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DYK queue status

There are currently 2 filled queues. Assistance in moving preps is requested.
DYK is running 12-hour sets. There are currently 17 empty slots in the preps, not counting the bottom prep.

Earliest time for next DYK update: 12:00, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Current time: 03:43, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 12 hours

Last updated: 3 hours ago(

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When modifying a hook in a queue or prep area (other than minor formatting fixes), please notify the nominator by including a link of the form [[User:JoeEditor]] in your edit summary. (Ping templates like {{u|JoeEditor}} don't work in edit summaries.)

Administrators: Please ensure that there is always at least one queue filled at all times, to prevent overdue updates to the Main Page.

This page gives an overview of all DYK hooks currently scheduled for promotion to the Main Page. By showing the content of all queues and prep areas in one place, the overview helps administrators see how full the queues are, and also makes it easier for users to check that their hook has been promoted or to find hooks for copy-editing. Hooks removed from queues or prep areas for unresolved issues should have their nominations reopened and retranscluded at the nomination page.

You may need to purge this page to get it to display the latest edits.

The next update will be produced from Queue 2. After performing a manual update, please update the pointer to the next queue.

Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London (UTC)	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 2	13 November 04:00	13 November 07:00	13 November 12:00	13 November 12:00	13 November 17:30	13 November 21:00	13 November 23:00
Queue 3	13 November 16:00	13 November 19:00	14 November 00:00	14 November 00:00	14 November 05:30	14 November 09:00	14 November 11:00
Queue 4 Prep 4	14 November 04:00	14 November 07:00	14 November 12:00	14 November 12:00	14 November 17:30	14 November 21:00	14 November 23:00
Queue 5 Prep 5	14 November 16:00	14 November 19:00	15 November 00:00	15 November 00:00	15 November 05:30	15 November 09:00	15 November 11:00
Queue 6 Prep 6	15 November 04:00	15 November 07:00	15 November 12:00	15 November 12:00	15 November 17:30	15 November 21:00	15 November 23:00
Queue 7 Prep 7	15 November 16:00	15 November 19:00	16 November 00:00	16 November 00:00	16 November 05:30	16 November 09:00	16 November 11:00
Queue 1 Prep 1	16 November 04:00	16 November 07:00	16 November 12:00	16 November 12:00	16 November 17:30	16 November 21:00	16 November 23:00
Prep 2	16 November 16:00	16 November 19:00	17 November 00:00	17 November 00:00	17 November 05:30	17 November 09:00	17 November 11:00
Prep 3	17 November 04:00	17 November 07:00	17 November 12:00	17 November 12:00	17 November 17:30	17 November 21:00	17 November 23:00

Queues

Queue 2 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Laun chba ller) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Interior of Ekhof-Theater

... that from 1775, when Conrad Ekhof directed the court theatre (pictured) in Gotha, one of the oldest Baroque theatres with working stage machinery, citizens were given access to performances?
... that Orlando Gill sold his jersey and football gear to pay his wife and child's hospital bills?
... that the construction of Swinomish Channel destroyed large areas of seagrass habitat?
... that the author of Not Me That Went Viral chose online shaming as a theme because he believes that it was a topic everyone in modern times could potentially be involved in?
... that Jimmy Jerome died in a head-on car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway the year after breaking the North Carolina football record for the most receptions?
... that the statue of a former president remained on the ground for more than a year after being toppled by a tree branch, before being vandalized and decapitated?
... that the 2026 state visit by Xi Jinping to the United States marked the first time since 1962 that a U.S. president personally welcomed a foreign leader at Joint Base Andrews?
... that Ernest Hemingway, reporting from the 1922 Genoa Conference, described the head of Canada's delegation as "a little ill at ease"?
... that Risa Nakamura wore a bra made from Pikachu plushies in promotional media for a collaboration between Pokémon and a lingerie brand?

Queue 3 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Laun chba ller) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Flag of Tuvalu

... that the flag of Tuvalu (pictured) was changed three times in under two years?
... that Hungary has an EU-funded forest canopy walkway around which the forest was cut down?
... that the highest scoring game in NFL history, where 113 points were scored, was "a great defensive battle"?
... that vowels in Proto-Tungusic are traditionally categorized as "male" or "female"?
... that Walter Franklin Anderson composed his D-Day Prayer Cantata, commemorating U.S. participation in World War II, at the suggestion of Eleanor Roosevelt?
... that Bomberman is a prequel to Lode Runner?
... that a publication featuring caricatures and satirical verse by Martin Disteli was banned in Lucerne?
... that La Casa de los Mañosos features fictionalized versions of politicians as contestants in a reality-show parody?
... that Charlotte Arren parodied operatic sopranos in a vaudeville act while wearing roller skates?

Queue 4 [edit]

Queue 5 [edit]

Queue 6 [edit]

Queue 7 [edit]

Queue 1 [edit]

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: .
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
  }}
  insert a new, separate line containing one of the following:
  To [[TM:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
  
  To [[TM:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]
- 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.

Handy copy sources:

To [[TM:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
To [[TM:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
To [[TM:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
To [[TM:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
To [[TM:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
To [[TM:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
To [[TM:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]

Prep areas

Note: The next prep set to move into the queue is Prep 4 [update count].

Prep area 4 [edit]

Chief Hong's boat in Pohang

... that fans of Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha hike a steep trail in Pohang just to see Chief Hong's boat (pictured)?
... that Jewish fencer Raoul Barouch was an Olympic flag bearer for an Arab country?
... that U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger remarked that he needed a psychiatrist during the 1976 Aegean Crisis?
... that Archbishop Clarembald of Tyre drew up a marriage contract for a princess and her stepbrother with her sister as a built-in replacement bride?
... that Uyghur activists praised Fatih Arda İpcioğlu for wearing light-blue skis at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, erroneously believing that the skis depicted the flag of East Turkestan?
... that in October 2026 Katie Zacharia became the shortest-serving White House press secretary in U.S. history, with only a five-day tenure?
... that an altercation involving the teenaged Frederick Douglass while at Mount Misery motivated him to escape bondage and become a free man?
... that a one-armed Swiss painter was an active mountaineer who undertook winter tours in the high Alps?
... that recipes for scripture cakes include steps like "add 6 Jeremiah 17:11"?

Prep area 5 [edit]

Strike leader Sherman Miller being arrested

... that opponents of the 1972 Mead wildcat strike unsuccessfully tried to "red-bait" the communist strikers (leader pictured)?
... that historian Yuval Noah Harari states in his book Nexus that the truth of information does not correlate with its persuasive ability? under discussion
... that Tanita Tikaram responded to criticism of her "sixth-form" lyrics by pointing out that she was in fact a sixth-former when she wrote them?
... that the California house of designers Charles and Ray Eames featured paintings hung face-down from the ceiling?
... that Hans Henkes co-developed a new technique to treat strokes, which according to CIRSE "saved thousands of lives", when no available treatment worked?
... that a well-performing racehorse inspired an Australian slang term for "slow-witted"?
... that circulation numbers of a Ukrainian-language daily newspaper in the Russian Empire depended on the amount of harvest collected by its owner?
... that Marie Wreschner received a patent in 1930 for a radioactive liquid that killed tumors in animals?
... that a film about transgender issues invited transgender people to participate under false pretenses?

Prep area 6 [edit]

Sabrina Bruce

... that the officers Erica Vandal, Kara Corcoran, Erin Krizek, Logan Ireland, and Sabrina Bruce (pictured) all retired because Donald Trump banned transgender people from serving in the US military?
... that Anita Chitaya was filmed farming one acre (0.40 ha) of land in a village in Northern Malawi, and on her quest to explain climate change in America?
... that Burial Lake and Lake E5 may indicate that humans have been present in Alaska for more than 30,000 years?
... that Bishop John scoffed at Maria of Antioch's claim to the throne of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and instead crowned another claimant, causing Maria to travel to Rome to complain to the pope?
... that the death of a 25-year-old woman led to the dissolution of Lauren Bennett's supergroup G.R.L.?
... that Sabrina Imbler, the author of How Far the Light Reaches, uses science journalism, memes, and LGBTQ narratives in their work?
... that invalids sometimes took toast water and calf's heel jelly spiked with wine?
... that, when Daniela Moreira began working at Timber Pizza, one of the recipes by the business's co-owner referenced spoon colors instead of measurements?
... that a Kona, a Kokona, and Kanna Kan starred in Link! Like! Love Live!?

Prep area 7 [edit]

Engraving on the Khalili astrolabe

... that an engraving on the Khalili astrolabe uses hoopoe birds (pictured) to represent the sultans of small kingdoms?
... that a 2018 trip to Syria by future Irish president Catherine Connolly resurfaced as a point of controversy and scrutiny in the 2025 Irish presidential election?
... that the Theater of the Emerging American Moment drew inspiration for RoosevElvis from Thelma & Louise, Elvis impersonators, and Theodore Roosevelt's "grandmotherly" voice?
... that the walls of Jeju Fortress were destroyed to create a port?
... that Kanagawa Shimbun was criticized for sponsoring a concert at a US military base on the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki?
... that Alexis Nikole Nelson won the inaugural James Beard food award for a social media account?
... that Toluca won their first international title without playing a final?
... that while her house was being built, Montana politician Emily Stonington lived in a tepee which she sewed together herself?
... that the great cakes of early modern England could be over 1 metre (3.3 ft) wide?

Prep area 1 [edit]

OpenFlexure Microscope V7-beta4

... that the lowest-cost version of the OpenFlexure Microscope (pictured) can be built for about US$15 if hardware is purchased in bulk?
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Prep area 2 [edit]

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Prep area 3 [edit]

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