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DYK queue status

There are currently 5 filled queues – all good, for now!

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.

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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
December 25	1
December 28	1
January 5	1
January 6	2	1
January 8	2
January 10	4
January 12	2
January 13	1
January 15	2
January 17	1	1
January 18	2	1
January 19	1	1
January 20	1	1
January 21	6
January 22	4	2
January 23	2	1
January 24	2
January 25	6	2
January 26	3	1
January 27	3	1
January 28	6	3
January 29	3	3
January 30	10	8
January 31	13	10
February 1	7	6
February 2	12	11
February 3	16	11
February 4	10	7
February 5	13	8
February 6	9	7
February 7	6	5
February 8	8	5
February 9	9	7
February 10	13	7
February 11	9	7
February 12	16	8
February 13	17	8
February 14	12	5
February 15	8
February 16	3
February 17	8
February 18	4
February 19	4
February 20	3
February 21	7
February 22	2
February 23	4
February 24	1
Total	280	138
Last updated 17:58, 24 February 2025 UTC Current time is 19:19, 24 February 2025 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There are currently 5 filled queues – all good, for now!

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Current time: 19:19, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 19 hours ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London (UTC)	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 7	24 February 16:00	24 February 19:00	25 February 00:00	25 February 00:00	25 February 05:30	25 February 09:00	25 February 11:00
Queue 1	25 February 16:00	25 February 19:00	26 February 00:00	26 February 00:00	26 February 05:30	26 February 09:00	26 February 11:00
Queue 2	26 February 16:00	26 February 19:00	27 February 00:00	27 February 00:00	27 February 05:30	27 February 09:00	27 February 11:00
Queue 3	27 February 16:00	27 February 19:00	28 February 00:00	28 February 00:00	28 February 05:30	28 February 09:00	28 February 11:00
Queue 4	28 February 16:00	28 February 19:00	1 March 00:00	1 March 00:00	1 March 05:30	1 March 09:00	1 March 11:00
Queue 5 Prep 5	1 March 16:00	1 March 19:00	2 March 00:00	2 March 00:00	2 March 05:30	2 March 09:00	2 March 11:00
Queue 6 Prep 6	2 March 16:00	2 March 19:00	3 March 00:00	3 March 00:00	3 March 05:30	3 March 09:00	3 March 11:00
Prep 7	3 March 16:00	3 March 19:00	4 March 00:00	4 March 00:00	4 March 05:30	4 March 09:00	4 March 11:00
Prep 1	4 March 16:00	4 March 19:00	5 March 00:00	5 March 00:00	5 March 05:30	5 March 09:00	5 March 11:00
Prep 2	5 March 16:00	5 March 19:00	6 March 00:00	6 March 00:00	6 March 05:30	6 March 09:00	6 March 11:00
Prep 3	6 March 16:00	6 March 19:00	7 March 00:00	7 March 00:00	7 March 05:30	7 March 09:00	7 March 11:00
Prep 4	7 March 16:00	7 March 19:00	8 March 00:00	8 March 00:00	8 March 05:30	8 March 09:00	8 March 11:00

Queues

Queue 7 [edit]

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

Henry

... that the tuatara Henry (pictured), who was named after Henry VIII, was planned "to have lots of wives"?
... that Los Angeles's Hollyhock House was built for someone who lived there for only one year?
... that a journalist attributed Bonnie Blue going viral to the "outrage economy"?
... that the male members of the band Dingo got bottom pats from local men during a Moroccan photoshoot for the album Kerjäläisten valtakunta?
... that the editors of The Philadelphia Inquirer deliberately held back information from the newspaper's TV newscast, Inquirer News Tonight, so as not to be scooped?
... that the villain of a Doctor Who story reappeared after 49 years?
... that the FBI tried to convince H. Bruce Franklin that Leibel Bergman, a fellow communist activist, was an FBI informant?
... that a group of K-pop fans performed a dance with the goal of convincing a company to commit to 100% renewable energy?
... that the thumb cactus crawls over other plants in cultivation – unless you grow it upside down?

Queue 1 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (—Ganesha811 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Artist's concept of 1ES 1927+654's black hole

... that 1ES 1927+654 (pictured), a galaxy in Draco, exhibited such extreme nuclear activity that it challenged conventional models of black-hole environments?
... that the musical career of Louise Beach has ranged from nationally recognized compositions to a children's book about the viola?
... that the alpine columbine has been cultivated for centuries, and other columbines have often been mistaken for the species for decades?
... that the Lutheran pastor Théodore Beck employed modern education methods at the École alsacienne in Paris in the 1880s: no prizes and no corporal punishment?
... that Jonathan Rado invited the Lemon Twigs to record their debut album at his house while they were on a school break?
... that Ivan Petrovtsii's vulgar poems were condemned by senior Ukrainian officials in spite of their popularity?
... that the CSS-10 aircraft was not produced, despite passing its state trials, as the license for the production of its engine was abandoned?
... that the University of Southwestern Louisiana basketball scandal resulted in one of only five times that the NCAA has applied the "death penalty" against a member institution?
... that Simeon Barclay's "sculpture of a chicken on its own little mini-mountain" references a traditional Indian game?

Queue 2 [edit]

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

David and Gladys Wright House

... that a landscaper was hired to demolish the David and Gladys Wright House (pictured), but he hesitated when he saw the building itself?
... that Jorge Dias has been called "the most important Portuguese anthropologist of the 20th century"?
... that Gerard Way got dental work midway through the recording session for "Vampires Will Never Hurt You"?
... that the Jingtai Emperor was rumored to have been strangled to death by a eunuch?
... that UserBenchmark unlocks free testing only if users can shoot down 13 ships?
... that Giuseppe Panini turned a batch of unsold stickers into a company which had produced over 150 billion trading cards by 1996?
... that Cybermania '94 was the first televised video game awards show?
... that Antiqua et nova is a Vatican document that expresses serious ethical concerns surrounding the usage of artificial intelligence?
... that the 2025 Love Islander Danielle Sellers once appeared on a farming show on a derivative of OnlyFans?

Queue 3 [edit]

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

Animation of the Plutonium Finishing Plant's demolition

... that the Plutonium Finishing Plant, which processed more than 66 metric tons of plutonium between 1949 and 1989, was demolished (animation pictured) between 2016 and 2021?
... that portions of a protected area in Benin have been entrusted to vodún spirits to protect them from destruction?
... that the 2025 U.S. Open Cup will not include its defending champions, Los Angeles FC?
... that a lost stone monument for a park in Seoul that closed in 1919 was discovered lying in the grass in 2002?
... that the Quad Cities forecast office of the National Weather Service has been directly struck by both an F1 tornado and a historic derecho?
... that the hashtag #AlDubEBTamangPanahon set a Guinness World Record in 2015 with 40,706,392 uses in 24 hours, coinciding with the television event "Tamang Panahon"?
... that Elizabeth Teeter was originally cast as Lydia Deetz in Broadway's Beetlejuice in 2020, but did not get to play the role until 2022?
... that "Gyutto" was used by many couples to cope during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan?
... that Episode 6867 of EastEnders was criticised for its depiction of Milton Keynes despite not being filmed there?

Queue 4 [edit]

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

Mariann Budde

... that US congressman Mike Collins called for Bishop Mariann Budde (pictured) to be "added to the deportation list" after she urged President Donald Trump to "have mercy"?
... that among the fossils of Finland are the remains of a woolly mammoth and a woolly rhinoceros?
... that Gary Tuggle, as head of Philadelphia's Drug Enforcement Administration division, led potentially the largest prepackaged heroin seizure in Delaware history?
... that the production design team for The Prosecutor was entirely female?
... that Honey Revenge's debut single contained a voicemail from its subject?
... that in 1984, more than 10,000 Papuans from West Papua crossed into Papua New Guinea as refugees due to a government crackdown?
... that upon learning of the conditions at Sidi Azaz labor camp, the Tripoli Jewish community organized a food relief effort for the prisoners?
... that the population of Mammillaria albiflora halved in 20 years and it is now critically endangered?
... that Indonesians elected Alien as a representative, twice?

Queue 5 [edit]

Queue 6 [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 5 [update count].

Prep area 5 [edit]

Slice of red velvet cake

... that red velvet cake (example pictured) has been described as "the Dolly Parton of cakes"?
... that Hidayat Arsani, the governor of the Bangka Belitung Islands in Indonesia, was dumped into a trash can as a baby by his birth parents?
... that Operation Dugo commemorates the death march from the Auschwitz concentration camp annually on 18 January with the consumption of falafel?
... that the 1990 Serbian general election returned only two women to the National Assembly of Serbia?
... that a desire to be separated from Chicago has led 33 counties in downstate Illinois to hold referendums on secession?
... that the Mazarrón I shipwreck combines Phoenician and local Iberian shipbuilding techniques?
... that the Sparkles emoji (✨) is used by large software companies to represent artificial intelligence?
... that the exterior of Shamsher Khan's tomb originally featured richly painted designs, of which only traces survive?
... that Bargain Hunters, a game show with elements of home shopping, was described as having "all the most irritating traits of game shows"?

Prep area 6 [edit]

Megaliths at the Pengkalan Kempas Historical Complex

... that attempts to draw tourism to the town of Pengkalan Kempas include the promotion of an ancient megalith site (pictured)?
... that eight Delta Air Lines executives were killed in the 1947 Columbus mid-air collision, including the airline's vice president?
... that the South Indian restaurant New Krishna Bhavan served 600 litres of sambar every day?
... that the 50th anniversary of the Armstrong House being bought by a historical society was celebrated by hosting a murder mystery?
... that there are more than 100 accepted species of columbines, but Aquilegia kubanica was identified as one of only four to live in the Caucasus?
... that Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain was developed during a week-long game jam?
... that although nine alibi witnesses placed Temujin Kensu more than 400 miles from a shooting in Port Huron, Michigan, in November 1986, he was convicted of murder and has been in prison ever since?
... that Luis Sera was designed to resemble Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings?
... that Magnus Gens was given ten trillion Zimbabwean dollars for developing a crash test dummy moose?

Prep area 7 [edit]

Grain Belt Beer Sign

... that the annual operating cost of the Grain Belt Beer Sign (pictured) dropped from $48,000 to $7,500 after it was renovated with LED lighting?
... that Pan Shu incorporated Marxist principles into his psychological theories?
... that a 1922 Brazilian film was presumed to be lost for more than 90 years until a copy, miscatalogued as a 1925 American film, was rediscovered at the Czech Film Archive in 2023?
... that a former professional football player stated his intention to buy the rights to a 25-year-old children's sports game in his podcast?
... that Alexander Goehr formed New Music Manchester, described as a "distinctive, progressive force", with Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon?
... that Walnut Valley, the neighborhood most affected by the 2023 Little Rock tornado, reported theft and illegal dumping during rebuilding efforts?
... that peasant Agnieszka Machówna repeatedly deceived Polish nobles into thinking that she was a noble?
... that the fictional character Moira Pollock was described as a "battleaxe"?
... that Edward IV had his own brother executed in the Tower of London, probably by drowning him in a butt of malmsey?

Prep area 1 [edit]

Naide Gomes at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

... that Naide Gomes (pictured) broke the Portuguese long jump record fourteen times in her career, raising it from 6.56 metres to 7.12 metres?
... that Documented is the first non-Chinese newsroom in the United States with a WeChat account?
... that Mao Zedong ordered the lenient treatment of bandit leader Cheng Lianzhen as he thought it was rare to have a female bandit leader from an ethnic minority in China?
... that the building Seokjojeon was meant to symbolize the Korean Empire's authority, but it was completed just months before Japan annexed Korea?
... that during World War II, Fritz Strassmann, the co-discoverer of nuclear fission, concealed a Jewish woman in his home?
... that the first bridge over the Mississippi River was the Hennepin Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis?
... that nineteenth century tightrope walker Madame Saqui performed well into her seventies?
... that Michel Langevin described Rush's "Didacts and Narpets" as a Max Roach-esque avant-garde jazz piece?
... that Kaiapoi Pā has been incorrectly called Kaiapohia, a pun which can be translated as 'piling up of bodies for eating'?

Prep area 2 [edit]

Coursier making her jump at the Nels Nelsen Hill

... that Isabel Coursier was only 15 years old when she became the first North American to break the world record for women’s ski jumping?
... that the publication of Ten no Hate Made – Poland Hishi, the first legally published manga in Poland, has been described as the event that created the manga fandom in the country?
... that when Wilson Starbuck's play Sea Dogs was staged in 1939 it "contained some of the foulest language heard on Broadway" at that point in history?
... that Harry Clarke's Geneva Window was never installed in Geneva because of the "grave offense" it might cause?
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... that over 5,000 genres on Spotify use the suffix -core?
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... that transportation during the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics accounted for 53% of the games' carbon footprint?
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Prep area 3 [edit]

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... that there was once a stalagmite heist from the longest cave in Arkansas?
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... that May You Stay Forever Young is the first Hong Kong film to be banned following the amendment of the Film Censorship Ordinance?
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Prep area 4 [edit]

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