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Queue 7

Template:Did you know nominations/Neil Sean

@Casliber, PrimalMustelid, Panamitsu, and Launchballer: Is the article Neil Sean a suitable BLP article for the main page? An IP claiming to be Sean (it is also possible they were trolling) complained at the Helpdesk here. Around half the body of the article is sourced to or discusses a comedy programme, Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish, where Gorman criticised Sean. WP:BLP says Be very firm about the use of high-quality sources and I don't think a comedy programme is a high quality BLP source. Launchballer and I discussed this at the talk page here and RSN here, but nobody else responded. TSventon (talk) 10:06, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I've said my piece there, Modern Life is Goodish would have gone through a production company's lawyers and the channel's lawyers (as evidenced by the section beginning "Gorman also questioned"), and is RS by all other measures. Both episodes (and the podcast) cite at least one editor. I'm pretty sure I'm only using him for attributed opinion and descriptions of work contents, and I've included other opinions for all three of the works he had reviewed.--Launchballer 10:08, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Regardless of whether Modern Life is Goodish is reliable (I suspect it is not—why would copyright lawyers keep a close eye on whether a comedy program sticks to the facts?), its use, supporting nearly half of the article's body is totally WP:UNDUE. Seriously, 600 words to say "Guy A heavily criticised Guy B on a comedy show", sourced entirely to the comedy show in question? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:10, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I think Launchballer is saying (and I agree) that libel lawyers would be involved when an individual is criticised at length on national television. I still don't think that a comedy programme is a high quality BLP source. TSventon (talk) 12:51, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I tend to disagree (on size of segments in article). Sean appears to be a humorous author and two of the segments are about works he's written. Also material of Gorman's is posted as Gorman's opinion not "fact". Yes other areas should be a little larger, but this doesn't strike me as drastic (but should be looked at I guess). Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:22, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

The other point that I was making is that WP:BLP pertains to "information about living persons", and analysis of works - in front of a Doctor Who expert - does not come under this. WP:CONTEXTMATTERS, and nothing controversial comes from it. I've tried to expand the other sections as much as I can, so that should take some of the edge off.--Launchballer 11:19, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Cas Liber, I think that using Gorman as a source means that this article focuses on the two publications that Gorman found easiest to criticise, which is WP:UNDUE. Also in a comedy programme, Gorman's aim would be to entertain rather than give a neutral overview of Sean's work. I don't know whether Sean is a humorous author: "How to Live Like a Celebrity for Free" may be a work of humour, like 101 Uses for a Dead Cat, but Gorman criticises it as a book of tips, not as a parody of a book of tips. However I am happy to accept your judgement on whether the article is suitable for the main page.

Launchballer, WP:BLP pertains to "Biographies of living persons", including "information about living persons" so I believe that analysis of a living person's works in a biography about them is covered. TSventon (talk) 11:58, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Queue 1

Template:Did you know nominations/Greens (English restaurant)

The hook itself is fine but the sentence in the article where it appears is problematic:

At the time, they were under the impression that they would have enough money to employ a chef and that they could spend their time harassing women; having discovered that they did not, they tossed a coin to see who would learn to cook, which Rimmer lost.

There's nothing in the source about "harassing women" - this seems like a pretty terrible BLP violation. I don't think it should be linked from the main page until it's corrected. It's been there since the article was created, which throws a bit of doubt on the integrity of the rest of the article as most of it was written by the same editor. WaggersTALK 10:52, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Not doing very well today, clearly. Source says 'chatting up girls', which ultimately is what that is.--Launchballer 10:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Good grief. "Chatting up" and "harassing" women are not synonyms, and the one you decided on was not only not in the source (and therefore original research) but was a BLP violation, which I have immediately changed. I am considering whether to revdelete the revisions with that statement in as well. I would absolutely be concerned about the accuracy of the rest of that article if that's typical of how it's been written, though I can see no other BLP issues. (Edit: I have rev-deleted the revisions - it's just such a blatant violation). Black Kite (talk) 11:53, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I checked the review, but it makes no mention of BLP issues and uses Template:DYK checklist, which does not mention BLP either. TSventon (talk) 12:06, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, but we can't allow an article with such a problem to be linked on the Main Page. There was nothing wrong with the hook, but the reviewer didn't notice the BLP violation, which is why (a) it's being discussed here (because Waggers did notice it), and (b) I've removed it and replaced it with what the source actually says. Black Kite (talk) 12:10, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks BK. I'm happy with the rest of the hooks and, now that's sorted, I'll go ahead and promote to queue. WaggersTALK 12:17, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Black Kite I have two concerns, firstly that DYK checklist does not mention BLP, when it is one of the most important checks and secondly that WP:DYKPBR does not tell promoters what they need to check when promoting a hook. TSventon (talk) 12:40, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

That's a very good point, and it probably needs to be added. It could be quite a lot of work for a reviewer though - in this example, if the source had actually supported the text it would have been OK (because it was Rimmer's own words). But he didn't say that, and the author imposed their own POV and OR on it. It was a good catch by the promoter in this case. Black Kite (talk) 17:18, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I: hope reviewers ensure that every hook they promote is fully adherent to all our core policies, and especially including the whole of WP:NOT. ——Serial Number 54129 17:25, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Wouldn't BLP issues be covered under the "policyother" slot on the template? I'm surprised this isn't covered anywhere in the guidelines. --evrik ^(talk) 14:25, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I agree that BLP issues could be mentioned under the "policyother" slot on the template, but I was noting that in this case the review did not specifically mention BLP, because the template doesn't do so. Regardless of the format of the review, it will always be easy to miss a one word BLP violation. TSventon (talk) 14:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

If it's already part of the policy, then we have to AGF and pay attention. --evrik ^(talk) 15:40, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Prep 6: Linking to Wikipedia namespace within a hook

Are links to the Wikipedia: namespace really allowed in a DYK (2024 Auckland Wikicon)? Maybe there's precedent; maybe it has been discussed and decided, in which case, fine. But I'm surprised this unusual step is never even remarked on in the review. Given that the Wikipedia: namespace is not part of the encyclopaedia, it seems very self-referential to link it within a content area of the front page. I don't see a prohibition on linking to other namespaces in the Guidelines, but then I personally would have thought it too obvious to state. Are all namespaces acceptable targets for DYK hooks? MartinPoulter (talk) 20:50, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

There's nothing in the guidelines that explicitly forbids linking to non-mainspace pages, but given that our guidelines refer to "articles" and not "pages", I guess it could be argued that implicitly, only links to articles should be allowed. For now I've done the simplest solution and removed the link, although I'd like to hear from both the nominator Marshelec and the reviewer PCN02WPS for their thoughts as well. Courtesy pings to participants Launchballer and BlueMoonset and promoter PrimalMustelid. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:18, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

If there is uncertainty about whether links to Wikipedia namespace are permitted in a DYK hook, then I accept its removal._Marshelec (talk) 07:19, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

To go slightly off topic, I really feel like articles shouldn't have any non-bolded links; disambiguation pages only have one link because they want to direct the reader to one clear place, and I think we have that same interest. But definitely not projectspace links, that's not helpful for the average reader. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:01, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

"articles shouldn't have any non-bolded links"? Did you really mean "articles"? "disambiguation pages only have one link" I don't get it; I've never seen a disambiguation page with only one link (you clearly don't mean a redirect) and I can't imagine what the point of such a page would be. Totally agree with you in opposing projectspace links in DYK hooks, though. MartinPoulter (talk) 08:38, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

@MartinPoulter: theleekycauldron means disambiguation pages only allow one wikilink per entry (MOS:DABENTRY). Hence she's suggesting that hooks should also only have one wikilink, or rather only the bolded link(s), per hook. Bennv123 (talk) 12:00, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks - I get it now. MartinPoulter (talk) 10:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Was this meant to be "hooks" and not "articles"? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:16, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

yyep, it was theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 23:15, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Strongly agree with @Theleekycauldron - hooks should not have non-bolded links. I have considered this seriously in the past, in particular where my submitted hook had limited views on the bolded link but many many views on the non-bolded and non-reviewed articles also within the hook. (see e.g. Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Tidy_Trax) I strongly support that only bolded links should appear in a hook. Otherwise, in the current setup, we are pushing non-reviewed article links to the WP frontpage. ResonantDis_tortion 23:00, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Regardless of the appropriateness of the Wikipedia namespace link (which shouldn't be there), I have concerns about that entire hook. I'm not a fan of navalgazing in general but it happens from time to time. This is too over-the-top, however. This is a DYK hook on the main page about a DYK hook on the main page, and not only is it a hook, it's the most prominent image hook, with an image of someone pointing at themselves on the main page with Very satisfying to see your work featured on homepage prominently displayed in the image. This is not well-sourced either, since this "coincidence" is only supported by a powerpoint uploaded by the article's subject. That powerpoint is not a reliable source, and is about the importance of main page exposure, not exactly an unbiased source to support something being put on the main page. - Aoidh (talk) 12:24, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

I've pulled the hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:59, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

Replaced. I'm annoyed because I thought myself involved (having promoted the hook displayed in the image), and I would have liked to review this.--Launchballer 13:50, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

I can't find any rule that explicitly says you can't link to other namespaces in a hook, but it sure seems like a bad idea to me. I would also support a rule that says there can't be any non-bolded links in a hook. They just distract from the main event. RoySmith (talk) 23:48, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

I'd be against a blanket rule against non-bolded links in hooks. I get where the sentiment is coming from and ideally we'd want to avoid adding as many links in a hook as much as possible, but they may sometimes be necessary. For example, for certain hooks about things that may not be understandable to all audiences (like hooks about American football/baseball/basketball/cricket), links may be necessary to give context. While we probably should do more to encourage minimizing extra links, this should probably be a case-by-case thing rather than a blanket rule. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:58, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

"The main event" has a different meaning in the two contexts. If a user is on a disambiguation page such as Khalili, we know they have an interest/ intention to find something connected to that name, so links that do not relate directly to that name are a distraction. When a user is on the home page, we don't know anything about what, if any, subject-specific desires or intentions they have. So it's not possible to distinguish links that meet the user's need from links that don't. We only know that they know English, and in a DYK hook they may see names or terms they are not familiar with. In line with the educational purpose of the site, they should expect to be able to click on them to learn the meaning of that word. The fact that we, the authors of the site, regard one link as more important is irrelevant. Users are at different levels of learning: for some, the interesting fact might be that Muhammad Sadiq (photographer) photographed the Kaaba; for others, this is meaningless until they learn about the building in Arabia called the Kaaba. So I would oppose any new restriction on non-bolded links and would not take seriously the analogy from disambiguation pages. MartinPoulter (talk) 11:17, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Queue 2

Raḥamim (newspaper)

@Bruxton, Soman, and Piotrus: The hook is a problematic "first" assertion. I can't get to the source (no preview available in Google Books). The publisher is listed as "Club "Roshnoyi-Light" & authors"; I have no clue what that means. Self-published? This is going to need better sourcing or a different hook. RoySmith (talk) 15:07, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

The "first" assertion appears across many sources, I included two to avoid having an exhaustive listing of refs. The publisher is mentioned here as "Organizations like the Bukharian Museum, The Association of Bukharian Jewish Youth “Achdut”, and Club “Roshnoyi–Light”, among others, are actively involved in cultural preservation efforts that include the language." The hook is supported in the article by another book, Durmuş Arık. Buhara Yahudileri. Aziz Andaç, 2005. p. 71. See also in Hebrew, [1] which states the exact same fact. See also История еврейского народа в России. Том 2: От разделов ... ("«Рахамим» — первая газета на языке бухарских евреев."), Шалом: международный литературно-публицистический журнал ... ("первой бухарско - еврейской газеты " Рахамим"), Краткая еврейская энциклопедия - Vol I (" первая газ . на этом яз . « Рахамим » ,"), Бухарские евреи: очерки ("РАХАМИМ » ( « МИЛОСЕРДИЕ » ) - первая бухарско - еврейская газета , издававшаяся Рахмином Давидбаевым в 1910-1914 в Скобелеве "), etc, etc. --Soman (talk) 15:33, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) The two book sources in the article were offline as you said. Here is one I just found source The First newspaper published in the Judeo-Tajik (Bukhori) language, in the early 20th Century. This scholar refers to the name of the paper under the name variation "Rakhamim". If we use that variation we find other RS like this book. They all refer to it as the first. I can add one to the article if that works. Bruxton (talk) 15:46, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

When citing offline or hard to access sources for important claims, I recommend adding quotations to the citations (best practices). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:23, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

In this case, it's particularly difficult. It's not just that it's off-line, it's also not in English. But that's easy enough to solve by providing a translation. The real difficulty is that I don't kow how to judge if "Club Roshnoyi–Light" is a WP:RS or not. RoySmith (talk) 01:29, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Bruxton's link looks good "In the years 1910–1916 in the city of Skobelev (later renamed to Fergana) the first Jewish paper in the Bukharan-Jewish language – Rakhamim – was published." from Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939 by Zeev Levin, 2015 link. TSventon (talk) 10:04, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Redirect in Queue 2

Since being promoted, Taylor Made (song) has moved to Taylor Made Freestyle. The hook should reflect its new name. (My gut reaction to seeing it in prep was "didn't Drake whinge last year after AI vocals of him were used in a Munch (Feelin' U) remix", and wouldn't that make a good hook.)--Launchballer 19:57, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

I've edited Q2 to reflect the new article title. I can't say that I understand your suggestion, though, Launchballer. Can you draft a hook with the words you have in mind? Schwede66 21:39, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Something like "... that a year after objecting to the unauthorised use of his own AI-generated vocals, Drake used vocals of other rappers generated that way to respond to a diss against him?" (Probably should ping @PSA, Sammi Brie, and Bruxton: out of good manners, although I should be clear I have no problem with the hook currently in queue.)--Launchballer 22:51, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

I'd say that's a stronger hook than what we've currently got. Schwede66 23:03, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

That's a great hook, and I endorse it. As predicted, this stuff has moved pretty quickly. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:10, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done I've adopted the hook as suggested above. Schwede66 22:07, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Prep area 4

Forever Young (horse)

If the horse wins the 2024 Kentucky Derby six hours later, can the hook be changed from Saudi Derby to 2024 Kentucky Derby? NinetyNineDragon (talk) 17:09, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

We could have, but the horse was 3rd. Bruxton (talk) 03:58, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

How about "the first Japanese horse finished third in the Kentucky Derby" (source)? It still sounds more impressive than winning the Saudi Derby and the UAE Derby to me. NinetyNineDragon (talk) 16:55, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Prep area 7

On 3 May AirshipJungleman29 promoted 9 hooks to Prep 7. Ravenpuff has reverted all of these promotions to a previous set. Checking these - it appears this set did not appear on the main page so this seems to be the correct action? I am not sure what is going on here - but it looks to be all the newer promoted hooks are now sitting in limbo with status as "promoted" but none having made it into a set. See the prep history [2], and for example Template:Did you know nominations/287 Broadway and Template:Did you know nominations/Agnes Kimball. Pinging @Ravenpuff and @AirshipJungleman29. To fix this - do the 9 DYK templates promoted on 3 May need to be pushed back to the approved list? ResonantDis_tortion 21:54, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Apologies – I'm not sure what exactly happened, but it was entirely accidental and might have been an inadvertent use of the "unsaved changes" function. I have restored the correct version of the prep area, which should I hope fix the issue, although I'm not sure if something else has broken in the interim. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 21:59, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

• @PrimalMustelid and AirshipJungleman29: I have a vanity request. :-)

I am working on User:Bilorv/Challenges#Calendar. I could use a hook on the 13th. In Prep 4 there is this hook:

... that the memorial Ivančena was created to honor members of the Silesian Scout Resistance who were executed for their part in the resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II?

Would you please swap it to Prep 7? It would be appreciated. Thanks. --evrik ^(talk) 04:31, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Seems reasonable, so I swapped it with that set's Polish hook. There are now two World War II hooks in prep 7, which is technically allowed, but I may kick William F. Fiedler back when prep 3 is promoted.--Launchballer 07:25, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Vanity request

When prep 7 clears, I would appreciate Template:Did you know nominations/Nozawana going into that set. I need the 23rd to complete User:Bilorv/Challenges#Calendar. Many thanks. --evrik ^(talk) 19:56, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I suggest moving it to the special occasion holding area, so that a prepbuilder will see it when they promote Template:Did you know nominations/David Raymond.--Launchballer 20:09, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Will do. --evrik ^(talk) 20:10, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I also suggest adding a source for the phrase "Nozawana is not Asian like daikon, but has strong European characteristics, and closely related species have been found in Fukushima Prefecture.".--Launchballer 20:14, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Noted. --evrik ^(talk) 20:15, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Note that it will not be able to run with the picture evrik—the multi-article hook will take priority. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:12, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Character limit for hooks is 200

Our hook character limit is 200. Unless I am missing something it looks like we have a 221 character hook on the main page at the moment. that the production team of the TV series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier created a highway more than five miles (8 km) long to capture visual effects for a truck action sequence for the episode "The Star-Spangled Man"? Pings for Promotor PrimalMustelid, nominators @Dcdiehardfan, Adamstom.97, and Favre1fan93: reviewer @John Cummings: and I am not sure who the queue promotor was. Bruxton (talk) 03:08, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

What you do is to go to the page with the queues and click on the history of the bottom queue, as that's the one that was last emptied. Before it got moved to the main page, you can see that Casliber promoted that queue. Schwede66 03:21, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I went to the nominator's talk page and saw Cas Liber awarded credit. The set looks too long at the moment. about 100-200 more characters than our normal set size. Maybe a trim is in order. Bruxton (talk) 03:28, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I did propose "ALT9: ... that the set for the The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode "The Star-Spangled Man" included a purpose-built five mile highway?" on that nom as a snappier version of what's currently on the main page. Not sure why I was ignored.--Launchballer 07:25, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

If this still needs to be reduced, we can go with ... that the production team of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier created a highway over five miles long for an action sequence in the episode "The Star-Spangled Man"? Not including the elipses or question mark, I'm counting this as 162 characters. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 15:54, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

User:DYKUpdateBot/Time Between Updates needs to be fixed

@DYK admins: This edit by Sdkb will prevent the bot from updating. Please undo. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 06:03, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Done; my bad! (Having a page so fragile that adding documentation will break it is non-optimal; I'd suggest improving the bot's coding so that it can be re-added.) Sdkb ^talk 06:07, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

A page like this really should be using the JSON content model. It's still hand editable, but you also get a bit of sanity checking when you save it. It would have prevented this particular problem. RoySmith (talk) 11:49, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

don't see it wrong with it updating once every 86400<noinclude>{{documentation}}</noinclude> seconds, should be every 16 hours or so? would have to check the documentation... :P theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 07:58, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't understand why an edit like this would be made without checking with the bot owner, Shubinator, first. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:04, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't know that "a critical piece of Main Page infrastructure should probably have some notes on what on earth it is" is an unreasonable impulse – this was {{trout}}able, but I'm not unsympathetic to it. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:19, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

2 queues left.

@DYK admins: Currently, we have 2 remaining queue sets promoted. As usual, I recommend promoting more prep sets so that we can clear the approved hook backlog. PrimalMustelid (talk) 16:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't think there is a backlog, or that there is any real urgency. Let's save the emergency pings for admins for when the deadline is under 24 hours, rather than over 50? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:25, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Promoting queue sets ahead of time instead of at the last hours is more ideal, could allow for a smoother process of ironing out errors. That said, instead of at 2 queues, I can notify admins when we’re at one or no queue sets left. PrimalMustelid (talk) 18:38, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes in fact, further to our conversation last week, it's actually better to notify earlier rather than later, because if admins have to do a rush job to get a set ready in under 24 hours, and not do full checks, then errors can creep in.  — Amakuru (talk) 19:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I stand corrected. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:10, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Well I don't know about "corrected", I'm only offering an opinion ...  — Amakuru (talk) 19:30, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I've got to say the near-constant DYK pings are annoying to the point I'm tempted to remove myself from the list. PLEASE use them sparingly. WaggersTALK 07:58, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@DYK admins: , well hopefully the 36-hour point, which we have now reached, is a compromise between Amakuru's and Waggers's positions. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

A 36-hour point does sound good, and if for some reason no action is taken, we can ping again at the 12-hour mark though hopefully this won’t have to happen. PrimalMustelid (talk) 12:16, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm with Waggers. I find these pings annoying. I'm a volunteer, I don't like being nagged because I'm not working hard enough. Pinging the DYK admins should be reserved for real emergencies. RoySmith (talk) 13:20, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Double trouble?

Queue 2 and Queue 3 both have portraits for their lead photos. I vaguely remember a rule that we don't like to do that. RoySmith (talk) 20:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

• @RoySmith: - Swap the images in Queue 3 and Queue 4. That would also fix the problem with the upcoming queues. --evrik ^(talk) 21:26, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I also propose moving Bedok Reservoir to slot two, between Gligorov and Smith, so that there would not be two adjacent bios.--Launchballer 13:24, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Queue 4

Forever Young (horse)

I'm kind of dubious about the sourcing: inside-games.jp doesn't give me warm and fuzzy feelings about being a WP:RS. I can't read Japanese so I'm going off the automated translation: "Expectations are already high that the horse will be turned into an Uma Musume." So, an unattrbuted statement in an unsigned article in what looks to be a WP:UGC fan-blog. RoySmith (talk) 20:09, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

@PrimalMustelid @Storye book @NinetyNineDragon ping RoySmith (talk) 20:11, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

The inside-games.jp article was published by a website called Inside, which is owned IID, Inc., a company listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange since 2015. Although it does not lead to automatic notability of the company (WP:LISTED), I believe it also proves that it is not just a fan blog. Besides, the article is signed by 茶っプリン. And it is obvious that the statement is unattributed since the article quotes the reaction from the Internet. If you are still uncomfortable with it, its owner Susumu Fujita also mentioned about its relationship with Uma Musume Pretty Derby in his interview on Netkeiba, saying if Forever Young wins the Kentucky Derby, it can become a popular uma musume ("horse girl").

Besides, I changed from "the winner of the Saudi Derby" to "the first Japanese horse finished third in the Kentucky Derby" (source) in the hook. Please revert me if it is not appropriate. Thank you. NinetyNineDragon (talk) 00:58, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Oh, it seems that I can't change the hook. If anyone who can do it thinks "the first Japanese horse finished third in the Kentucky Derby" sounds more impressive, please help me change the hook. Thanks. NinetyNineDragon (talk) 01:02, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping. According to what the creator tells us, that source is OK. So in good faith I defer to their opinion of the source. Re the hook: I still approve all the hooks as they existed at the time of promotion. Storye book (talk) 07:48, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Attica (1974 film)

@PrimalMustelid, GamerPro64, and OlifanofmrTennant: The hook is confusing. It says ...directed a documentary about the Attica Prison riot in 1974 which sounds like the riot was in 1974. RoySmith (talk) 20:19, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

What about:

Alt 1 ... that in 1974 Cinda Firestone, the heiress to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, directed a documentary about the Attica Prison riot?

Alt 2 ... that Cinda Firestone, the heiress to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, directed a documentary about the 1971 Attica Prison riot?

--evrik ^(talk) 21:23, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Also, the "Synopsis" section needs to be cited, as it is not a work of fiction and does not fall under MOS:PLOTSOURCE. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

The NYT review can be used to cite the synopsis. --evrik ^(talk) 21:41, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I think Alt 2 would work. GamerPro64 00:33, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

OK, I've put ALT2 onto the queue, thanks. RoySmith (talk) 12:39, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Queue 3

Richard Louhenapessy

(nom page: Template:Did you know nominations/Richard Louhenapessy)

• ... that due to Richard Louhenapessy's arrest, the Indonesian city of Ambon had four mayors in May 2022?

This doesn't seem entirely accurate to me. I can understand that the second mayor came into office due to Louhenapessy's arrest, but the third and fourth seem to have taken office for unrelated reasons, because their predecessors as acting mayor couldn't be in that position any more or were replaced. I suspect a small tweak would be fine, to remove the causality and just highlight that there were four mayors overall. Pinging @Juxlos, Narutolovehinata5, and Bruxton:  — Amakuru (talk) 21:21, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Maybe replace "due to" with "after", then? Juxlos (talk) 23:59, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I think that also works. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:18, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, late reply - yes, it almost works, although given that Louhenapessy himself is also one of the four, that might need a slight re-tweak. WIll think about this shortly.  — Amakuru (talk) 16:31, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Or maybe:'

• ... that the Indonesian city of Ambon had four mayors in May 2022, including Richard Louhenapessy who was arrested?

Juxlos (talk) 00:00, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Elvio Porcel de Peralta

(nom page: Template:Did you know nominations/Elvio Porcel de Peralta)

• ... that after receiving his record 97th ejection, footballer Elvio Porcel de Peralta went to the referee and punched him?

Small point, but I have never heard the term ejection being used in a football (soccer) match before. Sending off is the usual nomenclature, at least where I come from. I could understand if it were an Americanism or something, but it looks like the article is written in British English, given that it says Honours (rather than Honors) and uses dmy dates... @BeanieFan11, Launchballer, and PrimalMustelid:  — Amakuru (talk) 21:50, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

• @Amakuru: I'm admittedly not an association football expert (I understand the sport enough that I was able to write the article - but I usually follow a different type of football (which is where ejection is used)) – happy to have it changed to "sent off" or another term if that's what's generally used. BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

  We should use whatever term the source uses, preferably translated by a native speaker of Spanish. RoySmith (talk) 22:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

  "Sent off" is correct. Source: "fue expulsado en 97 partidos"; per WordReference, expulsado = sent off. Our (unreferenced) Ejection (sports)#Association football notes "The act of ejection is referred to in the sport as "sending off"." Note that "receiving a red card" or "being shown a red card" are synonyms. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:45, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

  Then I think this would be: ... that after being sent off for the record 97th time, footballer Elvio Porcel de Peralta went to the referee and punched him? BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:53, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

  I would trim it to ... that after being sent off for a record 97th time, footballer Elvio Porcel de Peralta punched the referee? I doubt he needed to "go to" the referee, who was likely right next to him. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:38, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

I agree with the above suggestion. --evrik ^(talk) 15:38, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done, thanks, that works. Just on a small point of order, I would have to take issue with the suggestion that "We should use whatever term the source uses, preferably translated by a native speaker of Spanish". That is almost the opposite of what we should be doing - per WP:PARAPHRASE and other guidelines, "Editors should generally summarize source material in their own words". If there are various terms for "ejection" that are clearly synonyms, then we should choose the one that matches our MOS and other prose factors, not just blindly use the same terminology as the source - more particularly when that source isn't even in English in the first place. Anyway, doesn't really affect anything here, just thought I'd reply to that!  — Amakuru (talk) 16:39, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Special occasion request for Stonewall Inn

When I nominated Template:Did you know nominations/Stonewall Inn to DYK last month, I requested that the DYK run on June 28 to coincide with the first full day of the Stonewall riots. At the time, I forgot about WP:DYKSO, which says that The nomination should be made ... not more than six weeks in advance. Exceptions to the six-week limit can be implemented by way of a local consensus at WT:DYK. I'm cross-posting this here to get consensus on this request.

Also pinging Generalissima, the DYK reviewer, and AirshipJungleman29, who first brought up the DYKSO issue. – Epicgenius (talk) 00:09, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

The article topic and the requested date have a strong resonance, both because of the day and in some countries because of the month (Pride Month). The hook even includes a picture of the topic at a historic moment (when it was commemorating its new status as a national historic landmark) which would make for a great image for DYK that day. This is a reasonable request for an exception to WP:DYKSO, and I support it. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 02:35, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• I support this request. --evrik ^(talk) 02:57, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
• 10-11 weeks is a long time, and longer than the 8 weeks we've discussed a few times, but this is clearly linked to the Stonewall riots article, and it will be the 55th anniversary. (Will propose that article appears on OTD, last appearing there on the 50th anniversary). CMD (talk) 04:55, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Joanne McCarthy (basketball) Pulled hook

The discussion at [3] was quite unusual regarding pulling "... that sisters Joanne, Lynette, Amy and Jenny McCarthy were all gymnasts and ten-pin bowlers?". I was based on "The girls also have tackled bowling and gymnastics, Linda McCarthy said." this source.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 11:34, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• It seems like there were objections to

1. the use of the word all in the hook (which could have been removed).
2. the fact that the hook was not mentioned in an unbolded article (which seems a bit irrelevant)
3. noting a contextually peculiar hobby on the main page from User:Fram, which User:AirshipJungleman29 deemed a serious offense to the main page. Then User:TenPoundHammer confessed to reviewer error. So User:Schwede66 pulled the hook.

Hooks of the flavor that Person X who is now famous for Alpha once used to do a contextually peculular thing Beta, is an extremely common hook form on DYK. I don't see what the rub was.

• Also, I have no understanding what User:Cremastra's comment "A DYK about a link is pointless—it doesn't highlight a specific article. Besides, the sourcing was suspect regardless of the article"

1. Is the Chicago Tribune no longer a WP:RS?
2. What is the meaning of specific article not being highlighted?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 11:34, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

   My bad, by comment was confused, but the original concerns are still valid. Cremastra (talk) 12:25, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

   User:Cremastra, If so couldn't you have removed the word All and delinked Jenny. Don't understand the third.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:58, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

   Yes, specifically the one about the hook not being supported by the RS it cited, a reason I note is absent from the above three objections. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:31, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

   User:AirshipJungleman29, Not understanding how "... that sisters Joanne, Lynette, Amy and Jenny McCarthy were all gymnasts and ten-pin bowlers?" is not cited by "The girls also have tackled bowling and gymnastics, Linda McCarthy said.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:58, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

   I tackled football and cricket as a child; that didn't make me a footballer or a cricketer. These words mean that you are proficient at the sport—the definition of "gymnast" is "a person who is skilled in gymnastics, often someone who competes in gymnastic competitions". I could also say "I and my friends all tackled rugby as children", where they played for county level and I did nothing more than catching the ball once and subsequently being bulldozed. That is something I could mention in an interview but which is out of scope for an encyclopedic article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:15, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

   User:AirshipJungleman29, This is all a matter of tweaking a hook. I am hearing you say that having been a gymnast and or a bowler is different than having done gymnastics and bowling, which is a tweak issue for a hook. I.e., I think you are saying that the source supports ALT1"... that sisters Joanne, Lynette, Amy and Jenny McCarthy did gymnastics and ten-pin bowling?", but not "were all gymnasts and ten-pin bowlers". In terms of an article about a subject who is WP:NSPORT as athlete, youth athletic activity is well within scope as it presents the evolution of her reason for notability. In fact, there is no athlete bio where I could present any youth athletic activities where I did not consider it within scope to do so. What is wrong with this logic.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:23, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

   Your changed hook is them simply not interesting. The DYK definition of interesting is "likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing by readers with no special knowledge or interest". Children having hobbies is not interesting in the slightest. The original hook falsely claimed that they were all proficient in gymnastics and bowling, which is interesting. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:36, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

   Why are you assuming their youth activities were hobbies? Competitive gymnastics starts at a very young age. The source is silent on whether they were hobbyists or competitors. There is some reduced intrigue with the downgrade of the hook from "... that sisters Joanne, Lynette, Amy and Jenny McCarthy were all gymnasts and ten-pin bowlers?" to ALT1"... that sisters Joanne, Lynette, Amy and Jenny McCarthy did gymnastics and ten-pin bowling?" but this hook has embedded intrigue in the fact that Oh My!!! I did not know Jenny McCarthy had a notable sister. So there is that element of the hook the retains intrigue. For those that know who Joanne is, there is intrigue in that wow we actually know something about her athletic background, what else does the article tell us. Removal was a bit inappropriate in the sense that it removes all record of this appearing in the archive. I assure you if you put the downgraded hook back on the main page for the 5 hours it got shorted yesterday it would have enough intrigue to get viewers. It would also rightly appear in the archive for being in the closing version of a DYK run. Since this got over 7000 views even though it was slighted 5 hours, it deserves to at least be in the archive. It may not be the most intriguing hook ever, but it does deserve to be in the archvive, which only happens by being in the closing version of the DYK run. Can we just put the the properly revised version back on for the last 5 hours of todays set so it can make the archive.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:31, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• Restoration on main page request for WP:DYKA appearance as ALT1"... that sisters Joanne, Lynette, Amy and Jenny McCarthy did gymnastics and ten-pin bowling?". @AirshipJungleman29, TenPoundHammer, PrimalMustelid, and Cremastra:-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
• @Schwede66: Also meant to include on this discussion.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:52, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

1. In fact doing gymnastics might give one a penchant for performing on a stage in front of an audience of fans and judges might make one inclined to want to perform on other types of stages for fans and critics like Jenny did. This topic could even be added to Jenny's article and be within scope.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:41, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

   I have in fact, just added this to Jenny's article.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:49, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

   As alternative suggestions for phrasing this in an interesting way, perhaps:

   • ALT2A"... that basketball player Joanne McCarthy also did gymnastics and bowling?"
   • ALT2B"... that basketball player Joanne McCarthy and her actress sister Jenny did gymnastics and bowling in their youth?"

   I think while there is a way that mentioning all four sisters could be interesting it's harder to find that phrasing than just honing in on "person notable for A used to do B", which the earlier versions of the hook don't sufficiently directly highlight. I do think this hook fact can be and is interesting. I admit to finding that saying calling someone a "gymnast" necessarily implies a minimum level of proficiency seems an overwrought reading; a gymnast can be a mediocre hobbyist at gymnastics, and a a filmmaker can be lousy at the making films. Lacking major skill doesn't require one to say the person just 'does filmmaking' or 'does gymnastics'. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 17:17, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

   User:Hydrangeans, I agree that a bit much was made of this quibble. Although notability is not WP:INHERITED, and we don't necessarily want to port Inherited intrigue, there is intrigue in noting that Jenny McCarthy has a notable sister and having both links in the hook increases likelihood of a clickthrough. I prefer to have all the sisters listed, but including just Jenny is prefered to not including her, IMO.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:39, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

If you really need a completely different hook,

1. ALT3"... that when Joanne McCarthy retired from basketball, she moved to Los Angeles to be a makeup artist?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:10, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Looks fine. Cremastra (talk) 12:27, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

@DYK admins: This hook got pulled from the main page over a questionable quibble, which means it got short changed 4+ hours and did not make the WP:DYKA. Can you decide on one of these ALT hooks and restore this to be in DYK at the close of a run so it can be in DYKA.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:10, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

If there's consensus for this to be given another 4 hours of airtime, I'd be most happy to arrange that at 20:00 UTC. Schwede66 03:53, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Happy for this Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:58, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm supportive of this, with thanks and kudos to Shwede66 being up for arranging it. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 05:14, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

• Is ALT1 OK or do we need to look at this more closely?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:26, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
• P.S. it got pulled at 19:56 UTC so it was shorted 4:04. So if we could confirm an ALT by 19:56 today that would be great.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:26, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done I've restored it as ALT2B. Schwede66 20:08, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

• User:Schwede66, On behalf of the McCarthy sisters, Thx.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:42, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Input needed at Template:Did you know nominations/Timeline of the 1993 Atlantic hurricane season

Hi all. This is a weird case. Timeline of the 1993 Atlantic hurricane season was an existing article created in main space in 2008. It remained for several years until it was merged/redirected (without a discussion that I can find) to 1993 Atlantic hurricane season in 2011. The old article's history is still extant in the Timeline of the 1993 Atlantic hurricane season article. The article was recreated in a much improved version recently. Is this new? A 5x expansion? My understanding is we go off existing article history, so I would guess it would be a 5x expansion given that the old article is still there in the history and there are overlaps in content between the new and old versions. Also, do we ignore the bulleted text for a timeline page, or do we count it when looking at prose count? All opinions welcome in helping to clarify how we should handle this nomination.4meter4 (talk) 18:31, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• @4meter4: After 13 years, I'd say you could make the new case. 2011 - 1816 characters (283 words) - 2024 4085 characters (612 words): --evrik ^(talk) 18:33, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@evrik It isn't 5x longer. If we discount bulleted text, the original prose count is 1,816 characters of prose making the required 5x expansion 9080 characters. The article currently has 4,085 characters not including bulleted text. If we include the timeline itself and its bulleted text (the majority of the article's content is presented this way), the gap widens even further by a significant amount. I'd be ok with overlooking the bulleted text because that seems in keeping with policy. I am less inclined towards considering this new because it is clearly an article on the same topic with overlapping points in the timelines, and most importantly both versions of the article share a single article history. I think we need to consider that this wasn't created as a new page but is a restoration of an old one with a single article history. That clearly shows it isn't a new page. Calling it new would set a bad precedent.4meter4 (talk) 18:49, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• Whatever. I'd say it's new. --evrik ^(talk) 18:51, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@evrik I can understand why some editors might view it that way, which is why I brought it here. I'm sticking with the need for a 5x expansion, but could respect the decision to consider it new if that is the majority view. Let's get some more opinions to arrive at a WP:CONSENSUS.4meter4 (talk) 18:57, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

After over 12 years of absence, I'd say that the article should be considered new, but that any reused material from the 2011 incarnation does not count toward the minimum 1500 prose character requirement. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset That seems reasonable. Are we counting bulleted text in the new prose count?4meter4 (talk) 19:02, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

4meter4, bulleted text never counts as prose. DYK check gives the current total as 4086 prose characters, all of them in the intro paragraphs. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:47, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• I'm supportive of considering this a new creation rather than an expansion of a prior version of the article, after more than a dozen years of the namespace being a redirect and there being effectively no live version of the article displayed to readers. Especially on comparing the current version to the 2011 version and seeing how improved the current version is compared to the 2011 version, I think considering the nominated article a new creation falls within the spirit of DYK highlighting a wide range of fresh content on Wikipedia. I support allowing this nomination to proceed. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 19:04, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

• It looks like a clear consensus to treat this as a new article. So, that's what I will do in my review. Thanks all for the input. 4meter4 (talk) 19:32, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Older nominations needing DYK reviewers

The previous list of older nominations was archived earlier today, so I've created a new list of 33 nominations that need reviewing in the Older nominations section of the Nominations page, covering everything through April 29. We have a total of 196 nominations, of which 91 have been approved, a gap of 105 nominations that has increased by 15 over the past 8 days. Thanks to everyone who reviews these and any other nominations.

• March 19: Template:Did you know nominations/Centurion C-RAM
• April 5: Template:Did you know nominations/Tachikawa Sumito
• April 13: Template:Did you know nominations/Mabe Fratti
• April 17: Template:Did you know nominations/Obonga-Ottertooth Provincial Park
• April 18: Template:Did you know nominations/Gherardo Gambelli
• April 19: Template:Did you know nominations/Bed of nails defense
• April 21: Template:Did you know nominations/Flag of San Diego County, California
• April 21: Template:Did you know nominations/The Sign (Bluey)
• April 24: Template:Did you know nominations/Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud
• April 24: Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Kummer
• April 24: Template:Did you know nominations/Teeth (musical)
• April 25: Template:Did you know nominations/Stacy Hollowell
• April 25: Template:Did you know nominations/DarkZero Esports
• April 25: Template:Did you know nominations/Gyōji
• April 25: Template:Did you know nominations/The Sheep Eaters (film)
• April 25: Template:Did you know nominations/Taiyin Xingjun
• April 26: Template:Did you know nominations/Giovanni Manu
• April 26: Template:Did you know nominations/Theo Benedet
• April 26: Template:Did you know nominations/Bob Noel
• April 26: Template:Did you know nominations/Southern Railway Building
• April 26: Template:Did you know nominations/Ilie Purcaru
• April 27: Template:Did you know nominations/Travis Glover
• April 27: Template:Did you know nominations/NBV21
• April 27: Template:Did you know nominations/What a Devastating Turn of Events
• April 27: Template:Did you know nominations/Albert Wesker
• April 28: Template:Did you know nominations/Travis Clayton
• April 28: Template:Did you know nominations/Delta (emulator)
• April 28: Template:Did you know nominations/Lineage (anthropology)
• April 28: Template:Did you know nominations/The Days of '98 Show
• April 29: Template:Did you know nominations/Jarrett Kingston
• April 29: Template:Did you know nominations/Meat diaper (two articles)
• April 29: Template:Did you know nominations/Eurovision Song Contest 1991
• April 29: Template:Did you know nominations/Camping in Alaska
• April 29: Template:Did you know nominations/DellaXOZ
• April 29: Template:Did you know nominations/2024 Southeast Asia heat wave

Please remember to cross off entries, including the date, as you finish reviewing them (unless you're asking for further review), even if the review was not an approval. Please do not remove them entirely. Many thanks! BlueMoonset (talk) 18:53, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Queue 6

"Coming out of my cage / and i've been doing just fine!" theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:52, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello! --evrik ^(talk) 23:57, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Li Zhaoxing (nom)

• ... that Li Zhaoxing (pictured), a former Chinese minister of foreign affairs, has published more than 200 poems and was known as a "poet minister"?

@Toadboy123, Makeandtoss, and AirshipJungleman29: I'm not sure I trust this seemingly government-connected source for the claim it's making about a government official in the hook. Is it independent/reliable? Also, citation 4 to Deseret News is incorrect; it's to a history.com source, which would be unreliable. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:51, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

I have fixed citation 4. If there are concerns on the reliability of the source of the hook, we can replace it with another sources such as these [4], [5], [6]. Toadboy123 (talk) 22:27, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@Toadboy123: do any of these verify "poet minister"? Having trouble with access... theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:32, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Source 4 which is by South China Morning Post confirms that Li is a prolific poet and has published over 200 poems but does not mention that he is called 'poet minister'. However a source in the article by People's Daily mentions that Li is called 'poet minister'. Toadboy123 (talk) 22:43, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

It says he is called a "poet diplomat", which the hook might need to be adjusted to? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:40, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

List of Green Bay Packers NFL All-Decade Team selections (nom)

@Gonzo fan2007: I'm struggling with the notability factor here, particularly on WP:LISTN. Are there any independent sources that give notability to the Packers' prevalence on the All-Decade Team? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:01, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Theleekycauldron I'll note that WP:LISTN specifically states that it is not an all-inclusive guideline (One accepted reason why a list topic is considered notable...) (my emphasis). I think this list clearly satisfies WP:LISTPURP, specifically because it is grouped by theme and provides navigation between articles with related qualities (being selected for the same type of recognition). From a WP:LISTN perspective, the topic of "Green Bay Packers players All-Decade Teams" is discussed. Here is a Packers.com piece that provides the full list of the specific topic. Other news organizations also develop their own "All-Decade Team" for specific teams, like the Packers. 247 did it here, Forbes notes that five Packers were selected for the PFF All-Decade team, USA Today did it for the Packers and all of the news articles reporting on the selection of Aaron Rodgers include his Packers teammates, like here. Obviously the HOF lists each All-Decade Team member by team and is the most notable, which is why it is used for the basis of this article. Hope this helps. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:38, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

2024 opening of regular sessions of the National Congress of Argentina (nom)

@Cambalachero and SounderBruce: Hmm, I'm not sure that this is notable under the relevant guideline of WP:NEVENT. I'm glad to see non-U.S. politics getting the U.S. politics treatment, but unfortunately, we do have pretty high barriers in this area because of U.S. politics cruft. Also, I trust that Infobae is a reliable source? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:08, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Those speeches are the Argentine equivalent of the State of the Union address in the United States. And it seems in {{State of the Union}} that Wikipedia has articles for all and each one of those. Cambalachero (talk) 23:04, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

That's true, but notability isn't transferred that way – SOTUs are so notable they're widely assumed to pass NEVENT without a hitch. The sources currently in the article don't demonstrate the same thing. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 23:11, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Many of those links are not Wikipedia articles, but Wikisource entries. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:41, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Infobae is a fairly reliable source. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:00, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

I have added some international sources to the article. As for lasting effects, the "Pact of May" proposed in the speech is an ongoing topic of political negotiation still today, see here. Cambalachero (talk) 01:16, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Ground Round (nom)

@Sammi Brie: ooh, an interesting foray for you! Can I suggest this alternate hook?

• ... that at the restaraunt chain Ground Round, customers were allowed to drop their peanut shells on the floor?

Thought it might be cute :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:16, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Ooh, my childhood! The peanut shells on the floor are one of the first things I remember about that chain. That and the cartoons on the projector. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:32, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

There are some other chains that did that (I remember once eating at Logan's Roadhouse, which did similar). This is fine; I don't know if it's completely unique. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

That is true Sammie, many places still feature the peanuts shells on the floor. Texas Roadhouse for instance. Bruxton (talk) 00:19, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Chances R in Chicago had peanut shells on the floor by the mid-1960s, years before Ground Round was founded. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:21, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

A little copyediting:

• ... that Ground Round customers dropped peanut shells on the floor?

RoySmith (talk) 23:26, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Le Touquet (nomination)

Just spotted a report at Errors literally 5 minutes before the hook went live:

"that even though about 100,000 bombs fell on Le Touquet during World War II, making it "the most mined city in France ...". My reading of the article is that the 100,000 refers to mines (i.e. explosive devices planted carefully by hand designed to explode when the enemy encounters them), not to bombs dropped from aeroplanes. In this case it was the Allies who were dropping bombs and the Germans who were planting mines. So the hook needs a rewrite or to be cut. Jmchutchinson

Upon a very quick reading of the article, it seems the concern is justified. I've thus pulled the hook. Heads up to @Szmenderowiecki, Elli, and PrimalMustelid: as nominator, reviewer and prep promoter. I'd say we find a new hook and then promote again, as it's a very solid article. Schwede66 00:43, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Ah man, sorry about that. Didn't catch the discrepancy. I'd change it to "even though about 100,000 mines were left in" maybe? Elli (talk | contribs) 01:02, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Nobody got hurt; no trouble. I've reopened the nomination page. Schwede66 02:33, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

The hook appeared on the Main Page today but I have received no message on my talk page as such despite being the hook nominator. Please do take up the issue for consideration. Looking forward to the issue being resolved. Regards. MSincccc (talk) 00:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

DYKUpdateBot was just a bit slow off the mark today. It arrived at 12:24 UTC. Schwede66 01:59, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Random text at top of DYK noms

I noticed at one of my recent DYK noms it created with the random text "{{DYKsubpage |monthyear=May 2024 |passed= |2=" at the top. I don't think that's supposed to be there? BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Someone took out "Post-promotion hook changes [[User:GalliumBot#darn|will be logged]] on the talk page; consider [[Help:Watchlist|watching]] the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.}} from somewhere, which causes a }} to be missing. --Launchballer 01:43, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

It's this edit by @Theleekycauldron: that did it. I've reverted it, but I don't speak Lua, so someone who does should make the edit again leaving the }} in.--Launchballer 02:03, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

It's been done.--Launchballer 02:07, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't really know Lua but I'm fairly sure that's the answer, so I've gone ahead and done it. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 02:07, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Hook needed Mohammad Saifullah Ozaki

I got involved in this nomination and I think we need help with hook ideas to proceed. Bruxton (talk) 02:36, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

I added Alt2. --evrik ^(talk) 03:19, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you both for the hook ideas. Now we wait. Bruxton (talk) 03:32, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

@John Cummings: bring your questions here. --evrik ^(talk) 15:58, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Bruxton, evrik thanks, I guess what I'm struggling with is the vast majority of his article is about his radicalisation and being the emir of the Islamic State in Bangladesh. Where as the hooks are about him wearing a face mask and knowing about finance. This feels extremely strange. John Cummings (talk) 20:48, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

@Bruxton and Evrik: Pings don't work without signatures. I can tell you that I deliberately sidestepped his militancy stuff out of an abundance of BLP caution.--Launchballer 08:34, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

I have no proposed two alternative hooks. Not much else I can do. --evrik ^(talk) 13:28, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Nomination and Article in Prep 5

I think this hook does not flow well and it is not approved in the nomination. ... that Ronald Reagan only acknowledged AIDS in 1985, despite it having killed thousands in the U.S. since 1981? The part I am not fond of is "despite it having killed thousands". The hook in the nomination flows better in my opinion .. that despite AIDS being identified and causing thousands of deaths since 1981, President Ronald Reagan did not publicly acknowledge AIDS until 1985?. Despite is used in both hooks and it appears in WP:WTW so we need to decide if it should be used.

After reading the hook I looked at Earwig. It looks like quotes caused a 77% Earwig score. Courtesy pings to promotor @AirshipJungleman29: Nominator @Wasianpower: reviewer @Buidhe:

If we need some hook tweaking we can do it here; alternatively if nobody sees this hook the way I did, we can leave it. Bruxton (talk) 04:17, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

I actually think that the modified hook reads better, while the original is perhaps too long and a bit clunky, while burying the article topic in the second half of the hook.

"Despite" is ok in this case, because it's the sources making the connection not the wikipedia editor. Otherwise it would be OR. (t · c) buidhe 04:36, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Agree that it is generally inaccurate to say AIDS killed people as people die from AIDS complications (diseases caught with a compromised immune system), not AIDS itself. I’m not sure there’s a way around using a “although/despite” type word here, and it’s worth noting that the contrast drawn here is very common in literature on the subject. Possible compromise hook:

that Ronald Reagan only acknowledged AIDS in 1985, despite AIDS causing thousands of deaths in the U.S. since 1981.

🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 04:41, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Also just realized, it's important that the word "public" is used here, as he had private meetings on the subject in 1983.

... that Ronald Reagan only publicly acknowledged AIDS in 1985, despite AIDS causing thousands of deaths in the U.S. since 1981.

🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 05:02, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

@Bruxton and Wasianpower: I have no opinions on the killed/caused deaths dispute (seems much of a muchness to me, and reminds me of this) so this hook is fine, but I do feel that my rearrangement, as buidhe noted, improves the flow of the hook. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:30, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Not fond of that hook from a neutrality perspective, it reads as taking a very deliberate stance on something the lead says is a "source of controversy". The hook implies a continuous period of deliberate ignorance for that period, and while that is probably true for some of it, the disease didn't even have its name in 1981. The "Reagan administration response" section starts only in October 1982. The hook also doesn't read that clearly without background knowledge about the history of the disease (coming to the US some time in the 1970s but only being clearly defined beginning in 1981) and of American political history (inauguration in 1981). CMD (talk) 04:49, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict):Despite appears to be editorializing because it sets up an accusation that Reagan willfully ignored the crisis. With that said, I think the wasianpower hook idea is better. Bruxton (talk) 04:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

It isn't WP:OR editorializing when this contrast/despite is something reliable sources have pointed out. The controversy the article mentions is not about whether Reagan was as president publicly silent on the matter of AIDS until 1985, as that's uncontroversial fact part of the public record and in reliable sources. The controversy is over the appropriateness of that silence and whether as president he should've taken a public stance on addressing the public health crisis or whether his administration's action/inaction was normal/fine. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 05:09, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm obviously biased because it is my hook, but I disagree that it is implying deliberate ignorance on Reagan's part. The hook is about his public silence in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, which is an uncontroversial fact. 🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 04:56, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

What is the distinction between public silence and deliberate ignorance here? The article suggests he didn't understand the severity of disease until 1985 (deliberately or not). CMD (talk) 05:12, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

The distinction IMO is that public silence is concrete, and we can and do have factual historical record of it. Whereas deliberate ignorance would require us to see inside Reagan's head to know what he knew and what his motivations were. 🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 05:18, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

The link between the two that creates the implication is the framing. "...only...despite...killed thousands...", not a bald statement of uncontroversial fact. CMD (talk) 05:27, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Is the framing controversial?

• The first news reports about AIDS surfaced in 1981 — just months into the Reagan presidency — and within a few years, thousands of gay men had died of the disease. Yet Reagan didn’t make an early push to fund expanded medical research and didn’t make his first public comments about AIDS until 1987, at which time more than 20,000 Americans had died of its complications. (Associated Press)
• More than 6,000 Americans had already died. Yet the budget for AIDS research was a fraction of what the U.S. government spent on diseases that were far less threatening. President Ronald Reagan had yet to even say the word AIDS in public. (NPR)
• President Reagan famously (though, not famously enough) didn’t himself publicly mention AIDS until 1985, when more than 5,000 people, most of them gay men, had already been killed by the disease (Vanity Fair)
• the Reagan administration blatant refusal to deal with the issue of AIDS while thousands of Americans were dying from the disease. (Democracy Now)
• This was an era largely defined by President Ronald Reagan’s refusal to acknowledge that the virus was destroying lives due to social determinants or to intervene in ways that were necessary. Though his administration was aware of the epidemic, it was not until 1985 that he would even say the word AIDS publicly. (The Body)
• the years of silence from President Reagan as tens of thousands of people died gruesome, horrendous deaths. (KQED)
• Throughout the decade, the epidemic proliferated all over the United States, leaving a searing trail of death in its wake. On July 8, 1982, the CDC reported 452 diagnosed cases of AIDS, and 177 AIDS deaths. By decade's end there were almost 115,000 diagnosed cases, and more than 70,000 deaths. ... the president's handlers advised against engagement, however. AIDS was affecting marginalized subpopulations, and they told the president it was a "lose, lose" issue. Reagan would not utter a word on the matter, even as it became a hotbed political and cultural item in the national discourse, until the summer night he took to the podium by the Potomac. (Greg Berhman, The Invisible People: How the U. S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic 25–28)
• by the time he finally addressed the epidemic in earnest — in 1987 — nearly 23,000 people had died of the disease. (Washington Post)

Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 06:05, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Whether or not the framing is controversial is an entirely separate question to what the framing is/does. Your hyperlinks show a mixture of different wordings, some more obviously pointed than others, but they include some good examples of being bit more contextualized/specific. For example, the Vanity fair framing of just year looking at 1985 and deaths at that point is a lot clearer and sets up a simpler point than suggesting the same situation existed across five years. CMD (talk) 07:23, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure I see how the Vanity Fair example here is any different than the others. The AIDS epidemic in the United States is considered to have began in 1981, which is also when tracking of infection and death numbers begin. All that Vanity Fair is doing is making that implicit rather than explicit, which only exacerbates your point about required background knowledge on the history of the disease. As shown in the examples Hydrangeans kindly provided, this kind of wording and framing is very common across reliable and neutral (AP, NPR, Washington Post) literature on the subject, so I guess I don't understand what the issue here still is. I can see how you may personally view this fact as reflecting negatively on Reagan, but even those who defend Reagan's AIDS record do not dispute this fact. 🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 14:12, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

I think we can dispassionately state the facts and the hook is still interesting. Despite is a word that injects blame when the word is not needed - a reader can draw their own conclusions. I also see the word "only" which also leads the reader. As an example, here are two hooks about Nero, ...that the Roman emperor Nero Fiddled as Rome Burned? or ...that despite the fact that Rome was burning, Roman emperor Nero only played his fiddle? Do both say the same thing? Yes, but one tells the reader what to believe and one allows the reader to draw a conclusion.Our article on Nero states that it may not be true so this is just an example. Bruxton (talk) 15:00, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Sure, I'm fine with using that format. How about:

... that Ronald Reagan did not publicly mention AIDS until 1985, four years after it was identified and after more than 5,000 people in the United States had died from it?

🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 15:50, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

As much as I think this is an excess of caution, it is a clean hook and would have my support. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 11:43, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

@Bruxton@AirshipJungleman29 Does this hook look good to you? 🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 16:57, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Personally, I would trim the "four years after it was identified" bit—diseases are identified all the time, and no-one expects politicians to comment until they cause suffering on a mass scale. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:03, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Agree with AirshipJungleman29. I struck the part which was mentioned above. I am satisfied that the hook idea suggested is more neutral. Also wasianpower. I hope you will continue to participate in this section of the project. Bruxton (talk) 17:37, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! I plan to, appreciate your help and guidance in this discussion. 🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 17:51, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

There's entire books and scholarly papers that discuss the "deliberate ignorance" of the "gay disease" by Reagan and the members of his fundamentalist Christian administration, who went on record saying that gay people deserved to suffer. ACT UP was formed in 1987 after years of Reagan's extreme cruelty and harsh policies. None of this is the last bit disputed or controversial. However, it needs to be said, and I've brought this up many times before, sometime in the 1990s, a well funded effort was made by billionaire-funded conservative foundations to scrub the historical record of these facts, and for decades, we've seen conservatives write articles and books whitewashing Reagan's true, disastrous record. Viriditas (talk) 23:33, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

A specific quote about that would probably make a better hook. CMD (talk) 02:49, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

• The hook seems too tendentious in that it implies that Reagan was actively downplaying the topic. But consider this example from the article "In the 1984 Presidential Election... Neither Democratic candidate Walter Mondale nor Reagan made any public statement on the AIDS during the campaign, and no reporter raised the issue with the candidates." So, if the press corps and the Democratic candidate didn't take an interest in the topic, why would Reagan? The article is written from a single-issue biased perspective but, as President, he had many other issues to concern him. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:50, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  This proposed hook advances a false balance that can leave a reader with the impression that reporters didn't bring up AIDS in presidential contexts even though there were like reporters like Larry Kinsolving who did (see When AIDS Was Funny). Berhman's The Invisible People (published by Free Press, a reputed imprint of Simon & Schuster makes it clear that Reagan and his administration were aware of the epidemic and chose have Reagan avoid acknowledging it as political strategy, not as a matter of him being busy and concerned with other things (pages 25–28, portions excerpted above). Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 10:20, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  Those are single-issue sources with a corresponding bias. I just looked at our article HIV/AIDS and it doesn't even mention Reagan once. Instead I notice that it says "The World Health Organization first proposed a definition for AIDS in 1986." Now President Reagan was not especially responsible for medical issues but the World Health Organization is. Trying to make out that Reagan was a villain for not addressing an issue that the WHO hadn't defined yet seems like a ridiculous conspiracy theory. It's a blatant violation of WP:NPOV. Andrew🐉(talk) 11:41, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  HIV/AIDS also doesn't mention any heads of state, or surgeon general C. Everett Koop, a physician relevant to the disease's history in the United States but not necessarily globally. Content that wouldn't be due in a very broad level article like HIV/AIDS can be due in a subtopical article like Ronald Reagan and AIDS.

  Reducing the reputable publishers cited in the article like Penguin Books, University of Chicago Press, University of North Carolina Press, Vox, and more to biased single-issue sources is a characterization that I think can't hold up. In any case, neither the article or hook use non-neutral language like calling Reagan a villain or evil. If anything, the Wikipedia article's depiction turns out rather soft compared to some sources, emphasizing as it does the effect of personal acquaintance Rock Hudson's death on Reagan's trajectory. Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 11:53, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  I've not seen anything which would pass WP:MEDRS. And the article makes medical claims such as "AIDS disproportionately affected, and continues to affect, members of the LGBT community, with gay men and transgender women being the most at risk." But this is sourced to an activist organisation and, as I understand it, it is wrong. When considered as a global pandemic, the people most at risk seem to be those living in Africa. See, for example, the WHO fact sheet which says nothing about the LGBT community in its coverage of risk factors. Andrew🐉(talk) 14:58, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  Andrew Davidson, WP:MEDRS standards are not required for content which does not fall under the category of "Biomedical information"—WP:NOTBMI indicates that aspects such as history, society, and culture don't require MEDRS sourcing. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:06, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  See WP:BMI which explains that biomedical information includes "Population data and epidemiology" such as the "Number of people who have a condition". Andrew🐉(talk) 15:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  No, I agree with you on that, was just pointing out that WP:MEDRS is only tangentially relevant to the article under discussion, which mainly focuses on socio-historical topics. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:54, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  I've gone ahead and updated that claim with sources from the CDC. 🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 15:45, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  We should probably look through this article to see that prose and sources comply with our policy of NPOV. Andrew Davidson - can you help edit this article? Bruxton (talk) 17:46, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  I have trouble getting past the first four words: the title of Ronald Reagan and AIDS. This seems to personalise the topic in an improper way because Reagan himself wasn't especially active in driving policy. The main complaint seems to be that his administration was too slow in acting but that's just being wise after the event. Initially the disease was not well understood and it took some time to figure it all out and even now it still kills about 500,000 annually. That's about 100 times greater than the numbers of deaths complained about in those early years and it's obviously not all Reagan's doing or fault. A better approach is to consider the overall campaign of successive administrations. See Fighting an Epidemic in Political Context: Thirty-Five Years of HIV/AIDS Policy Making in the United States for a more systematic and scholarly view. Andrew🐉(talk) 18:37, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  That makes sense. It may be that the article began with a thesis about Regan's inaction, and then sources were found to support it. Bruxton (talk) 18:55, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  Yes, I had also thought that the title was not well-chosen. "Response of the Ronald Reagan administration to HIV/AIDS" seems more encyclopedic, if a trifle long-winded. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:00, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  I almost went with that name, I decided against it because, as you said, it's long winded, and because I thought the section on Reagan's personal views might be out of place there, but I'm fine with that title if it's generally preferred. I do also think that it may be worthwhile to move this discussion to the article talk page, it seems out of scope for the DYK talk page. 🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 19:03, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  The AIDS response of Ronald Reagan specifically has long been an issue in LGBT history (see AIDS-Holocaust metaphor for an example), as well as a general source of controversy in the discourse of American politics (examples 1 2 3). AIDS is a frequent topic of discussion when it comes to the Reagans' legacies (4 5 plus many more sources from the left which specifically attack Reagan for his AIDS legacy). I think what you're discussing is more within the general scope of HIV/AIDS in the United States which is worthwhile, but I also think it's justified to have a page specifically on Reagan's response. 🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 19:01, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  I'm not sure I'd call reliable sources pointing out the silence of the most powerful man in the United States during the time, who was personally acquainted with victims, and who was (as Berhamn documents) apprised of its seriousness by administration insiders but chose to heed other advisers' sense that silence was more politic, a matter of sources from the left which specifically attack Reagan. I'll grant that Democracy Now is shrill about it, but that's not the tone of the Wikipedia article, and it's not the tone of Invisible People, NPR, KQED, AP. Juxtaposing Reagan's silence and the death toll even appears in an even-handed (one might even say rather glowing), biography like H. W. Brands's Reagan: The Life (Doubleday, 2015): He maintained presidential silence on AIDS throughout his first term, even as the death toll mounted into the many thousands (656). Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 19:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  Very fair point, I was referring more to sources like this 1. Not saying those articles from aren't justified either, just pointing out that Reagan's AIDS response specifically is notable by itself. 🌸wasianpower🌸 (talk • contribs) 19:30, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

To wrap this up, are we ok to insert this hook which was discussed above?

... that Ronald Reagan did not publicly mention AIDS until 1985, after more than 5,000 people in the United States had died from it?

@AirshipJungleman29: Thank you for making the change. Without objection we carry on. Bruxton (talk) 16:41, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I need some quirk

• Template:Did you know nominations/Toro de fuego has bulls and fire. Can anyone help me with a quirky hook? --evrik ^(talk) 20:36, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

@Evrik: From the source about chasing people... I feel like there is a good hook in the 30 days of different people wearing a fake bull's head which is streaming fireworks while they chase random people through the streets. I had some difficulty translating the text but that seems like a good option. Bruxton (talk) 01:48, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

... Ecuador has crazy cows? RoySmith (talk) 22:47, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Catchy hook, what makes the source reliable.--Launchballer 23:41, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Catchy hook I do for free. Sources you gotta pay extra for. Interestingly enough, I see we've got Crazy Cow which sounds positively gross. RoySmith (talk) 23:58, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

It was pretty good. I remember it as a child. Of course, you had to like strawberry milk, which was very popular at the time due to Nesquik Strawberry powder, which all the stores carried. Viriditas (talk) 00:19, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

I guess it competed with Franken Berry. Personally, I'm more of a Corn Flakes guy. RoySmith (talk) 00:42, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

They were made by the same company. It's all about fiber for me. My go to cereal these days is Nature's Path Smart Bran. I can't get enough of it. I've bought something like 20 boxes in the last year. Great product. Viriditas (talk) 00:52, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

I like graham crackers soaked in milk. --evrik ^(talk) 02:38, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

"Alt... that some towns have "crazy cows" that run around scaring people, and some towns have as many as thirty fire bulls with Sparks flying 1.5 meters (4 ft 11 in) from the bulls horns? --evrik ^(talk) 02:52, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Are we saying cow because of the translation "crazy cow" in the lead? Because technically a cow is a female cattle and a bull is a male. The article is about bulls. Bruxton (talk) 02:59, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Some countries in Latin America call the "creatures" cows. In Spain, it's all bull.--evrik ^(talk) 20:38, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Crazy is an ableist insult. Being needlessly insulting to many of our readers is a very poor idea. Eric the Angry Communicator (talk) 17:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to wikipedia. --evrik ^(talk) 17:11, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

It's too bad that the bulls aren't described in reliable sources as "great". If they had been, you'd have a chance at "great bulls of fire". Goodness gracious! BlueMoonset (talk) 06:12, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

a good quirky shakes your nerves and rattles your brain, eh? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:32, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Ha! Great Bulls of fire! JLL was a rather controversial figure but he could tickle the ivories. Bruxton (talk) 16:44, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

This thread leaves me "breathless." How about:

"... that while the people of San Sebastián use flaming bovine puppets during their great week festival, the puppets are not "great bulls of fire"?"

--evrik ^(talk) 20:38, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I cannot access the source @Evrik: but the hook will work if the language is in there. I just suggest that our best practice is to minimize other links in the hook. Bruxton (talk) 14:52, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Most of the information in that hook can be found here:

Goñi, Félix M. "Fuegos artificiales en Euskalherria" [Fireworks in the Basque Country] (PDF). Normativa sobre espectáculos pirotécnicos (in Basque). Gobierno vasco. p. 26. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 May 2024. Retrieved 2020-03-06.

I have no problem stripping the links. Any suggestions for the word puppet? --evrik ^(talk) 14:56, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Prep 2

Enchylium limosum

How is "Enchylium limosum loves lime" interesting? Lots of plants can't grow in acid soil, which is why garden shops sell lime by the ton. RoySmith (talk) 00:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

• It's quirky. --evrik ^(talk) 02:36, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

  I'm failing to see the quirkyness. RoySmith (talk) 15:39, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

  I'd imagine "limosum"-"lime" is supposed to be it. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 15:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Environmental damage in the Gaza Strip caused by the Israel–Hamas war

I'm hard pressed to see how this complies with Hooks must adopt a neutral point of view. Also, regarding The article should not be subject to unresolved edit-warring I see that Bruxton wrote on the nom page, it appears mostly -stable, just the nominator and myself have edited it today. That's probably because it's under WP:ECP. This seems like not what we want to be running on the main page. RoySmith (talk) 01:13, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

• I agree the hook should be watered down. I think this is good for the DYK page, even if it keeps changing. --evrik ^(talk) 02:34, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Nobody has edited the page for ten days so it does not keep changing. Because the article is stable, I have no idea what the edit warring comment is about. What am I missing? There is environmental damage in every war (think Agent Orange), but the sources and article call this out as systematic ecocide against greenhouses and farmland. Do you have a suggestion? Meanwhile I will ping promotor @PrimalMustelid: nominator @John Cummings: and participant @Launchballer: Bruxton (talk) 02:52, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

I think the hook is exactly as viable and less fraught with the omission of the characterization, someone tell me if I'm wrong about that, i.e. ... that Israel has systematically destroyed 38 to 48 percent of trees and farmland in Gaza using bulldozers and tens of thousands of bombs? Remsense诉 13:22, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

I think that "systematically destroyed 38 to 48 percent of trees and farmland in Gaza using bulldozers and tens of thousands of bombs" is misleading as it implies that Israel has used tens of thousands of bombs to destroy trees and farmland, while tens of thousands seems to be the number of bombs used for all purposes. TSventon (talk) 11:15, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Very good point, thank you for catching me up. In that case, I'm not sure how to rewrite it. Remsense诉 11:18, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I would remove "tens of thousands of". TSventon (talk) 11:35, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

It is deeply misleading to say "trees" were systematically destroyed. Nowhere in the article does it say Israel is systematically destroying all the trees of the Gaza strip. As for the broad range of percentages, one sentence in the article even says that the estimate includes trees felled for firewood. CMD (talk) 16:23, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I've unpromoted this; I'll leave it to somebody else to re-fill the prep set. It can get sorted out on the nom page. RoySmith (talk) 16:32, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly DYK pageview leaders oddly showing Joanne McCarthy (basketball) as lowest

Joanne McCarthy (basketball) ran on at DYK from 00:00 to 19:56, May 7, 2024 (7208 pageviews) and 20:08, May 9, 2024 to 00:00, May 10, 2024 (1777 pageviews). So in 23:48 it had 8985 pageviews. It is listed only for the second run, but as if the second run was 24 hours with some sort of adjustment making her pageviews 1303 with an average pageview of 1303/24=54.3, which is the lowest of the month at both Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly summary statistics and Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly DYK pageview leaders. Can this be fixed somehow?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 08:49, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Moved it on pageview leaders, although I don't really understand summary statistics.--Launchballer 13:34, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger: The bot seems to have undone our edits.--Launchballer 11:44, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

ANI thread - "BLP issues with Andrew Tate DYK hook"

I've changed the thread title to match the current ANI thread title (that title was changed too). The original title was insulting. But if the original title was insulting enough to cause offense and be changed, then we can't really simultaneously quote it verbatim here and say it's OK.--Floquenbeam (talk) 16:35, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

FYI - Here is the permanent link.. I imagine there are a few here we may not be aware that they were discussed here. Lightburst (talk) 19:54, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. I'm not going to comment on the ANI myself, as there often seems to be much more heat than light there. However, I think this could have been avoided with a less-controversial hook, like I mentioned earlier. – Epicgenius (talk) 13:28, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

It would have been avoided, and going for dramatic and pointed hooks extends beyond just BLP. See also the above discussion on Environmental damage in the Gaza strip. CMD (talk) 16:18, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I am mad at myself for not sticking to my arguments about BLP hooks. Honestly, It felt like a losing battle. Many wanted a negative hook and so we went with the subject's own words. ALt0 in the nom was great but nobody was having it; and so was your suggestion EG. Thanks for being the great editor that you are and for your suggestion. Bruxton (talk) 22:11, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

This is probably going to be an unpopular opinion here, but the way the Andrew Tate discussion turned out felt like a case of DYK wanting to put politics above anything else, even Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:47, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Agree. I remember AirshipJungleman29, Lightburst, Epic G and maybe a few others like you who tried to reject neg hooks. It was my fault for relenting and approving the hook - I wanted to reward the editor who brought the article through GA. I think it was hard to reject the actual words of the subject, but as EpicG has said it was not necessary to use it. Anyway it is important that we debrief so that we move forward and grow. Bruxton (talk) 23:25, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Given that this is intended to be a debriefing I wonder if it would be a good idea to ask for their thoughts and opinions here now that the hook has run. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:38, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm going to be honest here: I felt that any negative-sounding hook about Tate, regardless of personal feelings and politics, was going to be a bad idea. Even as someone who doesn't like him at all, I felt that a more neutral hook would have been a more suitable compromise (my preference was simply not running Tate at all, but that was never going to gain consensus). I felt that the discussion was more like a case of trying to right great wrongs or trying to insert politics into DYK, where personal political opinions were given precedence over our policies and guidelines. Yes, Andy may have been too grumpy and I agree that the tone of his comments were outright personal attacks, but he does have a point here: was the hook a good idea in the first place? It probably wasn't and like Bruxton I have regrets about not pushing against the hook more. However, I felt it was a losing battle since several editors wanted it and there seemed to be no way of that happening so I just stayed silent. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

You keep saying that removing negativity is a way to be "more neutral". It can be a way to be less neutral. Neutrality means reflecting the sources accurately, not eliminating anything charged. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:27, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I agree with you, I think that the way that Narutolovehinata5 conceives of neutrality and the way that wikipedia consensus generally has are incompatible, if Narutolovehinata5 edits in the way that they think is neutral they're going to be doing things which are the opposite of what the community thinks is neutral. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 14:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't think there's any BLP violation here; the hook was well-sourced. But this does point up a fundamental clash between two DYK principles, that we avoid (unnecessarily) negative hooks on BLPs, and that every eligible and nominated article should eventually be allowed to run on DYK. The latter may not be explicit anywhere but it seems to be very difficult to decline nominations where there is no DYK problem with the article (like being too short or improperly sourced). Here, the coverage of the subject is so relentlessly negative that it would have been a neutrality violation not to run a negative hook, so we eventually decided that the word "unnecessarily" allowed us to run a negative one. Maybe we should instead have decided that, if the only NPOV hooks are negative, then we shouldn't have a hook at all. But I would very much not want to see this lead to anodyne hooks on subjects whose notability is primarily negative in nature; we might want to avoid those subjects, but we should not whitewash them.

Over on the ANI discussion, some have suggested DYK bans on BLPs and on currently-available commercial products. Maybe we should consider that? —David Eppstein (talk) 00:15, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I disagree with the idea that just because a topic is controversial or negative means that any non-negative hook about them would be a neutrality violation. Take for example Russia, which was brought to GA and nominated for DYK but ultimately rejected. That was after the war had started but there were plenty of possible neutral hooks that could have been used; back then the issue people had was if it was in good taste to run a hook on Russia, even if neutral, given the war and all, and I guess we just had a similar case here. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:21, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

If someone is mainly known for negative things we should not become the go-to way for them to rehabilitate their image by publicizing their love for puppies. At the time of that Russia nomination, all news about Russia was about their invasion of Ukraine. Despite their long history, it would very much have been a neutrality violation to portray them in any other light. It would have made us look like shills for the Russian invasion. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:24, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

The idea that having a non-negative hook about something known for negative reasons would be a case of righting great wrongs, and just because we don't run a negative hook does not mean we are endorsing, condoning or supporting them. I know other stuff exists, but it would be like having a positive hook about the United States or China on DYK instead of them being rejected on neutrality grounds, even though both nations are seen in a negative light in much of the world. My point is simply that ideally we should be separating our own personal politics from that of DYK or even the encyclopedia and there was probably a better way of handling this than how it turned out. For the record, I was opposed to Russia running back then, but in hindsight I wonder if it is unfair to deny a country with a long history of being featured on DYK just because of recent events (and thus recency bias), even as someone who supports Ukraine in the war. It isn't rehabilitation: you can describe neutral facts about something while still acknowledging their negative aspects, just as how you can say negative things about things largely seen in a positive light. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:35, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

If we run a non-negative hook on a subject for which the bulk of coverage is negative, then we are in fact going to be seen as endorsing, condoning or supporting the subject. It will be non-neutral promotion and it will be seen that way. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:43, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

+1. Just reject the nomination if anything positive would be UNDUE. Valereee (talk) 01:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

As for the bans, I would strongly oppose that. DYK in part is meant to reward contributors or at least incentivize them for improving articles, and not allowing them just because the subject is a BLP or a currently-available product would be deeply unfair, not to mention essentially disqualifying much of Wikipedia. Our normal guidelines and activities already seem to work relatively fine, and cases like this are rare enough that they're more of the exception rather than the rule, but in most cases any issues would already be easily dealt with. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:23, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

It may be meant to reward neutral-minded Wikipedia contributors, but what it has turned into for BLPs and products is a way for publicists to push Wikipedia into being an advertising site for their clients. That's a much worse problem than a reduction in the possible scope for rewarding contributors would be. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:27, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Cases of DYK being used to promote products are so rare that I can only remember one recent case of it happening, and even then it wasn't even a paid promotion. The closest would be fans writing about things they are fans of, but that isn't really the same. Of course a fan of, for example The Simpsons, would be the one most likely to write an article about something Simpsons related, or how a Taylor Swift fan is more likely than a non-fan to write articles about her songs and albums. If it was actually proven that a DYK was nominated to commercially promote a product, that would be dealt with through the usual means. I just don't see it as a regular enough occurrence to warrant such a drastic measure when other measures can already take care of them. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:38, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Most of the ALTs about commercial products are promotional in nature because that's what RS are talking about and there's nothing else interesting about the subject. Things like "...that as of its release in May of 2024 the RXK7 was the smallest widget ever made?" We don't like to discourage editors who are interested in cell phones or video games or whatever, so we try to work with them. Maybe we should stop. It's not like being unable to go to DYK is going to prevent someone from creating iPhone 87. Someone will still create it.

In the case of Tate, my feeling was that the ALTs being suggested were either mealymouthed or were no less negative that the one we ran with. He ran a Hustler's University -- which was a pyramid scheme -- is either disingenuous (if we don't say what it was) or negative (if we do). I think we just need to stop running hooks about living people. It's too fraught. Valereee (talk) 01:21, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

It should probably be a case-to-case basis because many if not most BLPs that are nominated for DYK are uncontroversial. Tate was really just a special case. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:24, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

So how do we decide? Do we really run "...that Andrew Tate is a surfer?" when literally 98% of RS are covering negative things? I don't want to unduly include negative shit, but when that's almost literally all that's out there, do we really want to have to cherrypick something neutral? And honestly does Taylor Swift ever need to be mentioned again on DYK? Valereee (talk) 01:31, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Can't we just remove the "unduly" from WP:DYKBLP? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 01:35, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you're proposing, @AirshipJungleman29? That we shouldn't worry about something being unduly negative? Or that we should never run anything negative? I would actually object to either. Maybe you're saying if we can't say something nice, we should reject the nom? Valereee (talk) 01:39, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

The latter, yes. I don't think blanket-banning all BLPs is a good idea—for one thing, they're around a quarter of the hooks. Saying "if saying something positive about [person/product/controversial current event] could reasonably be described as POV, just forget about it and move on" is good with me. No DYK hook is worth tens of thousands of bytes of discussion. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 01:46, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Bios are a quarter of hooks, I don't think living people are? But I get your point. Agreed that the discussion over Tate here and elsewhere is not worth our time. I'm not actually sure the nominator would disagree. Valereee (talk) 01:54, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Tangent: just did a count of hooks from this month's sets, and came up with 20% for BLPs. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 02:01, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Another reason to just get rid of them. 02:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC) Valereee (talk) 02:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Seems a bit drastic to me. Most are perfectly fine. I also suspect (with no evidence other than my experience in promoting) that BLP hooks are less WP:BIASed than the average bio hook. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 02:19, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes. Seems drastic to shoot them just to get around WP:BLP. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:25, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I broadly agree. I think one of the main problems with this nomination, and many like it, is the sunk cost fallacy attitude that if a nominated article receives massive amounts of attention and discussion, it has to get onto the main page (as Bruxton admirably admits above, they "wanted to reward the editor who brought the article through GA"), otherwise it is a waste of time and a betrayal of the DYK process. In practice, all this usually leads to is everyone getting worn down and a controversial/substandard hook getting allowed onto the main page. We don't have to do that to ourselves—we can, if we really want, but we don't have to. I think a line to that effect at WP:DYKCRIT wouldn't go amiss. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:35, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I agree. We err too much on the side of "Someone worked hard on this, we should find something we can use." Valereee (talk) 01:32, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

We had other choices. If you revisit that thread of our discussion many of the editors seemed to hate the person so much that they were unwilling to consider any hook that did not take him down. As Epic Genius says in the thread, you had a choice. So it is not a BLP thing if we follow our own rules. Lightburst (talk) 02:26, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I was talking more about the DYK culture than about this specific hook or about BLP, Lightburst. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 02:31, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Other choices like Uday was relatively neat and Qusay seldom raped the disabled? It's a choice, but it's a bad choice. If we're considering saying something positive about someone whose coverage in RS is 95% about bad things they've done, we're whitewashing. If our choices are

1. Say something extremely well-sourced that is negative and not undue, and end up with someone losing their shit over it
2. Say something trivial and unduly positive and end up whitewashing
3. Reject the nomination

I think #3 is the best of bad choices. Valereee (talk) 11:59, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

But #1 is better than #2 per WP:NPOV. —Kusma (talk) 12:23, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

And I agree, which is why I supported it. In retrospect I think Black Kite was correct; 1 may be better than 2, but 3 is better than 1. Valereee (talk) 12:28, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Then we block the person losing their shit and move on, how is that even a question? We don't let editors who can't edit civility get a heckler's veto, we block them for disruption which losing their shit over DYK would by definition be. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 14:17, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

It appears to be a question at that ANI, though. Valereee (talk) 14:34, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

"currently available commercial products" is a massive area: books, movies, music would be reduced to things that are out of print. Various sports events are also highly commercial. If we ban these for advertising, I hope we also ban all hooks relating to religion (proselytising), beaches and other extant geographic features (good for the travel industry), museums, trains and TV stations.

It is natural for DYK hooks to bring attention to their subject. It is always possible that this attention results in additional sales. The only way to make sure it never happens on the Main Page is to remove all content from the Main Page. —Kusma (talk) 12:42, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

And I agree, it's too massive, and unfortunately I'm not Czar. I do think we should tighten up on the brand-new whizbang that there really isn't anything interesting to build a hook around. I've always been a little torn -- it feels unfair to editors whose main editing interest is each new iteration of the iPhone or whatever -- but we've got nominated right now ... that RuPaul's Drag Race Live! replaced the eleven-year run of Donny and Marie Osmond's concert residency at the Flamingo Las Vegas? To me that seems pretty ho-hum. Show ends at venue, another show begins in that venue. Valereee (talk) 13:01, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

That is a boring hook, and I think we should avoid this type of hooks independent of whether this replacement happened yesterday or 100 years ago. The problems is that our mechanisms for rejecting hooks are terrible and cause lots of drama, so I am trying to find new (or old) ways for us to get rid of bad hooks and other problematic nominations without the drama of explicit rejections, for example by allowing them to time out. —Kusma (talk) 13:08, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

How does that work? You're right that we don't have a mechanism...things just sort of automatically get moved through the process, and it's often at the prep>queue stage that some admin brings a hook here. Often multiple hooks in a single prep set. By which time so many people have been involved with the nom that there's a sunk cost. Valereee (talk) 13:18, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

"Any nomination that hasn't been accepted by a reviewer after three weeks or promoted to a prep set after six weeks is automatically closed as rejected" would both kill the backlog and give us a means to pocket veto any nomination. It is like DYK was in 2006, just with a lot more time before noms are rejected. —Kusma (talk) 13:24, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

But how do we encourage reviewers to not review and promoters not to promote? Reviewers just want to get their QPQ, and promoters want to get the sets filled. That's why stuff ends up here at the prep>queue phase, when some admin questions multiple hooks that got that far. We create a list every week or so asking people to review hooks that have been languishing. Valereee (talk) 13:42, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

• I can’t say I am surprised. I knew something like this would happen which is why I was so adamant against running a negative hook initially (and I never really felt good about it even after being worn down to change my position). I would have been ok with a neutral non-negative/non-positive hook, but clearly that would not get support. We probably should not have run a hook at all on Tate.

I would support a burn clause where we simply say we won’t run a negative hook on any BLP if it’s contested at nomination. Meaning that if there are any objections to a negative hook raised in review it doesn’t run by default. Likewise, if people insist we must run a negative hook when others oppose it’s an automatic reject of the hook nom and we simply won’t run any hook. Best to err on the side of caution and only run negative hooks on BLPs when there is unanimous support. We don’t often have contentious BLPs so I don’t think this clause would impact the vast majority of BLPs at DYK.4meter4 (talk) 05:13, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

That is only half the problem. If we insist on not running negative hooks, but insist on running hooks on those subjects anyway, we will force ourselves to violate neutrality. We need a way to tell nominators that their article is not suitable for DYK despite being nominally eligible, and we need to enforce this rather than softheartedly giving in every time to boring or negative hooks because we can't find a way around them but we can't get ourselves to refuse a nomination. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:38, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I like AirshipJungleman29's suggestion of adding something like if saying something positive about [person/product/controversial current event] could reasonably be described as POV, just forget about it and move on to WP:DYKCRIT. I think it's understandable that, once an editor has put in the work to improve an article, reviewers want to find a compliant hook that showcases it. Clarifying in advance that some of these articles aren't suitable for DYK means submitters don't get an unpleasant surprise and reviewers don't have that impossible responsibility on them. hinnk (talk) 06:13, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I think softheartedly giving in every time to boring or negative hooks because we can't find a way around them but we can't get ourselves to refuse a nomination is close to one of our central problems. We do not want to explicitly refuse to run a hook or an article, because people have it in their head that any article satisfying a bunch of more or less arcane rules has a right to appear on the Main Page. My suggestion is to go back to the roots: just remove all nominations that have not been promoted after a certain time, as we did back in 2006. That way, QPQers and prep builders can collectively reject any nomination for any reason without fighting huge arguments about what is and is not boring. —Kusma (talk) 07:53, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

DYK has many issues (sensationalism, boredom from dominance by regulars and their topic areas, sloppy reviewing, understaffing) but I think avoiding controversial topics would make DYK worse without solving anything.

Any hook about Tate would have attracted controversy; we should not let fear of controversy censor our range of topics. I am actually surprised this one was attacked for being "negative about a BLP" instead of for allowing Tate to "advertise" his misogyny on the Main Page. —Kusma (talk) 06:25, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Controversy is worth considering for reasons other than fear, but I do agree that we should probably not be making a sweeping rule change based on the Andrew Tate article hook, that is prime hard cases make bad law. CMD (talk) 06:59, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

• Comment. @hinnk. AirshipJungleman29, Valereee I would oppose any rule change making it harder to add a positive hook. We shouldn't enshrine the idea that saying something positive is automatically or even potentially a POV violation into DYK policy. That will cause lots of drama in normal reviews, and it could have an unintended consequence of increasing not decreasing negative hooks when it comes to BLPs. Any policy we make needs to focus on negative BLP hooks specifically, and not become an unnecessary barrier to featuring positive hooks on people.

@Narutolovehinata5 I notice your examples did not actually involve BLPs, so they aren't good examples. Making analogies to non-persons like countries isn't useful as these rules are specifically limited to living people. I also note that in my proposal I didn't outright ban negative hooks, it only made it much harder for them to go through in the narrow context of BLPs. @David Eppstein and Kusma As for "boring" hooks, that isn't the issue at hand. Don't make this conversation about something that isn't relevant to BLP policy as it applies to DYK. We aren't getting in trouble outside DYK for being boring. In comparison to the volume of hooks we receive, there are a minuscule amount of negative BLP hooks being proposed, so this issue has almost zero impact on the percentage of interesting hooks we run. Don't create a red herring.

I am saddened that editors are unwilling to do anything meaningful about the problem at hand. It looks like we will do nothing based on consensus at the moment. That in my opinion is a mistake, because frankly we aren't currently compliant with BLP policy as a project, and we are likely to end up being chastised again and may end up being the subject of an RFC or other type of review that could result in punitive consequences against the project in which we will be forced to change our rules, and not necessarily in a way that we will like. We could even see our project disappear from the main page, or be given a blanket BLP topic ban (both would be awful). It's better to do the right thing now, then to do nothing and put the project's longterm health/survival in jeopardy. This issue isn't just going to go away, and this conversation here won't make the project look good when it does come up again outside of DYK. It will only show we knew there was problem and enabled it to continue.4meter4 (talk) 11:00, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

On the contrary 4meter4, before your comment it looked like consensus was near-unanimous. Also, please note the details of WP:PINGFIX. Finally, I don't see any connection in the paragraph directed at me to what I actually said, so I won't reply to it. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:09, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

AirshipJungleman29 I was specifically referencing your comment "if saying something positive about [person/product/controversial current event] could reasonably be described as POV, just forget about it and move on" is good with me." I think that language is problematic for the reasons I articulated above. Best.4meter4 (talk) 12:17, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

4meter4, in that case, I have two points. First, please try to use the correct language so there is no confusion—"policy" should only refer to those pages defined as such, and not to a page that is essentially a WikiProject essay. Following on from this, "the idea that saying something positive is potentially a POV violation" is already enshrined in Wikipedia policy (the actual one, not the WikiProject essay). The idea that we at DYK can somehow overrule this basic standard of Wikipedia is far more likely, in my opinion, to end up in "punitive consequences against the project". ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:26, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I agree with both your comments. Where I have a problem is that I think editors are likely to take the earlier quoted text as a guide that all positive hooks are inherently bad and biased, which is not what I think you were intending to communicate. Many positive hooks are balanced and neutral when examined in light of the sources and the subject. The issue with DYK is we can only feature so much in 200 characters, so providing balance as described in the policy you linked is more often than not impossible on contentious topics. We can’t say pick a positive assessment to feature and balance it with a negative assessment in two hundred characters. We can only feature one side in a hook if there is more than one side by virtue of space.4meter4 (talk) 15:42, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

A positive hook in the case of Tate would have been undue. ...that a kickboxer ran a Hustler's University? to me feels like both an easter egg and whitewashing a pyramid scheme. Literally there are people who would be nauseated to click on the innocent-sounding 'kickboxer' and end up at Andrew Tate.

I'm not unwilling to do anything. The next time such a situation arises -- and maybe it won't -- I'll be arguing to reject the nomination for being something we can't in good conscience create a positive hook for. Valereee (talk) 12:09, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Valereee I was referring to tightening written policy as a project, not individual choices. We need to make other editors go the same direction through updated policy language.4meter4 (talk) 12:20, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Start an RfC. I would support some neutrally-worded version of what you said below: If people think saying something nice or neutral isn't cool we just don't run it at all and reject it. Valereee (talk) 12:37, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Respectfully, I would disagree about the Easter egg part. People propose this kind of hook at DYK all the time, and I'd argue that the Easter-egginess of the hook would do more to attract readers than saying "that Andrew Tate is a kickboxer who ran a hustler's university".

As for whitewashing, if the only other alternative is an unduly negative hook, I say such a DYK should probably be scrapped altogether. We really should not let this reach a situation where either of the alternatives (a negative hook or one that gives the appearance of whitewashing) will agitate readers. Epicgenius (talk) 14:09, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

This ^ Lightburst (talk) 14:24, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Easter eggs aren't the issue. It's the fact that this particular easter egg may take the reader somewhere they'd be nauseated by. I agree, we should have just scrapped the nom. Valereee (talk) 14:25, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@4meter4, in discussions about possible Andrew Tate hooks, I strongly opposed anything that would mention the crimes he is accused of, but has not been convicted of. I have also pulled hooks over BLP concerns. I am not convinced we have a general BLP problem (as opposed to a general "reviews are too superficial" problem) and the AndyTheGrump issue has not made me change my mind so far. What do you think the problem is? —Kusma (talk) 12:13, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Kusma I think we are too permissive of negative BLP hooks. The short length of a hook makes it impossible to present negative facts in context, which is required by WP:BLP policy. Given our limits on space, I think an outright universal ban on negative hooks should be implemented on all BLP nominations. That's what I would say if this went to an RFC. I proposed a more middle of the road approach above because I recognize not everyone would agree with this view.4meter4 (talk) 12:27, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I'd support 'no negative BLP hooks'. I wouldn't support 'find something nice to say about all BLPs'. Valereee (talk) 12:29, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

+1 ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:31, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@Valereee That is where I am too. Tate should have not run for exactly the reason you just said. If people think saying something nice or neutral isn't cool we just don't run it at all and reject it.4meter4 (talk) 12:34, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I am opposed to that as it has wide reaching implications. For example, it means Radovan Karadžić can not be featured on DYK until he dies, unless the hook omits the fact that he is a major war criminal. Stuff about BLPs that would be OK to run at ITN (say, a major war criminal is convicted at The Hague) should be OK to run at DYK. —Kusma (talk) 12:51, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

That's a fair point. It's unfortunate for us that ITN seems to have fewer haters. :D Valereee (talk) 13:09, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I disagree. The hook is essentially one sentence from the article. It is not necessarily the most important aspect of a BLP's life. There is more to Radovan Karadžić's life than his war criminal activity so there is plenty of hook fodder without dealing with the negative aspects. Nor is a neutral or positive hook about a "bad" person "whitewashing". The article would contain all the reliably sourced bad stuff and the hook isn't meant to be a summary of the article. Rlendog (talk) 15:53, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@4meter4: Do you have any recent examples where we have featured BLP content on DYK that could have harmed the person? (I do not think the Tate example falls in this category). Without more examples of the problem you are trying to solve, I think making additional rules is ill advised. —Kusma (talk) 12:59, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Kusma, here's a nom from yesterday:

• ... that the instrumental track "BBL Drizzy" is about rumors accusing Canadian rapper Drake of receiving buttock augmentation surgery?

It's a twofer: commercial product + BLP Valereee (talk) 13:03, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

No, that is not an example. It is a nomination from yesterday, not something we have featured on the Main Page. If this gets a decent review, the obvious BLP vio should be called out by the reviewer. (Seriously? rumors about people having cosmetic surgery?? the whole Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud sounds super lame, but has more than a million page views in the past four weeks, so obviously I am out of touch). —Kusma (talk) 13:15, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I would say nominations count as we are specifically looking at our procedures for reviewing hooks. I think we should compile a list of negative BLP hooks that have run and have been proposed. We should also look for hooks that have cropped up on the DYK talk page and have been contentious. We should probably create a thread on preparing for an RFC and the first step should be evidence gathering. It may be that the community decides that what we are doing is mostly working, and that nothing need change. Or it may be, that an issue will be clearly identified after we gather evidence. Either way, it would be helpful to have community input to guide what we do going forward, if only to affirm what we are doing is correct. After we gather evidence, we could take some language proposals for updating DYK procedures/guidelines. That way when the RFC begins we can have some well articulated issues and proposals.4meter4 (talk) 13:31, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, that work needs to be done before any BLP rule change is proposed. (And perhaps we do not need to change our BLP rules, but just enforce them, i.e. find ways to increase review quality). —Kusma (talk) 13:42, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

When the colonists in America took up arms against the British in America they called it a war for independence. The British called it a rebellion. George Washington was a traitor and a terrorist to the British but America named streets after him. It is about perspective and many editors have none when it comes to a person with a different view than their own. Even the person who you call evil, is admired elsewhere. So in the Tate hook experience we had editors making suggestions against policy based on their political leanings or their inner moral compass. If we look at misogyny it offends the sensibilities of many editors here, yet many major religions and societies practice it. You cannot do what the media in America is doing daily: represent editorial views as fact. Saying a hook that is neutral is undue is the height of silliness and is not based on policy. We can see this same silliness playing out every day, especially here on Wikipedia where we punish or promote based on the politics of whatever editors are active when an issue arrises. We can do better without rejecting nominations. Lightburst (talk) 14:03, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

So Wikipedia needs no "inner moral compass"? Convicted murders, rapists or paedophiles should all be treated the same as anyone else, as they may be "admired elsewhere", yes? Martinevans123 (talk) 14:09, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Your comment is exactly my point. Hyperbole personified. Lightburst (talk) 14:18, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Was your answer yes or no? Thanks. I wouldn't want to be accused of "white-Washington". Martinevans123 (talk) 14:20, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I see only two editors in this discussion who have made political arguments, you and Narutolovehinata5. Your argument in particular appears to be 95% politics and only 5% policy and guideline, its an incredibly weak argument on just its wiki grounds... Its only compelling if you attach a lot of fringe political baggage to it. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 14:27, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I am sorry you feel that way. It is difficult for some to consider different views. For instance right now there is an image of a man in a dress on the main page. Do you think some readers may find that offensive? We force our views all the time. We promote and now we want to reject if it does not fit the narrative - whatever it is. Lightburst (talk) 14:36, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

In the Tate discussion many editors would not allow any neutral hook. I sympathize with 4meter4 and Airship29 who mentioned how editors can get worn down. Bruxton (talk) 14:46, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

We ran a hook that literally quoted him about himself. How is that not a neutral hook? Valereee (talk) 14:55, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Well, I accepted it, Like many, I found it hard to reject the person's own words. I preferred the EG hook. I am glad that we are discussing. I now see Any The Grump at ANI saying we may have missed a retraction? Bruxton (talk) 15:10, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@Bruxton, just checking to see if maybe you have a diff or a search term that'll help me find that more easily? I've been reading there, so maybe I just missed it? Valereee (talk) 16:29, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@Valereee, see here. TSventon (talk) 16:38, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, TSventon...so in 2021 he said he was "absolutely a misogynist" and in 2022 he complained that people were digging up "old" dirt. Pretty unconvincing, but okay. A retraction's a retraction, I guess? He's no longer calling himself a misogynist. The guy was like 34 when he said he was and 35 when he called it old news. He was raised Christian, became an atheist, in early 2022 identified as Christian again and by the end of the same year had converted to Islam. The guy is, um...not maturing very fast. Sort of confirms that we just should have not accepted the nomination. :D Valereee (talk) 16:52, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

That's ITN. Different animal, for me. I think you're making an incorrect assumption that there's something inherently political about not wanting to find something nice to say about someone who calls himself a misogynist and says he moved to Romania because he wanted to live in a country "where corruption is accessible for everybody" and where people don't get charged with rape as often. If you're trying to say conservatives would admire that, I think you're not being fair to conservatives. Valereee (talk) 14:50, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Yeah lets be clear, the vast majority of conservatives either despise or have never heard of Tate. He is not a mainstream conservative figure and e-pimping etc is incompatible with conservative values as held by most. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 14:56, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure how that picture forces a view on anyone, can you explain? Horse Eye's Back (talk) 14:52, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, we've got a picture of Nemo because they won Eurovision, not because anyone wants to "force our views" on dress-wearing? DYK isn't exactly Eurovision. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:53, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@Valereee: there is really no discussion possible on these issues. You said If you're trying to say conservatives would admire that. I pointed out in that thread about Tate that we put a former kidnapper on the main page but only highlighted the thing we wanted people to know. People are in an echo chamber much of the time here. We did not have to be positive about Tate, we just had to not be negative. You have stated over and over that was not possible. Lightburst (talk) 15:03, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, Lightburst, long discussion, I'm not following...what have I said over and over wasn't possible?

And is the hook about Baker any less negative than the one we ran about Tate? To be clear, I don't think that was a particularly interesting hook, but it's certainly not positive. It says she was imprisoned for thirty years. The fact she was transgender was purely context (and is the part I kind of find boring...so what?) And I certainly don't admire her or want to treat her kindly simply because she's transgender. She's clearly a horrible person in many ways. Valereee (talk) 15:51, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

• Comment The DYK volunteers are a dedicated and capable group of volunteers. I've been following this thread, and the one over at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#BLP_issues_with_Andrew_Tate_DYK_hook. We did nothing wrong. The process works. Let's stop the self -flagellation and move forward. --evrik ^(talk) 16:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate your work here Evrik. I want to say we did do something wrong or there would not be such consternation across the project. It is not pandering for me to say that I appreciate the editors here. I have become a better editor from my experiences in DYK and I have also been able to evaluate GAs and new articles at NPP. I think the editors here are quality and while I have had disagreements with a few I respect them. 4meter4 for instance, was right about this situation. We should be less binary in our good vs evil opinions. I am guilty of talking at people instead of to them and of this kind of rhetorical flourish. I think we make conscious choices to promote items that fit our world view and some suggestions above are to reject those that do not. I think that It was good for us to discuss the Tate nomination. I want to note that Leeky has been absent from the conversation. Leeky is a DYK regular who we often look to for guidance, yet they were the most vociferous in arguing for a negative hook here. Thanks for the discussion Valereee I feel heard and I want to say I heard you. Lightburst (talk) 17:01, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

@Lightburst, that's very kind, and I'm very glad you feel heard. I hope there's no question that you know I respect your input and also your point of view. Valereee (talk) 17:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

• I also oppose any form of rule or procedure change. This was a one-off rare incident and the fact that it's so rare is a good thing. It being so rare also means it's not indicative of anything other than an odd outlier that resulted in a lot of (probably unnecessary) discussion. We can and should continue to deal with any such issues on a case by case basis. None of the methods used at DYK need to be altered. Silverseren^C 16:59, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

  I think when we get expressions of concern from other community members, it's worth considering their point of view. We actively don't want to be or to be perceived as a walled garden. Valereee (talk) 17:06, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

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Erik Sparre

• ... that Erik Sparre (pictured) is known as "the father of Swedish constitutional law"?

(DYK nom page: Template:Did you know nominations/Erik Sparre)

@Launchballer, OlifanofmrTennant, and ThaesOfereode: Per Manual of Style#Attribution this quote, which represents an opinion of sorts, should be explicitly attributed in the article text with who said it. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 15:47, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

@Amakuru I'm guessing you meant WP:Attribution? RoySmith (talk) 16:14, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

@RoySmith: Ha, actually I think I meant WP:Manual of Style#Attribution, just forgot the WP prefix... that's an actual guideline page (the one you've linked above seems to be a proposal which failed to gain consensus in 2007). The general point is that quoted opinions should be attributed in text anyway.  — Amakuru (talk) 16:22, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

@Amakuru: Kind of a newbie question, but I'm looking at this and just am curious about the MOS. The book cited is a secondary source and Peterson is clearly relying on other sources calling Sparre "the father of Swedish constitutional law", writing He has become known as the father of Swedish constitutional law rather than It is clear that the origins of modern constitutional law in Sweden originate with him or With these considerations in mind, we should call Sparre the father of Swedish constitutional law; in other words, Peterson is not proffering his opinion on the matter, but rather reporting that Sparre is called that. In this sense, the information given isn't interpreted; despite being a secondary source, this is tertiary claim. Given that he does not cite sources inline, I can't identify the ultimate source(s) of that claim. Since this claim does not appear to derive from Peterson's subjective view or his opinion after collecting other facts and presenting them, is it still necessary to state him as the progenitor of the title in the text itself? No worries if it is, but I want to make certain because I don't want any readers to get the implication that Peterson is the guy who came up with that title rather than simply reporting it based on the sources he used. Cheers, ThaesOfereode (talk) 17:39, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I have found Erik Sparre, the father of Swedish constitutionalism here by Michael Roberts (historian) and den svenska konstitutionalismens fader, Erik Sparre here by sv:Alf Nordström, so I agree that Peterson is reporting what Sparre is called. and it does not need attributing. Whether it is suitable as a hook is another question. TSventon (talk) 18:11, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

What do you mean, it does not need attributing? Being the "father of Swedish constitutional law" is not AFAIK an objective fact, such as an official post that he held or something so obvious that it can be baldly stated in Wikivoice. This is an opinion implying that he was in some sense important in the early history of that subject and also a somewhat idiomatic expression... It's there in quotes and we need to know who said it. If it's a widely-held opinion, then that should also be stated, with appropriate citations showing that the view is indeed widely held.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:17, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

@Amakuru: The Nordström and Michaels sources note that he's called that. I think it's clear that Peterson is implying that it is a widely-held belief, but I get that might need to be clearer for a claim like that, but cf. George Washington's page where the claim of the title "Father of His Country" is backed generally by source Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, while the title is cited as being used in the citebundle preceding it. Even so, I'm happy to add the Michaels and Nortström sources into a citebundle, especially since I think it's better than Peterson alone. Or even Several historians have referred to Sparre as the "father of Swedish constitutional law", with an appropriate citebundling. Also, @TSventon: thanks for finding those sources; they didn't come up in my initial research! ThaesOfereode (talk) 19:44, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, yes - the "several historians..." wording sounds good to me and bundle it up etc. if you can do that easily. Re George Washington, per WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS I wouldn't necessary count that as evidence of anythign in particular... my interest here is just to check the MOS in relation to this DYK hook Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 20:00, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Great, that works for me! I'll add the citations and rephrase the sentence when I get a chance tonight. And re GW, yeah I realize what I wrote wasn't really all that useful anyway. No matter. Do I need to ping you when it's done? ThaesOfereode (talk) 20:32, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

@ThaesOfereode looks good now, thanks!  — Amakuru (talk) 15:46, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Excellent! Thanks. ThaesOfereode (talk) 15:56, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Cosmic Ray (film)

• ... that Bruce Conner's Cosmic Ray has been recognized as the first music video?

(DYK nom page: Template:Did you know nominations/Cosmic Ray (film))

@Hinnk, Bruxton, AirshipJungleman29, Z1720, and DigitalIceAge: this claim seems a bit dubious to me... As far as I can tell, the article music video doesn't mention this song or video at all, and it seems there were things accepted as music videos before 1962. The Boston Globe source also isn't unequivocal in this assertion, it merely says "Conner is credited by some with making the first music video", which is quite a weak assertion when we don't know who these "some" are. I'd suggest focusing on something else and maybe the nom should be reopened, but happy to hear views.  — Amakuru (talk) 16:04, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I think I thought the hook said "credited as", not "recognized as"; as it stands, the hook is much more unequivocal than the sources or article, yes. Thanks for spotting that. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:12, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I see, it was my review. Do we want to workshop a hook here or de-promote and work there? Bruxton (talk) 16:53, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

If it were a matter of just phrasing this with attributed opinion language, i.e. "Joe Random music writer considers...", it would be easy to fix in-place. But give that we don't even know who said that, I think it makes more sense to pull it. Unfortunately, I need to run right now, so can't handle it myself. RoySmith (talk) 17:22, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm not too familiar with the process for addressing issues after promotion, so I'll let you all do you what you need to. There's an ALT2 in the nomination that can be used. I just want to note that Conner's role in pioneering the music video is possibly the best-known thing about him, and so it's frustrating to see Wikipedia's poor coverage of experimental cinema get included in the justification, when this really seems like a question of picking a different synonym for "called". hinnk (talk) 18:42, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Hinnk: if there's a way to reword it and perhaps bring in other sources that make it clearer that its status as the first is held as a main-stream viewpoint, then I'd be happy. As I mention re George Washington above, I don't necessarily hold the quality of other articles as an essential part of what happens in individual DYK cases, but I did find it a bit odd that for such a bold claim of being the first music video, this wouldn't rate a mention at music video at all... Re process, if we can get a satisfactory turn around in the next 24 hours then we can just workshop here, but if more time is needed then we can reopen the nomination page. That just means it returns back to the nom page and is given more time before eventual repromotion. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 20:09, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I agree it's odd that it isn't mentioned in the Music video article. Having worked on articles in this space for a little while, I've also found this to be common because of a bias toward commercial works, which are covered in sources that tend to be more accessible. (The other side of this being that, despite some pretty notable scholars writing about its importance, it was a 2-sentence stub here until now.)

The simplest solution would be to use ALT2 from the nomination: "... that Bruce Conner conceived of his short film Cosmic Ray as 'presenting the eyes' for blind musician Ray Charles?" If a music video hook is preferable, we could chose a different verb: "... that Bruce Conner's Cosmic Ray has been credited/referred to/described as the first music video?" We could identify it as a precursor: "... that Bruce Conner's Cosmic Ray has been recognized as a precursor to the music video?" per Wheeler Winston Dixon [7]. Or we could connect it to Conner's reputation: "... that Bruce Conner's Cosmic Ray led to his reputation as 'the father of music video'?" per E. Charlotte Stevens's Fanvids and Scott MacDonald's A Critical Cinema 5. hinnk (talk) 21:23, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Mainstream scholarship is a mixed bag when it comes to this (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). Some say the musical shorts of the '30s were the first, while others cite the Scopitone since you didn't have to book a reservation at a cinema to view the short (mass media vs. capital-F Film), and others still credit The Big Bopper as he both coined the term "music video" and videotaped some of the first televised examples in the 1950s. All predate Cosmic Ray, so I would agree that this is a fringe view and too controversial to run as a hook. Most sources that do mention Cosmic Ray in the context of the music video cite it as a precursor to the abstract, new-wave style music videos popularized by MTV rather than as the first example of anything, which I guess makes sense although some of Len Lye's films like A Colour Box meet that descriptor too and are from the 1930s (at least one source agrees). DigitalIceAge (talk) 21:38, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Sitdown strike

• ... that there were 583 sitdown strikes in the United States from 1936 to 1939, affecting more than half a million workers?

(DYK nom page: Template:Did you know nominations/Sitdown strike)

@Carwil, LunaEclipse, and AirshipJungleman29: - two minor points:

1. there are a few {{citation needed}} tags in the article
2. also some of the short-form references don't match up with the corresponding long-form. These aren't recognized:
   • Nelson 1984
   • US Department of Labor 1939
   • US Department of Labor 1940
   • White, 2010 & 5
   • Meyer 2015
   • Lydersen & Tracy 2008

Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 16:28, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Also, the article says The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted; this was inappropriately recast into wiki-voice, i.e. there were in the hook. RoySmith (talk) 16:41, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

@RoySmith: do you say this because you think the Bureau of Labor Statistics is not an independent source when it comes to these figures? Normally I'd be inclined to say official statistics as compiled by government bodies are likely to be accurate enough to report in Wikivoice, but I suppose when it comes to politically charged things like strikes, demonstrations and suchlike, there may be reason to suspect the government would over- or underestimate the figures?  — Amakuru (talk) 20:17, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I have no reason to believe the B of L is unreliable. It's just on general principles that an article shouldn't say more than the source promises, and likewise for the hook. RoySmith (talk) 22:39, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Climate of Triton

• ... that Triton, a moon of Neptune, has thin clouds that are likely made of nitrogen ice crystals?

(DYK nom page: Template:Did you know nominations/Climate of Triton)

@ArkHyena, Generalissima, and Launchballer: minor point probably, but I'm not seeing the clouds described as "thin" in the article. The atmosphere as a whole is said to be thin, so perhaps by extension so are the clouds? But would be nice to have this explicit if it's in the hook. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 16:10, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Nomination bot glitch

Starting Template:Did you know nominations/Tobias and the Angel, whose hook begins "dyk that, unusually for..." the bot would not accept "that" followed by a comma. Once completed, with an added space, the space could be removed. But ideally this could be fixed. Johnbod (talk) 01:55, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Should we consider using chatgpt to help pull quirky hooks?

Reading through this noticeboard, I see a lot of "how can I add quirk to this hook". Wikipedia is full of interesting information, why pull boring hooks out of random articles? Just asking chatgpt for examples of Wikipedia style did you know hooks gave me much better starting points than the queues above -

Of course! Here are five "did you know" hooks:

1. Did you know that the Great Wall of China is not a single continuous wall but a series of walls and fortifications built over several dynasties?

2. Did you know that the world's oldest known recipe is for beer? It dates back over 5,000 years to ancient Mesopotamia.

3. Did you know that the city of Venice in Italy is built on a network of more than 100 small islands and has over 400 bridges connecting them?

4. Did you know that the Sahara Desert, the largest hot desert in the world, is almost as large as the entire United States?

5. Did you know that the first person to set foot on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, almost got stuck there? The lunar module's ascent engine had a broken switch that was fixed using a pen.

Eric the Angry Communicator (talk) 17:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Please take a look at the aims of DYK, and what DYK is not, Eric the Angry Communicator. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:23, 14 May 2024 (UTC)