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DYK queue status

There are currently 3 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 5. 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
August 14	1
August 20	1
August 25	5	1
August 26	2	1
August 27	2	1
August 28	3	1
August 29	2
August 30	9	1
August 31	3	2
September 2	4	3
September 3	4	3
September 4	1
September 5	2
September 6	3
September 7	7	3
September 8	3
September 9	5	2
September 10	3	2
September 11	4	2
September 12	4
September 13	2
September 14	1	1
September 15	9	5
September 16	6	1
September 17	2	1
September 18	10	8
September 19	7	4
September 20	9	2
September 21	4	1
September 22	6	3
September 23	6
September 24	6	2
September 25	3	1
September 26	6	3
September 27	8	4
September 28	7	4
September 29	6	4
September 30	9	6
October 1	7	4
October 2	4	1
October 3	10	4
October 4	10	4
October 5	9	7
October 6	6	2
October 7	12	8
October 8	5	3
October 9	10	4
October 10	7	1
October 11	7	1
Total	262	111
Last updated 23:21, 11 October 2024 UTC Current time is 00:15, 12 October 2024 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There are currently 3 filled queues. Admins, please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Current time: 00:15, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 15 minutes ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 5	12 October 17:00	12 October 20:00	13 October 00:00	13 October 01:00	13 October 05:30	13 October 09:00	13 October 11:00
Queue 6	13 October 17:00	13 October 20:00	14 October 00:00	14 October 01:00	14 October 05:30	14 October 09:00	14 October 11:00
Queue 7	14 October 17:00	14 October 20:00	15 October 00:00	15 October 01:00	15 October 05:30	15 October 09:00	15 October 11:00
Queue 1 Prep 1	15 October 17:00	15 October 20:00	16 October 00:00	16 October 01:00	16 October 05:30	16 October 09:00	16 October 11:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	16 October 17:00	16 October 20:00	17 October 00:00	17 October 01:00	17 October 05:30	17 October 09:00	17 October 11:00
Queue 3 Prep 3	17 October 17:00	17 October 20:00	18 October 00:00	18 October 01:00	18 October 05:30	18 October 09:00	18 October 11:00
Queue 4 Prep 4	18 October 17:00	18 October 20:00	19 October 00:00	19 October 01:00	19 October 05:30	19 October 09:00	19 October 11:00
Prep 5	19 October 17:00	19 October 20:00	20 October 00:00	20 October 01:00	20 October 05:30	20 October 09:00	20 October 11:00
Prep 6	20 October 17:00	20 October 20:00	21 October 00:00	21 October 01:00	21 October 05:30	21 October 09:00	21 October 11:00
Prep 7	21 October 17:00	21 October 20:00	22 October 00:00	22 October 01:00	22 October 05:30	22 October 09:00	22 October 11:00

Queues

Queue 5 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (Cwmhiraeth (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Santa singing at the 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony

... that Santa opened the 2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony (pictured)?
... that researchers speculate that cocoa butter forms crystals on sugar while chocolate is tempered?
... that the noken system used for voting in parts of Indonesia can produce turnouts of 100%?
... that for 19 years Tonya Burns had the only retired jersey number in Iowa State women's basketball history?
... that Northamptonshire has had ninety-two railway stations, but now has only six?
... that Joe Wirkkunen coached the Finland men's national ice hockey team after receiving a recommendation from Canada?
... that the music video for "...Well, Better Than the Alternative" uses software to render handmade paintings over live-action footage of musician Will Wood?
... that British conscientious objector Henry Firth died in 1918 while being held at a work camp in Dartmoor?
... that the ongoing premiere of Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios started 20 years ago?

Queue 6 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (^Complex/_Rational) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Niederdollendorf stone

... that the Niederdollendorf stone (pictured), the Grésin plaque, and the Landelinus buckle are each controversially conjectured to depict a pagan-inspired Jesus Christ?
... that composer Gonzalo Brenes was a politician in the National Assembly of Panama and served for seven years as Panama's secretary of culture?
... that the undefeated 1961 Pittsburg State Gorillas shut out seven opponents, featured four All-Americans, and won three national championships?
... that Cathy Merrick was the first woman to be elected grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs?
... that Maystorm, a character from Ultimate X-Men, was initially created for a variant cover for the comic X-Men?
... that Mike Veeck's baseball promotions include Disco Demolition Night, a game with no fans, and the world's largest pillow fight?
... that a clergyman from London established 87 schools in Wales in the 17th century?
... that Harold C. Hinton was one of the only American academics under McCarthyism to study communist China?
... that South African president Jacob Zuma requested a tour of a Sainsbury's supermarket during his state visit to the United Kingdom in 2010?

Queue 7 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (Cwmhiraeth (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Chesmac running on a Telmac-1800 computer

... that the 1979 computer chess game Chesmac (pictured) could not display a chessboard on screen, so players had to replicate the game on a physical chessboard?
... that Samuel Barber said that he could not adequately play his own Piano Sonata?
... that a 1593 work by an Italian-Jewish engineer and polymath might have inspired James Joyce's Ulysses?
... that Anne Morrow Lindbergh tried to warn her husband Charles Lindbergh of the backlash that his antisemitic Des Moines speech would receive?
... that Rose Betts wrote the song "Driving Myself Home" as a joke after a blind date, only for it to go viral on TikTok?
... that an art critic felt that Rooms by the Sea was one of Edward Hopper's "strangest" works?
... that when Swedish soccer player Beata Olsson transferred from Florida to Florida State, she said that she did not really know about the schools' rivalry?
... that John Passmore Edwards erected a library in memory of his mother?
... that researchers want Hymenophyllum axsmithii rhizomes so that they can tell whether the filmy fern was up a tree?

Queue 1 [edit]

Queue 2 [edit]

Queue 3 [edit]

Queue 4 [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 1 [update count].

Prep area 1 [edit]

Najmuddin of Gotzo and Uzun-Hajji

... that although Uzun-Hajji and Najmuddin of Gotzo (both pictured) were originally political allies, they later fought on opposing sides of the Russian Civil War?
... that rebel fighters pursued their fleeing enemies during the Battle of Kembogo because they wanted new boots?
... that Abdul Ahad Azad is recognised for laying the foundations of literary criticism in Kashmiri literature?
... that Episode 7921 of Neighbours features Australia's first televised same-sex wedding since the country voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage?
... that the 2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony featured dancing Phryges?
... that Albert Bumgardner's design for an architectural press office was highly publicized in the architectural press?
... that the song "You Liked This (Okay, Computer!)" features the former text-to-speech voice of TikTok?
... that drivers "dodge[d] track blemishes" more than each other during the first race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway?
... that football coach Dim Montero was considered such a great recruiter that it was said he "could pick up a rock and find an outstanding football prospect"? Done Valereee (talk) 19:49, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Prep area 2 [edit]

1914 memento dollar

... that the first silver dollars of the Republic of China were crudely designed mementos (example pictured)?
... that the Haitian Revolution began when Cécile Fatiman sacrificed a black pig, a ritual that was later repeated by Haitians resisting the United States occupation and the Duvalier dynasty?
... that a shark cost a competitor a silver medal in the spearfishing event at the 2014 Micronesian Games?
... that Americans received nearly 15 billion political text messages in 2022?
... that Deep Cut Gardens in New Jersey contains a stone replica of Mount Vesuvius that once erupted smoke at the behest of mobster Vito Genovese?
... that novelist Sue Monk Kidd spent fourteen months researching New Testament–era Egypt and the Levant for The Book of Longings?
... that Pituamkek National Park Reserve, Canada's newest national park, protects a chain of barrier islands used for fishing and hunting by the Mi'kmaq for 4,000 years?
... that the Palace Theater light bulb has been running since 1908?
... that a sensational story in 1888 claimed that James Wickham, a British scientist, introduced two whales to the Great Salt Lake in an attempt to start a whale oil industry?

Prep area 3 [edit]

Ferrari FF

... that the Ferrari FF (pictured) was, upon its release, the world's fastest four-seater car?
... that a Paralympic gold medalist originally did not know that she qualified for parasports?
... that Karan Aujla's Hindi-language single "Tauba Tauba" from the film Bad Newz became a Billboard Canadian Hot 100 top-25 song ahead of the film's 19 July 2024 release?
... that Dani Sanchez-Lopez wanted to be an actor but switched to cinematography after realizing that actors deliver others' lines?
... that manga artist Shinichi Ishizuka was told that becoming a manga artist would be "absolutely impossible"?
... that two Wisconsin radio stations purchased and reassembled the Wisconsin Pavilion from the 1964 New York World's Fair for use as their studios?
... that in UnMetal, the player has to heal any enemies whom they shoot?
... that Tonia Ko once composed a three-part concerto played on bubble wrap?

Prep area 4 [edit]

Svayamvara of Damayanti

... that princesses in ancient Indian literature would select their husbands from a line of suitors or through public contests in a matrimonial tradition called Svayamvara (example pictured)?
... that activist Joan McIntyre left Friends of the Earth to start her own organization focused on stopping the whaling activities of Japan and Russia?
... that Sandra Ng wore her own clothes while filming Love Lies to help the production crew save on the budget?
... that the largest video game studio in the world is headquartered in a former textile factory?
... that geographer Michael Chisholm and contemporaries became known as "Caesar's Praetorian Guard", in reference to their teacher Gus Caesar?
... that Ogeretsu Tanaka was inspired to create the manga series Happy of the End after taking a morning walk in Shinjuku?
... that in 1825 the Suquamish leader Kitsap led an alliance of tribes stretching from the Columbia River to Puget Sound to stop the Cowichan slave raids wreaking havoc on the Sound?
... that a judge is threatening to shut down Wikipedia in India over a defamation lawsuit?
... that a South Dakota radio station went from a university to "Guns, Gold & Rock 'n' Roll"?

Prep area 5 [edit]

Catharina Weiss

... that Catharina Weiss (pictured) used to play for the Rolling Chocolate?
... that King Minkhaung I of Ava lamented that King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy had invaded his country without "breaking a sword or a lance"?
... that Andreas Vogt yelled "Down with the government! Long live the republic!" at a session of the Landtag of Liechtenstein in 1919?
... that "Dark Avenger", a song from Manowar's album Battle Hymns, is narrated by actor Orson Welles?
... that real paramedics were hired to portray EMTs in Mongrel, and they responded to a medical emergency that occurred in a village where they were filming?
... that labor lawyer Dick Moss argued the 1975 case which resulted in the establishment of free agency in Major League Baseball?
... that Louis Vuitton helped to develop the visual arts programme for School of the Arts, Singapore?
... that the University of Memphis football team posthumously retired Danton Barto's number, following an online petition?
... that the Devil's Doorway is found in Wisconsin?

Prep area 6 [edit]

1934 US$10,000 bill

... that the US$10,000 bill (pictured) is the highest denomination of US currency to be used by the public?
... that 1 is its own square, square root, and factorial?
... that the Hillbilly Thomists, a band made up of friars from the Dominican Order, reached the number two spot on Billboard's bluegrass chart?
... that Adèle de Dombasle helped pioneer women's exploration in Oceania and worked as an illustrator, drawing people such as Queen Pōmare IV?
... that the sculptor re-positioned the statue of John Stockton about 20 times by using a wrench to adjust ball-and-socket joints on steel rods?
... that the writings of José Rizal, a prominent contributor to liberalism in the Philippines, were adopted both by Philippine independence fighters and by American colonial authorities?
... that the largest IMAX cinema in the southern hemisphere is in Melbourne?
... that Xiphophorus signum is the only swordtail not known to hybridise with other species?
... that Mr. Bronx was not from the Bronx?

Prep area 7 [edit]

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... that ... (pictured) ...
... that ...
... that ...
... that thrash metal band Hermética has a failed project to release a version of their debut album in English?
... that ...
... that ...
... that ...
... that an Oklahoma TV station returned to its original call sign after the death of its founder, Gene Autry?
... that ...