Getting a new article onto Wikipedia's main page is pretty simple. First, find an encyclopedic topic that Wikipedia doesn't already cover and start an article. Expand it to more than 1500 characters and include at least one reference. Before the new article is five days old, write a catchy summary and submit it to Template talk:Did you know. An image helps, but use only images that are GDFL copyright or public domain. A simple image that looks good at 100px is best. Or if you find a short stub and expand it to 5x its original size you can also earn DYK recognition for the page.
After User:Ghirlandajo and User:Alex Bakharev helped me with Nadezhda Durova I wrote some more and started helping other people earn their own DYKs.
Did you know...
... that the film I'm No Angel (1933) starred Mae West as a circus lion tamer? and that West did her own stunts including riding an elephant into the ring and putting her face between the lion's jaws?
... that a historic Water Village built on stilts above a river is home to ten percent of the population of the country of Brunei?
... that museum examples of sprang were misidentified as lace or knitting until archaeological discoveries brought public attention to the overlooked needlework technique?
... that the song "I'm Just Wild About Harry" was the most popular number from the first successful Broadway show to have an all African-American cast?
... that Irving Berlin stuffed towels into a piano while he was composing "That International Rag" (listen) to muffle the sound because other hotel guests made noise complaints?
... that Rigoberto Torres and John Ahearn collaborated on the South Bronx Hall of Fame, monuments of ordinary people, as a response to the practice of enshrining public figures?
... that Gold Toe Brands produces more than half the men's dress socks sold in United States department stores?
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