User:Dr Aaij/DYK hints

Your article is nominated. NOW WHAT?

OK, first of all read WP:DYKRULES. There's a lot of them, and they don't all matter to you right now, but you need to be aware. Note: all y'all's articles are nominated as "new" articles.

Next, I want you to look at Wikipedia:Did you know/Reviewing guide. On that page where your nomination is at, you'll find tons of DYK nominations to review. Pick one that you like, or that you think is easy, and see if you can review it following the guidelines in the Reviewing guide; it's kind of a checklist, really. Ask me if you have technical questions.

We do these reviews as a quid pro quo: Wikipedia is, after all, a place for collaborative editing.

This review is a big thing: we cannot have crap on the front page. It would embarrass everyone, from Jimmy Wales down to our chancellor and your parents. Stuff needs to be verified, the prose needs to be clean, we can't have copyright violations, et cetera. Now, no one will do the review for you, but there are people who can help you: seasoned editors like like The ed17, Godsy, Gerda Arendt, Mandarax, Kelapstick, LadyofShalott, Xanthomelanoussprog, and Mandarax also know a lot about DYK requirements and editing and they're good people. For instance, Kelapstick is the co-author of the enormous DYK hit Bacon Explosion, and the slightly less enormous DYK hit Go the Fuck to Sleep. Mandarax has more edits than me. Gerda reads German better than Mandarax, and so on.

So, on the template with the DYK nomination--they're called names like this, Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Ivy Burks--go down the checklist, if you will, and make the relevant comments. If you're unsure, ping me or one of the people above.