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DYK queue status

There are currently 6 filled queues. Humans, 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 7. 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
November 1	1
November 2	2
November 15	1
November 17	1
November 18	1
November 19	2
November 21	2	1
November 22	2
November 26	2
December 1	2
December 2	3	1
December 3	1
December 4	1
December 5	1	1
December 6	2	1
December 7	2	2
December 8	1	1
December 10	2
December 11	3	1
December 12	3	1
December 13	5	1
December 14	3	3
December 15	2
December 16	5	3
December 17	4	3
December 18	7	5
December 19	15	15
December 20	13	10
December 21	7	6
December 22	9	6
December 23	13	12
December 24	6	4
December 25	7	3
December 26	11	5
December 27	6	3
December 28	13	9
December 29	6	3
December 30	14	8
December 31	12	5
January 1	13	6
January 2	14	8
January 3	10	6
January 4	12	5
January 5	9	2
January 6	5
Total	256	140
Last updated 16:17, 6 January 2025 UTC Current time is 16:36, 6 January 2025 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London (UTC)	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 7	6 January 16:00	6 January 19:00	7 January 00:00	7 January 00:00	7 January 05:30	7 January 09:00	7 January 11:00
Queue 1	7 January 04:00	7 January 07:00	7 January 12:00	7 January 12:00	7 January 17:30	7 January 21:00	7 January 23:00
Queue 2	7 January 16:00	7 January 19:00	8 January 00:00	8 January 00:00	8 January 05:30	8 January 09:00	8 January 11:00
Queue 3	8 January 04:00	8 January 07:00	8 January 12:00	8 January 12:00	8 January 17:30	8 January 21:00	8 January 23:00
Queue 4	8 January 16:00	8 January 19:00	9 January 00:00	9 January 00:00	9 January 05:30	9 January 09:00	9 January 11:00
Queue 5	9 January 04:00	9 January 07:00	9 January 12:00	9 January 12:00	9 January 17:30	9 January 21:00	9 January 23:00
Queue 6 Prep 6	9 January 16:00	9 January 19:00	10 January 00:00	10 January 00:00	10 January 05:30	10 January 09:00	10 January 11:00
Prep 7	10 January 04:00	10 January 07:00	10 January 12:00	10 January 12:00	10 January 17:30	10 January 21:00	10 January 23:00
Prep 1	10 January 16:00	10 January 19:00	11 January 00:00	11 January 00:00	11 January 05:30	11 January 09:00	11 January 11:00
Prep 2	11 January 04:00	11 January 07:00	11 January 12:00	11 January 12:00	11 January 17:30	11 January 21:00	11 January 23:00
Prep 3	11 January 16:00	11 January 19:00	12 January 00:00	12 January 00:00	12 January 05:30	12 January 09:00	12 January 11:00
Prep 4	12 January 04:00	12 January 07:00	12 January 12:00	12 January 12:00	12 January 17:30	12 January 21:00	12 January 23:00
Prep 5	12 January 16:00	12 January 19:00	13 January 00:00	13 January 00:00	13 January 05:30	13 January 09:00	13 January 11:00

Queues

Queue 7 []

Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem

... that Queen Melisende (pictured) was so incensed by the rumours of her alleged infidelity that neither her husband nor his friends felt safe in her presence?
... that the questionnaire prepared after the Jewish Ethnographic Expedition had 2,087 questions and was called "a modern epic"?
... that during World War II, US Army casualty telegrams were sent out in the name of Major General James Alexander Ulio?
... that to raise funds for the Council of District Dumas, its chairman led an armed squad to storm the Moscow headquarters of the State Bank?
... that the Boldy James and Sterling Toles collaborative album Manger on McNichols took over a decade to make?
... that Renildo José dos Santos, a Brazilian councilman, was murdered in 1993 after publicly coming out as bisexual?
... that a Kansas City TV station was under contract to be sold within a week of its first regular broadcast?
... that Her Story was described as China's answer to Barbie?
... that football player Jahkeem Stewart was 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and 340 pounds (150 kg) in sixth grade?

Queue 1 []

Remnants of the Onekaka Wharf

... that painter Doris Lusk chose the Onekaka Wharf (remnants pictured) as her main subject for five years?
... that Josie Childs served as a Chicago mayor's assistant, worked as a campaign organizer for three U.S. presidents, and hosted the British queen?
... that Kenshi Yonezu's song "Dune" describes his perception of a "desert-like atmosphere" on the video-sharing website Niconico?
... that Haliey Welch earned more than $65,000 within weeks of hawk tuah going viral?
... that Mauritius's abortion law was "dormant for nearly two centuries"?
... that the first women's dormitory built at Hampton University was partially paid for with money collected by the school's choir in tours led by Thomas P. Fenner?
... that hefker, unowned property in Talmudic law, came to express both personal freedom and societal abandonment in 20th-century Yiddish poetry?
... that NFL player Darrell Hogan watched Gunsmoke every day?
... that players play Pokémon Smile by brushing their teeth?

Queue 2 []

Debra Toporowski

... that Debra Toporowski (pictured) was unable to receive Indian status in Canada before 1985, because her mother had been forced to relinquish her status after marrying a Chinese-Canadian man?
... that a musical adaptation of Homer's Odyssey is structured after video-game level progression?
... that bædlings may have been a third gender in Anglo-Saxon society?
... that the FBI's first successful use of silver nitrate to identify fingerprints was in solving the kidnapping of a brewery executive?
... that one Tumblr user cursed another for stealing bones for use in curses?
... that in 1902 the paramedic student Anna Weisman smuggled fonts to help set up an underground revolutionary publishing house in Saratov?
... that pilots reported debris at an altitude of 30,000 feet (9,100 m) after the 1957 Ruskin Heights tornado?
... that Johannes Kaiser was the leading opponent to Liechtenstein's accession to the International Monetary Fund?
... that the publication of Paul Creston's saxophone sonata was delayed by a "rat with a toothbrush mustache"?

Queue 3 []

Promotional still from Two Stars in the Milky Way

... that the soundtrack of Two Stars in the Milky Way (scene pictured), one of the few surviving early Chinese films, has been lost?
... that aerospace engineer Nuno Xavier signed the treaty that made São Tomé and Príncipe an independent nation?
... that some journalists interpreted Taylor Swift's song "But Daddy I Love Him" as her criticism of her own fans?
... that The Bootleggers portrays the illegal alcohol trade during the Prohibition era of the Roaring '20s?
... that the Hanta Road on Okinawa was used by both Ryukyuan armies and the U.S. Navy's Perry Expedition?
... that political consultant Jim Rivaldo said that moving to San Francisco made him realize that "there were gay lawyers, gay businessmen—a lot of people like me"?
... that Aquilegia barykinae is likely more closely related to other species of columbine than to Aquilegia amurensis, which shares its range?
... that Mark Smith was a fourth-generation actor who performed in 70 theaters in New York City and on more than 2,000 radio programs?
... that the director-screenwriter of Blossoms Under Somewhere joined Telegram groups that sell used lingerie to conduct field research?

Queue 4 []

Waterloo Column

... that the Waterloo Column (pictured), which commemorates Germans who died at the Battle of Waterloo, incorporates the barrels of eight cannons that were captured there?
... that gym teacher Harold Styan of Clifton House School was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to youth?
... that one critic described some of the melodies in Life Till Bones as akin to "trying to dig a hole in a bowl full of sugar"?
... that Goro Takahashi, a silversmith adopted by a Lakota family, was the first Japanese person allowed to attend a Sun Dance?
... that a Rhode Island TV station started out by re-running an inventory of 50 hours of cartoons and 14 old movies?
... that the 1923 film Zhang Xinsheng featured close-up views of internal organs?
... that an inscription from 243 AD for a leader of the marzēaḥ ends with blessings for his sons, the scribe, the person in charge of the cooking, the cupbearer, and other assistants?
... that Ripken wore a GoPro on his back while retrieving used bats and tees at major sporting events?
... that trucks in Tyler promoted Tyler's latest album?

Queue 5 []

Limia tridens male

... that land vertebrates and freshwater fish like limias (example pictured) have been hypothesized to have colonized the Caribbean islands via a controversial land bridge?
... that Richard Stratton's diplomatic career took him "from South America to Japan, and from Southern Africa to the foothills of the Himalayas"?
... that in the narrative epic Pem Nem, the union of two lovers is a metaphor for the union of the soul with God?
... that after becoming a born again Christian, soprano Jane Stuart Smith abandoned a successful opera career to pursue a life of Christian service?
... that Singapore's first R-rated play was performed despite the police finding parts of it "offensive"?
... that the Filipino boy band SB19 once considered disbandment after their debut single "Tilaluha" saw little success?
... that a Sunday afternoon phone call to Ken Battle laid the foundations for the Canadian Child Benefit program?
... that while Germans murdered millions of prisoners of war during WWII, the survival ratio of Jewish POWs was generally tied to the army or nation they served with, and not to their ethnicity?
... that American football player Noah Knigga went viral for his last name and had to clarify its pronunciation?

Queue 6 []

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 5 [].

Prep area 5 []

Limia tridens male

... that land vertebrates and freshwater fish like limias (example pictured) have been hypothesized to have colonized the Caribbean islands via a controversial land bridge?
... that Richard Stratton's diplomatic career took him "from South America to Japan, and from Southern Africa to the foothills of the Himalayas"?
... that in the narrative epic Pem Nem, the union of two lovers is a metaphor for the union of the soul with God?
... that after becoming a born again Christian, soprano Jane Stuart Smith abandoned a successful opera career to pursue a life of Christian service?
... that Singapore's first R-rated play was performed despite the police finding parts of it "offensive"?
... that the Filipino boy band SB19 once considered disbandment after their debut single "Tilaluha" saw little success?
... that a Sunday afternoon phone call to Ken Battle laid the foundations for the Canadian Child Benefit program?
... that while Germans murdered millions of prisoners of war during WWII, the survival ratio of Jewish POWs was generally tied to the army or nation they served with, and not to their ethnicity?
... that American football player Noah Knigga went viral for his last name and had to clarify its pronunciation?

Prep area 6 []

Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings

... that an Indian emperor spurns the king of England and the Turkish sultan in a painting (pictured) by the Indian artist Bichitr?
... that a study of people who reported alien abduction experiences found that many exhibited characteristics consistent with fantasy-prone personality?
... that the My Chemical Romance song "Cancer" was written in eight minutes?
... that Ambo Sooloh pledged allegiance to the British government on behalf of all the Malays in Singapore?
... that a pavilion next to New York City's Ted Weiss Federal Building was canceled due to human remains?
... that Pocatello mayor Thomas Les Purce was the first African-American officeholder in Idaho?
... that the Chapline columbine is generally considered a distinct species, except in Texas, where it is considered a variety of the golden columbine?
... that a Portsmouth building was Grade II listed because Eric Rimmington painted a mural inside it?
... that the Glucoboy was advertised as the "first medical device to interface with a Game Boy"?

Prep area 7 []

Clay M. Greene

... that playwright Clay M. Greene (pictured) claimed he was the "first American born in San Francisco"?
... that in 2005, a PhD student discovered a lost manuscript of Galen's Peri Alypias in what was called "one of the most spectacular finds ever of ancient literature"?
... that Kim Kitsuragi was praised as one of the best video game characters of 2019?
... that the Chinese Lingnan School faced condemnation during the Second Sino-Japanese War even as it spread anti-Japanese messages?
... that in the wake of a hazing scandal, Western Kentucky University placed their swimming and diving programs on a five-year suspension?
... that after unknowingly working for the Manhattan Project, Charles Fisk quit physics and became an organbuilder?
... that Picher, Oklahoma, was hit so hard by a tornado in 2008 that it would become an unincorporated community in 2013?
... that the producers of Doctor Who only wrote a queer romance into the programme's 2022 special episodes after viewers began shipping two characters?
... that the return ceremony of the skull of Adam Sapi Mkwawa's grandfather was "probably the biggest gathering ever to take place in Tanganyika"?

Prep area 1 []

Flag of Okinawa Prefecture

... that the white ring on the flag of Okinawa Prefecture (pictured) represents the "O" in "Okinawa"?
... that Emirati princess Mahra Al Maktoum invoked triple talaq to divorce her husband, which is traditionally only done by the husband?
... that according to some estimates, as many as 35 million soldiers became prisoners of war in World War II?
... that following his December 2024 arrest for murder, Luigi Mangione was described as "somewhat of an online sex symbol"?
... that the Mseilha Fort is strategically located to oversee the crossing of the Jaouz River near Lebanon's Ras ash-Shaq'a promontory?
... that ...
... that journalism students at New Mexico State University were willing to work for free to save their newscast on the school's TV station?
... that ...
... that an Oregon Senate President crawled along a ledge of the State Capitol to access an unsecured window of the absent governor’s office to place bills on his desk?

Prep area 2 []

Lilium lophophorum flower

... that the unique flower shape of Lilium lophophorum (pictured) is adapted to protect its reproductive organs from the harsh UV light and torrential rains of its habitat?
... that with the Green Bay Packers loss in the 2020 NFC Championship Game, Aaron Rodgers "became the first quarterback in NFL history to lose four straight NFC Championship Games"?
... that The House of Bijapur has been called a "painted curtain call" since the dynasty it depicts was overthrown only a few years later?
... that Dethloff Willrodt fought for the Union army on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, having previously been a soldier in the Confederate army?
... that in Greek mythology, Achilles promised to marry Pisidice if she would help him conquer her homeland, but afterwards he had her executed for treason?
... that blogger Charles LeBlanc interviewed a man who carried out a mass shooting the following year?
... that for cultural reasons, jijin were permitted to be worn by Catholic priests in China even while celebrating Mass?
... that in 1927 Berta Persson became the first woman bus driver in Sweden and was nicknamed "Buss-Berta"?
... that comedy film Starbuck and the Holstein bull it was named after both had cloned remakes?

Prep area 3 []

Adrien Nunez

... that despite limited playing time, Adrien Nunez (pictured) was higher paid than some NBA draft lottery picks while in college?
... that a specimen of Aquilegia daingolica was collected in 1909, but it was first described as a new species in 2013?
... that Yanou Collart helped Rock Hudson get medical treatment when Nancy Reagan would not?
... that when Alexander McQueen, following years of criticism for over-reliance on runway spectacles, presented The Man Who Knew Too Much (Autumn/Winter 2005), it was criticised for its lack of theatrics?
... that Lars Chemnitz was the joint-first recipient of the Nersornaat, the highest honor in Greenland?
... that regarding a song on Always Happy to Explode, its principal songwriter asked listeners to "love it for me, for I cannot"?
... that Daniel Hermann wrote poems on the inclusion of a lizard and a frog in a piece of amber, the eagle in the coat of arms of Poland, and a child suffering from Fraser syndrome?
... that the harsh treatment of allied prisoners of war in Japan is well known in the West but mostly forgotten in Japan itself?
... that a cable TV channel in the UK was still broadcasting primarily in black and white as late as 1979?

Prep area 4 []

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