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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
September 22	1	1
September 23	1
September 24	1
September 26	2	1
September 27	2	1
October 3	1
October 4	1	1
October 5	2
October 6	1
October 7	3	1
October 8	1
October 9	2	1
October 10	1	1
October 11	1
October 13	7
October 15	5
October 16	4	1
October 17	2
October 18	6
October 19	4	1
October 20	4	3
October 22	8
October 23	5	1
October 24	3
October 25	4	3
October 26	1	1
October 27	5	3
October 28	5
October 29	1
October 30	8	3
October 31	8	1
November 1	11	7
November 2	8	4
November 3	16	12
November 4	7	3
November 5	10	4
November 6	5	2
November 7	9	5
November 8	7	2
November 9	8	5
November 10	10	5
November 11	6	4
November 12	5	3
November 13	8	1
November 14	9	3
November 15	12	5
November 16	9	4
November 17	6	3
November 18	13	7
November 19	12	1
November 20	3	1
November 21	1	1
November 22	1	1
November 23
Total	276	107
Last updated 18:51, 23 November 2024 UTC Current time is 20:50, 23 November 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, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Current time: 20:50, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 20 hours ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London (UTC)	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
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	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
Queue 3 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
Queue 4 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
Prep 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

Queues

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.

Charles J. M. Gwinn

... that Charles J. M. Gwinn (pictured) was the first state's attorney of Baltimore elected under the Maryland Constitution of 1851, which he had helped to draft?
... that "Every Night", released ten years ago today, was called "the smartest dumb music out there"?
... 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 over the opening weekend of Florentina Holzinger's first opera, eighteen audience members required medical treatment for severe nausea?
... that the apricot dress of Jacqueline Kennedy kept its shape in India's hot weather?
... 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 the opening of Salmon n' Bannock led to the owner reconnecting with her long-lost family?
... that Władysław Umiński's 1914 novel Czarodziejski okręt was described as being a "grotesque" treatment of the robinsonade?
... 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.

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 had devolved the territory into "a state bordering on poverty"?
... that both Tim Walz and JD Vance were accused of sanewashing in the 2024 vice presidential debate?
... 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 ...
... that Kazimierz Sakowicz spent three years recording the murder of tens of thousands in his diary, which was published decades later?
... that Big Motor employees hit cars with socks stuffed with golf balls as part of an insurance-fraud scheme?

Queue 7 [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.

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 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 the Union of Assyrians's mishandling of shoe polishing stations led to violent conflicts in 1920's Moscow?
... that a Ukrainian tax administrator began a program to open 60 ice rinks within five years?

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]

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 thrown by Aaron Rodgers in a span of 13 months?
... 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]

Francis L. Sampson

... that German soldiers did not believe that Francis L. Sampson (pictured) was a non-combatant after his capture during the D-Day landings, because they had never seen a paratrooper chaplain before?
... that the hips of 19th-century Fijian young women were tattooed with veiqia when they reached puberty?
... that the myth of Shunten, the legendary first king of Chūzan, was used to justify the 1872 annexation of Okinawa?
... that two best-seller lists initially classified The Children's Book of Virtues as non-fiction, but later moved it to their fiction charts?
... that Bahamian basketball player Waltiea Rolle moved to the United States at the age of 13 after being noticed while walking home from school?
... that the U.S. Air Force considered a bomber version of the F-22 Raptor known as the FB-22?
... that a new soccer team in Boise, Idaho, plans to play at a converted horse racing track?
... that geologist Gilbert Wilson was the fifth Wilson at school, so he was known as "Quintus"?
... that a medieval town in Poland disappeared?

Prep area 3 [edit]

Atrium of The Empire Brunei

... that the opening of The Empire Brunei (pictured) was timed to help create hotel capacity in Brunei for an APEC summit?
... that museum administrator Herbert Smith hired a special train so that civil servants could watch a total solar eclipse in 1927?
... that Yan Ruisheng, China's first full-length feature film, was banned within two years?
... that Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of the first women to join the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank?
... that the radio program Radio City Music Hall of the Air employed approximately 10,000 musicians during the first eight years of its broadcast history?
... that Stanley Washburn's 29 November 1941 message warning the US Navy not to underestimate the Japanese failed to reach Admiral Kimmel before the attack on Pearl Harbor?
... that the first standalone women's toilets in Auckland were converted into a male-only facility during the Second World War?
... that Taurus 09 was the largest Royal Navy deployment in more than ten years?
... that the name of Kim Jong Un's daughter has not been publicly disclosed?

Prep area 4 [edit]

Nayib Bukele

... that Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele (pictured) has referred to himself as the "coolest dictator in the world"?
... that both the Old City of Gaza and the Old City of Nablus have been repeatedly damaged by Israeli invasion and bombardment?
... that Ragnvi Torslow, a five-time Swedish figure skating champion in the 1920s, was a founder of the Bilkåren, an organization that trained 3000 women to drive during World War II?
... that St Francis of Assisi Church, Notting Hill, contains a font designed by John Francis Bentley and in which he was later baptised?
... that the 1983 Spanish floods were the most economically damaging in Spain until the 2024 Spanish floods?
... that the medieval Castle Knob was the site of a Cold War nuclear monitoring station?
... that Zhou Houkun wrote a thesis on the use of bamboo to reinforce concrete?
... that Burrito Express began shipping out its burritos by mail because of demand from former customers who had moved away from California?
... that weightlifter Wu Tsai-fu drank six huge glasses of beer to help himself urinate for a drug test?

Prep area 5 [edit]

Head of the God of Amiens

... that the God of Amiens (head pictured) seems to have lost his serpent?
... that Carl Smith has been called the "father of Swedish canoe sporting"?
... that Aucklanders have a reputation for making false earthquake reports on New Zealand's earthquake monitoring website GeoNet?
... that Patriarch Amalric was, according to the archbishop of Tyre, "reasonably well educated but bereft of intelligence and virtually useless"?
... that according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction the 1913 Polish novel The Cross and the Crescent is "perhaps the first example" of the genre of military science fiction in Polish literature?
... that 38 per cent of Welsh university students in 1900 were women?
... that the MrBeast Lab toy line first debuted in a pop-up store in the shape of an overturned tanker truck carrying toxic waste?
... that Peel's Cut, a watercourse in Staffordshire, lasted more than 100 years longer than the mill it was excavated to power?
... that no actual voting took place in the 1939 Liechtenstein general election?

Prep area 6 [edit]

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 ...
... that sports broadcaster Carrlyn Bathe started her career as a member of the Los Angeles Kings Ice Crew?
... that ...
... that tacklers "bounced off" Chauncey Archiquette "as if he were a brick wall"?
... that "The Christmas Invasion" was the first story for Doctor Who clearly labelled as a Christmas special?
... that ...
... that Piri Reis did not map Antarctica in the sixteenth century?

Prep area 7 [edit]

Former tin mining pit in Belitung, Indonesia

... that water-filled pits (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 ...
... 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 out of the six people killed in the 2011 Cullman–Arab tornado were members of the same family?
... 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 debated?
... that the author of Oh My Mother! has written about the phenomenon of giving Asian American girls the name "Connie"?
... that ...