Wikipedia:Did you know/review criteria

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Please use the following criteria when reviewing the nomination below.

 

Article

1. New – within the past seven days, the article has
   • been created (sandbox → mainspace is eligible); or
   • had its prose portion expanded at least fivefold; or
   • been promoted to good article status
2. Long enough – the prose portion is at least 1,500 characters
3. Within policy – meets core policies and guidelines, and in particular:
   • is neutral
   • cites sources with inline citations
   • is free of close paraphrasing issues, copyright violations and plagiarism

Hook

1. Format – no more than 200 characters (shorter is better) and meets the formatting guidelines
2. Content
   • interesting to a broad audience
   • hook fact is accurate and cited with an inline citation in the article
   • neutral and does not focus unduly on negative aspects of living people

Other

1. QPQ – all nominators who have five or more DYK nominations must review another article.
2. Image must
   • be free (no fair use)
   • be used in the article
   • show up well at small size