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This page gives an overview of all the hooks currently in the queue for promotion to the front page. By showing the content of all the queue and preparation area pages in one place, the overview helps administrators see how full the queue is, and also makes it easier for users to check that their hook has been promoted. Hooks removed from the prep areas or queue for unresolved issues should have their nominations reopened and retranscluded at the nomination page.

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Current number of hooks on the nominations page

Note: After 120 or more approved nominations, we rotate to two sets a day and when we drop below 60, we rotate to one set a day.

Section	# of Hooks	# Verified
Count of DYK Hooks
December 17	1
December 22	1	1
December 28	1	1
December 31	3	2
January 2	1
January 3	2	1
January 4	1
January 5	1	1
January 9	1
January 11	2
January 12	1
January 15	2	1
January 17	1
January 18	1	1
January 19	1	1
January 20	2	1
January 21	1	1
January 23	1
January 24	1	1
January 25	2
January 26	2	1
January 27	2	1
January 28	2
January 29	5	3
January 30	5
January 31	6	3
February 1	3	2
February 2	1	1
February 3	3	1
February 4	4	2
February 5	6	5
February 6	2	2
February 7	2	1
February 9	2
February 10	4	4
February 12	11	6
February 13	2	2
February 14	4	2
February 15	4	4
February 16	6	4
February 17	7	5
February 18	4	3
February 19	8	4
February 20	5	3
February 21	11	10
February 22	9	4
February 23	6	2
February 24	7	3
February 25	7	4
February 26	8	7
February 27	10	9
February 28	4	1
March 1	4
March 2	6
March 3	3
March 4	2
March 5	3
March 6	6
March 7	4
March 8	3	1
March 9	2
March 10	5
March 11
Total	227	112
Last updated 12:42, 11 March 2023 UTC Current time is 11:18, 20 Meyi 2026 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

DYK queue status

There is currently 1 filled queue. Admin assistance in moving preps is requested.

Earliest time for next DYK update: 12:00, 13 Malichi 2023 (UTC)

Current time: 11:18, 20 Meyi 2026 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 12 hours

Last updated: 3 years ago(

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Local update times

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Queue 1	13 Malichi 05:00	13 Malichi 08:00	13 Malichi 12:00	13 Malichi 13:00	13 Malichi 17:30	13 Malichi 21:00	13 Malichi 22:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	13 Malichi 17:00	13 Malichi 20:00	14 Malichi 00:00	14 Malichi 01:00	14 Malichi 05:30	14 Malichi 09:00	14 Malichi 10:00
Queue 3	14 Malichi 05:00	14 Malichi 08:00	14 Malichi 12:00	14 Malichi 13:00	14 Malichi 17:30	14 Malichi 21:00	14 Malichi 22:00
Queue 4	14 Malichi 17:00	14 Malichi 20:00	15 Malichi 00:00	15 Malichi 01:00	15 Malichi 05:30	15 Malichi 09:00	15 Malichi 10:00
Queue 5	15 Malichi 05:00	15 Malichi 08:00	15 Malichi 12:00	15 Malichi 13:00	15 Malichi 17:30	15 Malichi 21:00	15 Malichi 22:00
Queue 6	15 Malichi 17:00	15 Malichi 20:00	16 Malichi 00:00	16 Malichi 01:00	16 Malichi 05:30	16 Malichi 09:00	16 Malichi 10:00
Queue 7	16 Malichi 05:00	16 Malichi 08:00	16 Malichi 12:00	16 Malichi 13:00	16 Malichi 17:30	16 Malichi 21:00	16 Malichi 22:00
Prep 1	16 Malichi 17:00	16 Malichi 20:00	17 Malichi 00:00	17 Malichi 01:00	17 Malichi 05:30	17 Malichi 09:00	17 Malichi 10:00

Queues

Queue 1 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (BorgQueen (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Quarantine station on Saint John's Island

... that Saint John's Island was the site of one of the largest quarantine centres of the British Empire (pictured), and held one of the first experimental drug rehabilitation centres?
... that the wildlife of Sudan includes leopards, giraffes, crocodiles, water hyacinth and the umbrella thorn acacia?
... that Japanese pianist Nagaoka Nobuko, a child prodigy called an "absolute genius", was killed in the final American firebombing of Tokyo?
... that a robotic controller for the Yamaha Reface CS was described by Mixmag magazine as looking "like an army of robot toothbrushes cleaning a synth"?
... that West Auckland is home to the largest stratovolcano in the geologic history of New Zealand?
... that al-Battani was one the first astronomers to observe that the distance between the Earth and the Sun varies during the year?
... that The Embrace, a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was deemed phallic?
... that Taylor Swift-lookalike Ashley Leechin went viral for doing laundry?

Queue 2 [edit]

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Queue 3 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (BorgQueen (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Samuel Iling-Junior

... that footballer Samuel Iling-Junior (pictured) was involved in two goals for Juventus within eight minutes of debuting in the UEFA Champions League?
... that a bill poster for the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad ended up robbing the Railroad's own Division station?
... that Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to people with disabilities by the Queen, but received her award from the King?
... that alcohol manufacturers claimed the Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study violated their freedom of expression?
... that after anti-apartheid activist David Rabkin was sentenced to prison in South Africa, he gave the courtroom the clenched-fist black power salute?
... that three of the 16th-century Florentine Otto prints show young males tied to a tree and abused by women?
... that lectures given by Charles Lappenbusch were described as "so complicated that those in attendance often didn't know whether to take notes or laugh"?
... that the jumbotron at a 2022 Illinois football game displayed a tribute to the piebald squirrel Pinto Bean?

Queue 4 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (BorgQueen (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Seat of the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin

... that the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin (building pictured) voided the 2021 Berlin state election and ordered a repeat election?
... that a SailRail ticket allows travel from any station in Britain to any station in Ireland?
... that the last Fatimid caliph, al-Adid, came to the throne as a child, was dominated by his viziers, and died a few days after Saladin abolished the Fatimid regime?
... that according to media outlet WLOS, surveillance footage appears to contradict the initial police account of the shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer at his home in Murphy, North Carolina?
... that Fionula Brennan's experiments with cytokines led to new therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis?
... that two years after Instagram's Dear White Staffers started out as a small meme account, it was credited with kickstarting the unionization of U.S. congressional staff?
... that Panagiotis Stamatakis and Heinrich Schliemann quarrelled so much during their excavations at Mycenae that they spoke only through intermediaries?
... that micronations have claimed territory in Antarctica, in international waters, and in space?

Queue 5 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (BorgQueen (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Grip, Dickens's raven

... that Charles Dickens's talking raven Grip (pictured) inspired the poem "The Raven"?
... that the human rights abuses committed by Indonesian soldiers at ExxonMobil's Arun gas field spawned a U.S. lawsuit against the company that has been stalled for 20 years?
... that the Spanish priest Baltasar Calvo was denounced as a "Valencian Robespierre" for leading an 1808 massacre of French residents in Valencia?
... that after the Battle of Winwick in 1648 some Scottish prisoners were sold as slaves?
... that Nazi concentration camp commandant Otto Hantke was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1974 at the age of 67 for his acts during the Holocaust?
... that King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's "cli-fi" thrash metal album addresses a mix of current ecological threats and attempts to find another planet to live on?
... that Pat Cronin, a 19-year-old man, died after he was struck just once on his head during a pub fight?
... that Logical Machine Corporation product range of computers included the ADAM, the Mike, and the Tina?

Queue 6 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (BorgQueen (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Seongsu Bridge collapse

... that after the Seongsu Bridge collapsed (pictured) in Seoul, radiographic testing found that 110 of the 111 connections in the bridge were filled with defects?
... that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Suzhou has both the tallest Catholic church building in China and the first ever Chinese bishop to meet the pope?
... that French astrochemist Christine Joblin co-created a webcomic to popularize her research on the origins of cosmic dust?
... that the developers of The Pale Beyond were inspired by stories from historical Antarctic and Arctic expeditions?
... that Vermont folk musician Pete Sutherland hosted concerts at his house for $10 — or $9 if you brought your own chair?
... that in 1998, David Bowie launched BowieNet, a pioneering internet service provider which offered exclusive access to audio recordings, music videos, an online chat, and a virtual world?
... that Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis was a semi-professional snowboarder in New Zealand before she decided to pursue a career in the arts?
... that the walls of the Paper House are made from newspaper?

Queue 7 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by an administrator (BorgQueen (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Siniaková and Krejčíková

... that at the Grand Slams in tennis, Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková (pictured) are on a 24-match winning streak?
... that Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam was at the centre of controversy in Sudan?
... that after their Apple II clone was seized by U.S. Customs, CompuSource released a portable Apple II clone that was also IBM PC compatible?
... that Cara De Silva described a cookbook compiled by a woman in Terezin concentration camp as a record of "psychological resistance”?
... that in 2015, GracePointe Church, Nashville, Tennessee, became one of the first evangelical megachurches to openly support full equality for LGBTQ people?
... that traders from Novgorod supplied medieval western Europe with fashionable furs?
... that Japanese Breakfast released versions of their song "Be Sweet" in both Korean and Simlish?
... that Nixon's "Slaughtergate" scandal involved selling kangaroo meat as beef?

Instructions on how to promote a hook

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

See Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas for details on verifying a hook's acceptability.
Promoters should not promote their own nomination or their own review
When promoting hooks intended for a particular date, keep in mind that when the number of available approved nominations exceeds 120 we switch to two sets per day, and when that number drops below 60 we return to one set per day.

Check list for nomination review completeness

Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post: .
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Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
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Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
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Steps to add a hook to prep

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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.
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- 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

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Prep areas

NOTE: The next prep set to move into the queue is prep 2 [update count].

Prep area 2 [edit]

Eckford (far right) and his fellow pilots

... that the Spirit of the Few Monument at Hawkinge is based on a photograph of Alan Eckford and other pilots of No. 32 Squadron (pictured) during the Battle of Britain?
... that the geology of the Ellsworth Mountains was explored by geologists using motor toboggans in 1961?
... that Parasitic Engineering was named as a reference to a MITS co-founder calling third-party hardware vendors "parasite companies"?
... that soprano Galina Pisarenko studied economics, English, and Norwegian at the same time she was studying to become a professional opera singer?
... that so little is known about the reclusive developer of Yume Nikki that publisher Kadokawa Games had to debunk rumors that they had died in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake?
... that a dispute led to HMS Gloucester taking a path that caused the ship to hit a sandbank, leading to it sinking?
... that the Beezer Brothers designed buildings with clay tile in place of steel for better performance during fires?
... that the documentary Railway with a Heart of Gold has actual footage of a derailment whilst the filmmaker was attached to the side of the train?

Prep area 3 [edit]

The St. Regis New York

... that in the 1980s, New York City's St. Regis Hotel (pictured) was said to have hosted "every U.S. president since its opening"?
... that classical dances of Gaddam Padmaja Reddy, recipient of India's highest award for performing arts, explore contemporary social issues such as female foeticide and HIV/AIDS?
... that the Kitab al-wadih bi-l-haqq is a critique of Islam written by a convert to Coptic Christianity during a period of persecution?
... that fighter pilot Winton W. Marshall used the jet exhaust of his F-86 Sabre to extinguish the fire from a crashed B-47 bomber?
... that an internet meme about the nonexistent film Goncharov originated with a Tumblr user posting a photo of the film's name found on a pair of boots?
... that Mahatma Gandhi's statue located in the premises of the Telangana Legislative Assembly was sculpted by C. S. N. Patnaik?
... that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris was desecrated during riots in 1927?
... that according to Chinese physician Zhu Zhenheng, apparent possessions are typically "no more than confusion caused by mucus"?

Prep area 4 [edit]

Paul Oscar

... that Paul Oscar (pictured), Iceland's participant at the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, was the contest's first openly LGBT artist to compete?
... that the name Zenock is misspelled in almost every published edition of the Book of Mormon?
... that ...
... that writer Eliza Bland Smith Erskine Norton married two different men who both lost an arm in battle?
... that the Second Vatican Council tried to undo the latinization of Eastern Catholic liturgy?
... that Midway v. Artic helped establish that video games are eligible for copyright protection as audiovisual works?
... that Paul Joseph Cini, a Canadian skyjacker, thought he could evade justice by parachuting from the plane with the ransom money before landing?
... that the Piano Quintet by Alfred Schnittke has been called "one of the most depressing pieces ever written"?

Prep area 5 [edit]

Commander and soldiers of the Detached Unit of the Polish Army

... that the Detached Unit of the Polish Army (pictured) is often described as the first Allied partisan unit of World War II?
... that Paramount Chief Matilda Lansana Minah V has backed a 30% quota for the representation of women in the parliament of Sierra Leone?
... that although it was rejected by the lesbian mainstream when it was first released, Kamikaze Hearts has since been called "a milestone in queer cinema"?
... that Jack Melchor stayed at Claridge's annually over a 40-year period?
... that during the 1930 Bago earthquake, a witness observed surface waves propagating through a tennis court?
... that before entering politics, Usman Ja'far was known as a pioneer in the Indonesian retail industry?
... that the Seattle SeaDogs won the final Continental Indoor Soccer League championship before the league folded?
... that, as some saw it as too erotic, Aang Kunaefi banned the Jaipongan dance from being performed in official events?

Prep area 6 [edit]

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... that ... (pictured) ...
... that ...
... that the Kitab al-wadih bi-l-haqq is a critique of Islam written by a convert to Coptic Christianity during a period of persecution?
... that Ernest Fanelli's composition Thèbes, written in 1886, utilizes musical elements considered to precurse Impressionism?
... that a man who shot and killed a Florida woman waving a gun at him from her front lawn after a road-rage incident was not charged in her death?
... that ...
... that Brihony Dawson, the host of reality television series The Challenge: Australia, is the first non-binary television presenter in Australia?
... that Washington State linebacker Daiyan Henley opted out of playing in the 2022 LA Bowl and served as an assistant linebackers coach during the game instead?
... that ...

Prep area 7 [edit]

Ruby Tandoh

... that when baker Ruby Tandoh (pictured) publicly came out, she mocked critics who suggested that she had romanced a male contest judge?
... that the 1862 Henry Kingsley novel Ravenshoe has been noted for its passages dealing with the famous Charge of the Light Brigade?
... that Swiss Social Democratic federal councilor Willi Ritschard was not amused when he had to attend a royal banquet for Queen Elizabeth II on International Workers' Day 1980?
... that creating Vennture Brew Company involved 18 months of construction and $22,000 in crowdsourced funds?
... that Indian Carnatic music vocalist R. K. Padmanabha teaches group singing predominantly to women?
... that the San Diego Trough Fault Zone can produce an earthquake that devastates the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego, California?
... that the note-taking software Obsidian was created by just two developers during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that gas lighting inspired Stephen Gunzenhauser to start a classical music festival?

Prep area 1 [edit]

Central Post Office after destruction

... that Kyiv's Central Post Office was built after Soviet forces deliberately destroyed its predecessor (pictured) less than a year after it was completed?
... that Utah state representative Charles Redd moved to legalize horse racing and betting in 1925, only to make it illegal again two years later?
... that in November 1960, Canadian poets Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, and Gwendolyn MacEwen performed at the Bohemian Embassy on the same bill as burlesque dancer Libby Jones?
... that American teacher Marc Fogel was sentenced to 14 years in Russian prison for possessing a small amount of marijuana, but has gotten little public attention compared to Brittney Griner?
... that the dinosaur Bashunosaurus was first mentioned in a scientific paper in 1989, but was only formally named in 2004?
... that Patty Loveless's musical career rebounded after she underwent surgery to repair a blood vessel on her vocal cords?
... that Monaco GP was the most popular arcade driving game in the United States in 1981?
... that Walter von Pückler earned the nickname Dreschgraf ('Thrashing Count') due to his frequent use of violent, antisemitic language?