This page holds approved nominations that are waiting to appear in the "Did you know" section on the Main Page. Following DYK approval, nominations are processed and moved into a Prep area, and from there, prep sets are promoted to a queue, and then to the main page.
To create a new nomination or to see those that are yet to be approved, see Template talk:Did you know. For the discussion page see WT:DYK. Click on the link to go directly to the Special occasion holding area.
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 | If some of the nominations are not showing up properly at the bottom of the page, these alternative pages can be used to view a subset of the most recent nominations.
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| Count of DYK Hooks | ||
| Section | # of Hooks | # Verified |
|---|---|---|
| February 17 | 1 | |
| February 25 | 2 | 1 |
| February 26 | 1 | |
| February 28 | 1 | |
| March 7 | 2 | |
| March 8 | 1 | |
| March 9 | 2 | |
| March 10 | 1 | |
| March 12 | 2 | |
| March 15 | 1 | |
| March 16 | 2 | |
| March 19 | 1 | 1 |
| March 21 | 1 | 1 |
| March 22 | 1 | |
| March 23 | 2 | 1 |
| March 24 | 7 | 2 |
| March 25 | 3 | 2 |
| March 26 | 5 | 5 |
| March 27 | 2 | 1 |
| March 28 | 6 | 5 |
| March 29 | 6 | 4 |
| March 30 | 4 | 2 |
| March 31 | 8 | 8 |
| April 1 | 5 | 5 |
| April 2 | 12 | 8 |
| April 3 | 7 | 5 |
| April 4 | 5 | 4 |
| April 5 | 9 | 7 |
| April 6 | 6 | 3 |
| April 7 | 5 | 4 |
| April 8 | 13 | 11 |
| April 9 | 16 | 12 |
| April 10 | 2 | 1 |
| April 11 | 11 | 9 |
| April 12 | 9 | 6 |
| April 13 | 14 | 10 |
| April 14 | 10 | 7 |
| April 15 | 7 | 4 |
| April 16 | 7 | 2 |
| April 17 | 5 | |
| April 18 | 7 | |
| April 19 | 4 | |
| April 20 | 7 | |
| April 21 | 8 | |
| April 22 | 3 | |
| April 23 | 7 | |
| April 24 | 9 | |
| April 25 | 2 | |
| April 26 | 6 | |
| April 27 | 6 | |
| April 28 | 5 | |
| Total | 269 | 131 |
| Last updated 18:42, 28 April 2025 UTC Current time is 19:49, 28 April 2025 UTC [refresh] | ||
Instructions for nominators
[edit]This page is for those nominations that have already been approved and are waiting to be promoted. If yours has been approved but has not yet been run on the main page, it should either be on this page or will soon be moved here, or already promoted to a Prep area or Queue ahead of an appearance on the main page.
If you wish to create a new nomination, please go to the Template talk:Did you know page; there are instructions there in a section similar to this one on how to nominate an article for DYK.
Frequently asked questions
[edit]Backlogged?
[edit]This page is often backlogged. As long as your submission is still on the page, it will stay there until someone promotes it to a preparation area. To alleviate this problem, if the approved page has more than 120 approved hooks, then sets will change twice per day (every 12 hours) instead of once per day (every 24 hours). When the backlog falls below 60 approved nominations set frequency returns to once a day.
Where is my hook?
[edit]If you can't find the nomination you submitted to the nominations page, and it also isn't on this page, in most cases it means your article has been approved and is either in one of the prep areas, has been 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.
Instructions for other editors
[edit]How to promote an accepted hook
[edit]- See Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas for full instructions.
- In one window, open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to promote.
- In another window, open the prep set you intend to add the hook to.
- In the prep set...
- Paste the hook into the hook area (be sure to not paste in that that)
- Paste the credit information ({{DYKmake}} and/or {{DYKnom}}) into the credits area.
- Add an edit summary, e.g., "Promoted [[Jane Fonda]]", preview, and save
- Back on DYK nomination page...
- change
{{DYKsubpageto{{subst:DYKsubpage - change
|passed=to|passed=yes - Add an edit summary, e.g., "Promoted original hook to Prep 3", preview, and save
- change
How to remove a hook from the prep areas or queue
[edit]- Edit the prep area or queue where the hook is and remove the hook and the credits associated with it.
- Go to the hook's nomination subpage (there should have been a link to it in the credits section).
- View the edit history for that page
- Go back to the last version before the edit where the hook was promoted, and revert to that version to make the nomination active again.
- Add a new icon on the nomination subpage to cancel the previous tick and leave a comment after it explaining that the hook was removed from the prep area or queue, and why, so that later reviewers are aware of this issue.
- Add a transclusion of the template back to the nominations page so that reviewers can see it. It goes under the date that it was first created/expanded/listed as a GA. You may need to add back the day header for that date if it had been removed from the nominations page.
- If you removed the hook from a queue, it is best to either replace it with another hook from one of the prep areas, or to leave a message at WT:DYK asking someone else to do so.