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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!
DYK is running 24-hour sets.

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 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
May 7	1
May 12	1	1
May 20	1
May 21	1
May 22	2
May 25	1
May 27	2
May 28	2
May 30	3
May 31	1
June 2	2	1
June 3	1
June 6	4	1
June 7	3	1
June 8	1
June 9	2
June 10	2
June 11	4
June 12	2
June 13	2	1
June 15	1
June 16	3	1
June 17	7	6
June 18	4	2
June 19	4	2
June 20	7	5
June 21	7	4
June 22	13	6
June 23	7	4
June 24	14	9
June 25	9	1
June 26	8	2
June 27	15	9
June 28	7	3
June 29	7	5
June 30	17	8
July 1	9	7
July 2	8	7
July 3	9	6
July 4	7	6
July 5	19	8
July 6	13	7
July 7	9	3
July 8	12	8
July 9	13	4
July 10	8	4
July 11	5	2
July 12	6	3
July 13	3
Total	289	137
Last updated 14:21, 13 July 2025 UTC Current time is 15:45, 13 July 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!
DYK is running 24-hour sets.

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Current time: 15:45, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 15 hours ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 7	13 July 17:00	13 July 20:00	14 July 00:00	14 July 01:00	14 July 05:30	14 July 09:00	14 July 10:00
Queue 1	14 July 17:00	14 July 20:00	15 July 00:00	15 July 01:00	15 July 05:30	15 July 09:00	15 July 10:00
Queue 2	15 July 17:00	15 July 20:00	16 July 00:00	16 July 01:00	16 July 05:30	16 July 09:00	16 July 10:00
Queue 3 Prep 3	16 July 17:00	16 July 20:00	17 July 00:00	17 July 01:00	17 July 05:30	17 July 09:00	17 July 10:00
Queue 4 Prep 4	17 July 17:00	17 July 20:00	18 July 00:00	18 July 01:00	18 July 05:30	18 July 09:00	18 July 10:00
Queue 5 Prep 5	18 July 17:00	18 July 20:00	19 July 00:00	19 July 01:00	19 July 05:30	19 July 09:00	19 July 10:00
Queue 6 Prep 6	19 July 17:00	19 July 20:00	20 July 00:00	20 July 01:00	20 July 05:30	20 July 09:00	20 July 10:00
Prep 7	20 July 17:00	20 July 20:00	21 July 00:00	21 July 01:00	21 July 05:30	21 July 09:00	21 July 10:00
Prep 1	21 July 17:00	21 July 20:00	22 July 00:00	22 July 01:00	22 July 05:30	22 July 09:00	22 July 10:00
Prep 2	22 July 17:00	22 July 20:00	23 July 00:00	23 July 01:00	23 July 05:30	23 July 09:00	23 July 10:00

Queues

Queue 7 [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.

Member of the 2004 jury examining baguettes

... that the best baguette in Paris has been determined by a jury (member pictured) annually since 1994?
... that Gusnar Ismail lost a gubernatorial election to Rusli Habibie in 2011, but won a subsequent election in 2024 with Habibie's wife as his running mate?
... that when Dutch ships reached China for the first time, seventeen out of twenty crew members were executed by the Portuguese?
... that Ed Policy and his father Carmen Policy have both served as presidents of National Football League teams?
... that Volcano Pizzeria, according to the family of one of its founders, was originally a diner selling Italian food before it became the "granddaddy" of Windsor-style pizza?
... that Alberto Jarrín once defeated a train in a running race?
... that the general manager of a Cleveland TV station believed its owner to be "just tired of losing money"?
... that German equestrian Hermann Weiland competed for Croatia at the 1992 Summer Olympics, but marched with Guam during the opening ceremony?
... that a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine was transformed into a statue of Darth Vader?

Queue 1 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Alicella gigantea

... that Alicella gigantea (example pictured) grows up to 34 cm (13 in) in length, making it the world's largest amphipod?
... that eight poems dedicated to the sixth-century Brittonic king Urien Rheged may be among the oldest vernacular literature from Europe?
... that the surname Baena was popular among Spanish Jews forced to convert to Catholicism during the Reconquista, even though few Jews in Baena had Jewish surnames in the first place?
... that the National Baseball Hall of Fame does not know who first used the notation "ꓘ" to represent a strikeout looking?
... that Guilty as Sock! was described as "the perfect arena" for "unsettled beef"?
... that a late-night live stream of Frei Gilson praying the Rosary during Lent in 2025 reached one million people?
... that Redhill MRT station features pink walls?
... that Katherine Balch is "like some kind of musical Thomas Edison"?
... that although Seal Island attracts tourists due to its reef, transport to the island is hard due to its reef?

Queue 2 [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.

A sketch of Preston Porter Jr.

... that despite the presence of 300 witnesses, an inquest concluded that the lynching of Preston Porter Jr. (pictured) was carried out "at the hands of parties unknown"?
... that a forest in northern Wisconsin was subject to nuclear-radiation testing in the 1970s?
... that a photograph of Lesotho sprinter Motsapi Moorosi was sent into space on the Voyager Golden Records?
... that no other studio in Freetown attracted more steamer passengers in 1920 than the establishment run by the Lisk-Carew brothers?
... that architect Arthur Loveless was a collector of Chinese snuff bottles?
... that Formula One races in Golden Lap are simply colored dots traveling along a thick line?
... that a recent international aid vessel bound for Gaza counted among its crew Greta Thunberg and a French member of parliament?
... that there was a 24-year gap between the first Romanian Olympian and the next?
... that Little Benjamin the Ruler is buried in the churchyard of St Anne's Church, Lewes, but nobody knows who he was?

Queue 3 [edit]

Queue 4 [edit]

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 3 [update count].

Prep area 3 [edit]

Mackenzie Hall, previously the Essex County Courthouse

... that the former Essex County Courthouse (pictured) was designed by an American and built by Canada's future prime minister?
... that Patriarch Arnulf's "niece" Emma probably really was just his niece?
... that some medical professionals run clinics dedicated to illegal abortions in Ivory Coast?
... that NFL player Adolph Bieberstein was later an attorney who argued before the United States Supreme Court?
... that four uninhabited islands triggered a dispute between the Indonesian provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra?
... that Sangay Tenzin started his international swimming career at the World Championships?
... that no major hurricane has hit Mexico earlier in the year than Hurricane Erick since records began?
... that the identity of "Barbara O'Brien", the author of Operators and Things, a 1958 autobiographical account of schizophrenia, has not been publicly revealed?
... that Saiyuud Diwong's cookbook "Cooking with Poo" won an Oddest Title of the Year award?

Prep area 4 [edit]

Meg White

... that Meg White (pictured) is considered to be a key figure in the 2000s garage-rock revival?
... that the literary heritage of Nova Scotia includes the first newspaper and the first literary journal in Canada?
... that according to the Zoo Miami communications director, 100 men could beat a single gorilla if they "envelop the gorilla and create a human straightjacket"?
... that the memorial for James Bunbury White, the founder of Whiteville, North Carolina, was knocked down in a car crash 200 years after his death?
... that Singapore rolling stock had to be tested overseas prior to the establishment of the country's Rail Test Centre?
... that the artist Cady Noland has "disavowed" several artworks that she no longer considered genuine because they were damaged or altered?
... that Christ Church, Amherstburg, a Canadian church built by a Loyalist, features timbers fashioned after a ship's hull?
... that Li Jinhua was the first female spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
... that the winter of 1917–18 caused snowfall in parts of Ohio during the summer?

Prep area 5 [edit]

Ennis House

... that the Ennis House (pictured) was variously characterized as "a mausoleum, fortress, Tibetan monument, Mayan temple, and palace"?
... that in 12th-century Igodomigodo, King Ohuede proposed allowing women to inherit the throne in the absence of male heirs?
... that one Japanese bullet train service once skipped the cities of Nagoya and Kyoto?
... that when five consecutive Ranger spacecraft failed, Harris Schurmeier was put in charge with a mandate to transform the program?
... that Here Will I Nest was the first dramatic Canadian feature film shot in colour and the first film adaptation of a Canadian play?
... that Prescott Currier was one of the first Americans to visit the British code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park?
... that Elyn Saks's memoir about her life with schizophrenia won her a "Genius Grant"?
... that the subculture of Aristasia combined Guénonian Traditionalism with lesbian separatism?
... that fencer Bernardo de la Guardia was a competitor and a judge — in the same Olympic Games?

Prep area 6 [edit]

Woman from the Fula ethnic group

... that François-Edmond Fortier published over 3,300 postcards of French West Africa (example pictured) between 1901 and 1920?
... that a language riot broke out between members of Our Lady of the Rosary in 1917?
... that Oleksandr Rodin's opera Kateryna was staged despite barricades, bombings, and an air raid alarm?
... that Paul Among the People treated the Pauline epistles as sources comparable to Homer, Aristophanes and Virgil on Greco-Roman attitudes?
... that Gyula Kakas competed at two Olympics in gymnastics, set the Hungarian pole vault record, and played for a national champion football club?
... that a lyric in Beautiful Chaos was praised for "spreading queer joy"?
... that defending champions Bermuda did not compete in the women's football tournament at the 2015 Island Games?
... that Vatican Taekwondo has no registered athletes nor coaches?
... that Iceland's entry for Eurovision in 2025 brought out a line of Ash Wednesday costumes?

Prep area 7 [edit]

Trichogenes claviger

... that Trichogenes claviger (pictured) can climb nets using outgrowths from its head?
... that Philippe Housiaux took a law exam instead of competing in the 1972 Summer Olympics?
... that helical strakes can be used to reduce structural fatigue on structures such as chimneys and pipelines?
... that "Whistle" was composed because of a miscommunication between a film director and the songwriters Kylie Minogue and múm?
... that Fletcher Ransom wrote and illustrated a book of satirical cartoons about Theodore Roosevelt titled My Policies in Jungleland?
... that art students designed the stained glass windows of the Chapel at George Fox University?
... that Don Summers signed with an NFL team despite having gone over 400 days without catching a football?
... that AHOF, a K-pop group formed on a reality show, includes two members who were not on the winning team?
... that Worrall Reed Carter wrote about beans, bullets and black oil?

Prep area 1 [edit]

Stepped pyramid at Horvat Midras, Israel

... that a stepped pyramid at Horvat Midras (pictured), Israel, has been identified as the remnant of a monumental family tomb from Second Temple Judea?
... that along with her twin sister, American poet Gladys Cromwell took her own life by jumping off a ship while returning home from World War I?
... that attempted crimes with no chance of success are still punishable by law in Germany?
... that the developers of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 added an easy mode so that Jennifer English could play it?
... that only about 150 people have been diagnosed with Skraban–Deardorff syndrome?
... that Johann Voldemar Jannsen was rebuked by the Estonian nationalist movement that he helped to found, only for a song he wrote to become Estonia's national anthem?
... that the head of the union was jailed during the 1979 New York prison guards' strike and guarded by members of his union?
... that Dan Muse was a history teacher before becoming a hockey coach?
... that French drag queens carried the Olympic flame in the 2024 Summer Olympics?

Prep area 2 [edit]

Caption goes here

... that ... (pictured) ...
... that the May 1995 Pale air strikes during the Bosnian War were the first offensive operations carried out by the Spanish Air Force since 1957?
... that Audrey Hawthorn volunteered as curator while she spent over 20 years establishing the Museum of Anthropology at UBC?
... that an announcer damaged the tower of an Arkansas radio station while driving a moving van?
... that ...
... that ...
... that Lyme & cybelle's Follow Me (1966) was the first of only three entries singer Warren Zevon charted on the US Billboard Hot 100?
... that ...
... that ...