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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 5. 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. {{Wikipedia:Did you know/DYK hook count}}

DYK time

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Current time: 22:23, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

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Last updated: 7 months ago(

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Queues

Queue 5 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (RoySmith (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Blue Mountain Pottery bowl

... that Blue Mountain Pottery wares (example pictured) had a distinctive drip glaze, particularly blue-green and black, so that each piece was unique?
... that Australian train driver Bill Morrow received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize alongside Fidel Castro?
... that among the Orang Asli of Negeri Sembilan, chica is only collected during kenduri rituals?
... that Sailor Moon co-stars Emi Shinohara and Rika Fukami were born on the same date?
... that almost 45 percent of Taiwan's beer purchases come from rechao restaurants?
... that Janet Panetta started dancing as physical therapy for childhood polio?
... that the flag of La Guaira is based on the design of a banner from a 1797 conspiracy against Spanish rule in Venezuela?
... that chef Victor Albisu created a bulgogi taco that honors the Koreatown neighborhood of his hometown of Annandale, Virginia?
... that the first dogs in space returned to Earth with a parachute?

Queue 6 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator ( — Chris Woodrich (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Asik-Asik Falls

... that the water of Asik-Asik Falls (pictured) comes from a source inside a cliff?
... that Mokulubete Makatisi placed eighth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games women's marathon despite running in new shoes that she had received late during the race?
... that the developer of The Crimson Diamond first created a series of pixel-art rooms and later built a game around the house she had designed?
... that some of the work of lesbian feminist filmmaking pioneer Norma Bahia Pontes is lost media?
... that while soldiers carried out relief operations for Tropical Storm Kai-tak, the New People's Army attacked them?
... that Milan A. P. Harminc, the consul-general of the Slovak Republic in London, broke with his government at the outbreak of World War II and sided with the Allies?
... that there was a doomsday cult named after Neo from The Matrix?
... that "Europapa" was the first song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest to be disqualified after the start of the contest?
... that a woman was considered a witch because her husband prepared chocolate instead of her?

Queue 7 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator ( — Chris Woodrich (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Winfield Blake

... that after a career as an opera singer and Broadway musical star, Winfield Blake (pictured) became a comedian in vaudeville as one half of the comic duo Blake and Amber?
... that a Picasso sculpture at University Village was called "half as high and twice as sexy as the Great Sphinx of Egypt"?
... that country music singer Buck Owens bought a bankrupt TV station in California from his sister?
... that Nyah Mway is believed to be the first Karen American to be killed by police?
... that Ratnākara's Haravijaya is the longest extant Sanskrit mahākāvya?
... that 99-year-old swimmer Betty Brussel broke three competitive swimming records on the same day?
... that both scholars and activists believe that diet culture is often intertwined with racism and other forms of prejudice?
... that G. R. Pantouw supported the Dutch puppet state of East Indonesia because he wanted to push the Netherlands into abandoning colonialism?
... that a Cretan man found a 1st-century statue of Aphrodite while trying to drill a well, and then reburied it?

Queue 1 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (Cas Liber (talk · contribs)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Farnese Artemis in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples

... that while the objects on the Farnese Artemis (pictured) had initially been identified as female breasts, the museum housing the statue now claims that they depict bull scrotums?
... that in the history of fisheries in the Philippines, the once-dominant local municipal fisheries were supplanted first by commercial fisheries, and then by aquaculture?
... that Eliza Legzdina has attributed opinions of her work to the "horrification of the female body"?
... that the center squeeze has been blamed for costing Gary Johnson the 2016 US election?
... that voice actress Atsuko Tanaka often named pandas?
... that seven people died when their helicopter struck supporting wires of a Texas TV station's tower and crashed?
... that Michael P. Walsh oversaw the construction of 15 buildings as the president of Boston College?
... that Jer Lau, who appeared in the film Over My Dead Body, also performed its theme song because the director felt his role was too minor?
... that the search for mammals on Booby Island was a bust?

Queue 2 [edit]

Downtown Serekunda

... that because the capital of the Gambia is on a small island, its population has overflowed into Serekunda (pictured) in the nearby municipality of Kanifing?
... that Nancy S. Steinhardt completed her doctorate on medieval Chinese architecture before she was able to see any in person?
... that much of Archcliffe Fort was demolished in the 1920s to allow for expansion of a railway?
... that Alfred Sully, who led US forces during the Sioux Wars, was married to a Yankton Sioux woman?
... that The Right and the Wrong was the first feature film produced natively in Trinidad and Tobago?
... that a 23-day CBC strike thrust Don Goodwin into the Canadian national spotlight and into "folk-hero status"?
... that the lyric video for an Olivia Rodrigo song included a teaser that she would tour in support of her album Guts before one was actually announced?
... that the Cosmere Roleplaying Game surpassed Frosthaven to become the most-funded tabletop game on Kickstarter in August 2024?
... that "Honest Ike" stole more than $200,000 from the Alabama treasury?

Queue 3 [edit]

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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 3 [update count].

Prep area 3 [edit]

Maximiliano Hernández Martínez

... that Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (pictured) believed that hanging colored lights across San Salvador would cure a smallpox epidemic?
... that a lane behind a tenement in Edinburgh is decorated as a Wild West town?
... that Abdul Ahad Azad was the first poet to introduce revolutionary themes into Kashmiri literature and composed the first history of the Kashmiri language?
... that the 2024 American remake of Have I Got News for You has something that the original show dispensed with in 2002?
... that when guitarist Pete Wade was 19, he moved to Nashville with $3, his suitcase, two ham sandwiches, and the telephone numbers of Don Helms and Jerry Rivers?
... that a tornado near Chicago had more than four times the helicity that it reasonably needed?
... that Victoria Siddall is the first woman to be appointed the director of the 168-year-old National Portrait Gallery in London?
... that novelist Sue Monk Kidd spent fourteen months researching New Testament–era Egypt and the Levant for The Book of Longings?
... that a baby penguin from Australia is "an absolute unit"?

Prep area 4 [edit]

Actinote zikani

... that Actinote zikani (specimen pictured) was rediscovered in Brazil ten years after being declared extinct?
... that cyclist Daniela Larreal competed in five Olympic games for a country that exiled her?
... that after Hitler came to power in 1933, the newspaper Hakenkreuzbanner acquired an office building and printing presses by seizing them from a Social Democratic publication?
... that despite having no university training, Agnes Crane described a new species of brachiopod in 1886?
... that chronic pain syndromes affect approximately 20 percent of people and account for 15 to 20 percent of doctor visits?
... that Typhoon Nat was described as having a "most unusual" track?
... that Arekia Bennett was inspired to organize a voter registration drive in 2017 by the 1964 Freedom Summer drive?
... that the Counterintelligence Group was disbanded because the unit was successful in the "neutralization and prosecution of scalawags" in the Armed Forces of the Philippines?
... that the character Psycho Mantis in the video game Metal Gear Solid breaks the fourth wall by identifying the player's other games?

Prep area 5 [edit]

Santa singing at the ceremony

... that Santa (pictured) opened the 2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony?
... that researchers speculate cocoa butter forms crystals on sugar while chocolate is tempered?
... that Americans received nearly 15 billion political text messages in 2022?
... that for 19 years, Tonya Burns had the only retired jersey number in Iowa State women's basketball history?
... that Northamptonshire used to have 92 railway stations, but now has only 6?
... that Joe Wirkkunen coached the Finland men's national ice hockey team after receiving a recommendation from Canada?
... that the music video for "...Well, Better Than the Alternative" uses software to render handmade paintings over live action footage of musician Will Wood?
... that British conscientious objector Henry Firth died in 1918 while being held at a work camp in Dartmoor?
... that the ongoing premiere of Gregory Markopoulos's Eniaios started 20 years ago?

Prep area 6 [edit]

Niederdollendorf stone

... that the Niederdollendorf stone (pictured), Grésin plaque, and Landelinus buckle are each controversially conjectured to depict a pagan-inspired Jesus Christ?
... that composer Gonzalo Brenes was also a politician in the National Assembly of Panama and was for seven years Panama's Secretary of Culture?
... that the undefeated 1961 Pittsburg State Gorillas shut out seven opponents, featured four All-Americans and won three national championships?
... that Cathy Merrick was the first woman elected Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs?
... that Maystorm, a character from Ultimate X-Men, was initially created as a variant cover for the X-Men comic?
... that Mike Veeck's baseball promotions include Disco Demolition Night, a game with no fans, and the world's largest pillow fight?
... that a clergyman from London established 87 schools in Wales in the 17th century?
... that Harold C. Hinton was one of the only American academics under McCarthyism to study Communist China?
... that President of South Africa Jacob Zuma requested a tour of a Sainsbury's supermarket during his state visit to the UK in 2010?

Prep area 7 [edit]

Chesmac running on a Telmac-1800 computer

... that as the 1979 computer chess game Chesmac (pictured) could not show the chessboard on screen, players had to replicate the game on a physical chessboard?
... that Samuel Barber, himself a conservatory-trained pianist, said he could not adequately play his own Piano Sonata?
... that a 1593 work by an Italian-Jewish engineer and polymath might have inspired James Joyce's Ulysses?
... that Anne Morrow Lindbergh tried to warn her husband Charles Lindbergh of the backlash his antisemitic Des Moines speech would receive?
... that Rose Betts wrote the song "Driving Myself Home" as a joke after a blind date, only for it to go viral on TikTok?
... that an art critic felt that Rooms by the Sea was one of Edward Hopper's "strangest" works?
... that when Swedish soccer player Beata Olsson transferred from Florida to Florida State, she said she did not really know about the schools' rivalry?
... that in Pell v The Queen, the High Court of Australia unanimously overturned Cardinal George Pell's conviction for child sex offences?
... that researchers want Hymenophyllum axsmithii rhizomes so they can tell if the filmy fern was up a tree?

Prep area 1 [edit]

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... that rebel fighters pursued their fleeing enemies during the Battle of Kembogo because they wanted new boots?
... that a German pastor let a deposed East German Head of State stay in his house?
... that Episode 7921 of Neighbours features Australia's first televised same-sex wedding since the country voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage?
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... that football coach Dim Montero was considered such a great recruiter that it was said he "could pick up a rock and find an outstanding football prospect"?

Prep area 2 [edit]

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