User:Doncram/DYK
This is a list of DYKs on articles i created or contributed to. Comments are welcome.
Doncram DYKs
Weippe Prairie
--Wizardman 00:41, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Carter Hall (Millwood, Virginia)
Cheers, Daniel (talk) 01:11, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
This was the lead DYK, with pic, on 22 April 2008, and it got 2.5k hits that day, plus many thousands in following days, totally 7.9k, as if it was listed somewhere else, too. Hook was:
- ...that Stonewall Jackson, camped with his men at Carter Hall, allowed his physician to perform a cataract operation on the owner, on the portico of the mansion?
Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park
--Royalbroil 03:11, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Hook was:
- ...that Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park's Hillsman House still has bloodstains on its floor dating to its use as a hospital after the Battle of Sayler's Creek in April 1865?
List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles
Franklin County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)
--BorgQueen (talk) 19:54, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

- Yay! The winning DYK phrase, crafted by Lvklock, was: Did you know "... that the Franklin County Courthouse incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War?"
List of Registered Historic Places in Chicago
--Gatoclass (talk) 09:53, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! The hook was: Did you know
- ... that there are at least 296 historic places listed on the U.S. National Register in Chicago, including a German U-boat (pictured)?
René Pleven
--Gatoclass (talk) 07:05, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
List of octagon houses
Did You Know:
- ... that zooming in from satellite view, one can see the outlines of Wilcox Octagon House and most of the 82 octagon houses listed on the U.S. National Register?
Nevada Theatre DYK
--Congratulations! PeterSymonds (talk) 03:20, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Pico Canyon Oilfield
--Congratulations! PeterSymonds (talk) 22:04, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Dutton-Waller Raised Tybee Cottage
--PFHLai (talk) 23:43, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Joseph H. Rainey House
--Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:46, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road
Lvklock (talk) 03:48, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles
Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:12, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
Cooleemee
Peshekee River Bridge
Thanks, Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 17:02, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
List of Registered Historic Places in Pasadena
--Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 12:53, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Keep up the good work! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 14:54, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley
(shared with User:cbl62; got over 13,000 hits!)
Congrats on the double DYK! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 14:57, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area
Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:26, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Powder Magazine (Camp Drum)
Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:28, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Lyceum-The Circle Historic District
Thank you for your nomination! - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 04:50, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Dubois-Sarles Octagon
Dravecky (talk) 14:33, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Rapp Road Community Historic District
Dravecky (talk) 06:51, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
- The DYK phrase, up now, is Did you know
- ... that during the First Great Migration, the majority of Shubuta, Mississippi, moved to Albany, New York, with some recreating a religious rural community in Rapp Road Community Historic District?
Algoma, Oregon
Nice one. Paxse (talk) 14:03, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
The phrase showing is: Did you know...
- ... that the tugboat that towed log rafts across Upper Klamath Lake to the Algoma lumber mill in Algoma, Oregon, is now on display in the Collier Memorial State Park logging museum?
Hmm, not sure i deserve this really, i just helped reword article a very little. :) doncram (talk) 20:13, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
The Manor (Los Angeles, California)
Shubinator (talk) 00:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Neutra VDL Studio and Residences
Jamie☆S93 18:56, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Pic was included, i think. Hook was:
- ... that architect Richard Neutra used mirrors and reflecting pools to provide spaciousness for his home on a small lot, the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, on Silver Lake in Los Angeles?}}
- 2.7k hits per [3].
- And then translated into German! The article appears at here in De.Wikipedia.
Merced Theatre
King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 08:15, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Lake Linden Historic District
Wikiproject: Did you know? 23:00, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Rijksmonument
NW (Talk) 17:07, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Charles Durrett
— Jake Wartenberg 11:15, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Fiddler's Reach Fog Signal
(shared with User:Jameslwoodward and User:Lvklock) Got over 4,000 hits!
— Jake Wartenberg 17:14, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
- Hit the main page with picture and all! Lvklock (talk) 20:06, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
- And it got about 4300 hits, per [4].
Hook with pic was:
- ... that the Fiddler's Reach Fog Signal (pictured) on Maine's Kennebec River originally had a bell run by a clockwork counterweight mechanism that had to be wound by hand every four hours?}}
David and Maggie Aegerter Barn

(shared with User:46percent)
Wikiproject: Did you know? 03:42, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
DYK hook was:
- ... that the gambrel-roofed David and Maggie Aegerter Barn is the only Linn County, Oregon barn featuring overhang on all sides?
- Got a respectable 1.2k hits, per [5], given no pic included. Too bad, I wrote the article to use the nice pic local wikipedian 46percent had uploaded. doncram (talk) 22:01, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Roswell and Elizabeth Garst Farmstead Historic District
WP:DYK 12:21, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
- Hook was: Did you know "... that 50 years ago today, on an Iowa farm, farmer and hybrid corn salesman Roswell Garst hosted Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev?"
Yilun Yang
Hook was:
- ... that Yilun Yang is ranked as a 7 dan in the board game Go?
Arenas Bridge
≈ Chamal talk ¤ 15:29, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
User:Chamal N picked a version of hook merging elements i provided, and it worked out well, getting 3.2k hits! See [6]. The final version displaying now is:
- ... that due to scarcity of iron in Puerto Rico, the Spanish government contracted for the Arenas Bridge (pictured) to be built by a Belgian firm in 1894, and shipped to be assembled in place?
Ponce City Hall
SoWhy 21:28, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Hook as reworked by User:Geraldk (thanks!) was:
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Casa Paoli
Royalbroil 07:07, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Hook was:
- 13:07, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
- ... that Puerto Rican tenor Antonio Paoli's birthplace, the Casa Paoli (pictured), was a wedding gift to his parents, who already had five children together at the time of their marriage?
This was kind of the middle of the night for the U.S., from 13:07 to 19:07 UTC apparently (which would be 10pm to 4am maybe on the U.S. east coast?) but it was the lead with pic. doncram (talk) 22:26, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Hallville Mill Historic District
SoWhy 01:57, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
- Okay, i am a bit shamed and/or legitimately challenged by this DYK, where i created the article but honestly i was not myself really trying to build a good article. I should get the NRHP nomination document and develop it further. :) doncram (talk) 06:31, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
- Got 309 hits on November 2. Hook was: Did you know ... that textile manufacturing in the mill village of Hallville in Connecticut dates to 1752, when a fulling mill was built there?
Mary E. Surratt Boarding House
Daniel Case (talk) 19:56, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
- Hook was: Did you know ... that Washingtonians eat Chinese food where the Abraham Lincoln assassins conspired, at the Mary E. Surratt Boarding House?
Naval Reserve Armory
⇌ Jake Wartenberg 18:14, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
- Hook was: Did you know ... that it was feared Seattle's Art Deco-styled Naval Reserve Armory would become a white elephant?
Upper Sandy Guard Station Cabin
Wikiproject: Did you know? 11:43, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
- Hook, revised by User:Matisse (thanks!), was:
- ... that out of 700 U.S. Forest Service buildings in Oregon and Washington built by New Deal programs, the Upper Sandy Guard Station Cabin is the only one crafted of stone and logs?
Manlius Village Historic District
Materialscientist (talk) 00:01, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Hook was:
- ... that five houses with pilasters are preserved in the Manlius Village Historic District near Syracuse, New York?
Saugatuck River Bridge
Materialscientist (talk) 12:00, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
Hook was:
- ... that the hand-cranked Saugatuck River Bridge is the oldest surviving movable bridge in the U.S. state of Connecticut?
Montauk Association Historic District
Materialscientist (talk) 00:08, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Hook was:
- ... that the seaside landscape of Montauk Association Historic District in New York includes seven 1881–84 Shingle Style summer houses?
Whitney Avenue Historic District
Mifter (talk) 12:03, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Hook was:
- ... that Whitney Avenue Historic District in New Haven, Connecticut, includes "locally outstanding" collections of Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival architecture?
Cecil Alexander
Thank you from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 18:02, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Hook was:
- ... that architect Cecil Alexander designed a controversial Georgia state flag that served from 2001 to 2003?
Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters
Thanks for this one Victuallers (talk) 12:03, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
And thanks, Acroterion! Hook was:
- ... that the Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters was a showcase for the company's aluminum products, using aluminum thread in carpets and drapes?
Godwin-Knowles House
The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks Nyttend, who did the writing and provided the photo! --doncram (talk) 00:46, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Sachs Covered Bridge
The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks to User:Niagara, who did most of the development and nommed it. --doncram (talk) 00:21, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
Henry S. Baird
Materialscientist (talk) 20:16, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
- Happily, it is in the leading position, with pic, as:
- ... that Henry S. Baird, the first lawyer in territorial Wisconsin, bought a small Greek Revival former land office building to serve as his law office (pictured) as he felt its style befit his position?
Baird Law Office
Materialscientist (talk) 20:16, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
Prudence Crandall House
The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
- This is right now, as i note this, displaying on main page as lead DYK with picture, as follows:
- ... that the Prudence Crandall School for Negro Girls operated in a Canterbury, Connecticut, mansion (pictured) until mob violence led to its closure?
- Yay, i didn't think it would get lead spot and keep a picture! --Doncram (talk) 00:32, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
- Stats.grok.se reports over 4.2 k hits on day and day after. :) --doncram 23:34, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Doris (Sailing yacht)
HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 06:04, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
do ncr am 21:37, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Working Girls' Vacation Society Historic District
Materialscientist (talk) 16:03, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Dr. Franklin E. Kameny House
The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Fisher & Fisher
Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:04, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
DYK for De Mores Packing Plant Ruins
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:03, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Henry W. Cleaveland
Yngvadottir (talk) 00:02, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Punta Gorda Fish Co.
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:03, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Thompson-Starrett Co.
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:01, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Louden Machinery Company
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Joseph C. Wells
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Champion Bridge Co.
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:02, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Orlo Epps
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Henry W. Cleaveland
Yngvadottir (talk) 00:02, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Punta Gorda Fish Co.
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:03, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Thompson-Starrett Co.
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:01, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Louden Machinery Company
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Joseph C. Wells
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Champion Bridge Co.
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:02, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Opa-Locka Thematic Resource Area
Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:03, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
DYK for Gibraltar (Wilmington, Delaware)
Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:02, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
some are missing here? need to scan my Talk archives
DYK for Prow house
DYK for Pair-house
On 24 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pair-house, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Scandinavian-influenced pair-house shows that some level of ethnic diversity was accepted in early Mormon society? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pair-house. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Pair-house), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
DYK for List of Mexican–American War monuments and memorials
On 2 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article List of Mexican–American War monuments and memorials, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that monuments and memorials to the fallen in the Mexican–American War include a US national cemetery in Mexico City? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, List of Mexican–American War monuments and memorials), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Vanamonde (talk) 05:18, 2 June 2018 (UTC)