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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 6. 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 23	1	1
September 24	1
September 26	1
September 27	1	1
September 28	1
October 3	1
October 5	1
October 7	1
October 8	1
October 9	1
October 12	1
October 13	5	2
October 15	4	1
October 16	2
October 17	1
October 18	5	1
October 19	4	1
October 20	2
October 22	3
October 23	4	1
October 24	3	1
October 25	2	1
October 27	1
October 28	3
October 30	5	1
October 31	7	3
November 1	8	5
November 2	8	6
November 3	10	6
November 4	7	3
November 5	9	6
November 6	3	1
November 7	8	5
November 8	7	3
November 9	6	3
November 10	8	4
November 11	7	5
November 12	4	2
November 13	6	1
November 14	7	1
November 15	12	7
November 16	6	2
November 17	6	3
November 18	15	12
November 19	13	5
November 20	10	8
November 21	13	7
November 22	10	4
November 23	4	3
November 24	5
November 25	6	4
November 26	9	4
November 27	10	5
November 28	2	2
November 29
November 30
December 1
Total	281	131
Last updated 04:40, 1 December 2024 UTC Current time is 04:40, 1 December 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, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Current time: 04:40, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 4 hours ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London (UTC)	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 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
Queue 7	2 December 16:00	2 December 19:00	3 December 00:00	3 December 00:00	3 December 05:30	3 December 09:00	3 December 11:00
Queue 1	3 December 16:00	3 December 19:00	4 December 00:00	4 December 00:00	4 December 05:30	4 December 09:00	4 December 11:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	4 December 16:00	4 December 19:00	5 December 00:00	5 December 00:00	5 December 05:30	5 December 09:00	5 December 11:00
Queue 3 Prep 3	5 December 16:00	5 December 19:00	6 December 00:00	6 December 00:00	6 December 05:30	6 December 09:00	6 December 11:00
Queue 4 Prep 4	6 December 16:00	6 December 19:00	7 December 00:00	7 December 00:00	7 December 05:30	7 December 09:00	7 December 11:00
Queue 5 Prep 5	7 December 16:00	7 December 19:00	8 December 00:00	8 December 00:00	8 December 05:30	8 December 09:00	8 December 11:00
Prep 6	8 December 16:00	8 December 19:00	9 December 00:00	9 December 00:00	9 December 05:30	9 December 09:00	9 December 11:00
Prep 7	9 December 16:00	9 December 19:00	10 December 00:00	10 December 00:00	10 December 05:30	10 December 09:00	10 December 11:00
Prep 1	10 December 16:00	10 December 19:00	11 December 00:00	11 December 00:00	11 December 05:30	11 December 09:00	11 December 11:00

Queues

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.

Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy

... that more than one hundred million stars are visible in Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy (pictured)?
... that Karen Tei Yamashita realized the structure of her novel, I Hotel, by cutting, folding, and writing on ten cardboard cubes, each representing a year in the book?
... that Carrlyn Bathe met her husband after he sent her gear from his clothing brand?
... that due to the near-miss effect, gamblers may mistake a game of luck for a game of skill?
... that tacklers "bounced off" Chauncey Archiquette "as if he were a brick wall"?
... that the author of the comic book Timeless Voyage was the leader of a UFO religion?
... that Chief Constable James Smart flooded police courts with over 17,000 cases to prove how impractical it was for home owners to light their own stairs?
... that an Indiana university argued in court that The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate, a 1914 painting, was too modern for their art collection in 2024?
... that Piri Reis did not map Antarctica in the sixteenth century?

Queue 7 [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.

Former tin mining pit in Belitung, Indonesia

... that water-filled pits (example pictured) left behind by tin mining activities in Indonesia have become tourist attractions?
... that a senior colonel with 30 years' experience in North Korean intelligence agencies defected to South Korea in 2014?
... that an underground tunnel between two houses in what is now Jugtown Historic District was used to hide fugitive slaves?
... that when John of Montfort was captured in 1341 during the Breton Civil War, his wife took command of the Breton army?
... that Sehome was an incorporated town for only three years?
... that five of the six people killed in the 2011 Cullman–Arab tornado were members of the same family?
... that Ornithoprion was studied primarily using X-rays of its fossils?
... that the author of Oh My Mother! has written about the phenomenon of giving Asian-American girls the name "Connie"?
... that the Campo Valdés Roman baths were rediscovered during the construction of a sewer system in 1903?

Queue 1 [edit]

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

Marie Denizard

... that Marie Denizard (pictured) stood as a candidate in a French presidential election in 1913, thirty years before French women achieved suffrage?
... that The Crystal was one of few publications in early-20th-century China that regularly covered same-sex intimacy?
... that Hanif Kureshi transformed shadows cast by the Sun into street art?
... that Gigarta, a settlement mentioned by Strabo and Pliny the Elder, is believed to have been located on the slopes of Mount Lebanon, although its exact location remains under debate?
... that Al LeBoeuf was diagnosed with a rare condition in 2012 from an injury that he suffered in 1985?
... that the Swedish broadcaster organising the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 refused to allow the contest to be shown in Chile, as a protest against the country's military dictatorship?
... that the Polish manga and anime fandom arose in the 1990s and now numbers over 100,000 people?
... that Frank A. Kimball brought a transcontinental rail terminus to National City, California, in exchange for thousands of acres of land?
... that Aldous Huxley developed his "feelies" in response to the emergence of "talkies"?

Queue 2 [edit]

Queue 3 [edit]

Queue 4 [edit]

Queue 5 [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 2 [update count].

Prep area 2 [edit]

Various dog breeds

... that dogs (examples pictured) were domesticated from wolves over 14,000 years ago by hunter-gatherers, before the development of agriculture?
... that in 1809, two ministers leading the British war effort against Napoleon fought a duel against each other?
... that in his first year in the NFL, Lou Rash was told he was released and began flying back home, but was told upon landing that the release was a mistake and he was to return?
... that muthkwey was not harvested or walked over, because oral tradition held that it had grown from the droppings of a two-headed serpent?
... that the Mongol princess Al-Altan was rumoured to have poisoned her brother Ögedei Khan?
... that the Saybrook Colony was sold to Connecticut for an annual payment of 180 pounds, one-third wheat, one-third peas, and one-third rye or barley?
... that future Olympic weightlifter Chiu Yuh-chuan received a job offer in marketing after media coverage about his difficulty securing employment?
... that out of 148 candidates in the 1957 Manipur Territorial Council election there was only one woman?
... that basketball coach Trisha Stafford-Odom left the Eagles to join the Eagles?

Prep area 3 [edit]

Kang Ju-hyeok

... that Kang Ju-hyeok (pictured) became the youngest player in FC Seoul's history at the age of 17 years, 9 months, and 6 days?
... that Saint Kitts and Nevis' political opposition has viewed national broadcaster ZIZ as a government mouthpiece?
... that Richard Du Cann acted for the defence in the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial and the trial of John Stonehouse MP?
... that the funds from the sale of burial lots at Cathedral Cemetery in Philadelphia were used for the construction of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul?
... that Mary Robertson was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Science in Medicine from the University of Cape Town?
... that Karl Amadeus Hartmann finished composing his Hungarian-influenced Kammerkonzert during his period of inner emigration after Hitler's seizure of power?
... that due to difficulty in pronouncing his name, one Canadian football announcer refused to mention Tony Pajaczkowski in game broadcasts for several years?
... that Augustus Pugin called St John the Evangelist Church, Islington a "deformity"?
... that residents of Port Mercer, New Jersey, profited from passerby by dragging their mules into the Delaware and Raritan Canal and having local boys "rescue" them for a fee?

Prep area 4 [edit]

Regulus

... that a man stabbed Regulus (pictured) because he disliked the "misty state of the picture"?
... that at 103 years old, Annie Huggett was the oldest surviving suffragette at the time of her 1996 death?
... that cellist Rohan de Saram's background as a geta bera drummer inspired Luciano Berio's Sequenza XIV?
... that a priest canceled 1,600 subscriptions to The Catholic Bulletin over a front-page photo of nuns dancing?
... that comic opera performer Celie Ellis Turner pursued a stage career against the wishes of her family?
... that the oldest surviving wooden lightship, dating to 1840, is now an Airbnb?
... that Henry Parnell was the youngest member of the UK parliament killed in the First World War?
... that after signing a peace agreement in 1919, Azerbaijan prepared another invasion of southern Armenia which was foiled by a rebellion in Nagorno-Karabakh?
... that schoolteacher Thomas Curnow used a red scarf to stop a train from derailing, leading to the capture of notorious outlaw Ned Kelly?

Prep area 5 [edit]

Barquq Castle

... that the 14th century Barquq Castle (pictured) was damaged during the Israel–Hamas war?
... that Yangginu plotted to defeat Khan Wan to avenge his murdered father?
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... that a columnist described Bern Shanks as "the most open and accessible state wildlife chief in memory"?
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... that Chen Qiyou, a would-be assassin, later became part of the Chinese Committee for World Peace?

Prep area 6 [edit]

Lizzie Esau in 2024.

... that Lizzie Esau (pictured) covered a 1955 song for a 2024 series about a 1553 Queen?
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... that Celeste Caeiro 's actions led to the naming of the 1974 coup in Portugal as the Carnation Revolution?
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... that "the world's loneliest duck" arrived on the remote Pacific island country of Niue in 2018?

Prep area 7 [edit]

Head of the God of Amiens

... that the God of Amiens (head pictured) seems to have lost his serpent?
... that Aucklanders have a reputation for making false earthquake reports on New Zealand's earthquake monitoring website GeoNet?
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Prep area 1 [edit]

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