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This page is to nominate fresh articles to appear in the "Did you know" section on the Main Page with a "hook" (an interesting note). Nominations that have been approved are moved to a staging area and then promoted into the Queue. To update this page, purge it.

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Count of DYK Hooks
Section # of Hooks # Verified
August 25 2 1
August 28 1 1
August 30 1
September 3 1
September 5 1
September 6 1 1
September 8 1
September 9 2
September 11 3
September 12 3
September 13 1
September 15 2
September 16 2
September 18 1
September 19 1
September 20 3
September 21 1
September 22 1
September 23 6 3
September 24 5 2
September 25 2
September 26 2
September 27 4 2
September 28 3 1
September 29 1
September 30 4 1
October 1 3 1
October 2 3 1
October 3 4 1
October 4 6 1
October 5 4
October 6 3 1
October 7 6 3
October 8 4 2
October 9 9 4
October 10 5 2
October 11 7 2
October 12 5 3
October 13 11 4
October 14 4 4
October 15 8 2
October 16 8 4
October 17 8 6
October 18 10 4
October 19 12 9
October 20 7 3
October 21 6 5
October 22 18 9
October 23 9 4
October 24 6 3
October 25 11 5
October 26 8 1
October 27 7 5
October 28 10 4
October 29 7 2
October 30 9 2
October 31 10 3
November 1 8
November 2
Total 291 112
Last updated 06:56, 2 November 2024 UTC
Current time is 16:34, 8 April 2025 UTC [refresh]

Instructions for nominators[edit]

If this is your first nomination, please read the DYK rules before continuing. Further information can be found at the DYK guidelines.

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Frequently asked questions[edit]

How do I write an interesting hook?

Successful hooks tend to have several traits. Most importantly, they share a surprising or intriguing fact. They give readers enough context to understand the hook, but leave enough out to make them want to learn more. They are written for a general audience who has no prior knowledge of or interest in the topic area. Lastly, they are concise, and do not attempt to cover multiple facts or present information about the subject beyond what's needed to understand the hook.

When will my nomination be reviewed?

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, it may take several weeks until your submission is reviewed. In the meantime, please consider reviewing another submission (not your own) to help reduce the backlog (see instructions below). Because of BP:DYKTIMEOUT, a nomination should be reviewed within two months since the reviewer/promoter may agree to reject and close an unpromoted hook after that time has passed.

Where is my hook?

If you can't find the nomination you submitted to this nominations page, it may have been approved and is on the approved nominations page waiting to be promoted. It could also have been added to one of the prep areas, promoted from prep to a queue, or is on the main page.

If the nominated hook is in none of those places, then the nomination has probably been rejected. Such a rejection usually only occurs if it was at least a couple of weeks old and had unresolved issues for which any discussion had gone stale. If you think your nomination was unfairly rejected, you can query this on the DYK discussion page, but as a general rule such nominations will only be restored in exceptional circumstances.

Instructions for reviewers[edit]

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 to 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 BP: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 signed comment on the page. Please begin with one of the 5 review symbols that appear at the top of the edit screen, and then 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 :* <!-- REPLACE THIS LINE TO WRITE FIRST COMMENT, KEEPING  :* --> showing you where you should put the comment.
  • Save the page.
  • After the nomination is approved, a bot will automatically list the nomination page on Template talk:Did you know/Approved.

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.

Advanced procedures[edit]

How to promote an accepted hook[edit]

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How to remove a rejected hook[edit]

  • 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, and replace |passed= with |passed=no. 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]

  • 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 should have been 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.
    • Add a new icon on the nomination subpage to cancel the previous tick and leave a comment after it explaining that the hook was removed from the prep area or queue, and why, so that later reviewers are aware of this issue.
  • Add a transclusion of the template back to this page so that reviewers can see it. It goes under the date that it was first created/expanded/listed as a GA. You may need to add back the day header for that date if it had been removed from this page.
  • 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.

How to move a nomination subpage to a new name[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Older nominations[edit]

Articles created/expanded on August 25[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on September 13[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on September 18[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on September 19[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on September 24[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on September 28[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on September 29[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on September 30[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 1[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 2[edit]

Template:Did you know nominations/Henri Claireaux Template:Did you know nominations/Criminals (Meghan Trainor song)

Articles created/expanded on October 3[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 4[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 5[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 6[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 7[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 8[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 9[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 10[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 11[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 12[edit]

Template:Did you know nominations/Hasan Ali (activist) Template:Did you know nominations/Ragnvi Torslow

Articles created/expanded on October 13[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 15[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 16[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 17[edit]

Template:Did you know nominations/Port Mercer, New Jersey Template:Did you know nominations/Anne Marie Armstrong

Articles created/expanded on October 18[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 19[edit]

Template:Did you know nominations/Michel Klein (veterinarian) Template:Did you know nominations/Izvestiya Soveta rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov goroda Askhabada Template:Did you know nominations/Film Essay on the Euphrates Dam

Articles created/expanded on October 20[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 21[edit]

Template:Did you know nominations/Lova Rajaona

Articles created/expanded on October 22[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 23[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 24[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 25[edit]

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Current nominations[edit]

Articles created/expanded on October 26[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 27[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 28[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 29[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 30[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on October 31[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on November 1[edit]

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Articles created/expanded on November 2[edit]

Special occasion holding area[edit]

The holding area is near the top of the Approved page. Please only place approved templates there; do not place them below.

Do not nominate articles in this section—nominate all articles in the nominations section above, under the date on which the article was created or moved to mainspace, or the expansion began; indicate in the nomination any request for a specially timed appearance on the main page.
Note: Articles intended to be held for special occasion dates should be nominated within seven days of creation, start of expansion, or promotion to Good Article status. The nomination should be made at least one week prior to the occasion date, to allow time for reviews and promotions through the prep and queue sets, but not more than six weeks in advance. The proposed occasion must be deemed sufficiently special by reviewers. The timeline limitations, including the six week maximum, may be waived by consensus, if a request is made at WT:DYK, but requests are not always successful. Discussion clarifying the hold criteria can be found here: Hold criteria; discussion setting the six week limit can be found here: Six week limit.
April Fools' Day hooks are exempted from the timeline limit; see Bharatpedia:April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know.