User:Maile66/DYK/How to promote a hook to prep

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

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.

a. Any outstanding issue following needs to be addressed before promoting.

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.

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.

Closing the DYK nomination template for archiving

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.

For additional information, please see T:TDYK#How to promote an accepted hook