This page is to nominate fresh articles to appear in the "
Did you know" section on the
Main Page with a "hook" (an interesting note). Nominations that have been approved are moved to a
staging area and then promoted into
the Queue. To update this page, purge it.
Successful hooks tend to have
several traits. Most importantly, they share a surprising or intriguing fact. They give readers enough context to understand the hook, but leave enough out to make them want to learn more. They are written for a
general audience who has no prior knowledge of or interest in the topic area. Lastly, they are concise, and do not attempt to cover multiple facts or present information about the subject beyond what's needed to understand the hook.
When will my nomination be reviewed?
This page is often backlogged. As long as your submission is still on the page, it will stay there until an editor reviews it. Since editors are encouraged to review the oldest submissions first, it may take several weeks until your submission is reviewed. In the meantime, please consider reviewing another submission (not your own) to help reduce the backlog (see
instructions below).
Where is my hook?
If you can't find the nomination you submitted to this nominations page, it may have been approved and is on the
approved nominations page waiting to be promoted. It could also have been added to one of the
prep areas, promoted from prep to a
queue, or is on the main page.
If the nominated hook is in none of those places, then the nomination has probably been rejected. Such a rejection usually only occurs if it was at least a couple of weeks old and had unresolved issues for which any discussion had gone stale. If you think your nomination was unfairly rejected, you can query this on the
DYK discussion page, but as a general rule such nominations will only be restored in exceptional circumstances.
Any editor who was not involved in writing/expanding or nominating an article may review it by checking to see that the article meets all the DYK criteria (
long enough,
new enough, no serious
editorial or content issues) and the hook is cited. Editors may also alter the suggested hook to improve it, suggest new hooks, or even lend a hand and make edits to the article to which the hook applies so that the hook is supported and accurate. For a more detailed discussion of the DYK rules and review process see the
supplementary guidelines and the
WP:Did you know/Reviewing guide.
To post a comment or review on a DYK nomination, follow the steps outlined below:
Click the "Review or comment" link at the top of the nomination. You will be taken to the nomination subpage.
The top of the page includes a list of the DYK criteria. Check the article to ensure it meets all the relevant criteria.
To indicate the result of the review (i.e., whether the nomination passes, fails, or needs some minor changes), leave a signed comment on the page. Please begin with one of the 5 review symbols that appear at the top of the edit screen, and then indicate all aspects of the article that you have reviewed; your comment should look something like the following:
Article length and age are fine, no copyvio or plagiarism concerns, reliable sources are used. But the hook needs to be shortened.
If you are the first person to comment on the nomination, there will be a line :* <!-- REPLACE THIS LINE TO WRITE FIRST COMMENT, KEEPING :* --> showing you where you should put the comment.
If there is any problem or concern about a nomination, please consider notifying the nominator by placing {{subst:DYKproblem|Article|header=yes|sig=yes}} on the nominator's talk page.
Advanced procedures
How to promote an accepted hook
At-a-glance instructions on how to promote an approved hook to a prep area
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.
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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
}}<!--Please do not write below this line or remove this line. Place comments above this line.-->
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.
Open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to remove. (It's best to wait several days after a reviewer has rejected the hook, just in case someone contests or the article undergoes a large change.)
In the window where the DYK nomination subpage is open, replace the line {{DYKsubpage with {{subst:DYKsubpage, and replace |passed= with |passed=no. Then save the page. This has the effect of wrapping up the discussion on the DYK nomination subpage in a blue archive box and stating that the nomination was unsuccessful, as well as adding the nomination to a category for archival purposes.
How to remove a hook from the prep areas or queue
Edit the prep area or queue where the hook is and remove the hook and the credits associated with it.
Go to the hook's nomination subpage (there should have been a link to it in the credits section).
View the edit history for that page
Go back to the last version before the edit where the hook was promoted, and revert to that version to make the nomination active again.
Add a new icon on the nomination subpage to cancel the previous tick and leave a comment after it explaining that the hook was removed from the prep area or queue, and why, so that later reviewers are aware of this issue.
Add a transclusion of the template back to this page so that reviewers can see it. It goes under the date that it was first created/expanded/listed as a GA. You may need to add back the day header for that date if it had been removed from this page.
If you removed the hook from a queue, it is best to either replace it with another hook from one of the prep areas, or to leave a message at
WT:DYK asking someone else to do so.
How to move a nomination subpage to a new name
Don't; it should not ever be necessary, and will break some links which will later need to be repaired. Even if you change the title of the article, you don't need to move the nomination page.
Nominations Information
Older nominations
Articles created/expanded on September 13
Articles created/expanded on October 8
Articles created/expanded on October 14
Articles created/expanded on October 17
Articles created/expanded on October 18
Articles created/expanded on October 19
Articles created/expanded on October 23
Articles created/expanded on October 24
Articles created/expanded on October 25
Articles created/expanded on October 29
Articles created/expanded on October 30
Articles created/expanded on October 31
Articles created/expanded on November 1
Articles created/expanded on November 3
Articles created/expanded on November 4
Articles created/expanded on November 5
Articles created/expanded on November 6
Articles created/expanded on November 8
Articles created/expanded on November 12
Articles created/expanded on November 13
Articles created/expanded on November 14
Articles created/expanded on November 15
Articles created/expanded on November 16
Articles created/expanded on November 17
Articles created/expanded on November 18
Articles created/expanded on November 19
Articles created/expanded on November 20
Articles created/expanded on November 21
Articles created/expanded on November 22
Articles created/expanded on November 23
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Articles created/expanded on November 24
Articles created/expanded on November 25
Articles created/expanded on November 26
Articles created/expanded on November 27
Articles created/expanded on November 28
Articles created/expanded on November 29
Articles created/expanded on November 30
Articles created/expanded on December 1
Articles created/expanded on December 2
Articles created/expanded on December 3
Articles created/expanded on December 4
Articles created/expanded on December 5
Articles created/expanded on December 6
Articles created/expanded on December 7
Articles created/expanded on December 8
Articles created/expanded on December 9
Articles created/expanded on December 10
Articles created/expanded on December 11
Current nominations
Articles created/expanded on December 12
Articles created/expanded on December 13
Articles created/expanded on December 14
Articles created/expanded on December 15
Articles created/expanded on December 16
Articles created/expanded on December 17
Articles created/expanded on December 18
Articles created/expanded on December 19
Special occasion holding area
Do not nominate articles in this section—nominate all articles in the
nominations section above, under the date on which the
article was created or moved to mainspace, or the
expansion began; indicate in the nomination any request for a specially timed appearance on the main page.
Note: Articles nominated for a special occasion should be nominated (i) within seven days of creation or expansion (as usual) and (ii) between five days and six weeks before the occasion, to give reviewers time to check the nomination. April Fools' Day is an exception to these requirements; see Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know.
Christmas season (December)
Christmas eve (December 24)
December 25 (Christmas day)
January 10 (62nd anniversary)
January 13 or 17 (two dates associated with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy)
NOTE: January 17 is the date of the overthrow. January 13 is the date she appointed ministers who helped overthrow her. Asking for either slot for this 3-hook DYK on those ministers - William H. Cornwell, John F. Colburn, Arthur P. Peterson.
— Maile (
talk) 01:39, 6 December 2016 (UTC)