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DYK queue status

There are currently 4 filled queues. Admins, please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!

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 3. 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 19	1	1
September 22	1	1
September 23	1
September 24	1
September 26	2
September 27	2	1
September 28	1	1
October 3	1
October 4	1
October 5	2
October 6	1
October 7	4	2
October 8	1
October 9	4	2
October 10	1
October 11	1
October 12	1	1
October 13	7
October 14
October 15	5	1
October 16	4
October 17	4	3
October 18	5
October 19	8	5
October 20	5	4
October 22	11	3
October 23	8	3
October 24	4	1
October 25	7	6
October 26	4	3
October 27	7	5
October 28	8	3
October 29	7	6
October 30	10	5
October 31	10	3
November 1	11	7
November 2	8	4
November 3	17	12
November 4	7	3
November 5	11	5
November 6	6	3
November 7	10	6
November 8	7	1
November 9	9	6
November 10	11	5
November 11	7	4
November 12	6	4
November 13	8
November 14	9	3
November 15	11	4
November 16	7	3
November 17	4
November 18	5
November 19
November 20
November 21
Total	294	130
Last updated 14:10, 21 November 2024 UTC Current time is 14:38, 21 November 2024 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There are currently 4 filled queues. Admins, please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Current time: 14:38, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 14 hours ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London (UTC)	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 3	21 November 16:00	21 November 19:00	22 November 00:00	22 November 00:00	22 November 05:30	22 November 09:00	22 November 11:00
Queue 4	22 November 16:00	22 November 19:00	23 November 00:00	23 November 00:00	23 November 05:30	23 November 09:00	23 November 11:00
Queue 5	23 November 16:00	23 November 19:00	24 November 00:00	24 November 00:00	24 November 05:30	24 November 09:00	24 November 11:00
Queue 6	24 November 16:00	24 November 19:00	25 November 00:00	25 November 00:00	25 November 05:30	25 November 09:00	25 November 11:00
Queue 7 Prep 7	25 November 16:00	25 November 19:00	26 November 00:00	26 November 00:00	26 November 05:30	26 November 09:00	26 November 11:00
Queue 1 Prep 1	26 November 16:00	26 November 19:00	27 November 00:00	27 November 00:00	27 November 05:30	27 November 09:00	27 November 11:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	27 November 16:00	27 November 19:00	28 November 00:00	28 November 00:00	28 November 05:30	28 November 09:00	28 November 11:00
Prep 3	28 November 16:00	28 November 19:00	29 November 00:00	29 November 00:00	29 November 05:30	29 November 09:00	29 November 11:00
Prep 4	29 November 16:00	29 November 19:00	30 November 00:00	30 November 00:00	30 November 05:30	30 November 09:00	30 November 11:00
Prep 5	30 November 16:00	30 November 19:00	1 December 00:00	1 December 00:00	1 December 05:30	1 December 09:00	1 December 11:00
Prep 6	1 December 16:00	1 December 19:00	2 December 00:00	2 December 00:00	2 December 05:30	2 December 09:00	2 December 11:00

Queues

Queue 3 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (—Ganesha811 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Aria from a Peking opera inspired
by the murder of Wang Lianying

... that the murder of Wang Lianying was followed by a blitz of newspaper coverage, books, stage performances, a film, and songs (example featured)?
... that Michael F. Adams was the first president of Centre College not to be a Presbyterian?
... that between 30 and 300 million rupees' worth of goods were plundered during the Afghan sack of Delhi?
... that Shuah Khan, the first woman fellow of the Linux Foundation, "signed off" on a patch recommending the use of inclusive terminology in the Linux kernel?
... that Benjamin Britten was said to have composed Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus "in the face of death"?
... that Last Call BBS contains a chip-manufacturing game, a model-building simulator, a game of Solitaire, and more?
... that Pablo Barragán originally wanted to be a jazz saxophonist, but was more attracted to the clarinet because he thought it resembled the human voice?
... that Malfunction Junction in Birmingham, Alabama, carried 160,000 vehicles in 2018, instead of 80,000 as it was intended to hold?
... that according to the author of Stuff Matters, holding a sample of an aerogel is "like holding a piece of sky"?

Queue 4 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Cas Liber (talk · contribs)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Panhandle Gap

... that Mount Rainier cannot be seen from Panhandle Gap (pictured), despite the trail being "possibly the best day hike" in Mount Rainier National Park?
... that despite her father wanting her to become a music teacher, Marcia Moore ran away to Chicago to star in silent film, vaudeville, cabaret, and burlesque performances?
... that al-Shaykh Badr was the hometown of Salih al-Ali, who led the Alawite revolt against the French in Syria?
... that a charity founded by Henry Smith in 1628 now has assets of more than £1 billion?
... that the 2024 Talerddig train collision was the first collision between passenger trains in Wales since 1991?
... that X'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 New World Mall was the largest Asian shopping mall in the Northeastern United States upon its opening in 2011?
... that Mariah Carey used a sample from the New Zealand duo Adeaze on her 2005 song "Your Girl"?
... that working at a post office was how Derrick Harden became an NFL player?

Queue 5 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Waggers TALK) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy

... that more than one hundred million stars are visible in Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy (pictured)?
... that over the opening weekend of Florentina Holzinger's first opera, eighteen audience members required medical treatment for severe nausea?
... that Władysław Umiński's 1914 novel Czarodziejski okręt was described as being a "grotesque" treatment of the robinsonade?
... that weightlifter Oun Yao-ling was asked to compete in the South African Games, but the invitation was swiftly rescinded once the organisers learned that he was Chinese, not white?
... that Bishop John Dunn continued to celebrate Mass after a fire broke out in the choir loft of St. Cecilia Cathedral during the Sixth National Eucharistic Congress?
... that the apricot dress of Jacqueline Kennedy made in silk zibeline, kept its shape in India's hot temperature?
... that the opening of Salmon n' Bannock led to the owner reconnecting with her long-lost family?
... that Charles J. M. Gwinn was the first state's attorney of Baltimore elected under the Maryland Constitution of 1851, which he had helped to draft?
... that Ross Mihara "didn't know a yorikiri from hara-kiri" when he was hired as a sumo commentator by NHK?

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.

Kiki Wong

... that heavy-metal guitarist Kiki Wong (pictured) played drums for Taylor Swift before joining the Smashing Pumpkins?
... that during the colonial period, Indonesia was the largest exporter of tea outside of the British Raj and Ceylon?
... that Johnny Fripp was described as "a bundle of football-toting dynamite"?
... that Rust Red Hills is being sold to renovate student housing, a court-approved move that museum associations say violates the ethics of deaccessioning?
... that Amaury du Closel founded the Forum Voix Etouffées to revive music that was suppressed by 20th-century totalitarian regimes?
... that tenants described their ongoing rent strike as the first ever to target the United States federal government?
... that Kazimierz Sakowicz spent three years recording the murder of tens of thousands in his diary, which was published decades later?
... that both Tim Walz and JD Vance were accused of sanewashing in the 2024 vice presidential debate?
... that Big Motor employees hit cars with socks stuffed with golf balls as part of an insurance-fraud scheme?

Queue 7 [edit]

Queue 1 [edit]

Queue 2 [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]

Badge from a The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy video game

... that feelies (example pictured) have been used for everything from copy protection to sexual roleplay?
... that in 1959, Henri Claireaux claimed that a reduction to a subsidy to Saint Pierre and Miquelon would devolve the territory into "a state bordering on poverty"?
... that the director of Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds once described the film as "gaysploitation"?
... that Xu Xinfu adapted the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan for Chinese audiences?
... that large aircraft once operated on a regular basis from Griffin–Spalding County Airport despite it only having a 3,100-foot-long (940 m) runway?
... that Susanne Craig won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her reporting on Donald Trump's taxes after receiving a copy of his tax records in her mailbox?
... that New York City's Hotel Marseilles, once a shelter for Holocaust survivors, later became affordable housing for the elderly?
... that accusations of irregularities in the allocation of shoe polishing stations by the All-Russian Union of Assyrians "Khoyad-Atur" prompted violent tensions in Moscow in the 1920s?
... that a Ukrainian tax administrator began a program to open 60 ice rinks within five years?

Prep area 1 [edit]

Light Vessel 95

... that Light Vessel 95 (pictured) is now a recording studio?
... that Soviet academic Lily Golden researched "officially disapproved" genres of contemporary Black music?
... that the opening scene of Yen and Ai-Lee was rewritten as a long take due to rain during filming?
... that anime singer Rei Nakashima was named after Ray Charles?
... that the Miracle in Motown was the first of three successful Hail Mary passes in a span of 13 months thrown by Aaron Rodgers?
... that in high school, Anne Marie Armstrong won three state titles in volleyball, three in basketball, and four in track and field?
... that when French secret police raided Deng Xiaoping's hotel room in Billancourt, they encountered copies of the Moscow newspaper Qian Jin Bao'?
... that Victoria Espinosa directed the first performance of The Public, almost 50 years after it was written?
... that aerospace engineering firm Helliwells Ltd began as a maker of fireplace accessories?

Prep area 2 [edit]

Official portrait of Major General Sampson, 1967

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Prep area 3 [edit]

Barquq Castle

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Prep area 4 [edit]

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Prep area 5 [edit]

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Prep area 6 [edit]

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