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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 6. 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
March 15	1
March 16	1
March 21	1	1
March 22	1
March 23	1
March 24	3	2
March 25	1
March 26	1	1
March 27	1
March 28	1
March 29	2
March 30	5
April 2	3
April 3	1
April 4	1
April 6	3
April 7	1	1
April 8	3
April 9	6
April 11	2
April 12	2
April 13	5	2
April 14	2
April 15	3	2
April 16	4	3
April 17	6	3
April 18	11	5
April 19	6	3
April 20	8	3
April 21	16	9
April 22	9	8
April 23	15	7
April 24	14	7
April 25	11	6
April 26	10	5
April 27	13	9
April 28	25	15
April 29	6	4
April 30	15	11
May 1	11	8
May 2	11	6
May 3	9	8
May 4	6
May 5	6
May 6	4
May 7	7
May 8	4
May 9	4
May 10	7
May 11	4
May 12
May 13
May 14
Total	293	129
Last updated 02:05, 14 May 2025 UTC Current time is 02:11, 14 May 2025 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There are currently 3 filled queues. Please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Current time: 02:11, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 2 hours ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 6	14 May 17:00	14 May 20:00	15 May 00:00	15 May 01:00	15 May 05:30	15 May 09:00	15 May 10:00
Queue 7	15 May 17:00	15 May 20:00	16 May 00:00	16 May 01:00	16 May 05:30	16 May 09:00	16 May 10:00
Queue 1	16 May 17:00	16 May 20:00	17 May 00:00	17 May 01:00	17 May 05:30	17 May 09:00	17 May 10:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	17 May 17:00	17 May 20:00	18 May 00:00	18 May 01:00	18 May 05:30	18 May 09:00	18 May 10:00
Queue 3 Prep 3	18 May 17:00	18 May 20:00	19 May 00:00	19 May 01:00	19 May 05:30	19 May 09:00	19 May 10:00
Queue 4 Prep 4	19 May 17:00	19 May 20:00	20 May 00:00	20 May 01:00	20 May 05:30	20 May 09:00	20 May 10:00
Queue 5 Prep 5	20 May 17:00	20 May 20:00	21 May 00:00	21 May 01:00	21 May 05:30	21 May 09:00	21 May 10:00
Prep 6	21 May 17:00	21 May 20:00	22 May 00:00	22 May 01:00	22 May 05:30	22 May 09:00	22 May 10:00
Prep 7	22 May 17:00	22 May 20:00	23 May 00:00	23 May 01:00	23 May 05:30	23 May 09:00	23 May 10:00
Prep 1	23 May 17:00	23 May 20:00	24 May 00:00	24 May 01:00	24 May 05:30	24 May 09:00	24 May 10:00

Queues

Queue 6 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human ( — Amakuru (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

I. B. Donalson

... that fighter pilot I. B. Donalson (pictured) was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions while commanding a boat?
... that Alamat's "Maharani" made them the first Pinoy pop boy band to enter the Billboard Philippines Hot 100?
... that Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley was compiled over concerns that the stories would be lost?
... that Anja Margetić was the first woman to represent Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Olympics?
... that an Ohio TV station broadcast Little League baseball from a ballpark on the station grounds, known as "Telecast Field"?
... that Lebanese and Mexican singer Blu Fiefer defied a karaoke age restriction at the age of eight to sing a Shakira song?
... that Ireland won the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships, receiving their first European gold medal in athletics since 1998?
... that the first work of fan fiction featuring a romantic relationship between the Winchester brothers in Supernatural was published one day after the first episode aired?
... that The World's Biggest Gang Bang III was so popular that it crashed the server?

Queue 7 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Cwmhiraeth (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Bode Ioiô's taxidermied body

... that a liquor-drinking celebrity goat named Ioiô (pictured) won an election for city councilman in Fortaleza?
... that Beyoncé's "Formation" video topped Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time" in 2021?
... that Jim Coffeen was the first quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, then served as the team's first public address announcer?
... that Score! by Jilly Cooper was criticised for its treatment of sexual violence?
... that the court-appointed receiver for a California TV station noted that the business "at least equal[ed] the most poorly managed companies I've seen"?
... that stage director Tina Packer has hired Black and Asian actors in traditionally White Shakespearean roles?
... that kākā birds deeply scar Nothofagus menziesii trees while searching for the larvae of the pūriri moth?
... that priests were secretly buried at St Catherine's Chapel, Lydiate, after it fell into ruin?
... that Hamengkubuwono III was appointed crown prince of Yogyakarta while his father was also still crown prince?

Queue 1 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human ( — Amakuru (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Holly-Anne Hull of Remember Monday

... that Elizabeth II once asked a future member (pictured) of the "What the Hell Just Happened?" girlband Remember Monday why she was barefoot?
... that the Knox Mountain Hillclimb is the longest-running paved motorsport hillclimb in North America?
... that the works of Yaelokre have been compared to The Lord of the Rings, Gorillaz, and the illustrations of Where the Wild Things Are?
... that Camp Growden was envisioned to become a winter sports complex with toboggan runs?
... that Paddy Higson was known as the "mother of Scottish film"?
... that the robotic costumes used in the Doctor Who episode "The Robot Revolution" were 3D printed in thirty-four different pieces before being assembled?
... that Google searches for the word "fortnight" in the US increased by 868% on the release day of the song "Fortnight" by Taylor Swift?
... that the Green Bay Packers signed Tom Birney as their new kicker in 1979, even though he had not kicked a field goal in more than five years?
... that a 2015 issue of the Strawberry Newspaper features Hello Kitty discussing military conflicts in Afghanistan, Somalia, and Ukraine?

Queue 2 [edit]

Queue 3 [edit]

Queue 4 [edit]

Queue 5 [edit]

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 2 [update count].

Prep area 2 [edit]

Vincent de Groof's flying machine

... that Vincent de Groof successfully tested his bat-like flying machine (pictured) in 1874, only to die after crashing it 10 days later?
... that visitors from various countries come to a temple see a wild Chinese monkey named Xing Xing?
... that Fatima Hassouna was killed shortly after a documentary about her was announced for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival?
... that John P. Metras held all-night recruitment parties including a bathtub full of ice and beer?
... that Carl Jorgensen was the first NFL player born in Denmark?
... that Gust Zarnas was the first NFL player from Greece?
... that in 1917 more than 8,000 African Americans protested lynchings by marching down New York City's Fifth Avenue in silence, accompanied only by the sound of muffled drums?
... that a Sicilian soldier killed his own family during an Ottoman attack on Gozo in 1551, to prevent them from being enslaved?
... that Costa Rica's most famous bull killed two men and loved mangos?

Prep area 3 [edit]

Javier Domínguez

... that Javier Domínguez (pictured), the current Magic: The Gathering world champion, likes to play more than he likes to win?
... that the author of The Perfect Prince Loves Me, His Rival?! used the concept of leveling up in role-playing video games to show that a character was improving in magic?
... that 1976 was the first year in which Liechtenstein sent women to the Summer Olympics?
... that cinematographer Jason Kwan, a frequent collaborator with Pang Ho-cheung, made his directorial debut by adapting a novella written by Pang?
... that a 2023 coal mine workers' union election in Yellandu had a turnout of 98 percent?
... that William Arthur Ganfield, while serving as president of Carroll College, often wore a red tie when the school was running a deficit and a black tie when the school was running a surplus?
... that Proceratosaurus is one of the oldest tyrannosaurs?
... that artificial-intelligence researcher Daniel Kokotajlo predicts that AI will be better than humans at "everything" by the end of 2027?
... that writer Jilly Cooper named a goat in her novel Jump! after a critic who revealed spoilers for an earlier work?

Prep area 4 [edit]

HNLMS Java

... that the crew of HNLMS Java (pictured) struggled to access the sinking ship's life vests because these were locked away in a hard-to-reach compartment?
... that Gabriel Luna used a flamethrower in an episode of The Last of Us, and afterwards had recurring visions of flaming figures running towards him?
... that Farmers' Union leader Henry Quincy Alexander opposed American entry into World War I, causing many union members to quit?
... that 33 years after The New York Times called David Lynch's film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me "brain-dead" and seemingly "the worst movie ever made", it conceded that the film was now "revered"?
... that the first surgery on conjoined twins in Indonesia, conducted in 1957, involved two future deans of the University of Indonesia, Margono Soekarjo and Djamaloeddin?
... that ...
... that ...
... that Jane Remover's school counselor made sure Remover felt fine after a classmate wrote an essay about lyrics from Teen Week?
... that playwright Jason Grote was involved in releasing 10,000 crickets in New York City?