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This page is to nominate fresh articles to appear in the "Did you know" section on the Main Page with a "hook" (an interesting note). Nominations that have been approved are moved to a staging area and then promoted into the Queue. To update this page, it.
Count of DYK Hooks | ||
Section | # of Hooks | # Verified |
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August 7 | 1 | |
August 8 | 1 | |
August 11 | 1 | |
August 14 | 1 | |
August 20 | 1 | |
August 23 | 1 | |
August 24 | 2 | 2 |
August 25 | 6 | 4 |
August 26 | 3 | 1 |
August 27 | 3 | 2 |
August 28 | 4 | 2 |
August 29 | 4 | 2 |
August 30 | 10 | 3 |
August 31 | 3 | 1 |
September 1 | 3 | 3 |
September 2 | 5 | 2 |
September 3 | 4 | 3 |
September 4 | 2 | 1 |
September 5 | 2 | |
September 6 | 4 | 1 |
September 7 | 7 | 2 |
September 8 | 3 | |
September 9 | 6 | 2 |
September 10 | 6 | 5 |
September 11 | 4 | 2 |
September 12 | 6 | 1 |
September 13 | 3 | 1 |
September 14 | 3 | 3 |
September 15 | 9 | 4 |
September 16 | 7 | 2 |
September 17 | 3 | 2 |
September 18 | 10 | 8 |
September 19 | 7 | 3 |
September 20 | 9 | 1 |
September 21 | 4 | 1 |
September 22 | 6 | 2 |
September 23 | 7 | |
September 24 | 6 | 2 |
September 25 | 6 | 3 |
September 26 | 6 | 2 |
September 27 | 9 | 4 |
September 28 | 8 | 5 |
September 29 | 7 | 5 |
September 30 | 6 | 6 |
October 1 | 5 | 5 |
October 2 | 2 | 2 |
October 3 | 10 | 3 |
October 4 | 8 | 4 |
October 5 | 8 | 3 |
October 6 | 2 | |
October 7 | 2 | |
Total | 246 | 110 |
Last updated 07:59, 7 October 2024 UTC Current time is 10:22, 7 October 2024 UTC [refresh] |
If this is your first nomination, please read the DYK rules before continuing. Further information can be found at the DYK guidelines.
How do I write an interesting hook?
Successful hooks tend to have several traits. Most importantly, they share a surprising or intriguing fact. They give readers enough context to understand the hook, but leave enough out to make them want to learn more. They are written for a general audience who has no prior knowledge of or interest in the topic area. Lastly, they are concise, and do not attempt to cover multiple facts or present information about the subject beyond what's needed to understand the hook.
When will my nomination be reviewed?
This page is often backlogged. As long as your submission is still on the page, it will stay there until an editor reviews it. Since editors are encouraged to review the oldest submissions first, it may take several weeks until your submission is reviewed. In the meantime, please consider reviewing another submission (not your own) to help reduce the backlog (see instructions below).
Where is my hook?
If you can't find the nomination you submitted to this nominations page, it may have been approved and is on the approved nominations page waiting to be promoted. It could also have been added to one of the prep areas, promoted from prep to a queue, or is on the main page.
If the nominated hook is in none of those places, then the nomination has probably been rejected. Such a rejection usually only occurs if it was at least a couple of weeks old and had unresolved issues for which any discussion had gone stale. If you think your nomination was unfairly rejected, you can query this on the DYK discussion page, but as a general rule such nominations will only be restored in exceptional circumstances.
Any editor who was not involved in writing/expanding or nominating an article may review it by checking to see that the article meets all the DYK criteria (long enough, new enough, no serious editorial or content issues) and the hook is cited. Editors may also alter the suggested hook to improve it, suggest new hooks, or even lend a hand and make edits to the article to which the hook applies so that the hook is supported and accurate. For a more detailed discussion of the DYK rules and review process see the supplementary guidelines and the WP:Did you know/Reviewing guide.
To post a comment or review on a DYK nomination, follow the steps outlined below:
If you are the first person to comment on the nomination, there will be a line
Article length and age are fine, no copyvio or plagiarism concerns, reliable sources are used. But the hook needs to be shortened.
:* <!-- REPLACE THIS LINE TO WRITE FIRST COMMENT, KEEPING :* -->
showing you where you should put the comment.If there is any problem or concern about a nomination, please consider notifying the nominator by placing {{subst:DYKproblem|Article|header=yes|sig=yes}} on the nominator's talk page.
At-a-glance instructions on how to promote an approved hook to a prep area
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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]]
{{DYKsubpage
with {{subst:DYKsubpage
, and replace |passed=
with |passed=no
. Then save the page. This has the effect of wrapping up the discussion on the DYK nomination subpage in a blue archive box and stating that the nomination was unsuccessful, as well as adding the nomination to a category for archival purposes.