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DYK queue status

There are currently 4 filled queues. Admins, please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!

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 1. 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 22	1	1
September 23	2
September 24	1	1
September 26	2	1
September 27	2	1
October 3	1
October 4	1	1
October 5	1
October 6	1
October 7	3	1
October 8	1
October 9	2	1
October 10	1	1
October 11	1
October 13	7	1
October 15	5	1
October 16	4	2
October 17	2
October 18	6	1
October 19	4	1
October 20	4	3
October 22	8	3
October 23	4
October 24	3
October 25	4	3
October 26	1	1
October 27	4	3
October 28	5	1
October 29	1
October 30	7	3
October 31	8	1
November 1	11	7
November 2	8	4
November 3	16	12
November 4	7	3
November 5	10	5
November 6	5	2
November 7	9	5
November 8	7	2
November 9	7	5
November 10	10	6
November 11	6	4
November 12	5	3
November 13	7	2
November 14	8	2
November 15	12	5
November 16	10	4
November 17	6	3
November 18	15	11
November 19	13	4
November 20	8	1
November 21	7	2
November 22
November 23
November 24
November 25
November 26
Total	284	124
Last updated 06:35, 26 November 2024 UTC Current time is 15:43, 26 November 2024 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There are currently 4 filled queues. Admins, please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Current time: 15:43, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 15 hours ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London (UTC)	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 1	26 November 16:00	26 November 19:00	27 November 00:00	27 November 00:00	27 November 05:30	27 November 09:00	27 November 11:00
Queue 2	27 November 16:00	27 November 19:00	28 November 00:00	28 November 00:00	28 November 05:30	28 November 09:00	28 November 11:00
Queue 3	28 November 16:00	28 November 19:00	29 November 00:00	29 November 00:00	29 November 05:30	29 November 09:00	29 November 11:00
Queue 4	29 November 16:00	29 November 19:00	30 November 00:00	30 November 00:00	30 November 05:30	30 November 09:00	30 November 11:00
Queue 5 Prep 5	30 November 16:00	30 November 19:00	1 December 00:00	1 December 00:00	1 December 05:30	1 December 09:00	1 December 11:00
Queue 6 Prep 6	1 December 16:00	1 December 19:00	2 December 00:00	2 December 00:00	2 December 05:30	2 December 09:00	2 December 11:00
Queue 7 Prep 7	2 December 16:00	2 December 19:00	3 December 00:00	3 December 00:00	3 December 05:30	3 December 09:00	3 December 11:00
Prep 1	3 December 16:00	3 December 19:00	4 December 00:00	4 December 00:00	4 December 05:30	4 December 09:00	4 December 11:00
Prep 2	4 December 16:00	4 December 19:00	5 December 00:00	5 December 00:00	5 December 05:30	5 December 09:00	5 December 11:00
Prep 3	5 December 16:00	5 December 19:00	6 December 00:00	6 December 00:00	6 December 05:30	6 December 09:00	6 December 11:00
Prep 4	6 December 16:00	6 December 19:00	7 December 00:00	7 December 00:00	7 December 05:30	7 December 09:00	7 December 11:00

Queues

Queue 1 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (—Ganesha811 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Light Vessel 95

... that Light Vessel 95 (pictured) is now a recording studio?
... that Soviet academic Lily Golden researched "officially disapproved" genres of contemporary Black music?
... that the opening scene of Yen and Ai-Lee was rewritten as a long take due to rain during filming?
... that anime singer Rei Nakashima was named after Ray Charles?
... that the Miracle in Motown was the first of three successful Hail Mary passes thrown by Aaron Rodgers in a span of 13 months?
... that in high school Anne Marie Armstrong won three state titles in volleyball, three in basketball, and four in track and field?
... that when French secret police raided Deng Xiaoping's hotel room in Billancourt, they encountered copies of the Moscow newspaper Qian Jin Bao?
... that Victoria Espinosa directed the first performance of The Public, almost 50 years after it was written?
... that aerospace engineering firm Helliwells Ltd began as a maker of fireplace accessories?

Queue 2 [edit]

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

Francis L. Sampson

... that German soldiers did not believe that Francis L. Sampson (pictured) was a non-combatant after his capture during the D-Day landings, because they had never seen a paratrooper chaplain before?
... that the hips of some 19th-century Fijian young women were tattooed with veiqia when they reached puberty?
... that the myth of Shunten, the legendary first king of Chūzan, was used to justify the 1872 annexation of Okinawa?
... that two best-seller lists initially classified The Children's Book of Virtues as non-fiction, but later moved it to their fiction charts?
... that Bahamian basketball player Waltiea Rolle moved to the United States at the age of 13 after being noticed while walking home from school?
... that the U.S. Air Force considered a bomber version of the F-22 Raptor known as the FB-22?
... that a new soccer team in Boise, Idaho, plans to play at a converted horse racing track?
... that geologist Gilbert Wilson was the fifth Wilson at school, so he was known as "Quintus"?
... that a medieval town in Poland disappeared?

Queue 3 [edit]

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

Atrium of The Empire Brunei

... that the opening of The Empire Brunei (pictured) was timed to help create hotel capacity in Brunei for an APEC summit?
... that museum administrator Herbert Smith hired a special train so that civil servants could watch a total solar eclipse in 1927?
... that Yan Ruisheng, China's first full-length feature film, was banned within two years?
... that Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of the first women to join the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank?
... that the radio program Radio City Music Hall of the Air employed approximately 10,000 musicians during the first eight years of its broadcast history?
... that Stanley Washburn's message on November 29, 1941, warning the US Navy not to underestimate the Japanese failed to reach Admiral Kimmel before the attack on Pearl Harbor?
... that the first standalone women's toilets in Auckland were converted into a male-only facility during the Second World War?
... that Taurus 09 was the largest Royal Navy deployment in more than ten years?
... that the name of Kim Jong Un's daughter has not been publicly disclosed?

Queue 4 [edit]

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

Nayib Bukele

... that Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele (pictured) has referred to himself as the "coolest dictator in the world"?
... that both the Old City of Gaza and the Old City of Nablus have been repeatedly damaged by Israeli invasion and bombardment?
... that Ragnvi Torslow, a five-time Swedish figure skating champion in the 1920s, was a founder of the Bilkåren, an organization that trained 3000 women to drive during World War II?
... that St Francis of Assisi Church, Notting Hill, contains a font designed by John Francis Bentley and in which he was later baptised?
... that the 1983 Spanish floods were the most economically damaging in Spain until the 2024 Spanish floods?
... that the medieval Castle Knob was the site of a Cold War nuclear monitoring station?
... that Zhou Houkun wrote a thesis on the use of bamboo to reinforce concrete?
... that Burrito Express began shipping out its burritos by mail because of demand from former customers who had moved away from California?
... that weightlifter Wu Tsai-fu drank six huge glasses of beer to help himself urinate for a drug test?

Queue 5 [edit]

Queue 6 [edit]

Queue 7 [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 5 [update count].

Prep area 5 [edit]

Head of the God of Amiens

... that the God of Amiens (head pictured) seems to have lost his serpent?
... that Carl Smith has been called the "father of Swedish canoe sporting"?
... that Aucklanders have a reputation for making false earthquake reports on New Zealand's earthquake monitoring website GeoNet?
... that Patriarch Amalric was, according to the archbishop of Tyre, "reasonably well educated but bereft of intelligence and virtually useless"?
... that according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the 1913 Polish novel The Cross and the Crescent is "perhaps the first example" of the genre of military science fiction in Polish literature?
... that the director for Yuzuru Hanyu's Echoes of Life Tour choreographed the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony?
... that the MrBeast Lab toy line first debuted in a pop-up store in the shape of an overturned tanker truck carrying toxic waste?
... that Peel's Cut, a watercourse in Staffordshire, lasted more than 100 years longer than the mill it was excavated to power?
... that no actual voting took place in the 1939 Liechtenstein general election?

Prep area 6 [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 Karen Tei Yamashita realized the structure of her novel, I Hotel, by cutting, folding, and writing on ten cardboard cubes, each representing a year in the book?
... that Carrlyn Bathe met her husband after he sent her gear from his clothing brand?
... that due to the near-miss effect, gamblers may mistake a game of luck for a game of skill?
... that tacklers "bounced off" Chauncey Archiquette "as if he were a brick wall"?
... that the author of the comic book Timeless Voyage was the leader of a UFO religion?
... that Chief Constable James Smart flooded police courts with over 17,000 cases to prove how impractical it was for home owners to light their own stairs?
... that an Indiana university argued in court that The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate, a 1914 painting, was too modern for their art collection in 2024?
... that Piri Reis did not map Antarctica in the sixteenth century?

Prep area 7 [edit]

Former tin mining pit in Belitung, Indonesia

... that water-filled pits (pictured) left behind by tin mining activities in Indonesia have become tourist attractions?
... that a senior colonel with 30 years experience in North Korean intelligence agencies defected to South Korea in 2014?
... that an underground tunnel between two houses in what is now Jugtown Historic District was used to hide fugitive slaves?
... that when John of Montfort was captured in 1341 during the Breton Civil War his wife took command of the Breton army?
... that Sehome was an incorporated town for only three years?
... that five out of the six people killed in the 2011 Cullman–Arab tornado were members of the same family?
... that Gigarta, a settlement mentioned by Strabo and Pliny the Elder, is believed to have been located on the slopes of Mount Lebanon, although its exact location remains debated?
... that the author of Oh My Mother! has written about the phenomenon of giving Asian American girls the name "Connie"?
... that the Campo Valdés Roman baths were rediscovered during the construction of a sewer system in 1903?

Prep area 1 [edit]

The first photograph of a television image

... that Oliver Hutchinson was the subject of the first successful live demonstration (pictured) of the television on 26 January 1926?
... that The Crystal was one of few publications in early 20th-century China to regularly cover same-sex intimacy?
... that Hanif Kureshi transformed shadows cast by the Sun into street art?
... that Ornithoprion was studied primarily using X-rays of its fossils?
... that Al LeBoeuf was diagnosed with a rare condition in 2012 from an injury he suffered in 1985?
... that the Swedish broadcaster organising the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 refused to allow the contest to be shown in Chile in protest of the country's military dictatorship?
... that Polish manga and anime fandom arose in the 1990s and now numbers over 100,000 people?
... that in exchange for thousands of acres, Frank A. Kimball brought a transcontinental rail terminus to National City, California?
... that Aldous Huxley developed his "feelies" in response to the emergence of "talkies"?

Prep area 2 [edit]

Various types of dogs.

... that dogs (examples pictured) were domesticated from wolves over 14,000 years ago by hunter-gatherers, before the development of agriculture?
... in 1809, two ministers leading the British war effort against Napoleon fought a duel against each other?
... that in his first year in the NFL, Lou Rash was told he was released and began flying back home, but was told upon landing that the release was a mistake and he was to return?
... that following its deconsecration, the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Venice and its grounds have been used as a stable, a tobacco warehouse, and a prison?
... that television director Diana Edwards-Jones introduced earpieces to permit direct communication between a control room and newsreaders?
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... that future Olympic weightlifter Chiu Yuh-chuan received a job offer in marketing after media coverage about his difficulty securing employment?
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... that basketball coach Trisha Stafford-Odom left the Eagles to join the Eagles?

Prep area 3 [edit]

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Prep area 4 [edit]

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