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	==Instructions==
	Using a DYK suggestion string (see below examples), list new suggestions in the ] section below under the '''date the ] was created or the ] began''' (<u>'''not'''</u> the date you submit it here), with the newest dates at the top. Any user may ] a DYK suggestion; ] are permitted and encouraged. Thanks for participating and please remember to check back for comments on your nomination.
	===DYK criteria===
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	<center>''Unofficial Guide:'' ]</center>
	===How to list a new nomination===
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	{{DYKsugstrings}}
	An example of how to use the template is given below. Don't forget to fill out the rollover text, so people know what the image is of! Full details are at {{tl|NewDYKnom}}:
	<pre>{{subst:NewDYKnom
	| article = Example
	| status = new<!--(or) expanded-->
	| hook = ... that this ] is an ''']''' ''(pictured)''?
	| author = User
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	* '''Note''' that you should only use one of the above templates for the '''original ]'''. If you want to suggest a second, ] for the same article submission, just type it in manually. The above templates output useful code for each submission and if you employ them for alternative hooks, you will mess up the page formatting.
	* When saving your suggestion, please add the name of the suggested article to your edit summary.
	*Please check back for comments on your nomination. Responding to reasonable objections will help ensure that your article is listed.
	*If you nominate someone else's article, you can use {{tls|DYKNom}} to notify them. Usage: <nowiki>{{subst:DYKNom|</nowiki>''Article name''}}
	*If a reviewer finds problem(s) that require that an issue be addressed, notify the nominator with {{tl|DYKproblem|Article}}.
	===How to review a nomination===
	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 (], ], no serious editorial or content issues) and the hook is cited. Editors may also alter the suggested hook to improve it, or may suggest new hooks.
	If you want to confirm that an article is ready to be placed on a later ], or note that there is an issue with the article or hook, you may use the following symbols (optional) to point the issues out:
	{| class="wikitable" width=100%
	! width=4% | Symbol !! width=10% | Code !! width=5% | DYK Ready? !! width=61% | Description
	|- align="center"
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	| ] || <nowiki>{{subst:DYKtick}}</nowiki> || Yes || align="left" | No problems, ready for DYK
	|- align="center"
	| ] || <nowiki>{{subst:DYKtickAGF}}</nowiki> || Yes || align="left" | Article is ready for DYK, with a foreign-language or offline hook reference accepted in good faith
	|- align="center"
	| ] || <nowiki>{{subst:DYK?}}</nowiki> || Query || align="left" | DYK eligibility requires that an issue be addressed. Notify nominator with <code><nowiki>{{subst:</nowiki>]{{!}}''Article''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
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	| ] || <nowiki>{{subst:DYK?no}}</nowiki> || Maybe || align="left" | DYK eligibility requires additional work. Notify nominator with <code><nowiki>{{subst:</nowiki>]{{!}}''Article''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code>
	|- align="center"
	| ] || <nowiki>{{subst:DYKno}}</nowiki> || No || align="left" | Article is either completely ineligible, or else requires considerable work before becoming eligible
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	Please consider using <nowiki>{{subst:DYKproblem|Article|header=yes|sig=yes}}</nowiki> on the nominator's talk page, in case they do not notice that there is an issue.
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	===Where is my hook?===
	If you can't find the hook you submitted to this page, in most cases it means your article has been approved and is in the ] for display on the main page. You can check whether your hook has been moved to the queue by reviewing the ].
	If your hook is not in the queue or already on the main page, it has probably been deleted. Deletion occurs if the hook is more than about eight days old and has unresolved issues for which any discussion has gone stale. If you think your hook has been unfairly deleted, you can query its deletion on the ], but as a general rule deleted hooks will only be restored in exceptional circumstances.
	==Candidate entries==
	===Articles created/expanded on January 14===
	<!-- Please add your suggestion to the TOP of this section using either the template provided or a level 4 header with the name of the new/expanded article. -->
	====Hurricane Barbara (1953)====
	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' uprooted trees left standing intact after the more intense ]? &ndash;''']'''&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;] 01:19, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
	===Articles created/expanded on January 13===
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	====Napaljarri (skin name), Contemporary Indigenous Australian art, Biddy Rockman Napaljarri, Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri, Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri, Tjunkiya Napaltjarri, Wintjiya Napaltjarri, and 19 others====
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	{{*mp}}...that ''']''' ''']''' include ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''' and ''']'''?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 00:16, 14 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	*{{DYKmake|Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Tjunkiya Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Wintjiya Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Peggy Rockman Napaljarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Takariya Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Parara Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Eileen Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Louisa Napaljarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Lucy Napaljarri Kennedy|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Linda Syddick Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Kitty Pultara Napaljarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Sheila Brown Napaljarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Valerie Lynch Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Maggie Napaljarri Ross|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Topsy Gibson Napaljarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Nora Andy Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Ada Andy Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
	*{{DYKmake|Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri|Hamiltonstone}}
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	:*Please hold for Australia Day (January 26) ] (]) 01:39, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Andy Hayman====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''', the police officer in charge of investigating the ], was awarded the ] for his role?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 23:30, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Andreas Sigismund Marggraf====
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	{{*mp}}... that in 1746 ''']''' isolated ] and in 1749 he produced ] by dry destillation of ]s?
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	<small>5x expanded by ] (]). Self nom at 22:41, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====L. Forbes Winslow====
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	{{*mp}}... that ] ] ''']''' was involved in the cases of ], ], ], ] and ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 22:33, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Norwegian Seamen's Church====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''' in] gets visits from around 160 Norwegian boats every year?
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	<small>Created by ] (]), ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 21:59, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Ted Williams (American football coach)====
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	{{*mp}}... that after scouting him at the ], current ] ]s coach ''']''' recommended the Eagles to take ] with a third-round draft pick in the ]?
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	<small>5x expanded by ] (]). Self nom at 21:54, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Maxaret====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ] introduced ]s to the automotive world with the ] ''']''' system, prompting '']'' to call it "the safest car in the world"?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 18:53, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Enoch Cobb====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' left land in his will that would benefit the children of the town of ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 17:18, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Deffenbaugh Site====
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	{{*mp}}... that despite damage from a ], the ''']''' is one of the most valuable ]s in ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 16:37, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====James Cudworth====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' introduced the ] locomotive to the ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 10:39, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Air Mali (1960–1985)====
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	{{*mp}}... that in 1985 an ''']''' aircraft crashed after performing a night ] on the road from ] to ], killing 47 people?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 10:26, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Impossible Black Tulip (map)====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''' ''(pictured)'' made in 1602, showing ] as the center of the world, was the first ] ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 05:35, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
	:*] This article is already at In The News. Please see ]. ] (]) 06:07, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:*] This very article is running on the main page right now in "In The News"- DYK does not run articles that ITN features, sorry. ] (]) 06:15, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Linconia====
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	{{*mp}}... that in 1862, ] ] of ], proposed the colony of ''']''' to fulfill U.S. President ]’s vision for ] emigration to ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 05:24, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Freshwater whipray====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''' is the only ]n ] restricted to ] and ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 03:01, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	:] Date, length, and hook verified. Offline reference accepted in good faith. ] (]) 23:01, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Goldsmith Maid====
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	{{*mp}}... that American racehorse ''']''' set a world ] record at the age of 17?
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	<small>5x expanded by ] (]). Self nom at 01:59, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Sound Ideas====
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	{{*mp}}... that in 1985 the Canadian company ''']''' became the first to release a ]s library on ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 00:32, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Battle of Kfar Darom====
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	{{*mp}}... that after the ''']''' and a prolonged Egyptian siege, the Israelis evacuated the village on July 8, 1948, but not knowing this, the Egyptians staged an offensive on the next day?
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	:*'''ALT1''':... that about 30 ] soldiers held out against numerous Egyptian attacks in the ''']'''?
	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 00:15, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	:*] for both the proposed hook and the alternate. <font color="navy">''']</font>''' ''(<font color="green">]</font>)'' 02:02, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	===Articles created/expanded on January 12===
	====Jack Wall (composer)====
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	{{*mp}}... that although he has ] ] for over 20 ] and ] the '']'' concert series, ''']''' has a degree in ]?
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	<small>5x expanded by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 17:15, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Tinsley Green, West Sussex====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' in ] has hosted the World ] Championships ''(venue pictured)'' every year since 1932?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 15:05, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	:*] Date and size OK, hook checks out. Nice article. ] (]) 20:47, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====David Owens====
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	{{*mp}}... that ] ''']''' was arrested after being caught ] after his birthday party?
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	<small>5x expanded by ] (]). Self nom at 12:00, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	:*] Is there anything a bit less negative? This seems to focus on one negative event of a living person. -- ]] 15:15, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*] Has he even played in one of the four highest leagues; i.e. should this article be on Misplaced Pages (unless the guideline changed and Conference is now "allowed")? ] (]) 21:40, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Towers Watson====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' is world's largest ] firm by revenue?
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	:*'''ALT1''':... that ''']''' is successor to the oldest ] firm in the world?
	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 07:19, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====The Pinzón Brothers====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' played so crucial a role in ]'s ] that some historians credit them as "co-discoverers" of America?
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	:*''Comment'': Someone should verify if I'm right that this amounts to a 5x expansion. In terms of worthwhile content, it is far more than that: I have essentially removed a school student essay and replaced it with a translation of a good, scholarly article from es-wiki (still expanding at the time I am self-nominating). - ] | ] 06:51, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	<small>5x expanded by ] (]). Self nom at 06:51, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	:* I'm told that it's not quite 5x. Someone else will have to make a determination whether there may be a reason to bend the rules here, given that (1) the previous article was basically useless, and has really been replaced rather than expanded and (2) the "Notes" section contains significant, substantive content—lengthy quotations from primary sources—that could theoretically have been integrated into the main text, but which I thought sat better in a separate section. - ] | ] 22:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	::* It is about a 4x expansion (5481 -> 20k). In view of this near-expansion, the enormous improvement into a very good and well-supported article, and the interesting hook, I'd be in favor of promoting. I do have a concern about the title: why not just "Pinzón brothers"? ] 22:36, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::* I fully support ]'s comments, it's a great article, I'd agree with bending the rules for this, but similarly, check ]. ] (]) 22:40, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::*Third the support for passing it. I managed to do a bit of further extension but I don't think it's going to be possible to get it up to 27k which is what it'd have to be for a full 5x - the subject is exhausted, AFAICT (and if you add in the exhaustive documentation in the footnotes, it'd be well past 5x).] (]) 01:13, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Woman's Temperance Publishing Association====
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	{{*mp}}... that no man could own stock in the ''']'''?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 03:15, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	:*] Everything checks out (assuming good faith on offline sources), but just one question: In the first sentence of the article, is it correct to call the WTPA a newspaper? As I understand it, they were a publishing association that published a newspaper called ''The Signal''. --]<sup>]</sup> 06:07, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Morya Gosavi====
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	{{*mp}}... that seven generations of ''']''' – a prominent saint of the ] ] sect – were worshipped as incarnations of the god ], and his tomb still attracts many Ganesha devotees?
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	<small>5x expanded by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 02:55, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Al Bernardin====
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	{{*mp}}... that although most famous for inventing the ] ''(pictured)'', ''']''' felt that his most important contribution to ] was his development of ] ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 02:28, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Cannabis in California====
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	{{*mp}}... that the passage of the ] by ''']''''s Public Safety Committee marked the first time in ] history that a ] legalizing ] passed a legislative committee?
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	<small>5x expanded by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 02:05, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Shish taouk (Montreal)====
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	{{*mp}}... that, in ], a ''']''' ''(pictured)'' is actually a chicken ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 02:19, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Dr. Wagner and Ángel Blanco====
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	{{*mp}}... that ] ''']''' was killed in a car accident that left his long time ] partner ''']''' an invalid?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 22:37, 12 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
	:*After checking some dictionaries, I added "an" before "invalid". ] (]) 00:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Euphausia crystallorophias====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''''']''''' was described from thousands of specimens caught through a hole bored by ]'s ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 22:17, 12 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	:*suggestion: "... that the ] species ''Euphausia ..." ] (]) 22:43, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Silene nutans====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' is the ] of ], even though it does not live anywhere in ]?
	:*I changed "doesn't" to "does not" according to ]. ] (]) 00:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:*''Comment'': '''ALT''': ... that ''''']''''' flowers for three consecutive nights, exposing different organs each night?
	<small>5x expanded by ] (]). Self nom at 22:17, 12 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Rudolf Christian Böttger====
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	{{*mp}}... that the German chemist ''']''' synthesised the first organocopper compound, the explosive ] Cu<sub>2</sub>C<sub>2</sub>, in 1859?
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	<small>5x expanded by ] (]). Self nom at 21:13, 12 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Wrexham Road Farm, Eccleston====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' ''(pictured)'' was designed by ] and built as a ] for the ], but has since been converted into offices on ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 20:24, 12 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Lawless Court====
	*... that the English ''']''', so called because it met at midnight, allowed only natural light and charcoal to see and write with, was conducted in whispers and arose after the local Lord discovered a plot to murder him?
	* It's a sorta-new article; it's been a redirect since 2006, but there was some prose beforehand. Is that alright? It seems a pity to lose such a hooky hook on something so technical. ] (]) 20:15, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	** I haven't looked at it, but as I understand it a former redirect is fine, on the same basis as 5x expansion, as long as the content isn't just cut-and-paste from elsewhere in the wiki. - ] | ] 06:54, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	**Fair enough. It is not a copypaste, no. ] (]) 11:09, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Joe Rollino====
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	{{*mp}}... that former ] ''']''' ''(pictured)'', who died at the age of 104, earned five medals, including three ], for military service during ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 19:55, 12 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====F. G. L. Chester====
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	====Upper Harz Water Regale====
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	:*] Date, length, and hook verified. Offline reference accepted in good faith. Also, the ref needs to go right after the hook in the article. I added it for you. ] (]) 23:40, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Clement King Shorter====
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	:*] Fact does not appear to be directly cited in the article. -- ]] 19:58, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:**Seriously? Here's the quote: "This collecting and research eventually led to some of his most well-known works, including two books about Charlotte Brontë, and two books about the Brontë family." It's not worded in the ''exact'' same way as the hook, but that's not a requirement of DYK, as far as I can tell. And it's sourced to the reference at the end of the paragraph. Are you wanting me to make ''another'' ref (for the same source), earlier in that paragraph? ]] 20:13, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*I know the sentence is there, but yes it really does need ''another'' citation per ], so would you mind adding one? -- ]] 20:35, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*:That seems a bit lawyerly, since it is cited one sentence later, but okay. I've added the cite to the particular sentence. Thanks for taking a look. ]] 21:53, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::*I can see where you're coming from, but I don't make the rules... Anyway, ] the hook is verified now and it's good to go. -- ]] 21:58, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::*:I hope I didn't come across as mad at you in my last. It was more just a ''bit'' of frustration with the ''rule''. Best, ]] 22:05, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::::*No problem, I agree that the rules can be a but strict at times :) -- ]] 22:39, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Abrotrichini====
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	====Bank Buildings, Birkenhead====
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	====Dong Xuan Market====
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	====Iain Borb MacLeod====
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	====Andy White (drummer)====
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	:*''Comment:'' I prefer the 1st hook, but I'm not sure if the placing of "''(pictured)''" is correct, hence the ALT1 hook. --]<sup>]</sup> 11:16, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*] Is there any need to use this image? It doesn't really add anything to the hook, and it isn't even a picture that includes the drummer in question. -- ]] 20:01, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*The picture would be nice, but you're right, it's not ''really'' necessary. --]<sup>]</sup> 05:26, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::*] Regardless of whether the picture is necessary, the expansion and fact check out and the hook is good to go. -- ]] 06:51, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====George Eyre====
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	====Nicolas Andry====
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	:*'''Alt1''': ... that ''']''' gave the field of ] its name with his 1741 book ''Orthopédie''?
	:*''Comment'': The previous article was at ] (written a few days ago unbeknownst to me, while I was writing the present article in userspace); this is not technically a merge, since I didn't use any of the earlier material, but for DYK purposes it's an expansion (I assume). As for the two hooks, Andry's principal modern influence is in orthopedics, but the sperm thing seemed more interesting. ] 04:36, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Karin Larsen (broadcaster)====
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	====Corporate chambers (Estonia)====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ] in interwar ] were inspired by the ]?
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	====Williamson trade-off model====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''', which compares costs and benefits of ]s, has been used by the American ] and former ], ], to evaluate ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 20:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Telegraph and Texas Register====
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	====Walter Rheinschild====
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	====Daniel E. Krause Stone Barn====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ] purchased the ''']''' ''(pictured)'' and it is planning to create a park to preserve the ] barn?
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	:*I believe it needs "Wisconsin" according to ]. Also, I think "town ... are" should be "is" when British English isn't an issue. ] (]) 03:32, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Good points, changed. '''<font color="#000000">]</font><font color="#FFCC00">]</font>''' 04:52, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Irrigation in viticulture====
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	:*'''ALT1''':... that during certain points in a ], ''']''' is often withheld in order to put the vine through ] because it is believed to improve ] grape quality?
	:*''Comment'': Primary ref for both is Oxford (FN #2) in history section for Hook1 and in lead & water stress section for Alt
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	====Golden Grove Mine====
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	{{*mp}}... that the sale of the ''']''' and other assets, worth US{{dollarsign}}1.354&nbsp;billion, from ] to ] was only approved by the ] after the ] was excluded from the deal?
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	:*'''Alt1''': ... that ] approval for the sale of the ''']''' and other Australian mining assets to a Chinese corporation was only given after the ] was excluded from the deal due to national security interests?
	::Trying to say why it was excluded. &ndash;] 13:32, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:* Both of the hooks are longer than 200 characters (221 and 230 characters respectively). May I suggest this one with 196 characters:
	::'''Alt2''': ... that ] approval for the sale of mining assets including ''']''' to a Chinese corporation was only given when ] was excluded due to national security interests?
	:: Regards, -- ''''']'''''/]&#124;]\ 15:59, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::I believe Alt2 would be considered to have an ] problem without the word "Australia". ] (]) 00:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Marbled whipray, white-edge freshwater whipray====
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	{{*mp}}... that in the 1990s, the ] ran a short-lived ] program for ] ] ]s, including the ''']''' ''(pictured)'' and the ''']'''?
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	====George Paston====
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	{{*mp}}... that despite the masculine ], it was well-known that ] ] ''']''' was a woman?
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	:*] Length and date verified, off hook refs accepted in good faith (the Google Books "snippet view" doesn't show enough). --]<sup>]</sup> 09:01, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*:Actually, it does, just so you know. The ref links to the article where ''The Academy'' wonders why she uses the masculine pen name when it is so obvious that she's a woman. It's in the first graf, though the words ''are'' small and hard to read in the snippet view. ]] 14:10, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Ray Ingleby====
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	{{*mp}}... that despite being fired from his first job, ] entrepreneur ''']''' was a millionaire by the age of 21?
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	====Hayato Matsuo====
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	{{*mp}}... that upon graduating from ], ''']''' went straight to work under ], the ] for the '']'' ] series?
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	====Mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland====
	]
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''' is characterized by diverse ] traditions? ] (]) 20:06, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*"Characterize" is a ]. Did you mean "is characterized by diverse mannerist traditions", or more simply, "includes diverse mannerist traditions"? ] (]) 22:20, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	::Yes, thanks! ] (]) 07:46, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====St Mary's School, Eccleston, and Waverton school and schoolmaster's house====
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	:*Note: double-nom. ] (]) 19:35, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Mohammed Loay Bayazid====
	*... that Syrian-American ''']''', alleged to have been a founding member of ] in 1988, was noted for "always teasing bin Laden"? ] <sup>(]) </sup> 18:47, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Hydnellum peck====
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	====Mazunte====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' was the site of a sea turtle slaughterhouse before 1990?
	{{*mp}} '''ALT1''' ... that ''']''', now home to the Mexican National Turtle Center, was the site of a ] slaughterhouse until 1990?
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	====Statute of Enrolments====
	*... that the English ''']''', commonly believed to have been emergency legislation, contains no ] and was drafted by the ] rather than a legislator? ] (]) 13:35, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Thor (film)====
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	{{*mp}}... that ] on ''''']''''' began on Monday, January 11, 2010?
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	:*] Is the fact unusual or eyecatching? ] (]) 13:10, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====] and ]====
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	:*''Comment'': Double DYK hook. ''']''' was created on Jan 11. ''']''' was expanded 5x on Jan 8
	<small>Created by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 07:37, 11 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====''Historia de Sancto Cuthberto''====
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	====Azienda Agricola Testamatta====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ] producer ''']''' once had a ] banned in the ] because of its ] suggestive imagery that included the ] ] term for ] ''(pictured)''?
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	====Toledo Rockets football, 2002 Motor City Bowl====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''' played the ] in the ''']''', the first time that ] was played in then-new ]?
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	====Vimcy====
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	{{*mp}}... that V.M. Balachandran, known as ''']''', received an award from Kerala State Sports Council for lifelong contributions to ]?
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	====Ruby Jane Smith====
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	{{*mp}}... that at age 10, ]r ''']''' became the youngest invited player to perform at the ]?
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	====]====
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	====Brad Johnson (Annie Oakley co-star)====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''', the deputy Lofty Craig on the ] ] '']'', was cast as one of six unnamed students in ]'s 1951 ] '']''?
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	====Aiphanes deltoidea====
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	====Colitis-X====
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	:*] ] ] (]) 07:19, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::* I think I fixed it, let me know if character count is incorrect, the program I used said its now at 200, ]<sup>]</sup> 19:34, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*182 characters, because we don't count the invisible square brackets and single quote marks, as described at ]. 182 is short enough, so thank you. I also moved the question mark as described at ], and uncapitalized "colitis" as described at ]. ] (]) 22:20, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::*The hook can be made shorter and to conform to style: ALT1. --] (]) 06:30, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	*'''ALT1''' ... that ''']''' is a fatal form of acute ] in ]s, with severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, shock and dehydration, and near 100% mortality in less than 24 hours?
	:::::*Shorter still, ALT2. --] (]) 06:35, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	*'''ALT2''' ... that ''']''' is a ] in ]s, with severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, shock and dehydration, and near 100% mortality in less than 24 hours?
	::::::*Shorter still, and perhaps more interesting: ALT3. Removing the list of stuff that goes with fulminant colitis and many other medical conditions; even collectively, they are not specific to colitis. --] (]) 02:23, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	*'''ALT3''' ... that ''']''' is a ] in ]s, with unknown cause and near 100% mortality in less than 24 hours?
	====Erich Göstl====
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	====Susan Bower====
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	:*] Length, date and hook verified. <tt>]</tt> (]) 07:01, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*Hook is currently at 199 characters. Suggest trimming it, for example:
	:**... that ''']''', the Executive Producer of '']'', got her break into television writing by providing '']'' with medical information?
	====Peter Phokas====
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	{{*mp}}... that ] general ''']''' was originally born a slave and made a ], but rose to become one of the senior-most commanders of the ] in the 960s and 970s?
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	:* ] Length and date check up, safely assuming good faith on the referencing because the sources are all authoritative. '']]]'' 11:30, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Meru Betiri National Park====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' in ] is known as the last habitat of the ] which is now considered ]?
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	====R.N. Linn House====
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 23:05, 10 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Rupert Hamer (journalist)====
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	{{*mp}}... that while at ] the late ] defence correspondent ''']''' wrote a satirical column for the ] titled "Rupert Hamer on Friday"?
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	:*] Date, length, and hook verified. ] (]) 22:13, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Odd Starheim====
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	:*] Date, length and ref all check out. ] (]) 08:05, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Lore Agnes====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ] ] women's activist ''']''' was jailed in 1914 for having called on women to oppose the ] during a ]?
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	:*Perhaps this could be could be kept for a March 8 anniversary DYK? --] (]) 22:01, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Julius Gehl====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' ''(pictured)'', the vice president of the Senate of the ], was a ] by profession?
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	====Endre Berner, Bjørn Føyn, Carl Jacob Arnholm, Eiliv Skard, Harald K. Schjelderup====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''', ''']''', ''']''', ''']''' and ''']''' were among the professors at the ] who were arrested by ] during ]?
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	:*''Comment'': I might add 1 more article here, so please wait a few days before running this. ] (]) 21:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 21:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Paul Magoffin====
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	====Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''', the head of the ] delegation to the ], is also a member of parliament from ] ''(pictured)''?
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	====Boxcar Rapids====
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	{{*mp}}... that a ] train crashed into the ] in 1954, giving the ''']''' its name?
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	====2003 Motor City Bowl====
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	{{*mp}}... that ]'s appearance in the ''']''' marked the first time a ] team played in that ]?
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	==== Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis ====
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	:*
	:* Just a note that it's changed titles, so corrected that here. ] - ] 22:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party====
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	:* It should say ], as Slovakia did not exist on its own that time. ] (]) 19:58, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Slovakia did exist as a geographical area, and apparently also as some sort of subdivision of ] if we may believe our own article. Slovakia is better than Czechoslovakia because the party presumably did not include the Sudeten Germans, who also lived in Czechoslovakia. ] 20:04, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*Yes but the fact is that Slovakia was not a country, and it may mislead the reader into thinking that it was. The main page should be as accurate as possible. ] (]) 20:20, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::*It should say ]. 'Czechoslovakia' would be misleading, as the German social democrats in Bohemia/Moravia had another party, the ]. The ] was limited to Slovakia. --] (]) 22:43, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::*How would it mislead? There is nothing in the hook that suggests Slovakia was a country at the time. Compare ], which mentions Cyprus at a time it was not a country, or ], which mentions Ukraine when it was not a country. ] 22:54, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Star Wars: Flight of the Falcon====
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	====Tim Westoll====
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	====2005 Liberty Bowl====
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	====Battle of Roatán====
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	====Nebulium====
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	{{*mp}}... that 1864 ] discovered the new element ''']''' in the ] by ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 17:18, 10 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
	:] Verified article length and date, and hook(s) length. However, the first hook isn't cited; the second hook is ok (AGF on offline source), but shouldn't the date be 1927? ] (]) 19:26, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::Thanks! Changed the typo to 1927. What do you think of the following hook? I am fine with any alternative one too.
	:*<s>'''ALT2''':... that in 1864 ] announced the discovery of the new element ''']''' in the ]?</s>--] (]) 19:49, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*'''ALT3''':... that in 1864 ] discovered in the light of the ] spectral lines later attributed to a new element ''']'''? --] (]) 16:07, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Roxxxy====
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	:*'''Note:''' I have nominated this article at ]. But according the of ], I am moving it to DYK so that the article can be featured in the DYK section if rejected from In the news section. --] (]) 15:26, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*'''ALT''': ... that ''']''' is the world's first ]? --] (]) 15:36, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*'''ALT2''': ... that ''']''', the world's first ] which made its public debut at the ] (AEE) in ], has an ] engine programmed to learn the owner's likes and dislikes?
	::::*'''ALT3''': ... that ''']''', described as the world's first ], has an ] engine programmed to learn the owner's likes and dislikes? --] (]) 03:19, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Ivar Hippe====
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	:*] Please mention the book in the article text too if you mention it in the lead; also should it be linked? Furthermore is the category "Norwegian socialists" warranted? Is there really a journalist named Knut Steen Steen (well, hypothetically, there could be)? ] (]) 21:54, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	Reply
	:1) The book is notable, it sold over 3 thousand copies here in Norway. It also received much media attention. So yes, it should be linked.
	:2) He supports a social democratic government... so why shouldn't it be included?
	:3) Removed if for now, will re-add it if it ''really'' was his name, which is highly unlikely.
	::Finished for now. --] (]) 22:16, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Inuvik Boot Lake====
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	====Enuk Pauloosie====
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	{{*mp}}... that one of the issues on Member of the ] ''']'''{{`}}s ] platform was increased teaching of ] traditional values in schools?
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	:*'''ALT1''' ... that in ], Member of the ] ''']''' called on the ] to ban all of its employees from flying ] to support Canada's northern airlines? ] (]) 12:28, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Ronen Har-Zvi====
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	{{*mp}}... that ]i chess ] ''']''' first met his wife playing online chess at the ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 11:45, 10 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	:*] Length and date verified. I'll accept the video source (I can't play it because I don't have a plugin installed... and from past experience, my internet browser hates plugins :) ) but if anyone else reviews it and finds that the hook isn't sourced, well, that's a different story. ] (]) 12:04, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Betsy Warland====
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	{{*mp}}... that in ], a ''']''' edited collection of essays named "InVersions: Writing by Dykes, Queers and Lesbians" was published?
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	:*The 'hookiness' of this is that it's full of slang terms ('dyke' being one of them) :) ] (]) 10:29, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Peter Taptuna====
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	====Mertens' Water Monitor====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']s''' are threatened by poisoning from eating ]s?
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	:*] Length, date and hook all check out. ] (]) 10:33, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Objectivist movement in India====
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	**'''ALT''': ... that Govind Malkani and Tara Malkani established the ''']''' in the 1960s?
	***'''ALT2''': ... that Lakshmi Bai Nalapat, a descendant of the ], and journalist TN Gopakumar ''']''' in ]?
	****'''ALT3''': ... that the ''']''', established by Govind Malkani and Tara Malkani, had a huge collection of ], cassettes and video tapes by or on ] and ]?
	*****'''ALT4''': ... that the 50th anniversary of the publication of ]'s novel '']'' was ''']''' in October 2007? --] (]) 09:45, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*] '''ALT1''' approved. Length, date and sources all check out. ] (]) 10:36, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	ALT again... that ]ns perform the ''']''' for ] after ]?
	surely - she's not ''that'' famous! And isn't the hook too much of a surprise? ] (]) 00:35, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Dale Nelson====
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	:*] Length and date verified, offline source accepted in good faith. By the way, I redid your nomination using the template provided. ] (]) 06:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====History of Chongqing====
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	====Eunice W. Johnson====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''', who created '']'' together with husband ] in the 1940s, suggested the magazine's title to match that of the fine black ] wood?
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	:*] Length, date and hook verified. ] (]) 06:33, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Jayanta Lahon====
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	:*] Length, date and source verified. Couldn't we redo the structure though? I propose:
	::*'''ALT1''': ... that three-year-old ] toddler ''']''' is able to eat handfuls of ]s, and even smear them on his eyes, without any problems? ] (]) 06:38, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::I think that alt looks better. ] (]) 17:16, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::It looks better, yes, but I'm concerned about this article. A toddler who has unusual food preferences? That's ''it''? I mean, I do understand that these are '''''very''''' unusual, so much so that he apparently has a metabolic quirk, but... that's all? ] (]) 14:01, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	: This nom needs to be put on hold while ]. Not sure if the article will survive, though. Maybe this kid will do something remarkable, hopefully in front of some reporters, soon.... --] (]) 00:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Nagaharu Yodogawa====
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	:*] Length, date and hook verified. ] (]) 06:40, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Cryptothallus mirabilis====
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	:*] Length and date verified, offline source accepted in good faith. The article doesn't say exactly what the hook says (it says it in more scientific language) but I think I got the point :) ] (]) 06:44, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*'''ADDENDUM:''' I have had to rename the article from '']'' to '']'', and the hook may turn out to no longer be correct. (I have already edited the section header and link in the hook) Sasata has notified me of a recently discovered (1996) second species in the genus, so I am researching and revising. This may turn into a double hook if I can gather enough information on the second species and get a sufficently long article written quickly. --] (]) 23:37, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Aransas Bay====
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	:*] Length, date and hook verified. I'm a little uneasy approving this, as the source actually says that the earliest humans arrived 6,000 - 8,000 years ago... not that they have inhabited it for all that time. If another editor feels this is a problem, please don't hesitate to question the appproval. ] (]) 03:20, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::The source does say ''inhabited'' but I see the concern that the habitation has not been consecutive. I will offer an alternate hook:
	*'''ALT''': ... that early ] inhabited the area surrounding ''']''' approximately 6,000 to 8,000 years ago? --] (]) 06:04, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*'''ALT2''': ... that early ] inhabited the area surrounding ''']''' as early as 6,000 to 8,000 years ago?
	::I just think that sounds a bit more 'hooky' (as in 'can you believe that!?'). ] (]) 06:30, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::I agree. --] (]) 23:38, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Thomas of Marlborough====
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	:*] From what I can see on the ] page, the part about the legal case doesn't appear. I know it says 'exempt from supervision', but with DYK 'facts' everything has to be said (nothing can be implied)
	. ] (]) 06:51, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::* First sentence of the fourth paragraph was "Thomas needed evidence to help Evesham's case..." and I've now added "legal" before case just to make it absolutely explicit. ] - ] 13:26, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*] Length and date check out, offline source accepted in good faith. ] (]) 14:58, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Tama Easton====
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	:*''Comment'': Moved into the ] earlier today.
	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 02:15, 10 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	:*] Length, date and hook verified (source number '''2''' - ''not'' source 3. Maybe this should be made clearer). However, there is an external link in the hook - ], rule C5 says this is a no-no! ] (]) 06:58, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::Thanks for the swift feedback. I've addressed the source issue and I concur that this should have been clearer from the start. As for the external link, I did read the DYK rules from A to Z some two weeks ago, but had forgotten about that one - sorry. So how about these options? ALT1 still shows the URL, but it's not linked. ALT2 omits that part, but introduces the term URL (and I'm not sure how commonly that one is known). My own preference is for ALT1, as it's easier to understand, but it hinges on whether it's now ok with rule C5 (I can't see that it still violates it, but it's not that explicit).
	::*'''ALT1''': ... that the ] ''Vorb'' contained in ''']'''{{`s}} popular ] ] vorb.org.nz stands for "Vaguely Organised – Ride Bikes"?
	::*'''ALT2''': ... that the ] ''Vorb'' contained in the ] of ''']'''{{`s}} popular ] ] stands for "Vaguely Organised – Ride Bikes"?] (]) 09:34, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*] '''ALT1''' approved. I don't know if it violates the C5 rule, but if someone else picks up on it we'll know for sure. Don't worry, no need to apologise :) ] (]) 12:07, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Capitaine Conan====
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	:*I changed "based off of" to "based on", after Google Scholar confirmed that the latter phrase is much more common, especially in formal English. ] (]) 05:53, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:*] Length, date and hook verified. ] (]) 07:03, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Esenbeckia runyonii====
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	{{*mp}}... that although ''''']''''', a tree ] to ], is relatively common in parts of the ] in northeastern ], it was formally described based on a ] stand of the species in the ] of ] in the ]?
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	:*''Comment'': One of my sources indicates range of species being Sierra Madre Mountains. Another source specifies it is native to Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí and northwestern Hidalgo; only the Sierra Madre Oriental is found in those states, thus I assert it is found in that mountain range rather than the more general Sierra Madre Mountains.
	<small>Created by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 19:25, 11 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
	::*] ] ] (]) 22:20, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	*'''ALT1''': ... that although ''''']''''' is common in parts of ]'s ], the ] was collected from a ] of four trees in the ], ]?
	===Articles created/expanded on January 9===
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	====Kinkonychelys====
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	<small>Created by ]. Expanded by ] and ]. Self-nom. ] (]) 00:35, 13 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
	::Alt:... that the placing of ''''']''''' into the group Kurmademydini helps to support the theory that ] and ] were once connected?
	====Tyler MacDuff====
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	====Cliffe, Richmondshire====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''', where the "]", is surrounded by archaeological features including ], a ] and an ] battleground?
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	====Banksia sphaerocarpa====
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	:*] Date, length, and hook verified. Offline reference accepted in good faith. ] (]) 02:08, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Via Crucis to the Cruz del Campo====
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	====Frederick W. Garber====
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	====Peter Bonnett Wight====
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	:It is claimed that it was the first school of fine arts on a U.S. college campus, but I'm not confident in the sourcing. (Shorten as needed) ] (]) 03:43, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*Alt: ... that New York architect ''']''' moved his practice to Chicago after the ] of 1871?
	::While I can appreciate not using our own articles (e.g. ]) as sources, I don't think it's disputed that Yale's was the first college-associated U.S. school of fine arts.
	::*''Life'' magazine: "y 1869 was the first American university to open a separate school of fine arts."
	::*''The Yale Courant'' "e have a School of Fine Arts, the first of its kind in the country".
	::*''Town & Davis, architects: pioneers in American revivalist architecture, 1812'' "....Augustus Street's Foundation in 1864 of the Yale School of Fine Arts,—the first of its kind to be attached to a University in this country"
	::*''Art subjects: making artists in the American university'' "The earliest college-based art schools in the United States, the programs at Yale and Syracuse, were named after the pedagogical program they continued, the nineteenth-century French Ecole des Beaux-Arts. The Yale School of FIne Arts was established in 1864, the Syracuse University College of Fine Arts, in 1873." (The book goes on to detail the change of Yale's program's name, from "Yale School of Fine Arts" to "School of Architecture and Design" in 1958 and "School of Art" in 1961.)
	:: - <span style="font-family: cursive">]</span> 21:04, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Orval Prophet====
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	====Scilly naval disaster of 1707====
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	::{{*mp}}... that in 1707, four ] were ] near the ], ''']'''? ] (]) 14:11, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig====
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	====Bleeding Canker of Horse Chestnut====
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	:*] Length, date and source all verified. I added the word 'nearly' to the hook as that's what the source says. ] (]) 15:01, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Hold this one a while. This is a ''new'', ''second'' bleeding canker of horse chestnut trees, at first mistaken for a new outbreak of the old one. Please see the article talk page. --] (]) 06:25, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::* It seems to have been fixed now. See talk page. ] (]) 11:56, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	====St Symphorian's Church, Durrington====
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	====Social Democratic Workers Party in Subcarpathian Rus====
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	:*Can I suggest: "... in 1922 the ''']''' approved the inclusion of the region in ], but it took another eight years until the party merged with the ]?" The first hook doesn't make it clear that the Social Democratic Workers Party was based in Subcarpathian Rus, rather than Czechoslovakia as a whole, or somewhere else, so it isn't clear why the region's inclusion in Czechoslovakia might have led to a merger. ] '']'' 12:55, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Yes, that's a much better wording. --] (]) 19:22, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Joseph Gibbs (cricketer)====
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	====Olav Selvaag====
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	====Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh====
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	====Brixton Mosque====
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	:*] Length, date and source verified. ] (]) 07:07, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*While the article may meet DYK criteria, I have some concerns about the NPOV status of this article at present. A great deal of it focusses on radicals/terrorists who have worshipped there at one time or another, rather than on the mosque itself. There is a use of unreliable sources (youtube videos/community channel.org) or no sources at all for some controversial claims. There appears to be other reliable information out there to balance and expand things. I would like to see the article balanced, expanded and better sourced before it appears on the mainpage.--] (]) 20:52, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::: Info on the structure and the construction history would be good additions. A photo would be nice, too. Anyone here from London? --] (]) 05:26, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::* Concur. But it's remarkable that we've gone this long without any article on this notable mosque. - ] | ] 02:00, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====]====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' ''(pictured)'', a fragmentary manuscript of the New Testament, has an unusual number of ] errors?
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	:*] Sorry, I don't really understand what an itacistic error is, and I doubt many DYK viewers would either. From what I gather, it's something to do with the convergence of vowels in ancient Greek? ] (]) 07:19, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:** Yes, it is the convergence of vowels. In many ancient and mediaeval manuscripts we can find errors like ι for η, η for ι, ο for ω, ω for ο, η for ει, ει for η, ε for αι, αι for ε, ι for ει, ει for ι, ε for η, and these errors are not special. In this manuscript (Minuscule 541) we can find even erros like: ει for οι, συ for σοι, η for υ. They are not usual and difficult to find another manuscript with this kind of errors. ] (]) 14:11, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:**That unknown word made me click to the article. A good hook, I thought. -] (]) 02:23, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Georgina Weldon====
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	:*] Length and date verified. Restricted access (subscription-only) source accepted in good faith. ] (]) 08:05, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Rock 'n' Roll Prophet====
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	:*] Length, date and hook verified. ]•<sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub> 05:59, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:Is this too negative on Wakeman? --] (]) 05:29, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:* Might leave out "crap". - ] | ] 02:01, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	::Agreed. Of course, this wasn't meant to be particularly negative; I'm actually a big fan and this one album is pretty much against the grain of his other works{{OR}}. It's meant to be light-hearted, and so when read out of context of other reviews, the word "crap" may come across as more negative than intended. Would suggest either leaving out "crap" or substituting for "novelty" (sourced). ] (]) 12:39, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====DJ Champion====
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	:*] Length and date verified. Offline source accepted in good faith. ] (]) 08:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Yakubu Mu'azu====
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	:* What country and era? --] (]) 05:30, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Alan Parastaev====
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	====Posterolateral palatal pits====
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	:*''How about:'' ... that most species of ] have prominent ''']''' and often have more than one on each side of the ]? ]•<sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub> 06:54, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:**That's also possible (except for the stray comma which I deleted), but the fossa (depression) I believe is the most unique feature of rice rat PPPs. "Prominent" is a rather vague word for a DYK hook and there are other groups which have more than one on each side, just not the fossa. ] 08:37, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:***I actually took the word "prominent" directly from the article; admittedly, I'm certainly no expert on posterolateral palatal pits let alone rats... 8-) -- ]•<sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub> 19:37, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	:****I know, and it's used because the sources use it. But I think a DYK hook should have slightly different standards here than an article. ] 19:41, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Castle Green, London====
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	:*'''Alt 1''' ... that ''']''' was named after a ] house built from around 1800 that survived until 1938? ] (])
	====Russ Meneve====
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	====Tavistock House====
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	====Sidney Glazier====
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	====Eric Holmback====
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	:* The first hook should say that it was a ''wrestling'' match. --] (]) 05:38, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Amended. Thanks, ♥]♥]♥]♥ 08:01, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers Party in the Republic of Austria====
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	====19–21 Sankey Street, Warrington====
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	:*{{DYKtickAGF}} ] (]) 11:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:(alt)... that ]s design for a ''']''', ], was said to be influenced by ] and ]? - suggest shorter version and keeps some info back ] (]) 11:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*OK by me, although to include the fact that it was a shop (and nothing "grander") makes it more intriguing IMO. ] (]) 16:05, 10 January 2010 (UTC) thx ok changed ] (]) 11:56, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Guillaume Bresse====
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	:*] Length, date and hook verified. ]•<sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub> 07:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Star Wars Episode I: Obi-Wan's Adventures====
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	====John Ash====
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	:*] The year ] shouldn't be linked. I would suggest a link to the 1865 election if one exists; if not, it should be black. ] (]) 21:17, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*] Hook, ref, and length good. ] (]) 12:50, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Vintners Parrot====
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	====Kenneth Josephson====
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	====Ganja, Azerbaijan====
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	:*] It's unclear what "scale" means. I assume "size" or "area", but I'll let the nominator rectify that. ] (]) 21:20, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*] Also, there is not 5x expansion. Before your edits, there were about 5750. 5x expansion would be around 28,750. ] (]) 21:29, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:] *Scale meant as in terms of city's area and population--] (]) 00:34, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Waddell Wilson====
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	:*Fix the symbol, km/hr is improper. ]. ] (]) 22:08, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*WP:MOSNUM mentions "km/h", but I didn't find where it says "km/hr" is improper. If there is such a rule, please show us the rule, rather than expect us to guess. Better yet, simply correct the symbol, in the same way I added the nbsp you didn't notice, which is also required by WP:MOSNUM. ] (]) 05:36, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*I would just change it, if I were looking at the article. I'm not going to tamper with anybody's hooks here, but I also want the people here checking for things like that so we don't get those improper symbols on the main page. Strange, your not seeing the forest for the trees, and being concerned with making an unnecessary and unseen change rather than fixing what people will see. Sure glad the MoS invented a task that keeps some editors busy doing something commensurate with their talents, rather than causing damage somewhere else, however. ] (]) 06:17, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::*BTW, I went to make that correction in the article, too, now that you mentioned it. Since the article itself is still exactly one edit, it's too bad the creator/nominator didn't read his own article and copy and past the numbers from there in creating the hook for here. The template he/she used in the article is smart enough to have gotten the symbol right, so I didn't have to make any changes there. ] (]) 06:23, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::*Actually, "tampering" is a routine practice here. As ] puts it: "For a little change, just change it; nobody really wants to know that you added a space after their three dots." If you want to teach us a rule, a reference would be helpful, since I didn't find it in your specified source. And if you want people here doing more proofreading, you might want to be nice enough to <s>survive here awhile</s>. ] (]) 07:31, 10 January 2010 (UTC)P.S.: My last comment sounded too nasty: I meant routine ] enforcement. ] (]) 18:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::::*Actually, I could care less if the hook says km/hr, km/h, or kph. They all read exactly the same to me as being an abbreviation for kilometers per hour (I have a college math degree). So Gene, please change it to read whatever consensus / MOS says it should. There is too much minutia for me to know every last thing. One thing I do know is that you can't use the convert template on the main page because I've been told it's too much work for the servers to do the work each time someone brings up the main page. '''<font color="#000000">]</font><font color="#FFCC00">]</font>''' 03:09, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::::*Thanks, made the minor correction. Glad convert isn't used too. Its an extremely complex machine often misused in any case. The use of standard symbols has long been interpreted on Misplaced Pages to be especially clear in the case of the units of the SI and those acceptable for use with it (including the hour), following the official symbols adopted by the CGPM and BIPM for consistent use throughout the world. Even the speedometers of automobiles in the United States use standard "km/h" for this. ] (]) 17:13, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose====
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	:*] This article isn't quite a fivefold expansion from the original, as per the ]. The original article was about 600 characters without spaces. Now it's at about 2400. It should really be just over 3000 to meet the expansion criteria. Otherwise, the hook and date are verified. ]•<sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub> 07:22, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Actually, ]. From my count (using Shubinator's DYK checker) the count went from 520 characters to 2840 characters. 520 x 5 = 2600, so the article exceeds the 5x expansion count by 240 characters. ] (]) 07:28, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*I guess I'll have to leave this up to a more experienced editor. I've never used that tool (and I know nothing of Java Script). I simply used the character count feature in Microsoft Word to get a rough estimate. I also noted that there were a couple of other tools listed in the ], but quite frankly, it's almost 3AM where I am and I must get to bed. Cheers. ]•<sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub> 07:53, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::*That's OK :) Next time you're on though, I would love it if you could take a second look. I don't know about you, but in my version of Microsoft Word there is a row for 'character count with spaces'. If you're going to become a regular DYK reviewer though, it might be worth installing one of the tools (I like Shubinator's DYKchecker). It's a great help and makes everything so quick and easy. ] (]) 07:57, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::*For the record, ] Length, date, expansion, and hook verified. The scripts are hugely useful for this, as copy and paste character counts will always miscount per our rules. ] (]) 08:02, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::::*I learn something new everyday. That's why I like Misplaced Pages. 8-) ]•<sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub> 16:35, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Hiram Blanchard====
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	====Ljótólfr====
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	====Agaricus texensis====
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	:* ] Date, length, and hook verified. Thought it was a sculpture at first glace :). Image verified under CC 3.0 ] ] 12:06, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Me too. This image is fascinating. I just had to click on it. '''<font color="#000000">]</font><font color="#FFCC00">]</font>''' 15:32, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Anandita Dutta Tamuly====
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	:* ]Date, length, and hook verified. Quirky. made a small tweak to hook as it stated she squeezed the seeds into her eyes, rather then rubbed the seeds in her eyes. ] ] 12:17, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Onlafbald and Scula====
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	:*] Length and date verified. Hook accepted in good faith. ] (]) 13:10, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Making Our Economy Right====
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	====Gymnasticon====
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	:*] Length, date and hook refs verified. --]<sup>]</sup> 06:31, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Yantai stingray, blackish stingray, Chinese stingray====
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	:* ] Date, length, and all three hooks verified, while AGF for offline references. Successful triple nom hook. (fixed credit template, not sure bot would understand combined into one) ] ] 06:33, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	: What does "marketed" mean? --] (]) 06:24, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	::"Marketed" is a common word defined at ]. Is that what you were asking? ] (]) 07:19, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::There could be some confusion, since "to market" in the last few years has come to mean "to advertise," while in this case it just means "sold," and that word could be substituted for simplicity. ] 18:46, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::: Thanks, Chick. I think "sold" would be a better word here, too, just to keep things simple. --] (]) 06:22, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====1090 Vermont Avenue====
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	====Wichita Wind====
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	:*'''ALT''': "... that the defunct ''']''' ice hockey team once had ] and a public relations employee on their roster?" I think this is more interesting, but I'll leave that up to reviewers. ] (]) 03:26, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	====John Elliot (Royal Navy officer)====
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	:* ]Date, length of expansion, and hook verified. Changed Caption to Admiral, as this was the last rank he attained (being a commodore at the time of the named transport). ] ] 06:25, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Charles Benham====
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	:'''ALT1''': ... that ''']''' was described in '']'' as "the type of scientific amateur of which British science has reason to be proud"? - ]&nbsp;<sup>]? ].'']</sup> 20:18, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Villagers (band)====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' have toured with ], are the only Irish act to have signed with ] and were named sixth best band in Ireland by '']'' without releasing an album?
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	====Something Ilk====
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	====Labour and Socialist International====
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	{{*mp}}... that 1925 the ''']''' issued an appeal to the ], asking the League to accept the ] as a member?
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	====Schnütgen Museum====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''' of religious art ''(pictured)'' in ] was founded with the collection of a priest known for his "zealous and sometimes crafty collection tactics"?
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	Nb: He died in 1918, & the quote is from the museum website. ] (]) 22:25, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Samuel Shepherd====
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	*... that ''']''' repeatedly refused judicial posts, partially due to his deafness, before becoming ] in 1819? ] (]) 12:13, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Dravya (Jainism)====
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	{{*mp}}... that as per ], the universe is made up of following six substances called ''']''': ], ], ], principle of rest, space and ]?
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	====Pretzinger====
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	:* What's in the photo? Any relations to the hook? --] (]) 06:25, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Photo is of the ], a Pretzinger building that's on the Register. ] (]) 19:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
			===Articles created/expanded on December 10===
	====George J. Wimberly====
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	{{*mp}}... that architect ''']''' came to Hawaii in 1940 as a ] architect doing naval work at ] before establishing a successful reputation for the design of ]s'''?
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	:If this is too long please trim as needed or alter as appropriate. Cheerios. ] (]) 03:32, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège====
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	{{*mp}}... that the origins of the ''']''' (pictured), usually dated 1107-1118, have been much disputed by ]s?
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	*There was a copyvio biography here originally, under what is now ]. This is therefore entirely new. See the note on the talk page. ] (]) 19:51, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell====
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	{{*mp}}... that the German chemist ''']''' published the ] in 1778?
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	====Ignacio de Arteaga y Bazán====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' led an expedition in 1779 to ], where he performed a formal ceremony of ]?
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	====Gehyra oceanica====
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	{{*mp}}... that ] of an ''']''' ''(pictured)'' have a long ] and may take up to 115 days to hatch?
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	:* Please crop the pic and put the creature in the middle, rather than the bottom. --] (]) 06:24, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Charles Kleibacker====
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	{{*mp}}... that ]er ''']''' earned the nickname "Master of the ]" for the complex designs of his women's clothing, carefully cut from fabric at a diagonal to the weave?
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	====Nassau Valley Vineyards====
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	{{*mp}}... that the founder of ''']''' had to lobby the ] legislature and even draft the bill that overturned the state's ] laws which banned ] production?
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	====Barnsley fern====
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	:*''Comment'': The image in this nomination is the classic Barnsley fern. This image on commons has a link in its description to other images of other varieties. If this sounds too long or sounds too complicated, then see my alternate nomination, which just nominates the new article and is shorter.
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	:*''(alt.hook)''... that the ''']''' ''(pictured)'' was first described by and named after a ], and despite its name, it is not a real ]?
	: -- ] (]) at 16:46, 10 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
	::I like this alt hook better - it "hooks" into the first line of the article better, and the mutated species are at the bottom of the page.] (]) 17:03, 11 January 2010 (UTC)Forgot to login -- that was me!] (]) 17:05, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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			===Articles created/expanded on December 28===
	====Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary====
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	{{*mp}}... that animals recorded from ''']''' and adjacent waters include the ], ], ] and ]?
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 04:11, 9 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Wharf of the Caravels====
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	{{*mp}}... that film director ] used the ''']''', a museum in ], ], as a set for both '']'' and '']''?
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	:*] Date, length, and hook verified. Foreign language reference accepted in good faith. ] (]) 01:41, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Long-tailed Starling====
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	{{*mp}}... that the tail of the ''']''' ''(pictured)'' of ] can be longer than its body?
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	:*] Date, length, hook, and image verified. Offline reference accepted in good faith. ] (]) 01:36, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Manchester United Methodist Church (St. Louis, Missouri)====
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	{{*mp}}... that English ] player ] ''(pictured)'' created his solo stage name out of the names of two of the musicians in his previous band ''']'''?
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	:*Isn't that all a bit coy? I mean, I know who Reggie Dwight is without looking at the link (hey, I'm old and spent a lot of time in London), but how many other people will? - ] | ] 02:19, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:**Well, it is DYK (Did you know). ] (]) 03:23, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:::*Suggest maybe adding a hook in case the image is not used because it will most likely have many people say "hey that ... isn't it?", but without an image doesn't really work. ] ] 08:05, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::::Well.'''ALT''':... that ] created the name by which he became famous out of the names of two of the musicians in his previous band ''']'''? In my view, not as attention-grabbing as the original. ] (]) 16:39, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::::'''ALT2''':... that Reggie Dwight renamed himself '']'' out of parts of the names of two musicians in his previous band ''']'''? - ] | ] 17:56, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Marinelli Bell Foundry====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''', one of the oldest family owned businesses in the world (since 1339), produces most of the bells for the ], including the Jubilee Bell that weighs 5 tons and is 20 feet in circumference?
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	:*It is an interesting foundry, but the language of the article is a little rough, and I can't work out where the citation to the Jubilee Bell is coming from (it says the "The World’s Oldest Family Companies; UPDATED - August 2008 Family Business." - the 'updated' bit is throwing me a little: is this a website, or a magazine/journal?)
	::*What's a "ton"? ] (]) 06:41, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::* ...{{convert|5|ST|tonne}} and is {{convert|20|ft|m}}...
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	====Ambarawa Railway Museum====
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	{{*mp}}... that the Willem I Railway Station (now the ''']''') was originally a transhipment point between the 4ft 8½in (1435 mm) gauge branch from Kedungjati to the northeast and the 3ft 6in (1067 mm) gauge line onward towards ] via ] to the south?
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	:*] ] ] (]) 03:22, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====February 1969 nor'easter====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''' resulted in the first time in history that the ] closed for a full day to the weather? &ndash;''']'''&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;] 21:14, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Anita Diminuta====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''', a ] character from ], created by ], was influenced by ] and ]?
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	:* ] Sorry, just not big enough atm. The page needs to have 1,500 characters of prose, at the moment this page has just 693. - ]<sup>]</sup> (]) 18:43, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::* Give me 15 minutes. --] <small>] ]</small> 18:46, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::* Done. --] <small>] ]</small> 19:02, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::Unfortunately, the content has to be ''new'', so that doesn't include copied and pasted information from other articles (without the copied text this article is still too short). Could also use some more references (also, please try and use the cite templates if possible, I find ] good for this) and possibly some copy editing (I've done some myself, but often these mistakes are difficult to see). - ]<sup>]</sup> (]) 19:42, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Johannes Ording====
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	====Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602-628====
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 18:52, 8 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Liberty Kid====
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	====Stephen Kakfwi====
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	:*'''ALT1''' ... that the sixteen-year ] term of ''']''' was the longest in the ]' history?
	====Fredrik Ording====
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	:*'''ALT1''' ... that the books of educator and ] of ], ''']''' (1870–1929), were still being reissued as late as 1974? ] (]) 17:02, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Inter county====
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	:*'''ALT1''':... the ]'s, ]'s and ]'s ] ] teams have all competed in the ]? ] (]) 13:32, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Vasabha of Sri Lanka====
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	====Richard Versalle====
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	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 13:17, 8 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
	:*] ] ] (]) 05:43, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*<s>'''ALT1:''' ... that American tenor ''']''' died from a heart attack and 10-foot fall after singing the line "You can only live so long" during the ] premiere of '']''?<s> Voceditenore's suggestion below is better.--] (]) 07:07, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:::* '''Shorter hook''' <small>(177 chracters -] (]) 07:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC))</small>:
	:::'''ALT2'''... that during the ] premiere of '']'', tenor ''']''' suffered a fatal heart attack after singing the line "You can only live so long"?
	::::* ] Date, length, and '''ALT2''' hook verified ] ] 08:18, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Naya Rivera====
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	:*''Comment'': Source says "8 months, 9 months" kind of vaguely but I was guessing this would be acceptable. —<font color="610000">]</font> (]) 12:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:*How about changing the hook to to remove the slight ambiguousness of the fact '''ALT1'''... that actress ''']''' from the musical comedy series '']'' had a ] before she was even one year old? ] ] 17:29, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Great, thanks. I changes "before she was even one" to "before she was even one year old" so it doesn't sound like she became an agent herself. :) —<font color="610000">]</font> (]) 00:27, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::* Nice catch:) ] Date, length, and '''ALT1''' hook verified. ] ] 12:21, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Kundalakesi====
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	:*It would be good to have ] turned blue. Then we can have a double-DYK hook. --] (]) 05:47, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*Done. Thanks for the suggestion. i will reword and renominate for jan 11 now.--] (]) 07:31, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====The King's Pilgrimage====
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	:*] Expansion, date verified. AGF the fact. ] (]) 07:48, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Metro (wrestler)====
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	:*'''ALT1:'''... that ''']''' ''(pictured)'' are related to the descendants of ], and place names of ] are claimed to match place names in Ethiopia? ] (]) 06:21, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*'''ALT2:'''... that attempts to understand the origin of ''']''' ''(pictured)'' have led to the observation that some place names of ] match place names in ]? ] | ] 18:52, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:*:Interesting article. Date, length, "fact" verified, but I'm not sure the hook phrasing reflects that it is only one hypothesis out of several. ] (]) 07:58, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*:* Could change "are" to "may be". - ] | ] 08:09, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*'''Comment''': In the ''Alt'', I don't see any difficulty with "place names of ] are claimed to match place names in Ethiopia", but the notion that the Afro-Abkhazians were "related to the decendants of ]" seems to be no more than speculation, with no real ] suggested in the sources other than this claimed similarity of place-names. And I'm not sure what "related to the decendants of" means - surely, they are either ''descended'' from Ethiopian Jews or they aren't? ] (]) 08:27, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*:* I know this article looks like speculation, in fact I had same idea, however after my investigation, I found that they did exist. But I am not sure, how I can rephrase hook due there is no exact facts about this case.--] (]) 11:42, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*:*I've proposed an ALT2 above that may deal with that. - ] | ] 18:51, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*I've made significant cleanup edits to the article and also had some back-and-forth with NovaSkola on the ]. It would be good if someone with far more Russian than I have would look at whether I have correctly understood his Russian-language statements. I was using a combination of dictionaries & online tools, I don't have much Russian myself. - ] | ] 18:51, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*:I have quick-translated those Russian phrases at ] - not literally though, as literal translation would be odd in most cases. ] (]) 10:13, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Arthur E. Bartlett====
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	====Indract of Glastonbury====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' of ] was the subject of a lost work by ]?
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	:*] Article is too short. Otherwise, date and source verified. 1929 x 5 = 9645. This article is only 9479 characters long! Almost there! ] (]) 09:34, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::* and should fix that (744 added characters by my count). Thanks. -] (]) 23:05, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*] Length, date and hook verified. ] (]) 02:24, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Thomas Rhea====
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	====Russian battleship Chesma (1886)====
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	{{*mp}}... that traversing all the guns of the ] ] '''{{ship|Russian battleship|Chesma|1886|2}}''' as far as they could go to one side produced a ] of 7.6°?
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	====John Gurney (judge)====
	*... that ''']''' first rose to fame as a ] within two months of ]? ] (]) 12:10, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	: Can "qualifying" be linked to a page about becoming a barrister? These days, every time I see the word "qualifying", it's about going to the Olympics. --] (]) 06:42, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	::Done. ] (]) 08:47, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Borodino class battlecruiser====
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	{{*mp}}... that the incomplete '''{{sclass|Borodino|battlecruiser}}''' ''Izmail'' would have been converted to an ] except that the ] managed to gain control of a commission appointed to review the needs of the Navy and cancelled it?
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	====Cedric Howell====
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	{{*mp}}... that Captain ''']''' was credited with destroying eight enemy aircraft over a four-day period in July 1918, including shooting down five in a single action against a force of ten or fifteen German planes?
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	:*'''ALT1''':... that Captain ''']''' was awarded the ] for bringing down eight enemy aircraft over a four day period in July 1918, including destroying five in a single action against ten or fifteen German planes?
	<small>5x expanded by ] (]). Nominated by ] (]) at 05:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	====Adam Pardy====
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	{{*mp}}... that ]' ] ''']''' is from ]?
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	:I know this hook as stated very likely wont fly, but damn would it be awesome if it could. It's completely an inside joke in its simplicity, as the play-by-play man for Flames broadcasts mentions Pardy's hometown on broadcasts so often it has become part of a drinking game. I guarantee this entry would be a hit in Calgary. ;) I will propose an alt, however:
	:'''Alt''': ... that ''']''', who is from ], was the first former ] to play in the ]? ]] 17:03, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Isaac Crewdson====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']'''{{`s}} book '']'' led to a split in the ] which was like a "volcanic explosion"?
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	:*''Comment'': Note: The book link is to Wikisource which is a sister project. DYK hooks are allowed interwiki links, I believe, and wikisource could do with the publicity ] (]) 14:26, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	<small>Created by ] (]), Self nom at 14:26, 9 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
	::removed myself from co-nom. My involvement was comment and a bit of maintenance on the source, the credit should go to the nom. <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">]</span> 11:32, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====John Tigard House====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''' ''(pictured)'' in ], was moved and is still listed on the ]?
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	:*] Length, date, and hook verified. ] (]) 23:31, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Burmese general election, 1960====
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	{{*mp}}... that after winning the ''']''' premier-elect ] said, "I guess people like us"?
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	:*] I'm sorry, I'm really not sure what the hook means. Would you be able to clarify it please? ] (]) 15:52, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	::Julie, the 1960 election was a return to democracy election in Burma, and U Nu's government would be overthrown by yet another coup d'etat in just two years. Premier is often used as a shorthand for the office of Prime Minister. The hook means that the Burmese people still wanted democratically elected government, despite the long series of military governments. I'm really not sure what you're having trouble understanding, but if you can come up with another hook, please do so. Further, you really need to be leaving notices on people's talk pages when you mark a hook with anything but a checkmark. I checked back, but lots of people don't ever look back unless we notify them. There's a template for this right above the editing window, every time you edit this page. ] (]) 01:55, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::I also understood this hook, before the explanation appeared. U Nu won the election. He was happy. He could have said "Hooray!" But he actually said, "I guess people like us". People must have liked him because a majority voted for him. ] (]) 05:43, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====MV Shōnan Maru 2====
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	{{*mp}}... that on January 6, 2010, the ''''']''''' ''(pictured)'' was involved in a collision that led to the sinking of the '']'' of the ], featured on '']''?
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	:*This matter is currently on the main page under "In The News", with the ] highlighted, so my first thought on this nomination is no. ] (]) 20:08, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*The ] article was the ITN article, not the Shōnan Maru 2 article. Its appearance as a wikilink there does not disqualify it from DYK. ] (]) 08:59, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::No, but this exact event already appeared in on the main page. Shouldn't we try and feature a different fact about this ship? Even if it's something different but the same incident, she has had a long career. Maybe the fact about her being accused of piracy by the Sea Shepherd group could be used instead? ] (]) 01:58, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	'''ALT 1'''... that the ] lodged a ] complaint against the captain and the crew of the ''']''' ''(pictured)'' in the ]s following a collision which led to the sinking of the ]?
	:'''ALT 2'''... that the ] lodged a ] complaint against the captain and the crew of the ''']''' ''(pictured)'' in the ]s following the sinking of the ]?
	::'''ALT 3'''... that the ] lodged a ] complaint against the captain and the crew of the ''']''' ''(pictured)'' in the ]s?
	*] Length, date, and hook verified on all three. These are much better, as they build on, instead of repeat, the information In The News covered. Thanks for working with me. ] (]) 09:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	====L'Houssaine Kherchtou====
	*... that ''']''' left ] in 1995 after he returned from obtaining his ] in Kenya to find his wife begging for money for her ]? ] <sup>(]) </sup> 05:44, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	*... that ''']''' claims he left ] in 1995 after ] refused to give him $500 to cover medical bills? ] <sup>(]) </sup> 05:44, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	====St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao====
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	{{*mp}}... that during the ], two members of the ] reportedly fell to their deaths from a steeple while defacing ''']'''?
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	:*] You really should integrate your hook fact into the prose of the article. Be sure to include an in-line citation immediately after the fact, as well. ] (]) 08:16, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::{{done}} <big>]</big><small><sup>]</sup></small> 04:53, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*] Ok, but now you've got a bigger problem- your hook is cited to ], which is a Chinese site in the same style/operation as Misplaced Pages- this is not a reliable source. I know, I know, I'm being a real pain in this, but is there another source available? ] (]) 23:44, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::Not anything usable. I have supporting statements from clergy at the cathedral, but that's original research (unusable). So should I change the hook? <big>]</big><small><sup>]</sup></small> 05:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::*Yes, you should. Misplaced Pages isn't about what's true- it's about what we can source; as strange as that may sound. In fact, I might prefer a citation needed template rather than a citation to Baidu Baike. ] (]) 09:11, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====La Ventanilla, Oaxaca====
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	{{*mp}}... that nearly all the trees and ]s of ''']''', Mexico, were destroyed by ] and ] in 1997?
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	:*] Length and date check out. The hook source is in Spanish, accepted in good faith. It might be best to wikilink ] and ] and change 'Paulina' to Pauline. ] (]) 09:49, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
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	::*Done. I didnt realize that I had forgotten to wikify the article.] (]) 17:47, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Rule 42====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ]'s relaxing of ''']''' allowed the the staging of the ] in ] and the breaking of the ] club world record attendance .
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	:*'''ALT1:''' ... and the breaking of the ] club world attendance record? ] (]) 04:40, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	::That reads better ] (]) 08:50, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:*] Length, date and hook (ALT1 version) verified. ] (]) 09:52, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Phil Hughes (footballer born 1964)====
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	{{*mp}}... that former ] footballer ''']''' is the only ] ever to have won international ] while playing for ]?
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	:*] Length and date check out, but the source used for the hook does not. According to ], self-published works (including blogs such as this one) are usually not acceptable as ] sources. ] (]) 09:57, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*It does check out – Northern Ireland Footballing Greats is acknowledged as a reliable source per -- ]] 10:20, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*Thanks, I didn't know about that. ] Approved. ] (]) 12:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Hugh of Wells====
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	{{*mp}}... that the medieval chronicler ] accused the medieval bishop ''']''' (d. 1235) of being biased against monks, calling him "an untiring persecutor of monks"?
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	:*] Length and date verified. Subscription-only source accepted in good faith. ] (]) 15:49, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Waldi====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ] course at the ] was designed to represent the first ], ''']'''?
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	:*To keep for the opening day of the ] on February 12th? ] ] 21:05, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*] Length, date and source verified. ] (]) 12:04, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Tillson Harrison====
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	{{*mp}}... that the daughter of ] adventurer ''']''' claims that her father's life served as the inspiration for the wildly popular ] series of films?
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	====Zero stroke====
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	{{*mp}}... that during the ] there were reports of people suffering from ''']'''?
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	:*] The 'background' section appears to be there just to pad out the article. A quick description of hyperinflation would have sufficed. Here, the 'background' accounts for about 80% (by my estimate) of the prose. ] (]) 19:37, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::So I assume you would like that background section cut down? ] (]) 19:41, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::Definitely. If this takes you below your character minimum, try finding something in the career section to pad it out. The bit about the economic situation in the Weimar Republic didn't really seem that relevant! ] (]) 19:49, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::OK. I have tried to make it better. I'm not worried about the length minimum because the current section on zero stroke itself reaches the minimum. I just want to give enough background to explain the crazy hyperinflation that occurred, which in turn caused and explains the zero stroke condition. ] (]) 19:56, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::Oooh... bad news, sorry. Here's the report from the DYKchecker:
	* Prose size (text only): 1377 characters (230 words) "readable prose size"
	* Article created by Remember on January 7, 2010
	Just 123 characters short :( ] (]) 19:59, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::::Oops, nearly forgot the fancy question mark thing! ] ] (]) 20:11, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	(reduce indent) Also, I would like to know what book 'Ahamed' wrote. Apart from the notes, it doesn't seem to be referenced anywhere... in addition, it's the source that much of your article relies on! I can say that the article now meets length requirements, and as soon the sources are fixed up I'll be happy to approve this one for you. ] (]) 20:26, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	:Check the article now. I just finished adding a bunch of stuff from the Lords of Finance Book. ] (]) 20:33, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::Alright, I won't trouble you any more with the sources. I believe it's DYK convention to use bold to highlight the link to the DYK-nominated page. How does this look:
	*'''ALT1''' ... that during the ] there were reports of people suffering from ''']''', a disorder where they had the desire to write endless rows of zeros?
	:I would be prepared to approve that one (or similar... it's your choice) on the spot for you. ] (]) 20:35, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::Looks good to me. Feel free to go with that one unless you have a better alternative. ] (]) 20:42, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::] Length, date and hook all verified. I know it's been a long process but thanks for sticking in there :) ] (]) 20:44, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*What is the original German term, the one coined "by German physicians"? I would expect to find that somewhere in the article. (It would also make the subject more googlable.) --] (]) 07:29, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	::No idea. I couldn't find a reference to the original German term in any article cited. To be honest, I think this may be a condition created by reporters, but I haven't been able to find anyone that debunked this widely reported malady. Feel free to add more information if you can find any. ] (]) 16:18, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Masaharu Iwata====
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	{{*mp}}... that the music of ] ] ''']''' has been described as among the most well-recognized in the ] genre?
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	:*] Length and hook check out. Nice article! ] (]) 19:39, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Bourla-papey====
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	{{*mp}}... that the leaders of the ''']''' revolt were sentenced to death but then amnestied to defend the government they opposed?
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	:*] Length checks out and foreign language source accepted in good faith. ] (]) 19:51, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	:What country and era? --] (]) 05:52, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	*'''Alt1'''... that the leaders of the ''']''' revolt in 18th century Switzerland were sentenced to death but then amnestied to defend the government they opposed? ] (]) 10:32, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Sir Arthur Forwood, 1st Baronet====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ] businessman ''']''' ''(statue pictured)'' was the first shipowner to become an ] minister, and the first serving town councillor to be appointed as a ]?
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	:*] Length checks out and source which requires a subscription to access accepted in good faith. ] (]) 19:53, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	====De Hoop, Dokkum; Zeldenrust, Dokkum====
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	{{*mp}}... that there are two ]s in ], the ]; and that each mill is fitted with a pair of ] and a pair of ]; and that the mills are named ''''']''''' ''(pictured)'' and ''''']'''''?
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	:*'''ALT1:''' ... that ''''']''''' ''(pictured)'' and ''''']''''' are two ]s in ], the ] that are fitted with a pair of ] and a pair of ]? ... a more compact hook? --]<sup>]</sup> 12:06, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Bruce1ee, you put it so much better than I did! {{=)}} ] (]) 13:05, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*] Everything verified, recommend using the alternative hook. -- ]] 18:09, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Court of Chancery====
	{{*mp}}... that one ] of the English ''']''' was appointed not due to his legal skill, but because the Queen was impressed by his dancing?
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	<br />It juuust about passed five-fold expansion; you might want to check. ] (]) 09:02, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*That's one hell of an expansion! Well done Ironholds.--] (]) 10:37, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*] Approved! Wow. Nearly 50,000 characters. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but... it didn't just about pass the five-fold expansion. It passed it with nearly 25,000 characters breathing room. You heard me right :) So, as I said, the length checks out, and the offline source has been accepted in good faith. Congrats! ] (]) 19:57, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*Haha, thank you both. *waves fist at Julie* you had me going for a second there! I was sitting here going "oh shit, it's the popular culture references section isn't it, I bet that pushed the total up, god, what can I do to expan- haaang on..." :P. ] (]) 13:53, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::*Awww :) How did you overshoot the mark by 25,000 characters though? ] (]) 16:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::*Magic, and the wonders of a shedload of sources. The article took me about a week to write, which is ] than some of my big articles and ] than others. ] (]) 12:06, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Tormod, son of Leod, Torquil, son of Murdoch====
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	{{*mp}}... that the 13th and 14th century ] chieftains ''']''' and ''']''' were once believed to have been brothers, and sons of ]; but now Torquil is considered to have been a grandson of Tormod?
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	::*I reworded it a bit. I'm trying to get the hook to show that the two were once thought to be related as brothers, but now the relationship is considered to have been uncle-nephew.--] (]) 07:15, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*Better, at least different. Maybe rather than sons of Leod after brothers, you could put son and grandson of Leod at the end (if that's what it is). Or is it son and great-grandson? If Tormod is a son of Leod and Torquil a great-grandson of Leod, then Torquil would be a great-nephew of Tormod, wouldn't he? ] (]) 14:43, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::*Damn, I totally muddled this one up. Tormod is the son of Leod, and Torquil is Tormod's grandson . Why was I going on about a nephew? Haha, that's embarrassing. OK, I reworded it. I will go and doublecheck the articles for my mistake.--] (]) 08:40, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====February 1987 nor'easter====
	{{*mp}}... that comparatively warm temperatures following the ''']''' caused snow in the affected areas to quickly melt? &ndash;''']'''&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;] 04:31, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*A bit dull, this one, but it works I think. &ndash;''']'''&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;] 04:31, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*] Length checks out, and offline source accepted in good faith. I trust you :) ] (]) 20:04, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	====SitNGo Wizard====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' is a ] ] that helps ] players evaluate and practice making proper betting decisions?
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	:*] Everything checks out fine, but isn't this a bit commercial-ly to be putting on our main page? ] (]) 20:06, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*It's commercial, sure, but it wouldn't be the most commercial hook we've ever signed off on here. The hook, though, isn't very "hooky"- it's entirely ordinary. ] (]) 20:49, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::*Yes, I agree - it's not an 'interesting fact' that someone would like to know. ] (]) 10:02, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::*(alt hook)... that ''']''' is a ] ] that has a quiz mode that serves as ]'s electronic analogue to ]?--] <small>(]/]/]/]/]) </small> 00:19, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Polonnaruwa Vatadage====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''' ''(pictured)'' is considered the "ultimate development" in ''']''' architecture?
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	:*''Comment'': Originally had only ], then added ] as well. The book is offline and the pdf document given as a ref for the hook fact is somewhat big, so here's the if you need it. ≈&nbsp;]&nbsp;] ] 11:56, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	<small>Created by ] (]). Self nom at 01:23, 7 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
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	:*] Length, date, and hook verified. Thank you for the HTML link- huge PDF's tend to crash my laptop. ] (]) 20:56, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Economy of Queensland====
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	{{*mp}}... that ''']''' 94% of Australia's ]?
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	:*] Date, length, and hook verified. ] (]) 00:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Guigal====
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	{{*mp}}... that in 2007 the ] producer ''']''' set the record for the most expensive ] ever released with the 2003 ] of their ] "La La" ]s?
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	====List of IIHF World Under-20 Championship players for Canada====
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	{{*mp}}... that ] ''(pictured)'' is the highest scoring ''']''' in the ] ] with 14 goals?
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	:*'''ALT1''':... that ] is only ''']''' in the ] ] to win three gold medals? (Note to the checking admin, it is stated in the "2010 IIHF World Junior Championship Media Guide", which is used as a general ref. It does not have pages, so I could not add a specific citation)
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	:* What sport is this? Please tweak the text and the linking so that readers will know what IIHF... stands for. --] (]) 06:01, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	::Done. -- ]<sup>]</sup> 21:31, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*] Length, date and refs check out fine for both original hook and ALT1. Image checks out fine, but should only be used with the original hook. ] (]) 13:53, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:*] Date, length a refine. AGF the fact, but could you please clarify for non-specialist, in the article and if possible in the hook, what is large warship?] (]) 09:13, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Is "large" even necessary? Dropping it might be best fix, if smaller ones didn't use such a big engine. ] (]) 13:19, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::The machinery was likely trialled on small warships like destroyers, though I don't know for sure. Large warship for this time would be a cruiser of some sort or a battleship. Vertical is the most disposable adjective used, so I've dropped it out as well as pre-dreadnought.--] (]) 00:45, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::Still, can we add a comment on "large warship" to the article please? ] (]) 08:26, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Anemone hupehensis====
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	:*] Expansion verified, everything checks out. -- ]] 18:04, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:*Date, expansion are Ok; <s>suggest omitting "real" in the hook.<s> The hook is supported by ref, but is somewhat vague and simply says the curve is important. Any chance for a more factual hook? ] (]) 10:01, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*:'Real' is a term in economics that defines an income in terms of purchasing power after inflation and exchange rates are taken into consideration and is relevant here. <small>] (]) 10:49, 8 January 2010 (UTC)</small>
	:*::Ok. ] (]) 10:56, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*:::Sure, will try to think of something. Any suggestions are of course much welcome.] (]) 10:41, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	'''Alt1''': ... that ] and ], based on their application of the ''']''', found that more than half a million ] in 1990 could have been prevented by higher ] in the 1980s?
	:'''Alt2''': ... that according to ] of the ''']''', medical improvements were responsible for 75% to 90% of the increases in ] during the 20th century, while ] ] accounted for the rest?
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	====Saugatuck River Bridge====
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	:*] 573 characters. To be approved, articles must be at least 1500 characters long, excluding "block quotes, headers, images and captions, the "See also" section if any, the references section, Table of Contents, edit buttons and all superscript like and ". ] (]) 20:13, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*And, I've managed to get this article up to around 1,530 characters in the tool count... and someone that really understood civil engineering could easily add more- there's enough info in the sources here. I'm going to be bold and add a template credit for myself in the nomination- that was a good bit of work. (Anyone- feel free to remove it.) ] (]) 05:56, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Corta Atalaya====
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	:*] Everything checks out, and the Spanish language source has been accepted in good faith. ] (]) 20:14, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Dan Bain====
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	:*] Length, date and hook verified. Interesting one, and it just scraped through on five-fold expansion! ] (]) 20:16, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*You have no idea... That was a harder expansion than I anticipated, and then I find this Ducks Unlimited magazine of all things with a ton of info about his business and personal life. ]] 20:22, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Arab Lictor Youth====
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	:*] Length and date verified, offline hook refs accepted in good faith. --]<sup>]</sup> 08:19, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Synthemiopsis gomphomacromioides====
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	:*] The reference provided appears to discuss a different species entirely: '']''. In addition, I would advise taking more care in future submissions, so as to avoid such mistakes as those I repaired (in addition to other fixes). I apologize if I inadvertently changed the intended meaning anywhere; you may change anything back where I did. <font style="font-family: Vivaldi">]''']'''</font> 01:04, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*I'm so sorry, I completely inserted the wrong reference. I had been reading up on more info for ] and I must have cited the wrong online source. Thanks for making the corrections. I've fixed the hook slightly. <span style="border: 1px solid; background-color:black">]]</span> 02:43, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Whorwellsdown (hundred)====
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	:*] Length, date and hook verified. Interesting read, this one. I couldn't understand some of the words in the source but I understood most of it! ] (]) 20:23, 7 January 2010 (UTC)ubst:DYKtick}} Length, date and hook verified. Interesting read, this one. I couldn't understand some of the words in the source but I understood most of it! ] (]) 20:23, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	====PRR 4859====
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	:*] Length, date, and reference on the state symbol status verified. Offline source for being the first accepted in good faith. ] (]) 22:40, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Laudian Professor of Arabic====
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	:*] Length and date check out. Source for hook requires a subscription to access so I'll AGF. ] (]) 20:48, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====John Trask====
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	:*] Eh... This hook presents as fact, what your article merely presents as one man's opinion. How about
	* '''ALT1''':... that biographer ] has claimed the spirit named 'Dodd' in Sir ]'s ''The New Revelation'' is that of ]er Surgeon-Captain ''']'''?
	<br />Or, really, any variation that doesn't present this as settled fact, instead of (very much likely) speculation? ] (]) 21:26, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::I'm happy with that rewrite of the hook. The way Lycett presents the statement is less an opinion and more a statement of fact. However, as I have limited access to the source and to ''his'' sources, I have presented it as a claim. Hopefully soon I'll be able to include more about this assertion, but for the purposes of the hook, I'm happy with what you've written. ] (]) 21:47, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	*Thank you- I know it's pedantic, as even reading your article, it's pretty clear Lycett has a good case. For this matter, then, for<br>
	'''ALT1'''- ] length and date verified, offline source for hook accepted in good faith. ] (]) 23:59, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Knut Getz Wold====
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	:*] Age, length and hook ref all there. Interesting event. ] (]) 01:31, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Preben Munthe====
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	:*"parallel to"? Do you mean "simultaneously"? --] (]) 06:06, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Yes. ] (]) 13:31, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Rudolph Bergh====
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	====February 1995 Northeast United States snowstorm====
	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''' was the only major ] of the 1994–1995 winter? &ndash;''']'''&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;] 15:56, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*] Was it the only major U.S. storm, the only major storm worldwide, or the only major nor'easter? ] (]) 06:07, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Clarified, thanks. &ndash;''']'''&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;] 14:55, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:*ALT1: ... that the central character in singer ]'s song cycle ''''']''''' was based on a girl who went into labour at a school where he taught? - better wording? -- ] (]) 16:27, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Efbe's Hidalgo At Goodspice====
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	====SS Dieppe (1905)====
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	:*'''ALT:''' ... that ] said she fell in love with ] during a cruise in 1934 on ] private yacht ''']'''? ] (]) 10:43, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Per discussion with DrKiernan, the alternate hook is more accurate and should be used. The article has been amended to reflect this. Original hook withdrawn. ] (]) 10:58, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Night of the Lepus====
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	:*Comment: The photograph does not appear to be in the public domain. While the photographer has licensed the photograph, the image is of a work of art as to which the artist, Harry Bertoia, presumably holds the copyright.] (]) 07:00, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Beauharnois scandal====
	*... that ], the longest-serving Prime Minister in the British Commonwealth, rebounded from the 1931 ''']''' in Canada, only to be elected to another 13 years in office? ] <sup>(]) </sup> 05:33, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Paul v. United States (1990)====
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	====Just Dance (video game)====
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	:*] Date, length, fact verified. There is a full list ; I wasn't sure whether this link is Ok and thus not included into the article. ] (]) 02:23, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	::My immediate concern...why is this interesting? It's like saying "Did you know previous presidents of the United States included Washington, Carter and Clinton?". If they were all past members of the Arkansas Peanut Militia it'd be interesting...but how are songs being included on a music video game...interesting? ] <sup>(]) </sup> 05:36, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	:*'''ALT1''' ... that in the ] ''''']''''' you copy the on screen dancer using the ] and ]?
	:*'''ALT2''' ... that the ] is a key device to play the 2009 ''''']'''''?
	::*All little word play -- ] (]) 13:46, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Arne Kjelstrup, Operation Sunshine====
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	:*Logo is copyright I guess so not this picture ] (]) 12:02, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Norman Lind====
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	====Bethany House (Laredo, Texas)====
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	====Louis Tocqué====
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	:*] ] shows the prose size to be 1360 characters (241 words). A minimum of 1500 characters are expected for DYK nominees -- ''''']'''''/]&#124;]\ 11:54, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*I expanded the article. I think it has reached the minimum of 1500 characters.--] (]) 13:13, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::* ] Date and length verified (1600 characters, thank you!). AGF for offline reference. -- ''''']'''''/]&#124;]\ 14:27, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	*Not as long as ] is red. ] (]) 09:44, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	**You are kidding me? In the time that it took you to type out the above, you could have created the redirect yourself. F*** it, I will create it myself, so that a DYK is not held up for a ridiculous reason. --] <sup>]</sup> 15:07, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	***Since DYK deals primarily with new articles, I think it is a good idea to check that. And since creators of one new article often create more of them, it might have been better for you to let the creator/nominator of this article do it, so that he/she would know to do so in the future and learn what needs to be done. ] (]) 15:04, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
	****Actually, Misplaced Pages allows editors to edit without learning all of the rules first. Otherwise, all of us would be disqualified. So although there is a time for teaching the rules, such a lesson often creates more ] than it is worth, even if you don't try to obstruct a Did You Know nomination for that reason. If I were Gene Nygaard, I would have added the redirect, and I wouldn't have even told anybody in this case. ] (]) 05:53, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	*****And nobody would ever learn anything from your doing so, since what you did would ''not appear'' in the edit history of the article or anywhere else other than in the history of that redirect and your user contributions. Nobody would know you had done anything; nobody could learn by example how a good editor like you would do it. So if you want to take on the task of checking every page on Misplaced Pages yourself, fine. Continue to do so without telling anybody on the article's talk page or anywhere else that it should be done. But until you take on that task, and do it well enough so I don't have to worry about checking on it any more, I'd say its something that the people here should look for. ] (]) 06:33, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	] Louis XV was Louis XIV's great-grandson FFS, not his son. Any fule kno that. Louis XIV died in 1715, when the portrait was supposedly painted in 1739 - not that the article seems to say so. Mind you, the next sentence reads "In 1940 he painted the portrait of Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France" , so perhaps time-travel was his speciality. And there is no way this hook is acceptable English. ] (]) 00:55, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	*ALT... that ''']''' painted the portrait of the future ] at the order of his father, ]? - is presumably what happened. ] (]) 15:14, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Richard Basset (royal justice)====
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	:*Sorry, it's a terrific article - but the hook is just structured to sound boring - I think the main killer is that the "interesting" bit (first air force?! balloons?!) is hidden inside '']''.
	*'''ALT1'''... that the world's first ], the ''']''', was comprised of ]s put into service in the ] in 1794? ] <sup>(]) </sup> 05:44, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::That's also fine, although it didn't really comprise of balloons - it comprised of soldiers, and used balloons. ] '']'' 21:57, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::I like the original wording. More succinct. How 'bout:
	*'''ALT2''' … that the world's first ], the ''']''', was founded in 1794 and used ]s for ]?
	:*"World's first air force" is hook enough, and then you deliver a second one-two punch with that amazing bit about the early year and recon balloons. ] (]) 19:56, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::Yes, I like that suggestion - I always try to use the article title as early as possible, but in this case, I agree it makes sense to lead with the "world's first air force" info. ] '']'' 00:00, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	*'''ALT3''' … ... that the 1794 ''']''' was the world's first ]?
	::*Basic is best, the picture already reveals that is a balloon air force. -- ] (]) 13:53, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Aceh Tsunami Museum====
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	====Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia====
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	{{*mp}}... that in a ] of June 18, 1950, 57% of the people in ] ratified its ''']'''?
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	====Transpo '72====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ] boycotted ''']''' after the US government provided millions in funding so military contractors could show their attempts to enter the ] field?
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	:*:*] Good work on the article, but it has not been 5x expanded (3,912 bytes on 24 Dec -> 18,897 current size = 4.83x expanded) -- ''''']'''''/]&#124;]\ 12:42, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::I think the prose is indeed 5x, and some of what was formerly there was semi-copyvio. I can't be sure on the prose count though, I can never get the tool working right. Can someone with a working counter check to see for sure? ] (]) 13:05, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	::::The original figures were incorrect (I used page size rather than prose size) - however, the figures I get using the counter at ] gives 24 Dec as 3288 B, current as 15 Kb - for 5x expansion, it would need to be 16440B = 16.05Kb. -- ''''']'''''/]&#124;]\ 14:33, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
	:::::*Or on January 5th the article had 486 words. 486 x 5 = 2649 words. Right now the article has 2425, so someone needs to add about 250 words to the article. -- ] (]) 11:57, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Lucius Marcius Censorinus (consul 39 BC)====
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	:'''Note:''' Both articles on these two Roman senators are new. They are not overwhelmingly significant figures, but this is a little-known fact about an extremely famous event. ] (]) 18:05, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Shmuel Rechtman====
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	====Refuge (United Kingdom charity)====
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	:*''Comment'': I am unsure whether to add the reason why in the hook, BLP and all that...., but it could replace the Erin Pezzy bit making a better hook, if someone says yes
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	:*] ] <sub>]</sub> 04:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
	::*Thanks.--] (]) 10:38, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:*] Length and date verified. Off-line source accepted in good faith. I can't tell if this was placed here originally or got moved alter and lost the checkmark, but please do not place hooks in the special occasion holding area at nomination- request they be held, and then they can be moved after approval. Thanks. ] (]) 17:26, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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	====Pebble-mound mouse====
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	{{*mp}}... that the ''']''' of northern Australia construct mounds of stones around their burrows up to 10 m<sup>2</sup> in area?
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	:*''Comment'': Left out the image that is in the article as the mound is impossible to see at the resolution used on the Main Page. There's a lot of interesting aspects in their behavior, so I'm open to improved hooks.
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	:*] Age, length OK, hook ref looks sound and AGF. As an Australian and a nature-lover I'm amazed i didn't know about these. What a find! Thanks for the article. ] (]) 04:03, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
	:**They're great, but they've only been known to exhibit this behavior since the 1980s or so. It's a pity we don't have an image--there's a gorgeous image of a western pebbly carrying a stone in the Breed and Ford book. ] 08:36, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
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	:*] The sources you cited do not actually say what you are saying in the hook. They just say that the park is closed to the public to 'meet conservation objectives'. ] (]) 20:09, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
	::Picky picky. For DYK the sources really need to say word for word what's in the hook, dont they? Allright - I'll adjust.<small> ] (]) 23:15, 7 January 2010 (UTC) </small>
	::New reference added. Check Mallee Cliffs National Park Plan of Management, p21, section 4.2.1 Public Use. <small> ] (]) 23:58, 7 January 2010 (UTC) </small>
	:::] I know I've been picky with others in the past, but when the sources say something close, but slightly different, to the hook, I think there's cause for concern. Length, date and hook verified. ] (]) 09:40, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
	====Tintara====
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For instructions on how to nominate an article, see Template:DYK nomination header § Instructions for nominators. "Template:Did you know nominations" redirects here. For the list of approved nominations, see Template talk:Did you know/Approved.

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, purge it.

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Count of DYK Hooks
Section	# of Hooks	# Verified
November 1	1	1
November 2	1
November 15	1
November 17	1
November 18	1
November 19	2
November 21	2	1
November 22	2
November 26	1
December 1	2
December 2	3	1
December 3
December 5	1	1
December 6	1
December 10	2
December 11	2
December 12	2
December 13	4	1
December 14	1	1
December 15	2
December 16	2
December 17	3	3
December 18	3	1
December 19	7	7
December 20	9	8
December 21	7	6
December 22	6	3
December 23	13	13
December 24	6	5
December 25	6	3
December 26	11	7
December 27	5	4
December 28	12	8
December 29	6	4
December 30	14	11
December 31	12	8
January 1	14	9
January 2	20	8
January 3	11	8
January 4	15	8
January 5	15	6
January 6	12	2
January 7	4
January 8	7
January 9
Total	252	138
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Instructions for nominators

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If this is your first nomination, please read the DYK rules before continuing. Further information can be found at the DYK guidelines.

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Frequently asked questions

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). Because of WP:DYKTIMEOUT, a nomination should be reviewed within two months since the reviewer/promoter may agree to reject and close an unpromoted hook after that time has passed.

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.

Instructions for reviewers

Main page: Misplaced Pages:Did you know/Reviewing guide

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:

• Look through this page, Template talk:Did you know, to find a nomination you would like to comment on.
• Click the "Review or comment" link at the top of the nomination. You will be taken to the nomination subpage.
• The top of the page includes a list of the DYK criteria. Check the article to ensure it meets all the relevant criteria.
• To indicate the result of the review (i.e., whether the nomination passes, fails, or needs some minor changes), leave a signed comment on the page. Please begin with one of the 5 review symbols that appear at the top of the edit screen, and then indicate all aspects of the article that you have reviewed; your comment should look something like the following:

  Article length and age are fine, no copyvio or plagiarism concerns, reliable sources are used. But the hook needs to be shortened.

  If you are the first person to comment on the nomination, there will be a line :* <!-- REPLACE THIS LINE TO WRITE FIRST COMMENT, KEEPING  :* --> showing you where you should put the comment.
• Save the page.
• After the nomination is approved, a bot will automatically list the nomination page on Template talk:Did you know/Approved.

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.

Advanced procedures

How to promote an accepted hook

At-a-glance instructions on how to promote an approved hook to a prep area

See Misplaced Pages: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 }}<!--Please do not write below this line or remove this line. Place comments above this line.--> insert a new, separate line containing one of the following: To ] To ] To ] To ] To ] To ] To ] 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.

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How to remove a rejected hook

• Open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to remove. (It's best to wait several days after a reviewer has rejected the hook, just in case someone contests or the article undergoes a large change.)
• In the window where the DYK nomination subpage is open, replace the line {{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.

How to remove a hook from the prep areas or queue

• 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 this 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 this 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.

How to move a nomination subpage to a new name

• Don't; it should not ever be necessary, and will break some links which will later need to be repaired. Even if you change the title of the article, you don't need to move the nomination page.

Nominations

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Articles created/expanded on November 2

Oscar Goodman (basketball)

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• ... that Oscar Goodman is New Zealand's only global basketball tournament 1st team all-tournament honoree since 2002?

• Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350350825/67-kiwi-teen-named-world-cup-all-star-five

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ernest Prestwich

Moved to mainspace by TonyTheTiger (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 366 past nominations.

TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:23, 5 November 2024 (UTC).

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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Covered for newness, length, sourcing, neutrality, is plagiarism-free, and the hook is cited and interesting. QPQ done. Good to go on this one! Sims2aholic8 (talk) 18:03, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

• What's a "global basketball tournament 1st team all-tournament honoree"? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:22, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
  • Goodman has participated in three FIBA sanctioned tournaments. The first was just a regional competition for countries in Oceania. The second was a tournament for countries in Asia (and/including Oceania). The third was for countries around the world. I use the term global to mean a tournament open to worldwide/global contestants. Such tournaments select honorary teams to recognize the best performers in the tournament. These teams are called all-tournament teams and the players chosen are honorees. Sometimes the tournament will select a best five (the first team) and a next best five (the second team).-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:05, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

This has likely not been promoted because the "global ... honoree" bit is pretty indecipherable. TonyTheTiger, would it be possible for you to compose a new hook? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:56, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

would changing global to worldwide be satisfactory?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:37, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

• ALT1... that Oscar Goodman is New Zealand's only 1st team all-tournament honoree in a worldwide basketball tournament since 2002?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:46, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Haven't checked the article, but the above wording should address the ambiguity given the context provided. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:35, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger: Since the nomination is already two months old (meaning DYKTIMEOUT could apply to this nomination) and there have been concerns about "obscure US sports terminology" on DYK, maybe you can reword ALT1 slightly to make it clear what "all-tournament honoree" means? I can imagine that reviewers, and maybe readers, might have a hard time understanding what "all-tournament" means, so a more generalist wording might be in order here. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:58, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

• ALT2... that Oscar Goodman is New Zealand's only top 5 player (all-tournament team) honoree in a worldwide basketball tournament since 2002?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 13:31, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
  • @Sims2aholic8, AirshipJungleman29, Narutolovehinata5, and Theleekycauldron: is this nomination approved or waiting approval?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 13:36, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

The article itself is approved, just not the hook. ALT2 is not suitable as it includes a phrase in parentheses, which is discouraged per WP:DYK200. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:54, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

• ALT3... that Oscar Goodman is New Zealand's only all-tournament top 5 team honoree in a worldwide basketball tournament since 2002?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:30, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

  User:Narutolovehinata5 Now?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:30, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Frankly, that doesn't really appear to address the interest concerns ("all-tournament"? "top 5 team honoree"?) Maybe another editor can suggest a workshopped wording. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

• ALT4... that as a teenager Oscar Goodman trained for months at a time in Australia, away from his New Zealand home?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:58, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
• @Narutolovehinata5:-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:36, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Normally I'd think it was okay, but given how close Australia and New Zealand are (both geographically and historically), it seems less interesting than it normally would. Maybe AirshipJungleman29 or Sims2aholic8 could chime in? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:14, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

I get your point, but also from Canberra to New Plymouth it's about 1,400 miles (2,250km), so it's not exactly "close". It's not exactly the same as the span of the United States or Europe but it's comparable, and I think living that far away from home as a teenager is fairly impressive. I'm happy to defer here though if there is strong feeling elsewhere that this fact is not interesting enough. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 13:20, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

• ALT5... that as a teenager Oscar Goodman trained for months at a time in Canberra, Australia, away from his New Plymouth, New Zealand home?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:38, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
  • User:Narutolovehinata5, Maybe throwing in the cities will make the distance more understandable per Sims2aholic8's comment.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:38, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
• ALT6 Oscar Goodman graduated high school in December and enrolled in college immediately to join the 2024–25 Michigan Wolverines?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:25, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
• ALT7 In November 2024, Oscar Goodman became one of the youngest men to make an international debut for the New Zealand men's national basketball team?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:55, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

I suppose ALT6 or ALT7 are safer options. I don't think ALT5 really solves the issue: normally ALT4 by itself would have been fine, it's just that Australia and New Zealand are so close culturally and politically that it doesn't seem as surprising. It's like saying an American spent some time in Canada. If it had been instead, for example, Brazil to the US or vice-versa, maybe. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Having grown up in Buffalo, New York, I don't really buy the America-Canada comparison. This is more like a teenager who grew up in Puerto Rico and had to go back and forth to train his skills in Miami at age 15. However, ALT7 makes a similar point to many of the rejected alts (up to ALT3) above.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:59, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

• @AirshipJungleman29, Theleekycauldron, and Sims2aholic8: Since the article is already over two months old and remains unpromoted (meaning WP:DYKTIMEOUT can apply), can we get some clarity on whether or not this is good to go? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:51, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 15

Retelling

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• ... that retelling of classic tales is a common occurrence? Source: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/retelling-stories-across-time-and-cultures
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kim Ju-ae

Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 533 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:38, 18 November 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Overall, the article meets all the criteria for warranting a DYK blurb, and QPQ has been satisfied, but I'm concerned that your proposed hook, in my opinion, doesn't seem that interesting or attention-grabbing. Do you think there's something else interesting you could bring up about retelling aside from how common it is? JJonahJackalope (talk) 21:15, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

• @JJonahJackalope: Sure. How about: --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:31, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
• ... that retelling of stories has led to emergence of, among others, feminist retellings focusing on previously marginalized or inexistent female characters?

Piotrus, that definitely sounds more interesting, though if I could make an edit to the phrasing, maybe something like:

• ... that the feminist retelling of stories can focus on previously nonexistent or marginalized female characters?

Let me know if this sounds good to you. JJonahJackalope (talk) 13:24, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

• @JJonahJackalope: Yep, it does :) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 15:33, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
• Great! I have no further concerns and will go ahead and approve that alt. JJonahJackalope (talk) 15:37, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

• Returned from Q7 per this post at WP:ERRORS as both article and hook need further work. Gatoclass (talk) 22:01, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
  • @Gatoclass: Neither me nor the reviewer were pinged and we just noticed this - please WP:ECHO relevant editors in the future, if you could. This seems like a very minor issue; I've added "nonexistent or marginalized" to the article body (fair point those words should be used there, thanks for noticing I forgot to elaborate there on this issue). Regarding the sentence " properly retold story should convince the reader to see the new version as more correct" I really do not see what's wrong with it, but I'll ping a friendly copyeditor and native speaker Nihil novi and perhaps they, or the reviewer JJonahJackalope, would like to comment on this or rewrite it. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 15:02, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
    • I've done some copyediting of the article which I hope will be helpful. Nihil novi (talk) 03:56, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
      • Thank you. @JJonahJackalope: - can you re-check it again? TIA. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:24, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 17

Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Al Faihani

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• ... that Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's claimed photo circulated online is actually Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Al Faihani?

• Source: https://www.fnoor.com/main/articles.aspx?article_no=25693

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Al Faihani

Created by Faldi00 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Faldi00 (talk) 19:35, 19 November 2024 (UTC).

• ALT1... that the photo circulated online claimed to be of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (d. 1792) is actually Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Al Faihani?

Same refs etc. Bit spicier. Johnbod (talk) 21:10, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

I prefer this one. The sentence structure and lexicons are way better. Faldi00 (talk) 06:24, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Take it from a native speaker; they're not. But whatever. Johnbod (talk) 13:09, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

• The article was nominated two days after creation. It is long enough and appears comprehensive. Google Translate allows for a basic inspection of the sources, and I see nothing of concern. ALT1 is superior indeed, both in sentence structure and hookiness. In fact, the original hook is hardly interesting, but the same fact is framed well in the alternative hook. --Surtsicna (talk) 11:17, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
  • @Faldi00 and Surtsicna: are we sure mujaddid.net and fnoor.com are reliable sources? neither of them looks like it has professional editorial control/fact-checking... theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

It is difficult for me to tell with certainty because of the language/script barrier, but you might be right. Unfortunately these are the sources for the hook and for the identity of the man in the photograph. I did a reverse image search and could not find another source confirming that the man in the photograph is the subject of the article. Yusuf Asar Yathar, Faldi00, can we get a better source? --Surtsicna (talk) 10:50, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 18

Raul Meza Jr.

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• ... that serial killer Raul Meza Jr. began using drugs at age eight?

• Source: https://www.kxan.com/investigations/in-depth-history-of-austins-accused-serial-killer-raul-meza/

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Created by Swinub (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Swinub★ 04:18, 18 November 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article meets all the relevant guidelines, hook is cited to a brand of MSNBC which is considered reliable by consensus. Hook is interesting, nice work! It is a wonderful world (talk) 22:17, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

• I have pulled the hook over WP:DYKBLP concerns. Regardless of the fact that he is primarily known for negative reasons, unduly focusing on a negative aspect about a living person violates the rule (it would be due to have a hook about his murders, but not about something he did as a kid and what he wasn't known for). A new hook will need to be proposed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:58, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that when the serial killer Raul Meza Jr. was asked if he was apologetic, he asked: "What's the use if a person will not accept it?"?--Launchballer 18:57, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Sounds better. @It is a wonderful world: Can you please check ALT1? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 16:44, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

I like that hook a lot, but I think "he stated" would be better than "he asked", to avoid the repetition of "asked". Also, I don't think it needs a double question mark? It is a wonderful world (talk) 17:03, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

ALT1a: ... that when the serial killer Raul Meza Jr. was asked if he was apologetic, he replied: "What's the use if a person will not accept it?".--Launchballer 17:15, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Probably ready for a new check. Courtesy ping to Swinub in case they weren't aware of the above discussion and the new hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:19, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

This one is better. Swinub★ 06:12, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 19

2019 NFC Divisional Playoff game (Seattle–Green Bay)

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• ... that the Seattle Seahawks' loss to the Green Bay Packers in their 2019 Divisional Playoff game was their ninth straight to the Packers at Lambeau Field?

• Source: "Seahawks fans have plenty of bad memories of their favorite team's performances in Green Bay, with the losing streak at Lambeau Field now at nine straight games. The last such win for Seattle was on Nov. 1, 1999."

• Reviewed: Sehome, Bellingham, Washington

Moved to mainspace by Gonzo fan2007 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 51 past nominations.

« Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:36, 21 November 2024 (UTC).

• Question: A few refs say that they were retrieved in 2020. I'm assuming this had a longer draft history than what I'm seeing here, but is there another explanation? ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:13, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Pbritti just reused some references from Packers-Seahawks rivalry. I can change the access dates if you would like. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 17:47, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

I hate to be saying this so late after you've nominated this article, but I have notability concerns. A cursory review of WP:NEVENT suggests that the coverage ranging from only within a month of when the game was played raises concerns regarding whether it merits an article. If there's a localized standard/guideline that permits divisional playoff games to have a presumed notability (I wouldn't be surprised, as I guess that makes sense), then please let me know. Thanks for the clarification. ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:31, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Pbritti, I have added three sources from a few years out. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 23:05, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gonzo fan2007: Long enough, new enough. Earwig checks out and so does the QPQ. I don't find the hook interesting at all - what else have you got?--Launchballer 17:53, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Launchballer ALT1: ... that the Seattle Seahawks' loss to the Green Bay Packers in their 2019 Divisional Playoff game continued a growing rivalry between the two teams, who met in the playoffs four times in 16 years up to that point? SL93 (talk) 03:18, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Sorry Launchballer, don't know how I missed this. I think nine straight losses, especially in the NFL, is an interesting statistic. For generally any sports fan, that many straight losses is unexpected and unique. Do you have any suggestions? I'm not sure i find SL93 that "hooky". « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 04:17, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

I'll be honest, I missed completely that that was what the hook was trying to tell me. I've taken the liberty of adding a clause from ref #21 as I think it adds interest, and would suggest inverting ALT0 as some variant of ALT2: ... that the Green Bay Packers' 2019 National Football Conference victory against the Seattle Seahawks was their ninth at Lambeau Field in 20 years?, though you'll need another reviewer for 'in 20 years'.--Launchballer 00:59, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Launchballer, I am good with ALT2. Thanks! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:08, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Sun Haven (video game)

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• ... that players can marry the leader in Sun Haven?

• Source: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/all-sun-haven-marriage-candidates-romance-guide/#h-lucia

"Lucia is Sun Haven’s enthusiastic and magically gifted leader." and "To romance Sun Haven’s Lucia, opt for fiery and magical gifts."

• • ALT1: ... that players have unlimited energy in Sun Haven, unlike other farm sims? Source: https://www.ign.com/wikis/sun-haven/Tips_and_Tricks_for_Beginners "One of our favorite features in Sun Haven (or lack thereof) is a stamina system. You don't need to worry about passing out from exerting too much energy like you do in other farming games"
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Crimson Diamond
  • Comment: Coincidentally, the QPQ is also a video game. I've been waiting for this game on the Switch (even though I don't own one) and its finally due to release by end of month! It was all because of this video.

Moved to mainspace by JuniperChill (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

JuniperChill (talk) 00:29, 20 November 2024 (UTC).

• Note: this may be suitable to run on 30 November, the day after the game is on the Switch as its scheduled to release on 29 Nov at 0700 PST (1500 UTC) according to this Reddit post, which was posted by one of the developers (see the username). I totally forgot about the special hook occasion and only just realised. If not, the 29th will do. JuniperChill (talk) 22:40, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
  • Also ALT0a: that players can marry Lucia, the leader of Sun Haven?
• Pretty well-written and interesting article. Both the length and citation quality are alright, however I am of the view that the proposed hooks might potentially be in violation of the rule that "If the subject of the hook is a work of fiction or a fictional character, the hook must be focused on a real-world fact." (WP:DYKFICTION). Would be great if you could propose some other alternatives. Cheers, KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 10:56, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
  • @Kingoflettuce: Well, you can't marry the leaders of Stardew Valley, Coral Island and My Time at Portia/Sandrock so I was thinking SH is unique in this way. Plus, marrying is definitely a real-world fact so I only think ALT1 fails DYKFICTION (because you don't have unlimited stamina IRL) and have self-crossed it out, leaving ALT0/0a it is. JuniperChill (talk) 12:13, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

I would disagree with saying that ALT0 definitely meets WP:DYKFICTION because it's about marriage and the concept of marriage is a real-life fact. Plenty of things that happen in real life, such as births, deaths, marriages, going to school, etc. happen in works of fiction. The real issue here based on WP:DYKFICTION is if ALT0 is to be interpreted as a game mechanic or as a plot point: if it's the former, it might meet the guideline, but if it's the latter, it may not. Game mechanics are among those edge cases where it's not clear if DYKFICTION is met or not. At the very least, a reword may be needed. If not, maybe a different angle is needed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 06:10, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

I'll hope for the best for this one then. I think i've learnt that DYK hooks shouldn't talk about the game and talk about the real word associated with it. JuniperChill (talk) 08:36, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

ALT2: "that Sun Haven did not gain a lot of attention until full release in 2023?"

ALT3: "that only a few games combine farming RPG like Sun Haven does?"

Sources: https://www.thegamer.com/best-farming-games-ranked/ "This indie gem has flown under the radar for a surprisingly long time, not gaining much attention until it had its official 1.0 release in early 2023" and https://www.thegamer.com/sun-haven-worth-it/ "Few games blend farming RPG mechanics, casual slice-of-life interactions, and high fantasy styles like Sun Haven does" for ALT2 and 3 respectively

@Kingoflettuce: Pinging for a return to the nomination. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:58, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

I'd hate to be that guy, but I really don't find ALTS 3 and 4 interesting at all. Maybe others might? The article is rather well written and the other DYK criteria aren't an issue. KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 13:44, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Thinking about this, I would have to agree. ALT2 is very vague (it is not uncommon for early access games to not gain traction until much later, let alone full release games), while ALT3 as currently written is also pretty vague and not very hooky. Taking a look at the article, I'm actually not sure if the article is even a good fit for DYK as there doesn't really seem to be any hook material in it, not even in the Reception section. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 16:21, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

• The only remaining options I can see in the article could be either of the following:

ALT4 ... that the 2023 life simulator Sun Haven has been compared to Stardew Valley?

ALT5 ... that a reviewer described the game Sun Haven as similar to Stardew Valley, but more magical and fantastic?

Stardew Valley is a very popular and well-known game (saying as someone who's yet to play it), but I'm not actually sure if the angles would work if readers don't know Stardew Valley. In addition, JuniperChill has a notice on their talk page saying they are on Wikibreak until the end of the month: should the nomination continue in their absence? Pinging Kingoflettuce again for input, or possibly other editors like RoySmith and Launchballer regarding the latter question. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:50, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, im on a christmas holiday rn which is why I made almost no edits this month. As my talk page says, I will be back sometime around 30 Dec. I would think alt5 is the way to go because it adds more info than alt4, but I should put this nom on hold until at least new year. JuniperChill (talk) 06:22, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

WP:DYKTIMEOUT suggests we should keep this alive until Jan 20th. RoySmith (talk) 16:08, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

@Kingoflettuce, Narutolovehinata5, and RoySmith: I'm home now. Does anyone have an optionion on alt4-5? I think we can work with alt4-5 since this game has often been compared with Stardew (well, Fields of Mistria too given the influx of new farm sims from 2023). A little bit unfortunate that I was on a long holiday wikibreak but at least Tiny Glade (nom) was reviewed just days before that started. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JuniperChill (talk • contribs) 12:16, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Redoing pings to @Kingoflettuce, Narutolovehinata5, and RoySmith:, which wouldn't have gone through because original post was not signed. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I must have forgotten that I need to manually sign posts here due to lack of reply feature and especially due to my wikiholidaybreak. I'm quite used to the reply feature as it automatically appends my signature. I only forgotten to sign my comment a few times and it was all by accident. I was about to leave a followup comment cause I would've expected a reply within 24 hours. JuniperChill (talk) 02:19, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

As the proposer of ALT4-5, I'm probably not the best person to ask regarding them. As a gamer I might find them somewhat interesting, but I'm not sure if either hook would appeal to non-gamers. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:40, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 21

SpongeKnob SquareNuts

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• ... that SpongeBob has an existential crisis in a porn parody?

• Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/spongebob-porn-parody-spongeknob-squarenuts-415349/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Anarchism without adjectives

Created by Di (they-them) (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 28 past nominations.

Di (they-them) (talk) 05:34, 21 November 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice hook and it's cited. The article is in good shape as well, and QPQ is provided here. No copyright violation concerns. The article is definitely...interesting! ~ Tails Wx 06:58, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

• currently at AfD. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:21, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 22

Sugya

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• ... that the composition of a sugya, or passage in the Babylonian Talmud, has multiple layers, with the latest edited with an anonymous voice?

• Source: "Separating the Tannaitic, Amoraic, and Stammaitic layers reveals that the rabbis employ increasingly abstract formulations and concepts in their legal science." Stammaitic = anonymous (same source). See: Rubenstein at https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2016/2/9/talmudicstories

• ALT1: ... that a sugya, or passage in the Talmud, may be read as folklore, philosophy, proto-feminist, or legal virtuosity? Source: Folklore -- Stein, Dina (2019). "Linguistic Liaisons: Wives and Vows in the Babylonian Talmud (BT Nedarim 66a-b)". Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues (35). Philosophy: Lévinas, Emmanuel; Aronowicz, Annette; Lévinas, Emmanuel (1990). Nine Talmudic readings. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-253-20876-7. Proto-feminist: Hauptman, Judith (1998). Rereading the rabbis: a woman's voice. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-3400-4. Conceptual "virtuosity: -- Moscovitz, Leib (2003). ""Designation is Significant": An Analysis of the Conceptual Sugya in bSan 47b–48b". AJS Review. 27 (2): 227–252. Let me know if quotes from sources would be helpful.
• ALT2: ... that anonymous editors may create a sugya, or passage in the Talmud, by rewording quotations by earlier rabbis? Source: Moscovitz, Leib. "'The Holy Blessed One Be He... Does Not Permit the Righteous to Stumble': Reflections on the Development of a Remarkable BT Theologoumenon." In Rubenstein, Jeffrey L., ed. Creation and Composition: the Contribution of the Bavli Redactors (Stammaim) to the Aggada. Mohr Sieback, 2005, p126 "Second, the anonymous BT redactors contributed to the Talmud by reformulating amoraic dicta, not just by adding to their statements." Friedman, Shamma (2005). "A Good Story Deserves Retelling – The Unfolding Of The Akiva Legend" in same book: see p.72 "anonymous voice in the sugyot... original and creative rather than simply preserving or transmitting"
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tony Pajaczkowski
• Comment: Open to suggestions with the hook, trying to avoid insider jargon. Also, please help with my faulty template use in the QPQ. Btw, "proto-feminist" isn't quite parallel structure.

Created by ProfGray (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

ProfGray (talk) 04:43, 24 November 2024 (UTC).

• @ProfGray: Long enough, new enough. QPQ done and Earwig picks up nothing. I added a {{cn}} tag that needs addressing. More serious, however, is the fact that I don't find any of the hooks to meet WP:DYKINT and I can't see anything in the article that would make a good hook, though the latter may because this is extremely technical.--Launchballer 15:26, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. How about this? ... that only in the 20th C. were scholars able to prove when a sugya, or passage in the Babylonian Talmud, was invented as if written by earlier authors?

Trying to avoid the plural form, sugyot. "Invented" in the article, could say "composed" in the hook. It's kind of pseudoepigraphic. This finding was crucial to the historical study of Talmud vs the religious. ProfGray (talk) 19:36, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Noel Hilliam

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• ... that shipwreck hunter Noel Hilliam claimed to find a sunken U-Boat off the coast of New Zealand?

• Source: In 2008 The Underwater Heritage Group (of which Noel Hilliam was vice-president) announced that they had discovered a German U-boat off the Kaipara Coast. Hilliam claimed the submarine had been 'observed seven times' and three divers had been to it – however, no photographs exist and it has not since been seen.

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Moved to mainspace by Petersmeter (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Petersmeter (talk) 07:06, 26 November 2024 (UTC).

• I'll give this a review. Schwede66 08:24, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
• Some content issues first. The date and place of birth are unreferenced, and you either need to reference those or remove the info. There is an unreferenced section (same thing; either reference it or remove the info). Misplaced Pages use quotation marks (") rather than apostrophes ('); please change this throughout the article. I've fixed up numerous stylistic issues myself. Now to the DYK criteria. The article was new in mainspace when it was nominated. It's long enough. Apart from the parts listed above, it's suitably referenced. Hilliam was a controversial chap, but I'm happy that it's written in a neutral way. Earwig is clean; all it finds are direct quotes. This appears to be the nominator's second DYK nomination, hence a QPQ is not required. The grammar of the hook is off; it would need to be "claimed to have found". The hook fact itself is referenced. Once the above issues are sorted, this is good to go. Schwede66 09:33, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
• Thanks for your help with this article Schwede66 - I think I have corrected all the quotation marks, added references for the unreferenced section and added a reference for birth place/date. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petersmeter (talk • contribs) 13:41, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

• You will find that Geni.com is not a reliable source; it's listed at Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources/Perennial sources. I suggest you have a look on PapersPast whether you can find a birth notice in one of the local papers. Schwede66 16:55, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

• Thanks - I have trawled through papers past and online am unable to find any other references. So have removed the date and location of birth. Petersmeter (talk)

• Good to go. Schwede66 23:19, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
  • @Petersmeter and Schwede66: I've added a tag for OR to the "Doubt" section: for example, his alleged reliance on anonymous "experts" is not verified by a source, and the examples provided don't seem to be linked in RS. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:10, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

References

1. "U-196 found off New Zealand ?". Uboat.net.
2. "German U-boat found in Northland waters, group claims". RNZ. 7 November 2008.

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Alessandra Rojo de la Vega

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• ...that Alessandra Rojo de la Vega became the mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City after a very contested election, with a gunshot attack, several vote recounts and accusations of gender violence?

• Source: https://elpais.com/mexico/2024-09-18/el-tribunal-electoral-federal-confirma-el-triunfo-de-alessandra-rojo-de-la-vega-en-la-alcaldia-cuauhtemoc.html

Alt 1: ...that in the 2024 electoral campaign for the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City then candidate Alessandra Rojo de la Vega was accused of political gender violence for referring to her opponent by her last name?

Alt 2: ...that in the 2024 electoral campaign for mayor the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City Alessandra Rojo de la Vega defeated the daughter of a previous holder of the same office?

Alt 3: ...that during the 2024 electoral campaign for the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City the parked vehicle of then candidate Alessandra Rojo de la Vega was shot 5 times to "give her a scare"?

Alt 4: ...that after winning the election for the Cuauhtémoc borough in Mexico City and moving into the mayor's office Alessandra Rojo de la Vega found two hidden phones potentially for spying?

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Marzēaḥ

Created by Alan Islas (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

Alan Islas (talk) 15:43, 1 December 2024 (UTC).

• Comment-only, refer to WP:DYKHOOKBLP. (CC) Tbhotch 05:17, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

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QPQ: - Not done
Overall: Notwithstanding Tbhotch's comment, QPQ has yet to be done. KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 11:20, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

• @Alan Islas: You need to review another article, and you also need to consider hooks that are not unduly negative for this living person per Tbhotch's suggestion. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:18, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
  • @Sammi Brie: Thanks everybody for looking into my submission. Apologies for the delay in replying, I was not able to work on this due to external circumstances. Completed review of Template:Did you know nominations/Marzēaḥ.
    About the hook, it is not intended to be negative, as Rojo de la Vega showed resiliency to overcame all the obstacles. In the end her case prevailed in the electoral courts and she was confirmed as the winner of a very contested election. However, I do see how it can be interpreted differently. I have to go to work now, but I'll get back to this tonight, edit the original hook and add alternatives. Alan Islas (talk) 14:53, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
    • Pinging the actual reviewer Kingoflettuce for this update. (I just was pinging to move the nomination along.) Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 14:55, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

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Qvadriga

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• ... that the 2014 chariot racing video game Qvadriga was inspired by the 1979 board game Circus Maximus?

• Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20201112035235/https://www.wargamer.com/articles/qvadriga-developer-interview/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/An American Overture

Created by Hahnchen (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

hahnchen 00:04, 6 December 2024 (UTC).

• This is my first DYK review so let me know if I made a mistake. QPQ has been done. Article long enough (5032 characters), images licensed correctly, Earwig null results, article is well-referenced and presentable. Hook is verified and cited to a reliable primary source. However, I do not think the hook is interesting. Why should regular reader care that a video game is inspired by another board game? Ca 02:25, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Thanks, the reason I chose this hook is because there's a large gap in between the board game and the video game. I thought it was interesting to show the board game's legacy. I can suggest other hooks which refer to chariot racing, like the forty-three hippodromes and circuses, but I felt that less interesting because they are all just presented from a top down view. - hahnchen 15:22, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
    • To me, the fact that this is a racing game based on turn-based tactics seem interesting, since most racing games are real-time. However, I don't know if WP:DYKFICTION applies here. Ca 01:28, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
      • I think that it being a turn-based tactical racing game is interesting, it is certainly rare for a video game. Alt hooks suggested below, but I still prefer the original

        ALT1... that PC gaming website Rock Paper Shotgun named the turn-based tactics game Qvadriga as the best racing game of 2014?

        * Source: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/best-racing-game-2014-qvadriga

        ALT2... that Qvadriga is a turn-based tactics chariot racing video game set in ancient Rome?

        * Source: https://www.eurogamer.net/qvadriga-review or http://www.turnopia.com/qvadriga/ or the game itself

      • hahnchen 20:28, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
• I think the original hook is the most interesting due to the contrast of game years. But the alternative hooks are also good. Maybe more emphasis could be placed on the contrast between mobile game vs board game? Moondragon21 (talk) 15:13, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Tellus (app)

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• ... that even though California-based company Tellus does not possess a banking license, it offers non-FDIC-insured interest-bearing demand deposit accounts to consumers? Source: Barron's 1
  • ALT1: ... that 68% of funds lent by Tellus between April and December 2023 were given to affiliates of one real estate investment firm to invest in Silicon Valley housing? Source: Barron's 2
  • ALT2: ... that California-based startup Tellus pivoted from being a property management app to a consumer-facing financial services company? Source: Barron's 1
  • ALT3: ... that while Tellus packages together cash from multiple consumer depositors to make real estate loans, and is not FDIC-insured, it states that it does not offer mortgage-backed securities to consumers? Source: TechCrunch
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cherry on Top (Bini song) Template:Did you know nominations/Dithapelo Keorapetse
  • Comment: QPQs completed.

Created by Red-tailed hawk (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 24 past nominations.

— Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 06:38, 1 December 2024 (UTC).

• This is not a review but rather than a comment, but ALT0 and ALT3 will probably have to be rejected due to both WP:DYKINT concerns (reliance on specialist terms that may not be easily understood by non-financial savvy readers, especially outside the US) and for also sounding rather promotional. ALT2 might be the only suitable option at this point. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:44, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

  I understand how one could read Alt0 to be promotional (though I disagree and don’t see why non-insured demand deposit accounts are appealing but for their higher rates, which isn’t in the hook). But I’m really not sure how Alt3 could be seen that way—it’s highlighting that they don't purport to offer mortgage-backed securities even though they make what appears (to at least some professors cited in the body) be some sort of securitized loan offering without registration. That being said, I do take your point that people who don’t know much about managing their finances through investment could find these two hooks’ nuances hard to understand.Separately, I had been considering a book about the mysterious non-existent partnerships with banks that are mentioned in the article and were the subject of Senate scrutiny, but I couldn’t figure out a way to write it concisely in hook form without oversimplifying. I’ll take a crack at that over the next couple days with a clear head. — Red-tailed sock _{(Red-tailed hawk's nest)} 16:10, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

• I shall review this. Storye book (talk) 13:38, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Thank you for this carefully-detailed article about financial wheeler-dealing. Contrary to above comments, it would seem to me that any intelligent person can smell he stink emanating from that dodgy company, no matter what country they are in. So well done for alerting us to it, and well done for writing hooks which may guide readers to take a good look at the article. I could tell from the hooks alone that there was something very unsafe about the company's handliing of money, so I would certainly not take the hooks as obscure or uninteresting.

Good to go, with a preference for ALT3, even though it has 199 characters (i.e. close to the max of 200). Please do not prune ALT3, because this kind of financial detail is important and should not be messed about with. Thank you. Storye book (talk) 13:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Red-tailed hawk, am I right to read "and is not FIDC-insured" as only indirectly relevant to the rest of the hook? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:58, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

@AirshipJungleman29: I am going to give a long-winded answer for posterity’s sake, but the short answer is that it is directly relevant.

The way that the fractional-reserve banking systems works (in a very simplified way) is that banks receive deposits from customers and pool those funds to make loans, while keeping only a minimal small fraction of deposits as actual cash on hand. Banks receive interest payments from the loans they have made, and in turn provide customers with interest in their deposit accounts. In the U.S., banks are required to be FDIC insured—this keeps confidence in banks and prevents a bank run.

Tellus, however, is not a licensed bank. As such, it doesn’t answer to the banking regulators. It also doesn’t hold FDIC insurance, as non-bank financial firms aren’t eligible for it.

There is another to pool money from several individuals in order to issue a loan—securitization. In the mortgage industry, it is common for mortgage issuers to sell mortgages to other banks and Qualified institutional buyers, who would collect the interest in the long run. A mortgage-backed security is a financial instrument that is backed by these sorts of mortgages (alone or pooled with others); the security is broken into shares which are then distributed to other parties. Unregistered securities exist, and can even be sold between third-party banks and other QIBs under SEC rule 144A, but the big rule is that you can’t sell them to ordinary people because.

The way that Tellus boost/reserve works (based on their January 2023 Boost ToS) is that deposits are general obligation debts of Tellus to its account holders, and represents only a debt from Tellus to the account holders. Tellus says that the cash accounts are not mortgage-backed securities because they are not; in fact, they’re backed only by Tellus’s future income as a firm—there is no specific asset backing them.

So, you’ve got something here that they say is not a mortgage-backed security. And they also aren’t claiming that it’s a demand deposit backed by a specific asset, while also claiming in advertising that one can withdraw money (for boost accounts) whenever one would like. So one’s left with concluding that that they’re essentially securing private, apparently callable (in advertising but not in the actual customer agreement), interest-bearing debt financing to themselves from a set of people that apparently includes non-accredited investors. And the company is using that money (based on public statements) for commercial lending of its own.

So, yes, the FDIC part matters, since it indicates that the firm is not acting like a bank would. And the MBS part matters, as it indicates that there is no specific asset backing the deposits. It’s its own thing, and it’s a unique and unusual model for a consumer-facing business’s finance arm.

— Red-tailed sock _{(Red-tailed hawk's nest)} 17:19, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

• The hook has been pulled from Prep owing to concerns about the original hook (which is now struck). Per the discussion at WT:DYK, there are two possible options: ALT2, and a hook proposed by RoySmith (labeled as ALT4 here):

• ALT2: ... that California-based startup Tellus pivoted from being a property management app to a consumer-facing financial services company?
• ALT4 ... that while Tellus uses non-FDIC insured consumer deposits to make real-estate loans, it states that it does not offer mortgage-backed securities?

While one editor also said ALT2 is suitable, discussion leaned more towards either of these two, so a new reviewer is needed to make a final decision. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:07, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

No, the discussion did not determine that, nor strike those hooks. Please do not strike my comments against the guidance of WP:TPO and please self-revert, as you have become WP:INVOLVED here. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 22:38, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

I did not strike your comments, only some of the hooks above. Striking hooks is a common practice on DYK regarding hooks that are deemed to no longer be under consideration. For what it's worth, there did seem to be (emphasis on "seem" here, so correct me if I'm wrong) loose consensus that the original hook was problematic, so that's probably out of the question now, though the discussion didn't rule out RoySmith's rewording of it. That's why there's the request for a previously uninvolved reviewer, to make sure the final decision is impartial. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:17, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

For the benefit of any new reviewers, the abovementioned discussion about this nomination is at Misplaced Pages talk:Did you know#Tellus (app). Storye book (talk) 10:21, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

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Recategorization

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• ... that in 2003, Rwanda adopted a constitution that recategorized Rwandans of Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa ethnicities into one identity, banyarwanda?

• Source: Beyond Conflict and Spoilt Identities: How Rwandan Leaders Justify a Single Recategorization Model for Post-Conflict Reconciliation

Authored by Sigrun Marie Moss and published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology in 2014. PDF available at: Quotes: "Since 1994,the Rwandan government has attempted to remove the division of the population into the ‘ethnic’ groups (ubwoko) Hutu, Tutsi and Twa and instead encourage people to think of themselves only in terms of a common national Rwandan identity. This approach can be classified as recategorization of social identities– a process where subordinate identities are replaced with a shared or superordinate identity in order to improve intergroup relations." ...

"This comprehensive recategorization approach is based on a meta-narrative that essentialises Rwandan unity and de-essentialises ethnic identities, in a context where alternative narratives are not permitted. The 2003 constitution forbids genocide ideology, and a 2008 addition further limits identity discussions. These strict genocide ideology laws ban everything seen as divisionism, implying limited freedom of speech on topics of identity, political power and representation."

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Created by Paradox38 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Paradox38 (talk) 19:37, 8 December 2024 (UTC).

• @Paradox38: Welcome to DYK! New enough in mainspace (moved December 2) and long enough. Nominator is QPQ-exempt. The hook fact checks out. This is a promising page but needs action to proceed:
  • All paragraphs beyond the lead section need to end in an inline citation. The paragraph beginning in The challenges facing might be fine since it's basically a summary of the cited paragraphs, but I see three paragraphs that have uncited portions. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 14:19, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
    • I've indicated them with tags. From what I understand the first two seem to be clarifying sentences, so could be removed if needed. The third one has additional content that would be more of a shame to remove. CMD (talk) 17:02, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Influencer

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) Cavinder Twins in action Adrien Nunez as a basketball player

• ... that the 2021 Supreme Court NCAA v. Alston ruling made student athlete influencers (pictured) eligible for compensation?

• Source: https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/31679946/supreme-court-sides-former-players-dispute-ncaa-compensation

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Aquilegia chrysantha
• Comment: 2 QPQs in one.

Moved to mainspace by TonyTheTiger (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 369 past nominations.

TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:38, 9 December 2024 (UTC).

• Interesting article. No problems with copyright and hook mentioned in the article with proper source. Images have no copyright problems and freely licensed. Overall, the article has no problems with citations. Good to go. Toadboy123 (talk) 12:25, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
  • @TonyTheTiger, Toadboy123, AirshipJungleman29, and RoySmith: per the nominator's request, I've pulled this hook while we sort out some content issues. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:10, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
• @Theleekycauldron, Toadboy123, AirshipJungleman29, and RoySmith: The article talk is pointing toward a formal WP:RM, which is a one-week process once it is started. Before it is started, a procedural reversion back to the original location is considered Kosher. Then the RM can commence. This was moved from main space on December 2. I am going to assume that if everything is settled within 2 months of that date it would be considered timely for DYK since it is not uncommon for noms to drag on that long. I expect to be able to report back with a properly formed page location consensus via RM before then.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:59, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
  • P.S. I do believe even a non-RM admin can process the reversion, if anyone wants to speed the process initiation along.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:01, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
    • My attitude on stuff like this is that as long as you get the nomination in on time (which you have), that stops the clock, so I wouldn't worry about that. RoySmith (talk) 13:53, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

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Articles created/expanded on December 6

Prius Missile

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• ... that the Toyota Prius has been witnessed crashed so frequently it was referred as a missile?

• Source: https://www.nextage.jp/model_guide/toyota/315383/

• ALT1: ... that the Toyota Prius has been referred to a missile? Source: https://www.nextage.jp/model_guide/toyota/315383/
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• Comment: I don't have negative intents against the vehicle, but the original may be a bit negative, so I have a more neutral ALT here as well. The name literally says "Prius Missile", so I thought this was a WP:BLUE situation, but I guess something is needed as a bare minimum.

Created by AlphaBetaGamma (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 02:09, 6 December 2024 (UTC).

• Comment: @AlphaBetaGamma: Thanks for such an interesting article. I'm from California but I live in Hawaii. Both states have a lot of Priuses, so I was pretty confused by your hook when I read it, because in those two states, the Prius is not really known for crashes. (The joke around these parts is that it's usually a Nissan, but it's not exactly clear why that is). I read your article, and I see that it is mostly about a phenomenon in Japan involving older drivers, which makes a lot of sense and is quite interesting. I think this is the kind of hook (ALT0) that shocks readers (like myself) and increases traffic to your article, but I also wonder if it is somewhat misleading since the hook itself doesn't mention Japan or older drivers. In any case, it's a great hook, but I wonder if it is legit to shock the reader like this. If it is, it's highly effective and would probably get a lot of traffic. I'm not sure if we can trick readers like this, so I will ping a few people and see what they say: @Launchballer and RoySmith: Thanks. ABG, you are also missing the word "as" in ALT1. Viriditas (talk) 10:23, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

This seems like click bait. I wouldn't run it. RoySmith (talk) 13:59, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

@RoySmith: Thank you, that was one of my concerns. My other question is where is the red line? In other words, some of our most successful hooks approach clickbait, wouldn't you agree? How do you know when you've crossed that line? For me, this hook crosses it, as it doesn't let the reader know that the Prius is only considered accident prone in Japan due to the demographic of older drivers. Perhaps, if it just stopped there, it would be fine, but it doesn't. Reading further, we discover this is just a slang term, and that official data shows that Priuses are no more accident prone than other vehicles, which is what I suspected from the jump. For this reason, I am leaning into crossing out ALT0. Viriditas (talk) 21:15, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Initial review

• Article is new enough and long enough and moved from draft to mainspace. Earwig shows no issues. It's not clear if the nominator is the author of the original article, which was created on ja.wikipedia in mid 2021. If not, I believe you're supposed to attribute when you copy over the material as a translation in your first edit, but you just wrote "start draft". In any case, you've got a fully formed, well written article over at ja, yet you only copied over (or wrote) a minor version of it here. I don't get why you did that. The current version here on en.wikipedia needs copyedits. However, I would encourage you to return to the ja article and import the majority of it back over here, as it makes much more sense and covers the entire topic in a comprehensive manner. As for your hooks, ALT0 is ragebait (see the discussion above), and you got me good! I was genuinely upset as to why the beloved Prius (official car of liberals in the US) was associated with crashes! I clicked so fast and hard that smoke came out of my mouse. It was then that I realized, I had been fooled. More so when I check the original article on ja. Then there's the image of the crashed vehicle. I recall seeing that image before, and I think it's from California. Have you considered using Japan-related images? So, you've got a lot of issues to deal with here, but I can walk you through them. First things first, why not copy over the entire article from ja? It's really well done and would clear up a great many things. Viriditas (talk) 21:51, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Viriditas (talk) 21:51, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Not really, the paragraph

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According to Masaki Kubota , the viral spread of the slang and the creation of the Prius's public image as a crash-prone car is thought to be caused by the extremely large amount of the car in use, the car being popular among older drivers, older drivers usually being overconfident in their driving skills, and the Prius's significance as a well-known car brand.

Covered the entire "原因" paragraph. Not too sure how much I should cover beyond that. I hope the next ALT is more informing, because the lack of information causing "click bait" seems to be the issue here. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 22:12, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

• ALT2: ...that the Toyota Prius driven by older people in Japan has been referred to a missile?

• IMO, "referred to a missile" doesn't really work in English. Also, try rearranging your primary link so that it comes first; that tends to increase views. You may also want to work in the fact that this is a slang term or a meme, as that isn't made clear. As for the main ja article, I'm not clear on the disconnect based on your response. There's a lot of content in that article that didn't find its way here, and it more accurately describes the topic. Viriditas (talk) 22:24, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

• What about "referred to as a missile"? I think that's grammatically correct. Bremps... 19:13, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

• @Bremps: See my original review at the top. I already made that recommendation. Viriditas (talk) 19:51, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

I was quite stuck, so I reached out for help off-wiki, and some of them argued that specifying too much would not make a good hook. I've had issues thinking of a hook, and for the article itself, you told me a lot of information on jawiki didn't find way into the enwiki version I made. I did try to do my best to cover the content, but my lack of knowledge for cars itself basically barred me from inserting clear details to improve the article. I didn't really want to machine-paste the content either because google translate tends to be faulty for some words.

TL;DR - I'm stuck, because I thought I wrote a hook that gets views for once, but got turned down because the hook crossed into the boundaries of "click bait". (Aren't most successful hooks clickbaits or borderline clickbaits?) ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 05:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

It's a great question. I asked ChatGPT, and it gave some good answers. Non-clickbait should be 1) accurate 2) transparent, and this last one is the big one, 3) engage the reader through intrigue instead of deception, fabrication, or distortion. As I said above, without mentioning you are talking specifically about Japan and older people, it's pretty deceptive. Viriditas (talk) 08:10, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

@AlphaBetaGamma: Provided the article is in acceptable shape, I would support a hook that addresses the points in my above comment. In other words, mention Japan and the older demographic. No reason to still be stuck. Add new hooks. Viriditas (talk) 08:35, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

• • ALT3: ...that there is a slang term for Toyota Prius driven by older people in Japan? Source: https://www.nextage.jp/model_guide/toyota/315383/

I don't think this is interesting

Then write a hook that is interesting. You'll also need to fix your lead section, which contradicts what we know about the accident rate. In other words, the slang didn't arise from the increased amount of accidents, but from the perception of it on the internet. It's basically a meme, not a real thing. One of the reasons I asked you to expand the article with the material from the Japanese Misplaced Pages is it would clear up all of these inconsistencies. It isn't exactly clear to me why you are hesitant to do this. Viriditas (talk) 10:43, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Lead rewritten with the same thing as jawiki mentioned. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 02:31, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

I mean, it reads like a huge improvement to me. Any thoughts come to you about new hooks? Viriditas (talk) 08:38, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

• ALT4: ...that the Toyota Prius has been described as a missile in Japan on the internet due to the number of them seen on news reports of car accidents? Source: https://www.nextage.jp/model_guide/toyota/315383/

This hook is way too long, but trimming it would cause the previous issues to appear again ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 01:38, 22 December 2024 (UTC) Nevermind hook is 146 characters and meets policy haha ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 00:08, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

With that said, the previous alt definitely did not fix the previous issues...

• ALT5: ...that in Japan, the Toyota Prius has been described as a missile on the internet as it was falsely blamed for being a crash-prone car? Source: https://www.nextage.jp/model_guide/toyota/315383/

Also, is it possible to add the image currently present in the lead? It seems like it would be good to go for DYK, although the size may make it difficult to see the car, that may be an issue with my eyes and not the image quality itself. I'm not pinging the reviewer for now as everyone wants to do their own thing on this time. Seeing that I violated my wikibreak I'm going to ask for an enforcement block. Happy new year. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 00:19, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

I would be against including the image in question for the reasons I laid out up above, namely that it is inaccurate, since there's no indication the accident was in Japan (I'm pretty sure that's California depicted), and it would further promote an untrue stereotype. I would feel differently with an image from Japan showing an accident, particularly an image of the accident described in the article. Viriditas (talk) 00:57, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm going through the article and making a final read. It occurs to me, that this is part of a much larger phenomenon worldwide. In Japan, accidents caused by unintended acceleration due to pedal misapplication are as high as 18%, often attributed to the Prius because that car is more common there, but here in the United States, we have the same problem, and everyone I know can tell you about the little old lady/man who ran their car into the corner store, as it's extremely common and is happening just about everywhere. The only difference is that the Prius isn't as common here, so it's often a variety of different vehicles at fault. The older lady who did this down the street from me and accidentally drove her car into the market (which I took a photo of and still have in my archives somewhere) did so in an American sports car. Anyway, I just wanted to make a note of this. Viriditas (talk) 21:46, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Final review

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: I believe that all of the outstanding problems have been fixed, although the hooks might still need some work. I think ALT5 comes closest to being acceptable. For those who aren't aware of this whole thing, this is a very real phenomenon. There have been numerous case studies of the age-related phenomenon of car accidents caused by unintended acceleration in Japan. The problem never had anything to do with Prius, but rather the fact that this car was very common and driven by older drivers. This internet slang term emerged out of this phenomenon, and likely led to increased, preventative safety measures added by Toyota in newer versions of the vehicle (as the article makes clear), not because there was something wrong with the Prius (there wasn't), but because older drivers in Japan tended to drive it and would often engage in unintended acceleration. I'm thinking that a hook that makes note of this might be the most neutral of all. In any case, I believe that variations of ALT3 and ALT5 can work, so I'm passing this, but I think a proposed ALT6 that makes note of the new safety features that were introduced to prevent older drivers from engaging in unintended acceleration might be best of all. I will request help in this regard on the DYK talk page as the nominator is on a self-imposed break. Viriditas (talk) 23:15, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

• If none of the hooks are ready to be promoted at this time, then this shouldn't be ticked. Superseding the tick until a completely acceptable hook has been approved. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:12, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
• ALT6: ... that in Japan, the Toyota Prius has been described as a missile on the internet as it was falsely blamed for being a crash-prone car, forcing Toyota to introduce new safety measures? Source: https://www.nextage.jp/model_guide/toyota/315383/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlphaBetaGamma (talk • contribs) 04:21, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

• @AlphaBetaGamma: I think ALT3 and ALT5 are ready to go, but you're going to need to clean it up a bit for grammar and presentation. Unfortunately, unlike some other reviewers, I can't pass my own hooks, so you'll need to do this yourself. You can ask for help on the DYK talk page if you like. Viriditas (talk) 09:24, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

• @Viriditas: Sorry for the late response, what presentation issues still persist in ALT5? ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 10:47, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

• It's the presentation of the hook. You don't need to focus on the make or model separate from the term as it's entirely unnecessary. I will give an example, but I can't approve my own hook so I will ask for a second opinion.

• ... that a Prius Missile is internet slang for traffic accidents involving older drivers in Japan?

Another reviewer is needed. Viriditas (talk) 20:30, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 10

Ethel Lote

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• ... that World War II nurse Ethel Lote taught yoga classes until she was 95?

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• ALT1: ... that World War II nurse Ethel Lote taught yoga classes until she was in her 90s? Source: "And she taught yoga well into her 90s"
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• Comment: First hook is supported by the video in source, but I am unsure if videos can be used as evidence in a DYK nomination so I've added an alt hook just in case.

Created by Spiderpig662 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Spiderpig662 (talk) 21:48, 15 December 2024 (UTC).

This article has potential, but there are solveable problems:

• Article is new and long enough
• The article relies on sources that are mostly interviews, such as the Dreaper BBC source, which is used at least four times. The blurb relies on Lote's son and herself mentioning this fact when interviewed. This falls as WP:PRIMARY, and I can pass this despite of this, but others may not. The Telegraph is behind a registerwall but can be used AGF.
• Article is presentable
• Some sources contradict each other. The 2008 Express and Star reference states she retired at 88 years old. The video cited in the hook states she quit at 95, while the 2020 Express and Star reference states 90s. I'd assume the newer Express and Star is more updated, but maybe this should be in the prose that she retired in 2008, but had continued exercising herself until she was 95? I assume that what was meant?
• Hook is interesting and short enough.
• Image is licensed appropriately; impossible to find a free source of Lote as she is now dead.
• QPQ is waived as creator only has 2 DYKs.

Howard the Duck (talk) 12:04, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

2024 MLS expansion draft

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• ... that San Diego FC, Major League Soccer's newest team selected five new players during the 2024 MLS expansion draft?

• Source: "San Diego FC: 2024 MLS Expansion Draft results". Major League Socccer. December 11, 2024. Retrieved December 12, 2024.

• ALT1: ... that Heine Gikling Bruseth, Hamady Diop, Jasper Löffelsend, Hosei Kijima, and Thiago Andrade were selected in the 2024 MLS expansion draft by San Diego FC? Source: "San Diego FC: 2024 MLS Expansion Draft results". Major League Socccer. December 11, 2024. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
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Created by Demt1298 (talk) and Motdattan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Demt1298 (talk) 00:50, 13 December 2024 (UTC).

• Neither hook is interesting to a broad audience, as outside of football/soccer fans, the hook is unlikely to be perceived as interesting or unusual. Please provide more accessible hooks that can attract or interest even non-MLS fans. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:12, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

@SounderBruce, BeanieFan11, and Gonzo fan2007: Is it okay if any of you propose alternate hooks, if it is possible? Also pinging Demt1298 and Motdattan for their input. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:10, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Both hooks are pretty boring, even to this soccer fan. How about this ALT2: ... that the 2024 MLS expansion draft took place at a shopping center? Source: San Diego Union-Tribune SounderBruce 00:29, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Maybe ALT3 ... that the 2024 MLS expansion draft featured only five selections? – the next would need to be added, but perhaps ALT4 ... that the 2024 MLS expansion draft featured the selections of a Norwegian, a Senegalese, a German, a Japanese, and a Brazilian – and no one else? BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:07, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

I like SounderBruce's suggestion the most. Just waiting for a response from the nominator before proceeding. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:09, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

I mean as a soccer fan, I don't know why the fact it was at a shopping mall would make it interesting, but I also understand my suggestions were boring, so I don't know I should be the one who defines what is interesting to soccer fans. Demt1298 (talk) 19:58, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

• Article is new enough, long enough, and adequately sourced. QPQ not needed for a nominator with less than five nominations. The hook is supported in-text, but the relevant sentences lack a footnote: this will need to be fixed before the nomination is approved. More worryingly, the "Format" section appears to be a very close paraphrase of the source. The paraphrasing will need to be addressed for the nomination to succeed. If you need any assistance, don't hesitate to ask a copyright expert. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:19, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Pinging nominator Demt1298 or our resident MLS expert SounderBruce for help on the close paraphrasing issue. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:11, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Rulesets cannot avoid paraphrasing due to the need to explain the exact rules and not misrepresent the subject. FWIW, Earwig only has 7.5% confidence and most of the hits were specific terms or names of mechanisms that cannot be changed; the one outlier is "end of the season", which could be tweaked. SounderBruce 07:17, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

@Nikkimaria: Given the above, does the article have close paraphrasing to you, or would the wording slide per WP:LIMITED? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:30, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Earwig checks only direct copying, not close paraphrasing. I think what's present goes beyond LIMITED, but there is also the option of quoting directly if necessary. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:04, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 11

Step by Step (Braxe + Falcon song)

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• ... that for their debut single "Step by Step", the French touch music duo Braxe + Falcon created a "downtempo ballad with acoustic drums" in divergence from the traditional French house club-style music?

• Source: https://www.musicradar.com/news/braxe-falcon-interview – "We finished Step By Step first and that was an important song for us because it’s a downtempo ballad with acoustic drums. We didn’t want to come back with your typical French house 125bpm format – we’ve done that already and are not excited by that type of music anymore, so we felt it was crucial to push this kind of track as part of our first collaborative project."

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Improved to Good Article status by BarntToust (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

BarntToust 14:16, 11 December 2024 (UTC).

• I'll take on this one, to pay it forward on how quickly my first DYK nom got reviewed.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Need to source the genre (per WP:EXPLICITGENRE). The personnel section should also be cited, whether if it is to an online listing of the song or the EP's liner notes.
• Neutral: - Wish I could give a check mark with comments, but this template does not allow that. I'd like to see a little more about the song's lyrical content, if you could find information on it? No worries if not.
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems: - When I first ran Earwig on the article, it gave it a copyvio score of 62.9%. While a second run reduced it down to an acceptable 21.3%, I think that the overquoting in the article's reception section should be addressed before it is promoted to DYK. I'd suggest taking a look at WP:CRS for tips on how to consolidate things, but the key is to try and link quotes together by their subject like you did in the article's lead (e.g. "Critics praised the song for its "breezy" instrumention.")

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - I'm not convinced of this hook's interesting-ness. Per WP:DYKINT, a hook needs to be intriguing to a person with "no special knowledge or interest", but this hook requires a reader to be familiar with the conventions of "traditional French house club-style music". The information about the music video seems pretty interesting though, perhaps "...that the music video for "Step by Step" stars a 12-year old professional skateboarder?" or something in that vein?

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article is new enough and was promoted to GA within the past week. However, there are few issues with the article's prose: "French touch" being the song's genre must be sourced, the personnel section lacks a citation, and there's a bit of WP:OVERQUOTE in the article reception section. The given hook is also not particularly interesting in my opinion; I've suggested an alternative idea, but a new hook should be created in any case. In any case, good job on your first GA and your first DYK nomination, as far as I can tell :) Leafy46 (talk) 16:17, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

• The nominator responded to this review on my personal talk page, and has agreed with an alternate hook. How does "ALT1: ...that the music video for "Step by Step" stars a 12-year old professional skateboarder?" (Source) sound? Leafy46 (talk) 17:36, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
• I also see that you proposed "ALT1a: ... that the music video for Braxe + Falcon's debut single "Step by Step", directed by Toru Tokikawa, stars 12-year-old skater Ginwoo Onodera, who is the youngest athlete ever to sign with Nike?" — I'll put this here too just so we can consolidate everything, but I personally think less is more when it comes to DYK hooks in general. Leafy46 (talk) 17:39, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Nominator accepted the alternate hooks on my personal talk page, so I'll approve ALT1 and ALT1a for whichever administrator comes down the line to choose from! Leafy46 (talk) 17:44, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Any mistakes in the GA review are mine, sorry. // Chchcheckit (talk) 12:58, 15 December 2024 (UTC) (the reviewer)2

@Leafy46 and BarntToust: any person who proposes a hook cannot approve it, so another reviewer is needed for ALT1 and ALT1a. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:30, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

• New reviewer needed for ALT1 and ALT1a. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:15, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

• @AirshipJungleman29 and BlueMoonset: Terribly sorry about that, I didn't realize that was a rule. Could ALT1a at least be moved forward then, given that it was written by the nominator themselves? I don't want to hold this nomination back simply because of an error on my part given that it's been in the limbo for quite a bit, and I have otherwise completed a review of the article's prose. Leafy46 (talk) 18:21, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

I personally wouldn't approve ALT1a as it's a rather complex hook with too many details. It mentions too many names and seems to lack focus on what it actually wants to focus on: the 12-year-old skateboarder, or Onodera being the youngest athlete to sign with Nike. If the nominator likes ALT1 itself, then it can be approved. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:07, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: They have approved of ALT1 here. I'm a bit baffled that this was unapproved given that ALT1 was essentially my paraphrasing of what the nominator wrote (which is what I have listed as ALT1a), but I understand that DYK is a bureaucracy that has its own regulations for quality's sake. Leafy46 (talk) 17:40, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5:, can confirm, I give wholehearted approval. You're good to pass if there are no other concerns, which in that case do ping me and I will address them. BarntToust 18:46, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

1,10-Decanediol

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) 3D model of 1,10-Decanediol

• ... that 1,10-Decanediol could function as an inhibitor of soil nitrification?

• Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20220413003658/https://patents.google.com/patent/CN105439782A/en?q=%221,10-Decanediol+synthesis%22&oq=%221,10-Decanediol+synthesis%22

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Created by 金色黎明 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

金色黎明 (talk) 12:20, 11 December 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Hey 金色黎明, so nice see you here on enwiki! First, the DYK hooks should follow the same format as on zhwiki and wrap the eligible article in bold markup. I have made those adjustments for you and added a link to nitrification, so no worries there. Most of the sources are offline academic references, and I will AGF regarding them. Image is freely licensed. The Google Patents source backs the hook fact, although I am not a 100% sure if it is a reliable source. It is also just moderately interesting imo, but since the rest of the article is much more technical, I do not believe a better hook can be formulated, so I will get it a pass. This is your second DYK nomination, so no QPQ is needed. Good to go! —Prince of Erebor（The Book of Mazarbul） 13:09, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

金色黎明, as Prince of Erebor notes, this hook is only moderately interesting; perhaps it could be made more interesting if it goes into more detail about what inhibiting soil nitrification does. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:54, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 12

Mark Hearld

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• ... that a Christmas card featuring "a hand-coloured winter thrush" by artist Mark Hearld was included in a 2021 exhibition of Christmas greetings by modern British artists?

• Source: "How to get my ho-ho-ho mojo back? In their print room, Pallant House in Chichester have mounted an exhibition, Christmas Greetings by Modern British Artists. Here are more than a hundred offerings from Edward Bawden, Ben Nicholson, John Piper and John Craxton. There is a marvellous David Jones engraving of a candlelit mass and Emily Sutton’s cat that got the Christmas pud. Ed Kluz, whose architectural drawings lean towards the gothic (follow him on Instagram), gives us a lovely, lonely city church with a Star of Bethlehem above. Ben Nicholson’s Christmas card of 1939 is a marbled, modernist grid with coolly geometric snowballs, while Gary Hume, once a YBA, moulds a snowman of minimal spheres. Barnett Freedman goes wassailing in his lithographic Christmas card of 1953, Edward Bawden’s linocut lion rampages through the presents and Mark Hearld’s hand-coloured winter thrush rings the round robin changes. There’s a bookmark-shaped Christmas card by Enid Marx wishing recipients not Merry Christmas, but a Happy New Year. Perhaps she was running even later than I am." The Spectator

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jordan Watkins
• Comment: For Christmas Eve/ Christmas Day

Created by Thriley (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 155 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 20:35, 17 December 2024 (UTC).

•  Doing... ミラP@Miraclepine 23:20, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - Not concise enough; see below.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Moved from draftspace five days before nom and sized at 2012 B. Page is reliably sourced and everything is verified. The lede is short, but consider this fix optional. Wasn't sure if the "thrush" was intriguing, but the weirdness and linking of the word helps. However, the hook doesn't feel concise enough and I'm having trouble making a hook that doesn't duplicate "Christmas card" and isn't short, but these two fit the bill enough:

• ALT1: ... that one of the designs shown at an all-Christmas card exhibition was "a hand-coloured winter thrush" by artist Mark Hearld? Source: Same as ALT0
• ALT2: ... that "a hand-coloured winter thrush" by artist Mark Hearld appeared on one of the Christmas cards for a specialised exhibition?Source: Same as ALT0

Oh, and I found another one while checking at Earwig, it's more interesting and this is in case it's not done in time for Christmases Eve or Day.

• ALT3A: ... that Mark Hearld works "with the idea of the artist working as a designer rather than making images to stick in a frame"? Source: He has also been strongly influenced by mid-twentieth century art and design, “with the idea of the artist working as a designer rather than making images to stick in a frame”.
• ALT3B: ... that artist Mark Hearld works "with the idea of the artist working as a designer rather than making images to stick in a frame"?

@Thriley: Thoughts? ミラP@Miraclepine 00:23, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

• Thank you for your review. I’m going to add a bit more to the article. There’s some good potential hooks about his home I’d like to add. Thriley (talk) 06:31, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

• @Thriley: You're welcome. I'll follow this page and recommend adding to the lede. ミラP@Miraclepine 04:16, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Jack Browning

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• ... that in 2022, college football player Jack Browning was named All-Mountain West Conference at three different positions?

• Source: SDSU website ("Also earned first-team all-MW accolades at punter by Pro Football Focus, Phil Steele Magazine and College Football Network, and as a kickoff specialist by College Football Network, and a fourth-team honoree at kicker by Phil Steele Magazine")

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mohamed Aw-Ali Abdi & Template:Did you know nominations/Anthony E. Wills
• Comment: Will complete QPQ within 24 hours.

Moved to mainspace by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 276 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:39, 12 December 2024 (UTC).

• Intresting, factual, QPQ done, earwig doenst flag anything major. Good job Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 21:46, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
• I have temporarily pulled the hook from Prep as the above review is incomplete and did not check all of the DYK criteria, particularly with regards to article newness, length, or referencing. Pulling to give OlifanofmrTennant an opportunity to provide a more complete review. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:59, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 13

Valdez Creek

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• ... that despite being mined since the early 20th century, the mother lode for Valdez Creek has not been found?

• Source 1: Jane Suhey's MsC thesis, https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/handle/11122/14973, pages 11-12
• Source 2: Geologic Report RB04EXE-1, Avalon Development Corp., https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1023109/000113717104001167/georeport.htm, pages iv & 33

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5x expanded by Subarcticsensing (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Subarcticsensing (talk) 19:37, 20 December 2024 (UTC).

• @Subarcticsensing: New enough (expansion started Dec 13), long enough, no QPQ needed. However, this slightly falls short of a 5x expansion: the revision from before your expansion was 927 B, compared to the current revision with 4333 B, which is only about 4.6x expanded. If you are able to expand the article a bit more, I will approve this. Furthermore, I slightly question the sourcing of the hook fact—per WP:SCHOLARSHIP, masters theses are usually not reliable, unless they have been cited a lot. A different source will probably be needed. Hook itself is interesting, and article is otherwise quite well-done. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 21:55, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
  • @Vigilantcosmicpenguin: Thanks for the feedback and quick turnaround. I did some more expansions on what I could do tonight, so it's at 5312 chars for now. I added another source from Avalon Development Corp. in the lead dated in 2004, which is saying that there's strong evidence for more gold that hasn't been found. Could play with the wording on the first iteration. Most sources I've been through have said things along the line of "there is strong evidence for more gold" but none have gone so far to say that it hasn't been found, which I understand as authors hedging their bets on if it actually exists. The citation that Suhey uses is from 1981, so it's a bit dated, and the other citation that they give doesn't seem to be published yet. Subarcticsensing (talk) 03:53, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
    • @Subarcticsensing: Sorry I haven't gotten back to this until now; I must have missed the ping. I can confirm that the article has now been expanded 5x. As for the hook, perhaps I could suggest a phrasing like:
      ALT0b: ...that although Valdez Creek has been mined since the early 20th century, surveys suggest a high chance of undiscovered gold?
      This reflects the statement in the latter source (Avalon Development Corp.).— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 05:10, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Madagascar banana

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• ... that there are only three mature Madagascar banana trees?

• Source: "Only five mature individuals of E. perrieri have been previously identified in the whole of Madagascar, and a recent survey has suggested that now only three of these may be left (Analavelona, Ampefy and Maintirano areas)." https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/madagascan-banana

• ALT1: ... that the Madagascar banana is critically endangered? Source: https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/madagascan-banana
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• Comment: No QPQ required as Laffuble will own this DYK as you can see from talk page. I (Chidgk1) just put it in for them and will deal with any questions they might be unsure about being relatively new to Misplaced Pages

Created by Laffuble (talk).

Chidgk1 (talk) 16:13, 16 December 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Hello Laffuble, welcome to DYK, I hope you have a wonderful time here! I have a few concerns regarding the article which I will outline below, and will ping Chidgk1 since there are outstanding inquiries about the state of this article:
ALT0 is truthfully the most interesting of the two hooks proposed. Plenty of things out there are critically endangered, it is a conservation category onto itself. The severely restricted population serves as a much better hook. However, the hook as it stands right now is not supported by the material within the article and the source, which states there are five mature individuals rather than three. I will strike ALT1 from consideration.
iNaturalist is not a good source for the plant's morphology, nor is Rarepalmseeds, which is a site with commercial interests. A much better source for that information is either a study or the original description, if it can be located. iNaturalist's image gallery being a source falls into WP:OR. Google Scholar is a helpful source for finding research papers regarding Ensete perrieri, if you're stuck finding trustworthy sources.
Earwig detects no copyvio issues, long enough, and new enough. I hope this can be of help to you! Ornithoptera (talk) 07:26, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

@Ornithoptera: We have made some changes - is it ok now?

Chidgk1 My apologies but I see that you have simply replaced the problematic sources for the “Description” section, rather than consulting the source and making the necessary changes to the article using the information presented there. That will not be enough to allow for the article to pass scrutiny. Would you be able to take a look at the source rather than simply replacing the original citations? In addition, the hook has not been updated per my request, since it is not supported by the article text. Ornithoptera (talk) 19:02, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

I've taken a look at the cited article and the description for E. perrieri is as follows: Ensete perrieri (Claverie) comb. nov. ; Musa perrieri P. Claverie in Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris 140 (1905), 1612, nomen, et in Ann. us. Colon. Marseille ser. 2, vol. 7 (1909), p. 74, descr. cum ic. t. 8., this will not serve as a viable source for the passage. I would be most ideal to first consult with the source before using it in the article. I noticed that you and Laffuble had issues with accessing sources, the Misplaced Pages library at WP:LIB, if you have made enough edits, can be a great resource since it has institutional access to several journals that can be of use. Ornithoptera (talk) 19:16, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

@Ornithoptera: Thanks for explaining Misplaced Pages Library. Have added quote for hook - is hook OK now? If there are any remaining problems with the description please could you comment in the talk page section below this as it is easier to reply.Chidgk1 (talk) 08:02, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Chidgk1, I really want to emphasize to you and Laffuble that you should both read the issues I have outlined with the article. Only a few significant edits that I have outlined have been addressed properly, I will break the issues down line by line so that it can be easier to guide you in going about the necessary edits.

1. The text in the original description section has not been changed to match the source. The source was simply replaced, with the passage's text not significantly changed to address the new source. On top of this, Annales du Muśee colonial de Marseille does not explicitly identify this as E. perrieri. Unless the source is beyond a reasonable doubt that it is E. perrieri, it is not the most ideal. I would emphasize that it is most ideal to have the entire section re-written and updated to reflect sources that explicitly include a description of E. perrieri.

Laffuble Are you able to deal with this? If you are at uni maybe the librarian there can advise? I don't think there is any rush now so if you cannot fix it please contact me after Xmas and I will root around in the Misplaced Pages library mentioned above.

1. iNaturalist is not a reliable source. It is a social media site that provides valuable insight, but the information cannot be considered reliable as anyone can upload an observation and provide faulty information.

@Ornithoptera: You are right that most info on iNaturalist is from members of the public so should not be cited, however the few photos which they classify as "research grade" are reliable in my opinion. If you disgree I will be happy to start a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources/Noticeboard so we can get more thoughts on it. Chidgk1 (talk) 06:32, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

I really want to assist this DYK make it through, but I really would like to have all necessary edits be done before I am alerted to allow for it to pass. Ornithoptera (talk) 03:47, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi Laffuble and Chidgk1, has there been any adjustments to the article since we have had our last conversation? I don't believe there has been any activity since the 30th. In terms of the iNaturalist comment, "research grade" is a meaningless designation exclusive to the site, and has little bearing in many circles outside of that. Compare that concept with "reddit gold" or "subtweet." While it is important in some circles, I don't think it would be a meaningful piece of content for the article, and a statistic that can be in flux if the status of the observations is changed or if another is found. Ornithoptera (talk) 06:44, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Ornithoptera:. I am busy now with a GA of mine which is being reviewed. Pretty sure no one else but me will be interested in writing about that coal-fired power plant here in Turkey. Totally guessing but Laffuble might be a student so perhaps busy with studies. Whereas I am surprised no one from the plants project seems to be interested in this - I will ask there one more time. Otherwise I might have time to look at this next week. If none of us have done anything by the end of next week feel free to close it off as out of time. Even if that happens your comments are still useful for the future so I don't think your time has been wasted. Chidgk1 (talk) 07:40, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Decolonization is Not a Metaphor

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• ... that the title of a paper calling for the return of the United States to Indigenous sovereignty has become a slogan for pro-Palestinian protestors?

• Source: Combination of Indigenous sovereignty was never ceded, and the continued presence of settlers is essentially illegitimate. and which explains how "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor". The paper itself as a primary source also supports the first part of the hook.

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Created by Chess (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Chess (talk) (please mention me on reply) 05:29, 13 December 2024 (UTC).

Thus far, I have been unable to verify that the paper "calls for the return of the United States to indigenous sovereignty." Neither of the two sources you cite above appear to support the statement, they just say the paper calls for a stricter interpretation of the meaning of the word "decolonization", which is a very different thing. Gatoclass (talk) 22:28, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gatoclass: That's a very good point. What about "views the United States as fundamentally illegitimate?" Chess (talk) (please mention me on reply) 22:39, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Again, you would need a source for that statement. Gatoclass (talk) 22:47, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gatoclass: This is very verbose, but what about that the title of a paper describing the continued presence of non-indigenous in the United States as being illegitimate has become a slogan for pro-Palestinian protestors? The claim that settler presence in the United States is supported by the source, the only thing I've done is explained "settler" as being "non-Indigenous" because the average person would be more likely to understand that. Chess (talk) (please mention me on reply) 05:46, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Again, a quote from a source confirming the hook statement would be required at minimum. But these suggestions thus far all look a little tortured to me. How about keeping it simple and straightforward, something like:

ALT4: ... that the title of a 2012 academic paper, "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor", has been adopted as a slogan by pro-Palestinian protestors? Gatoclass (talk) 06:20, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gatoclass: Sure, that works. Chess (talk) (please mention me on reply) 06:22, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Having looked a little more closely at the article, I'm not sure your interpretation of the paper is accurate. Certainly, it's a difficult text to come to grips with - at least for me, as it contains a lot of academic jargon that tends to obscure the authors' meaning to a non-professional in the field. But for example, you state: "Tuck argues that ... because the existence of settlers on stolen land is illegitimate must be redressed by decolonization". Did he really say that? Because I would have thought that if he had, the paper would be more notorious than merely influential. On the other hand, if he is only saying that that's what decolonization must mean, he is simply defining a term rather than arguing in favour of it, and there is a world of difference between the two.

However, since most of the article is sourced directly to the paper itself, without clarifying quotes, it's hard to know whether your interpretation is accurate. I'm not even entirely sure if the paper itself doesn't count as a primary source here, which might also be problematic.

So, is there any chance you could provide some actual quotes from the paper, or better still perhaps, reliable secondary sources that have written about it, in order to clarify the point? Because I think it's obviously an important distinction to get right. Cheers, Gatoclass (talk) 06:54, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gatoclass: The article is far from perfect and I welcome suggestions to improve it as I'm less experienced than I should be with writing from scratch.

I looked into this when you raised it the first time. The closest thing in the text I can find right now is We don’t intend to discourage those who have dedicated careers and lives to teaching themselves and others to be critically conscious of racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, xenophobia, and settler colonialism. We are asking them/you to consider how the pursuit of critical consciousness, the pursuit of social justice through a critical enlightenment, can also be settler moves to innocence - diversions, distractions, which relieve the settler of feelings of guilt or responsibility, and conceal the need to give up land or power or privilege. (emphasis mine)

So, the authors explicitly acknowledge a need for settlers to give up land. Likewise, page 10 of the paper criticizes decolonial scholars that enable "settler moves to innocence". I will likely have to make the article more directly explain what Tuck and Yang said, with better inline citations.

Also, Eve Tuck is a woman with she/her pronouns (at least on her website). Chess (talk) (please mention me on reply) 07:51, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gatoclass: This is a bit of a drive-by comment (I haven't looked closely at the wiki article itself), but as someone from this academic discipline who has often seen this article cited/discussed in the field, I'd say it's completely accurate to say that "Tuck argues that ... because the existence of settlers on stolen land is illegitimate must be redressed by decolonization", that the article "views the United States as fundamentally illegitimate", and that "the return of the United States to indigenous sovereignty" is what "decolonization" ought to mean. The impact of the article is more like "let's stop saying we're decolonizing when we're just close-reading a novel" than it is "let's decolonize the US for real immediately!" but I haven't seen any exaggerations or misinterpretation of its argument here. I do think ALT4 is the clearest and best hook, though. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 04:52, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, but we can't base content-related decisions on the testimony of wikipedia editors, we need reliable sources to verify content. So again, either clear quotes from the article that the authors are actually endorsing decolonization of the US, or critiques from reliable secondary sources supporting such an interpretation (although other interpretations would also have to be included if they exist to provide balance). Gatoclass (talk) 07:13, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

I have to agree with Gatoclass on this; plus I have some other concerns. What we have here is a summary of the paper, but not anything that meaningfully demonstrates why this topic is encyclopedic. A one sentence line saying the paper is influential isn't going to cut it. We need details on how it is influential and who is claiming it is influential. Additionally, we need to see different critical responses to this paper through quotes in published reviews, both positive and negative to meet our WP:POV policies. The current text relies too heavily on the paper itself which is inappropriate as the paper is the subject and is therefore a primary document in this case. Additionally, it isn't clear that the summation of the paper is entirely accurate and is not an original analysis of the paper which would run afoul of WP:SYNTH. What we need here is more reliance on critical analysis and reviews of the paper, and text which more closely aligns with the meaning in the sources without being so close as to be considered plagiarism. The use of clarifying quotes from the paper could also assist in this (ie let the paper speak for itself in key places). It's a difficult line to walk. Additionally, the current text of the article lacks any meaningful critical engagement with the text; to the point that I would consider this incomplete (ie fails WP:DYKCOMPLETE).

In short, we need a decrease in reliance on the paper itself as a cited reference and an increase in reliance on secondary sources about the paper with more critical engagement highlighted. A significant amount of work is needed before this can pass a DYK review. Aside from this, I think Alt4 is a good hook that is usable. It is verified to the cited reference and is interesting. I think these issues are solvable. Ping me when the article has been improved and needs a second look.4meter4 (talk) 20:38, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Update. In just doing a cursory look in google scholar, SAGE and JSTOR, there are many articles that cite and summarize Tuck and Yang's paper which could be used to source the summary. There are also multiple publications which respond to the work, both affirming and questioning the limits of its praxis. This type of critical commentary is exactly what is needed in this article. I suggest the nominator rewrite the summary based on these types of secondary sources, and create a critical reaction section. 4meter4 (talk) 04:02, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 15

The Man in the Yellow Tie

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• ... that Brandon Routh found it easier to return for The Flash than he did to return for Legends of Tomorrow despite being a regular on the latter?

• Source: https://www.dccomics.com/blog/2021/11/16/small-victory-brandon-routh-makes-his-dc-return-on-the-flash

• ALT1: ... that the The Flash episode "The Man in the Yellow Tie" concludes a plotline established two years prior on a different show? Source: https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a40319869/the-flash-john-diggle-arrow/
• ALT2: ... that for The Flash episode "The Man in the Yellow Tie" both Tom Cavanagh and Matt Letscher reprise their role as Eobard Thawne? Source: https://comicbook.com/dc/news/the-flash-that-eobard-thawne-twist-in-the-man-in-the-yellow-tie-explained/
• ALT3: ... that the The Flash episode "The Man in the Yellow Tie" guest stars Matt Letscher and Tom Cavanagh as Eobard Thawne and Eobard Thawne respectively? Source: https://comicbook.com/dc/news/the-flash-that-eobard-thawne-twist-in-the-man-in-the-yellow-tie-explained/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jack Browning
• Comment: The first source is from a blog interview with Routh.

Created by OlifanofmrTennant (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 18 past nominations.

Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 03:08, 16 December 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Great hooks! I think ALT1 and ALT2 are most interesting, though I recommend removing "the The Flash episode" from each for concision/more of a surprising effect. I am approving ALT2 as properly cited as-is. The "two years" claim in ALT1 isn't entirely verified by the currently cited source, but (from the article) does verify it, so I'll say that's also approved.

I am requesting another reviewer take a look at this, since this is my first DYK review. By the way, OlifanofmrTennant, you are free to dispense commas more liberally throughout your (article) prose, which I have done for you here :) Toadspike 18:52, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Giving a second review as requested above. Verifying that the nomination was done on time, the article was long enough, and is free of close paraphrasing. The done QPQ, however, is slightly incomplete. OlifanofmrTennant forgot to also check for the article's newness (according to DYK requirements) and length. She also forgot to verify the hook and to check if it was cited inline. Given the issues, I would suggest replacing the provided QPQ with a more complete review of another article. More pressingly for this nomination, however, is the sentence verifying ALT2 (the only hook I'd personally approve) lacks a footnote: the relevant footnote is instead located in the next sentence. The ref has to be duplicated for DYK verification purposes. Otherwise, Toadspike did a pretty good job for a first review and I hope he takes the above second review for tips in their future reviews. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:55, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

I've been holding onto a few other QPQs so here is another: Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas (goose) I have taken your advise and rechecked the nomination and everything checks out Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 05:31, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Please make it clear in the original review, making sure to check all the DYK criteria listed in WP:DYKRI. Regarding Thomas (goose), the provided QPQ did not check for article length, only newness, so that has to be corrected for that QPQ to count as well. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:23, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: amended Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 11:57, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Silicon Island

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• ... that a multidisciplinary team comprising Bjarke Ingels Group, Hijjas Architects and Ramboll won a design contest for the Silicon Island, which is currently under construction?

• Source: "BIG, Hijjas, and Ramboll were selected as winners of Penang State Government’s international competition to design a master plan for Penang South Islands in Malaysia." -

"He said 70 acres (28 hectares) of the planned 2,300-acre island have been reclaimed to date." -

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  • Comment: This is my first DYK nomination. Appreciate your feedback on this. Thanks.

Created by HundenvonPenang (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

hundenvonPG (talk) 02:45, 15 December 2024 (UTC).

Article is long enough and new enough; no sourcing or content issues were found. Hook has good source and meets length and format criterion. QPQ is not required because nominator has less than 5 previous nominations. Image is original work of editor, released to Creative Commons under Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license; rollover tag is good.Orygun (talk) 03:35, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

@Orygun and HundenvonPenang: I personally don't find this hook very interesting; there's nothing very unusual about architects winning a design contest for buildings. Could another hook please be suggested? Thanks, ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:46, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

• @AirshipJungleman29 and HundenvonPenang:: I validated article was new enough, sources were good, and hook met basic DYK criterion, but I am not an expert on this subject so I will let you two figure out what’s interesting.--Orygun (talk) 21:12, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback!

@AirshipJungleman29: I'm not imaginative by any stretch, but sure, I'm giving another try.

1. Did you know that the Silicon Island in Penang was originally proposed to fund the upcoming Mutiara LRT?

2. Did you know that a plan to reclaim three islets in Penang was scaled down to just one—Silicon Island—after an intervention by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim?

hundenvonPG (talk) 05:17, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

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Dubai chocolate

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• ... that Dubai chocolate has become so expensive, it is being smuggled and sold on the black market?

• Source: From border seizures to supermarket shelves: Dubai chocolate fever in Hungary, dailynewshungary.com, Man Caught Smuggling 45 Kg Of Dubai Chocolate Over The Swiss Border, falstaff.com, Dubai chocolate a global frenzy: Germans smuggle and queue up for hours in cold for these luxury Lindt bars indiatimes.com, The socials made me do it: The viral Dubai chocolate bar, ladlesandlinens.com

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Created by Killarnee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Killarnee (talk) 15:44, 21 December 2024 (UTC).

• Comments by Tbhotch

General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems: - See below

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• Other problems: - See below

QPQ: Done.

Overall: A newly created article that is long enough. No QPQ required. No copyvio issues.

• The hook is interesting, but the source in the article says "secondary market", not black market.
• There is a contradiction. The first section starts with "Fix Dessert Chocolatier was founded in Dubai in September 2022". Immediately below it says "Sarah Hamouda, who founded the company Fix Dessert Chocolatiers in the Emirate of Dubai in 2021, claimed to be the inventor of the Dubai chocolate". Ignoring the "Chocolatier(s)" inconsistency throughout the page, this first needs to be fixed.
• I added a few maintenance tags that need to be solved as well. (CC) Tbhotch 02:51, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

@Tbhotch: I've gone ahead and fixed several problems with the article, please have a look now. Thanks, jolielover♥talk 08:33, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

 Reviewing... (CC) Tbhotch 20:18, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

@Jolielover: We're missing the secondary market / black market thing. The cited source trademagazin says "The special candy can be bought for up to 250 thousand forints on the secondary market, according to a report by Pénzcentrum." I'm not an economist but the secondary market doesn't sound similar to the black market. (CC) Tbhotch 22:23, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

@Tbhotch: There is a primary market where stocks are rated and sold by the listed company itself and a secondary market where stocks are rated and sold at the stock exchange by the listed company independent traders like you and me. And there is a black market where illegal goods, goods without paying taxes, etc. are sold. I think the difference is quite clear.

I have no idea why some newspapers use secondary market as a synonym for black market, maybe because of the word "black" like the controversy about the black in blacklist, e.g. . In this case, black market or at least when using secondary market linking that word to the article black market and not the article secondary market, is right. Btw, in German media, black market (Schwarzmarkt) is predominant.

Thanks for your work on that. Killarnee (talk) 03:07, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. My concern would be WP:DYKHOOK since the hook says "it is being smuggled and sold on the black market", which was what hooked me to review this article. When I reviewed the article it did say that it was smuggled and sold on the black market, but the coupled source (mentioned above) was saying "secondary market", which makes it less illegal and attractive for the general audience (i.e. "The hook should be likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing by readers with no special knowledge or interest in the topic"). The other sources linked on top of this page just say this: "The smuggling operation unfolded over two separate incidents at the Nickelsdorf", "customs officials at the German-Swiss border stopped a man who was attempting to smuggle around 45 kilograms of the coveted 'Dubai chocolate' into Germany", "products from other brands with both the original Dubai chocolate and its many variations fetching high prices on the resale market", "Limited-edition bars are commanding exorbitant prices, with some enduring long queues and even resorting to smuggling", and the most relevant statement, "Dubai doesn't ship to the U.S. and there is a black market for these chocolate bars now, at exhorbitant prices" from this source that is not used in the article. Both the hook and the article must be in synchrony to be approved. (CC) Tbhotch 03:34, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

I think the hook is an overbording claim if it remains without an indication as to where this would be- the German Swiss border, maybe....! In fact checking how "expensive" it is, it isnt any more in Germany, and the claim apperas to be sensationalizing and not neutral.Wuerzele (talk) 18:29, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

I was going to make a similar comment to Wuerzele here, the article reads slightly promotional, with sentences like "She aimed to create chocolate bars that combined unique textures and flavors, focusing on the filling to set her company apart from competitors." There are other prose issues, such as not specifying which border is meant both times the word is used and never explaining what kadayif is. This source , which appears to be unreliable per WP:FORBESCON (written by a "Brand Contributor"), also does not verify the statement that bars are 100g, which is contradicted by the paragraph right above it. Taken together, I am not sure if this article is presentable enough for the main page at the moment. Toadspike 20:17, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Why not include the photo in the hook? Surtsicna (talk) 11:16, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

2014–15 College Football Playoff

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• ... that the championship game of the inaugural College Football Playoff was the most-watched cable television broadcast in history? Source: https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2015/01/college-football-playoff-national-championship-espn/
  • ALT1: ... that Alabama, Florida State, Ohio State, and Oregon participated in the inaugural College Football Playoff?
  • ALT2: ... that the first game of the inaugural College Football Playoff was the first edition of the Rose Bowl in which a team scored more than fifty points?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/NCAA Season 7 basketball tournaments, Template:Did you know nominations/Amata of Assisi

Improved to Good Article status by PCN02WPS (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 82 past nominations.

PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 23:41, 16 December 2024 (UTC).

• Should it be specified to be American history? The current wording is vague and doesn't state if it was worldwide or just in the US. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:35, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
  • @Narutolovehinata5: the source wording is a little vague as well: Ohio State’s 42-20 victory over Oregon at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas – averaged 33,395,000 viewers and an 18.2 US household rating, according to Nielsen, delivering both the largest audience and highest rating in cable television history. The Nielsen rating is definitely US-only and I think the same is true for the viewers but it's not explicitly stated one way or the other. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 23:45, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Given that it is an exceptional claim and given with the circumstances it will almost certainly find scrutiny on WT:DYK and/or WP:ERRORS, it may be for the best to propose a new hook using a totally different angle. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:49, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Full review needed now that additional hooks have been proposed; as this is the oldest nom on T:TDYK, I may take this on myself if Lily Phillips is kept.--Launchballer 15:33, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 18

Vĩnh Điện River

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• ... that the Vĩnh Điện River is called Tứ Câu after Tứ Câu bridge, Cổ Mân in Cổ Mân village, and Mân Quang in Mân Quang village?

• Source: https://www.baodanang.vn/channel/5433/201906/song-do-toa-la-song-nao-3226404/

Cũng như nhiều sông khác, sông Vĩnh Điện chảy qua địa phương nào thì mang tên địa phương đó: sông Tứ Câu (đoạn sông từ cầu Tứ Câu xuống hạ lưu); sông Cổ Mân (đoạn qua làng Cổ Mân, phường Hòa Xuân, quận Cẩm Lệ); sông Mân Quang (đoạn qua làng Mân Quang, phường Hòa Quý, quận Ngũ Hành Sơn).

Like many other rivers, the Vĩnh Điện river carries the name of whatever locality it flows through: Tứ Câu river (the stretch of the river downstream of Tứ Câu bridge); Cổ Mân river (the stretch passing Cổ Mân village, Hòa Xuan ward, Cẩm Lệ district); Mân Quang village (the stretch passing Mân Quang village, Hòa Quý ward, Ngũ Hành Sơn district).

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Moved to mainspace by MuDavid (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

MuDavid 栘𩿠 (talk) 03:48, 19 December 2024 (UTC).

• Hello, and welcome to DYK. Unfortunately, the hook as currently written does not meet WP:DYKINT. Specifically, as currently written, the proposed hook is unlikely to catch the attention or appreciation of Main Page readers. If you need any help in proposing another hook, please do not hesitate to reach out. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:46, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

  I don’t see why not. What’s wrong with it? MuDavid 栘𩿠 (talk) 03:03, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Essentially, the hook as currently written is not "hooky". That is, it doesn't give a good reason for readers of the main page to click on the article to find out more. It doesn't catch attention, is a bit hard to understand, and doesn't seem to be very interesting if at all. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:17, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Narutolovehinata5 MuDavid ALT1 ... that the Vĩnh Điện River is a canal that was dug in the 1820s on the order of emperor Minh Mạng of the Nguyễn dynasty?

ALT2 ... that the Vĩnh Điện River was used to transport sugar and cinnamon for international export in the 1840s? SL93 (talk) 00:27, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

ALT2 is a better hook and closer to what we are looking for. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Okay, if you think that’s more interesting. MuDavid 栘𩿠 (talk) 02:00, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Aon v Australian National University

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• ... that in Aon v Australian National University, the High Court of Australia ruled that judges can deny amendments to pleadings if they conflict with case management priorities?

• Source: https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/SydLawRw/2010/24.pdf

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bob Fernandez

Moved to mainspace by MaxnaCarta (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

— MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 02:10, 18 December 2024 (UTC).

• @MaxnaCarta: New enough and long enough. QPQ present. Lyons p558 checks out as the source. (Have you thought about shortened footnotes with how often you cite that source?) I just wish the hook was a little more, uh, hooky. Right now, it's as dry as Mt Stromlo before the bushfires. Can we try something like this? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 07:02, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that Aon v Australian National University overturned a precedent that encouraged litigation-prolonging amendments to pleadings?

@Sammi Brie: Thanks alot for reviewing. Footnotes will be changed if I nom for GA, definitely. Im happy with the proposed alt hook. Thanks! — MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 00:28, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

For someone else to approve the ALT1 hook (same source) since I suggested it. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:51, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 20

Wu Zhong (general)

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• ... that Wu Zhong is recognized as the youngest general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army after the title's first holder was stripped of it following his immigration to the Soviet Union?

• Source: 他是我军历史上最年轻开国将领：32岁晋升少将竟抛 - Sohu

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/That 70s Line

Created by Toadboy123 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 44 past nominations.

Toadboy123 (talk) 00:56, 20 December 2024 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on December 21

Sigma Boy

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• ... that the song "Sigma Boy" is effective as an alarm tone?
  • ALT1: ... that the song "Sigma Boy" has been claimed to be effective as a wake-up alarm tone?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ryusei Nishioka
  • Comment: Not sure if this hook is bad or very bad. But it may work for April 1. (Hopefully I’ll come up with something better.)

Created by Moscow Connection (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 40 past nominations.

Moscow Connection (talk) 23:58, 28 December 2024 (UTC).

• @Moscow Connection: In case you weren't aware, DYK rules changed a few months ago to require QPQs at the time of the nomination, rather than up to a week after. As such, please provided a QPQ promptly, as the nomination may be closed without further warning if one isn't given. Thank you. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:03, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Okay, sorry. Give me 30 minutes. --Moscow Connection (talk) 02:50, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
  • Done. --Moscow Connection (talk) 03:52, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 22

Legend of Aphroditian

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• ... that the Legend of Aphroditian identifies the Greek goddess Hera with the Virgin Mary of Christianity?

• Source: Heyden, Katharina (2022). "The Legend of Aphroditian". In Early New Testament Apocrypha. pp. 115–127.

• ALT1: ... that the Legend of Aphroditian includes a rare physical description of Mary, the Mother of Jesus? Source: Same as above.
• ALT2: ... that the Magi in the Legend of Aphroditian commission a painting of the Virgin Mother and Child with which to replace pagan statues with? Source: Same as above.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Portrait of Toulouse Lautrec, in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, with the Natansons
• Comment: QPQ pending.

For full disclosure, there is a chat on how much DYKFICTION extends at WT:DYK. IMO, it says "Creative work" which clearly means the likes of novel and film plot summaries, and a "broad" reading of fiction as "anything false" is clearly not merited, and there's an obvious connection to the real world anyway (making an icon in-story = encouraging that as a doctrine in real life to emulate by real-life people who made real-life paintings), but I've provided some alternate hooks regardless in case people feel that a hook is borderline.

Created by SnowFire (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 18 past nominations.

SnowFire (talk) 04:42, 30 December 2024 (UTC).

• @SnowFire: Please provide a QPQ as soon as possible (it should have been at the time of the nomination), as the nomination may be closed without further warning if one is not provided soon. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:20, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
  • @Narutolovehinata5: Done. SnowFire (talk) 07:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
• @SnowFire: Hooks are interesting in my opinion, especially the first one, which would be my preference; I wouldn't say that I share the concerns around DYKFICTION here, as I think it would make sense to treat ancient religious texts differently to, for instance, modern works of fiction. The article technically falls just outside of the seven-day newness period, though I think we can let this slip. QPQ is satisfied, and the article itself seems fine – my initial concern was the lack of diversity in sourcing, though a little bit of searching fails to bring up much of anything else, so these two sources would seem to be the only detailed treatments of the subject in English. My main query would be whether the page range of the source cited for the hook could be narrowed down (to one or two pages, if possible?). Otherwise all good to go, I think. – Michael Aurel (talk) 07:23, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Devarani and Jithani temples

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• ... that the Jithani temple may have collapsed under its own weight?

• Source: Bakker, Hans (1994). Observations on the History and Culture of Daksina Kosala (PDF). p. 258. The enormous slabs of stone of the Jithani ruin give the impression that this temple was a not wholly successful experimental construction that finally collapsed under its own load

• ALT1: ... that a Shiva statue within the Devarani temple has its body parts made out of animal figures?

Source: Majumdar, Susmita Basu (2003). "Tracing the Religio-Specific Traits in the Saiva Sculptures of South Kosala". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 64: 277–285. ISSN 2249-1937. A peacock with its plumage unfurled forms the ear and the earnings. The eyes are in the form of open mouth of a frog. A descending lizard forms the nose, the two hind legs of the animal form the eyebrows and the front legs form the nostrils of the image. A pair of fishes forms the moustache and the chin is shaped like a hideous crab. Both the shoulders are in the form of a makara (crocodile). On the chest two male human heads have been placed whereas, a larger human head forms the belly. Four female heads are placed (without moustaches) in semi circular fashion on the thighs (two each) out of which the two facing the front are in najali-baddha posture. The urdhvamedhra is made of the head and neck of a tortoise two bell like testicles are designed as forelimbs of the same animal. Two heads of lion form the knees. The identification of this icon is an over discussed problem. This sculpture being the only of its kind has led art historians to put forward as many identifications as possible but unfortunately its unconventional form rules out the scope of textual corroboration. At present it may be concluded that it is a Saiva sculpture. Multiplicity of the heads of Siva is not new to this region or other parts of northern India

• • ALT2: ... that that a Shiva statue within the Devarani temple has a nose made out of a lizard figure, ears made out of peacock figures, while a crab forms the lower lip and chin?

Source: Majumdar, Susmita Basu (2003). "Tracing the Religio-Specific Traits in the Saiva Sculptures of South Kosala". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 64: 277–285. ISSN 2249-1937. A peacock with its plumage unfurled forms the ear and the earnings. The eyes are in the form of open mouth of a frog. A descending lizard forms the nose, the two hind legs of the animal form the eyebrows and the front legs form the nostrils of the image. A pair of fishes forms the moustache and the chin is shaped like a hideous crab. Both the shoulders are in the form of a makara (crocodile). On the chest two male human heads have been placed whereas, a larger human head forms the belly. Four female heads are placed (without moustaches) in semi circular fashion on the thighs (two each) out of which the two facing the front are in najali-baddha posture. The urdhvamedhra is made of the head and neck of a tortoise two bell like testicles are designed as forelimbs of the same animal. Two heads of lion form the knees. The identification of this icon is an over discussed problem. This sculpture being the only of its kind has led art historians to put forward as many identifications as possible but unfortunately its unconventional form rules out the scope of textual corroboration. At present it may be concluded that it is a Saiva sculpture. Multiplicity of the heads of Siva is not new to this region or other parts of northern India

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Price Tower

Created by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

AmateurHi$torian (talk) 20:58, 23 December 2024 (UTC).

2025 Seattle Sounders FC season

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• ... that the 2025 Seattle Sounders FC season will include a minimum of 42 games, including two international competitions? Source: The Seattle Times
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Oasis (Minecraft clone)

Moved to mainspace by SounderBruce (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 245 past nominations.

SounderBruce 05:11, 22 December 2024 (UTC).

• I don't see how this hook is interesting to a non-specialist audience? It probably appeals to Sounders fans, but I'm not sure if even MLS fans will like it, let alone non-soccer fans. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:41, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
  • I think that fans of soccer, the world's largest sport, are not an insignificant audience. The number of planned games is unusually high for a team outside of Europe and Brazil. SounderBruce 02:40, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

You have a point, but most casual fans will not get the significance of this or the intricacies of schedules. It's reliant on rather specialist information (specialists in this case being dedicated soccer fans), and not all soccer fans are like that. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:57, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

• ALT1: ... that the 2025 Seattle Sounders FC season will include matches against teams from Guatemala, Brazil, Spain, and France? Source: The Seattle Times
  • @Narutolovehinata5: Wonder if this would be better for a broad audience? SounderBruce 21:35, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm honestly not sure but I'm leaning towards it being marginal at best. It probably has wider interest than the original hook, but I imagine that it won't do all that well if this is the wording that gets featured on the main page. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:19, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

What about ALT2: ... that after winning the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League, the Seattle Sounders qualified to play in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in their upcoming season? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:56, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

I think this would work better: ... that the upcoming season for Seattle Sounders FC includes a tournament that they qualified for in 2022? SounderBruce 05:32, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

That sounds a lot better, although I might suggest removing the link to the FIFA Club World Cup given that too many links may divert readers away from the bolded link. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:21, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Why not bold link the whole thing, which would remove a pointless link (to the soccer team itself) while still retaining the link to the tournament, which would help readers understand the hook better:

ALT3: ... that the upcoming season for Seattle Sounders FC includes a tournament that they qualified for in 2022? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:17, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

That works for me. @Narutolovehinata5: Will you finish the review? SounderBruce 02:09, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

• The article was new enough and long enough at the time of the nomination. I couldn't find any close paraphrasing. The QPQ was done and is a complete review. Only ALT3 is approved as being likely to be interesting to non-specialist readers. The only concern is relatively minor: the sentences that support the hook don't have the referencing footnote; instead, they're located in the subsequent sentences. That will need to be addressed for DYK verification purposes. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:23, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
  • @Narutolovehinata5: Done. SounderBruce 04:17, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 24

2024 drone sightings

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• ... that news outlets reported drone sightings in August 2024 over US military bases in Germany, well before the major wave of sightings in the US in December 2024?

• Source: https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/08/29/drone-sightings-near-bases-infrastructure-unnerve-german-officials/

• ALT1: ... that news outlets reported drone sightings in November 2024 over US military bases in the United Kingdom, well before the major wave of sightings in the US in December 2024? Source: https://www.twz.com/air/multiple-drone-incident-just-occurred-over-usaf-fighter-base-in-england
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Boxheim Documents

C/1975 T2 (Suzuki–Saigusa–Mori)

• Comment: major overview article for drone sightings worldwide; just began article today.

Created by Sm8900 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

Sm8900 (talk) 15:00, 24 December 2024 (UTC).

• This article is largely a piece of original research, combining sources that make no mention to other events. Its scope, as relates to the US sightings, is redundant with 2024 Northeastern United States drone sightings. Regarding UK drone sightings, it utilizes the deprecated Daily Mail (WP:DAILYMAIL). Regarding the German sightings, maybe there's something there. However, I'm not seeing enough sustained coverage to clear WP:NOTNEWS right now. Make some corrections, remove the bad sources, and make the scope more precise. ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:27, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Pbritti:, I appreciate your valuable feedback. I have revised the article, and added citations from reliable sources, as you requested. I would welcome any comments on the revised version. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 16:41, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Sm8900: At the minimum, you must also appropriately link and bold the article you are nominating in both proposed hooks. Please do that and I'll look over the article again. ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:53, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Pbritti:, ok, sounds fine.  Done thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 17:01, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Sm8900: Sorry to be a grinch, but there are still outstanding issues. I have, as a courtesy, bolded the link in your hook. The other issues will be listed below:

1. Citations are awkwardly spaced. Since you are an experienced editor (if not necessarily an experienced DYK nominator), I will ask you to fix this substantial formatting issue.
2. The scope of the final section is, with the exception of the California arrest, fully overlapping with the other drone sightings article. That portion ought to be summarized more succinctly.
3. Cutting down on redundant coverage may cause a length issue; consider adding further content on the German sightings and more clearly tying them and the UK sightings to the US events.
4. You oscillate between "US" and "USA" within your hooks. Please pick one for consistency.

Please let me know if you require further guidance. ~ Pbritti (talk) 17:08, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

@Pbritti:, ok, as requested; 1) fixed spacing between refs. let me know if further work is needed. 2) made section on US events more concise. 3) added signficant additonal facts and details to section on Germany. 4) used US consistently. I hope thats helpful. Please free to continue your helpful feedback. --Sm8900 (talk) 17:39, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Sm8900, seems fine to me. is in no way an adequate QPQ review, so I have struck your inclusion of Template:Did you know nominations/Boxheim Documents above. You need to do a complete review of an article (Boxheim Documents, which is all done except for a hook disagreement, is not appropriate), and be sure to address all of the DYK criteria (newness, meets size requirement, hook interestingness and sourcing and length, article sourcing, etc.). See the reviewing instructions and the guidelines for further information. Best of luck! BlueMoonset (talk) 21:24, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

ok, no problem, glad to help. reviewed. C/1975 T2 (Suzuki–Saigusa–Mori). thanks! --Sm8900 (talk) 21:57, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Formally requesting a second opinion due to the uncertainty about this article. ~ Pbritti (talk) 01:25, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 25

Scientific Research Institute of Medicine of the Ministry of Defense in Sergiyev Posad

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• ... that Scientific Research Institute of Medicine of the Ministry of Defense in Sergiyev Posad was home to the Museum of Viruses and Rickettsiae?

• Source: Leitenberg, Milton; Zilinskas, Raymond A.; Kuhn, Jens H. (2012). The Soviet biological weapons program: a history. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04770-9 page 96

• ALT1: ... that the staff of Sergiyev Posad-6 were banned from using Moscow libraries? Source: Leitenberg, Milton; Zilinskas, Raymond A.; Kuhn, Jens H. (2012). The Soviet biological weapons program: a history. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04770-9. page 88
• ALT2: ... that Zagorsk-6 had the capacity to produce viral and rickettsial bioweapon agents on the small scale, but not in industrial quantities? Source: Leitenberg, Milton; Zilinskas, Raymond A.; Kuhn, Jens H. (2012). The Soviet biological weapons program: a history. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04770-9. page 98
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Håkon Balstad

Created by Le Loy (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

©Geni (talk) 04:34, 31 December 2024 (UTC).

Sitaleshwar Temple

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• ... that the Sitaleshwar Temple remained in worship even when it was in ruins with only the pillars of the outer pavilion surviving?

• Source: Fergusson, James. Picturesque illustrations of ancient architecture in hindostan. p. 34. Even in its ruined state, however, it is still used as a place of worship, though not considered of great sanctity, and is dedicated to Siva; but whether originally so or not, appears to me extremely doubtful.

• ALT1: ... that James Fergusson described the pillars of the Sitaleshwar Temple as the "most elegant specimen of columnar architecture in India"? Source: Fergusson, James. Picturesque illustrations of ancient architecture in hindostan. p. 34. Taking the whole together, I think I am correct in stating, that it is the most elegant specimen of columnar architecture in India; it is the most so, at least, that I have seen. Even more elegant, however, than the pillars, must have been the roof they were destined to support
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Du Toit's torrent frog

Created by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

AmateurHi$torian (talk) 12:30, 30 December 2024 (UTC).

Scorsese Baby Daddy

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• ... that SZA named a song after a well-known crime film director, but did not expect him to know about it hours after release?

• Source: Centeno, Tony M. (December 24, 2024). "SZA Freaks Out After Famed Director's Family Co-Signs Song from Lana LP". WHYI-FM. Retrieved December 26, 2024.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Crabs for Christmas

Moved to mainspace by PSA (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 24 past nominations.

Elias 🦗🐜 07:41, 26 December 2024 (UTC).

• Comment I'm gonna suggest an alt, if you don't mind :).

  ALT1 ... that a song about desiring an emotionally unstable boyfriend is named after Martin Scorsese?

Di (they-them) (talk) 11:56, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 26

The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon)

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• ... that The Hangover by Toulouse-Lautrec was influenced by Aristide Bruant, modeled by Suzanne Valadon, and painted in front of Vincent van Gogh?
  • ALT1 ... that The Hangover by Toulouse-Lautrec, which features model Suzanne Valadon and the stylistic influence of Vincent van Gogh, was once displayed by Aristide Bruant in his nightclub?
    • Source: Murray 1991, pp. 163-165; Lassaigne 1953, p. 26.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Daniel Hermann (humanist); Template:Did you know nominations/Bitcoin buried in Newport landfill; Template:Did you know nominations/Christmas: A Biography; Template:Did you know nominations/The Heart Knows its Own Bitterness (Talmud)

Improved to Good Article status by Viriditas (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 34 past nominations.

Viriditas (talk) 10:46, 2 January 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - As far as I can tell, cites don't appear immediately after the relevant sentences for the van Gogh and Bruant elements of the hook, ie. "Toulouse-Lautrec's friendship with singer and nightclub owner Aristide Bruant is thought to have influenced his development of The Hangover." and "Van Gogh was present in Lautrec's studio when he began painting The Hangover, and he continued to show interest in its development."
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - "Modeled by" doesn't feel like quite the right phrasing; it might suggest Suzanne Valadon created a model. Maybe "based on" to keep the verb+preposition pattern, or simply "depicts"?

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Enjoyed reading this, thanks for your work! Good to go after the minor fixes above. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 19:43, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

• The cited material appears farther down in the paragraph, with the material about Bruant and Valadon referring to Perruchot 1960, Murray 1991, and Frey 1994. Although I cited others, I neglected to note that the Van Gogh material comes from Jacques Lassaigne which is based on several things: Van Gogh's letter, which scholars used to triangulate the dates of his stay in Paris before February 1888, and Valadon's own personal account of Van Gogh showing up every Saturday in Lautrec's studio, where he originally saw the painting. It's pretty complex and I should have chosen something a bit simpler. Looking at the hook up above, it may be best if I add a hook that is slightly less convoluted. For what it's worth "modeled by" is common usage on the Model (art) page and in most art books from the 20th century (see Google Books, it is used everywhere). You're an acknowledged DYK expert, and if you had trouble following the sources, others will as well, so I think it's best if I pick a more practical hook to work with. I will do that shortly, but I will add the Lassaigne cite now. Viriditas (talk) 11:00, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

• ALT1 added. Let me know if you need me to change it. Viriditas (talk) 12:21, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Frederick W. Hinitt

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• ... that Frederick W. Hinitt secured funding to build Carnegie libraries at two different colleges? Source: and
  • ALT1: ... that two different colleges experienced fires while Frederick W. Hinitt was their president? Source: and
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tea in New Zealand
  • Comment: If anyone is feeling especially generous, the total expansion is a little short of 5x (2254 B to 9862 B is 4.37x expansion)

5x expanded by PCN02WPS (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 85 past nominations.

PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 16:41, 27 December 2024 (UTC).

Battle of South Harting

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) The Mercurius Aulicus reports on the skirmish in 1643

• ... that according to the Mercurius Aulicus, 400 dragoons were routed by just 6 officers and a boy in 1643 during the English Civil War?

• Source: https://archive.org/details/historyofharting00gordiala - Gordon, Henry Doddridge (1877). The History of Harting. London: W. Davy. Pages 72–84

• ALT1: ... that according to the Mercurius Aulicus, in 1643 during the English Civil War, 400 dragoons were routed by just 6 officers and a boy? Source: https://archive.org/details/historyofharting00gordiala - Gordon, Henry Doddridge (1877). The History of Harting. London: W. Davy. Pages 72–84
• ALT2: ... that according to the Mercurius Aulicus, during the English Civil War, 400 dragoons were routed by just 6 officers and a boy in 1643? Source: https://archive.org/details/historyofharting00gordiala - Gordon, Henry Doddridge (1877). The History of Harting. London: W. Davy. Pages 72–84
• ALT3: ... that according to the Mercurius Aulicus, in 1643, 400 dragoons were routed by just 6 officers and a boy during the English Civil War? Source: https://archive.org/details/historyofharting00gordiala - Gordon, Henry Doddridge (1877). The History of Harting. London: W. Davy. Pages 72–84
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• Comment: Added 4 total hooks as the basic underlying substance of all the hooks is by far the best thing to use for a DYK, but I'm not sure which order the information should be written to be most appealing? Use of the image is up for debate depending on if it is deemed interesting enough to be the image featured on DYK for a day. Also unsure of how to word the image caption.

Created by TheBestEditorInEngland (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

TheBestEditorInEngland (talk) 19:08, 26 December 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - ? I have some concerns, discussed below
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - Since the Mercurius Aulicus is a newspaper, its name should be italicized

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: ~ L 🌸 (talk) 02:16, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

• I appreciate the hook options provided, but I think ALT0 remains the best: it would work with an italicized title. (The article should probably also be revised to add the italics.) I also have two other concerns: 1, "Battle of South Harting" doesn't seem like the right name for the article, since all the sources just call it "a fight". And 2, I have concerns about the sourcing, which boil down to the fact that I don't think 15th-century propaganda is a reliable source.

So, to break that down, there are five sources in the article:

1. Bacon 1878: This work of Victorian local history largely repeats the Mercurius Aulicus account (which it refers to as "a fight at South Harting"). It adds the corroboration that three soldiers were buried, but otherwise just reports that there is "a vague local tradition that there had been some fight" and hedges the Mercurius Aulicus with verbiage like "it appears..." and "it seems...".

2. Gordon 1877: This Victorian history is nearly identical to Bacon 1878, also consisting of just the parish register, a "local tradition that there was once a fight", and a transcription of the Mercurius Aulicus.

3. Thomas-Stanford 1910: Also says there was "a fight", and using the framing of "it seems", quotes the Mercurius Aulicus. It then goes on to say "The number of slain is probably exaggerated," noting that the parish register only records 3 soldiers buried.

4. Barber & Hall 1985: The only halfway modern source here, and as far as I can work out, it does not say a single word about South Harting. I assume it is used to support background information about Norton and Arundel, but the placement of the citation makes this very unclear.

5. Birkenhead & Heylin 1643: This is the acknowledged propaganda piece that started it all.

It does sound like there was a fight at South Harting which then passed into local legend and has attracted notice from later local historians. But I also think our article needs to be as careful as the sources are, in terms of highlighting which information comes from the obviously non-neutral propaganda source, and I don't think the current state of the article makes that clear enough.

Could you give it a try revising the article to have a bit more rhetorical distance from the NPOV primary source? And please ping me when you think it is ready for another look. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 02:16, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

• Thank you for looking over my DYK nomination and the article in general.

I have now added italics to Mercurius Aulicus in both the DYK nomination and the main article.

As for the title of the article being "Battle" of South Harting, the Merciurius Aulicus does not refer to it with anything similar to battle, fight, skirmish, etc, and merely recounts the events and records it as taking place in South Harting (it does refer to a "hurly-burly" having occured though, for what that is worth...). The 2nd source (Gordon 1877) firstly refers to it as "a battle at South Harting" on page 74 and from then on refers to it as a fight. Since neither force was operating under a larger body and since this was not part of a wider battle, calling it a skirmish in hindsight seems incorrect, although the second engagement at South Harting the following month certainly fits this criteria. I have changed the term "skirmish" in the article to "engagement" as I feel this better fits what occurred. I'm unsure as to what else we could title the article itself though as the contemporary source, as is often the case in the English Civil Wars, does not refer to this engagement using any words like fight, storming, battle, skirmish, etc. Many battles and other engagements at the time were referred to as fight however, and could be the origin of "fight in the Culvers" at South Harting. Off the top of my head, the Battle of Worcester was often referred to as the 'Worcester Fight'. Many of the smaller engagements and skirmishes of the English Civil War on the English Misplaced Pages are simply titled "Battle of " as I feel contemporary naming of insignificant battles was not often recorded. Because of this, I feel like many small engagements of the English Civil War which have articles on the English Misplaced Pages are titled "Battle of" for the sake of simplicity and going along with the status quo. If the article was named "Fight of South Harting" or "Skirmish of South Harting" it would be the only article named as such, although it isn't the only small engagement fought during the war to have an article.

Looking at the Misplaced Pages article for Battle, the lede states that "A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force commitment. An engagement with only limited commitment between the forces and without decisive results is sometimes called a skirmish."

The duration of this engagement was relatively short and is defined to the night of 23–24 November 1643, the area is defined as South Harting village, and the force commitment is given by Mercurius Aulicus (if we are to take the figures given at face value). It appears all the forces of each side were engaged in this and the result is given by Mercurius Aulicus as being decisively won by the Royalists. Based on this, and 2nd source firstly referring to it as a battle, I think it may be acceptable to leave the article title as Battle of South Harting, at least for now, but would like to know what you think of this.

As for reliability of the sources used concerning the engagement itself, I completely agree. It is the only source in existence, as far as anyone is aware, that relates to this engagement and is contemporary, besides the parish register entry for the 3 burials which only corroborates that some sort of engagement took place there on that date. Knowing this, I think it should be acceptable to use the Mercurius Aulicus as the primary source for the details of the engagement as long as, as you state, ample rhetorical distance is implemented and the article doesn't portray the M.A. account as being gospel. I have already done this with the lede, but will do this with the rest of the article too.

I will also fix the references so it is much clearer to understand what is being used to support what, and hopefully this will make the article appropriately unbiased so as to feature on DYK. Many thanks for your analysis and I will act on it now.

TheBestEditorInEngland (talk) 10:19, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Crabs for Christmas

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• ... that "Crabs for Christmas", a song about a man asking Santa Claus for crab as a Christmas gift, became a Maryland holiday tradition?

• Source: Worthington, Aliza (December 12, 2023). "The enduring Baltimore charm of David DeBoy's 'Crabs for Christmas,' more than 40 years after initial release". Baltimore Fishbowl. Retrieved December 25, 2024.

• ALT1: ... that a radio station refused to air "Crabs for Christmas" due to its use of the Baltimore accent? Source: DeNike, Lisa (December 14, 1981). "His Christmas record won't make him crabby". The Evening Sun. p. B7. Retrieved December 25, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
• ALT2: ... that the writer of "Crabs for Christmas" joked that it contributed to Baltimore's population decline? Source: "Our very own Bawlmer, hon, has been immortalized on CD". The Baltimore Sun. November 25, 2001. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mahra Al Maktoum

Created by Queen of Hearts (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

charlotte 06:12, 26 December 2024 (UTC).

• Hi. Made a copyedit here before my review; feel free to revert some of the changes if you don't agree with them

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: AGF on all the offline sources. Baltimore Sun review has no citation though so you would want to fix that. ALT2 is interesting, but a bit misleading -- it does not convey the jocular nature of the writer's comments. The rest are also fine, although I recommend rewriting them as well to bring out more of their hookiness. Elias 🦗🐜 07:22, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

@PSA: thank you for the copyedits. I'm unsure what you mean by the review being unsourced; the quotation is in the cited source ("His Christmas record won't make him crabby"), although it is a stretch to call it positive, so I removed that from the lead. I've replaced "said" with "joked" in ALT2 and would welcome any copyedit on the hooks. charlotte 04:17, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Hm, first off my bad for the "unsourced" comment. Second, my issue with ALT0 right now is that it is a bit too wordy. Perhaps you can trim the hook so that it just focuses on "a song about crabs as a Christmas gift". That's all I have for now Elias 🦗🐜 05:53, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 27

2024 Estlink 2 incident

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• ... that during investigation for breaking a power cable, pumping out feces and bilgewater from the Eagle S took a day?

• Source: https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/e58cc4ca-ea73-4173-86aa-1b7d50f7055a

Kyseiset huoltotoimet kestävät arviolta kaksi päivää.

– Tyhjennykset tapahtuvat tämän päivän aikana, ja huomenna viedään vesi.

• • ALT1: ... that the nomination wizard doesn't have an option to delete alt hooks? Source: a
  • Reviewed: no previous DYK's

5x expanded by NotAGenious (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

NotAGenious (talk) 17:55, 2 January 2025 (UTC).

• Hi @NotAGenious: nice work on your first DYK. This article, over 5x expanded from 775 to 11062 characters, is new enough, long enough, well-sourced, and copyvio-free. QPQ not needed. The hook is interesting and sourced to the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti (which checks out, per Google Translate), however per WP:DYKHOOK the claim in the hook also has to be in the article. Can you add this fact somewhere in the article?

The hook also flows flows a little awkwardly. Might I suggest

• ALT1: ... that during investigation for breaking a power cable, it took a day to pump out all the feces and bilgewater from the Eagle S?

Best, Tenpop421 (talk) 01:42, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

I don't know how long this procedure typically takes, but I feel sorry for the guy who has to inspect all that bilge and sewage. kencf0618 (talk) 16:00, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

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Special Operations Brigade (PLA Navy Marine Corps)

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• ... that on May 5, 2017, the 7th Marine Brigade (pictured) captured three Somali pirates and handed them in to the Somali authorities?

• Source: https://v.cctv.com/2018/03/22/VIDEQJ2yQiV34653c5RL9wDN180322.shtml

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• Comment: The draft was made by me, User:Buckshot06 published it for me

Additionally 7th Marine Brigade is an alternate name for the Special Operations Brigade (PLA Navy Marine Corps), also known as the Jiaolong commandos as of nominating it for Dyk, the article was published exactly 7 days ago so if i have to may I request the 7 day limit be extended

Created by Thehistorianisaac (talk) and Buckshot06 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Thehistorianisaac (talk) 13:01, 4 January 2025 (UTC).

• Note: I have replaced the word "police" in Thehistorianissac's potential hook with the word "authorities." There is no single Somali Police - most are a bunch of clan militia; most are a total mishmash of various feuding armed groups. The information available is not sufficient to even guarantee that the persons concerned were handed over to the Somali Federal Police, the bunch that exploits and rapaciously profits from the security needs of the inhabitants of Mogadishu. Buckshot06 (talk) 21:05, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Helvis of Ramla

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• ... that Helvis of Ramla was the progenitor of the powerful crusader Ibelin family?

• Source: Hans E. Mayer, "Carving up Crusaders: The Early Ibelins and Ramlas", in Outremer: Studies in the History of the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem Presented to Joshua Prawer, ed. Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hans E. Mayer, and R.C. Smail (Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute, 1982), p. 111.

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Created by Adam Bishop (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Adam Bishop (talk) 23:40, 2 January 2025 (UTC).

• For a long time I have been considering creating this article. Helvis is mentioned rather frequently by the leading historians of the crusades, especially by Mayer. The reason I did not create the article, however, is that I could not find evidence of in-depth coverage. All I could gather was genealogical information, and this is all I see in the article now: a list of her family (parents, brothers, husbands, sons) in which she is covered as a link between various men. Is anything known about Helvis's actions? Surtsicna (talk) 13:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
  • I was thinking about creating it for a long time as well, and I had the same problem. I wasn't sure I should list it here, since you're right, there's not much about her aside from genealogy. The most that seems to have been written about her is by Hans Mayer, about the possible dates of her birth and marriages. I will see if I can squeeze any more information about the sources I have at hand. Adam Bishop (talk) 23:13, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Thasmin

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• ... that a popular ship between two characters in the television series Doctor Who, dubbed Thasmin, was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker?

• Source: https://bleedingcool.com/tv/doctor-who-how-shippers-saved-the-show-with-thasmin-love-story/

"The love story between The Doctor and Yaz was originally created by shippers as a slashfic meme. Jodie Whittaker saw them and suggested to Chibnall that it be made canon in the show, made text instead of subtext, and ended up giving it life in the show's final season."

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  • Comment: Wasn't sure whether to class this as newly created or recent GA promo due to its circumstances, so just left it on the default template.

Created by Pokelego999 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 22:04, 1 January 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - will address below

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Splendid work Pokelego999, looking forward to your future contributions to DYK! New enough, by both GA promotion date and creation date. Congratulations on attaining GA status with such quick turnover! Earwig detects low similarity with sources used within the article. QPQ not needed as the nominator has below 5 nominations. There are two things I would like to address before approving the hook. I wanted to discuss with you whether the term "ship" should be used in the hook rather than a less jargonistic term. The GA reviewer noted the same, and I'm wondering if "pairing" or another term would be more accessible for a general audience. In addition, I am curious if there are additional sources for the hook aside from Bleeding Cool that could serve to back it up. It is not as much of an issue, but I am curious if other agencies had covered the same interaction between Whittaker and Chibnall. Ornithoptera (talk) 00:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

• @Ornithoptera: Perhaps "romantic pairing" with a link to the shipping article would suffice for simplicity's sake? Additionally, I do believe other sources mention this, as I have seen it get brought up in brief across other sources, but Bleeding Cool mentioned it the most directly for the purposes of the article, and is what the statement for this DYK is cited to in the article, so I do not believe there should be an issue there, since Bleeding Cool is a reliable source per WP:VG/RS. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 00:10, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

• Thank you for the quick response Pokelego999! Romantic pairing sounds like a good idea to me, could you propose the alt hook in your reply? I will approve of that shortly. Also, thank you for the clarification. Seems like apart from that, everything should be good on my end! Wonderful work, and looking forward to your future work! Ornithoptera (talk) 00:17, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

• @Ornithoptera: could you clarify by alt hook? Do you mean a second hook, or an alteration to the original hook? Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 00:45, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

• My bad, I should have specified! You are welcome to do either, but in my experience, a second hook is proposed with the proposed rewording and then approved from there. Ornithoptera (talk) 01:01, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

• @Ornithoptera: How is that done? I'm admittedly unfamiliar with the process here. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 01:04, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

• Hi, thank you for asking Pokelego999, typically it would go something like "ALT0a: ...that ". Here's an example from my DYK nomination of Salmon n' Bannock if you want to see it in practice, and another one just in case! Ornithoptera (talk) 01:18, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

• ALT0a: ... that a popular ship between two characters in the television series Doctor Who, dubbed Thasmin, was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker?

Like this? Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 01:24, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Yup, but with the changes that we had discussed! You can alter the hook for ALT0a with what we've discussed and I'll give it the needed approval! Ornithoptera (talk) 04:26, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Oh, woops, brain farted and forgot to actually include the new content in there. Here:

ALT0a: ... that a popular romantic pairing between two characters in the television series Doctor Who, dubbed Thasmin, was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker? Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 03:08, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

The above hook is pretty long at 190 characters and thus would probably fall under WP:DYKTRIM. Perhaps something like: ALT0b: ... that a popular romantic pairing from Doctor Who was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker? Sometimes, it's not actually necessary to mention the article subject by name in a hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:13, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Seems like a reasonable adjustment, Pokelego999, how does it look for you? If you're okay with the wording, I'll let ALT0b proceed! Ornithoptera (talk) 06:37, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Should be good. Thank you to both! Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 12:45, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 29

Bonnie Blue (actress)

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• ... that the pornographic actress Bonnie Blue (pictured) attributes her success with married men to their wives?
  • ALT1: ... that for three weeks in 2024, Bonnie Blue (pictured) allowed men to have sex with her for free on one condition?
  • ALT2: ... that the OnlyFans creator Bonnie Blue (pictured) began producing content with 18-year-olds as she felt that the platform's existing content was not authentic or educational enough?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/German atrocities committed against prisoners of war during World War II
  • Comment: There are some great hooks in this. There's a bit in the video I got the image from where she said her shortest scene lasted nine seconds and it's a crying shame it isn't due.

Created by Launchballer (talk) and Meena (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 265 past nominations.

Launchballer 04:52, 4 January 2025 (UTC).

• Comment I think the facts about her being banned from Australia and Fiji are really interesting/crazy so I want to suggest some alts if you don't mind:

  ALT3: ... that Bonnie Blue (pictured) was banned from multiple countries because of her porn career?

  ALT4: ... that Bonnie Blue (pictured) was banned from multiple countries because she had too much sex?

Di (they-them) (talk) 14:28, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

"Multiple countries" would need an end-of-sentence citation for Australia. That said, "that Matty Healy is banned from Dubai" was the most-viewed non-image hook of May 2023, so perhaps a bald ALT5: ... that Bonnie Blue (pictured) is banned from Fiji?--Launchballer 15:02, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

I reworded the sentence in question, so either ALT3 or ALT4 could be trimmed at 'countries'.--Launchballer 04:04, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Literarishe Bleter

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• ... that the discontinuation of a Warsaw-based Yiddish literary journal in the summer of 1939 was unrelated to the invasion of Poland?

• Source: Novershtern, Avraham. "Literarisze Bleter⁩". National Library of Israel https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/ltb?

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pixel Piracy
• Comment: open to alternate hook ideas!

Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 99 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 19:10, 3 January 2025 (UTC).

• New enough (created on 27 December), long enough, copyvio free, neutral, well-sourced, presentable, hook is cited, hook is short enough and interesting, and image copyright is good. QPQ done. No other major issues. Good work! seefooddiet (talk) 12:37, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South

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• ... that a 1996 book was written about an African-American high school that was later added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018?

• Source: https://www.dncr.nc.gov/news/press-releases/2018/04/10/national-register-adds-six-north-carolina-historic-places

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Science Fiction Chronicle

Created by SL93 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 420 past nominations.

SL93 (talk) 01:22, 29 December 2024 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on December 30

San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball

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• ... that several teams forfeited matches against the San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball team in 2024?
  • ALT1: ... that although San Jose State University has San Jose State Spartans women's volleyball team, men's volleyball is a non-varsity sport at the university?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tel al-Sultan attack
  • Comment: Driveby nom. There have got to be more hooks than this (and indeed there was a claim that would have made a good hook that I removed as it failed WP:RSP), but I'm glazing over.

Created by Yngvadottir (talk) and BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 263 past nominations.

Launchballer 17:03, 1 January 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: ALT1 reads a bit clunkily, I suggest revising to something along the lines of:

ALT1a: ... that while San Jose State University has a varsity women's volleyball team, men's volleyball is a non-varsity sport at the university?

SammySpartan (talk) 20:05, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

We could go even tighter than that. ALT1b: ... that San Jose State University has a varsity women's volleyball team but not a men's?--Launchballer 20:10, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

20–50 club

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• ... that Rickey Henderson was the first American League player to join the 20–50 club?

• Source: "Became the first AL player to hit 20 home runs and swipe 50 bases ..." (ESPN)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/KZJO

Created by Bagumba (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 112 past nominations.

—Bagumba (talk) 01:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC).

• Maybe additional context and/or a rewording is needed for the benefit of non-North America/East Asia readers, as well as for non-baseball fans? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:34, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

  @Narutolovehinata5:: Is there formal guidance on this, as hooks always seem across the board w.r.t. providing context. Randomly looking at the current set, "... that Shō Sen'i was overthrown in favor of his thirteen-year-old nephew?" doesn't say who this person is, where it happened, or when. I always took this as a DYK standard to give creative liberty on how much/little context might draw interest to the hook. Still, "baseball" can be fit in somewhere, if needed. But is there benefit beyond "OK, I still don't understand this, but it's a sport I don't care about"?—Bagumba (talk) 03:57, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Recently, there has been some pushback against hooks that rely on "obscure US sport terminology" (to quote AirshipJungleman29), and the hook as currently written may be too reliant on American readership in this case. I understand baseball is a fairly popular sport in parts of the world, which is why the hook angle itself isn't unsalvageable. It's just that it might need some slight rewording for the benefit of audiences. It could be as simple as adding "baseball player" before Henderson's name, or perhaps something else. Anything to encourage readers to click on the bolded link, while also not being too technical to turn away readers. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:20, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: In this case, "20–50" is not basic baseball terminology either, so the goal is to get curious readers—even American baseball readers—to click because they did not already know what it was. Here's an ALT w/ baseball:

ALT1 ... that Rickey Henderson was the first American League baseball player to join the 20–50 club?—Bagumba (talk) 10:02, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Chauburji (Agra)

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• ... that the Chauburji (pictured) might have been the original place of burial of the Mughal emperor Babur?

• Source: Nath, Ram. "Babur's Innovations". History Of Mughal Architecture. Vol. 1. pp. 115–119.

• ALT1: ... that the Chauburji (pictured) was converted into a residence by a British official, who destroyed the western wall of its nearby mosque to convert it into a gateway? Source: Raza, Mohammad Abdullah (2020). "Chauburji Monument at Agra: Its Plan and Inspirations". In Sinha, A. K.; Rizvi, S. N. R. (eds.). History: Past and Beyond. New Delhi: Anamika Publishers and Distributors. p. 143.
• ALT2: ... that the Chauburji (pictured) built during the Mughal period, was converted into a residence by a British official? Source: Raza, Mohammad Abdullah (2020). "Chauburji Monument at Agra: Its Plan and Inspirations". In Sinha, A. K.; Rizvi, S. N. R. (eds.). History: Past and Beyond. New Delhi: Anamika Publishers and Distributors. p. 143.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Zoe Smith

Created by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

AmateurHi$torian (talk) 08:31, 30 December 2024 (UTC).

So Medieval

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• ... that So Medieval's lyrics are "like an audiobook during a car crash"?

• Source: "Like an audiobook during a car crash, lyrics are simultaneously elaborate and obscure."

• ALT1: ... that Pitchfork praised So Medieval's "absurd" lyrics about shitposting sagas and raw halloumi? Source: "In a parallel universe—one where indie rock reigns supreme and continually seeks out poets of deadpan absurdism—critics are already celebrating So Medieval like a promising novelist’s debut splash. The blurb touts “a tale of musical ambition and romantic anguish, told through continental capers involving raw halloumi, a Formula One audiobook, and the ‘shitpost sagas’ of once-in-a-generation voice Arthur Nolan.”"
• ALT2: ... that So Medieval uses its "absurd" lyrics to talk about existential dread? Source: "absurd" comes from the same source as ALT1, plus "The same can be said for Nolan’s lyrics, which are arch and ironic in tone, but which also tackle the existential dread of our daily lives."
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Colonia La Cuarta Transformación
• Comment: Hopefully the rewording of "deadpan absurdism" to just "absurd" is fine.

Created by Suntooooth (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 08:21, 30 December 2024 (UTC).

• Approve for orig hook. Nice work! New enough (made 30 Dec), no copyvio, article is presentable and well-sourced, hooks are all fine and well-sourced, and QPQ mostly done (needs to be closed). seefooddiet (talk) 12:44, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Blue Bendy

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• ... that despite being a post-punk band, the vocalist of Blue Bendy called the genre "lethargic and landfill"?

• Source: Post-punk band: "At a time when being described as ‘post-punk’ can mean that you fail to stand out on your own terms, this six-piece recall the original intentions of the genre". Quote: "Blue Bendy singer Arthur Nolan is discussing the band’s early days. “Before post-punk got so lethargic and landfill we were trying to be like Wire,” he says."

• ALT1: ... that "genre is dead", according to the vocalist of Blue Bendy? Source: "Of So Medieval, their debut LP released by State 51, Nolan clarifies: “Genre is dead as far as we’re concerned. This album is all about the death of purity, embracing contrasts and everything being a big melting pot”."
• ALT2: ... that Blue Bendy have been inspired by the Grateful Dead, Suzanne Vega, and Gogglebox? Source: "Arthur Nolans tells me the music is a mix of the Grateful Dead, ... Suzanne Vega, ... synth player Olivia mentions the important influence of reruns of Gogglebox."
• ALT3: ... that Blue Bendy have been compared to both pavement and Pavement? Source: "To me they sound like the following: ... Pavement the band. Pavement the surface"
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Doctor Who specials (2022)
• Comment: Plenty of really good options for hooks - I like all of them, although ALT3 would probably get the most clicks.

Created by Suntooooth (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 08:00, 30 December 2024 (UTC).

• I indeed prefer ALT3; is the most punchy. The orig hook is a little wordy imo; difficult to understand on a quick read because of sentence structure. It could be somewhat interesting, but I'd be more inclined to click ALT3. Otherwise, Article is new enough (created 30 Dec), well-sourced, neutral, presentable, image under valid license, and hook is cited. Nice work! seefooddiet (talk) 12:53, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 31

List of things named after Julius Caesar

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• ... that the month of July is named after the Roman dictator Julius Caesar (pictured)?

• Source: Britannica, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World by Mary Beard (ISBN:9781631494109), page no - 38

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5x expanded by TheAstorPastor (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

The AP (talk) 13:32, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

• Comment not review the hook needs a bold link to the article, possibly named after. TSventon (talk) 15:03, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done The AP (talk) 15:51, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

• Another comment not review: The comma between "dictator" and "Julius Caesar" is incorrect. Since removing the comma would cause MOS:SEAOFBLUE issues, I suggest also removing the link on "dictator". Toadspike 19:54, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

 Done The AP (talk) 03:07, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Jindřich Marco

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• ... that most of Jindřich Marco's early photography of Budapest was lost when a train carrying his exposed film was ambushed by Red Army deserters, who threw it out of the window?

• Source: Vladimír Birgus . Jindřich Marco. Fototorst. Prague: Torst, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7215-423-4. Pages 11–12.

• ALT1: ... that an irreverent photograph of Czechoslovak President Klement Gottwald brought a ten-year sentence for the photojournalist Jindřich Marco, who had to serve seven years in uranium mines? Source: Josef Moucha . "The message of a forgotten photographer". Fotograf . + Vladimír Birgus . Jindřich Marco. Fototorst. Prague: Torst, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7215-423-4. Page 27. + Vladimír Birgus  and Jan Mlčoch . Czech photography of the 20th century. Prague: Kant, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7437-027-4. Page 128. + Jiří Zahradnický. "Včera byla válka" (Yesterday was war). Paladix foto-on-line, 12 May 2005. + "Jindřich Marco." AbArt: Archiv výtvarného umění / Archive of Fine Arts.
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• Comment: Birgus's text in the Fototorst book is similar to that in the earlier Hořká leta · Evropa = Bitter years · Europe = Bittere Jahre · Europa, here at the Internet Archive.

Moved to mainspace by Hoary (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Hoary (talk) 01:53, 5 January 2025 (UTC).

• Comment by nominator: As most of the material in Birgus's introduction to Hořká leta · Evropa (1995) reappears in his introduction to Jindřich Marco (2014), I've guessed that the latter benefits from almost two decades of reflection, etc, and therefore in the article have cited it rather than the former. (The older introduction does have detail that the newer one lacks, so I may yet change my mind.) The newer book isn't at the Internet Archive, but you'll be able to verify the original "hook" via page 21 of Hořká leta · Evropa. As for "ALT1", you'll find much of this (but no mention of Gottwald) on page 31 of Hořká leta · Evropa; for Gottwald, see Moucha's "Message". (Both these sources are in English.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:14, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Antoinette Lubaki

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• ... that Antoinette Lubaki is considered to the first artist in Congo to create works on paper?

• Source: https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/antoinette-lubaki/

• ALT1: ... that Antoinette Lubaki is the first known named female artist from Congo? Source: https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/antoinette-lubaki/
• ALT2: ... that Congo's first named woman artist Antoinette Lubaki painted her watercolours by candlelight at night, as no stories were allowed to be told during the day? Source: https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/antoinette-lubaki/
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Created by MumphingSquirrel (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

MumphingSquirrel (talk) 13:04, 4 January 2025 (UTC).

Julier Pass

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• ... that the peak of the Julier Pass, 2,284 metres (7,493 ft) above sea level, is flanked by two ancient Roman columns? Source: https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/008811/2018-01-30/
  • ALT1: ... that the Julier Pass was the first Swiss alpine road paved with asphalt? Source: https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/008811/2018-01-30/

5x expanded by Toadspike (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Toadspike 15:49, 31 December 2024 (UTC).

• There are several other images in the article which might be interesting as an image hook – if the reviewer thinks the engraving of the Roman columns is more interesting than the photograph, then we could go with that one. Alternatively, perhaps a hook could be made about the theater tower, which has a heap of cool photos on Commons. Toadspike 15:51, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
• A way to phrase "meters above sea level" more concisely would be appreciated. Toadspike 15:52, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on January 1

Penstemon harringtonii, Harold Harrington

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• ... that despite collecting plant specimens not to identify new species, Harold Harrington was the first to collect a species that would be named for him?

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• Reviewed: 1.) Template:Did you know nominations/Jonna Adlerteg, 2.) Template:Did you know nominations/Swim School

Created by Pbritti (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 62 past nominations.

Pbritti (talk) 21:29, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

WLOK (Ohio)

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• ... that Hugh Downs began his broadcast career by walking into the lobby of an Ohio radio station on a whim? Source: Broadcasting - 5 Feb 1990 - page 103
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Created by Nathan Obral (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Nathan Obral • he/him • t • c • 03:23, 4 January 2025 (UTC).

• Pinging Sammi Brie for input here (and possibly to review the nomination) since, as it stands, the current hook doesn't seem to meet WP:DYKINT considering it's reliant on knowing who Downs is. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:03, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
  • I was wondering if that'd be the case about the hook (it's my idea). I do not review Nathan Obral nominations and vice versa since we are very frequent collaborators and I sometimes provide assistance to his articles. Here's a possible ALT1: Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:23, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that staffers of an Ohio radio station learned it had been sold on the same day its owner died? ( + )

• • I support this ALT1 from Sammi Brie, by the way, and would be fine with it being the primary hook. Nathan Obral • he/him • t • c • 21:22, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Yup. ALT1 should be more broadly interesting compared to the original. ALT0 has been struck. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:10, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy (novel)

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• ... that the title of Helen Fielding's third Bridget Jones novel, Mad about the Boy, was inspired by a Noël Coward song?

• Source: McClurg, Jocelyn (1 June 2013). "Helen Fielding opens up about new Bridget Jones book". USA Today. Retrieved 1 January 2013.

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• Comment: This is timely as the movie based on this book is going to be released in February 2025.

Created by Blackballnz (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Blackballnz (talk) 05:59, 2 January 2025 (UTC).

• It is quite surprising that it took us 12 years to get this article, but it is timely indeed. It is new and long enough. Earwig warns of a "likely" copyright violation but I do not see it. Perhaps rephrase a bit just in case. I do not see any bias either. I think that, given the ample coverage, we can have secondary source citations for the entire Plot section despite it not being required per MOS:PLOTSOURCE, and of course the Film adaptation section needs another citation for the last paragraph. I also think that far more interesting hooks can be produced from this article, spoilery and non-spoilery. Surtsicna (talk) 12:20, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
• ALT1: ... that the 1990s romcom heroine Bridget Jones is widowed in the Mad about the Boy novel, with a film to be released in February 2025?
• ALT2: ... that a revelation about the 1990s romcom heroine Bridget Jones in the 2013 novel Mad about the Boy caused an outcry among the fans?

I think either of these would attract more interest. Surtsicna (talk) 12:33, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Pantropiko

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• ... that "Pantropiko" made Bini (pictured) become the first P-pop group to top the Billboard Philippines Songs chart?

• Source: Billboard Philippines

• ALT1: ... that despite being released in November 2023, "Pantropiko" by Bini (pictured) became a sleeper hit summer anthem in the Philippines by 2024? Source: Rappler
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Improved to Good Article status by AstrooKai (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

AstrooKai (Talk) 12:37, 1 January 2025 (UTC).

Fossils of Finland

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• ... that fossils have Finland?

• Source: https://www.google.ru/books/edition/Precambrian_Geology_of_Finland/3D5R3vexH1sC?hl=en&gbpv=1

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4522937?searchText=finland&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dfinland%26so%3Drel%26efqs%3DeyJkaXNjIjpbImNHRnNaVzl1ZEc5c2IyZDVMV1JwYzJOcGNHeHBibVU9Il19&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A2c878dedc2455159322a47ff806482bf

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Fossils of Finland
  • Comment: hello!

Created by DogWorldLive64 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

DogWorldLive64 (talk) 10:16, 1 January 2025 (UTC).

• Hello and welcome to DYK. Right now, Fossils of Finland is only 235 characters long, far below the 1,500 character minimum requirement. The article's wording is also in need of a copyedit. As this appears to be your first nomination and English doesn't seem to be your first language, we can be lenient and give the article a week to be brought up to standards. If you need any assistance, please do not hesitate to ask for advice over at WT:DYK. Good luck! Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:12, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

It has been almost a week since the nomination, but the article has not made any edits to the article, nor did they properly respond to the above. As the article is nowhere near a state appropriate for DYK and also now has a notability tag, this nomination is marked for closure. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:24, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

@GeorgiaHuman: has beefed this up to 899 characters. Would you be interested in expanding further?--Launchballer 11:56, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: I see that you proposed the article for deletion (which DogWorldLive64 then removed). Maybe an AFD is needed to address the notability concerns? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:50, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

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Articles created/expanded on January 2

Dirini

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) Table Mountain Beauty (Aeropetes tulbaghia)

• ... that the relationship between the Dirini (Aeropetes tulbaghia pictured) and its closest relative has been described by researchers as "odd"?

• Source: "The only member of the genus Mantaria, Mantaria hercyna (= maculata), is confirmed to be the sister taxon to the Dirini. This is odd because the species is Neotropical, and it is estimated to have diverged from the Dirini at least 40 Ma, when South America was several thousand kilometres off the southern African coast" Price, Ben W.; Villet, Martin H.; Walton, Shaun M.; Barker, Nigel P. (April 2011). "Using molecules and morphology to infer the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the Dirini (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), a tribe of butterflies endemic to Southern Africa". Systematic Entomology. 36 (2): 300–316. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00560.x. Retrieved 29 December 2024.

• ALT1: ... that the African Dirini (Aeropetes tulbaghia pictured) diverged from its closest relative when South America was thousands of kilometres away from the African coast? Source: Same as above
• ALT2: ... that its closest relative of the African Dirini (Aeropetes tulbaghia pictured) is from South America? Source: Same as above
• ALT3: ... that all but one member of the Dirini (Aeropetes tulbaghia pictured) is found in South Africa and Lesotho? Source: "Amongst the African satyrine butterflies, the tribe Dirini Verity is distinctive for its remarkable degree of endemism. All 28 nominal species (Table 1) occur only in South Africa or Lesotho (Fig. 1), except one that extends into eastern Zimbabwe, even though the tribe is at least 25 million years old" Price, Ben W.; Villet, Martin H.; Walton, Shaun M.; Barker, Nigel P. (April 2011). "Using molecules and morphology to infer the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the Dirini (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), a tribe of butterflies endemic to Southern Africa". Systematic Entomology. 36 (2): 300–316. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00560.x. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sher Machado
• Comment: Thank you in advance to the reviewer for their time and hard work! I have three re-wordings of the same hook for ALT0-2, but if there is an alternative wording, I would be more than happy to hear it through! As a note: the source says "sister taxon" but I've used the more approachable wording "closest relative." The key point is that this entirely Southern African group's closest relative is from South America, and the divergence was when South America was quite far away from Africa when this happened.

Created by Ornithoptera (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 50 past nominations.

Ornithoptera (talk) 06:29, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

Klerykal fiction

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• ... that the Polish subgenre of speculative fiction known as klerykal fiction emerged in the 1990s as a response to societal fears of church influence in politics? Source: see sources cited at the end of the sentence: " its period of popularity is attributed to the first half of the 1990s. In Poland, this period was characterized by, among other things, a decline in public trust in the church, combined with the church's entry into politics, which led to the emergence of anti-church movements."
  • ALT1: ... that Polish klerykal fiction has been described as both a critique of institutionalized religiosity and an artistic response to neoconservative views? Source: Mazurkiewicz, Adam (2014). "Fantastyka religijna jako zjawisko osobne (rekonesans)". In Leś, Mariusz M.; Stasiewicz, Piotr (eds.). Motywy religijne we współczesnej fantastyce (in Polish). Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku. pp. 33–50
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Di Algemeyne Entsiklopedye
  • Comment: Disclaimer & trivia. I asked ChatGPT to generate hooks as an experiment, feeding it DYK guidelines on hooks and the article's text. I think these two turned out nicely (I just needed to match the claims with the sources).

Improved to Good Article status by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 541 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:53, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

Roller disco

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) 1979 disco skaters in New York, likely at the Sheepshead Bay Roll-A-Palace

• ... that Cher, Prince, Grace Jones, Madonna, and Olivia Newton-John all participated in the 1979 roller disco craze?

• Source: "Undiscarded: Stories of New York: Ep7 – Rollerskate". The City Reliquary. 2023-05-17. Archived from the original on January 3, 2025. Retrieved 2025-01-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20250103154034/https://www.cityreliquary.org/undiscarded-rollerskate/ -- " Mr. Charisma’s (another moniker for Mr. Butler) stylish tricks and effortless skating style (Brooklyn Bounce, Wobbly Duck) made the rink a HOT destination and drew storied celebrities away from the snooty uptown clubs (Studio 54) down to the warm & accepting Brooklyn Rink. Most famously Cher herself" ............. Other celebrities source: Reaven, M., Zeitlin, S. (2006). Hidden New York: A Guide to Places That Matter. Rutgers University Press, 114. Ortiz, Lori. (2011) Disco Dance. ABC-CLIO, 127.

• ALT1: ... that The Kalamazoo News described the "Disco Dip" as "the pioneering roller disco record" of 1979? Source: "Faster Than Sound". Kalamazoo News. 15 November 1979. p. 16. Retrieved 2025-01-02. "The “Disco Dip," created by Ed Chalpin of PPX Enterprises, has until now been credited as the pioneering roller disco record. But according to A stound-A Sound Productions, a small New Jersey-based company, its “Roller Palace”.beat out Chalpin's product by one day.....Squabble, squabble. Everybody wants to be credited for jumping on the bandwagon first."
• ALT2: ... that at the height of the roller disco craze of 1979, there were an estimated "5,000 roller rinks in the U.S.," attracting "more than 28 million young American skaters"? Source: "Brooklyn Sees New 'Disco Dip'". Billboard. 1979-02-17. p. 70. https://books.google.com/books?id=LSUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT97&dq=%22disco+dip%22+wktu&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0h4mh89eKAxUVvokEHTbsDzEQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=%22disco%20dip%22%20wktu&f=false "There are an estimated 5,000 roller rinks in the U.S. They reportedly attract more than 28 million young American skaters. According to Chalpin, 99.9% of these rinks are already programming disco music either in whole or in part."
• ALT3: ... that during the roller disco craze of 1979, Mr. Charisma's "stylish tricks" made the Empire Roller Disco "a HOT destination"? Source: "Undiscarded: Stories of New York: Ep7 – Rollerskate". The City Reliquary. 2023-05-17. Archived from the original on January 3, 2025. Retrieved 2025-01-03. https://www.cityreliquary.org/undiscarded-rollerskate/ "Mr. Charisma’s (another moniker for Mr. Butler) stylish tricks and effortless skating style (Brooklyn Bounce, Wobbly Duck) made the rink a HOT destination and drew storied celebrities away from the snooty uptown clubs (Studio 54) down to the warm & accepting Brooklyn Rink. Most famously Cher herself"
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5x expanded by Evedawn99 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Evedawn99 (talk) 15:00, 8 January 2025 (UTC).

• This is good work, Evedawn99, but the article has not been expanded fivefold. The article has the potential to produce very good hooks, however. Perhaps you should aim for improving it to GA status and then nominate it again. Surtsicna (talk) 00:30, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Roll-A-Palace

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• ... that Brooklyn's Roll-A-Palace was "the front-runner of the roller-disco craze"?

• Source: "What's Hot? What's Not?". Cue: The Weekly Magazine of New York Life. Cue Publishing Company. 1979. " ... the front - runner of the roller - disco craze , a fabulous $ 2 million roller disco in a former movie theater that has been earning its $ 4 ( including skates ) admission price for the past two years . "

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cue/ogkwAQAAIAAJ?hl=en

• • ALT1: ... that Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay Roll-A-Palace hosted weekly "Disco Dips" nights, celebrating "the first roller disco record played in a skating rink"? Source: "Faster Than Sound". Kalamazoo News. 15 November 1979. p. 16. Retrieved 2025-01-02. https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/?a=d&d=KalamazooKN19791115-01.1.15&e=-------en-10--1--txt-txIN----------

And,

Riedinger, Bob Jr. (1979-03-03). "Going Back to the 1870s: Skating To Music". Billboard. pp. 48, 57. https://books.google.com/books?id=KyUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22roll-a-palace%22&pg=PT56#v=onepage&q=%22roll-a-palace%22&f=false

• • ALT2: ... that in 1979, Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay Roll-A-Palace hosted over 5,000 patrons per weekend, featuring a snack bar that seated 400? Source: Riedinger, Bob Jr. (1979-03-03). "Going Back to the 1870s: Skating To Music". Billboard. pp. 48, 57. https://books.google.com/books?id=KyUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22roll-a-palace%22&pg=PT56#v=onepage&q=%22roll-a-palace%22&f=false
  • ALT3: ... that Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay Roll-A-Palace premiered the "Disco Dip" in 1979, widely considered the first roller disco song? Source: "Faster Than Sound". Kalamazoo News. 15 November 1979. p. 16. Retrieved 2025-01-02. https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/?a=d&d=KalamazooKN19791115-01.1.15&e=-------en-10--1--txt-txIN----------

And,

Riedinger, Bob Jr. (1979-03-03). "Going Back to the 1870s: Skating To Music". Billboard. pp. 48, 57. https://books.google.com/books?id=KyUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22roll-a-palace%22&pg=PT56#v=onepage&q=%22roll-a-palace%22&f=false

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Created by Evedawn99 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Evedawn99 (talk) 14:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC).

1972 Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse

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• ... that in 1972, the Sidney Lanier Bridge in the U.S. state of Georgia collapsed (pictured) after being struck by a cargo ship?

• Source: The Brunswick News

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Revamped

Improved to Good Article status by JJonahJackalope (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 59 past nominations.

JJonahJackalope (talk) 14:09, 8 January 2025 (UTC).

• As a recently promoted GA, the article easily passes the requirements. The hook is interesting, concise, and verifiable, and so it too passes the DYK requirements. I wonder, however, if it would be possible to produce an even more interesting hook. This topic strikes me as a potential DYK goldmine. Surtsicna (talk) 00:47, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

@Surtsicna:, sure, how about:

... that the 1972 Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse (pictured), which was caused by a collision from a cargo ship, caused ten deaths and over a million dollars in damages? The source for the damages is here, while the death toll is here. -JJonahJackalope (talk) 01:17, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

JJonahJackalope, I just noticed that the article about the bridge itself is only 1500 characters long. Would it be possible to expand that article fivefold so that we might have a double hook? This is a rare opportunity. Hall of Fame guaranteed! Surtsicna (talk) 01:34, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

@Surtsicna:, I was thinking about expanding that article at some point, never done a bridge article before, but I found a few good sources while doing the collapse article, and I'm fairly confident I could get it expanded within a few days. How much time would I have to get it expanded and added to this nomination? -JJonahJackalope (talk) 01:39, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

If it's only a few days that you need, @JJonahJackalope:, you can certainly have them! I think if you just copied the "Background" and "Later history" into the main bridge article (where it probably belongs anyway), you could have it in an instant. But see what you think is best. Surtsicna (talk) 10:36, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Line of Duty

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• ... that BBC One initially passed on Line of Duty, which would later become its highest-rated drama in 19 years?

• Source: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/line-of-duty-rejected-bbc/ and https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/line-of-duty-bbc-netflix-1899-1234964851/

• ALT1: ... that BBC One initially passed on what would later become its highest-rated drama in 19 years? Source: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/line-of-duty-rejected-bbc/ and https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/line-of-duty-bbc-netflix-1899-1234964851/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sympathy Is a Knife
• Comment: The first source confirms that BBC One turned it down and that it's the biggest BBC drama, the second source confirms that it's the most-viewed drama since 2002.

Improved to Good Article status by TheDoctorWho (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

TheDoctorWho (talk) 18:23, 7 January 2025 (UTC).

Chinese sanctions

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• ... that China has sanctioned over 100 foreign individuals and entities with asset freezes and other restrictions due to alleged interference with China's sovereignty?

• Source: https://iclg.com/practice-areas/sanctions/china
  Sanction reasons included interference with sovereignty, selling weapons to Taiwan and imposing unilateral sanctions related to Xinjiang and Hong Kong. Until August 2024, over 100 individuals and entities have been placed on the list.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lao Lishi

Created by Haha169 (talk) and The Account 2 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

haha169 (talk) 16:40, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

Fatima Payman

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• ... that Fatima Payman (pictured) is the first member of the Parliament of Australia to wear a hijab?

• Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/21/i-want-to-normalise-hijab-wearing-was-newest-labor-senator-on-making-history

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bill Morrow (Australian politician)

Improved to Good Article status by GraziePrego (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

GraziePrego (talk) 07:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

• While stated in the lead, the hook's fact is not sourced in the lead and is wholly unmentioned in the body. ~ Pbritti (talk) 01:36, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

@Pbritti does my edit at Special:Diff/1268309867 suffice to satisfy your concern? TarnishedPath 04:16, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

@TarnishedPath: Looks good! I'm going to do a quick review of the article when I have fresh eyes and should have this approved by the end of the day UTC. Thanks! ~ Pbritti (talk) 04:35, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

@Pbritti: lol on your edit at Special:Diff/1268313206. Actually I was almost going to do this DYK review because I have some articles coming up in the future that I will need QPQ for, but then I realised that I couldn't because I had edited the article a bit. Anyway when I was going to review it, I did a bit of googling about another Australian politician named Pauline Hanson to determine if she was the first female to wear a hijab because a number of years ago in an act of racist belligerence she's decided to wear a Burqa in parliament. Anyway I was glad at the time to see that Hanson wasn't the first to female to wear a hijab in parliament. TarnishedPath 05:11, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Joseph R. Biden Presidential Library

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• ... that Joe Biden has cited Wilmington, Delaware, and Syracuse, New York, as possible locations for the Joseph R. Biden Presidential Library?

• Source: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/education/2024/07/30/where-will-biden-build-his-presidential-library-what-we-know/74585720007/

• Reviewed: FORTHCOMING Template:Did you know nominations/Wu Suxin

Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 155 past nominations. Chetsford (talk) 20:56, 4 January 2025 (UTC).

• @Chetsford: You need to provide a QPQ as soon as possible, as the nomination will be closed without further warning if one is not provided. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:54, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Langar Ki Masjid

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• ... that the ceiling of the Langar Ki Masjid resembles a Buddhist chaitya?

• Source: Yazdani, Ghulam (1939). Annual Report of the Archaeological Department of His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Dominions, 1346 F. (1936-37 A.C.) (PDF). Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press. p. 7. It has a vaulted arch-shaped ceiling ceiling with representations of wooden ribs resembling those which are usually found in rock-cut Buddhist chaityas

• ALT1: ... that the vaulted ceiling of the Langar Ki Masjid resembles a Buddhist chaitya? Source: Yazdani, Ghulam (1939). Annual Report of the Archaeological Department of His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Dominions, 1346 F. (1936-37 A.C.) (PDF). Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press. p. 7. It has a vaulted arch-shaped ceiling ceiling with representations of wooden ribs resembling those which are usually found in rock-cut Buddhist chaityas
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mseilha Fort

Created by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

AmateurHi$torian (talk) 12:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC).

Summertime (Cinnamons and Evening Cinema song)

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• ... that the Japanese song "Summertime" gained traction after it became popular in Southeast Asia two years after its first release?

• Source: Shūkan Gendai (link)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Unexpected Destinations

Created by Lullabying (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 60 past nominations.

lullabying (talk) 02:19, 4 January 2025 (UTC).

Elisheva Biernoff

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• ... that Elisheva Biernoff paints recreations of found vintage snapshot photographs, including details like lens flare and overexposure? Source: The New Yorker: "Working from found photographs—snapshots—Biernoff creates works that match, in size, scale, and color, what she sees in the original images." Artforum: "For more than a decade, Elisheva Biernoff has painted exquisitely uncanny trompe l’oeil re-creations of vintage found photographs. Taken as a group, the snapshots on which she bases her works are of no great distinction. Some feature a failure of some kind—overexposure, lens flare, water damage, the accidental intrusion of a foot into the frame, or the glaring reflection of a flash on glass or mirror."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon)

5x expanded by Jonathan Deamer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

Jonathan Deamer (talk) 19:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on January 3

Jailson Mendes

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• ... that Jailson Mendes had to gain weight for his first porn film?
  • ALT0a: ... that a bear had to gain weight for his first porn film?
  • ALT1: ... that Jailson Mendes entered the porn industry after a couple randomly approached him?
  • ALT2: ... that a porn star's "hysterically bizarre performance" became one of the most widely spread memes in Brazil?
  • ALT3: ... that a porn star received the nickname "Family Man"?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sugya
  • Comment: Driveby nom. ALT0a is intended for April Fools' Day.

Improved to Good Article status by Skyshifter (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 266 past nominations.

Launchballer 15:38, 7 January 2025 (UTC).

Tanzania. Masterworks of African Sculpture

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) Makonde mask from Tanzania

• ... that the exhibition Tanzania. Masterworks of African Sculpture highlighted traditional artworks from Tanzania?

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• ALT1: ... that the exhibition Tanzania. Masterworks of African Sculpture refuted the alleged scarcity of figurative art in Tanzania? Source:
• Reviewed: Template:Did_you_know_nominations/2024_Masyaf_raid
• Comment: Largest exhibition on traditional artworks from Tanzania ever, catalogue out of print, with original versions in German and Swahili. This article on the en-WP fills a gap.

Created by Munfarid1 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 25 past nominations.

Munfarid1 (talk) 12:24, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

References

1. Azhar, Kamarul (27 Aug 2020). "Cover Story: The long & winding saga of the Penang Transport Master Plan and its political fallout". The Edge. Retrieved 29 Mar 2024.
2. Opalyn Mok (10 Dec 2024). "Land for Penang LRT depot on man-made Silicon Island to be ready end of 2025". Malay Mail. Retrieved 14 Dec 2024.
3. Christopher Tan (11 May 2023). "Penang South Islands project scaled down to one island – Silicon Island". Buletin Mutiara. Retrieved 31 Mar 2024.
4. Kerstin Volker (1995), "Tanzania: Masterworks of African Sculpture", African Arts, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 84–86, doi:10.2307/3337256, JSTOR 3337256
5. Kecskési, Maria (1994), Jens Jahn, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin und Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München (ed.), "Einleitung (introduction)", Tanzania: Meisterwerke afrikanischer Skulptur. Sanaa za Mabingwa wa Kiafrika. (in German and Swahili), München: Fred Jahn, pp. 17–18, ISBN 3-88645-118-6{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)

Wielka, większa i największa

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• ... that Polish 1960 sci-fi novel Wielka, większa i największa was very influential for Polish young adult literature? Source: multiple scholarly sources, with several quotations, all grouped in the section 'Milestone in Polish youth fiction' (but I am afraid all in Polish and few digitized, I was working with scans for the most part...).
  • ALT1: ... that Polish 1960 sci-fi novel Wielka, większa i największa was very influential for Polish young adult literature and has been a compulsory or recommended reading in Polish schools for many decades? Source: for additional sources regarding compulsory/recommended status, see 'Awards and recognition' section
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Organization of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Comment: 2nd hook is longer but contains another interesting claim, plus most English readers are probably not familiar with the concept of compulsory reading...

Improved to Good Article status by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 540 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:37, 4 January 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on January 4

Bertrand of Toulouse (son of Alfonso Jordan)

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• ... that Christians were outraged when Count Raymond II of Tripoli helped Muslims capture his cousin Bertrand, who had tried to conquer Tripoli?

• Source: Lewis 2017, p. 155

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy (novel)
• Comment: This article is tied to the article Hodierna of Jerusalem, which is also nominated for DYK. I have considered a double hook, but decided that the separate hooks are more interesting. I hope that the two hooks can be featured on the same day as a compromise solution.

Created by Borsoka (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 194 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 12:35, 8 January 2025 (UTC).

Christian death metal

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• ... that Christian death metal has been called the least likely musical development at the close of the 20th century?

• Source: https://www.allmusic.com/album/yo%21-mw0000413777

"Of all the unlikely musical developments that could have taken place in the closing years of the 20th century, the avant-tango movement is probably the second least likely (right after Christian death metal)."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Alice of Antioch
  • Comment: I re-created this from the redirect. The article content is over 10x expanded from its previous greatest size prior to conversion into redirect.

5x expanded by 3family6 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 108 past nominations.

3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 13:23, 7 January 2025 (UTC).

Ana María Ochoa

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• ... that ethnomusicologist Ana María Ochoa was born in Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia? Source: Born October 9 , 1962 , Medellín , Colombia + Bachelor of Music, University of British Columbia, 1987 ... Associate Professor, The Department of Music and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University, 2008-2015
  • ALT1: ... that ethnomusicologist Ana María Ochoa is from Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia? Source: Same as ALT0
  • ALT2: ... that Ana María Ochoa was born in Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia? Source: Same as ALT0
  • ALT3: ... that Ana María Ochoa is from Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia? Source: Same as ALT0
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Allen DeGraffenreid (wide receiver) (wide receiver)
  • Comment: It's hard to find someone from these three places/institutions despite how extremely similar the names are - ultimately (1, 2, 3) all three of them go straight to Christopher Columbus.- so I figured why not?

Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 67 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 03:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

Taur Ikhbeineh

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• ... that at Taur Ikhbeineh in the Gaza Strip archaeologists found evidence of interactions between Egyptians and Canaanites in the 4th millennium BC?

• Source: "The presence of both locally manufactured Egyptian and Canaanite wares undoubtedly implies that two potters' workshops operated respectively side by side at Taur Ikhbeineh or somewhere nearby and, consequently, as a result of close cultural interaction in that region, a distinctive local pottery repertoire ("Besor group") was augmented"

Oren, Eliezer D.; Yekutieli, Yuval (1992). "Taur Ikhbeineh: Earliest Evidence for Egyptian Interconnections". In van den Brink, Edwin C. M. (ed.). The Nile Delta in Transition: 4th–3rd Millennium B.C. Tel Aviv: Israel Exploration Society. pp. 373–375.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Colin Platt

Created by Richard Nevell (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Richard Nevell (talk) 20:29, 5 January 2025 (UTC).

Draupner wave

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• ... that the Draupner wave was the first scientific evidence that rogue waves exist?

• Source: https://www.earth.com/news/most-extreme-rogue-wave-recorded-in-the-pacific-ocean/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Liceu bombing
• Comment: Will do QPQ either later tonight or tomorrow.

Moved to mainspace by EF5 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

E_F 23:32, 4 January 2025 (UTC).

• @EF5, you did not specify a reason for eligibility (newness or 5x expansion). Since this was a split from Rogue wave, it isn't new, and DYKCheck says the split content hasn't been expanded fivefold, so I believe this article is not currently eligible for DYK. As I am still new to DYK reviewing, I am asking for a second opinion to confirm this. Toadspike 14:15, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Also, fair warning, WP:QPQ says "Your QPQ review should be made before or at the time of your nomination. A nomination which doesn't include a QPQ (and is not from an exempt nominator) may be closed as "incomplete" without warning." I strongly advise you to have a QPQ ready before any future DYK nominations to remove the risk of such a quickfail. Toadspike 14:20, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

This article is eligible as it was moved to mainspace on 4 January. I'd step on the QPQ though @EF5:.--Launchballer 12:41, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Will do today, I was waiting till a second-opinion was given. E_F 17:06, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Done. E_F 15:21, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Full review needed.--Launchballer 15:24, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Bugia (candlestick)

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• ... that the bugia, a ceremonial candlestick used by Latin Catholic Bishops or other prelates, gets its name from an Algerian port city famous for its exportation of candle wax?

• Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bugia

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Charles Assmann

Created by Maximilian775 (talk) and Darth Stabro (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Maximilian775 (talk) 18:56, 4 January 2025 (UTC).

Jama Masjid, Hyderabad

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• ... that the Jama Masjid was the first congregational mosque in Hyderabad?

• Source: Campbell, A. C. (1898). Glimpses of the Nizams Dominions. pp. 168–169. Close to the Char Minar, on the left of the main r o a d, approached by a very narrow lane, is the Juma Musjid, erected by Sultan Mahomed Kuli in 1598. This is the oldest musjid in Hyderabad.

• ALT1: ... that the Jama Masjid was the first mosque to be built in Hyderabad? Source: Campbell, A. C. (1898). Glimpses of the Nizams Dominions. pp. 168–169. Close to the Char Minar, on the left of the main road, approached by a very narrow lane, is the Juma Musjid, erected by Sultan Mahomed Kuli in 1598. This is the oldest musjid in Hyderabad.
• ALT2: ... that the inscriptions of the Jama Masjid, Hyderabad "may compare favorably with the best calligraphic specimens of other countries"? Source: Yazdani, Ghulam (1921). Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica, 1917-18. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India. p. 43. The bold sweeping curves and fine, crisp vertical and horizontal stroke of these inscriptions exhibit art of a high order and they may compare favourably with the best calligraphic specimens of other countries.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Emmanuel (emu)

5x expanded by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

AmateurHi$torian (talk) 15:52, 4 January 2025 (UTC).

• The article falls short of a fivefold expansion even when I count the lead section, which repeats information from the rest of the article. Therefore it does not yet qualify for DYK. Surtsicna (talk) 16:51, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: This version when I started the expansion had 789 characters (136 words), and the article now has 4154 characters (703 words), according to DYKCheck.AmateurHi$torian (talk) 17:27, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

You are right. I only see 3442 characters when the lead is not counted, however. Would it be possible to add 500 more? I would also suggest improving the citation style; rather than putting all the citations at the end of the paragraph, try putting them right after the sentence to which they relate. I am looking forward to reading a bit more about the masjid. Surtsicna (talk) 22:52, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: Article is now 4718 characters (will be approximately 4000+ when the lead is excluded) according to DYKCheck, and I've added inline citations within paragraphs.AmateurHi$torian (talk) 00:06, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, AmateurHi$torian! I started with a source spot check. Citation #4 does not seem to cover the first paragraph of the first section (coincidentally where the hook comes from), unless I am missing something. It explicitly says the opposite, that it was not the first mosque, and it does not mention "congregational" at all. Surtsicna (talk) 23:22, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: Ah, I've just noticed that Sherwani calls the prayer-hall in Charminar a "mosque". This interpretation would make the Jama Masjid the second mosque of the city, so I'll strike the first two hooks. I've altered the article to the same effect. The word "congregational" is used in the second paragraph, and the source for that is #5 (Bilgrami) already cited within the paragraph, who calls it an assembly mosque. AmateurHi$torian (talk) 00:10, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Alternate hooks can be ALT3: "... the short height of the minarets of the Jama Masjid, Hyderabad might have been deliberate, in order to emphasize the loftiness of the nearby Char Kaman and Charminar?" or ALT4: "...the the Jama Masjid was one of the first mosques to be built in Hyderabad?", the source for both these hooks being Sherwani p. 30 and 29 respectively.AmateurHi$torian (talk) 00:26, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Fixed the issue with the first paragraph and a couple other citation issues.AmateurHi$torian (talk) 00:27, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

So far so good. The article is now clearly sufficiently expanded. It is certainly comprehensive and well sourced. I should also note that the expansion is recent enough and that I have not detected any close paraphrasing. I think there is an even more interesting hook hiding in the article:

• ALT5: ... that Wolseley Haig noted that it was not the "city's huge mosque" but the "far less pretentious" Jama Masjid that served as the congregational mosque in Hyderabad?

I believe this would be the most successful of the proposed hooks, but it should be approved by another reviewer. Your thoughts are obviously welcome, AmateurHi$torian. Surtsicna (talk) 13:29, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

I don't have any issue with ALT5. Thanks for taking the time to review this :) AmateurHi$torian (talk) 16:26, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on January 5

An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic

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• ... that Graham Priest wrote a textbook about alternative logics?

• Source: https://zbmath.org/?format=complete&q=an:0981.03002

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Created by MathKeduor7 (talk) and GregariousMadness (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

MathKeduor7 (talk) 08:30, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

Effects of Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam

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• ... that conflicting wind speed reports on the effects of Typhoon Yagi in Vietnam were revised multiple times, but the reason remains unclear?

• Source: (1) (table 1, p. 20): Bãi Cháy 45 m/s, peak gusts 62 m/s; (2) (table 1.2, pp. 4-5): Bãi Cháy 50 m/s, peak gusts 63 m/s; (3) (table 1.2, pp. 4-5): Bãi Cháy 45 m/s, peak gusts 62 m/s

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Moved to mainspace by Wolf20482 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

wolf20482 🐺 (talk) 02:53, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

SEEK (conference)

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• ... that SEEK, a Catholic young adult conference, drew 17,000 people to Salt Lake City this Janaury?

• Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/261389/a-great-witness-as-seek25-wraps-up-in-salt-lake-city-religious-and-clergy-reflect, https://ksltv.com/722640/catholic-conference-held-in-utah-for-the-first-time/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ernesius

Created by Arbitrarily0 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 19 past nominations.

Arbitrarily0  02:29, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

Darren Moore

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) Darren Moore pictured in 2011

• ... that Darren Moore (pictured) walked the Great Wall of China to raise money for good causes in Africa?

• Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/content/articles/2005/05/20/china_challenge_feature.shtml

• ALT1: ... that Darren Moore (pictured) led Sheffield Wednesday to promotion after they lost their play-off semi-final first leg by a four goal margin? Source: https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/sheffield-wednesday-secure-huge-club-record-and-condemn-derby-county-to-another-season-of-league-one-4133552 https://www.skysports.com/football/sheffield-wednesday-vs-peterborough-united/482285
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1453

Improved to Good Article status by EchetusXe (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 64 past nominations.

EchetusXe 17:59, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

Abortion in the United Arab Emirates

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• ... that abortion in the United Arab Emirates has been described as less restrictive than some American states following the overturning of Roe v. Wade?

• Source: https://www.newsweek.com/dubai-uae-abortion-law-rape-incest-exception-1915148

• ALT1: ... that there is a black market for abortion pills in the United Arab Emirates, with prices going up to £1,100 for a pill? Source: https://www.huckmag.com/article/how-lockdown-is-affecting-womens-reproductive-rights https://gulfnews.com/uae/illegal-abortions-a-fatal-choice-1.834605
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ceechynaa

Converted from a redirect by Jolielover (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

jolielover♥talk 06:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - There is no citation provided for the sentence about the Medical Liability Law.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - The first paragraph and part of the second paragraph of the lead are copied word-for-word from the Khaleej Times without clear in-text attribution.

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The hooks provided are interesting and the article is eligible based on newness and length, but there is a sentence that does not have a citation and the first two paragraphs contain copy-pasted text from one of the sources. Provide a citation for the unsourced sentence and rewrite the lead in your own words, then I'll give this another look. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC) Grnrchst (talk) 13:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Cloak n Dagger

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• ... that the Airbnb homestay where a song was recorded by Glaive and Ericdoa was dubbed by fans as the "Hyperpop Hype House"?

• Source: Pitchfork

• ALT1: ... that fans of Glaive and Ericdoa dubbed the Airbnb recording location of a song as the "Hyperpop Hype House"? Source: Pitchfork
• ALT2: ... that fans of Glaive and Ericdoa dubbed the recording location of "Cloak n Dagger" as the "Hyperpop Hype House"? Source: Pitchfork
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Improved to Good Article status by Locust member (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Locust member (talk) 20:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC).

Diocese of Banias, Adam of Acre, John (bishop of Banyas)

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• ... that Adam and John were the only Latin bishops of Banias who lived in Banias?

• Source: Hamilton, p. 120

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Aquilegia gracillima, Template:Did you know nominations/Jama Masjid, Hyderabad

Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 3. Nominator has 193 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 16:52, 5 January 2025 (UTC).

• @Surtsicna: I need a third QPQ (there are two). I'm also having trouble finding the passage in Hamilton that verifies this from your link. Is it possibly the p267 ref? Is it left to assume that there was Adam, there was John, and then there were titular bishops? Otherwise the pages are new and long enough. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:28, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi, Sammi Brie. I counted two out of the three articles at the columbine nomination (the third I had already used up) as two QPQs. Sorry, I have no idea what I meant by "page 120". I had changed hooks quite a bit. Hamilton is quite explicit so there is no need to assume. See pages 84 (Banyas conquered, no successor to John appointed), 397 (succession of the resident bishops), and of course 266-267 for the titular bishops. Surtsicna (talk) 10:48, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Ernesius

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• ... that Archbishop Ernesius was sent to Europe to request help for the Kingdom of Jerusalem, but barely survived a sea storm and did not dare set sail again?

• Source: Hamilton, p. 133

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Helvis of Ramla

Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 192 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 14:44, 5 January 2025 (UTC).

• Most things look good, but can you (1) provide a footnote at the end of the sentence which reads "The prelates were driven...", and (2) can you see if the following hook is appropriate? If ALT1 is true to the facts, can you make sure it is properly cited in the article (e.g., is it the Mediterranean we're talking about)? Arbitrarily0  02:20, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
  • ALT1 ... that twelfth-century Archbishop Ernesius attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea with two other bishops, but was thwarted by a severe storm?

Thanks, Arbitrarily0! Footnote duplicated. ALT1 is certainly true, but there is no source saying they were crossing the Mediterranean. That would basically be WP:CALC for there is no other sea for them to cross. Perhaps a combination of ALT0 and ALT1 might be most interesting? Surtsicna (talk) 10:30, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

• ALT2: ... that Archbishop Ernesius and two other bishops attempted to reach Europe by sea, but were driven back by a severe storm and did not dare set sail again?

Ali-Hajji of Akusha

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• ... that Ali-Hajji of Akusha supported the Bolsheviks because he believed they would implement sharia?

• Source: "Daniyalov, Hajji-Ali (1958). Борьба за установление и упрочение Советской власти в Дагестане, 1917–1921 гг. Сборник документов и материалов (in Russian). Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. p. 119" & "Abdullayev, Magomed (2013). Триумф и трагедия шейх-уль-ислама Дагестана Али-Хаджи Акушинского (in Russian). Makhachkala: Epoch. p. 50–51."

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Created by Mupper-san (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Mupper-san (talk) 10:11, 5 January 2025 (UTC).

• Hi @Mupper-san: this article is new enough, long enough, and well-sourced. However, I'm not sure how accurate this hook is from the body of the article. We have Ali-Hajji saying The Bolsheviks are not against us living according to sharia and him, as a member of Bolshevik committee, promising that the committee would establish sharia courts. None of this suggests he thought the Bolsheviks were going to establish the courts, just that he thought they would tolerate the courts, and sought to set them up. Of course, I don't have access to your sources and can't read Russian. Is there something you can incorporate from them that makes what Ali-Hajji thought clearer? Best, Tenpop421 (talk) 01:26, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

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Sanity Code

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• ... that in 1949, several athletic conferences, including the Southeastern Conference discussed withdrawing from the NCAA after the Sanity Code, which barred athletic scholarships, went into effect?

• Source: Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform (Discussion on withdrawal is on p. 97, while p. 93 includes the provision that financial aid be limited only to needs-based assistance)

• ALT1: ... that in 1949, the University of Virginia threatened to leave the National Collegiate Athletic Association if the Sanity Code, which barred athletic scholarhips, was not amended? Source: Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, p. 97
• ALT2: ... that several universities and athletic conferences in the Southern United States were opposed to the NCAA's Sanity Code, a 1948 set of rules that barred athletic scholarhips? Source: Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, p. 94; Where Football is King: A History of the SEC, p. 15
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Troupeau Bleu

Created by JJonahJackalope (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 61 past nominations.

JJonahJackalope (talk) 15:11, 8 January 2025 (UTC).

Johnny Gaudreau

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• ... that despite being one of the smallest players in the National Hockey League, Johnny Gaudreau was a seven-time All-Star?

• Source: Re: smallest: "Even last season, his 11th in the NHL, Gaudreau, all grown up, was all of 5-9, 163. Among the 1,022 players who appeared in the League, only 15 were shorter. Only five were lighter."

Re: All-Star appearances: "In 2014-15, his first full season with Calgary, Gaudreau made the first of seven NHL All-Star Game appearances and was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team."

• • ALT1: ... that Johnny Gaudreau's 2022 decision to sign with the Columbus Blue Jackets "stunned" the hockey world? Source: 1, 2
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Improved to Good Article status by The Kip (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

As I considered the GA pursuit as a form of honoring his memory, I figured I'd aim to celebrate him with the DYK and avoid something about his death/the aftermath. The Kip 07:57, 8 January 2025 (UTC).

David Einhorn (poet)

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• ... that the Yiddish poet David Einhorn criticized other Jewish writers who settled in Berlin as bourgeois and out of touch with their fellow migrants?

• Source: Saß, Anne-Christin (2010). Estraikh, Gennady; Krutikov, Mikhail (eds.). Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: At the Crossroads of Diaspora Politics and Culture. Legenda. pp. 179–195. ISBN 9781906540708.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mirza Muhammad Amin Shahristani

Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 103 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 22:46, 7 January 2025 (UTC).

Grininke Beymelekh, Shloyme Bastomski

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• ... that Shloyme Bastomski reestablished the first children's periodical published in Yiddish after it was discontinued due to World War I?

• Source: Cohen, Nathan (2021). "No More 'Little Jews without Beards': Insights into Yiddish Children's Literature in Eastern Europe Prior to World War I". Modern Judaism. 41 (1): 102–109. doi:10.1093/mj/kjaa018.

Bar-El, Adina. "Children's Literature: Yiddish Literature". YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Translated by Friedman-Cohen, Carrie. https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/277

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/CHWI-DT, Template:Did you know nominations/Erich Lassota von Steblau
  • Comment: Two real short ones here, but they're both over the limit.

Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 102 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 22:38, 7 January 2025 (UTC).

Reinstatement of capital punishment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• ... that the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo executed 102 men identified as "urban bandits"?

• Source: ABC News

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Moved to mainspace by TNM101 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

TNM101 (chat) 06:48, 7 January 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: Surely this article can be merged into Capital punishment in the Democratic Republic of the CongoAmateurHi$torian (talk) 19:51, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

But since there is so much reporting about the reinstatement itself, I think a separate article is warranted. Although, I do not oppose a merge. TNM101 (chat) 13:27, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Blow Up (French TV series)

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• ... that when the French web series Blow Up briefly aired on television in 2014, its allotted airtime was too short to fit some of its episodes?

• Source: (in French) "'Blow Up' : les secrets de fabrication du webmag d'Arte" (transl. "'Blow Up': the secrets of the creation of the Arte webmag.") "Elle l'a diffusé une fois, en 2014, pendant six mois. C'était très intéressant, sauf qu'on m'avait imposé une durée de 4,10 minutes par vidéo. Pour certains formats, comme les 'Bio express', je pouvais m'en sortir. Mais pour les 'Top 5', il était impossible de comprimer les séquences." (transl. "It broadcast it once, in 2014, for six months. It was very interesting, except that I was given a duration of 4.10 minutes per video. For certain formats, like 'Bio express', I could get by. But for the 'Top 5', it was impossible to compress the sequences.")

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Created by CopperyMarrow15 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

–CopperyMarrow15 (talk – edits) 05:35, 7 January 2025 (UTC).

Victor Cordella, Church of St. Casimir (Saint Paul, Minnesota)

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) The Church of St. Casimir in St. Paul, Minnesota

• ... that Victor Cordella designed around twenty churches in Minnesota, including the Church of St. Casimir (pictured)?

• Source: Elliott, Cecil D. (2003). The American architect from the colonial era to the present. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-7864-1391-1., "A Polish Architect for all" (PDF). PolAm. 39 (3). Polish-American Cultural Institute of Minnesota: 1, 6. March–April 2017.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Old School Baptist Church and Cemetery of Hopewell, Template:Did you know nominations/Violin scam
• Comment: The Church of St. Casimir is a 5x expansion, but the DYK script doesn't catch it because the page erroneously had an inline commons category link counted as part of the prose.

Created by Darth Stabro (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 19 past nominations.

~Darth Stabro 04:16, 7 January 2025 (UTC).

Deval Masjid

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• ... that the Deval Masjid was originally a temple?

• Source: Eaton, Richard M. (2011). "Muhammad bin Tughluq and Temples of the Deccan, 1321-26". In Haidar, Navina Najat; Sardar, Marika (eds.). Sultans of the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323-1687. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-58839-438-5. Locally known as the "Deval Masjid" in Urdu, or the "Vanda-stambhala-gudi" (hundred-pillared temple) in Telugu, the structure had originally been a temple, built in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century in the Kakatiya style
  Yazdani, Ghulam (1916). Annual report of the Archaeological Department of His Highness the Nizams Dominions, 1323-24 F. (1914-15 A.D.). Baptist Mission Press. p. 3. The great mosque popularly known as the Deval Masjid was originally a Buddhist or Jaina temple, for the seated images of Buddha or of Tirthankaras are carved on several stones. Later it seems to have fallen into the hands of Hindus, whose religious symbols can also be traced on the building.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Extrasolar planets in fiction
• Comment: It might be a good idea to make the page semi-protected before it features on the main page, as the conversion of Hindu temples into mosques is a contentious political topic in India

Created by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

AmateurHi$torian (talk) 17:43, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

Dorotea Wilson

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• ... that when Dorotea Wilson joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front she did not expect to leave her vocation as a nun? Source: "In 1975, still in her twenties, Dorotea Wilson joined a guerrilla group in the northern region led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, or FSNL), which was fighting to overthrow Nicaragua’s right-wing Somoza dictatorship. As a result, she renounced her vows as a nun and became deeply involved in politics within the Sandinista revolutionary movement." Perez, M. (2016). Wilson, Dorotea Louise. In Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 6 Jan. 2025, from https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-2216.
  • ALT1: ... that for Dorotea Wilson involvement in the Sandinista National Liberation Front led to an awakening of her Afro-Nicaraguan identity? Source: " She once mentioned that her participation in the Sandinista revolutionary process contributed to awakening her cultural identity as an Afro-Nicaraguan/Caribbean woman and fueling her militancy in the struggle for the rights of women." Perez, M. (2016). Wilson, Dorotea Louise. In Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 6 Jan. 2025, from https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-2216.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Yogini with a Mynah Bird

Created by Lajmmoore (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 112 past nominations.

Lajmmoore (talk) 14:24, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

The Befrienders

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• ... that the pilot episode of The Befrienders was widely criticised for being too far-fetched?

• Source: Leicester Mercury The Observer

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Diner Lobster
• Comment: Happy to provide more ALT hooks.

5x expanded by Cielquiparle (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 67 past nominations.

Cielquiparle (talk) 06:48, 6 January 2025 (UTC).

• Source is good. I just don't find the hook engaging enough. Could you add some more detail? Lankyant (talk) 09:35, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on January 7

Mink (manga)

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• ... that the Japanese manga series Mink featured futuristic technology even though its creator was unfamiliar with computers?

• Source: Interview with Nakayoshi (source)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Black holes in fiction

Created by Lullabying (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 61 past nominations.

lullabying (talk) 06:39, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

Christopher Trychay, The Voices of Morebath, Churchwardens' accounts

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• ... that a 2002 book relies extensively on a 16th-century priest's churchwardens' accounts that include his support for a failed rebellion?

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• Reviewed: 1.) Template:Did you know nominations/Hodierna of Jerusalem, 2.) Template:Did you know nominations/Tesseropora rosea, 3.) Template:Did you know nominations/Fatima Payman

Created by Pbritti (talk). Number of QPQs required: 3. Nominator has 63 past nominations.

Pbritti (talk) 01:04, 8 January 2025 (UTC).

Prison healthcare in Australia

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• ... that the health of prisoners in Australia is impacted by their lack of access to Medicare, the country's otherwise universal health care system?

• Source: "Ensuring universal access: The case for Medicare in prison". Alternative Law Journal. 42 (8). 2023.

• ALT1: ... that despite the higher health needs of prisoners in Australia, they have less access to medical services than people in the general community? Source: As above
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Armand Ceritano

Improved to Good Article status by Damien Linnane (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 80 past nominations.

Damien Linnane (talk) 00:59, 8 January 2025 (UTC).

Shmuel Hurvits

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• ... that the Yiddish poet Shmuel Hurvits quit his job as a teacher to become a street-paver due to an ideological appreciation for manual labor?

• Source: Steinlauf, Michael C. (2003). "A. Litvin: Chronicler of Jewish Souls". In Steinlauf, Michael C.; Polonsky, Antony (eds.). Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. Vol. 16. Liverpool University Press. pp. 371–412. doi:10.3828/liverpool/9781874774730.003.0020. ISBN 9781874774730.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Top Gun: Maverick

Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 104 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 22:52, 7 January 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on January 8

Woljeonggyo

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• ... that Woljeonggyo was an 8th-century bridge that was recreated in 2018? Source: This source isn't used in the article (the sources in the article are mostly Korean-language), but it supports the hook .
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/So Medieval
  • Comment: I had more than 5 DYKs on a previous account so I have to do QPQs

Created by Seefooddiet (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

seefooddiet (talk) 12:48, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

10 won bread

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• ... that the Bank of Korea asked makers of a cheese-filled waffle to change the design of the dish? Source: or
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Literarishe Bleter
  • Comment: I had more than 5 noms on my old account so I have to do QPQs on this account.

Created by Seefooddiet (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

seefooddiet (talk) 12:40, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

Fancy molly, Poecilia sphenops

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) Lyretail black mollies

• ... that the black molly (pictured) might not be a black molly?

• Source: "Allerdings: gibt es ihn überhaupt, 'den' Black Molly? Oder ist es nicht vielmehr so, dass es eine ganze Reihe von schwarzen Molliensern gibt, mit ganz unterschiedlichen Stammeltern? Letztere Situationsbeschreibung trifft sicher eher zu, als 'den' Black Molly als 'schwarze Zuchtform des Spitzmaulkärpflings, Poecilia sphenops' zu definieren, wie es in zahl­reichen Aquarienbüchern gehandhabt wird."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Roller disco, Template:Did you know nominations/1972 Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse
• Comment: The hook might turn out to be more interesting without the image. I leave it to the discretion of the reviewer and the promoter.

Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 196 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 11:00, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

January 2025 Richmond water outage

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• ... that the January 5–6, 2025 United States blizzard led to major water infrastructure impacts in Richmond, Virginia?

• Source: https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/richmond-water-crisis-timeline-jan-7-2025

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Created by JuxtaposedJacob (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 07:55, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

KTUL

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• ... that the morning show on an Oklahoma TV station was such a "local phenomenon" that the president of ABC acquiesced to them not airing Good Morning America? Source: https://thislandpress.com/2012/03/03/john-chick/ + https://www.newspapers.com/article/tulsa-world-gallant-fight-lost-at-age-53/136553660/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Diocese of Banias (3 of 3)

Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 735 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:42, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

WPEC

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• ... that a Florida TV station's decision to fire one of its main newscasters led to picketing? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-outraged-viewers-to-pic/122569805/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Diocese of Banias (2 of 3)

Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 734 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:36, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

WUVN

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• ... that televangelist Gene Scott went 65 hours without sleep when he barricaded himself in the studios of his Connecticut TV station to protest an order to pay taxes? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-whct-tv-airing-reruns-o/137245947/
  • ALT1: ... that a fight over ownership of a Connecticut TV station reached the Supreme Court of the United States? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-court-upholds-broadcast/122514051/
  • ALT2: ... that a Connecticut TV station installed duckpin bowling lanes in its studio? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-whct-building-alleys-fo/137242293/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Diocese of Banias (1 of 3)

Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 733 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:34, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on January 9

Roof-end Tile with Human Face Motif

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• ... that a South Korean Treasure was only returned to Korea from Japan 27 years after the end of the colonial period? Source:
  • ALT1: ... that the logo of South Korean company LG was based off an ancient roof tile? Source: "그리고 LG의 출범과 함께 제정된 새 심벌마크가 ‘신라의 미소’로 통하는 ‘얼굴무늬 수막새’(보물 제2010호)에서 영감을 얻어 탄생했다는 사연이 소개됐다." -> "Upon LG's rebranding, it was announced that their new logo was inspired by the "Silla smile", "Roof-end Tile with Human Face Motif".
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Blue Bendy
  • Comment: I think ALT1 is a less interesting story than the orig hook but LG would resonate with more people. Also I had more than 5 DYKs on a previous account so I need to do QPQs

Created by Seefooddiet (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

seefooddiet (talk) 13:02, 9 January 2025 (UTC).

Special occasion holding area

See also: WP:SOHA

The holding area is near the top of the Approved page. Please only place approved templates there; do not place them below.

Do not nominate articles in this section—nominate all articles in the nominations section above, under the date on which the article was created or moved to mainspace, or the expansion began; indicate in the nomination any request for a specially timed appearance on the main page.

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