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This page is for nominations to appear in the "Did you know" section on the Main Page.

Instructions for nominators

Create a subpage for your new DYK suggestion and then list the page in the candidate entries section below under the date the article was created or the expansion began (not the date you submit it here), with the newest dates at the bottom. Any user may nominate a DYK suggestion; self-nominations are permitted and encouraged. Thanks for participating and please remember to check back for comments on your nomination (consider watchlisting your nomination page).

Official DYK criteria: DYK rules and supplementary guidelines Unofficial guide: Learning DYK

How to post a new nomination

For a simplified version of these instructions, see User:Rjanag/Quick DYK 2.
For a step-by-step guide to filling out the {{NewDYKnom}} template, see Template:NewDYKnomination/guide.

I.	Create the nomination subpage. In the box below, enter the name of the article you are nominating (replacing YOUR ARTICLE TITLE) and click the button to create your nomination page.
II.	Write the nomination. On that nomination page, fill out the relevant parts of the pre-loaded {{NewDYKnomination}} template. See Template:NewDYKnomination for further information about filling out the template. Please be aware that you do not need to fill out every line of the template; only fill out the lines that are relevant to your nomination. (For instance, if you are not nominating an image to go with your hook, there is no need to enter anything in the |image= line or related lines.) Please watchlist your nomination page or check back for comments on your nomination. Responding to reasonable objections will help ensure that your article is listed. After filling out the template, save the page.
III.	Post at Template talk:Did you know. After you have created the nomination page, list it at this page by finding the appropriate date and adding {{Did you know nominations/YOUR ARTICLE TITLE}} under that date. The date to post your nomination under is the date when the article was created or the expansion of the article began, not necessarily today's date. When saving your suggestion, please add the name of the suggested article to your edit summary. You can also consider posting this same nomination to the article's talkpage, using the same code.

How to review a nomination

Main page: Wikipedia:Did you know/Reviewing guide

Any editor who was not involved in writing/expanding or nominating an article may review it by checking to see that the article meets all the DYK criteria (long enough, new enough, no serious editorial or content issues) and the hook is cited. Editors may also alter the suggested hook to improve it, suggest new hooks, or even lend a hand and make edits to the article which the hook applies so that the hook is supported and accurate. For a more detailed discussion of the DYK rules and review process see the supplementary guidelines.

To post a comment or review on a DYK nomination, follow the steps outlined below:

• Look through this page, Template talk:Did you know, to find a nomination you would like to comment on.
• Click the "[edit]" link at the top of the nomination. You will be taken to the nomination subpage.
• Post your comment near the bottom of the page, leaving the line }}<!--Please do not write below this line or remove this line. Place comments above this line.--> below your comment. (If you are the first person to comment on the nomination, there will be a line :*<!--Make first comment here--> showing you where you can put the comment.)

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• Save the page.

If there is any problem or concern about a nomination, please consider notifying the nominator by placing {{subst:DYKproblem|Article|header=yes|sig=yes}} on the nominator's talk page.

Frequently asked questions

Backlogged?

This page is often backlogged. As long as your submission is still on the page, it will stay there until an editor reviews it. Since editors are encouraged to review the oldest submissions first (so that those hooks don't grow stale), it may take several days until your submission is reviewed. In the meantime, please consider reviewing another submission (not your own) to help reduce the backlog (see instructions above).

Where is my hook?

If you can't find the hook you submitted to this page, in most cases it means your article has been approved and is in the queue for display on the main page. You can check whether your hook has been moved to the queue by reviewing the queue listings.

If your hook is not in the queue or already on the main page, it has probably been deleted. Deletion occurs if the hook is more than about eight days old and has unresolved issues for which any discussion has gone stale. If you think your hook has been unfairly deleted, you can query its deletion on the discussion page, but as a general rule deleted hooks will only be restored in exceptional circumstances.

Instructions for other editors

How to promote an accepted hook

• In one window, open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to promote. In a separate window, open the prep area you intend to add the hook to.
• Paste the accepted hook and the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) into the prep area. Make sure to follow the guidelines at Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas.
• In the window where the DYK nomination subpage is open, replace the line {{DYKsubpage with {{subst:DYKsubpage, replace |passed= with |passed=yes, and for the |monthyear= fill in the month and year under which the nomination was posted (not the current date)—the format for the month and year should be, e.g., May 2024. Then save the page. This has two effects:
  • On the DYK nomination subpage, it wraps up the discussion in a blue archive box and states that the nomination was successful, as well as adding the nomination to a category for archival purposes.
  • On Template talk:Did you know, it replaces the full discussion with just a link to the discussion, indicating that the discussion is no longer active.
• In your edit summary, please indicate which prep area you are moving the hook to.

How to remove a rejected hook

• Open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to remove. (It's best to wait several days after a reviewer has rejected the hook, just in case someone contests or the article undergoes a large change.)
• In the window where the DYK nomination subpage is open, replace the line {{DYKsubpage with {{subst:DYKsubpage, replace |passed= with |passed=no, and for the |monthyear= fill in the month and year under which the nomination was posted (not the current date)—the format for the month and year should be, e.g., May 2024. Then save the page. This has two effects:
  • On the DYK nomination subpage, it wraps up the discussion in a blue archive box and states that the nomination was unsuccessful, as well as including the nomination in a category for archival purposes.
  • On Template talk:Did you know, it replaces the full discussion with just a link to the discussion, indicating that the discussion is no longer active.

How to remove a day's nominations

• Wait until all nominations for a given day have been resolved (either promoted or rejected) and at least 5 days have passed since that day. (E.g., if today's date is May 25, the sections for May 20 and later dates should not be archived, although earlier sections can if all their nominations have been resolved.)
• Click the link to edit the section for that day.
• Select the full text of that section (including all the templates, e.g. {{Did you know nominations/Some nomination}} and delete it. Then save the page.

How to remove a hook from the prep areas or queue

• Edit the prep area or queue where the hook is and remove the hook and the credits associated with it.
• Go to the hook's nomination subpage (there is usually a link to it in the credits section).
  • View the edit history for that page
  • Go back to the last version before the edit where the hook was promoted, and revert to that version to make the nomination active again.
  • Leave a comment explaining that the hook was removed from the queue, and why, so that later reviewers are aware of this issue.
• If you removed the hook from a queue, it is best to either replace it with another hook from one of the prep areas, or to leave a message at WT:DYK asking someone else to do so.

Nominations

Older nominations

Articles created/expanded on July 23

Earl Best

• Promoted by Crisco 1492

Articles created/expanded on July 29

Moral reasoning

• ... did you know that moral reasoning is culturally defined, and thus is difficult to apply; yet human relationships define our existence and thus defy cultural boundaries.

5x expanded by Keith Siebel (talk). Self nom at 21:36, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Length	Newness	Cited hook	Interest	Sources	Neutrality	Plagiarism/paraphrase
✔	✔	✘	✘	✘		✔

• A new hook that needs to be suggested. Hooks that are mere definitions (e.g., "Did you know that X is a Y?") are generally not interesting. rʨanaɢ (talk) 21:38, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

• Not eligible as "newest content." Expansion happened July 20, not July 29. The article also has other issues, so I recommend against a major Swahili exception. Sharktopus ^talk 14:34, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
  • Technically this was nominated July 24, within 5 days of expansion; it looks like July 29 because the nomination was malformed and I had to fix the template for the nominator. rʨanaɢ (talk) 18:49, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

• So a new hook then please! Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 02:13, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
• How about this? ALT1: ... that the German philosopher Immanuel Kant believed moral reasoning should be based on universal laws of morality?

Some parts are still uncited, and read like OR. For example, the last paragraph has "When it came to moral decisions both men and women would be faced with they often chose the same solution as being the moral choice. This shows that gender division in terms of morality does not actually exist. Reasoning between genders is the same in moral decisions." Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:57, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Temporarily striking my delete vote as per Rjanag, but as of August 11 I still see an article that reads like OR, with not one improvement since July 29. I have notified author on talk page, as have others. Sharktopus ^talk 03:06, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

• Comment This article was expanded for a course, which has now ended. The nominator may not be looking any more. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:56, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

I have now rewritten the article extensively. A previous copyedit had missed many of the problems. As expanded, this is a poorly structured and inadequate overview with mostly poor sources and showing poor understanding in places. NPOV doesn't really come into it because it's too close to the sources. There was close rewording where summary should have been used, but no plagiarism or copyvio that I can see; too many refs rather than too few. In short, it's freshman-level class work that needed advice and guidance from the instructor. The student had trouble with the citation templates and as intuited by Sharktopus has added examples as a means of clarification as one would in an essay. There is one bit of OR, which I commented out. I don't think it's ready for prime time, but if an expert can whip it into shape and if it then still meets the length requirement, may I suggest:

• ALT2 ... that moral reasoning does not differ substantially with gender?
• ALT3 ... that according to psychologist Jonathan Haidt, moral reasoning is secondary to emotion-based intuition? Yngvadottir (talk) 19:55, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

• I don't think any of the regulars are experts in psychology... article still doesn't seem ready for prime time. Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:17, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

• This one is a difficult call as IMO the article is quite well written and informative; however, about half the article is sourced to about.com and somebody's personal website which fail WP:V, so I am reluctantly declining it. Gatoclass (talk) 06:37, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 8

List of the largest libraries in the United States

Archived nomination

*Promoted by Casliber (talk · contribs): 36 libraries in the United States

Articles created/expanded on August 9

Ronne Froman

• Promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk)

Articles created/expanded on August 14

Sanzo Nosaka

( Edit nom • Article history )

• ... that Sanzo Nosaka trained Japanese POWs to fight for Mao Zedong?

5x expanded by Ferox Seneca (talk). Self nom at 09:56, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Current nominations

Articles created/expanded on August 15

• Comment: This is a bit of an unusual one - the article was created by one editor (Anna Frodesiak) and 5x expanded by another (me, Prioryman) on the same day. I suggest an equal credit for both editors if this nomination is accepted.

Created by Anna Frodesiak (talk), expanded 5x by Prioryman (talk). Nominated by Prioryman (talk) at 07:15, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

• Hook: Love the original. AGF on Spanish source.

Article: Length and date check out. AGF on the Spanish sources for reliability and paraphrasing. Poster has a FUR.

ALT2: ... that a Mouse earns up to €15,000 a time for public appearances?

ALT3: ... that "The Bull Assassin" has killed three people in Spain in the last five years?

Summary: ALT3 is based on a translation of one of the headlines. Just waiting for some feedback on the ALT. Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:09, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

The latter is a bit of a mistranslation, I fear; "el toro asesino" means literally "the bull murderer" but "the killer bull" is a more colloquial English meaning (and is how the phrase is translated in the article). I think if it's OK with you I'd prefer to go with my original hook. Prioryman (talk) 06:41, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Original hook is good to go. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:35, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Love the slight modification to the original (and the nickname is cited too) Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:01, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Special occasion holding area

Please do not nominate new articles for a special time in this section. Instead, nominate them in the candidate entries section above, under the date the article was created or the expansion began, and indicate your request for a specially timed appearance on the main page.

Note: Articles nominated for a special occasion should be nominated (i) within five days of creation or expansion, as usual, and (ii) between five days and six weeks before the occasion, to give reviewers time to check the nomination. April Fools' Day is an exception to these requirements; see Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know.

See also

• User:AlexNewArtBot/GoodSearchResult – This is an automated list of promising new articles generated by TedderBot (talk · contribs · logs).