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DYK queue status

There are currently 4 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 3. 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
April 4	1	1
April 6	2	1
April 8	3	1
April 9	4	1
April 11	2
April 12	2
April 15	1
April 17	2	1
April 18	7	2
April 19	1	1
April 20	2
April 21	3	2
April 22	2	2
April 23	6	5
April 24	5	4
April 25	5	3
April 26	4	3
April 27	4	2
April 28	10	9
April 29	3	2
April 30	5	3
May 1	4	2
May 2	5	2
May 3	7	6
May 4	4	2
May 5	9	6
May 6	6	6
May 7	5	3
May 8	6	6
May 9	5	3
May 10	7	5
May 11	3	2
May 12	11	7
May 13	10	7
May 14	4	4
May 15	2	1
May 16	8	6
May 17	4	3
May 18	7	7
May 19	8	7
May 20	1
May 21	2
May 22	3
May 23	1
May 24	2
May 25	1
May 26	6
May 27	10
May 28	11
May 29	3
May 30	8
May 31	4
June 1	1
June 2	5
June 3	1
June 4	5
June 5
Total	253	128
Last updated 01:01, 5 June 2025 UTC Current time is 01:15, 5 June 2025 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There are currently 4 filled queues. Please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Current time: 01:15, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 75 minutes ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 3	5 June 17:00	5 June 20:00	6 June 00:00	6 June 01:00	6 June 05:30	6 June 09:00	6 June 10:00
Queue 4	6 June 17:00	6 June 20:00	7 June 00:00	7 June 01:00	7 June 05:30	7 June 09:00	7 June 10:00
Queue 5	7 June 17:00	7 June 20:00	8 June 00:00	8 June 01:00	8 June 05:30	8 June 09:00	8 June 10:00
Queue 6	8 June 17:00	8 June 20:00	9 June 00:00	9 June 01:00	9 June 05:30	9 June 09:00	9 June 10:00
Queue 7 Prep 7	9 June 17:00	9 June 20:00	10 June 00:00	10 June 01:00	10 June 05:30	10 June 09:00	10 June 10:00
Queue 1 Prep 1	10 June 17:00	10 June 20:00	11 June 00:00	11 June 01:00	11 June 05:30	11 June 09:00	11 June 10:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	11 June 17:00	11 June 20:00	12 June 00:00	12 June 01:00	12 June 05:30	12 June 09:00	12 June 10:00
Prep 3	12 June 17:00	12 June 20:00	13 June 00:00	13 June 01:00	13 June 05:30	13 June 09:00	13 June 10:00
Prep 4	13 June 17:00	13 June 20:00	14 June 00:00	14 June 01:00	14 June 05:30	14 June 09:00	14 June 10:00
Prep 5	14 June 17:00	14 June 20:00	15 June 00:00	15 June 01:00	15 June 05:30	15 June 09:00	15 June 10:00
Prep 6	15 June 17:00	15 June 20:00	16 June 00:00	16 June 01:00	16 June 05:30	16 June 09:00	16 June 10:00

Queues

Queue 3 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Z1720 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

... that 170 trips on Sounder commuter rail (pictured) were cancelled in a single winter due to mudslides?
... that John C. Raaen Jr., at age 103, is the last surviving US Army Ranger from the first D-Day assault wave on Omaha Beach?
... that the Donnie Creek fire in 2023 was the largest wildfire in British Columbia's history?
... that Teuku Karimoeddin was arrested by the Imperial Japanese military police for resisting mandatory head shaving and other regulations?
... that a dinner between Bill Maher and Donald Trump was satirized in "My Dinner with Adolf"?
... that Guyanese trade unionist Philomena Sahoye-Shury was nicknamed "Fireball" due to her "outspoken and forthright stance on the workers' behalf"?
... that some Byzantine churches in Philadelphia, modern-day Amman, were repurposed from earlier Roman temples?
... that upon being drafted by the NFL's Chicago Bears, Ralph Jarvis wanted to thank the judge who sent him to the reform school where he first played American football?
... that some bodies at Chalandriani were buried with "frying pans"?

Queue 4 [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.

Francis W. Joaque

... that Francis W. Joaque (pictured) was one of the earliest African photographers?
... that the Green Bay Packers have achieved a team-record 23-point comeback twice: once in 1982, and again in 2013?
... that Bach's Easter Oratorio has been regarded as a sequel to his St John Passion?
... that Ayman Hassouna led a student expedition to investigate archaeological sites in Gaza?
... that the Grand Prix of Finland was held again in 2022 after Russia was banned from hosting international figure skating competitions?
... that as a child, Annis Lee Wister translated Struwwelpeter from German to English?
... that Femke Bol's time of 49.17 seconds on 2 March 2024 broke her own 400 m short track world record?
... that fighter pilot Luther H. Richmond kept his P-51 Mustang's shiny, silver, no-camouflage finish to tempt enemies into aerial combat?
... that the male pink scaled squid has been observed to mate upside down?

Queue 5 [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.

Kitten in an Opishnia decorated vessel

... that Opishnia decorative ceramics (example pictured) use flowers, grapes and wreaths as motifs?
... that Paul Tiulana lost his leg in World War II, and afterwards helped to bring back an Iñupiat dance that had not been fully performed in more than fifty years?
... that The Oceanic Languages is so ubiquitous among scholars of the Oceanic languages that it is known simply as "the blue book"?
... that Blu Fiefer began incorporating pole dancing into her live performances after she visited a strip club in London?
... that, soon after the failure of the first British expedition against Sambas, its commander died of illness?
... that Richard L. Morrill, as president of the University of Richmond, was the highest-paid private-school president in Virginia?
... that, to research her bonkbuster Wicked!, Jilly Cooper visited more than a dozen schools and taught at one?
... that Brian Satterfield worked for United Parcel Service before playing in the NFL?
... that My Little Pony fan music has developed its own music subgenres such as "dubtrot" and "ponybeat"?

Queue 6 [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.

Helen Kendall

... that Helen Kendall (pictured) was one of 446 Canadians to receive the Royal Red Cross for her service in World War I?
... that suggested responses to nihilism include detachment, resignation, defiance, disruption, and the creation of new values?
... that Sumahadi, a future Indonesian minister of forestry, was the only person in his cohort to graduate without a thesis?
... that Joe Pantoliano thought that he would star in This Is Us, not an episode of The Last of Us?
... that the first UK private toll road in a century operated for 14 weeks in 2014?
... that Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar has declared that the president of Brazil is the reincarnation of a 19th-century king?
... that The Dark Domain was said by one critic to have placed its author "within the canon of supernatural greats"?
... that Remedios Varo's only sculpture, Homo rodans, is accompanied by a satirical anthropological manuscript?
... that it was feared that Earl Ohlgren had broken his neck during an NFL exhibition game, but he was actually just in shock?

Queue 7 [edit]

Queue 1 [edit]

Queue 2 [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 7 [update count].

Prep area 7 [edit]

Más Notícias

... that an 1895 painting (pictured) stood out to a critic who had described the artist's previous works as a "list of disasters"?
... that Jacques Drollet said that he would have Marlon Brando arrested if Brando ever returned to Tahiti?
... that the mortar for St Peter's Cathedral in Malawi was made from soil formed by compacted termite mounds?
... that the song "100 Great People Who Made Korea Shine" mentions Yi Wanyong, who is known as a traitor for signing the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty?
... that Sheldon L. Toomer, tired of the day-long trip to the nearest bank, founded a new one?
... that the founders of the news website San José Spotlight considered San Jose to be a news desert?
... that Najmul Akhyar worked out of a shipping container for some time after the 2018 Lombok earthquakes?
... that fans chartered yachts to hear "Thunder" for the first time?
... that Kent Haruf wrote his final novel in 45 days while dying of a lung condition?

Prep area 1 [edit]

Beta

... that Beta (pictured) brought Scandinavians to the Hawaiian Kingdom to work on sugarcane plantations?
... that journalists have described cycling's Big Four riders as having a "lockdown" on winning the sport's biggest races?
... that the 1946 Aviators Affair saw more than a dozen Soviet air force commanders and aircraft industry officials were purged on Stalin's orders?
... that some conspiracy theorists believe that Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro's son?
... that The Naulahka by Rudyard Kipling depicts the barriers Indian women faced in receiving health care, and the efforts of Western women to help them?
... that Hasto Wardoyo required his municipal employees to buy at least 10 kg of locally produced rice every month?
... that the fourth first lady of Poland manufactured and smuggled nitroglycerin used by the Polish independence movement to attack Russian officials?
... that digitally removing a spider bite from an episode of The Last of Us cost thousands of dollars per shot?
... that officials of the Worcester Bus Company blamed television for declining ridership?

Prep area 2 [edit]

Statue of Gigeiten at Akishinodera

... that the sculpture of the Japanese goddess Gigeiten (pictured) at the temple Akishinodera has an 8th-century head and a 13th-century body?
... that David Mavrogonato was exempted from a tax on Jews due to his services to Venice in the 1450s?
... that The Old Elm was used by the Ottoman Turks to hang captured hajduci?
... that Mohamed Asswai Khalifa was the first Libyan to compete at the Olympics?
... that the author of Octavia based one character on a former lover?
... that Rae Lil Black, who was at one point one of the 20 most popular models on Pornhub, left the adult industry and converted to Islam after visiting Malaysia?
... that the Roman lawyer Cicero defended Gnaeus Plancius in 54 BCE, but neither the verdict nor exactly what Plancius was accused of have survived?
... that Larry Steinbach did not start high school until the age of 22?
... that the Scottish invasion of England in 1648 was defeated by an army less than half their size?

Prep area 3 [edit]

Sri Jumahaliah Hanifa

... that Sri Jumahaliah Hanifa was the first woman dean of the University of Indonesia law school?
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... that Fromage was described as "the cheesiest board game of all time"?

Prep area 4 [edit]

Box of Burgle Bros 2

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... that sisters Sydney Agudong and Siena Agudong were the final two candidates considered for the role of Nani in Lilo & Stitch?

Prep area 5 [edit]

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