Wikipedia:Did you know/Removed/2023–24
This is a list of DYK hooks that were pulled from the Main Page in 2023–2024, including those that were rewritten in situ or replaced with a pre-approved alt. Its aim is to assist in ongoing DYK reform efforts by giving editors an overview of why and how often hooks are pulled, and by providing quick access to relevant discussions.
3 January 2023 to 17 May 2024
[edit]These tables include hooks that were changed but not removed:
| Date | Hook | Diff | Discussion | Concern | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-14 | ... that William F. Fiedler was the only American fighter pilot to become a flying ace in the P-39 Airacobra? | [1] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2024-05-07 | ... that sisters Joanne, Lynette, Amy and Jenny McCarthy were all gymnasts and ten-pin bowlers? | [2] | WP:ERRORS, WT:DYK | Veracity | Hook revised and returned to the Main Page two days later |
| 2024-04-23 | ... that the celebrity doctor Nandipha Magudumana was imprisoned and investigated for twelve crimes, including murder connected to a fugitive's prison escape? | [3] | WP:ERRORS | BLP violation | |
| 2024-04-18 | ... that copyright has been used to censor reporters, activists, scholars and artists? | [4] | WP:ERRORS, WT:DYK | Other (globalization) | Restored to the Main Page two days later |
| 2024-03-15 | ... that the British entrepreneur Sarah Bennett went from being "one of the biggest flops in pop history" to appearing on the Sunday Times Rich List 2017? | [5] | WP:ERRORS | BLP violation | |
| 2024-02-19 | ... that it cost the city of Kent, Washington, $7.2 million to complete a trail around Clark Lake Park? | [6] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2024-01-20 | ... that American security official Matthew Turpin believes that the United States and China are already in a new cold war? | [7] | WT:DYK | Other (notability) | |
| 2023-12-29 | ... that nobody knows what the song "Luochahai City", which has been streamed 10 billion times, is about? | [8] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | Replaced with alt hook. |
| 2023-12-15 | ... that Jewish individuals and organizations played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement? | [9] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2023-11-04 | ... that when Peter and Dave Barney won multiple intramural swimming races, their university recruiter reportedly did not realize that they were not the same person? | [10] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2023-11-02 | ... that Julia Allison has been described as one of the first influencers? | [11] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | Pulling admin self-reverted |
| 2023-11-02 | ... that several dozen deported families spread across 2,000 kilometers (1,200 mi) from the swamps of Western Siberia to the rivers of Eastern Siberia and created a new language? | [12] | WP:ERRORS | Other (poor sourcing) | |
| 2023-10-20 | ... that the critically endangered humpbacked limia eats its own young? | [13] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | Hook revised and restored |
| 2023-09-08 | ... that the J. Lewis Crozer Library was the third library established in Pennsylvania? | [14] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2023-09-08 | ... that the Nike Phantom Luna football boot considers women's anatomy and the playing style of women's football in its design? | [15] | WP:ERRORS, WP:ANI | Other (promotional) | |
| 2023-08-31 | ... that no one is buried in Grant's Tomb (pictured)? | [16] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | Replaced with alt |
| 2023-08-25 | ... that reporting by Theo Baker, a freshman student journalist, led to the resignation of Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne? | [17] | WP:ERRORS | Other (taken to AfD) | Restored after closure of the AfD |
| 2023-08-14 | ... that medieval historians believed that the pulley shoe (wearers pictured) was used to chase women lewdly while turning its wearers gay? | [18] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2023-08-05 | ... that salt marsh snakes (examples pictured) can be as short as 15 inches (38 cm)? | [19] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | Hook rewritten |
| 2023-08-05 | ... that Solo Per Due claims to be the smallest restaurant in the world and only serves meals for two? | [20] | WP:ERRORS, WT:DYK | Veracity | |
| 2023-07-05 | ... that Arc lets people "vandalize" websites? | [21] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2023-06-23 | ... that maritime shipping is making the ocean more acidic? | [22] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2023-06-16 | ... that Ramón Iribarren developed a formula for the stability of breakwater slopes under wave attack in 1938, but Francoist Spain restricted its dissemination? | [23] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2023-05-23 | ... that according to one critic, Italian opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti "sang very well but was fat to the point of deformity"? | [24], [25] | WP:ERRORS | NPOV violation | Hook rewritten |
| 2023-05-23 | ... that the 1824 US presidential election in Missouri was not decided by the Electoral College, but by Missouri representative John Scott? | [26] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2023-05-21 | ... that although several buildings surrounding Pimlico tube station are Grade II listed, the tube station itself is not? | [27] | WT:DYK | Other (boring hook) | Replaced with alt |
| 2023-05-11 | ... that former East Java vice governor M. Soegiono was a football player before entering the civil service? | [28] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2023-05-01 | ... that according to rumour, the Masurian Canal (abandoned lock structure pictured) was built to serve a U-boat facility? | [29] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | Hook rewritten |
| 2023-04-11 | ... that there is a name – BRAAAM – for the loud – BRAAAM – low horn sound (featured) – BRAAAM – made popular by action film trailers? | [30] | WP:ERRORS | Other (confusing) | Hook rewritten |
| 2023-04-10 | ... that hummingbirds (example pictured) need the human equivalent of more than 150,000 calories every day? | [31] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | Hook rewritten |
| 2023-04-03 | ... that the FCC's criteria for comparative hearings did not pass the Bechtel test? | [32] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | Replaced with alt |
| 2023-03-04 | ... that Rose Freistater was "too fat" to be a teacher in New York City? | [33] | WP:ERRORS | NPOV violation | |
| 2023-01-28 | ... that sinologist Janaki Ballabh was the first Indian to be given a long-term residency in China? | [34] | WP:ERRORS | Veracity | |
| 2023-01-03 | ... that yoga began as a spiritual practice for men in India but has been "feminized" in the Western world along with its advertising? | [35] | WP:ERRORS | NPOV violation |
5 May 2024 to 1 July 2024
[edit]These tables include hooks that were changed but not removed:
May 2024 errors
[edit]May error rate:
- 93% error-free overall (18 errors / 276 hooks)
- 95% error-free before MP (15 / 276)
| Date | Hook | Error |
|---|---|---|
| May 5 | that cosplaying as a character from the New California Republic (flag pictured) could potentially lead to accidental arrest due to mistaken suspicion of carrying a bomb? | failed verification (report, queue fix) |
| May 7 | that opera composer and librettist Joseph Redding (pictured) was also a chess polymath and lawyer who won a landmark decision before the United States Supreme Court? | failed verification (report, MP fix) |
| May 7 | that Kooraban National Park provides a habitat for more than twenty endangered animal species, including koalas? | failed verification (report, MP fix) |
| May 7 | that sisters Joanne, Lynette, Amy and Jenny McCarthy were all gymnasts and ten-pin bowlers? | failed verification (report, MP fix) |
| May 7 | that the production team of the TV series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier created a highway more than five miles (8 km) long to capture visual effects for a truck action sequence for the episode "The Star-Spangled Man"? | hook didn't specify it was a "digital" highway (report, MP fix) |
| May 8 | that even though about 100,000 bombs fell on Le Touquet during World War II, making it "the most mined city in France", it was the first resort in northern France to open its beaches after its liberation? | failed verification (report, queue fix) |
| May 11 | that when the Bukharian-Jewish Soviet newspaper Bajroqi Miⱨnat switched to the Latin script, it did not use capital letters, following Jewish writing rules? | hook did not specify that it "initially" did not use capital letters (report, queue fix) |
| May 14 | that William F. Fiedler was the only American fighter pilot to become a flying ace in the P-39 Airacobra? | failed verification (report, MP fix) |
| May 15 | that Oophaga solanensis frogs can be bought for $3 in their native Colombia and sold for up to $1,000 overseas? | hook didn't convey illegality (report, MP fix) |
| May 17 | that the comedian Jonny Pelham is one of only 200 people in the UK to suffer from popliteal pterygium syndrome? | "only 200" failed verification and MEDRS (report, MP fix) |
| May 19 | that winter wonderland fairs have become a celebrated annual British tradition – but often for the wrong reasons? | "wrong reasons" not in article and not NPOV (report, MP fix) |
| May 21 | that Spider began making alternative music because she felt that not enough Black women were doing so? | link to set index article (report, MP fix) |
| May 22 | that the U.S. Army Air Corps were so unimpressed by the Estoppey D-8 that one member stated that he would rather use "nails and a wire"? | attributed one person's opinion to entire US Army Air Corps (report, MP fix) |
| May 24 | that actress Nellie McCoy (pictured) suffered a mental breakdown after her theatre performance was criticized, leading to her being committed to a sanatorium? | "after her theatre performance was criticized" not in article (report, not fixed) |
| May 24 | that Axel Downard-Wilke (pictured) led a campaign in 2020 to have macrons used in Māori place names in Wikipedia articles? | COI (report, MP fix) |
| May 24 | that women were 33 percent more likely than men to search for clown pornography in 2016? | "on Pornhub" not specified in hook fact (report, MP fix) |
| May 26 | that during the "trial from hell" Matthew Charles Johnson and his co-accused hurled abuse at the judge and threw human excrement at a member of the jury? | certain hook details failed verification; BLPvio (report, MP fix) |
| May 29 | that Israel's systematic destruction of trees and farmland in Gaza has been described as an ecocide? | "systematic" in wikivoice instead of attributed (report, MP fix) |
June 2024 errors
[edit]June error rate (through June 29):
- 92% error-free overall (19 errors / 255 hooks)
- 94% error-free before MP (14 / 255)
| Date | Hook | Error |
|---|---|---|
| June 4 | that Barron Trump signed for D.C. United Academy as a midfielder? | notability and BLP concerns (report, MP fix) |
| June 6 | that despite "C U in da Ballpit" being Camping in Alaska's best known song, the band says they all hate it? | "best known song" failed verification (report, MP fix) |
| June 8 | that the Tang-dynasty politician Fang Yi'ai was put to death and his wife Princess Gaoyang was forced to commit suicide after their failed rebellion against Emperor Gaozong? | "put to death" not in article; possibly unapproved/unverified hook promoted (report, MP fix) |
| June 9 | that Carrie Swain was possibly the first woman entertainer to perform in blackface? | "first" failed verification (report, MP fix) |
| June 10 | that the ancient Greek game polis is one of the world's oldest strategy games? | didn't specify "oldest known" (report, MP fix) |
| June 10 | that dance teacher Mary Ann Wells, despite being in the "I AM" movement, did not enforce rigid technical standards on her students? | Pulled for SYNTH (report, queue fix) |
| June 12 | that Professor Layton and the New World of Steam is planned to be the first main entry since 2013 in the series Professor Layton, despite it being its developer's most popular media franchise? | failed verification (report, queue fix) |
| June 13 | that Arthur Fulton, his father and his son all won the Sovereign's Prize for rifle shooting? | hook fact not clearly in article (report, queue fix) |
| June 15 | Chinese characters DYK image | image not in article (report, MP fix) |
| June 15 | that although it was never built, Lynn Conway notes that IBM's ACS-1 would have been the premier supercomputer of the era? | not a definite fact (report, MP fix) |
| June 17 | that Zombie Plane cannot take flight from Chuck Norris? | confusing; not a definite fact; WP:DYKFICTION (report, MP fix) |
| June 19 | Amen break DYK image | copyright (report, MP fix) |
| June 19 | that Pizza Hut’s most expensive pizza was a weighted blanket? | failed verification/unreliable source (report, MP fix) |
| June 20 | Olympic Black Power Statue image | copyright (no report, MP fix) |
| June 21 | that the efforts of Cora Babbitt Johnson helped delay the construction of Mount Rushmore until 1927? | failed verification (report, MP fix) |
| June 22 | that Saleh Manaf was elected as the regent of Bekasi despite being a dummy candidate in the election? | "dummy candidate" failed verification (report, queue fix) |
| June 30 | that Hamad City in Gaza was largely destroyed within minutes? | failed verification (report, MP fix) |
| June 30 | that when Brighton Aquarium (entrance pictured) opened, it had no exhibits? | failed verification (report, MP fix) |
| June 30 | that the extant details about the life of Leontius of Autun can be summed up as "July 1: the burial of Leontius, bishop of Autun (Gaul), 5th century"? | failed verification (report, queue fix) |
July 2024 errors
[edit]Leontius of Autun was pulled out of the queue half an hour before the hook was to go live on 1 July. Do we count that? Schwede66 23:53, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- Based on May and June, yes but as queue fix, not MP fix. TSventon (talk) 00:05, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
Done Levivich (talk) 14:49, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
