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DYK queue status

There are currently 5 filled queues – all good, for now!

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.

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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
October 18	1	1
October 28	1
October 31	1
November 1	2
November 2	2
November 4	3	1
November 5	2
November 7	1
November 8	3	1
November 10	2
November 13	1	1
November 14	1	1
November 15	2	1
November 16	2	1
November 17	1
November 18	2	1
November 19	4	1
November 21	6	5
November 22	5	3
November 24	4	4
November 25	5	4
November 26	4	2
November 27	6	5
November 29	9	7
November 30	4	4
December 1	7	6
December 2	5	4
December 3	7	6
December 4	8	8
December 5	10	9
December 6	9	7
December 7	9	9
December 8	10	10
December 9	8	8
December 10	4	1
December 11	8	7
December 12	7	6
December 13	11	5
December 14	12	11
December 15	6	3
December 16	4
December 17	4
December 18	2
December 19	3
December 20	6
December 21	1
December 22	4
December 23	6
December 24	2
December 25	2
December 26	3
Total	232	143
Last updated 17:49, 26 December 2024 UTC Current time is 18:57, 26 December 2024 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There are currently 5 filled queues – all good, for now!

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Current time: 18:57, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 18 hours ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London (UTC)	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 3	26 December 16:00	26 December 19:00	27 December 00:00	27 December 00:00	27 December 05:30	27 December 09:00	27 December 11:00
Queue 4	27 December 16:00	27 December 19:00	28 December 00:00	28 December 00:00	28 December 05:30	28 December 09:00	28 December 11:00
Queue 5	28 December 16:00	28 December 19:00	29 December 00:00	29 December 00:00	29 December 05:30	29 December 09:00	29 December 11:00
Queue 6	29 December 16:00	29 December 19:00	30 December 00:00	30 December 00:00	30 December 05:30	30 December 09:00	30 December 11:00
Queue 7	30 December 16:00	30 December 19:00	31 December 00:00	31 December 00:00	31 December 05:30	31 December 09:00	31 December 11:00
Queue 1 Prep 1	31 December 16:00	31 December 19:00	1 January 00:00	1 January 00:00	1 January 05:30	1 January 09:00	1 January 11:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	1 January 16:00	1 January 19:00	2 January 00:00	2 January 00:00	2 January 05:30	2 January 09:00	2 January 11:00
Prep 3	2 January 16:00	2 January 19:00	3 January 00:00	3 January 00:00	3 January 05:30	3 January 09:00	3 January 11:00
Prep 4	3 January 16:00	3 January 19:00	4 January 00:00	4 January 00:00	4 January 05:30	4 January 09:00	4 January 11:00
Prep 5	4 January 16:00	4 January 19:00	5 January 00:00	5 January 00:00	5 January 05:30	5 January 09:00	5 January 11:00
Prep 6	5 January 16:00	5 January 19:00	6 January 00:00	6 January 00:00	6 January 05:30	6 January 09:00	6 January 11:00
Prep 7	6 January 16:00	6 January 19:00	7 January 00:00	7 January 00:00	7 January 05:30	7 January 09:00	7 January 11:00

Queues

Queue 3 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Z1720 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Graves at Bayonet Trench

... that a popular myth held that the French soldiers interred in Bayonet Trench (pictured) were buried alive with their rifles in their hands?
... that a lost chronicle of the kings of Kashmir is attributed to the author Ratnākara?
... that a critic described GNX, after its surprise release, as Kendrick Lamar's "greatest work" yet?
... that ballet dancer Nina Tikhonova taught dance for free to children who had been orphaned during World War II?
... that former adult actress Suzumi Suzuki's book Gifted was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 2022?
... that George Bogaars, as head of Singapore's Secret Branch, oversaw the detention of more than a hundred suspected communist sympathisers?
... that the Green Bay Packers won a snowy NFL playoff game by scoring six straight touchdowns after they had been losing 14–0?
... that William C. Roberts had to resign a pastorate in Ohio because his wife's illness was believed to be curable if she returned to her home state?
... that some anarchists reject adjectives?

Queue 4 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Z1720 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Kwan Man-ching

... that Kwan Man-ching (pictured), who directed more than fifty films in forty years, entered the industry hoping to meet his celebrity crush?
... that the style of Hermann Weyl's Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik has been likened to "a smiling figure on horseback, cutting a clean way through ... with a swift bright sword"?
... that international adult figure skating champion Naz Arıcı learned to skate at the age of 29?
... that in 1967 two mathematicians published PhD dissertations independently disproving the same thirteen-year-old conjecture?
... that Shalom Nagar, executioner of war criminal and Nazi Party official Adolf Eichmann, said he was selected at random for the role?
... that Kevin Roose wrote a viral article about artificial intelligence rhetoric after an AI bot attempted to convince him to leave his wife?
... that Karl Thielscher began refereeing American football games less than a month after retiring from playing the sport professionally?
... that between February and August 1918 the Petergofsky District mobilized more than 20 combat units for the Red Army?
... that a South Korean actor sold his belongings and went $7 million into debt to keep his amusement park running?

Queue 5 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Z1720 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Mawali tribal sheikhs, 1880s

... that in the 18th century the Mawali tribe (pictured) was driven from the Syrian steppe to the regions of Hama and Idlib, where their descendants live today?
... that a reviewer identified an "audible contempt" for men in the songs of Ceechynaa, who entered the UK singles chart earlier this month with "Peggy"?
... that vitamin E was named "tocopherol" as it was identified as essential for live births in rats?
... that in the 1950s Michel Klein opened one of the first veterinary practices in Paris?
... that the sexual onomatopoeia puff-puff was censored in English releases of Dragon Quest until Dragon Quest XI?
... that newspaper publisher Jacob Frolich built trapdoors and hiding places in his house in case it was raided by Radical Republicans?
... that nearly 300 construction workers showed up at 8 am to continue building Chernobyl Reactors 5 and 6, unaware of the Chernobyl disaster earlier that day?
... that war correspondent Bernard Gray was killed while travelling as an unofficial passenger aboard a Royal Navy submarine during the Second World War?
... that Good Gravy!, a Thanksgiving dinner–themed roller coaster, was first tested with a train full of plush turkeys?

Queue 6 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Z1720 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Grapefruit

... that the grapefruit (examples pictured) was described as the "forbidden fruit" in 1750?
... that British war correspondent Ian Fyfe was killed on D-Day while landing in a glider with troops attacking the Merville Gun Battery?
... that the cover art of Music from the Merch Desk (2016–2023) was derived from bootleg merchandise?
... that Phoebe Plummer was "unfortunate" to draw Christopher Hehir as judge when she stood trial over the Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest?
... that the 1976 Philippine film Itim was described as "one of the most remarkable debuts in cinema history" in a 2022 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art?
... that Michael O'Kane never received approval to begin constructing a building for the College of the Holy Cross?
... that in the 1980s, when Moturoa Island lost all its endangered kiwi to pests, experts reintroduced seven birds – today there could be as many as 300 kiwi on the island?
... that the only fatality of the Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse was the only audience member to buy a band T-shirt at the event?
... that Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, donated her body to science because "funerals are a bore"?

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.

Vienna porcelain trembleuse cup and saucer

... that trembleuse cups and saucers (examples pictured) enabled people with unsteady hands to drink hot beverages?
... that during one of his Diddy parties, Sean Combs promised not to spill champagne on the Declaration of Independence?
... that the release of the top-level domain .zip was condemned by cyber-security experts?
... that grand claims that the ruler of Mwene Muji once had imperial status were dismissed by Belgian colonial authorities?
... that John Mascarenhas simultaneously served as the chairman of his country's legislature and the president of their Olympic committee?
... that Ekin Cheng agreed to make a cameo appearance in A Nail Clipper Romance after learning that it would be filmed in Hawaii?
... that Emil Bove prosecuted Nicolás Maduro and defended Donald Trump?
... that a Florida radio station DJ's attempt to break a world record was foiled by blown transmitter tubes?
... that The Sausages' first sausage was filled with three courses and an espresso?

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 1 [update count].

Prep area 1 [edit]

Zeng Laishun

... that Qing-dynasty official Zeng Laishun (pictured) attended the second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant?
... that the male standard-winged nightjar grows a wing ornament more than twice the length of its body during breeding season?
... that John Green was UCLA's leading scorer on the first of coach John Wooden's 12 Final Four teams?
... that while Schubert wrote a melody for the song "Bunt sind schon die Wälder" in 1816, Johann Friedrich Reichardt's 1799 version is the one that remains popular?
... that a fighter-bomber group under the command of Walter G. Benz Jr. during the Korean War became the first United States Air Force unit to complete 50,000 combat sorties?
... that because of the cultural impact of Dragon Ball in Mexico, Goku has been described as "a Latino icon"?
... that Chrystal read law before beginning a music career?
... that the straight-tusked elephant was one of the largest land mammals ever?
... that seamen from the warship USS Roy O. Hale boarded the Soviet ship M/V Novorossiysk in 1959, in response to a report from AT&T?

Prep area 2 [edit]

Mountain Landscape

... that the former curator of Mountain Landscape (pictured) says the painting's immersive depth and luminosity can only be experienced in person, not in a photograph?
... that Murad Al-Katib provided 700 million meals of Saskatchewan-grown chickpeas, lentils and wheat to a United Nations program for Syrian refugees?
... that a 10-minute hailstorm in New Zealand caused about $171 million in damage?
... that Scottish bricklayer Brian Higgins was unable to find work for 25 years after appearing on a construction industry blacklist?
... that the Washington state dragonfly Antiquiala was described from a single wing?
... that Edward W. Gantt was a Confederate soldier who defected to the Union during the American Civil War?
... that during the siege of Ak-Mechet, bored soldiers began stealing watermelons from gardens outside the enemy fortress?
... that Shō Sen'i was overthrown in favor of his thirteen-year-old nephew?
... that the titular songstress in Sing-Song Girl Red Peony, China's first sound film, was overdubbed by a man?

Prep area 3 [edit]

Paora

... that following public backlash over Paora (pictured) being mistreated, Zoo Miami stated, "We have offended the nation of New Zealand"?
... that lacrosse player Austin Staats went undefeated in his college career?
... that one of the major prey groups of the paddle crab, Ovalipes catharus, is other paddle crabs?
... that Arab Christian physician Abu Sulayman Da'ud served both Latin Christian and Arab Muslim rulers?
... that jazz dancer LaTasha Barnes used to be a sergeant in the U.S. Army?
... that the basic tune for "As Long as You're Mine" from 2003's Wicked was written by Stephen Schwartz in the 1970s?
... that Jing Tsu remembers being called "female tiger" because her schoolteachers' punishments had little effect on her?
... that booing heard after the UK's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 was reportedly either a response to past football hooliganism, claims of lip syncing, or alleged plagiarism of the Supremes?
... that the 2024 American Samoan gubernatorial election was won by Pula and Pulu?

Prep area 4 [edit]

Detail of the memorial

... that the grave of Ethel Preston (pictured) in Leeds, England, has a life-sized statue of her stood in front of black marble doors, left ajar?
... that meetings between Biblical and post-Biblical characters, as when Moses sees Rabbi Aviva teach and be martyred, are rare in Talmudic stories?
... that Marie-Thérèse Eyquem served in the government of Vichy France and was the first woman appointed as a national secretary of the French Socialist Party?
... that An Amorous History of the Silver Screen, an exploration of more than four decades of film in China, argues that cinema is a modern folk tale?
... that a critic called Benjamin Britten's Tema "Sacher" a "truncated and barely coherent page [of music]" and "a pathetic fragment"?
... that the 1980s Beechcraft BQM-126 target drone could be launched from aircraft based on aircraft carriers?
... that children's author Mary Chalmers owned ten cats and a Pomeranian dog, whose poses helped her draw illustrations for her books?
... that in the 1917 Moscow District Duma elections, the Bolshevik Party won 97% of the votes of the soldiers at the heavy artillery workshops?
... that despite being scared of giving birth to her own child, Flora Hommel went on to teach over 17,000 couples the Lamaze technique?

Prep area 5 [edit]

The 1991 Andover tornado at F4 intensity

... that the 1991 Andover tornado (pictured) narrowly avoided hitting two warplanes equipped with nuclear warheads?
... that Sonya Friedman developed the idea of supertitles for opera to translate what is being sung on stage?
... that multiple scenes in Papa feature cotton tree flowers, even though it was not scripted and the falling cotton simply kept drifting into the shot?
... that Canadian rapper Apt Exact, who has been described as "not gangster", was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 2024?
... that while Tellus packages together cash from multiple consumer depositors to make real estate loans, and is not FDIC-insured, it states that it does not offer mortgage-backed securities to consumers?
... that schools in Wales during the Second World War were held in village halls?
... that Kathryn Maple won the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition twice in three years?
... that in 1999, the Manhasset apartment building caught fire just as its renovation was being completed?
... that Chen Dingshan has been called the last heir of the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school?

Prep area 6 [edit]

Saint Amalberga of Temse, shown with the sturgeon

... that St. Amalberga of Temse is the patron saint of upper limb injuries because of the legend that Charlemagne broke her arm while trying to force her to marry him?
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... that the Biblical Magi dispense mysterious vision-inducing foods in the Revelation of the Magi, proposed by a scholar to be an account of ritual hallucinogen intake?

Prep area 7 [edit]

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... that a Talmudic passage, "The Heart Knows its Own Bitterness", is used in Jewish medical ethics to justify patient autonomy?
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