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DYK Suggestions

Got a new article you think is DYK-worthy but too skeered to post it yourself? List it here, along with the date. New ones at the top. That said, feel free to add it yourself, just follow the rules, try not to be boring or provicinal and, oh yeah, follow the rules. :)

ADDED

• Alfred J. Kwak: "...that Alfred J. Kwak is a duck from a Dutch tv cartoon who lives in a clog?"--Mixcoatl 18:21, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Geertgen tot Sint Jans: "...that only fragments of the famous altar triptych by Geertgen tot Sint Jans could be saved after the siege of Haarlem?" Guus 17:36, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
• Dhabawallah, I recently saw something about these on tv and decided to write the article. Possible blurb:"...that dhabawallahs are Indian lunch carriers that make only 1 mistake in every 6000 deliveries, even though they do all their work manually." ] 11:11, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
• J/Psi particle, an article I just wrote after stumbling over a red link: "...that the discovery of the J/Ψ particle in 1974 earned two physicists the Nobel prize as it confirmed the idea that baryonic matter (such as the nuclei of atoms) is made out of quarks." Simon A. 16:10, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Weight transfer (written Sept 26 by User:Kay): Blurb could be "...that the effects of weight transfer cause the traction of tires on a car to vary?" The only problem I see with it is that it kind of clashes with the current four. - RedWordSmith 18:55, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • No objections, so added. - RedWordSmith 18:12, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• André Maginot (Self-nomination, has pictures). Possible trivia blurb: "...that André Maginot, for whom the Maginot Line was named, was awarded the Medaille Militaire for valor during WWI?" Jacob1207 03:58, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• List of the longest English words with one syllable (Self-nomination; no picture; "list of" article; uses OED as a source. OTOH: has a fair bit of explanatory text; OED is not the only source; could possibly use a squirrel image to illustrate the longest word squirrelled. Possibility if some of the other DYK articles start getting stale. • Benc • 18:04, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC))
• Lake Urmia (2004-09-16)
• Paul Popenoe (founder of marriage counseling in the United States was also a prominent advocate of compulsory sterilization) (don't want to add it myself since I wrote it) (2004-Sep-15, article created Sep-13)
• Communication with submarines (2004-Sep-9)

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The rules (general)

• DYK is NOT NOT NOT a general trivia section.
• This section is only for items that have been listed on "NEW PAGES" since the last update of DYK.
  • Then why was Dabbawala added to this page? It was made on 3 June and even got listed on WP:FAC!. - Ta bu shi da yu 10:33, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The rules (formatting)

• The title of the new article should be '''BOLD''' and placed on TOP as the FIRST ITEM.
• Generally limited to FOUR items, but whatever the case--just make sure it fits whatever else is on the page at that time. Use your common sense.

The rules (images)

• The standard image code is div style="float:right;margin-left:1em;"> ]</div>, but feel free to use a pixel width smaller than 100px or shift the alignment to the left.
• Sometimes new articles won't have images, but you can usually use a flag for a topic with a national connection.
• The item with an associated image should be the FIRST ITEM, even if that means breaking the "first in, first out" rule. Try not to add an item to the top of DYK without adding an associated image. If you add one without an image, add it as the 2nd, 3rd or 4th item or hide the picture.
• If an article does not have an image, but you use a related image to display on DYK, please add that image to the article.

The rules (selections)

• Look for articles that are +1,000 characters in size. NO STUBS.
• Try to pick articles that are a.) ORIGINAL to Misplaced Pages (not 1911 or other data sources) and b.) interesting.
• The "Did you know?" fact MUST be mentioned in the article.
• Try to avoid country-centrism and topic-centrism. No DYK installment should have four entries relating to the United States or computer topics, etc.

The rules (updates)

• Updates can be as often as warranted, but items removed after less than six hours don't really get a fair share of exposure, and items posted more than 24 hours seem to become stale.
• The items do not have to be replaced four-for-four (one-by-one additions are fine), but keep the item that has an associated image on top.
• Please ARCHIVE expired items in Misplaced Pages:Recent additions

Fort Calgary

Well, I decided to on a fact from an article I wrote. I figured I would do this, since it was an interesting piece of information that I discovered today while I was researching the article. I am somewhat glad that I live in "Calgary", Alberta instead of "Brisebois", Alberta. I also figured it would be a nice addition, since I found a good public domain photo from Library and Archives Canada. I hope no one think that this is too cocky of me. -- JamesTeterenko 19:09, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)