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DYK queue status

There are currently 2 filled queues. Assistance in moving preps is requested.
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 4. 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
August 11	2
August 16	1
August 18	2
August 20	2
August 23	3
August 24	3	1
August 25	2
August 26	2
August 27	3	1
August 28	1	1
August 29	2
August 30	2	1
August 31	7	5
September 1	5	3
September 2	2	1
September 3	3	2
September 4	6	2
September 5	4	1
September 6	4
September 7	8	3
September 8	8	2
September 9	4
September 10	7	1
September 11	4	2
September 12	7	4
September 13	5	3
September 14	9	6
September 15	5	1
September 16	5	3
September 17	7	5
September 18	6	2
September 19	9	5
September 20	10	7
September 21	8	4
September 22	7	3
September 23	8	4
September 24	8	4
September 25	7	1
September 26	9	4
September 27	7	5
September 28	10	4
September 29	9	6
September 30	8	3
October 1	9	5
October 2	10	5
October 3	8	5
October 4	7	6
October 5	18	6
October 6	14	4
October 7	6	4
October 8	4
October 9	16	1
October 10	9	3
October 11	13
October 12	10	2
October 13	9
October 14	2
Total	366	141
Last updated 06:28, 14 October 2025 UTC Current time is 06:34, 14 October 2025 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There are currently 2 filled queues. Assistance in moving preps is requested.
DYK is running 24-hour sets.

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

Current time: 06:34, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 6 hours ago(

)

Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 4	14 October 17:00	14 October 20:00	15 October 00:00	15 October 01:00	15 October 05:30	15 October 09:00	15 October 11:00
Queue 5	15 October 17:00	15 October 20:00	16 October 00:00	16 October 01:00	16 October 05:30	16 October 09:00	16 October 11:00
Queue 6 Prep 6	16 October 17:00	16 October 20:00	17 October 00:00	17 October 01:00	17 October 05:30	17 October 09:00	17 October 11:00
Queue 7 Prep 7	17 October 17:00	17 October 20:00	18 October 00:00	18 October 01:00	18 October 05:30	18 October 09:00	18 October 11:00
Queue 1 Prep 1	18 October 17:00	18 October 20:00	19 October 00:00	19 October 01:00	19 October 05:30	19 October 09:00	19 October 11:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	19 October 17:00	19 October 20:00	20 October 00:00	20 October 01:00	20 October 05:30	20 October 09:00	20 October 11:00
Queue 3 Prep 3	20 October 17:00	20 October 20:00	21 October 00:00	21 October 01:00	21 October 05:30	21 October 09:00	21 October 11:00
Prep 4	21 October 17:00	21 October 20:00	22 October 00:00	22 October 01:00	22 October 05:30	22 October 09:00	22 October 11:00
Prep 5	22 October 17:00	22 October 20:00	23 October 00:00	23 October 01:00	23 October 05:30	23 October 09:00	23 October 11:00

Queues

Queue 4 [edit]

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

Holy Trinity Anglican Church

... that Winnipeg's historic Holy Trinity Anglican Church (pictured) is at risk of structural failure within the next few years?
... that Olympic cyclist Michael Watson was hospitalised because of a dog?
... that the Roblox video game Grow a Garden once had more than 20 million simultaneous players?
... that Roberta G. Simmons found that an organ transplant was considered by some recipients to be "a burdensome debt"?
... that Kōsaku Yamada's Overture in D major has been described as "a kind of challenge by the composer to Japanese traditional music"?
... that actress Jennifer Brooke faced heavy rain from Storm Imogen while filming her death scene for Hollyoaks?
... that Brunei Shell Petroleum, a joint-venture company, provided insights into oil discoveries that may have influenced Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III's stance on Malaysia?
... that Walter Bgoya published a novel by Aniceti Kitereza almost 35 years after it had been written?
... that an exiled Sakalava monarch sold Mayotte to the French in exchange for an annual pension?

Queue 5 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs}) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Sylvester Espelage

... that Sylvester Espelage (pictured), unlike most American clergy, wore a queue and a long beard during his missionary work in Wuhan?
... that Erika Kirk forgave her husband's killer at his memorial service?
... that the spider Desis marina makes its nest in the intertidal zone of the coast, where it can survive for up to 19 days submerged underwater?
... that Hoàng Xuân Vinh won Vietnam's first Olympic gold medal with a record-setting shot at the 2016 Games?
... that the crew of Blackwater 61 knew that they were flying down a box canyon for more than fifteen minutes before the plane crashed?
... that Texan poet laureate Jenny Lind Porter was described as America's new Emily Dickinson?
... that a Michigan TV station was designed to serve a smaller area so it could obtain a network affiliation?
... that a grand-nephew of Queen Elizabeth II underwent 200 hours of training in India to become a yoga instructor?
... that the architect of 745 Fifth Avenue once dressed up as the building?

Queue 6 [edit]

Queue 7 [edit]

Queue 1 [edit]

Queue 2 [edit]

Queue 3 [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 6 [update count].

Prep area 6 [edit]

Cormocephalus rubriceps

... that the giant centipede Cormocephalus rubriceps (pictured) can grow up to 20 centimetres (7.9 inches) in length?
... that a Russian spy couple used comments on Cristiano Ronaldo YouTube videos to send coded messages to Moscow?
... that racing driver Neil Cunningham was also a stunt double in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace?
... that, during the 2012 Weezer Cruise, band members oversaw wedding vow renewals, a shuffleboard contest, a midnight movie screening, and a 1980s-themed prom?
... that the 2025 Royal Challengers Bengaluru season saw the team becoming the first in the Indian Premier League to win all away games in a season?
... that singer Tomoo was once unhappy with her performance in a singing contest, despite being chosen as one of its finalists?
... that more than 50 planned speakers boycotted the Bendigo Writers Festival over its code of conduct?
... that the personal website of an actor is used for benchmarking newly released gadgets?
... that Mikael Genberg has sent a house to the Moon?

Prep area 7 [edit]

Page from the Tarikh-i Alfi

... that, unusually for contemporary Islamic chronicles, the Tarikh-i Alfi (page pictured) begins with the death of Muhammad, not his birth?
... that Albert Gatschet's field notes on the grammar of the Atakapa language is the only surviving work on the language done with native speakers?
... that one reviewer criticised The Magician's Daughter for not mentioning its setting's historical context?
... that only seven Tubular lifeboats were built, but they remained in service for 83 years?
... that Adolfo Rossi was the only journalist to report firsthand on the turmoil in Sicily sparked by the Fasci Siciliani in 1893?
... that gallerist and congressional candidate Esther Kim Varet inspired the character Soojin on Girls, according to The Dallas Morning News?
... that Malaysia is the most successful delegation at the Olympics without a gold medal?
... that Dutch filmmaker Richard Raaphorst claimed that a boss character in Resident Evil Village copied the design of a monster he created for his 2013 film Frankenstein's Army?
... that an ongoing U.S. naval buildup in the Caribbean, ostensibly intended to combat drug trafficking, may be actually intended to intimidate Venezuela?

Prep area 1 [edit]

Harriet Harris

... that Harriet Harris (pictured), as the University of Edinburgh's chaplain, appointed more than 40 honorary chaplains to serve traditions including Daoism, humanism, paganism and mindfulness?
... that a plane crash was watched in real time by a bedridden woman through her mirror?
... that First Nations actor and musician Erroll Kinistino grew up in a two-room, mud-shack cabin?
... that impersonations of United States immigration officials has become a chronic crime problem in 2025?
... that Gilles of Saumur was given the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tyre as compensation for the loss of the Archdiocese of Damietta during the Seventh Crusade?
... that the 71-year-old Jackie Chan performed all his own stunts without using doubles in The Shadow's Edge?
... that Angus Watt was once a financial advisor, broadcaster, diplomat, and colonel at the same time?
... that the Paraguayan Regional Workers' Federation named and shamed known strikebreakers in its newspaper?
... that PETA wrote a letter to the CEO of Nintendo over a Cow?

Prep area 2 [edit]

Mecodema howittii

... that the ground beetle Mecodema howittii (pictured), only known to be found on Banks Peninsula in New Zealand, is in decline?
... that future Canadian prime minister Paul Martin recalls frequently searching the basement of Devonshire Lodge for a bootlegging tunnel?
... that according to Guinness World Records, the world's longest continuous rock climbing route is a horizontal 4,500-metre (14,800 ft) traverse on El Capitan?
... that wrestler Robert Diouf twice defeated an opponent who was 20 kilograms (44 lb) heavier than him?
... that Byrnihat was ranked by IQAir as the world's most polluted city in 2024?
... that the 2013 murder of Mark Carson, a hate crime involving the killing of an openly gay man, took place less than a quarter-mile from the Stonewall Inn?
... that Fort Duvernette played a role in saving the survivors of a 1795 Carib attack on a British supply convoy?
... that Badingah became the first female regent of Gunung Kidul after her predecessor died of a heart attack?
... that the Prince of Ning decided to rebel against the emperor right after his birthday party?

Prep area 3 [edit]

Triệu Quân Sự

... that Vietnamese prisoner Triệu Quân Sự (pictured) escaped from jail four times, and twice was caught while playing online games at internet cafés?
... that while a British school inspired by a circus tent was described as "eclectic and witty", its "plain functional" replacement won an RIBA Award?
... that Carme Travesset became the first woman in Andorra to hold elected office in 1973?
... that China's imperial chancellor committed suicide after he was blamed for the devastation of the 29 BC Yellow River flood?
... that a hospitalized Ruth El Saffar had to dictate the introduction of her final book to Diana de Armas Wilson, with whom she had co-edited Quixotic Desire?
... that a public service announcement about drunk driving was voted "New Zealand's best ad"?
... that Denise Stoklos's "essential theatre" involves minimizing her acting methods while maximizing "the power of drama"?
... that according to his former press secretary, Donald Trump applies his own makeup each day?
... that where NFL player Spencer Reid is from, "There's no McDonald's. There's no nothing"?

Prep area 4 [edit]

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Prep area 5 [edit]

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