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This page holds approved nominations that are waiting to appear in the "Did you know" section on the Main Page. Following DYK approval, nominations are processed and moved into a Prep area, and from there, prep sets are promoted to a queue, and then to the main page.
To create a new nomination or to see those that are yet to be approved, see Template talk:Did you know. For the discussion page see WT:DYK. Click on the link to go directly to the Special occasion holding area.
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| Count of DYK Hooks | ||
| Section | # of Hooks | # Verified |
|---|---|---|
| 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 12:55, 20 Janyuwale 2026 UTC [refresh] | ||
Instructions for nominators
[kulemba source]This page is for those nominations that have already been approved and are waiting to be promoted. If yours has been approved but has not yet been run on the main page, it should either be on this page or will soon be moved here, or already promoted to a Prep area or Queue ahead of an appearance on the main page.
If you wish to create a new nomination, please go to the Template talk:Did you know page; there are instructions there in a section similar to this one on how to nominate an article for DYK.
Frequently asked questions
[kulemba source]Backlogged?
[kulemba source]This page is often backlogged. As long as your submission is still on the page, it will stay there until someone promotes it to a preparation area. To alleviate this problem, if the approved page has more than 120 approved hooks, then sets will change twice per day (every 12 hours) instead of once per day (every 24 hours). When the backlog falls below 60 approved nominations set frequency returns to once a day.
Where is my hook?
[kulemba source]If you can't find the nomination you submitted to the nominations page, and it also isn't on this page, in most cases it means your article has been approved and is either in one of the prep areas, has been promoted from prep to a queue, or is on the main page.
If the nominated hook is in none of those places, then the nomination has probably been rejected. Such a rejection usually only occurs if it was at least a couple of weeks old and had unresolved issues for which any discussion had gone stale. If you think your nomination was unfairly rejected, you can query this on the DYK discussion page, but as a general rule such nominations will only be restored in exceptional circumstances.
Instructions for other editors
[kulemba source]How to promote an accepted hook
[kulemba source]- See Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas for full instructions.
- In one window, open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to promote.
- In another window, open the prep set you intend to add the hook to.
- In the prep set...
- Paste the hook into the hook area (be sure to not paste in that that)
- Paste the credit information ({{DYKmake}} and/or {{DYKnom}} ) into the credits area.
- Add an edit summary, e.g., "Promoted [[Jane Fonda]]", preview, and save
- Back on DYK nomination page...
- change
{{DYKsubpageto{{subst:DYKsubpage - change
|passed=to|passed=yes - Add an edit summary, e.g., "Promoted original hook to Prep 3", preview, and save
- change
How to remove a hook from the prep areas or queue
[kulemba source]- Edit the prep area or queue where the hook is and remove the hook and the credits associated with it.
- Go to the hook's nomination subpage (there should have been a link to it in the credits section).
- View the edit history for that page
- Go back to the last version before the edit where the hook was promoted, and revert to that version to make the nomination active again.
- Add a new icon on the nomination subpage to cancel the previous tick and leave a comment after it explaining that the hook was removed from the prep area or queue, and why, so that later reviewers are aware of this issue.
- Add a transclusion of the template back to the nominations page so that reviewers can see it. It goes under the date that it was first created/expanded/listed as a GA. You may need to add back the day header for that date if it had been removed from the nominations page.
- If you removed the hook from a queue, it is best to either replace it with another hook from one of the prep areas, or to leave a message at WT:DYK asking someone else to do so.