User:Maile66/DYK/How to promote a hook to prep
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Promoters should not promote their own nomination or their own review
Note for special dates: After 120 or more approved nominations, we rotate to two sets a day
- Check list for nomination review completeness
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- 1) Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post:
.
- 2) Check to make sure basic review requirements were completed.
- 3) Check the article history for any substantive changes since it was nominated or reviewed.
- 4) Images must be freely licensed. Fair-use images are not permitted. Images loaded on Commons that appear on the Main Page are automatically protected by KrinkleBot.
- 5) Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
- 6) Hook should make sense grammatically.
- 7) Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
- 8) Try to select a funny, quirky or otherwise upbeat hook for the last or bottom hook in the set.
- 1) Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post:
- Steps to add a nomination to prep
Open the Prep area where you intend to add the hook.
- 1) For hooks held for specific dates, refer to "Local update times" section on DYK Queue.
- a. Completed Prep area number sets will be promoted by an administrator to corresponding Queue number.
- 2) Copy and paste the hook into a chosen slot.
- a. The hook should always have a space between "..." and "that", and should end in a "?" question mark.
- b. The hook should have a bold link to the article.
- 3) If it's the lead (first) hook, paste the image where indicated at the top of the template.
- 4) Copy and paste ALL the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) at the bottom
- 5) Check your work in the prep's Preview mode.
- a. At the bottom under "Credits", to the right of each article should have the link "View nom subpage" ; if not, a subpage parameter will need to be added to the DYKmake.
- 6) Save the Prep page.
- 1) For hooks held for specific dates, refer to "Local update times" section on DYK Queue.
- Closing the DYK nomination template for archiving
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- 1) In the upper left hand side, replace the line "
{{DYKsubpage
" with "{{subst:DYKsubpage
" (no quotation marks) - 2) In the upper left hand side, replace "
|passed=
" with "|passed=yes
" (no quotation marks) - 3) Check in Preview mode - if it was done correctly, everything will be against a pale blue background. There should be no stray characters (like }} ) at the top or bottom, and no text outside the blue background.
- 4) Save.
- 1) In the upper left hand side, replace the line "
For additional information, please see T:TDYK#How to promote an accepted hook