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DYK queue status

There is currently 1 filled queue. 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 6. 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 9	2	1
September 11	2
September 12	1
September 13	1
September 15	1	1
September 16	2
September 18	1
September 19	1	1
September 20	1
September 22	1	1
September 23	2	1
September 24	3	2
September 25	1	1
September 26	2
September 27	2	1
September 28	2
September 30	3	3
October 2	1
October 3	2
October 4	3	1
October 5	4	1
October 6	2
October 7	4	1
October 8	3	1
October 9	9	6
October 10	3
October 11	4	1
October 12	5	4
October 13	10	2
October 14	4	3
October 15	7	2
October 16	8	4
October 17	8	6
October 18	9	3
October 19	9	6
October 20	6	3
October 21	4	3
October 22	18	9
October 23	9	4
October 24	5	2
October 25	11	8
October 26	8	2
October 27	8	5
October 28	11	5
October 29	8	5
October 30	10	5
October 31	12	4
November 1	12	5
November 2	9	2
November 3	17	8
November 4	8	3
November 5	11	2
November 6	5
November 7	7
November 8	5
November 9	3
November 10
Total	310	128
Last updated 00:16, 10 November 2024 UTC Current time is 00:39, 10 November 2024 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There is currently 1 filled queue. Admin assistance in moving preps is requested.

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Current time: 00:39, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 39 minutes ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London (UTC)	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 6	10 November 16:00	10 November 19:00	11 November 00:00	11 November 00:00	11 November 05:30	11 November 09:00	11 November 11:00
Queue 7 Prep 7	11 November 16:00	11 November 19:00	12 November 00:00	12 November 00:00	12 November 05:30	12 November 09:00	12 November 11:00
Queue 1 Prep 1	12 November 16:00	12 November 19:00	13 November 00:00	13 November 00:00	13 November 05:30	13 November 09:00	13 November 11:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	13 November 16:00	13 November 19:00	14 November 00:00	14 November 00:00	14 November 05:30	14 November 09:00	14 November 11:00
Queue 3 Prep 3	14 November 16:00	14 November 19:00	15 November 00:00	15 November 00:00	15 November 05:30	15 November 09:00	15 November 11:00
Queue 4 Prep 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 Prep 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
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

Queues

Queue 6 [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.

Rock-cut niches of Teniky in southern Madagascar

... that an enigmatic ancient site deep in Madagascar (pictured) may have been built by Zoroastrians?
... that Jacques Lewis, a 105-year-old French veteran of D-Day, insisted that he participate in a ceremony commemorating the invasion's 80th anniversary?
... that a memorial in Suffolk, England, marks the deaths of six members of a scout troop in a 1914 boating accident and that of the sole survivor two years later in the Battle of the Somme?
... that, according to his family, Ye Yanlan was compelled to leave government service after speaking Cantonese in front of the emperor of China?
... that the suppression of the Diaspora Revolt of 115–117 CE led to the near-total annihilation and displacement of Jewish communities in Cyrenaica, Cyprus, and much of Egypt?
... that 50 Lan occupied the number-one spot in Taiwan's bubble tea market for most of 2023?
... that the world's oldest timepiece with an anchor escapement is in the collection of the Irish Museum of Time?
... that editors often line up in rival camps during contentious disputes on Wikipedia and the winning side typically cites encyclopedic policies to favor their viewpoint?
... that although Hugh O'Neill publicly assisted the English Crown in thwarting Irish rebels during the Nine Years' War, he was secretly the leader of the Irish confederacy?
Correction: An entry that ran on November 8 said that "the Holy See has an official anime mascot", named Luce. Luce is the mascot of the Catholic Church's 2025 Jubilee, and while her design has been compared to anime, it is not strictly Japanese animation or artwork.

Queue 7 [edit]

Queue 1 [edit]

Queue 2 [edit]

Queue 3 [edit]

Queue 4 [edit]

Queue 5 [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 7 [update count].

Prep area 7 [edit]

Members of the Fijian Labour Corps in 1918

... that members of the Fijian Labour Corps (pictured) attracted notice on the Western Front of World War I for their height and muscularity?
... that Ye Gongchuo worked for emperors, warlords and republicans before leaving politics to focus on art?
... that controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery?
... that Walter Campbell Smith's training in mineralogy led him to volunteer with the chemical warfare unit of British Army during World War I?
... that Will Wood performed nude for the music video of a song on SELF-iSH?
... that Wilf Perreault's artwork of landscapes and alleyways was influenced by artists such as Reta Cowley and Dorothy Knowles?
... that the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District has 102 properties within 12 blocks and contains "excellent examples of the predominant architecture styles of the 1920s and 1930s"?
... that Dutch rabbi Meijer de Hond, who grew up in poverty, was known as the "Volksrebbe" for his popularity among the Jewish poor of Amsterdam?
... that Chinese Garden MRT station did not originally have access to the Chinese Garden?

Prep area 1 [edit]

Sophie Anderson (top) and Rebecca More

... that The Cock Destroyers (pictured) released a "gloriously queer" sex education video for Netflix before hosting Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer?
... that Northern Cypriot minister of health İzlem Gürçağ Altuğra warned that her country would be destroyed unless it started producing drugs?
... that Czarodziejski okręt is a Polish robinsonade from 1914, inspired by the works of Jules Verne?
... that Pablo Barragán, a classical clarinetist who has performed at music festivals and with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, originally wanted to be a jazz saxophonist?
... that "All Hell Breaks Loose", the last episode of Charmed to feature Shannen Doherty as Prue, was also directed by her?
... that a poem by Moses da Rieti includes an encyclopedia of the sciences, a Jewish paradise fantasy, and a post-biblical history of Jewish literature?
... 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 El Eternauta: tercera parte kept Héctor Germán Oesterheld, the creator of the original comic, as a narrator after he was disappeared?
... that the assassination of Fengshan resulted in a pun combining fried eggs and bombs?

Prep area 2 [edit]

Cannonball in Milwaukee, 1966

... that despite being an ordinary commuter train, the Cannonball (pictured) was known for its Friday night parties?
... that Jeya Wilson invited New Zealand prime minister David Lange to debate the moral indefensibility of nuclear weapons at the Oxford Union?
... that the creator of the Barney & Friends theme song laughed when he found out that it was used in torture at Guantánamo Bay?
... that the Xinwen Bao was first published during the Lunar New Year to take advantage of its competitors being on hiatus?
... that psychologist Sonya Friedman recommends that women create a totem, a collection of objects that represents important turning points in their lives?
... that the FCC canceled a permit to build a Florida TV station, finding that "the most prominent facility complete within the studio building appears to be a toilet"?
... that John Hawks was the first professionally trained architect to stay in the Thirteen Colonies?
... that a renovation of 240 Centre Street was delayed by several months because a street map was incorrect?
... that the Kaunas Carillon stopped playing music for sixteen years (except for one day in 1941) due to the Soviet and German occupations of Lithuania?

Prep area 3 [edit]

Reverse of History Instructing Youth

... that Martha Washington's portrait on the 1896 US one-dollar silver certificate (pictured) is the most recent time that a woman has been featured on US paper money?
... that Dalibor Riccardi, a head of state of San Marino, has played more than 70 matches in the country's football league?
... that the second season of The Bear has won the most Emmys for any comedy series in a single year?
... that Eunus, a Syrian slave and reputed prophet, led a slave revolt in Sicily against the Roman Republic?
... that China was once the "Kingdom of Bicycles"?
... that despite her education in classical music and over her family's objections, Celie Ellis Turner chose comic opera and farce?
... that Checheyigen's political acumen ensured that her family became one of the most powerful in the Mongol Empire?
... that the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies houses a John Steinbeck archive of more than 50,000 items?
... that məθkʷəy̓ was not harvested or walked over, because oral tradition held that it had grown from the droppings of a two-headed serpent?

Prep area 4 [edit]

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 Twitter'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 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 numbers are real?

Prep area 5 [edit]

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 a recurrent famine has haunted Madagascar's southern regions since the 1930s?
... that Benjamin Franklin Shumard's assistant named an oak species after him, and then sabotaged his reinstatement after he was fired?
... that the ballot summary for 2024 Ohio Issue 1 was a flashpoint for legal action?
... 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 Georgina Sutton was the first woman to be appointed the chief pilot of an Australian airline?
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... that Samuel Lander founded the Williamston Female College in an abandoned hotel?
... that Eternity in Flames, now commonly shown in Chinese schools, was banned during the Cultural Revolution?

Prep area 6 [edit]

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