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DYK queue status

There are currently 3 filled queues. Admins, please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!

When modifying a hook in a queue or prep area (other than minor formatting fixes), please notify the nominator by including a link of the form [[User:JoeEditor]] in your edit summary. (Ping templates like {{u|JoeEditor}} don't work in edit summaries.)

Administrators: Please ensure that there is always at least one queue filled at all times, to prevent overdue updates to the Main Page.

This page gives an overview of all DYK hooks currently scheduled for promotion to the Main Page. By showing the content of all queues and prep areas in one place, the overview helps administrators see how full the queues are, and also makes it easier for users to check that their hook has been promoted or to find hooks for copy-editing. Hooks removed from queues or prep areas for unresolved issues should have their nominations reopened and retranscluded at the nomination page.

You may need to purge this page to get it to display the latest edits.

The next update will be produced from Queue 4. After performing a manual update, please update the pointer to the next queue.

Current number of hooks on the nominations page

Note: See WP:DYKROTATE for when we change between one and two sets per day.

Section	# of Hooks	# Verified
Count of DYK Hooks
May 12	1
May 14	1	1
May 16	1
May 17	1
May 20	2
May 21	1
May 26	1	1
May 27	2
May 29	1
May 30	2
June 2	1
June 3	2
June 7	2	1
June 8	1
June 9	3
June 11	1
June 13	4	3
June 14	2
June 15	3	2
June 16	1	1
June 17	4	2
June 18	4	4
June 19	4	2
June 20	4	3
June 21	5	3
June 22	9	7
June 23	12	8
June 24	7	4
June 25	10	9
June 26	10	6
June 27	5	5
June 28	9	5
June 29	5	4
June 30	9	5
July 1	12	5
July 2	5	3
July 3	13	6
July 4	10	5
July 5	9	4
July 6	14	7
July 7	14	5
July 8	8	4
July 9	9	4
July 10	8	2
July 11	5
July 12	6
Total	243	121
Last updated 22:32, 12 July 2024 UTC Current time is 22:44, 12 July 2024 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 4	12 July 17:00	12 July 20:00	13 July 00:00	13 July 01:00	13 July 05:30	13 July 09:00	13 July 10:00
Queue 5	13 July 17:00	13 July 20:00	14 July 00:00	14 July 01:00	14 July 05:30	14 July 09:00	14 July 10:00
Queue 6	14 July 17:00	14 July 20:00	15 July 00:00	15 July 01:00	15 July 05:30	15 July 09:00	15 July 10:00
Queue 7 Prep 7	15 July 17:00	15 July 20:00	16 July 00:00	16 July 01:00	16 July 05:30	16 July 09:00	16 July 10:00
Queue 1 Prep 1	16 July 17:00	16 July 20:00	17 July 00:00	17 July 01:00	17 July 05:30	17 July 09:00	17 July 10:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	17 July 17:00	17 July 20:00	18 July 00:00	18 July 01:00	18 July 05:30	18 July 09:00	18 July 10:00
Queue 3 Prep 3	18 July 17:00	18 July 20:00	19 July 00:00	19 July 01:00	19 July 05:30	19 July 09:00	19 July 10:00
Prep 4	19 July 17:00	19 July 20:00	20 July 00:00	20 July 01:00	20 July 05:30	20 July 09:00	20 July 10:00
Prep 5	20 July 17:00	20 July 20:00	21 July 00:00	21 July 01:00	21 July 05:30	21 July 09:00	21 July 10:00
Prep 6	21 July 17:00	21 July 20:00	22 July 00:00	22 July 01:00	22 July 05:30	22 July 09:00	22 July 10:00

Queues

Queue 4 [edit]

Hermanus Johannes Lovink

... that Dutch agriculturist Hermanus Johannes Lovink (pictured) used a suitcase gramophone during his lectures?
... that the Vancouver School Board's alleged attempt to censor a student newspaper led to the drafting of a press-freedom act?
... that fans on TikTok were behind the choice of name for one of SZA's singles?
... that when sales slowed on the Texas Centennial half dollar, Senator Tom Connally suggested minting five separate versions?
... that the Green Bay Packers once had fourteen players selected to a national All-Pro team?
... that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos bought New York City's Crown Building because of a tearful plea?
... that the magazine Acoustic Guitar said that Dan Erlewine "might be the most famous guitar repairperson on earth"?
... that models in the runway show for Nihilism by Alexander McQueen were dressed in plastic, locusts, rust, and clay?
... that literary critic Leslie Fiedler called the novel Band of Angels "operatic in the worst sense of the word"?

Queue 5 [edit]

Adam and Eve by Ludwig Krug

... that German sculptor Ludwig Krug created a limestone relief depicting Adam and Eve in the fall of man (pictured)?
... that Australia's most threatened butterfly is confined to a native range of less than 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi)?
... that football player Gordon Cooper performed so well that "the adjective supply [was] exhausted" in trying to describe him?
... that the live-action drama adaptation of the Japanese manga Setsuyaku Rock was reimagined as a buddy comedy?
... that Emily Spreeman, the all-time top scorer for the United States women's national deaf soccer team, debuted for the team at the age of 15?
... that the San Diego YMCA estimates that it has served more than 125 million military personnel?
... that the real-time strategy, tower defense and factory management game Mindustry is freely licensed under the GPLv3?
... that Oen Boen Ing, a doctor who often worked for free, was so popular that the Indonesian government was petitioned not to evacuate him during a period of violence against Chinese Indonesians?
... that 200 spiders were on the set of Infested?

Queue 6 [edit]

Giado concentration camp

... that Libyan Jews and Arabs traded and bartered with each other at the fence of the Giado concentration camp (pictured)?
... that environmental journalist Gloria Dickie wrote her thesis on how cities in Colorado changed garbage laws to prevent bear incursions?
... that Brunel University's lecture centre has been described as "imposing" and "frightening", but also as "an expressive centrepiece" and "a brutalist classic"?
... that Benjamin Jackson was likely paid at least $300 to fight in the American Civil War as Lewis Saunders?
... that, of the three presidents of the Chamber of Dutch Culture, two were arrested and one was assassinated?
... that the inclusion of two preteen competing performers at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 led to the introduction of an age rule for participants at future contests?
... that a gunman who shot dead three people in Sheffield, England, in 1960 was deported to Somalia, where he was killed in a shoot-out while "running amok"?
... that Iowa government social worker Catherine G. Williams started out as a tap dancer?
... that Banner in the Sky inspired a Canadian dentist to climb the Matterhorn?

Queue 7 [edit]

Queue 1 [edit]

Queue 2 [edit]

Queue 3 [edit]

Instructions on how to promote a hook

At-a-glance instructions on how to promote an approved hook to a prep area

See Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas for details on verifying a hook's acceptability.
Promoters should not promote their own nomination or their own review.
When promoting hooks intended for a particular date, keep in mind that when the number of available approved nominations exceeds 120 we switch to two sets per day, and when that number drops below 60 we return to one set per day.

Check list for nomination review completeness

Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post: .
Check to make sure basic review requirements were completed.
- Any outstanding issue following needs to be addressed before promoting.
Check the article history for any substantive changes since it was nominated or reviewed.
Images for the lead slot must be freely licensed. Fair-use images are not permitted. Images loaded on Commons that appear on the Main Page are automatically protected by KrinkleBot.
Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
Hook should make sense grammatically.
Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
Try to select a funny, quirky or otherwise upbeat hook for the last or bottom hook in the set.

Steps to add a hook to prep

In one tab, open the nomination page of the hook you want to promote.
In a second tab, open the prep set you intend to add the hook to.

Wanna skip all this fuss? Install WP:PSHAW instead! Does most of the heavy lifting for ya :)

For hooks held for specific dates, refer to "Local update times" section on DYK Queue.
- Completed Prep area number sets will be promoted by an administrator to corresponding Queue number.
Copy and paste the hook into a chosen slot.
- Make sure there's a space between ... and that, and a ? at the end.
- Check that there's a bold link to the article.
If it's the lead (first) hook, paste the image where indicated at the top of the template.
Copy and paste ALL the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) at the bottom
Check your work in the prep's Preview mode.
- At the bottom under "Credits", to the right of each article should have the link "View nom subpage" ; if not, a subpage parameter will need to be added to the DYKmake.
Save the Prep page.

Closing the DYK nomination page

At the upper left
- Change {{DYKsubpage to {{subst:DYKsubpage
- Change |passed= to |passed=yes
At the bottom
- Just above the line containing
  }}
  insert a new, separate line containing one of the following:
  To [[T:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
  To [[T:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
  To [[T:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
  To [[T:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
  To [[T:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
  To [[T:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
  To [[T:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]
- Also paste the same thing into the edit summary.
Check in Preview mode. Make sure everything is against a pale blue background (nothing outside) and there are no stray characters, like }}, at the top or bottom.
Save.

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

Handy copy sources:

To [[T:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
To [[T:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
To [[T:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
To [[T:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
To [[T:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
To [[T:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
To [[T:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]

Prep areas

Note: The next prep set to move into the queue is Prep 7 [update count].

Prep area 7 [edit]

H. J. Lovink Pumping Station

... that the H. J. Lovink Pumping Station (pictured), a national monument of the Netherlands, was used to reclaim the Flevopolder?
... that during the 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria, some troops refused orders to fire on the protesters?
... that the winner of the seventeenth series of Britain's Got Talent was the first individual woman to win the show without a dog?
... that a ceasefire proposal for the Israel–Hamas war, presented by Egypt and Qatar on May 5, would consist of three stages? under discussion, see Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Israel–Palestine hook ^Complex/_Rational 02:56, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
... that William Beck emigrated to the US from Germany, became a policeman at 19, was wounded by a Native American tribe, and was shipwrecked before becoming Milwaukee's first police chief?
... that a Texas TV station hoped that being named after an eye would ease viewer confusion?
... that Pharos, the largest impact crater on Neptune's moon Proteus, is more than half the diameter of Proteus itself?
... that in his book How to Be Perfect, Michael Schur sought to "wade into some deeply confusing and painful applications of moral philosophy ... but in a fun way"?
... that a video accompanying ML Buch's debut album showed viewers her inner self – literally?

Prep area 1 [edit]

Nathan Steuer

... that Magic: The Gathering world champion Nathan Steuer (pictured) started tournament-level play as a pre-teen, saying that the "13 and up" label on Magic packaging was "just recommended"?
... that the upgrading of the A9 in Scotland between Perth and Inverness is far from being complete despite its 2025 deadline?
... that in 1919 Vladimir Zitta, Evgenia Semenovskaya, Vladimir Bezel and G. N. Maksimov were expelled from the Party of Revolutionary Communism for having advocated unity with other populist sectors?
... that the satellite TRUTHS is planned to enable the precise calibration of Earth observation data from other satellites?
... that ice hockey coach Ryan Warsofsky was the youngest active head coach in the ECHL, then was the youngest in the AHL, and now is the youngest in the NHL?
... that Pure Japanese was released under this English title in its native Japan?
... that Charlemagne owned an elephant that he received as a gift from the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid?
... that one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
... that Kho Ping Hoo, despite writing numerous stories based on wuxia, could not read Chinese?

Prep area 2 [edit]

Red Rock sunflower

... that the newly discovered and critically imperiled Red Rock sunflower (Helianthus devernii) can only be found around two desert springs located in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area?
... that ...
... that carpenter Cumming Haswell erected a historic villa, later described as "modestly-scaled but ornamental"?
... that Terry Pratchett's earliest Discworld stories were discovered by two fans and republished in 2023 in the posthumous book A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories?
... that the flaming finale of Joan by Alexander McQueen has been read as an image of violence, transcendence, resurrection, and resilience?
... that ...
... that the 2016 festival South by South Lawn included a panel discussion on climate change led by President Obama?
... that Bill Wurtz once accepted an award with a two-word acceptance speech?
... that the vocalist on the dance song "Music Sounds Better with You" was in a punk band that disapproved of his collaboration with electronic musicians?

Prep area 3 [edit]

The Big Duck

... that a big duck (pictured) helped promote duck farming on Long Island'?
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... that the moat around Pinxton Castle was inside the perimeter walls, rather than outside?
... that the radio station at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire would go off the air in the middle of the day?
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... that scientists tested the age of an African termite's inhabited mound—and found it to be 34,000 years old?
... that thirty years after playing his first season for the Miami Hurricanes, J. D. Arteaga became the team's head coach in 2024?
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Prep area 4 [edit]

Tobie Goedewaagen

... that Tobie Goedewaagen (pictured), a minister under the Nazi occupation government, fled the Netherlands with his belongings in a bedspread?
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... that Chris Patrick is one of seven Stanley Cup champions within his family?
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... that the Pokémon species Lucario is used to promote fitness programs in Japan?
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... that owners of the Narragansett Pier Railroad included a family of industrialists, a dentist, a systems analyst, a lumberyard, and the founder of Textron?
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Prep area 5 [edit]

from left: Louise Maraval, Femke Bol, and Cathelijn Peeters

... that Femke Bol won the women's 400 metres hurdles (medalists pictured) at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in a championship record of 52.49 seconds?
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Prep area 6 [edit]

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