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DYK queue status

There are currently 3 filled queues. 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
February 5	3	1
February 11	1
February 12	2
February 13	2	1
February 15	1
February 16	1
February 19	1
February 20	1
February 21	1
February 23	1
February 25	4
February 27	1
February 28	1
March 1	1	1
March 2	2	1
March 3	1	1
March 6	3	3
March 7	4	3
March 8	4	4
March 9	14	12
March 10	9	8
March 11	4	4
March 12	9	7
March 13	9	8
March 14	4	4
March 15	4	3
March 16	8	4
March 17	4	3
March 18	4	4
March 19	12	9
March 20	4	4
March 21	11	7
March 22	10	7
March 23	12	7
March 24	24	14
March 25	10	5
March 26	10	6
March 27	9	6
March 28	6	1
March 29	3
March 30	2
March 31
Total	217	138
Last updated 21:15, 31 March 2025 UTC Current time is 21:18, 31 March 2025 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 4	31 March 17:00	31 March 20:00	1 April 00:00	1 April 01:00	1 April 05:30	1 April 09:00	1 April 11:00
Queue 5	1 April 17:00	1 April 20:00	2 April 00:00	2 April 01:00	2 April 05:30	2 April 09:00	2 April 11:00
Queue 6	2 April 17:00	2 April 20:00	3 April 00:00	3 April 01:00	3 April 05:30	3 April 09:00	3 April 11:00
Queue 7 Prep 7	3 April 17:00	3 April 20:00	4 April 00:00	4 April 01:00	4 April 05:30	4 April 09:00	4 April 11:00
Queue 1 Prep 1	4 April 17:00	4 April 20:00	5 April 00:00	5 April 01:00	5 April 05:30	5 April 09:00	5 April 11:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	5 April 17:00	5 April 20:00	6 April 00:00	6 April 01:00	6 April 05:30	6 April 09:00	6 April 11:00
Queue 3 Prep 3	6 April 17:00	6 April 20:00	7 April 00:00	7 April 01:00	7 April 05:30	7 April 09:00	7 April 11:00
Prep 4	7 April 17:00	7 April 20:00	8 April 00:00	8 April 01:00	8 April 05:30	8 April 09:00	8 April 11:00
Prep 5	8 April 17:00	8 April 20:00	9 April 00:00	9 April 01:00	9 April 05:30	9 April 09:00	9 April 11:00
Prep 6	9 April 17:00	9 April 20:00	10 April 00:00	10 April 01:00	10 April 05:30	10 April 09:00	10 April 11:00

Queues

Queue 4 []

Maida (second from right) with Roxy Music

... that Sal Maida (pictured) may not have a Wikipedia page?
... that the United States of America met a mixed reception?
... that The Avengers attempted to assassinate Alfonso XIII, King of Spain?
... that Barack Obama was a horse and Kamala was an elephant?
... that Indonesians twice elected Alien as a representative?
... that bliss could be found in California?
... that Batman had a hipster-proof fence in 2018?
... that a 1989 science show featured an unusually long signal delay?
... that Jackie Chan and the Mario games inspired hundreds of beavers?
... that America keeps coming back?

Queue 5 []

Cover of the sheet music for Burlesque

... that Burlesque (sheet music pictured) was a hit play of the 1927–28 Broadway season that was marked by its "depiction of seedy glamour and jazzy lingo"?
... that the themes of Somuk's artwork range from the bombing of his island during World War II to the origin of trees and plants?
... that a sprinter and a judoka representing Kiribati at the 2024 Summer Olympics were the youngest participants in their respective sports at the games?
... that Joe Biden ran for president twice before being elected in 2020?
... that Baabda residents collectively purchased the Seraglio of Baabda for 1,000 gold Ottoman liras in the late 19th century to gift to the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate government?
... that Herman Brown's estate and most of the proceeds from the sale of Brown & Root were donated after his death to his charitable foundation, which has given more than $2 billion in grants in Texas?
... that more than a quarter of the population of Germany is of migration background?
... that Sammy Powers was the only member of the original 1919 Green Bay Packers team who was not a local player?
... that Laurence Sterne was told to burn all copies of his pamphlet that depicts his patron's rival with a toilet on his head?

Queue 6 []

Aliko Dangote

... that Aliko Dangote (pictured) was the first non-government official to be appointed Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, Nigeria's second-highest honour?
... that Holy Cross Church in Kentucky was built on land donated by the namesake of a brand of whiskey?
... that Kanailal Sarkar, the opposition candidate for mayor of Calcutta in 1963, had been jailed during the 1930 protest movement against British rule in India?
... that four-time NAIA scoring champion Grace Beyer has scored more career points than any female basketball player at a four-year college or university?
... that workers in European lace workshops and schools chanted catchy, often gruesome rhymes?
... that the first Indian-American mayor of Fremont, California, succeeded its first female and first Asian-American mayor?
... that velvet worms had an ancient relative with two pairs of antennae?
... that both athletes for American Samoa at the 2024 Summer Olympics represented the territory because their relatives were born there?
... that "the world's ugliest woman" won the title 28 times?

Queue 7 []

Queue 1 []

Queue 2 []

Queue 3 []

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

Prep areas

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

Prep area 7 []

Eurasian beaver with her kit

... that beavers (examples pictured) in the Czech Republic built dams that saved the government $1.2 million?
... that Terraria was released earlier than planned because a beta version of the game was leaked to the public?
... that although Nora Helmer was subject to extensive controversy upon her 1879 debut, she is now considered a focal point in analysis of gender roles?
... that US general Tommy Franks reportedly did not have time to become an expert on the Danish Air Force?
... that Tribuna da Imprensa was shut down in 2001 after losing a lawsuit over an article that referred to a judge as "PC Salomão"?
... that Javanese rebel leader Diponegoro partly blamed his sexual infidelity for his defeat at the Battle of Gawok?
... that basketball player Barry Leibowitz, despite being drafted by the New York Knicks and playing in the ABA, chose to play in Israel instead because of its sea, hummus, and tahini?
... that the filmmakers of 100 Litres of Gold brewed 20 litres of sahti at the Finnish embassy in Rome for its premiere?
... that after being ousted by the Southern Transitional Council, the governor of the Socotra Archipelago fled to Oman and continued to govern through WhatsApp?

Prep area 1 []

Demi Sims

... that Demi Sims (pictured) was described in December 2020 as one of the "very few openly bisexual women on mainstream reality television"?
... that Rita Lee tracked down two boa constrictors from a concert by Alice Cooper in São Paulo, and later brought them to her recording sessions for Fruto Proibido?
... that after a NBA Twitter parody page posted a fake report of Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers promising to take coaching "seriously", their performance improved during the 2024–25 season?
... that Margaret Lambert was the British historian responsible for examining the Marburg Files and deciding when they should be published?
... that the opening of a Hejaz Railway station in Amman in 1904 helped to transform the city from a small village into a major commercial hub in the region?
... that Shabbos Kestenbaum, a Harvard Divinity School graduate, sued Harvard University for failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitism?
... that Greek government officials tried to cover up the Yugoslav corn fraud by forging documents and delaying investigations, only to later defend the scheme as being in the "national interest"?
... that Sharon Wylie has served in the state legislatures of both Oregon and Washington?
... that Dayo Wong, the lead actor of the first film, did not to return for Table for Six 2 and claimed he would not reveal the reason for 10 years?

Prep area 2 []

Chtonobdella limbata

... that the leech Chtonobdella limbata (example pictured) can survive months without any water by entering an inanimate state?
... that photographs created by Margot Dias were called "among the best-illustrated anthropological volumes ever produced"?
... that some legal documents in Old Frisian refer to the womb as a "fortress of the bones"?
... that the Mexican-American band Grupo Frontera has been affected by a massive backlash because of an alleged endorsement of Donald Trump after a viral video of the vocalist's grandmother?
... that Varsen Aghabekian is the first Armenian to serve as a minister in the government of the State of Palestine?
... that a Missouri TV station was twice denied in its efforts to move its transmitter tower to Kansas to increase its coverage area?
... that the arts magazine Paper Chained was banned in some Australian prisons due to its pen-pal program?
... that a survivor of the 1967 Belvidere tornado recalled being inside a school bus when "the tornado picked up the bus and the bus ended up in someone's living room"?
... that a buttock painted with "FUFN" was used to promote a recent song by Jade Thirlwall?

Prep area 3 []

Trailer for Model Farmers

... that OFTV aired a farming series (trailer pictured) involving six OnlyFans models, including Danielle Sellers and Jessie Wynter?
... that people traveled from as far away as Australia and the Netherlands to stay at a house in Ohio?
... that urbanists have used hive cities from the sci-fi universe of Warhammer 40,000 as an example of how vertical cities could become dystopian?
... that when a South African newspaper denounced the practice of horse fighting in the Philippines, the Philippine embassy in Pretoria responded by saying the practice was already illegal?
... that artisan baker Jules Rabin was inspired to bake bread after a 1971 visit to a commune in France where "they didn't speak of bread as holy, but they treated it as a holy object"?
... that Tout est lumière, a setting of a poem by Victor Hugo for soprano, choir and orchestra by Maurice Ravel, earned him the second round of the 1901 Prix de Rome competition?
... that Tommy Cronin played both basketball and football in high school, college, and professionally?
... that the grave of a Dutch officer and his dog who were killed in the Battle of Nanggulon is a designated cultural object in Indonesia?
... that Cowboy Wheeler was a Reimer Wiener?

Prep area 4 []

James Joseph, known as the Jesus Guy

... that the Jesus Guy (pictured) is not portraying Jesus, nor does he claim to be Jesus?
... that the found manuscript trope, where a fictional work makes a reference to a fictional work of literature, dates as far back as Ancient Egypt?
... that nine days after his heart transplant, J. C. Walter, Jr. merged his company with Tenneco, retired to his ranch, then founded a new company three weeks later?
... that when MV Solong struck MV Stena Immaculate in March 2025, the former ship was falsely reported to be carrying highly toxic sodium cyanide?
... that while starting in place of Aaron Rodgers, backup quarterback Matt Flynn set the Green Bay Packers team record for passing yards (480) and touchdowns (6) in a victory against the Detroit Lions?
... that as an infant, opera singer Mirella Freni shared the same wet nurse as Luciano Pavarotti?
... that the tenure of Wallis and Futuna's longest-serving senator, Soséfo Makapé Papilio, ended when he was found dead in a car submerged in the sea?
... that Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell wrote A Short Church History which was used as a textbook for pupil teachers?
... that a giant pink squid did not return to the sea?

Prep area 5 []

Roman baths (Amman)

... that two headless white marble statues found in Amman's Roman baths (pictured) in 2020 were carved from stone quarried in Greece?
... that Abba Cohen, who advocates for the Orthodox Jewish community, has worked with seven presidential administrations and 19 Congresses?
... that a dam failure at a Chinese-owned copper mine released 50 million liters of highly toxic waste into Zambia's Kafue River, devastating ecosystems at least 100 kilometers downstream?
... that the participants in The World's Biggest Gang Bang III were asked to follow seven rules?
... that Hong Wang's latest paper claims to have resolved the Kakeya conjecture, described as "one of the most sought-after open problems in geometric measure theory", in three dimensions?
... that actress Margaret Qualley cried when she first heard the song "Margaret"?
... that Markus Graf's "swissmadehockey" formed the approach to training the Switzerland men's national ice hockey team?
... that in 1343 the French and English armies marched to within 18 miles (29 km) of each other, then agreed a three-and-a-half year truce?
... that a bald eagle went viral online for incubating a rock?

Prep area 6 []

Alessi Rose in 2025

... that as far as Alessi Rose (pictured) is concerned, "if people don't want me to write songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things"?
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