the date the article was created or the expansion began, and indicate your request for a specially timed appearance on the main page.

Note: Articles nominated for a special occasion should be nominated (i) within five days of creation or expansion, as usual, and (ii) between five days and six weeks before the occasion, to give reviewers time to check the nomination. April Fools' Day is an exception to these requirements; see Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know'.

April 1 (April Fools' Day)

See Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know