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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 fact). Nominations that have been approved are moved to a staging area and then promoted into the Queue. To update this page, it.

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Instructions for nominators

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 or with the closer, but as a general rule such nominations will only be restored in exceptional circumstances. If your nomination was promoted, but it hasn't reached the main page after two weeks, you can also query this on the DYK discussion page.

Instructions for reviewers

Main page: Wikipedia:Did you know/Reviewer instructions

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 more information on the DYK rules and review processes, see the DYK guidelines and the reviewer instructions.

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 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

1. Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post: .
2. Check to make sure basic review requirements were completed.
   • Any outstanding issue following needs to be addressed before promoting.
3. Check the article history for any substantive changes since it was nominated or reviewed.
4. 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.
5. Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
6. Hook should make sense grammatically.
7. Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
8. 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 :)

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If it's the lead (first) hook, paste the image where indicated at the top of the template.
4. Copy and paste ALL the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) at the bottom
5. 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.
6. Save the Prep page.

Closing the DYK nomination page

1. At the upper left
   • Change {{DYKsubpage to {{subst:DYKsubpage
   • Change |passed= to |passed=yes
2. 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 [[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.
3. 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.
4. 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]]

How to remove a rejected nomination

• Open the DYK nomination subpage of the nomination you would like to remove.
• 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.
• Alternatively, you can use PSHAW, which automates the process.

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

Older nominations

Articles created/expanded on September 28

Voltio (carsharing company)

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Two cars owned by the company

• ... that Voltio is named after the volt?

• Source: [1] «En la denominación de la compañía [...] el significado intrínseco de la palabra voltio» El “voltio” es la unidad [...] para medir el potencial eléctrico [...]. Translation: «In the name of the company [...] the intrinsical meaning of the word voltio» The volt is the unit [...] to measure the electric potential.

• ALT1: ... that Voltio (cars pictured) has the biggest car fleet in Spain? Source: [2] Voltio se consolida como el servicio de coche compartido líder en España al poseer la mayor flota del país. Voltio consolidates itself as the leader of carsharing in Spain as it has the biggest fleet in the country.
• ALT2: ... that Voltio's name derives from an expression that translates to "going for a walk"? Source: [3] [El nombre] se complementa con el significado coloquial 'darse un voltio', salir de algún lugar para dar una vuelta. [The name] complements with the coloquial meaning of 'darse un voltio', meaning to go for a walk.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Morozova Mansion
• Comment: Reverosie moved it to mainspace.

Moved to mainspace by Earth605 (talk) and Reverosie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Earth605^talk 15:17, 28 September 2025 (UTC).

• @Earth605: Article is new and long enough, external policy compliant, and is presentable. The hooks are cited to reliable sources and are interesting. Images are freely licensed and a QPQ was carried out. ALT0 is a bit of a borderline case for interestingness; it's common for companies to be named after their industry and some may not find it interesting. ALT1 is a contentious claim; although the policy states that it's okay to have such hooks, it's a bit controversial these days to nominate such a hook, and it's a little promotional for my liking. I will approve ALT2, but the source says that the phrase complements the company's name, not that the company was named after that specific phrase (courtesy pinging Reverosie, who may be interested in this discussion). Icepinner 03:14, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing! One detail. I did not need to do the QPQ, I just mentioned it cuz why not? About ALT0, the company is a carsharing company, not an electricity company. ALT1 was meant to be an image hook and ALT2 was the normal hook. ALT2 says that the name "derives" from the expression, which is not the same as it comes from it, but I understand your reasoning. Icepinner Earth605^talk 15:37, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

@Earth605: Regarding ALT0, I am aware that this is a carsharing company. Reiterating my point, it's common for car companies, and car-sharing companies, to be named after things assoicated with their industry (example: Tesla is named after Nikola Tesla), so I considered it to be a borderline case. However, I am willing to seek out a third opinion for ALT0, if you're interested. The source of ALT2 says A su vez, se complementa con el significado coloquial 'darse un voltio', salir de algún lugar para dar una vuelta, which roughly translates to It is also complemented by the colloquial meaning of 'taking a little break,' which means going out for a walk, meaning it complements the phrase (makes the company's name "Voltio" look better, for a lack of a better word), not that it originated from that specfic phrase. I'm also willing to seek for a third opinion on this hook as well. Icepinner 02:31, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

In the case of ALT0, I'm actually okay with it as it (as long as it's made clear that it's referring to the unit volt and not some other usage), but maybe a short clause explaining why would increase hook interest and address the concerns? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:14, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

@Icepinner and Narutolovehinata5: Sorry for the long wait. I would like another opinion in ALT2. What do you mean: a short clause? Earth605^talk 06:16, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

It means that a version of ALT0 that explains why the company was named after the volt could work. So instead of "that Voltio is named after the volt", it could be "that car sharing company Voltio is named after the volt because/to [insert reason here]?" It would admittedly make for a longer hook, but it could also solve the context and interest issues. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:53, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Yeah I wouldn't mind it if ALT0 had a short clause explaning why it was named after the volt. I still think ALT2 has potential, like ALT2a: "... that a Spanish carsharing company's name is complemented by a phrase for "taking a walk"?". Pretty interesting that a carsharing company's name complements an expression for taking a walk. Icepinner 14:40, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

I like that! I'll just like to cut the "Spanish" part 'cause of geographical bias like so: ALT2b "... that a carsharing company's name is complemented by a phrase for "taking a walk"?" This here would be perfect, @Icepinner:! Earth605^talk 20:32, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Fair enough. What do you think of this hook, Narutolovehinata5? Icepinner 01:29, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Not the greatest hook out there, but still better than the volt hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:05, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Ok then, I shall greenlight ALT2b. Icepinner 03:34, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

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@Earth605, Icepinner, Dclemens1971, and HighKing: pulling this because there seems to be an ongoing notability dispute. When the tag is off for good or an AfD has been completed, we can reassess here :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 04:08, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, theleekycauldron, for the notice. I don't have any comments on the subject's notability to warrant its own Wikipedia article, but I note that this nomination is fast approaching WP:DYKTIMEOUT, so this is a matter that needs to be resolved, Earth605 and HighKing. The nomination could be placed on hold if, say, a formal AFD was started. Icepinner 05:13, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Look, it is notable. It is the biggest carsharing company in Spain. I pass Voltio cars every day. Also, there are innumerable US carsharing articles. Getaround, Gig Car Share, Uhaul Car Share and Zipcar. There are many diverse articles of a lot of countries, but there is 1 carsharing Spanish article. I've changed the writing a bit to emphasize this. @HighKing: this is notable Earth605^talk 06:55, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Earth605 I spotted this at DYK and rather than take it straight to AfD I though it best to tag the article with a detailed reasoning as to why it was tagged. There hasn't been any engagement with the concerns and it may be that they weren't understood or were too vague so I've provided reasoning and an analysis of sources on your Talk page. None meet the criteria for establishing notability and searching myself, I can't locate anything that meets the criteria but if you can, ping me at your talk page with a link to the article and pointing out which paragraph or part of the article you believe meets the criteria. If we can get a couple of sources, we can remove the tag on the article.

@Theleekycauldron, Icepinner, and Highking: The nomination will turn two months old in a couple of days, so in the interest of having a resolution either way, I would suggest starting an AFD. The nomination will go on hold anyway once that happens, so either way, the nomination won't be closed or proceed until after the AFD finishes. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:12, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

I agree. I note that Earth605 has not yet responded to Highking's comment on their talk page; they may still be busy finding sources to address Highking's concerns. Best to take this to AFD so that if the article was notable, then it would still have a chance at DYK. Icepinner 00:23, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

@HighKing: Re-ping due to a typo. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:13, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

I would like to also point out that this was accepted by Reverosie via AFC. If you don't know her, she was awarded editor of the week in Aug 2025 as she reviewed lots of GAs since starting Wikipedia in May 2025. Looking at her talk page, she agreed to review and accept one of Earth's drafts. I normally expect articles to be accepted via AFD if there is a good chance the article will survive an AFD. JuniperChill (talk) 21:49, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, @Icepinner, Narutolovehinata5, Dclemens1971, HighKing, Theleekycauldron, Reverosie, and JuniperChill:, I was to busy on the other side of Wikipedia. I have responded HighKing's comment, and I went searching for sources 4 seconds. Are we ready to go? Earth605^talk 06:10, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

No, disappointingly I don't think this is ready to go. You responded by mentioning two sources which I'd already commented on. They do not meet GNG/NCORP, I've provided reasoning. I'll see how this pans out but perhaps AfD is where this one is heading after all. HighKing⁺⁺ 18:57, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Also - if anyone feels it is better to put it to AfD, feel free, in the interests of time. I have to say, if the concern is solely about whether this notable, I'm happy to give Earthsea a chance to come up with sourcing that meets GNG/NCORP, but if there is a time-sensitivity about DYK, then feel free to get it to AfD. HighKing⁺⁺ 19:04, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

@HighKing: The nomination turns two months old on November 28 (it already is where I am), which would make it eligible for timing out, so it is probably better to bring this to AFD. AFD would give the benefit of the nomination being put on hold until after the discussion, so it would act like an extension giving the circumstances. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:25, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Just as an update: HighKing has nominated this for AfD 9 hours ago, Therefore, this nomination cannot be marked for closure unless article is deleted. JuniperChill (talk) 18:39, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Apologies, I am not familiar with DYK so didn't realise I should notify here. HighKing⁺⁺ 16:32, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

On hold pending the results of the AFD discussion. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 21:57, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on October 5

12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam

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• ... that the general secretary of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam was older than the set retirement age of 65?

• Source: https://www.bbc.com/vietnamese/vietnam/2016/01/160107_du_doan_hoi_nghi_14

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

Thanks, 🇪🇭🇵🇸🇸🇩 Easternsahara 🇪🇭🇵🇸🇸🇩 20:45, 11 October 2025 (UTC).

• Date of GA, various spotchecks - np, except the hook, which is one of the most mundane and boring I've seen here. Per WP:DYKINTEREST, a new hook or hooks need to be proposed. When replying here, please ping me. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:29, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
  • @Piotrus: ALT2: ... that the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam's "blazing furnace" disciplined over 53,000 government and party officials? from https://eastasiaforum.org/2020/06/03/vietnams-party-politics-back-on-centre-stage/ Can't believe I was about to miss out on such a good hook, playing on McCarthyism and all! User:Easternsahara_{review and this} 01:23, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
    • Although I think this hook is too big, so I would prefer if blazing furnace was the bold link and that it linked to the 12th CC article User:Easternsahara_{review and this} 01:31, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
      • @Easternsahara: Now it's ok but it it would be very helpful if by the time this runs the Vietnamese concept of the blazing furnace was explained on English Wikipedia. Any chance you could add that topic to your to-do-soon list? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:05, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
        • Yes, I probably could, especially if I ask TheUzbek (editor who got this to GA) to help. Otherwise, I could also do it alone. The vietnamese article covers it fairly well and is not too long. User:Easternsahara_{review and this} 03:12, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
          • @Piotrus and Easternsahara: Hook seems to fail verification; according to the source, Under [Trong's] tenure, Vietnam has disciplined more than 53,000 government officials and party members. Since Trọng's tenure as General Secretary appears to predate the 12th Central Committee, I don't think this makes sense as a 12th CC hook. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 02:54, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
            • He was also the general secretary of the 12th CC so I think it does make sense to have this as a hook, and I think that it's indubitably the most interesting thing on this article. Also, I think the news article is quite clearly talking about the 12th CC because it was published in 2020, when the 12th CC was still in session and the article does not mention the 11th anywhere else. User:Easternsahara_{review this} 02:26, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
            • @Theleekycauldron: it does not seem that you have received this message, please reply.
              • @Easternsahara: Hi, sorry! Pings don't go through if you forget to sign the message with the ping. I don't think that really addresses the reasons I think this hook doesn't check out; the hook says that under the 12th Central Committee, Vietnam disciplined more than 53,000 people. The source says under Trong's tenure, Vietnam disciplined more than 53,000 people. Trong's tenure started before the 12th CC and therefore it is not accurate to say that 53,000 people were disciplined under just the 12th CC. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 03:25, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
                • @Theleekycauldron, Piotrus, and Easternsahara: What about ... that eleven members of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam were disciplined, with punishments ranging from a warning to expulsion from the Party? TheUzbek (talk) 08:17, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
                  • @Theleekycauldron: What's the reference? This claim is in the lead, unreferenced, but it is not clear where it is in the body. I tried searching for eleven and disciplined, but I don't see it outside the lead. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:02, 2 December 2025 (UTC) PS. @TheUzbek: --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:03, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Mildred McAdory

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Mildred McAdory

• ... that Mildred McAdory's (pictured) refusal to move from her bus seat later inspired Rosa Parks to do the same?

• Source: Winters, Andrew J. (2018). "Seed of Resistance," "Symbol of Struggle": The Radical Life of Mildred McAdory, 1915-1988.

"The popular view is that the modern civil rights movement began with Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat. […] however, digging deeper into the origin of the civil rights movement and helping to inspire Parks’ actions, we find that there was in fact a hidden “grandmother” to the movement, another courageous woman, Mildred McAdory."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Erroll Kinistino

Created by Guerreroast (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 21 past nominations.

Roast (talk) 15:16, 5 October 2025 (UTC).

• Formalities aside, the hook is both interesting and bold at the same time. However, based on the quote given I found some lapse in the article's mentioned inferrence. The quote stated that McAdory's action helping to inspire Parks’ actions, meaning that it was not the sole inspiration. Adding to the dubiousness is the fact that the statement is written in first person. I also have quite some concerns about the fact presented in the statement since it doesn't even appear on any other sources. Thank you. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 09:45, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

it also appears in Peoples's World (https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/communists-and-the-long-struggle-for-african-american-equality/#:~:text=Another%2C%20though%20lesser%20known%2C%20African,defeat%20of%20Jim%20Crow%20racism.) "McAdory refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in Birmingham, Ala., in the early 1940s. Rosa Parks would later credit SYNC and CP leaders like McAdory for their groundbreaking tactics that hastened the defeat of Jim Crow racism." This mention of Rosa Parks may be a parallel drawn between McAdory and Parks, with Parks possibly not stating McAdory specifically. If you want, you can accept ALT1: "...that Mildred McAdory was arrested in 1942 for refusing to stand from her bus seat?" Roast (talk) 21:50, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

@Roast: Thank you for your suggestion! This is a much more straightforward and verifiable hook. Approved. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 09:17, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

@Guerreroast and Jeromi Mikhael: Evaluating for promotion, and the approved hook does not square with the article text: The four were ordered to exit the bus and enter the police car, which McAdory refused. Police threatened to beat her when she asked what she was being charged with. Instead of arresting her, police took another man – a standee – and left. Afterward, she and another black man willingly exited the bus, with her threatening to the bus driver to report them to the bus company. The bus driver encouraged her, then kicked her in the back as she was exiting and yelled to police to arrest her also. It reads as if she was not arrested until after she willingly left the bus, so the sequence in the hook is not quite right. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:42, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

marking as on hold while issues are resolved. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 02:56, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

@Guerreroast: Please address the above.--Launchballer 03:29, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

• Old hook was written before major expansion which made this inaccurate. Verify new hook: "... that Mildred McAdory was fired from a newspaper for suggesting it be written in simpler language?" Source: Winters 2018, pp. 41–43. Roast (talk) 03:55, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

I'd need a quote from the source anyway, but Winters is a masters WP:THESIS - what makes it a reliable source?--Launchballer 14:28, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on October 7

Walls of Babylon

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The Walls of Babylon

• ... that the Walls of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

• Source: Roscher, Wilhelm Heinrich (1906). "d) Die sieben Weltwunder (θεάματα, ἔργα μεγάλα)". Die Hebdomadenlehren der griechischen Philosophen und Aerzte (in German). Teubner. pp. 186–193. Retrieved 2025-04-20.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Masoud El Amaratly

Created by Onceinawhile (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 83 past nominations.

Onceinawhile (talk) 23:30, 7 October 2025 (UTC).

General eligibility:

• New enough:
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• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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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: Maximilian775 (talk) 18:35, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

• @Onceinawhile and Maximilian775: I'm not sure whether this article or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is more accurate, but the Walls of Bablyon seem to be included on some lists but not in the most traditional/widely accepted canon of seven. Could the discrepancy be corrected? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 03:04, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

  Hi @Theleekycauldron: they are both right and this is what makes them so interesting – the wording is carefully drafted to ensure accuracy. As the Walls article says, they were celebrated in antiquity as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It is the "in antiquity" that is the important language – as the seven wonders article shows (see the list of known lists, which follows Roscher), they were the joint-second most frequently cited Wonder. The "canonical" seven is a list invented accidentally in early modern times, following the Octo Mundi Miracula. Even the Octo actually intended the "Babylonis Muri" (Babylonian Walls) to be part of the list, but later interpretations ignored its label and focused on the image of the hanging gardens. Long story short, this is what makes it is great did you know. Onceinawhile (talk) 07:45, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

  @Onceinawhile: Ah. In that case, would you be willing to go with:

  • ALT0a: ... that the Walls of Babylon (pictured) used to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
  • ALT0b: ... that the Walls of Babylon (pictured) used to be considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

  Because the Walls don't exist anymore, I think "were" might be interpreted a bit ambiguously. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 17:08, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

  @Theleekycauldron: yes, either of those are fine. Onceinawhile (talk) 20:59, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

  approving both, promoter can decide which to use :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 21:06, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

• @Onceinawhile and Maximilian775: One more question: the quotes in the footnotes are incredibly long, and do not appear to be from freely-licensed sources (correct me if I'm wrong, please), making them copyright violations. Could these be whittled down to a few sentences each? (please  mention me on reply) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 06:32, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

  @TechnoSquirrel69: fair point – I have cut it down, so the longest quote is just 150 words. Fair use for quotations is usually considered 200-300 words in a long (5,000-10,000 words+) work. Onceinawhile (talk) 18:08, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

  Better, but they still look fairly long, and I'm not sure they're needed in their entirety in order to be verifiable, but I'm happy to defer to a second opinion from Maximilian775 or theleekycauldron. I'm curious — where did you get those word count figures from? I don't see anything specific in the non-free content policy. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 18:39, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

  I can’t recall the source of those numbers, but they came from a wikipedian experienced in copyright matters and they tie to what can be found widely online. For example, Faber & Faber state: "up to 250 words of prose, or multiple extracts up to 800 words"[4] Or a college library here: "a quote of 250 words from a 300-word poem might be less fair than a quote of 250 words from a many-thousand-word article."[5] See User talk:Onceinawhile/Archive 3#Quotations in footnotes for some of the discussions on this I can recall. Onceinawhile (talk) 08:52, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

  I say meh; It's not clear what the bar for "extensive" is in Wikipedia:Non-free content#Text, but you can quote more when the source is longer. I think I err on the side of "it's fine" because, like, I don't see this as so egregious as to implicate any lawbreaking, which is really what those policies are meant to guard against. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 03:39, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

• No opinion on the quote concerns, but more about the hooks. Since most of the common versions of the Seven Ancient Wonders do not specify the Walls of Babylon but rather the Hanging Gardens, would it be better to contextualize the hook as something like "...that the Walls of Babylon (pictured) were included in some versions of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?" It would at least be a more accurate hook than the current options. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:30, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

"Some" would lose the most interesting part of it, which is that it was the (joint) second most frequently cited in the ancient sources. Onceinawhile (talk) 10:50, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Interestingness or hookiness should not be used to sacrifice accuracy. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:41, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Precision is important. "Some" loses precision, for no gain in accuracy. Onceinawhile (talk) 15:58, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

As much as I think we are talking ourselves out of an intriguing hook for no good reason, how about:

• ALT1: ... that in the original versions of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Walls of Babylon (pictured) were the second most frequently chosen?
• ALT2: ... that in the original versions of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only the Colossus of Rhodes was chosen more frequently than the Walls of Babylon (pictured)?

Onceinawhile (talk) 19:09, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Either works. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:11, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I agree with the nominator that those hooks aren't more accurate than ALT0b. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 15:24, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on October 9

Reinhard Höhn

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• ... that the German "management guru" Reinhard Höhn who from 1956 trained thousands of West German civil servants and CEOs had been a committed Nazi and SS officer?

• Source: Johann Chapoutot, Free to Obey How the Nazis Invented Modern Management

• Reviewed:

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

Scarp-bolt (talk) 16:50, 11 October 2025 (UTC).

• Article created 2 days before nom. Sufficient length. Solid secondary sources. No significant neutrality issues.

Unfortunately, I cannot complete verifiability/copyvio spot-checks because the citations include no page numbers. For example, citation 4 is a 120-page book cited multiple times, but no page numbers are displayed.

Same applies to the hook: no page number = no way for me to verify.

Article citations require page numbers before I can review this nomination any further. 296cherry (talk) 18:27, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

@Scarp-bolt: Please address the above.--Launchballer 16:31, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

@Scarp-bolt: I will close this in 24 hours if I don't see some action on this.--Launchballer 18:46, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: @296cherry: I had done as Cherry 296 suggested for the references. I have tried to communicate with both of you to say this and emailed you both. As I said in the emails, I am at a loss to know how to respond ie where and how, and cannot seem to access this specific piece of information on help. I am new to writing a page on Wiki, apologies Scarp-bolt (talk) 10:53, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: @296cherry:But maybe I have figured this out (by copying the double curly bracket yo format that I see you have used) now? Scarp-bolt (talk) 10:52, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

@Scarp-bolt: Completely forgot that you'd emailed, my apologies. I simplified things by removing some content from the article; the details of the Harzburg Model would belong in its own article. The page numbering seems to be rectified. Much of the hook wasn't in the article even before I started editing it; I recommend simplifying it as follows: ALT0a: ... that the Nazi officer Reinhard Höhn founded a business school after the Second World War?.--Launchballer 11:59, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Thank you, simpler seems good...do I now need to change this somewhere? Scarp-bolt (talk) 08:16, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

I can't approve my hook myself as I introduced 'business school', so I need another reviewer.--Launchballer 11:13, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Wanda Perdelwitz

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Perdelwitz in 2019

• ... that Wanda Perdelwitz (pictured) played a police woman whose long hair was cut off during an attack?

• Source: Die Welt

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Louis Tomlinson

Created by Thriley (talk), Gerda Arendt (talk), and Rigg (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 191 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 18:02, 15 October 2025 (UTC).

• Article meets all DYK criteria. Article new enough, substantially long, has well-structured prose, well-sourced, presentable, and maintains a neutral tone. Hook is interesting, short, and supported by inline citation. Image is free and used in article. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 15:40, 26 October 2025 (UTC)
• Reviewing this one for promotion, and I don't think a hook about a particular role being played is inherently interesting or unusual -- actors play many different kinds of roles, so this falls into the "did you know this person did her job?" category for me. The circumstances of her death, meanwhile, are attention-catching since dooring is not usually thought of as a serious risk by drivers. I don't think the following would be too sensationalistic, but let me know what you think:

ALT1: ... that actress Wanda Perdelwitz (pictured) died from injuries after being doored while riding a bike?

ALT2: ... that as a child, actress Wanda Perdelwitz (pictured) often watched her mother perform from backstage at the Deutsches Theater?

@Thriley, Gerda Arendt, Rigg, and Jeromi Mikhael: Note that there is no source for the claim that the car was in a place it was not permitted to be, and the claim is not validated in other citations. If that's mentioned in another source, can someone add a footnote there? Dclemens1971 (talk) 04:10, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

I'd go for the original hook. It's not about a role but her real hair was cut, and it shows how far she went for a role. It also explains why she didn't look that when she died, and it's the only pic we have of her. To focus on her death or on her early childhood says nothing about her, as far as I can see. "Actress" can mean so many things that it's almost meaningless. Perhaps ALT0 can be worded differently. - Where the car parked, was of no consequence, - the tragedy was that the car's door was opened into the (narrow) bike path. There are photos in sources such as #7, Treskow. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:11, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

What you described (her cutting her hair specifically for the role) is slightly more interesting the hook itself, but it still strikes me as pretty normal for an actor to change his or her hairstyle for a role. Any other ideas? P.S. The apparent original research in the article about the driver being in an impermissible area needs to be sourced or removed. Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:23, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

I made the hook to go with the image showing her striking hair. It doesn't really work without it. Thriley (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Thriley: As I noted above, the original hook is not worded in a way that draws that connection. It is also highly likely that if this hook runs it will do so without a photo, so it must be interesting/engaging to the reader without an image. I don't think the approved hook is interesting and I'm unwilling to promote it as is, but I don't see any interest in new hooks. I will remove my question tag so that Jeromi Mikhael's approval of ALT0 will stand and another promoter may approve if they wish. Dclemens1971 (talk) 12:55, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Are you aware that this nomination was approved? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:57, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Of course I was aware, as my comments above clearly indicate. I raised this conversation because I am worried that the current approved hook will not actually make it onto the homepage and I thought some alternatives would help. The other participants are uninterested in alternatives so the hook may stand and another promoter can choose what to do. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:01, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

If you look at the article history, you see a lot of movement in what we say about the accident, especially about the helmet (in some headlines). We can drop the half sentence about the stopping place, it's not relevant, - the door into the bike path (which is just marked by a line) is. Triley? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:09, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

I like ALT2. Really don't want to focus on her death. Thriley (talk) 00:09, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

I would like ALT2 if she followed her mother's path to stage theatre, but she was popular (really) for popular tv series, especially a long-running one. Perhaps name Großstadtrevier in an ALT0a. Really don't want to focus on her death. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:03, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

• ALT3 ... that Wanda Perdelwitz (pictured) played a police sergeant on the TV show Großstadtrevier who was described as "impetuous, courageous" and "a little girly"?
• ALT4 ... that in 2017, Wanda Perdelwitz (pictured) who played a police sergeant on the TV show Großstadtrevier, received an award naming her "Coolste Kommissarin"?

Thriley (talk) 20:42, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

• on hold while issues are resolved; reviewers needed for ALTs 1–4. (I would also submit that ALT0 is likely a DYKFICTION fail.) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 03:20, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

  I think you might be the one to word better in an ALT0a that it wasn't fiction but her real hair. My language isn't sufficient but I feel that its a stronger fact than the latest ALTs, + explaining the image. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:52, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Others have already discussed the article here, so I will be focusing on the hooks only. ALT3 and ALT4 are both rejected: quote hooks have tended to underperform on DYK lately, and I cannot see how either would break that pattern. The original hook is also rejected on DYKFICTION grounds.

Both the nominator and main article contributor have stated their preference for ALT2. I would rather not go with ALT1, but the issue here is that ALT1 will almost certainly attract more readers than ALT2. If the main contributors would be fine sacrificing readership if it means not highlighting her tragic death, then I can approve ALT2 only.

ALT1 and ALT2 are cited inline and have been verified in their respective sources, but per the above discussion, ALT2 is considered the primary hook and ALT1 is merely a backup. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:32, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

People reading the main page had already a chance to learn that she died. None of her achievements, no image. This would be a chance for DYK: to say what she stood for in life. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:48, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: Just to clarify, have the OR issues been addressed yet? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:34, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on October 11

2025 Enderlin tornado

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• ... that the Enderlin, North Dakota, tornado earned the first EF5 rating in 12 years by throwing train cars over four times as heavy and nearly twice the distance needed for the rating?

• Source: The source appears on the Damage Assessment Toolkit, and can be found by ensuring the Begin and End Dates specified make a range that include June 20, 2025; then, find the purple EF5 polygon west of Fargo, North Dakota, and click on the southwesternmost purple EF5 damage point at 46.59, -97.56. This might seem convoluted, but this is standard practice within the weather community. The relevant text reads: "Tipped loaded car: The tornado derailed 33 train cars including 19 fully-loaded grain hopper cars and 14 empty tanker cars, mainly tipped from the track. Included in the derailed cars were one filled grain car (~286,000 lbs) and four empty tanker cars (~72,000 lbs) that were pulled into a field away from the track. One of the 4 tanker cars was tossed 600-1000 ft (183-305 m) from the track and an estimated 475.7 ft (145 m) from the distance of the previous tanker car it was attached to before being pulled off of the track; wheel sets detached near the point from which the cars were derailed from the track. It was in this train derailment location that EF-5 damage intensity was noted with greater than 210 mph winds listed officially for this tornado. Extensive collaboration with wind damage experts provided forensic analyses for the train damage that occurred with this tornado. These analyses estimate potential wind speeds of approximately 230 mph are needed to completely overturn a fully loaded grain hopper car. Collaboration with the Northern Tornadoes Project at Western University’s Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory estimated a potential wind speed of >119 m/s (>266 mph) to loft the empty tanker car 475.7 ft (145 m) using similar calculations performed in Estimating Wind Speeds in Tornadoes Using Debris Trajectories of Large Compact Objects (Miller et al. 2024). The study, published in the Monthly Weather Review, found that large compact objects lofted greater than 50 m indicate EF-5 intensity winds (greater than 200 mph). The Enderlin train cars were nearly 2× farther than the EF-5 threshold distance and ~4× heavier than the heaviest object modeled in the study."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ankarette Twynho
• Comment: Apologies about the convoluted source. The article is brand new and already at GA, and weatherspace editors are on it with a fervor I haven't seen since I started editing here (except for ongoing storms). I feel it's only right for this to get some recognition (it was at ITN/C but won't be posted), and I've plenty of QPQs leftover. Again, credit to EF5 and ChessEric for this one.

Improved to Good Article status by EF5 (talk) and ChessEric (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

Departure– (talk) 15:51, 12 October 2025 (UTC).

Damnit, I was going to nominate with the exact same hook later today lol (do they hand out 4As if you aren’t the one nominating the DYK?). Original hook is interesting as-is. ^EF⁵ 16:03, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

For the purposes of 4A, I'm fine with you taking credit for this one, as you were the one who basically built this page up to where it is now. Departure– (talk) 16:04, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Nono, it’s okay, DYK still counts even if you aren’t the one nominating. Maybe we could use the Alex Resel or Henderson images? ^EF⁵ 16:07, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I personally think it'd be only right to use the photo of the moved train cars, but sadly this is one of the only cases of free tornado image, non-free damage image. Departure– (talk) 16:09, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Hey! Don't forget about me! It said me and EF5! XD ChessEric 16:10, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Note that while the article is currently at WP:GAR and will be there for at least a month the nomination is still valid as it was created in the last seven days. ^EF⁵ 13:38, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

• The article has been vetted so thoroughly in what are essentially two GARs that I have 0 doubts about its quality. It was nominated within the time limit. I do wonder whether the hook could be simplified to be more accessible to the general audience. "EF5" does not mean anything to most of us, I think. Surtsicna (talk) 21:52, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

@Departure–, EF5, and Surtsicna: How does this sound then?

ALT1 ... that the 2025 Enderlin tornado lifted multiple freight train cars into the air?

I imagine that that it is not unheard of for tornadoes to lift vehicles into the air, but for a layperson, this probably gets the job done without reliance on specialist terminology like EF strength. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:00, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: Here's an idea:

ALT2 ... that the 2025 Enderlin tornado lofted and threw loaded train cars further than its surveyors had seen lighter vehicles thrown?

Let me know what you think. A good bit of the interesting-ness of this, to me, comes from how surveyors hadn't seen this to this extent to then. Departure– (talk) 15:14, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Departure–: looks good, but I don't see where that would be sourced from. I say if we have a source for it we're good to go. ^EF⁵ 15:58, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

I think the source from the DAT (outlined in the nom) works (though, on second thought, maybe replace "surveyed" with "accounted for"). How about...

ALT3 ... that the 2025 Enderlin tornado threw train cars nearly twice as far as researchers up to then had accounted for?

@Narutolovehinata5: Let me know what you think of this (and if you have any trouble getting to the source). Departure– (talk) 16:12, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

For DAT, I have a short guide on how to use it at User:EF5/How to use DAT. Looks good to me. ^EF⁵ 16:32, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: Any update on this nom? Departure– (talk) 21:02, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

I will leave the final decision to Surtsicna, but I prefer my wording as ALT2 and ALT3 seem just a bit more abstract or at least complicated in terms of understanding. ALT1 could probably be workshopped more, however. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:52, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: Please address the above.--Launchballer 12:53, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I agree with Narutolovehinata5 that ALT2 is too complicated, but I also think that Departure– is right about ALT1 not being as interesting as a hook from this article could be. In my opinion ALT3 is the perfect middle ground. Surtsicna (talk) 13:04, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on October 13

Bill Cottrell

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• ... that Bill Cottrell went from being an "unheralded" high school player for a poor team to a starter in the NFL?

• Source: DelCo Daily Times

• ALT1: ... that football player Bill Cottrell was the first black center in the NFL? Source: Free Press
• ALT2: ... that it was thought that black men could not play the "thinking man's'" position of center in the NFL until the career of Bill Cottrell? Source: same
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Barbados–Indonesia relations (2/2)

Improved to Good Article status by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 426 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 19:01, 13 October 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: future reviewer, ALT1 is permissible; see 4meter4's comment on Template:Did you know nominations/Jocelyn Borgella. I myself will not review this. Roast (talk) 21:40, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
• The article is new enough (promoted to GA on 13 October 2025), is long enough (5449 characters of prose), has no apparent copyright issues (per GA review), and is presentable (per GA review and readthrough). I find the hook hard to read, where "unheralded" and "starter" seem to be jargon and "poor" is ambiguous. I think ALT2 could be seen as contentious when it doesn't specify who thought this. So I would prefer ALT1, which is cited, short enough, and interesting. A similar hook was previously pulled, but according to User:Guerreroast, it is permissible in the current nomination. QPQ is done. I am passing ALT1. – Editør (talk) 10:46, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

  @BeanieFan11 and Editør: ALT1 definitely should not be phrased that confidently, as the source states "[Cottrell] is believed to be the first Black center". Adding that hedging to the phrasing would definitely detract from its hookiness, though, so can one of the other hooks be rephrased to address the concerns in Editør's review, or another hook proposed? (please  mention me on reply) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 06:55, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

  The source also says "NFL's first Black center" in the title and "He was the first." in a quote, though. – Editør (talk) 17:38, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

  "NFL's first black center" is an exceptional claim, and thus ideally we need to have multiple strong sources and not just a single reference for it. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:53, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

  Will look into this tomorrow. BeanieFan11 (talk) 04:24, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

  headlines are not reliable sources. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 02:42, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

@BeanieFan11: It has been a few days since your comment, please respond to the above concern. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:07, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

How about ... that according to an NFL alumni attorney, it was thought that black men could not play the "thinking man's'" position of center in the NFL until the career of Bill Cottrell? / ... that Bill Cottrell went from playing for a high school team that had 32-consecutive losses to starting for an NFL team? BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:45, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

The first option seems too complicated. The second sounds better. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:32, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on October 20

Vitaly Nalivkin

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Vitaly Nalivkin

• ... that there was a "deputy" in Ussuriysk who solved the city's problems in extremely unusual ways?

• Source: https://www.vesti.ru/article/1340842

• ALT1: ... that a fictional deputy was arrested in Russia for exposing a fictional police lieutenant colonel?

• Source: https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5eeb77129a794748506337fa

• ALT2: ... that for the video where a fictional Russian deputy allegedly detonates a bus stop with a grenade launcher, the authors of the YouTube channel face 15 years in prison?

• Source: https://www.rbc.ru/society/06/10/2024/67028f759a794749a3d98e45

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• Comment: My first nomination, I'm sorry if I made a mistake somewhere.

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

Mirvers (talk) 18:15, 21 October 2025 (UTC).

• Striking ALTs 0 and 1, as they write from an in-universe perspective. Also, there are a couple of uncited sentences that should probably be fixed. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 04:04, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

The Little Hours

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Baena (left) and Plaza

Illustration from The Decameron

• ... that Jeff Baena was encouraged to pitch his nun comedy movie The Little Hours after talking about medieval literature (depicted) while high and watching DOGTV?
  • ALT1: ... that members of the six-person crew for The Little Hours had to light some scenes with candles, which the cinematographer wicked herself?
  • ALT2: ... that preemptive religious criticism about nun movie The Little Hours ended up being used in an R-rated trailer to promote the movie?
  • ALT3: ... that Aubrey Plaza and the weed nuns got high to promote her producing debut movie, The Little Hours?
  • ALT4: ... that writer-director Jeff Baena was high when he came up with The Little Hours, and producer-actor Aubrey Plaza was high when she promoted it (both pictured)?
  • ALT5: ... that The Little Hours was based on at least three stories from The Decameron, primarily the third day (depicted)?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/They Live on The Land and Template:Did you know nominations/Elene Lete
  • Comment: Sources in article, other hook suggestions welcome!

Improved to Good Article status by Kingsif (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 144 past nominations.

Kingsif (talk) 21:15, 20 October 2025 (UTC).

• Drive-by comment: there is absolutely no way that the image shown to illustrate The Decameron in the hook and the article is attributable to Boccacio (who did not illustrate anything); it looks like a very modern, and therefore quite possibly copyrighted, illustration. This would be a good substitute in the article; do we really need it in the hook as well? Dahn (talk) 21:39, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

• @Dahn: The image you link - along with every single Commons image for the Decameron I saw when looking for one to add to the article - also has Boccaccio listed as the creator. Maybe he did illustrate, I doubt the Boccaccio museum is getting its attribution that wrong. Kingsif (talk) 04:50, 30 November 2025 (UTC) (More to the point, the illustration in this nom and the article is from the publication by Francisque Reynard, who was born in 1835, so unless he was particularly long-lived, it's still PD-old.) Kingsif (talk) 04:58, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

As for an image in the hook: DYK image hooks are often buildings and portraits. When I build preps, I try to add variety; when I nom hooks, if it's possible, I try to suggest other kinds of images, too, for other prepbuilders to have more options and our readers to see different things. It's providing an option. Kingsif (talk) 04:54, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Kingsif: Where does one find the attribution of the image on the museum page? The Commons page only gives a rawlink. Dahn (talk) 04:59, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Dahn: My mistake if the file data isn't scraped directly from the museum website, but the point was simply that for both images, the file seems to have the same error (saying Boccaccio is the image author) but the license is still correct. Kingsif (talk) 05:06, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

The image is now credited to "Gershkovich", who appears to be Yuri Gershkovich. A Soviet artist who died in 2013. The image is very much copyrighted, and it should be removed from commons ASAP, along with any other image that was uploaded in this fashion. It obviously does njot matter when Francisque Reynard died, since these are copyrighted illustrations to her reedited public-domain work -- her PD status does not transfer to the illustrator. Dahn (talk) 05:04, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

It's credited to "Gerskovich", actually. Come back with proof that it wasn't Reynard instead of guessing and asserting? Kingsif (talk) 05:06, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

This is moving beyond ridiculous! First of all, Reynard never illustrated anything (just like Boccaccio didn't), so the claim that she did would require proof from whomever is sticking by it. Second of all, you never actually provided a link to where the museum credits the illustrator. Third (and final), I looked it up for you: Dekameron. I / Traduzione di N. Ljubimov ; illustrazioni di Ju. Gerskovich -- clearly crediting Yuri Gershkovich as the illustrator and the publication date as 1987. (Incidentally, this is also not the Reynard translation into French, but a Russian translation). Are we done here? Dahn (talk) 05:19, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

• I need to make this very clear to anyone taking an interest in this issue: the illustration presented with this hook has several faux licenses, including a statement that: "The author died in 1375, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer." This is based on the absurd claim that the illustration is Boccacio's work, a claim that the same caption now contradicts, since Yuri Gershkovich (who died in 2013) is also credited as an author -- he is in fact the only actual author that the image has, whereas Boccacio is the author of the text which the image illustrated. All such uploads from that series should therefore be scrubbed from Commons. Dahn (talk) 15:16, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on October 21

ChatGPT Atlas

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• ... that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, launched its own web browser, ChatGPT Atlas?

• Source: Bhuiyan, Johana (2025-10-21). "ChatGPT Atlas: OpenAI launches web browser centered around its chatbot". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-10-22.

• ALT1: ... that ChatGPT Atlas includes a sidebar that allows users to summarize webpages and analyze data? Source: Bhuiyan, Johana (2025-10-21). "ChatGPT Atlas: OpenAI launches web browser centered around its chatbot". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
• ALT2: ... that ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's web browser, is built upon the open-source Chromium engine? Source: Warren, Tom (2025-10-21). "OpenAI is about to launch its new AI web browser, ChatGPT Atlas". The Verge. Retrieved 2025-10-22.
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Created by WhatADrag07 (talk), TempoaryAcc (talk), LincolnFreehand (talk), and Hysazemusic (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

WhatADrag07 (talk) 19:16, 25 October 2025 (UTC).

• Article is new enough, no copyvio detected, no QPQ needed. ALT1 sounds a bit promotional. ALT0 and ALT2 are cited inline and, though they're just on the line of WP:DYKINT, I'll approve them. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 03:24, 27 October 2025 (UTC)
• @WhatADrag07, Darth Stabro, and HurricaneZeta: I pulled this from the prep area as I just removed two self-published sources, and the {{cn}}s will need to be addressed before this is promoted. Per this discussion, I had concerns about ALT0 (and ALT2, now that I'm seeing it) reading as promotional. There were a couple of other hooks suggested, which y'all might consider here. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:19, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
  • @TechnoSquirrel69: That's fine for now, thanks for fixing and tagging that. Is it alright if I replace it with another hook? Z E T A^C 22:25, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

    I just replaced the hook in the prep area. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:29, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

    • I believe I just found a RS for one of the cn's, so I think this could be on prep 4 soon, after a hook is decided upon. Z E T A^C 22:31, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

      Just fixed both the cns. Z E T A^C 22:37, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

• Strong objection: It's not a web browser (it makes up its own answers instead of showing you what you ask for). Calling it one is so misleading a s to be outright false. DS (talk) 04:08, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
  • given that all of the cited reliable sources call it a web browser (and i assume they weren't cherry-picked), not sure there's much we could do about that. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 15:29, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on October 23

Protests at UNHCR humanitarian center in Agadez

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• ... that asylum seekers have been protesting for almost 400 consecutive days in the UNHCR humanitarian center in Agadez, Niger?

• Source: "By late-2025, the protests continue for almost 400 consecutive days, making them one of the longest-running refugee-led demonstrations in North Africa."

• ALT1: ... that refugees have been protesting for 400 consecutive days in the UNHCR humanitarian center in Agadez, Niger? Source: "By late-2025, the protests continue for almost 400 consecutive days, making them one of the longest-running refugee-led demonstrations in North Africa."
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• Comment: If posted before 27 October, use "almost 400", if posted on 27 October, use "400", if posted after 27 October use "over 400".

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

Afonso Dimas Martins (talk) 08:44, 24 October 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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Well written article on an important topic. My comments are all on the hook. First, it says "in Agadez" rather than "near Agadez" as the article says. Second, and more importantly, we don't have a source for the 400 consecutive days. I see one in article article 303 days (presumably written c.97 days ago). To be able to use the 400 number, we need a source confirming the protests are still going and have remained daily. Onceinawhile (talk) 14:16, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

@Afonso Dimas Martins: Please address the above.--Launchballer 16:27, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer, @Onceinawhile, apologies for the late reply - I think I missed a notification of this comment. Most sources mention "in Agadez" so I don't think that would be an issue. As for the 400 consecutive days question, there was no citation at the time mentioning explicitly 400 days, but since it was (and still is) an ongoing protest, it was simple math. Would this citation for 427 days work?

@Afonso Dimas Martins: Pings don't work if you don't sign your post. Your problem is that sources are snapshots and can't tell you if something's ongoing; what you can say is something like ALT1: ... that protests at a United Nations humanitarian center in Niger began in September 2024? The article still says 'near Agadez' and the title says 'in Agadez' and this needs reconciling.--Launchballer 15:56, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer thanks again for the tips. I've updated the article. I also agree with the snapshot issue, but I think simply saying the starting date is less impactful as saying something like "for at least 400 consecutive days" since that is supported by that source. But either would be fine by me. Afonso Dimas Martins (talk) 16:18, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

You could probably get away with something like ALT2: ... that refugees at a United Nations humanitarian center recently protested for more than 400 days straight?--Launchballer 10:45, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on October 24

Prince Group

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• ... that the Prince Group, described by the US Department of Justice as a "sprawling cyber-fraud empire", has stakes in an airline and Cuban cigar distribution?

• Source: "Mr Chen, who remains at large, is accused of being the mastermind behind a "sprawling cyber-fraud empire" operating under his multi-national company, the Prince Group, said the US Department of Justice (DOJ)."

"An airline that has become the first Cambodian company to attempt to list itself on a U.S. stock exchange has substantial ties to a notorious business conglomerate dogged by allegations of criminality"

"Chen, through the Hong Kong-registered Asia Corporation, acquired a 50 percent stake in Habanos, the worldwide distributor of Cuban cigars, and subsequently leveraged this control to inflate market prices."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Yasuyoshi Kato

Converted from a redirect by Asamboi (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

Asamboi (talk) 18:40, 26 October 2025 (UTC).

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Overall: Expanded from redirect and nominated within window. QPQ done; only one required. Copyvio Detector clear after I removed some unnecessary quotations from CNN. Three issues: (1) The hook is interesting, but it's not precisely accurate. The DOJ press release describes a sprawling cyber-fraud empire operating under the Prince Group umbrella, which is not necessarily the same as saying the company is the cyber-fraud empire. It could mean that the company provides cover for the scams through its legitimate investments and subsidiaries. That doesn't mean the company isn't a participant in the alleged crimes, just pointing out that the hook doesn't precisely match the source. (2) By attributing the charges to the company and not Chen, we don't automatically implicate a WP:BLPCRIME issue, and AFAIK there is no similar policy about criminal allegations related to companies. But given that Chen was indicted alongside the company, we're verging into BLPCRIME territory with a hook that uses the description of the prosecution in an ongoing case to describe the subject. (3) The "history" section includes a lot of padding on Chen's bio that's unrelated to the Prince Group. If that were to be removed per WP:DUE, we're very close to the DYK character minimum. I also think there's a presentability issue with the quasi-bullet point format of the history section, and I'd like to see that recast in encyclopedic prose. Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:22, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: Thanks for the review. Point by point:

(1) I see what you're saying. How about this: ...The Prince Group owns an airline, controls Cuban cigar distribution, and according to the US Department of Justice, operates "a sprawling cyber-fraud empire"?

(2) I'm not seeing that this is a problem. The Prince Group as a company is explicitly indicted, and the hook does not mention Chen at all.

(3) Since this is a current news topic, the article is being heavily edited (by other users, not just me). Chen Zhi (businessman) was recently spun off into its own article, and I plan on moving all the biographical bits about Chen into that article.

Also, could you expand on the "Long enough" flag? Per DYKCheck, the article is at 2888 chars, comfortably above 1500 (even after the Chen content above is hived off). Asamboi (talk) 19:50, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

@Asamboi: (1-2) My concern is that we should not be putting unproven criminal charges on the homepage, even for a company and not a person. How is this for a more factual approach that doesn't involve repeating the prosecutorial perspective: ALT2: ... that the Prince Group owns an airline, controls Cuban cigar distribution—and was sanctioned by British and U.S. authorities as an alleged transnational criminal organization? (Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/26/cyber-scamming-prince-group-syndicate-singapore/, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70jz8e00g1o). This leaves out the question of guilt or innocence and focuses on facts (sanctions were imposed). (3) My character count once the extraneous info is removed is 1619, which could fall under 1500 easily with a copy edit by another editor. I would focus on fleshing the article out a bit and providing more buffer, as well as prosifying the list-like nature of the "History" section. (I should add that the word count alone won't hold up approval of the nomination, but if another editor trims the page further, a prep builder or queuer might need to bump it back to the unapproved list.) Dclemens1971 (talk) 20:29, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: I have removed the extraneous content about Chen and the article is still sitting at 2534 chars. I'm happy to sub in your hook.

@Asamboi: I didn't receive the ping because the post wasn't signed. Since I proposed an alternative, it needs another reviewer. Requesting that now. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:20, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

@Asamboi: The only interesting thing in ALT2 was "Cuban cigar distribution"; I've just removed the only thing with anything to do with cigars from the article as "a consortium led by Chen" has nothing to do with Prince Group. Also, it's a crying shame this wasn't nominated as a double with Chen, as that would have given a lot more flexibility (hooks beginning "that the owner of Prince Group"/"that a firm owned by Chen Zhi", for example), and I'd be seriously tempted to allow it to be added to this IAR. What do you think @Dclemens1971:?--Launchballer 16:14, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

The Chen Zhi article did not exist at the time of this DYK nomination, and was seeded with content from this article. I think it would be entirely within the spirit of the rules of DYK to double up or even switch this nomination to it. Asamboi (talk) 21:01, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I just discovered that Dclemens1971 recently went on wikibreak, and WP:DYKSPLIT says "Articles split from new articles or articles with active nominations remain eligible". I'm going to say that yes this can be added as a double nom; what I need from you is a second QPQ and a double hook.--Launchballer 13:01, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Jakobus Onnen

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The Last Jew in Vinnitsa

• ... that in 2025 historians used artificial intelligence to identify Jakobus Onnen as the Nazi gunman in the photograph "The Last Jew in Vinnitsa" (pictured), thereby solving an 80-year-old mystery?

• Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/historian-uses-ai-to-help-identify-nazi-in-notorious-holocaust-image

ALT1: ... that artificial intelligence was used to help identify Jakobus Onnen as the gunman in The Last Jew in Vinnitsa (pictured)?

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Converted from a redirect by TouchedWithFire (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

TouchedWithFire (talk) 11:04, 24 October 2025 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - last seven sentences are not currently cited
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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
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QPQ: None required.

Overall: @TouchedWithFire: I read the Guardian article awhile ago, pretty interesting. I also took the liberty of adding the photo to the hook. The sources are all legit, but I can't say I disagree with the reader who tagged it as possibly incorporating AI generated text. I removed some of the obvious stuff, but it's still there. Most pressing, the last seven sentences are not currently cited. I've also proposed an ALT1 to make the hook less clunky. 1brianm7 (talk) 02:20, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

1brianm7 Please note, I added more sources, it would be appreciated if you could look at the article again. Thank you. TouchedWithFire (talk) 11:25, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

@TouchedWithFire: okay, everything is sourced and the text looks mostly fine, so I’m approving

I think this will have to be pulled. I have serious concerns regarding LLM usage with this article, and further, a read of the German version makes it clear that it is full of factual inaccuracies. It would be embarrassing to let this go to the main page in this state - it needs to be rewritten. MediaKyle (talk) 18:10, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

I've removed my approval until this can be resolved. Looking at the German version through Google translate, the only things that stick out are some bad phrasing, redundancy, and a few eh sentences ("reflecting his role as an educated professional within the Nazi academic milieu"). I don't see any factual inaccuracies. The prose has significant similarities with the German article, so I'm fairly certain parts of it were translated (by the creator or an LLM I don't know), but it is not attributed as such. Pinging creator @TouchedWithFire: 1brianm7 (talk) 19:11, 26 October 2025 (UTC)

Okay, I'm taking a step back. Yesterday I worked on the article for an hour, added sources, and rewrote a large part of it. I wanted to take part in DYK because it seemed interesting and important to me, I hope I'll succeed next time. TouchedWithFire (talk) 04:26, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

@TouchedWithFire: I’ve found appearing on DYK to be a fulfilling part of writing an article, I’m sorry that this experience hasn’t been the best for you. If you so desire, I’ll reject this nomination. However, I would recommend against doing so as this can still be accepted until it timeouts in about two months, and you might change your mind. Looking at the article’s content, I don’t see any factual inaccuracies or problem with its biographical content (pinging @MediaKyle: to ask what they saw), just some redundancy and problems with sources not being placed next to text they support. The article is by no means unable to be brought to standard and those problems are not impossible to solve. 1brianm7 (talk) 19:58, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your reply. If so, I will follow your advice and would ask that the door remain open. I will work on it soon and try to bring it up to par. TouchedWithFire (talk) 07:22, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Note that the article states that Onnen is the likely murderer while the hooks portray him as the undisputed murderer. It's one or the other and this needs to be settled before this can run. Bremps... 16:06, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you all for the feedback, I rewrote much of the article and I think I addressed all the issues. @1brianm7: If you could, I would appreciate it if you would give it another look. Thank you.

@TouchedWithFire: I'm a little busy right now and I didn't see this since the ping didn't work as you forgot to sign, but I'll try to look it over next week. 1brianm7 (talk) 04:16, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

• Pinging nominator and those who have previously raised concerns, feel free to ignore . @TouchedWithFire, MediaKyle, Gdeblois19, Chipmunkdavis, and Bremps: First I'd like to thank all the editors who raised concerns with the article and helped improve it, and TouchedWithFire for not getting disheartened and working on it. The article has undergone significant edits to ensure source text integrity and get it up to standard. I have just done a significant round of copyedits and formatting mostly, but I did not find any factually incorrect claims or issues with source-text integrity. I would like to get a second opinion to make sure I'm calling this right and no debilitating concerns remain before removing the banner. As for the hook issue raised, I think ALT1a: ... that historian Jürgen Matthäus used artificial intelligence to help identify Jakobus Onnen as the gunman in The Last Jew in Vinnitsa (pictured)? resolves it. Also, we should probably get a dummy edit to provide attribution to the .de article, but I have no clue on how to do that. 1brianm7 (talk) 19:25, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

It's been a week. the dummy edit was done 1brianm7 (talk) 02:13, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

When I promoted this, the only underlying issue was, I thought, the failed verification, and I was going to migrate the source somewhere else. However I have pulled it after some issues raised by MediaKyle, mainly the underlying LLM generation (that may still have some hallucinations) and the difference in perspective from the dewiki article which portrays it from a broader point of view (while this article asserts that the gunman is Onnen, the German article isn't that sure). The article needs more thorough checks of the sources before it can be approved. Pings: TouchedWithFire, Gdeblois19, Chipmunkdavis, Bremps, 1brianm7 HurricaneZeta^C 03:23, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Regarding the hooks, I removed the caption from the image as it violated WP:DYKIMG. ALT1 or ALT1a are both fine, but the issues above need to be fixed. HurricaneZeta^C 03:30, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

I've cleaned up some hallucination and cloppyvio, but I can't access quite a few of the paywalled German sources. I also have an unusual concern about the hook, in that it is very similar to the Guardian article headline. It varies a bit but not enough that it doesn't give me pause, other opinions welcome. CMD (talk) 04:41, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that notable scholars of media capture say that events in 2025 in the United States are "unbelievable" and "worse than anything we imagined"?

• Source: Simon, Joel (2025-08-05). "Why so many experts think media capture is already a reality in America". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2025-10-21. Now experts warn that media capture has come to the United States. "We watch unbelievingly," Mungiu-Pippidi said. "In the old days we thought capture was mostly a problem in Africa and Latin America and then in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall," noted Anya Schiffrin, another scholar of media capture and the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization at Columbia University. "What's happened in the last six months in the US is worse than anything we imagined.".

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Protests at UNHCR humanitarian center in Agadez and Template:Did you know nominations/Wallace Presbyterian Church
• Comment: The word "notable" is used as Mungiu-Pippidi is the scholar whose definition of media capture is most widely used, and Schiffrin is the scholar who has written or edited the most publications on the subject.

Created by Onceinawhile (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 84 past nominations.

Onceinawhile (talk) 13:54, 25 October 2025 (UTC).

• Not reviewing it, but there is a problem I have with the article: in the scope of the article you mention "platform capture" (social media) but you don't speak about social media apart from the very first sentence and from a cursory look you don't seem to cite any source that speaks about social media. Is there a reason for this? Szmenderowiecki (talk) 00:56, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
  • Also, the entire source is available online on the publisher's site.[6] While social media is mentioned in other parts of the book, the cited page number for the lead and the content don't really add up. I suspect that the cited sources are mixed up a bit and the editor needs to go back and take a look. Viriditas (talk) 23:57, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: Various kinds of systemic biases in media is important topic, but not sure of above hook being suitable. Present hook sounds to me bit like recentism, sensational and vague. Not sure, even good number of audience is aware of concept of Media capture, hence whether hooks explaining concept itself will be more interesting and easy to understand. Alts something like on following lines?

"... that, Media capture, is a form in which mass media and social media platforms are controlled by governments, corporations, or powerful individuals to serve their own interests instead of the public interest?"

"... that, media capture describes how vested interests can dominate or co-opt nominally independent media institutions through ownership, regulation, or financing, whilst maintaining the illusion of press freedom?"

"... that, media capture is distinguished from censorship by its indirect mechanisms—such as ownership concentration, clientelism, and state advertising—used to manipulate editorial independence?"

"... that, according to Marius Dragomir, media capture involves the takeover of four key levers of influence: media regulation, state-owned outlets, government financing, and private ownership?"

Bookku (talk) 07:03, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Some of these are a bit long, but I don’t object to changing the hook. Onceinawhile (talk) 04:43, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

@Onceinawhile, Szmenderowiecki, Viriditas, and Bookku: What else needs doing here?--Launchballer 10:36, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, the user forgot to watchlist this page and needs to be contacted on talk. I will do so. Per my comment above, I would not pass this until the concerns have been addressed. It is not ready. Viriditas (talk) 10:40, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

(edit conflict)I have removed "platform capture", in order to address the comment from Szmenderowiecki. Onceinawhile (talk) 10:41, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

And the sources? Go back and make sure you have the right refs. I checked the above and couldn’t verify the content. Viriditas (talk) 10:44, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Viriditas: I have just fixed this. Onceinawhile (talk) 10:54, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Onceinawhile: You have the bibliography sorted chronologically. I've never seen that before, although I understand some disparate fields have different ways of doing this. Did you do this on purpose? Viriditas (talk) 20:43, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

I have changed it to alphabetical. Onceinawhile (talk) 21:10, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Still doesn't address the scope issue as the lead sentence still reads Media capture is a form of systemic corruption in which mass media and social media platforms. This may be a legitimate topic to cover but the article doesn't do it. If you do a section about social media acquisitions being cited as platform capture then fine. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 10:52, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Szmenderowiecki: Good point. I want to add this in but can't find broad enough sources yet. So I have removed it per your suggestion. Onceinawhile (talk) 10:55, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Onceinawhile: Why are there two refs after the title phrase in the first sentence? Viriditas (talk) 20:56, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

I have moved these to the bibliography. Onceinawhile (talk) 21:11, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Onceinawhile: You write: "Media capture is a form of systemic corruption in which mass media is controlled by governments, corporations, or powerful individuals to serve their own interests instead of the public interest, undermining media independence and media pluralism." This seems like an odd definition. Have you returned to the sources to double check? The reason this raises a red flag for me is because I am somewhat familiar with the problem of media capture. Media has been "controlled" by these entities since time immemorial, so that loads the definition in a way that makes it less meaningful. Obviously, the important part here is not necessarily ownership per se (although deregulation which led to concentration of media ownership in fewer hands is part of the problem), but the failure to serve the public interest. For example, we know in the U.S. that deregulation of the media environment led to concentration of ownership in fewer hands, mostly billionaries. This led to the decline of local news rooms and a focus on national issues, which in turn led to widespread public apathy at local levels to the point where people in small towns no longer knew what was happening in their areas. This is currently a major issue in Alaska, where the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has led to small towns losing their only source of community news, which also serves multiple roles such as an ad hoc civil defense, etc. So in many ways, media capture is a highly complex problem that has major consequences far beyond ownership. Please check the sources to make sure your definition is accurate. Also, take a look at what happened in Hungary in the last 25 years, which is a case study for modern media capture and is endlessly fascinating. The media was given a choice to voluntarily let themselves be captured by the government, but in a way that is somewhat opaque and not readily apparent to outsiders. This is similar to what happened in U.S. and British media during and after WWII, but at a much lower level of capture. U.S. media, particularly entertainment, was highly censored by corporate and government interests working together during this time, but was implemented voluntarily, much as Hungary does today. Previous to this, in the 19th century, media capture in the U.S. was often the result of wealthy individuals working on behalf of a specific industry. The capture of West Coast media by the sugar industry from the late 19th to early 20th century is well known, for example. But more importantly, these interests intersect with others in often new ways. The interests of the sugar industry mirrored the interests of the U.S. government, its economic interests, and the military. The media becomes a major player in terms of promoting propaganda to advance the agendas of all of these special interests. It is in the stories that they tell, in their very narrative, that we can see hints of media capture, but in many cases most people can't tell. It is when that propaganda diverges from the interests of the public that we begin to see the capture at work. I am curently working on an article about MLK that required me to review newspaper articles about him from 1966-1968. It was only then that I learned about how the U.S. government waged a campaign against MLK in the pages of the news when MLK turned against the Vietnam War effort. This is one way the media capture became evident. Viriditas (talk) 21:37, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Onceinawhile: You write: "The most widely held definition of the term was published by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi in 2008: "either directly by governments or by vested interests networked with politics". That's not what she writes. She says: "By media capture I mean a situation in which the media has not succeeded in becoming autonomous to manifest a will of its own and to exercise its main function, notably of informing people, but has persisted in an intermediate state, whereas various groups, not just the government, use it for other purposes." This is very interesting because it dovetails exactly with the red flag I noted up above. Viriditas (talk) 22:10, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

@Onceinawhile: Where did you find a copy of Dragomir 2020? That link doesn't work for me. Does it work for you? Is there a place to download it? BTW, there is an updated sister/companion pub to it. It is found here. It further clarifies the definition:

Independence is a precondition for quality journalism, allowing for the production of verified information and informed analysis in the public interest. The professional standards of journalism mark out this kind of communications within the wider content mix and rely on space for self-regulation as well as independent regulatory institutions. Such independence is of increasing importance in the face of the contamination of the online public sphere with mis- and disinformation, hate speech, and conspiracy theories. But this is also happening in parallel with a financial crisis for news outlets. That financial crisis in turn endangers editorial independence and professional standards. It deprives newsrooms of the resources needed to produce quality reporting and it makes them more vulnerable to pressures to serve political agendas or commercial prerogatives over public interest. When these trends are exploited by political and economic actors to erode journalistic autonomy, it is referred to as 'media capture'".

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The erosion of media freedoms and challenges to financial sustainability in the news industry makes newsrooms in many countries more vulnerable to pressures both from external actors and from outlet owners and executives, placing professional standards at risk. In a captured media environment, news media are ostensibly free but compromised in terms of independence. 'This form of media control is achieved through a series of systematic and premeditated steps taken by governments and powerful interest groups', explains one recent UNESCO report [Dragomir 2020]. 'Their aim is to take over four levers of power: the regulatory mechanisms governing the media; state-administered media operations; public funds that finance journalism; and the ownership of privately held news outlets'.

This definition is much better than what you have and nails all the major points I've raised. FWIW, I wrote a similar article about a parallel problem known as autocratic legalism. In the modern, post-9/11 era, autocratic legalism is used to capture the media, although this is beyond the scope of this article at the moment as it would be somewhat of a chore to flesh this out without fixing this article first and getting it past this initial article development stage. My point is that media capture is a subset of the autocratic legalism process in terms of authoritarianism and autocracy, and much more can be said about how this works in the future. Kim Lane Scheppele informally places it in the context of "step seven" on the ten-step path to autocracy. In other words, media capture is very much an incremental process of a state becoming an autocracy, so there's a larger aspect to the overall problem. Finally, I would oppose a hook emphasizing this as a recent problem in the U.S. The Trump admin and the GOP have escalated a process that has been underway since Reagan. There are books in the literature going back to the mid-1970s about this problem and I own them. I first became interested in this topic in the 1980s. What is so unique about the media capture we are seeing now, is that much of it is done voluntarily and willingly under the Trump admin, which is the same process that occurred in Hungary (and probably Venezuela, although it may have been more heavy-handed there). There are indicators in the literature that the Trump admin promoted the Hungarian style of media capture on purpose, using threats and intimidation to force the media landscape to bend to its will. This is the most interesting part, that people in leadership positions voluntarily chose to set aside journalistic standards and the basic tenets of the 1A to appease a dictator. Viriditas (talk) 00:55, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

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Anabel Montesinos

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• ... that the international career of Anabel Montesinos took off after she won the Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Competition at age 17? Source: several
  • Reviewed: J. Harry Benrimo, Gerrit van der Waals
  • Comment: I'm sad that I didn't get a good image when she played near me in summer. We could add that she was the youngest winner at the time, but I think 17 is fairly young enough. Other hook ideas welcome.

Created by Dr. Blofeld (talk) and Gerda Arendt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 2158 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:02, 2 November 2025 (UTC).

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

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• Cited: - n
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: The hook fact (that the win at that one competition caused her international star to rise) is not explicitly stated in any source. See e.g. this, which conveys that her victory caused her to receive a recording offer. She seems to have won numerous international competitions beforehand? I think we need another hook, unless I've missed something.

I am a little concerned, while we're here, about the non-independent sourcing. Most of the cited sources are either organisations she has been affiliated with, or which had reasons to promote her. We may have a WP:N fail here; let me know what you think, before I put it up for AFD. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:19, 26 November 2025 (UTC) ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:19, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing. Ruthlessly trimming:

ALT0a: ... that Anabel Montesinos won the Francisco Tárrega International Guitar Competition at age 17?

This person played at Carnegie Hall and the Rheingau Musik Festival, - that's not promotional speak but hard facts saying she is top. - I heard her and was impressed and told Dr. Blofeld who wrote the article, but there was no review - the festival ran 154 events last year, and the papers can't cover them all - and if there was one it would be paywalled. Just one example. What can we do? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:21, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

I added a review from Gramophone. ("If you already have most of the items in other recordings I urge you to listen to Montesinos – you may feel you are hearing them for the first time.") --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:52, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

• Comment. I agree with AirshipJungleman29. In general the article relies too heavily on non-independent sources; many of which were likely written by Montesinos or her press agent or her employer. These are all published by people or parties who have a financial motive (ie selling tickets and recordings). I would say in its current state the article should be tagged for sourcing problems and the need for third party coverage. I don't think we can or should run this because the article currently fails WP:DYKCITE. Until those sources (ie content cited to a press release, theatre bio, and record label) are swapped out with independent secondary materials (ie independent newspapers, magazines, etc. with by lined authors) we shouldn't run this. Gerda that means physically removing most of the materials you've used. We've talked about this before. You really need to quit submitting articles built primarily from artist bios of this type. They aren't independent. It's ok to use them in a limited way per WP:ABOUTSELF, but they shouldn't make up the majority of materials used, and they shouldn't make up the bulk of citations per WP:BESTSOURCES and WP:DUE. I note that in doing a WP:BEFORE type search I found lots of independent media coverage (yes much of it is paywalled, but not all of it) so there really isn't a need to use any of these theatre bios. The coverage is there in German, Spanish, and English media sources using google news. Best.4meter4 (talk)

  I didn't write the article and I have no time to work on it, sorry. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:05, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Apologies for not catching that. It would be good to critically look at source balance on any articles you nominate. The work of others is not necessarily DYK ready, and if it isn't ready that makes for work here at review. An article built like this isn't going to pass scrutiny and will require heavy editing. If you are willing to pitch in and fix that is one thing, but if time isn't on your side I wouldn't nominate articles in this state. Best.4meter4 (talk) 15:34, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

When I see an article 7 days after creation, about a subject I like to see mentioned, close to midnight, too tired for scrutiny, I nominate whatever condition, hoping it will be improved in the process. There's nothing to loose. It can still be improved, and I'm willing to help but don't see time until Saturday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:19, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld: Will you be able to address the sourcing concerns? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:25, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I am sorry to have no time right now, 2 recent deaths articles and three reviews waiting, + prepare Christmas. My recommendation is to place the questioned refs under External links, and believe that there will still be enough good references to support the content. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:39, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the response Gerda, but I was asking Dr. Blofeld as he was the original article creator. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:44, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

... and I gave explanation and advice to Dr. Blofeld. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:19, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

If you can link me some urls of what sources you want added Narutolovehinata5 and 4meter4 I will see what I can do. I simply used sources that turned up in a search.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:46, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Back home, I combined refs, made one external, dropped one that had nothing new, and trimmed the prose. Please check again. There is more information (husband, duo) in the ref that's now #1. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:24, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

My Choice (film)

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• ... that 2015 film My Choice says, "My body, my mind, my choice; To wear the clothes I like; even if my spirit roams naked; My choice;.."?

• Source: * Source: Secondary: bbc

Primary: My choice acting Deepika Padukone Directed by Homi Adajania (Youtube)

• • ALT1: ... that “...Your mind is caged, let it free. My body is not, let it be … My choice: to love a man, or a woman, or both. Remember, you are my choice. I’m not your privilege. ..." is from 2015 Film My Choice?
  • Source: Secondary:Washington Post
    Primary: My choice acting Deepika Padukone Directed by Homi Adajania (Youtube)

• • ALT2: ... that “2015 film My Choice features music by French composer Mathias Duplessy, using percussion instruments for acoustics along with Mongolian Tuvan throat singing technique?
  • Source: Secondary:New Indian Express

• • ALT3:... that The rise of neoliberal feminism, as seen in film My Choice, stems from complex gender constructions across states, markets, and civil societies encompassing multiple ideological intersections?
  • Source: Secondary: Chakraborty, Gauri D. (24 March 2023). "6. New Feminist Visibilities and Sisterhood: Re-interpreting Marriage Desire and Self-Fulfillment in mainstream Hindi Cinema" (PDF). In Chakraborty Paunksnis, Runa; Paunksnis, Šarūnas (eds.). Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms: Shifting Frames in Neoliberal India. Germany: Springer International Publishing. pp. 154, 155. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16700-3_6. ISBN 978-3-031-16700-3

• • ALT4: ... that Lyrics of 2015 film My Choice were written by Kersi Khambatta?
  • Source: Secondary:New Indian Express

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Love (Alexander Milov sculpture)
  • Comment: Now the article has been assessed as B class.( dif of the article talk page history) Just for transparency and record: This is re-nomination (link to previous nomination page) after previous draftfication and reentry in the article namespace with due process of addressing issues raised during draftification with the help of WP:Teahouse feedback and copy edit supported by substantially by two copy editors and other multiple experienced copy editors too looked into the article, edited by 19 users by now (Link to Xtools) and re-entry by WP:AFC process.
    It has been confirmed at DYK talk page that the article can be re-nominated after reentry in the article namespace with due WP:AFC process.

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

Bookku (talk) 03:34, 27 October 2025 (UTC).

• Link to previous discussion about ALT3 and ALT4.

• Also (from previous own comment):" To those having music related curiosity Alt2 might sound relatively more interesting, but this DYK's purpose is to focus on the film and not the music. I hope reviewers will take note of this aspect while taking the call."

Bookku (talk) 04:19, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

• I want to suggest ALT5: ... that the film My Choice features 99 women, but is less than 3 minutes long? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:04, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I find this quite interesting. Bookku (talk) 08:45, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Though for Alt5 we will need to consider two different different sentences from secondary source or form a sentence from primary source per MOS:FILMPLOT. As such WP:CALC says:

".. Routine calculations do not count as original research, provided there is consensus among editors that the results of the calculations are correct, and a meaningful reflection of the sources. Basic arithmetic, such as adding numbers, converting units, or calculating a person's age, is almost always permissible. .."

. Here in case of Alt5 we are not even calculating but we are just presenting the numerical facts, that should work, IMO Bookku (talk) 09:56, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

https://web.archive.org/web/20220516225923/http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc59.2019/KhannaNeolibFemGaze/text.html (Jump Cut), cited in the article, says, "The two-and-a-half minute film begins with slow shots cutting between a seemingly heterogenous group of 99 women." That should be sufficient to support the entire ALT5. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 14:30, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes, You are right, Many thanks for looking into the article in so nuanced way and pointing this out. Bookku (talk) 11:17, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

@Bookku and Metropolitan90: What else needs doing here?--Launchballer 16:33, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Someone needs to do a full DYK review for this entry. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:01, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks @ User:Launchballer, as a proposer, IMHO, this article fulfills all DYK criteria.

Women's rights, slogan My body, my choice and freedom of choice continue to be ongoing international concern, being just recently discussed at G20 and also at European parliament.

The lead actress of the film Deepika Padukone was recently right back into news about controversy - audiences comparing one of her recent advert vis a vis this film of hers. (But not yet covered in the article, mostly will try to cover in the article Deepika Padukone)

Metropolitan90 themselves suggested a hook that's why some other reviewer needs to pitch in, review DYK and decide which hook they find more interesting. Bookku (talk) 02:31, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

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

Policy compliance:

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article alternates between plagiarism and insufficient referencing. For example, much of the "Summary" section is WP:CLOP of this source, and what isn't closely paraphrased is not verified, e.g. "As the music intensifies, their expressions and movements become more confident, sensual, and expressive." These are problems that go far beyond DYK, and violate basic Wikipedia policy.

As for the hooks, ALTs 0, 1, and 4 are dull as ditchwater. ALT3, like the corresponding part of the article, directly plagiarises the source. ALT2 is too verbose, and not very interesting either. That leaves ALT5, which is by far superior to any other; still, the article needs to be improved greatly. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:35, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

@User talk:AirshipJungleman29 Thanks for your frank feedback, and I regret some of the things are not to your expectation but I have some points to share with you.

1) Summary section uses This is primary source, as WP MOS:FILMPLOT allows primary source itself for summary writing to the some extant as shown below. " .. Since films are primary sources for their articles, basic descriptions of their plots do not need references to an outside source.., I suppose we need not have any difference of opinion on this. I had reduced the speed of YouTube while writing and confirming source content for the article. Hence I find it difficult that summary content written as per MOS:FILMPLOT from primary source can be called not-referenced?

2) I have not copy-pasted any content directly, written only in my own words and your goodselves only had complained at my talk page about deficiencies in language and grammar. So I invited more copy editors help and got it copy edited. Idk, if you are having a feeling that copy edited content is reaching back similar to the sourced content. May be in that case I can request the same copy editors and few more to help in that respect.

3) Your goodselves only stated above that content in the section is alternating with other content (which you presume not sourced and I say sourced per policy from original source). As long as alternating content is encyclopedic, relevant, written in own words plus copy edited further by another editors and referenced IMHO that should be within fair use, still since you have concerns then as said I shall invite more copy editors to help me sort this out.

Thanks Bookku (talk) 07:06, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

@User:Metropolitan90 do you have any specific inputs to share with in respect to user AirshipJungleman29's concerns, since you have already visited the sourced text your inputs may help discussion and further article improvement. Bookku (talk) 07:12, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Okay,Once again I have gone through, what AirshipJungleman29 is trying to say. I shall prefer to discuss my understanding at Metropolitan90's user talk page keeping AirshipJungleman29 in the loop and find the resolution. Bookku (talk) 10:40, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Your comments are confusing and not fully intelligible. Hopefully I have interpreted them properly:

With regard to MOS:FILMPLOT, please pay attention to the second paragraph, specifically what primary sources may be used for.

Please consult WP:CLOP. That is considered plagiarism and a copyright violation. As above, please compare the Summary section to the source.

Fair use is irrelevant. There is no need for others to copy-edit, there is only a need for you Bookku to fix your copyright violations. That is a basic requirement of Wikipedia editing; editors who cannot write without plagiarising are routinely blocked. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:39, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

I do not get involved in film genre regularly, there may be difference in understanding on my part. But I always write in my own words that's why English grammar issues keep coming up, and I resolve English grammar issues with help of helpful copy editors. Besides where I feel doubtful a try to approach respective forums for example in case of image added to this article itself by another user I approached here. And I am working on another draft for that I approached here.

I wish to address and resolve issues raised by you head on, and no arguments about it. (Besides as said above it's my first time to handle film genre. Knowing that I had and I have approached all relevant project talk pages for inputs and help.)

What I am proposing to is to revisit and improve summary section paragraph by paragraph, preferably discussing improvements at User:Metropolitan90's talk page - since they have read one of the source and aware of the source and suggested alt5, of course keeping you in the loop (as I kept you informed previously for the same article). In present case it is just around two minutes film, it would be a challenging task to differentiate our fresh summary but we will do that. I will try to write it again afresh besides I will try to request other helpful users to write their summaries without reading the article and then improve. The same things we can discuss para wise at Metropolitan90's user talk page if Metropolitan90 is okay with the same. Thanks for helpful guidance. Bookku (talk) 15:07, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

My suggestion would be to rewrite the Summary section to make it much shorter than it is now. Since most of Airship's objections pertain to plagiarism/paraphrasing in that section, that could help ease his concerns. This is a very short film and thus a short summary is all that should be needed. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 09:15, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

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Fifă

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• ... that in the Romanian Carpathians, young women once flirted with the hills – playing the fifă fluier and answering its echo with yodel-like hăulit singing?
• ALT1: ... that women the Romanian Carpathians traditionally play the one-note fifă fluier, around which their voice "embroiders" a rudimentary melody using a yodel-like hăulit singing?
• ALT2: ... that the single tone of the fifă, an archaic fluier from the foothills of the Carpathians , combines with yodel-like hăulit singing to create a zigzag contour of a single melodic line?
• ALT3: ... that when women in the Oltenia Carpathians play the fifă, their voice essentially becomes an extension of the instrument, compensating for its minimal resources with yodel-like hăulit?
• ALT4: ... that the Pygmy whistle hindewhu is played almost exactly like the archaic Romanian fluier fifă — and that Herbie Hancock recreated its sound using empty beer bottles in his 1973 version of "Watermelon Man"?

• Source: Fifă [dudina, suieras]. End-blown notched flute of Romania. It is made from a hollow hemlock or lovage stalk, a handbreadth long, stopped with a node at the lower end... The fifa can produce only one note, and is blown mostly by women. Its intermittent note is a sound axis around which the performer’s voice ‘embroiders’ a rudimentary melody using a yodel-like vocal technique (hăulit)...

Libin, Laurence, ed. (2014). The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Vol. 2 (2 ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 278

• • Reviewed:

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

Iurii.s (talk) 05:59, 28 October 2025 (UTC).

• First of all, allow me to congratulate our new colleague Iurii.s for what emerges as a remarkably well written, and thoroughly engaging, series about Romanian-areal folk music. This is a new, long, thorough, well researched and plagiarism-free article; the only drawback is perhaps that the lead does not summarize the article content, but that is obviously not a DYK requirement. User is, as mentioned, new, and QPQ is not required. That said: I should point out that the hook is not verified by the source, nor is it apparently mentioned in the article. Unless there is some arcane terminology that eludes me (and would elude most readers), "to flirt" would indicate that women actually personify the hills and act out as if they were singing to romantic partners. Is there any other way to phrase this? Dahn (talk) 07:38, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the positive feedback and the kind words! I really appreciate it. And you're right, the hook needs improvement. I've added ALT1 version. -Iurii.s (talk) 10:36, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
    • The ALT is certainly an improvement, but the word "embroiders" would need to also appear in the article. What is more: the cited source is only cited once in the article, and not for the fact in the hook (!). Please note that the hook needs to be based on something actually found in the article -- you can easily solve this by adding it to the article, with the corresponding citation. Once that is fixed, please note: the ALT is a bit on the wordy side, and loses focus. I will suggest a punchier wording once you will have addressed the query above. Dahn (talk) 22:10, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

• @Iurii.s: I am not sure if the added ALTs are admitting that the original hook is unusable. On the other hand, I see additional potential issues with them. For instance, you render "extension of the instrument" as a quote, but is not a visible quote in the article -- it is not clear if you're attributing it to the source or if you're paraphrasing the source. If the former, the quote would need be, quote marks and all, in the article as well; if the latter, you do not need quote marks here. The same goes for the "zigzag" ALT. I also have to wonder about the hindewhu paragraph and the ALT based on it: does the source you used ever mention fifăs, by name or by description? Because the phrasing seems to suggest that some original research went into that, as per WP:SYNTH. Dahn (talk) 13:35, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
  • I have removed quote marks from ALT2-3, you have your point. As for ALT4, the source (Херцеа 1988) in the article mentions morphological kinship of the fifa with other simple single-note stopped tubes. Hindewhu falls into that category, though not listed implicitly. So I believe no original research from my side. From my point of view ALT2-4 are OK. -Iurii.s (talk) 12:38, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

@Dahn: What else needs doing here?--Launchballer 16:16, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

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Calum Lill

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• ... that the house of actor Calum Lill was used a set of the drama Waterloo Road when he was a child?

• Source: [7]

• ALT1: ... that actor Calum Lill almost quit his acting career? Source: [8]
• ALT2: ... that actor Calum Lill also worked as a car salesman? Source: [9]
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Football at the 2015 Island Games – Women's tournament and Template:Did you know nominations/Crypto: The Game
• Comment: Please let me know if I should suggest another hook!

Improved to Good Article status by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 36 past nominations.

DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 06:22, 3 November 2025 (UTC).

• The article is new enough, long enough, well-sourced, and there are no copyvio problems detected by Earwig. A spotcheck of the sources doesn't reveal any issues with verifiability or close paraphrasing. ALT0 is the most interesting hook, but I'm wondering if there is a source that verifies this besides Lill's own recollection? I don't see this as an issue for a little personal tidbit like this but just thought I'd ask. QPQ is also still needed. Zeibgeist (talk) 00:50, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
• Sorry, I see that two QPQs were completed above. This is my first proper DYK review so I'm still getting used to the process. Zeibgeist (talk) 01:02, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
• & Hey @Zeibgeist: Thank you so much for your review! Unfortunately I could not find another source. Is there anything I need to do? DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 12:44, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

  The interview where he mentions it is in a reliable news source, so I think it's fine; I just wanted to check. Since this is my first formal DYK review, I'm bumping it back for a second opinion, but everything looks good to me! Zeibgeist (talk) 19:37, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

@DaniloDaysOfOurLives: I agree that ALT0 is the best hook, but the article and sourcing are a bit vague. I'm not sure if it actually was still their house at the time of filming (i.e. it was his house then), or not (the source mentions that they were in the process of moving in). Maybe the article wording has to be made clearer? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:06, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

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Aligned, Multiple-transient Events in the First Palomar Sky Survey

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The Palomar Observatory in San Diego

• ... that "transients" that appear in 1950s celestial images captured by the Palomar Observatory (pictured) are generallyoften attributed to defects in the observatory's photo plates?

• Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/study-links-mysterious-lights-in-the-sky-to-historic-nuclear-tests

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Defense of Azakh Template:Did you know nominations/Arlecchino (Genshin Impact)

Created by Chetsford (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 170 past nominations.

Chetsford (talk) 16:57, 4 November 2025 (UTC).

• The section on "ufology" has no *direct* bearing on the article content, is clearly biased against the content, and I would not pass this without it being removed. I also do not see anything that rises the to the hook claim that this is "generally attributed" to plate defects. The ref on the section that does mention this states it as "were often", and I would hesitate to say "often" is a synonym for "generally" and the context suggests the "were" is in the sense of "in the past" as opposed to "is". The section at the end, which purports to report on these concerns, doesn't mention plate defects at all. The SciAm article does offer a very good summary of the various concerns, and one of the statements fits the bill, that of Nigel Hambly, but there are many other interesting ones as well. So I'm uncomfortable which this claim. Further, for an article about UFO claims, which would be sure to generate oodles of clicks, it seems odd that the hook fails to mention this at all. If the goal of this article is to inform people that this work is controversial, then it only serves that purpose if people actually read it, and this hook would seem to do the opposite. Instead:

• • ALT1: * ... that a recent paper about "transients" that appear in 1950s celestial images has been the basis for the claim that UFOs have been attracted to nuclear weapon tests? Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:08, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

"for an article about UFO claims..." / "The section on "ufology" has no *direct* bearing on the article" -- I'm having difficulty reconciling these two statements.
"If the goal of this article is to inform people that this work is controversial" It is not. The goal of the article is to chronicle what reliable sources say about a notable topic. In the spirit of NPOV, our articles should not be evangelically motivated. Chetsford (talk) 18:24, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

The goal of the article is to chronicle what reliable sources say about a notable topic - precisely, and this section says nothing whatsoever about this paper. "our articles should not be evangelically motivated" - I couldn't agree more, which is why this section should be removed, as it appears to be included simply to bias the reader without any RS actually making these statements. Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:43, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Background sections to explain unusual terminology later introduced are extremely rote on articles, and are a proper application of WP:MTAU and WP:PLA. Let me think about this for a period of time, however. "as it appears to be included simply to bias the reader without any RS actually making these statements" I completely reject this indictment in both form and fact. Chetsford (talk) 18:56, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

explain unusual terminology later introduced - the terminology is not used anywhere else in the article. Argument fails. You can reject my opinion and argue with me ad nauseam about this "indictment", or we can move forward with the nom. Which will it be? Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:11, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

"the terminology is not used anywhere else in the article" The terms "UAP" and "UFO" are used at least 11 times outside that section. "Argument fails. You can reject my opinion and argue with me ad nauseam about this "indictment", or we can move forward with the nom. Which will it be?" As I said in my previous comment,[10] I'd like some time to properly consider your feedback. Thanks, again, for your patience. Chetsford (talk) 14:44, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Maury Markowitz - this has now been remedied. Let me know if you've any other edits. Thanks -Chetsford (talk) 23:32, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

All that's needed now are the 2 QPQs. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:50, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Maury Markowitz -- those are listed under the header "Reviewed". Chetsford (talk) 13:01, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Good to go with the current changes. NOTE: this article is currently subject to an ongoing AfD]. Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:14, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose this blurb. This is in the source clearly the background of the study, where the potential for these to be mere defects in the study that the Wikipedia article is about has been investigated and found to be impossible or implausible hence the paper in the peer-reviewed major scientific journal(s). This is a violation of WP:NPOV. If Wikipedia policies are robust and matter, it won't be a DYK or only after the text has been written in a less biased, misleading way. It's not per se false, but the wikilink is wrong as it suggests that this is what the study found when the source doesn't support that at all and the sources say the opposite. --Prototyperspective (talk) 16:59, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Does this objection bear weight Maury Markowitz Chetsford? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:08, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

@AirshipJungleman29: It does bear weight, which is why I proposed ALT1. ALT0 lacks specificity (what is "often"?), whereas ALT1 is a direct statement by the paper's authors. It's also, IMHO, much more hooky. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:05, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

. I see. Well, an independent reviewer is needed for ALT1. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:42, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

@Maury Markowitz and Chetsford: ALT1 seems to be cited to the paper itself, could a secondary source be found? Also, I trimmed much of the Background section per WP:DUE.--Launchballer 17:23, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: ALT1 is cited to the paper but that is what the paper is claiming. Should I make it more clear in the hook, that this is the claim of the paper? Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:40, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I concur with Launchballer. We would need a source that claimed these two papers are the "basis" for the idea supposed "UFOs" are attracted to nuclear weapons, which is a counter-factual statement since that idea has been circulating for many decades predating either paper. Chetsford (talk) 19:54, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

The basis of your statement is the term "basis", which is interesting given your original hook contains the term "often". But fair enough:

• • ALT2: * ... that a recent paper about "transients" that appear in 1950s celestial images discusses whether the data provides evidence that that nuclear weapons may attract UAPs?"

This is a direct quote from the "Discussion" section of the paper. @Launchballer:, unless I'm mistaken, we don't need independent V for a statement that is directly quoted from the work itself, as that work can be read by anyone. Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:57, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I don't think this meets criterion 7 of the DYK criteria. Also, the way it's written affirms the existence of UAPs as a factual, versus imaginative, phenomenon. Finally, we should not introduce WP:JARGON on the main page and would, at minimum, need to refer to them as UFOs. Chetsford (talk) 03:19, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

It does not bear weight, AirshipJungleman29. The objector's statement "This is a violation of NPOV." is circumscribed by WP:PSCI by which NPOV does not apply to fringe views in the way they've described. The consensus view to explain the transients is there were defects in the glass plates in 1955. The fringe view to explain the transients is that a fleet of Martian spaceships was orbiting the Earth in 1955. We are under no obligation to equitably treat these two theories. Chetsford (talk) 20:06, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 4

Rachel Walker Revere

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Rachel Walker Revere, painted by Gilbert Stuart

• ... that Rachel Walker Revere bribed a British officer to secure a pass for her family to safely escape British-occupied Boston after her husband's "midnight ride"?

• Source: "The next letters between Paul and Rachel discuss arrangements for getting the family out of besieged Boston. The British only allowed for people to leave with a pass, and passes were hard to come by....in her letter to Paul dated May 2, 1775, Rachel declares that "capt Irvin says he has not received any letter and I send by this 2 bottles beer and 1 wine for his servant."...clearly, the supply of food became of paramount concern within the city, which allowed Rachel to wield it as a bribe to obtain passes." Jenny Hale Pulsipher. "Rachel Walker Revere: A Revolutionary Woman." The Revere House Gazette, Winter 1997, pg. 6. There are also references to the event in Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes, and A True Republican by Jayne Triber.

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

Isoxys (talk) 20:43, 4 November 2025 (UTC).

• Article is in good shape and eligible. No evidence of copyvio, and the hook is interesting enough (I might link midnight ride though). The source quote seems to confirm the hook, but I'd need to know what this source actually is. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 04:24, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

I have added a cite for the quote, it comes from the Paul Revere Memorial Association. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:05, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry I forgot to add a citation! I've edited the source to include one now. Isoxys (talk) 17:03, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Isoxys, the article says she may have bribed an officer, and source indicates her letter suggests that she may have bribed Captain Irvin for a pass, which is not as declarative as the hook. I think either a new hook is needed or a clearer source indicating that a bribe did indeed take place. Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:13, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

I think that's fair! Would changing the hook to "may have bribed a British officer" be alright, or should I come up with something new entirely? Isoxys (talk) 19:42, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

@Isoxys: Dclemens1971 is on wikibreak, but I would suggest other hooks.--Launchballer 13:27, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

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Nishino (novel series)

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• ... that the main character of Nishino was deliberately designed to be ordinary-looking? Source: [11] (その当時からライトノベルの主人公は、「普通の高校生」や「平凡な容姿」といった表現が行われる一方、いざイラスト化されると、格好よくイケメンに描かれる作品が多いように感じていました。自分はそこに疑問を抱いておりまして、もしも本気でフツメンの主人公にしたら、物語はどのように転がっていくのだろうかと考えたことが、本作を書き始めたきっかけとなります。)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/First English Public Jam Session
  • Comment: Second QPQ: Template:Did you know nominations/1968 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware. Special thanks to Link20XX for helping suggest the hook wording.

Created by Narutolovehinata5 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 121 past nominations.

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:25, 7 November 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: For most westerners, at least, "ordinary-looking main character" is an incredibly well-worn trope in popular media? Harry Potter, Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Captain America, Ender's Game, even the Bible (multiple times over) – the main character is always very plain and low on the social ladder, that's how their inner qualities (like heroism) are shown throughout the course of the story. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:16, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

• How about:

  ALT1 ... that in contrast to other Japanese light novel protagonists, the main character of Nishino was deliberately designed to be ordinary-looking?

@Theleekycauldron: The additional context is probably needed here. The idea is that light novel protagonists are often said to be "plain-looking" or "ordinary", but look handsome when drawn or shown in anime adaptations. The idea for this one was that he actually would look "plain" or "ordinary". There is also the idea that the protagonist was deliberately designed/made to be ordinary, not that they just are. I'm not sure how to express either idea better in a hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:48, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

I guess that deals with the immediate problem, as long as the sourcing supports such a broad claim. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 03:05, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

@Theleekycauldron: The source and quote for the claim were provided above. To make things more feasible, I've changed "most" to "other" to also be closer to the source. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:18, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

• Since the claim about light novel protagonists came from the author himself, maybe we can rephrase the wording further?

ALT2 ... that the author of Nishino deliberately made its protagonist ordinary-looking to contrast him with other Japanese light novel protagonists?

Admittedly, I'm having trouble expressing the idea here in a hook, so any help in wordsmithing would be appreciated. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:57, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5 and Theleekycauldron: What else needs doing here?--Launchballer 16:47, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

a full review, probably? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 16:59, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Probably. (I was going through User:GalliumBot/transfem/DYK nominations needing attention and was getting tired.)--Launchballer 20:53, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Holy Rosary Church (Columbus, Ohio)

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• ... that the rectory of Holy Rosary Church was used as a station on the Underground Railroad?

• Source: https://columbuslandmarks.org/holy-rosary-church-campus/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/SS Persian Monarch
  Template:Did you know nominations/Bartholomäus Scultetus

Created by Maximilian775 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 28 past nominations.

Maximilian775 (talk) 15:42, 9 November 2025 (UTC).

• Article is new and long enough. It is well-sourced, uses inline citations, neutral, and I cannot see any copy violations. The hook is good, interesting and cited to five online sources in the Founding section. QPQs have been done. - JuneGloom07 Talk 05:03, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

  Maximilian775 JuneGloom07 - are we sure this source is reliable? It seems just like an ordinary non-profit with no extra fact-checking or so and I'm not sure about its reliability. Of the five sources that support the fact in the article, one (Schelgel) doesn't seem to mention this, one is the aforementioned one, two are inaccessible to me (not sure how to access those), and the Dept. of the Interior one also doesn't seem to mention this. Just looking for clarification on the notability of the first one. HurricaneZeta^C 00:21, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

  Oh dear, personally I thought it was okay, so that's on me. Looking at the sources again, I believe they cover the first two sentences, so they could be better placed. I AGF on the one I couldn't access (Arter). I did check the book, which does contain references to the railroad. Maybe User:Maximilian775 could add the relevant quote from the Arter source to the ref? - JuneGloom07 Talk 23:22, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 7

John David Kali

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• ... that John David Kali, one of Kenya's early freedom fighters, edited the nationalist paper Sauti ya Mwafrika before becoming Kenya’s first Government Chief Whip?

• Source: A Path Not Taken (Thurston 2015), pp. 46–47 – confirms his role as last editor of Sauti ya Mwafrika and assistant editor of Sauti ya KANU; Parliament / Embakasi sources – confirm he served as Kenya’s first Government Chief Whip in 1963.

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NdukuKali11 (talk) 13:58, 10 November 2025 (UTC).

• Note article has a tag saying that more citations are needed as every end of paragraph (outside of the lead) should have a citation. This should be resolved before promotion. Simply removing the tag won't fix it. JuniperChill (talk) 15:07, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Cūḷāmaṇi Cetiya

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Rattanakosin-style painting of the Cūḷāmaṇi Cetiya.

• ... that Cūḷāmaṇi Cetiya (pictured) is the celestial stupa in Tāvatiṃsa Heaven where Śakra enshrined the future Buddha Prince Siddhartha's topknot? Source: "076 – Story of Renunciation". ignca.gov.in.
  • ALT1: ... that in Buddhist legend, Śakra retrieved the Buddha’s right tooth relic from a Brahmin who stole it and enshrined it in the Cūḷāmaṇi Cetiya (pictured)? Source: https://www.themindingcentre.org/dharmafarer/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/36.13-Pada-Dona-S-a4.36-piya.pdf
  • ALT2: ... that the celestial Cūḷāmaṇi Cetiya (pictured) is believed to enshrine both the Buddha's topknot, which he cut off during his renunciation, and his right canine tooth after death? Source: Khanjanusthiti, Pinraj (1996). Buddhist architecture : meaning and conservation in the context of Thailand (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of York. Retrieved 2025-11-15.
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ManoiCMU (talk) 16:08, 14 November 2025 (UTC).

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Bouchra

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• ... that Bouchra's anthropomorphic characters have been compared to those in Zootopia, Aesop's Fables, and the furry community?

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• Lang, Jamie (2025-09-05). "'Spit and Duct Tape and Dreams': How a Small Global Team Built the Queer CG Feature 'Bouchra,' Premiering in Toronto". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on 8 September 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
• Mobarak, Jared (2025-09-05). "TIFF Review: Bouchra is an Aesthetically Bold, Personal Animation". The Film Stage. Archived from the original on 6 September 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
• Neulichedl, Veronica (2025-10-19). "Il Processo Terapeutico dell'Animazione queer di 'Bouchra'". Taxidrivers (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-11-16.
• Ghelani, Sailesh; Sharan, Swati (2025-09-23). "TIFF 2025 Film Reviews". Minority Review. Retrieved 2025-11-16.

• • ALT1: ... that Bouchra was the first animated Platform Prize nominee at the Toronto International Film Festival? Source: Hazelton, John (2025-07-22). "Nine world premieres set for Toronto competitive auteur section Platform". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • ALT2: ... that Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki's Bouchra revisits the universe of their 2020 web series, 2 Lizards? Source: Tan, Lumi (2024). "Meriem Bennani". CURA. Vol. 43. Retrieved 2025-11-16. / McLean-Ferris, Laura (2024-12-02). "Reviews: Meriem Bennani, 'For My Best Family' at Fondazione Prada, Milan". Mousse Magazine. Archived from the original on 13 January 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • ALT3: ... that Bouchra was funded and hosted by Milan's Fondazione Prada under the title For Aicha? Source: Wilk, Elvia (2025-10-01). "Scripting Intimacy: Meriem Bennani and the Art of Animating Reality". Hyundai Artlab. Retrieved 2025-11-16. / Mang, Lolita (2025-10-21). "À Paris, cette exposition gratuite va vous donner envie… de danser !". Vogue France (in French). Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • ALT4: ... that Bouchra proved popular with the furry userbase of the Letterboxd site? Source: Scarabelli, Taylore (2025-10-03). "NYFF: How Filmmakers Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki Got the Furries Freaking Out". Interview Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 October 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • ALT5: ... that Bouchra was the first animated feature produced in Morocco? Source: Lang, Jamie (2025-09-05). "'Spit and Duct Tape and Dreams': How a Small Global Team Built the Queer CG Feature 'Bouchra,' Premiering in Toronto". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on 8 September 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nobody (2025 film)
  • Comment: I didn't choose this topic--the topic chose me.
    Certainly the most opportune "animated first by country" I've chanced upon in my WP career--from the moment the Brew first brought it up during its Toronto premiere. This one ticked a lot of boxes as concerns my tastes and interests: feature animation, furry works, LGBTQ+ (as a sympathiser), arthouse fare, and foreign cinema.
    All of which has led to not only my most ambitious quest for a Four Award,^{Which could also become AFC's fifth, months from now} but also my most ambitious DYK pitch to date--thus concluding Phase 2a of that Four campaign. (So many hook options, so much Google-pinging, so little time.) How much this brings the furry crowd to WP's front page next year--and whether the fine press will take notice--time and the Masters will tell. As always, WP is short on coverage of animated African media, especially in terms of quality. (Caribbean audiovisual content, too--speaking as a Florida-based expatriate--but that's for another thread.)
    As an editor who has endured for 20 years, an FA may finally be in my sights--and I'll never have to worry about editing again once I get it. After ages of prospects and false starts, it's about time already...
    

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    With special thanks to AFC approver LuniZunie (talk · contribs).

Moved to mainspace by Slgrandson (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 15:32, 16 November 2025 (UTC).

• Drive-by comment, I think none of these hooks are interesting. But they might be interesting when combined. I propose:
  ALT6: ... that the first animated feature produced in Morocco became popular among the furry community?
  — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 19:58, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 13

The Cenotaph, Bulawayo

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The Cenotaph in Bulawayo

• ... that the Cenotaph (pictured) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe commemorates Southern Rhodesian war dead of the First World War, Second World War, Malayan Emergency and Rhodesian Bush War?

• Source: [12] & [13]

• ALT1: ... that the Cenotaph (pictured) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe was dedicated in 1921, then in 1925 by Edward, Prince of Wales and once more in 1970? 1, 2, 3
• ALT2: ... that the gardens around the Cenotaph (pictured) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, a monument erected after the First World War, are a good place in which to relax whilst learning about history? 1
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Saving Grace (podcast)

Created by Willthorpe (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Will Thorpe (talk) 11:19, 15 November 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: I could be wrong on this, but it's my understanding that Wikipedia prefers that one crop the negative borders of scanned images like this for online usage, as it is more decorative here than useful. Viriditas (talk) 00:48, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Comment: Fair cop. I have amended the image as such. Cheers, Will Thorpe (talk) 04:02, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
    • Keep both instead. This may be an exception to the rule. The bordered version looks better to me than the crop due to the vertical alignment of the pillars. Viriditas (talk) 04:11, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

...So Goes the Nation

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County map of the 2004 election in Ohio

• ... that one of the Republican activists interviewed in the 2006 documentary ...So Goes the Nation later changed parties?

• Source: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/columnists/2024/10/05/opinion-longtime-republican-judge-leslie-ghiz-runs-as-an-independent/75466544007/

• ALT1: ... that the 2006 documentary ...So Goes the Nation interviewed the chairman of both the Democratic and Republican parties? Source: https://variety.com/2006/film/markets-festivals/so-goes-the-nation-1200512914/
• ALT2: ... that the directors of the 2006 documentary ...So Goes the Nation were originally trying to document possible voter fraud in the 2004 United States presidential election? Source: https://variety.com/2006/film/markets-festivals/so-goes-the-nation-1200512914/
• ALT3: ... that the 2006 documentary ...So Goes the Nation centers on Ohio in the 2004 United States presidential election (map pictured)? Source: https://variety.com/2006/film/markets-festivals/so-goes-the-nation-1200512914/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Georgie Purcell
• Comment: Template:Did you know nominations/Heracross for my second QPQ

5x expanded by Olliefant (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 28 past nominations.

Olliefant (she/her) 08:33, 13 November 2025 (UTC).

• Comment. ALT0 is missing a word for it to make sense, and if I'm reading the article correctly, that word would be "one": "... that one of the Republican activists interviewed in the 2006 documentary ...So Goes the Nation later changed parties?" With regard to ALT2, if the filmmakers were "originally trying to document possible voter fraud" in the election, that implies that they might have changed their minds and decided to focus on something else, or perhaps that they couldn't find evidence of voter fraud. What did they wind up with instead? I can't really tell from the article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:15, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

  @Metropolitan90: I clarified that they dropped the voter fraud stuff, I couldn't find why but Ill look again soon. Olliefant (she/her) 16:23, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 14

North Korean Postal Service

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North Korea Post's LOGO

• ... that North Korea had official mail circulation with the South from 1946 to 1950?

• Source: USAMGIK released the results of the preparatory talks between the US and the USSR, National Institute of Korean History; March 7, 1946

• ALT1: ... that North Korea just officially restored postal mailbag exchanges with China and Russia since the COVID-19 pandemic? Source: Russia restores N. Korea's postal lifeline, DailyNK; June 19, 2025 and North Korea-China Land Mail Route Reopens After Five Years, The Chosun Daily; October 10, 2025
• ALT2: ... that North Korea signed postal agreements with China and USSR before its independence? Source: Provisional Agreement on Postal and Telecommunications Services Between the Northeast Liberated Area of the Republic of China and North Korea and its Implementation Rules, National Institute of Korean History; January 17, 1948 and Provisional Agreement between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and North Korea on Postal and Telegraphic Communication, National Institute of Korean History; August 16, 1946
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• Comment: Based on a comprehensive review of primary historical materials, including the Database of Contemporary Korean History by National Institute of Korean History in Korean, the Treaty Database of P.R.C. by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in Chinese and a revealed secret document by CIA in English, my content expansion significantly supplements the history chapter of postal exchanges of North Korea with South Korea, the Soviet Union, and China, overturning the previous conclusion that "North and South Korea had NO postal contact". It also supplements the information on the recent resumption of postal routes of North Korea with China and Russia, based on recent news reports.

5x expanded by HCCB3947 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

HCCB3947 (talk) 13:43, 20 November 2025 (UTC).

• In 2025, the government-controlled stamp-issuing authority (Korea Stamp Corporation) published a release notice for new stamps that — for the first time — included Russian alongside English, Chinese, and Korean, reflecting the regime’s growing alignment with Russia. Source : [14] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4425valentina (talk • contribs) 12:05, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
  • This should belong to another Wikipedia page named Korea Stamp Corporation. Stamp issuing and postal service are two separate systems in DPRK. For example, the corporation has their own official website, while the post do not. Source: Entities responsible for fulfilling the obligations arising from adherence to the Acts of the Union and UPU S108 standard International Mail Processing Centre (IMPC) codes, open offices by Universal Postal Union. HCCB3947 (talk) 15:12, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
• Comment: I'm 99.99% sure interlanguage links aren't allowed for DYK hooks, though ALT2 could become a multihook, but I don't see that as necessary. Roast (talk) 23:18, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
  • According to Wikipedia:Accuracy, it is not suitable to replace the interlanguage link with other articles such as Republic of China (1912–1949). This is because in the original treaty text, it is specified that the Chinese signer of the agreement is "Northeast Administrative Committee of the Republic of China", which is led by the CPC, not the KMT who led the R.O.C. They are different historical political entities, with the former one have no corresponding English article(s). Anyways, it's the last ALT hook that only applicable when the community see the first two are both "unnecessary". HCCB3947 (talk) 12:00, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

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Agastya lake

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• ... that a sacred lake is used to wash clothes?

• Source: [15]

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1939 Salvadoran presidential election

Moved to mainspace by Earth605 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Earth605^talk 18:52, 18 November 2025 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Sources like Makemytrip, traveltriangle.com, gosahin.com, etc.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems: - Article is full of single-sentence paragraphs

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - The source provided is myholidayhappiness.com
• Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: @Earth605: New enough, long enough. Neutral in tone. QPQ not required. Presentability is an issue since the article is filled with single-sentence paragraphs. Sourcing is also an issue. Since the lake was built in the early medieval period, and is surrounded by the Badami cave temples, it should have some mention in academic sources. AmateurHi$torian (talk) 09:06, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

The article states, "It is not known how was the lake built". However, this source states that "Bâdami is situated at the outlet between two rocky hills on its north and south-east sides, a dam to the east of the town between the bases of the hills forming a large tank for the supply of water to the town". So, it's quite clear how the lake was built. -AmateurHi$torian (talk) 09:17, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

I have substituted unreliable refs, added your ref and provided a new ref for the hook. I have also fixed issues with presentation. @AmateurHi$torian: What do you think now? Earth605^talk 07:07, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Many unreliable sources still persist. These are:

1. yatrikaone.com

2. "Some Whispers from Eternity: Book on Evolution of Consciousness and Upliftment of Humanity Through OM Kriya Yoga" by Shomik Chaudhuri.

3. www.sterlingholidays.com

4. www.avathi.com

5. myholidayhappiness.com

Please do familiarize yourself with WP:RS (particularly WP:SOURCETYPES and WP:RSSELF). Since this article is about a lake built in the 7th century and surrounded by medieval temples, cave temples, and other historic buildings, the best sources for this topic would be published articles/books by historians/archaeologists. Other sources, such as news articles are also acceptable, especially for the part about recent flooding, which wouldn't appear in any history books, for example ("The Hindu" is considered very reliable, The Times of India less so but it depends on context).

The problem with the sources I've mentioned is that anyone can create a blog or write a book. That says nothing for the validity of these sources.

Furthermore, the Mahabharata does mention one Agastya's lake, but it is most likely not this one, since this one was built a few centuries after the compilation of the Mahabharata. -AmateurHi$torian (talk) 11:14, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

There might be a local folk/mythological belief that this lake is the one mentioned in the Mahabharata, and that it was built by Agastya himself. That can be included in the article. But the problem is, there has to be a source for this. -AmateurHi$torian (talk) 11:22, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

• Not a DYK issue, but shouldn't the article be at Agastya Lake, with the L being capitalized? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:59, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

@Earth605: Please address the above. And yes, this should be at Agastya Lake per MOS:GEOCAPS.--Launchballer 13:10, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Moved. Thank! All issues have been solved. Can somebody give a tick? @Launchballer, Narutolovehinata5, and AmateurHi$torian:. Earth605^talk 15:03, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

@Earth605: Not quite. The issue remains that there's not a single reliable source which says that this Agastya lake is the Agastya's lake mentioned in the Mahabharata. -AmateurHi$torian (talk) 19:40, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

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St. Pauli Church (Hamburg)

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Interior view from front, includes 17th century crucifix

• ... that St. Pauli Church (interior pictured) has not been located in the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg since 1938 despite giving the quarter its name?

• Source: "St. Pauli Kirche". Soul Pauli (in German). 2023-08-27. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
• "Geschichte". St. Pauli Kirche (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-23.

• ALT1: ... that St. Pauli Church (interior pictured) displays a crucifix from 1690 that came from a church recently burned on the site during the War of the Sixth Coalition?

• Source: "Geschichte". St. Pauli Kirche (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-23.
• "St. Pauli-Kirche ist "Kirche des Monats August"". nordkirche.de (in German). 2023-12-11. Retrieved 2025-03-31.

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

Rufus the Unqualified (talk) 21:26, 26 November 2025 (UTC).

Thank you for an interesting article, on fine sources, all in German, which I can read, therefore I picked the review. Long enough, recent enough. Before we begin: I am not happy with the name in English. There isn't a single source saying so. It would be St. Paul's Church in English, which would make us loose the similarity to the (former) district. How about St. Pauli (church)? In any case, don't move the nomination ;) - I looked at the German article and saw that the church has a highly interesting organ which should at least be mentioned. (I worked all day on organs, to explain.) I also find the order of the sections a bit strange, and would prefer a more chronological narration. Too tire for more right now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:10, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Bunyan Saptomo

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• ... that according to Bunyan Saptomo, the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 is not a human rights violation? Source: Kresna, Mawa (6 August 2017). Salam, Fahri (ed.). "Menilik Rekam Jejak 14 Calon Komisioner Komnas HAM" [Examining the Track Record of 14 Candidates for Komnas HAM Commissioner]. Tirto (in Indonesian). Retrieved 19 November 2025. Dari tiga nama ini, Bunyan Saptomo sempat menjadi perhatian saat dialog terbuka pada tahap seleksi. Bunyan mengatakan bahwa hak asasi manusia bukan prinsip dan landasan universal dan kasus pembantaian massal 1965 bukan pelanggaran HAM. [Of the three candidates, Bunyan Saptomo attracted attention during the open dialogue during the selection stage. He stated that human rights are not a universal principle or foundation, and that the 1965 mass killings were not a human rights violation.]
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Daaga and Template:Did you know nominations/Interstate 155 (Missouri–Tennessee)

Created by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 112 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 17:39, 22 November 2025 (UTC).

Defence of Iwardo

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The Mor Hadbschabo Church in Iwardo, where Assyrians took shelter during the defence

• ... that the Assyrian village of Iwardo has become famous due to the heroic defence that took place during the Assyrian genocide?

• Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=nay0EAAAQBAJ&q=assyrian&safe=strict#v=snippet&q=Midyat&f=false

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• Comment: The source reads "...we ended up in Ayn Warda, an Assyrian village famous for having been a bastion of resistance to the genocide during World War I."

Improved to Good Article status by Surayeproject3 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Surayeproject3 (talk) 17:12, 19 November 2025 (UTC).

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

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• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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• Interesting: - I don't think it works to center "famous" in the hook, since many places that were the site of well-known military actions gain interest as a result.
• Other problems: - "heroic" fails WP:POV.

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
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QPQ: None required.

Overall: (t · c) buidhe 02:40, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

• Having written the Sayfo article, my eye was caught by "it is one of the only episodes of Assyrian resistance to the genocide". I am not sure it's true. What does the source say exactly?
• I have also read elsewhere that the so called "Midyat Rebellion" was an invention of Ottoman officials who imagined that independent resistance efforts were part of a coordinated, seditious conspiracy. But this article posits it as a fact
• Article would benefit from citing Kaiser, Hilmar (2014). The Extermination of Armenians in the Diarbekir Region. İstanbul Bilgi University Press. ISBN 978-605-399-333-9. you only need the section about armed resistance in Tur Abdin, I don't recall if there is a specific subchapter about Iwardo but it has the most detailed and reliable info of any source on this topic (t · c) buidhe 02:40, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Page 55 of the cited source says Only rarely did this resistance result in an Assyrian victory, such as in the villages of Azakh and Ayn-Wardo.; I have changed the article text to "successful episodes" coinciding. The Midyat Rebellion part is cited to an article by David Gaunt; The events of Midyat have enabled Turkish historians to interpret the meager defense as a rebellion, thus justifying the full severity of its repression by the Ottoman authorities. I cannot access Kaiser's 2014 book anywhere. Surayeproject3 (talk) 04:41, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

I think that the Gaunt source actually supports what I said more than the current wording in the article, since it says that "rebellion" is an interpretation by "Turkish historians". "Were labeled" is vague and suggests this is a more widespread interpretation than it actually is. (t · c) buidhe 20:21, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

I don't disagree with these issues. I have just made some additional changes in "Legacy" to coincide. Surayeproject3 (talk) 21:01, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Just gonna slip in here and agree that the hook has NPOV issues and needs to be changed. TheBritinator (talk) 13:08, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Would a better hook be ...that the village of Iwardo was one of the places where a defence took place during the Assyrian genocide?; or possibly ...that in Iwardo, an Assyrian village in southeastern Turkey, a defence took place during the Assyrian genocide? Something along these lines might do better to fix issues of WP:NPOV. Surayeproject3 (talk) 21:01, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

I was looking for another hook but I found some other issues:

• 13,000 men — seems pretty WP:EXTRAORDINARY. That's only a bit less than the Ottomans had at major battles such as the Battle of Aleppo (1918), yet they spared this many men to attack an Assyrian village defended only by haphazardly armed and trained militia in the middle of a war?? and still lost despite outnumbering the strength of the defenders nearly 10:1???
• The last two paras of Background are really confusing. Are Arnas and Enhil the same place? Who is in charge of the defense, Shabo or Miraza? (t · c) buidhe 03:44, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Gaunt (2006), Çetinoğlu (2017), and Akdemir (2023) cite the 13,000 figure. Assyrians developed a force of 6-7,000, so it's actually 2:1 on Ottoman:Assyrian strengths; if it was 10 for Ottoman, Iwardo would have for sure been wiped out. The sources cited also give descriptions of both Shabo and Miraza as leaders of the defence.Surayeproject3 (talk) 04:58, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Based on the article, I thought the 6-7000 figure was for total population and of these only 700-1000 were fighters (which is plausible given demographics at the time). This should be clarified, as should the matter of leadership. It might be helpful to clarify where the 13,000 figure originally comes from (check footnotes), is this from Ottoman documents or is it an estimate from Assyrian oral history? (t · c) buidhe 19:47, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Çetinoğlu cites William Dalrymple's From the Holy Mountain but I couldn't find any statistic info in his writings (on top of that, the source denies Assyrian continuity, which is considered greatly offensive and so I am not willing to include it anyway). Gaunt states that the number of villagers who were in Iwardo is from two sources, including by that Syriac Catholic priest mentioned in "Aftermath", so it's probable these numbers are estimates from Assyrian oral history. I've made it clear that Miraza and Shabo both co-led the defence, especially as Shabo was the village lead of Iwardo during the genocide. Surayeproject3 (talk) 15:40, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

I am still having trouble with the infobox. The issue with infoboxes in contexts like this one is that they can give the impression of more certainty of figures than the sources do, which is why it is omitted in the Sayfo article. I would recommend removing the infobox or, failing that, keeping it to military strength (the current figure of 7,000 includes civilians, which is not appropriate) and adding (estimated) or something like that. (t · c) buIdhe 19:01, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

I don't think the infobox should be deleted outright, but I have removed casualties and changed the military strength numbers. Surayeproject3 (talk) 19:18, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

it still says "Kurdish & Ottoman soldiers surrendered". I don't have the patience to go over the entire article for accuracy issues. (t · c) buIdhe 19:26, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes, eventually the Kurdish and Ottoman tribes decided to negotiate a truce and the defence was formally concluded through such. I have removed it anyways as the article still makes this information clear; is there anywhere where I can disseminate specific infobox criteria for articles moving forward? Surayeproject3 (talk) 19:36, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

A truce is not the same thing as surrender. At this point I cannot support the article being put on the main page, I think that the content issues are beyond what can be reasonably fixed at DYK. The fact that I'm several comments in and still dealing with basic factual / WP:VER issues is not encouraging. (t · c) buIdhe 06:04, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Hanoikids

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• ... that Hanoikids gave free tours of Hanoi to a prime minister of Australia, an American general, and an American senator?

• Source: Đoàn, Trần Bảo Vân (2018-10-26). "HanoiKids - ngôi nhà chung của những đại sứ thủ đô". Sóng Trẻ (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on 2025-11-19. Retrieved 2025-11-19.

  The article notes: "Đặc biệt, HanoiKids đã vinh dự đảm nhận đồng hành cùng những đại diện cấp cao như: Thủ tướng Úc – bà Julia Gillard (2010), Nại trưởng Úc - ông Bob Carr (2012), Đại diện Thương mại Hoa Kỳ - ông Ron Kirk (2012), Bộ trưởng Tài chính Hoa Kỳ - ông Jack Lew (2013), Chủ tịch tạm quyền Thượng viện Hoa Kỳ - TNS Patrick Leahy (2014)."

  From Google Translate: "In particular, HanoiKids has had the honor of accompanying high-ranking representatives such as: Australian Prime Minister - Ms. Julia Gillard (2010), Australian Secretary of State - Mr. Bob Carr (2012), US Trade Representative - Mr. Ron Kirk (2012), US Secretary of the Treasury - Mr. Jack Lew (2013), President pro tempore of the US Senate - Senator Patrick Leahy (2014)."

  "Hanoikids English club shows Hanoi through free tours". Nhân Dân. 2014-09-07. Archived from the original on 2025-11-19. Retrieved 2025-11-19.

  The article notes: "a group of ten youngsters met in person to map out a plan for setting up an English club providing free tours to foreign visitors. ... With more than 300 members, it conducts about 170 tours each month, welcoming nearly 400 holidaymakers from around the world. Prominent among the visitors was a group of US servicemen, including US General Herbert Carlisle, Commander of Pacific Air Forces. ... Hanoikids have also had opportunity to accompany many other US politicians, including President Pro Tempore of the US Senate, Patrick Leahy and the US President's Special Assistant, Evan Medeiros."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Emilija Soklič and Template:Did you know nominations/Jahangir With a Portrait of Akbar

Created by Cunard (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 104 past nominations.

Cunard (talk) 08:47, 19 November 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on November 20

Rhythm Heaven Groove

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• ... that Japanese musician Tsunku will compose music for the rhythm video game Rhythm Heaven Groove without his vocal cords?

• Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/rhythm-heaven-is-bopping-onto-nintendo-switch-at-long-long-last

• ALT1: ... that Japanese musician Tsunku will compose music for a rhythm video game without his vocal cords? Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/rhythm-heaven-is-bopping-onto-nintendo-switch-at-long-long-last
• ALT2: ... that the composer for Rhythm Heaven Groove has had his vocal cords removed? Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/rhythm-heaven-is-bopping-onto-nintendo-switch-at-long-long-last
• ALT3: ... that despite removing his vocal cords due to laryngeal cancer, Japanese musician Tsunku will return to compose music for the next game in the Rhythm Heaven series, Rhythm Heaven Groove? Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/rhythm-heaven-is-bopping-onto-nintendo-switch-at-long-long-last
• Reviewed: [[]]
• Comment: Hope I formatted it correctly!

Moved to mainspace by EvanTech10 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

EvanTech10 (talk) 01:27, 21 November 2025 (UTC).

• As the creator of the draft page, I don't feel comfortable actually reviewing this,, but I wanted to comment. I find the first hook stronger than the other two, but I do wonder if it could be gussied up more. Could it be tweaked to say that he departed the series due to his cancer before returning with Groove? - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 01:45, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Could it be like: ALT4: ... that despite removing his vocal cords due to laryngeal cancer, Japanese musician Tsunku will return to compose music for the next game in the Rhythm Heaven series, Rhythm Heaven Groove? Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/rhythm-heaven-is-bopping-onto-nintendo-switch-at-long-long-last - EvanTech10 (talk) 20:19, 27 November 2025 (UTC).

Hello, and welcome to DYK. To answer your question, ALT3 is unlikely to be accepted due to being too long. DYK generally prefers shorter hooks as they are more likely to catch attention and be easier to read. I'm not sure if I will give this a review or not, but for now I would say that ALT1 is probably the best option here as it not only a shorter hook compared to ALT4 but also is not reliant on readers knowing about the game to find it interesting. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:43, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 21

Cello Concerto (Honegger)

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Maréchal

• ... that Arthur Honegger's only Cello Concerto, in one movement, was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with soloist Maurice Maréchal (pictured) to whom it is dedicated? Source: several,
  • Reviewed: St. Pauli Church (Hamburg)
  • Comment: Other ideas welcome.

Created by Ron Oliver (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 2162 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:23, 28 November 2025 (UTC).

• @Gerda Arendt:, please provide the second QPQ or this nom will need to be closed. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 17:43, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

  I am sorry, I completely forgot. I am going to review Template:Did you know nominations/Nubian ibex, but - travelling - it will be later today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:54, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

  I reviewed the article now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:45, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Time Flies (video game)

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• ... that it's possible for players can beat the video game Time Flies within two hours?

• Source: https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/switch-eshop/time-flies "If Time Flies has a weakness, it’s one the game fully owns: it’s short. The game can be completed within two hours or so"

• ALT1: ... that time limits in the 2025 video game Time Flies are based on the life expectancy of the country the player selects? Source: Also from Nintendo Life "your in-game lifespan (measured in seconds) is tied to the average life expectancy of the country you're in. [...] You’re free to set any country as your location ahead of each ‘run’."
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Scarlett Spears
• Comment: This looks like another A Short Hike (as the name suggests) video game to me in terms of length. I have nominated this seven days after creation so should be alright.

Created by Vrxces (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 17 past nominations.

JuniperChill (talk) 09:44, 28 November 2025 (UTC).

• Humble suggestion as article creator - there are plenty of short games out there - the WHO time limit thing is a much more unique and unusual hook I think! ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 09:47, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
  • I also feel like the article is a GA standard, even after skim reading. Do you plan to nominate this to GA in the (near) future? JuniperChill (talk) 20:47, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
    • Thank you @JuniperChill: - yes, I plan to. Also suggesting a typo fix: that time limits in 2025 video game Time Flies are based on the life expectancy of the country the player selects? ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 23:24, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
      • Sure, i have fixed the typo JuniperChill (talk) 09:46, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

• • Nominated to GA. Sorry, I missed another typo: time limits in the 2025.... Sorry! ＶＲＸＣＥＳ (talk) 17:10, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
    • Corrected typo again. Of course, these facts may be copyedited by someone at any point during the DYK process. And I see that not only was the article nominated for GA, but is now currently under review. JuniperChill (talk) 19:05, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Eugene Parker

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Eugene Parker in 2019

• ... that Eugene Parker (pictured) described the mathematics behind his revolutionary solar wind discovery as "just four lines of algebra"?

• Source: [doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41550-022-01686-z]

• ALT1: ... that Eugene Parker (pictured) never used computers for his research, never co-authored papers unless he personally reproduced all calculations, and never wrote papers with his own PhD students? Source: for reproducing the math and computers [16], for PhD students [17]
• ALT2: ... that astrophysicist Eugene Parker (pictured) had his 1958 solar wind theory dismissed by reviewers and widely rejected by the astronomical community, only to be confirmed just four years later by Mariner 2 spacecraft? Source: [18]
• ALT3: ... that when Eugene Parker (pictured) published his solar wind theory in 1958, it was rejected by peer reviewers and criticized by the astronomical community, but was confirmed by satellite observations within four years? Source: [19]
• ALT4: ... that Eugene Parker's (pictured) 1958 solar wind theory—rejected by reviewers and dismissed by astronomers—was vindicated just four years later when Mariner 2 confirmed his predictions? Source: [20]
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Baker's Horse and Template:Did you know nominations/Siderian (in progress)

5x expanded by Artem.G (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 29 past nominations.

Artem.G (talk) 13:09, 25 November 2025 (UTC).

• Artem.G: ALT3 and ALT4 are unacceptable per MOS:POSS, which states:

A possessive construction must immediately be followed by what is possessed. For example:

• Albert Einstein's theory, not Albert Einstein's (pictured) theory

—Anomalocaris (talk) 09:34, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

• I think I fixed it, thanks! Artem.G (talk) 12:38, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Oi @Artem.G:. QPQs.--Launchballer 14:10, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

This needs a review.--Launchballer 19:24, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Arataki Itto

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• ... that Arataki Itto in Genshin Impact is voiced by Max Mittelman, the same English voice actor as Persona 5's Ryuji Sakamoto? Sources: https://x.com/GenshinImpact/status/1468460338123264001; https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Genshin-Impact/Arataki-Itto/
  • ALT1: ... that the character Arataki Itto in Genshin Impact received criticism for the lack of detail in his muscular body? Source: https://www.polygon.com/23326918/genshin-impact-sumeru-alhaitham-hoyoverse-arataki-itto-buff-characters/
  • ALT2: ... that the design for the character Arataki Itto in Genshin Impact was inspired by kabuki theatre? Source: https://screenrant.com/genshin-impact-characters-gorou-arataki-itto-japanese-mythology/
  • ALT3: ... that voice actor Max Mittelman was concerned that his performance as Arataki Itto in Genshin Impact would be too similar to Ryuji Sakamoto in Persona 5? Source: https://www.siliconera.com/genshin-impact-itto-voice-actor-worried-about-him-sounding-like-ryuji-in-persona-5/
  • ALT4: ... that the Chinese ice cream company Suibian collaborated with Genshin Impact to release an ice cream bar that looked like Arataki Itto's club? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20240607094137/https://youxiputao.com/article/24785
  • ALT5: ... that several Genshin Impact players photoshopped Arataki Itto's weapon into ice cream? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20240607094137/https://youxiputao.com/article/24785
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Yonki-no-kai Productions

Improved to Good Article status by Gommeh (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

Gommeh 📖   🎮 15:57, 21 November 2025 (UTC).

• Not a review, but the image should not be the character's actor per WP:DYKDIVERT. ミラP@Miraclepine 22:35, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
  • You're right, removed. Gommeh 📖   🎮 22:38, 21 November 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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
• Interesting: - None of these hooks are interesting to broad audience that isn't familiar with this type of media

QPQ: Done.

Overall: (t · c) buidhe 02:42, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

@HurricaneZeta: Thought I would ping you here for your opinion on ALT2, given your response to my DYK nom of Arlecchino (Genshin Impact). I see these hooks as somewhat similar given their (as you put it) "genre-bending construction". Gommeh 📖   🎮 00:48, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

I think ALT1 is the most interesting here, ALT0 and ALT3 are pretty niche. ALT2 is fine per se, but it could be shortened (for example, cutting the oni part and "the game". In terms of broadness, ALT1 would be the best pick. I would promote ALT1 if I had to here. Z E T A^C 15:57, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

I've shortened ALT2 as you suggested. Gommeh 📖   🎮 16:17, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

@Buidhe: thoughts? Gommeh 📖   🎮 16:19, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, but it still seems like routine entertainment news and not something that would be interesting to someone who doesn't know anything about the media. (t · c) buidhe 03:19, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

@Gommeh: Please address the above.--Launchballer 13:04, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Not really sure how I could, as I think it's plenty interesting as is. Gommeh 📖   🎮 15:29, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

ALT2 depends on knowing what kabuki theatre is and the others are dull. I'm surprised you've not tried on a hook about ice cream.--Launchballer 15:40, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Added as ALT4. I didn't think that was interesting enough at first but have changed my mind. Gommeh 📖   🎮 16:08, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I was thinking more along the lines of ALT5: ... that several Genshin Impact players photoshopped Arataki Itto's weapon into ice cream? or ALT6: ... that the Genshin Impact character Arataki Itto fights with what looks like a chocolate-covered ice cream bar?--Launchballer 17:14, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I'll add your ALT5 here, not sure if I like ALT6. Gommeh 📖   🎮 17:46, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I must ask for another reviewer for ALT5.--Launchballer 11:15, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 22

Jermyn Street showroom of Andrew Grima

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• ... that the Jermyn Street showroom of Andrew Grima has been compared to a "Bond villain lair"?

• Source: "Beyond the screen and through the automatic aluminium door, the interior, with its futuristic showcases and shimmering translucent spiral staircase – "a helix of light", recalled one customer – was pure Barbarella meets Bond villain lair." Nicholas Foulkes, Bonhams Magazine, Autumn 2017. p. 57. Retrieved 16 November 2025.

• Reviewed: Andreas Papandreou and Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II playing the tambur

Created by No Swan So Fine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 132 past nominations.

No Swan So Fine (talk) 22:28, 26 November 2025 (UTC).

• I'll take this review Dwkaminski (talk) 13:47, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

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

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• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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• Other problems: - see comments below

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Dwkaminski (talk) 13:48, 2 December 2025 (UTC) Review comments:

• New enough - Created 11/22/25 and nominated 11/24/25
• Long enough - article contains 2442 characters of prose
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  • The Design Journal reference does not support "circular, white, concrete structure" in the description of the office. Circular is in regard to the display cases and there is no mention of construction material. Also states that architects are G. and G. Grima but does not say that they are brothers of shop owner. This fact is also referenced by Daily Telegraph but I could not access it. Is it described there?
  • I've added an archived cite for brothers and amended the structure quote. No Swan So Fine (talk) 22:41, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
  • The National Heritage List of England reference - I don't see the support for "extraordinary" statement. I see Grade II for Wartski's
    • The NHLE article mentions "A precursor of Wartski's was the extraordinary Grima jewellers shop front in Jermyn Street (1962), composed of rough-hewn slate slabs and steel with very small windows, which does not survive." [21] No Swan So Fine (talk) 22:41, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
  • I can't access Brown ref but AGF
• Earwig copyvio calculator shows 23.1% violation unlikely - it's all due to the Grima quote and is OK
• hook other comments - I think the hook is interesting - however a couple comments. I'm not sure everyone knows James Bond - you may want to link to the List of James Bond villains page. Also not sure if you should have the quotation marks for just part of the quote. Consider keeping just James Bond without quotes or adding the whole quote (and also linking to Barbarella (film)
• Comment. Why is this article called "Jermyn Street showroom of Andrew Grima"? Did he have another showroom somewhere else? If not, I would recommend changing the article title to Andrew Grima showroom. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:03, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
  • He had similarly bold showrooms in Zurich and Sydney. X showroom of X feels more aestheticly pleasing.No Swan So Fine (talk) 18:01, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
• @No Swan So Fine: I've completed my review. Just a few comments to address on references and hook. I have no dog in the hunt on the name of the page and I will approve with or without that change. Well referenced and interesting article. Good job! Dwkaminski (talk) 18:54, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Territory of the Congo River Alliance

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• ... that the Congo River Alliance formed a rival adminstration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

• Source: https://nilepost.co.ug/dr-congo/262209/south-kivu-governor-urges-youth-to-join-m23-forces

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

JaxsonR (talk) 23:07, 24 November 2025 (UTC).

• Sorry, it does not pass the DYK requirement of 1500 characters of prose. Currently at just 1055. --Երևանցի ^talk 11:24, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

I'm sure @JaxsonR: can be given some time to expand this.--Launchballer 17:14, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

I have expanded it. JaxsonR (talk)

Why do we need a separate article for its area of control? Is there a precedent for this? Why shouldn't this article be merged into Congo River Alliance? --Երևանցի ^talk 08:36, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

• closed, article has been merged. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 16:50, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge has been reverted, though discussion on whether to merge should take place elsewhere. ミラP@Miraclepine 00:06, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

At AfD; this must go on hold until that resolves.--Launchballer 13:27, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

The nominator !voted "Delete" in the AfD, which can be interpreted as a de-facto withdrawal since they no longer agree that the article should stay on Wikipedia in its current form. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:25, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

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Kayla Simmons

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• ... that Kayla Simmons served as a team captain in volleyball for at least ten years? note:withdrawn by me as nom, see why below

• Source: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/entertainment/article/3300787/meet-kayla-simmons-volleyball-star-and-onlyfans-favourite-she-has-modelled-maxim-australia-tried-out "she was appointed team captain in high school and held that position for three years" and "Her performances led to her selection for the 2013 USA Volleyball Women’s Junior A1 Team. In her club team, she was once again captain, this time for seven years."

• ALT1: ... that Kayla Simmons, a former volleyball player, is now a model and OnlyFans creator? Source: Also from SCMP: "She’s also a model [...] and a creator on adult entertainment platform OnlyFans"
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Laura Kampf
• Comment: Permitted per WP:CALC. I would like to note that as she's the "world's sexiest volleyball player", that the article may be NSFW as she's now a model and mostly posts on social media in her revealing bikinis. I have provided ALT1 for this reason.

Created by JuniperChill (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

JuniperChill (talk) 11:31, 25 November 2025 (UTC).

• @JuniperChill: Not a review, but WP:NYPOST at least isn't reliable. What makes the others suitable for a BLP?--Launchballer 11:41, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
  • I looked at WP:RSP and it says that NYP may be used if its under the entertainment section and the one I cited says falls under that. At least SCMP is reliable (hence why I've used that several times) and the rest are not there. JuniperChill (talk) 12:01, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
    • Note: I have made the decision not to use ALT0 as I would expect the reader to think its a biography about her volleyball career, when its mostly about her modelling career in revealing bikinis and swimsuits. Maybe I could combine both and say ALT2:"that after Kayla Simmons served as a team captain in volleyball for ten years, she is now a model and OnlyFans creator?" JuniperChill (talk) 21:28, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
    • Read further on the RSP entry - NYPOST is not to be used for controversial facts about living people. I also spotchecked this, after seeing some odd language Look at By the time Kayla Simmons graduated, she already built up an incredible following that continues to grow.[22] and compare w/ the article's By the time she graduated, she already built up an incredible amount of following. This is pretty closely paraphrased and while sentences this short can fall under LIMITED, I don't think this one does; it's a bit too complex, and the actual heart of the sentence- "incredible following" isn't that needed? Anyways, I'm not rejecting or that, but please fix it and double check the rest of the article for any similar issues. GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 02:12, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
      • To be fair, I'm not sure if its controversial because the quote in the source is from herself, where it says "“I wanted small boobs because it would make everything easier for volleyball" to the point WP:ABOUTSELF applies. And this is my first biography article, where I thought I had hope with Lauren Burch (a Canadian social media influencer/cosplay with over 8m Tiktok following). I also reworded the close paraphrasing to At the time her of graduation, she already had a lot of following. JuniperChill (talk) 17:55, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Event perception

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• ... that people sometimes experience short-term memory loss when they walk through doorways or switch tasks?

• Source: Radvansky GA, Krawietz SA, Tamplin AK. Walking through doorways causes forgetting: Further explorations. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2011 Aug;64(8):1632-45. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2011.571267. Epub 2011 May 24. PMID: 21563019.

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

The Last Prototype (talk) 05:39, 25 November 2025 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - One citation is missing page information.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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

QPQ: None required.

Overall: AGF on the paywalled hook source. Just one issue that needs to be resolved. SounderBruce 18:59, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

@SounderBruce: Thanks for your help! I've added the missing page information to the citation. Please let me know if any other changes are needed. The Last Prototype (talk) 20:12, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 24

Perfectly Imperfect (platform)

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• ... that a new social media platform has a main feed that is presented in reverse chronological order and is not algorithmically curated?

• Source: "PI.FYI also has some other social media staples: there are comments, likes, and the ability to post an “ask,” a call for a specific kind of rec. Aside from a few other familiar website trappings, the app is deliberately bare-bones. And currently, the feed is reverse chronological. You can see posts from people you follow, or the firehose of “everyone” with no algorithmic intervention, at least for now."

The Verge

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eurovision Song Contest 1961, Template:Did you know nominations/Sabre Dance (2nd nomination)

Moved to mainspace by Thriley (talk) and Rasa24 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 196 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 23:30, 1 December 2025 (UTC).

Sexual and gender-based violence against Israeli hostages during the Gaza war

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• ... that Israeli hostages were sexually abused during their captivity in Gaza by Hamas?

• Source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/middleeast/israel-hostage-braslavski-abuse-intl

• ALT1: ... that Guy Gilboa Dalal told the captor who sexually abused him – this is forbidden in Islam? Source: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1cwu5iewx
• ALT2: ... that one of the hostages was forced to commit sexual acts for her Hamas captor? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20240326175027/https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/released-hostage-amit-soussana-tells-nyt-she-was-sexually-assaulted-by-hamas-captor-in-gaza/
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Created by ShoBDin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

ShoBDin (talk) 16:38, 24 November 2025 (UTC).

• on hold while article is at AfD. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:02, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
• Comment alt0 can not be used because the CNN article never explicitly says that, I don't think alt 1 passes WP:DYKINTEREST "man says thing", and alt2's article has been debunked by the PBS, among others. User:Easternsahara_{review this} 23:57, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

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Dwarkesh Patel

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• ... that in August 2025, tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel started a fundraiser that raised over $2 million for anti-factory farming charities?

• Source: "Earlier this month, a fundraiser for nonprofits that fight to end factory farming went a little viral — at least in one corner of the internet.

Dwarkesh Patel, the influential tech podcaster, announced on his show that if his listeners donated a collective $250,000 to FarmKind, an organization that distributes money to anti-factory farming charities, so would he. They did — and then some.

So far, Patel and his listeners — including Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, professional poker player Liv Boeree, and popular Substack writer Noah Smith — have raised over $2 million. For the global anti-factory farming movement, which works on a shoestring budget to fix one of the most challenging and neglected social issues of our time, that’s a lot of money."

Vox

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jessica Forrest, Template:Did you know nominations/John Holmes Jackson
  • Comment: Alt hooks welcome

Created by Thriley (talk), Veggiegalaxy (talk), Alenoach (talk), and GnocchiFan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 197 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 19:29, 3 December 2025 (UTC).

Mamadali Kurbanov

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• ... that within seven years, Mamadali Kurbanov rose from being a miner to being a prime minister?

• Source: ref 3 in the article notes he was a miner from 1924 to 1930; he became Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, effectively prime minister, in 1937

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Skip Thomas & Template:Did you know nominations/Camp Lakeview
• Comment: The second QPQ will be done within 24 hours.

Moved to mainspace by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 436 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:49, 2 December 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:

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• Other problems: - Wording is imprecise. See below in comments.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is long and new enough; it was submitted for DYK nomination within the required timeframe. It is properly sourced and impartial. The hook is interesting, but needs rewording for clarification. Although I'm very familiar with Russian and RSFSR history, my knowledge about some former Soviet republics is less sure. Because of the change in the political system that occurred when the Tajik SSR became modern Tajikistan, is it accurate to refer to the position of the Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars as that of a "prime minister"? The article for Prime Minister of Tajikistan seems unclear. However, the article for Izatullo Khayoyev states that he was "the first Prime Minister of Tajikistan" and distinguishes between that role and his previous role as Chairmen of the Council of Ministers, which is the same that Kurbanov had once held. CurryTime7-24 (talk) 19:51, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Tipat Halav

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• ... that Israel's Tipat Halav well-baby care centers literally mean "a drop of milk"?

• Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRPL8kZEqps/ "He fought deadly unpasteurized milk in the 1890s, saved thousands of children, brought the idea to Palestine — and the French phrase La Goutte de Lait ('A drop of milk') became Tipat Halav."

• ALT1: ... that Tipat Halav, the Israeli national network of 900 well-baby care centers, derives its name from "une goutte de lait" (literally, "a drop of milk"), a line in a poem by Alfred de Musset?
• Source: (number of centers) "Knesset Health C'ttee hears of jumble of authorities, responsibilities of baby clinics" "Over a decade ago, the Health Ministry divided up the 900 well-baby (tipat halav) clinics around the country so that some were owned and run by the four public health funds, others by the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Municipalities, and the rest by the ministry." (derivation of namefrom French) "Why are Israeli infant clinics called Tipat Halav - 'a drop of milk'", "But the name 'Tipat Khalav' didn't come from Hebrew.... The phrase came from a poem by Alfred de Musset; The key line reads: 'Une goutte de lait à l'enfant nouveau-né' / 'a drop of milk for the newborn child'"

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Darius Holland and Template:Did you know nominations/Horvat Sumaqa
  • Comment: QPQ double dose to follow

Created by Alansohn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 60 past nominations.

Alansohn (talk) 19:24, 2 December 2025 (UTC).

Siderian

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• ... that the Siderian is the earliest internationally recognized period on the geological timescale?

• Source: International Chronostratigraphic Chart v2024/12

• ALT1: ... that oxygen levels in the Siderian Period rised to at least 10,000 times its original level? Source: Catling & Zahnle (February 2020). "The Archean atmosphere".
• ALT2: ... that a magma plume breakout occurred during the Siderian Period on a global level? Source: Barley et al. (September 2005). "Late Archean to Early Paleoproterozoic global tectonics, environmental change and the rise of atmospheric oxygen".
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• Comment: Hey, I was expanding the Siderian page a lot recently, and I was wondering if it's eligible to be run as a DYK? This is my first nomination in this area, and while I wasn't able to find a picture, I have some ideas regarding what I've added on the article in the past week.
  Although, there was one caveat I wanted to point out: for the ALT2 hook, the information is within a two-sentence paragraph, with it as the first sentence and the reference at the paragraph's end. I have read the rules regarding the insufficiency of paragraph references, but I still included this hook because I believe it presents itself well, and I might as well give it a chance.

5x expanded by Alex26337 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

— Alex26337 ^(talk) 14:30, 2 December 2025 (UTC).

• Article was expanded in the span of the last week. Sourcing looks fine, images have appropriate licences. No copyvio detected, qpq not required. First hook is interesting, ALT01 is meh, and ALT12 is too technical (I have no idea how interesting it is as I don't really understand it).
• Shouldn't the first hook contain "of Proterozoic Eon"? According to the source, Hadean and Archean were before Siderian. Pinging @Alex26337:. Artem.G (talk) 19:14, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

  @Artem.G: While the Hadean and Archean do occur before the Siderian, they are not classified as a period of time, but rather as an eon and era respectively. According to the ICS's classification, The use of the Siderian is the first (or earliest) time where eras are subdivided into periods (see Geologic time scale § Divisions of geologic time). — Alex26337 ^(talk) 19:33, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Hezbollah's drone smuggling network

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• ... that Unit 700 of Quds force and Unit 4400 of Hezbollah collaborated to smuggle drones from Europe?

• Source: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rj0qfcdgzx; https://www.iranintl.com/en/202409023772

• ALT1: ... that Hezbollah established a European network for drone smuggling? Source: https://en.kataeb.org/articles/sl-33273
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Created by ShoBDin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

ShoBDin (talk) 13:35, 25 November 2025 (UTC).

• The article relies heavily on Israeli and highly partisan sources such as Kataeb, Iran International. Le Figaro and other mainstream/reliable sources should be cited instead of intermediaries. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but the article treats the existence and structure of the network as established fact rather than allegations by prosecutors. --Երևանցի ^talk 10:53, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

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Kingdom of Kubala

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• ... that the Kingdom of Kubala claims land in Scotland that they allege was stolen from them when Elizabeth I deported black Jacobites?

• Source: https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/180892/missing-american-woman-found-living-lost-african-tribe-scottish-woodlands "They assert they represent a forgotten Hebrew tribe, with their monarch tracing his lineage back to David the Messiah, claiming their forebears were exiled during Elizabeth I's expulsion of indigenous black Jacobites."

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Moved to mainspace by GoldenBootWizard276 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 21:32, 27 November 2025 (UTC).

• The article is new enough and long enough, and the hook is definitely interesting. However the page needs a look at for reliable sources. The DYK hook is directly referenced to the Daily Express. Per WP:DAILYEXPRESS this source is not recommended. The Newsflare source is "Uploaded by a Newsflare content partner", which doesn't seem very definitive. The hook is also cited to NDTV, but their description of the claimed history is a lot less. Unknown Temptation (talk) 15:27, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Snow Angel (manga)

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• ... that Snow Angel supported young carers? Source: 『この雪原で君が笑っていられるように』は、福井県南越前町を舞台に ... 今回のコラボレーションは、南越前町が今年、合併20周年を迎えるのをきっかけとして行われるもので、ちづはるか描きおろしイラストと町の観光名所を組み合わせたデザインの記念グッズで盛り上げるほか、ヤングケアラー問題を広く認知してもらうべく作成されたパンフレットに作中のシーンを数多く提供し、啓蒙活動にも利用される。/"So That You Can Smile in This Snowy Field" is set in Minami Echizen, Fukui ... This collaboration comes as Minami Echizen Town celebrates its 20th anniversary since its merger this year, and will feature commemorative goods combining original illustrations by Chizu Haruka with designs of the town's tourist attractions. As well as using many scenes from the story in a pamphlet created to raise awareness of the issues surrounding young carers, the book will also be used for educational purposes.
  • ALT1: ... that the manga Snow Angel supported young carers? Source: Same as ALT0
  • ALT2: ... that the manga Snow Angel ran a campaign supporting young carers? Source: Same as ALT0
  • ALT3: ... that a snow angel supported young carers? Source: Same as ALT0
  • Note: Reserving this for Christmas, especially if ALT0/3 are approved.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/WKMG-TV and Template:Did you know nominations/311 and 313 East 58th Street

Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 113 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 04:20, 27 November 2025 (UTC).

Moba people

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• ... that the Moba people construct circular mud-wall houses with plant-covered roofs, and that they expand their homes by adding a new room whenever a child is born?

• Source: Bourdier, Jean-Paul; Trinh-Thi-Minh-Ha; Bourdier, Jean-Paul (2011). Vernacular architecture of West Africa: a world in dwelling. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-415-58543-9.

Kreamer, Christine Mullen (1986). "THE ART AND RITUAL OF THE MOBA OF NORTHERN TOGO". Indiana University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: 60.

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  • Comment: Found an interesting article that talks about the Moba people that live in northern Togo and northern Ghana. After founding new information on the Moba people and adding it to the article. I created something that I am proud. If you have the chance please take a look at it.

5x expanded by Rosemary202 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Rosemary202 (talk) 18:42, 26 November 2025 (UTC).

• Hello @Rosemary202:. Articles must either be new, promoted to WP:GA, moved to mainspace, or expanded WP:5X by prosesize. This was expanded just over 2.5x. This needs either going through GA or further expansion. Also, much of this is unsourced.--Launchballer 09:22, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

@Rosemary202: Please address the above.--Launchballer 10:10, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Thank you for the certain. It seems I was not aware that I should not be putting in a nomination to an old page. As for the unsourced material is something that I am aware, but that was put by other users and will not be taken down unfortunately. Thank you for your information. I will use it in the future. — Addressing Launchballer comment. Information added by Rosemary202 (talk • contribs) 15:42, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Hayli Gubbi

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• ... that a volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in over 12,000 years?

• Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/24/ethiopian-volcano-hayli-gubbi-erupts-first-time-12000-years

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5x expanded by Chaiten1 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Natg 19 (talk) 18:30, 26 November 2025 (UTC).

• Wow interesting. It matches the source. The article doesn't mention 12,000 but says "Until November 2025, there was no known record of any Holocene era eruptions of this volcano" which I guess is just another way of saying it. However the article says "Eruptions may have occurred in the Holocene, but there are no existing historical records of them, and the volcano has not been studied well enough to date past unrecorded eruptions. It's unsourced but kind of says "It may have erupted within 12,000 years but we have no evidence of it". It'd be great if you could make them "match" a bit more, maybe adding in the hook that it's the first known eruption in 12,000 years? Or removing the sentence from the article if there are no reliable sources to back it up? What do you think? Aside from that, a QPQ is not needed and there don't appear to be any copyright issues. But I think the hook is a bit ungrammatical, maybe it's just an engvar thing, but shouldn't it say something like "has recently erupted"? ―Panamitsu (talk) 06:07, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
• This hook cant be used, as the 12,000 number is specifically made up by The Guardian. The Smithsonian citation is up front that we dont actually know when the last eruption was, due to lack of study, and Holocene is simply a time "bin" for categorization. --Kevmin § 05:40, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
• What do you think about this alt? @Kevmin and Panamitsu: Natg 19 (talk) 06:53, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
  • ALT1: ... that a volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in recorded history?
    • It doesn't work, digging through the Smithsonian entry there's an eruption recorded around at 6250BCE Eruptive history which is not even mentioned in our article. This eruption is clearly in the Holocene, and thus shows the poor science reporting of The Guardian. More history and detail information from the Smithsonian needs to be added to Hayli Gubbi and we need a new hook entirely.--Kevmin § 16:56, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Very odd, even the Smithsonian Magazine itself uses the "12,000 years" figure, so either that eruption record is incorrect or the general reporting is very bad. I have seen numerous sources use this number so I don't know where it comes from.Natg 19 (talk) 17:10, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

The Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program has no record of any eruptions of Hayli Gubbi during the Holocene, the current geological epoch, which began at the end of the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. Natg 19 (talk) 17:16, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Hmm perhaps the recorded log that you mentioned earlier was just a lava flow type of eruption? Barberi and Varet (1970) reported that basaltic lava-flows moving down the S flank of the volcano covered sediments in the Afrera (Giulietti) Plain which Roubet et al. (1969) described as lacustrine limestones and diatomites deposited around 8,200 years BP above hyaloclastite formations. This places the eruption of the SE-most flows sometime within the last 8,000 years, but no additional information about how recent they might be is known; in appearance they are similar to very recent flows from the Erta Ale shield. I do not know much about volcanoes so I am not an expert on this. Natg 19 (talk) 17:22, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Lava flows are a type of eruptive activity, so no its not that the flows dont qualify. Its due entirely to Science "reporting" as abysmal across all news outlets, ask any topic expert. This is possibly the first eruption with ash plume documented by humans in written history of the region, but new outlets with always sensationalize the press release by volcanic monitoring agencies. As I note, this hook is demonstrably false.--Kevmin § 22:42, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Requesting someone else (other than me) to review this. This is not a topic I know much about. ―Panamitsu (talk) 23:25, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

I'll take over fully on the nomination, We are currently in need of a new hook for the article, and adjustment of the 12000 statements in the article to reflect the Global Volcanism Program database.--Kevmin § 16:48, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

I'd suggest ALT2: ... that Hayli Gubbi erupted in both 2025 and 6250 BC?, but the latter must be added to the article.--Launchballer 14:16, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

My problem with adding the 6250 BC(E) eruption is that it is only supported by the Smithsonian database entry. I have not found any other journalistic/news sources that mention the previous eruption, so I don't know if the Smithsonian entry is wrong, or if the news reporting is. As I mentioned above, it is odd to me that even the Smithsonian Magazine itself doesn't even mention that eruption in its news reporting. Natg 19 (talk) 19:44, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

As I have already noted, science reporting is BAD. Barberi and Varet (1970) is available through the wikilibrary from Springer nature. Roubet et al is not online, but it is cited by a number of sources that also discuss Hayli Gubbi (Hayli Gub in older lit). The discussion of lavas covering an old playa which was dated to around 8,000 bce is not disputable.--Kevmin § 00:56, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

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Contractualism

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• ... that contractualist ethical theories base morality in mutually beneficial agreement or contract among rational, reasonable agents?

• Source: contractualism, views morality as a matter of mutually beneficial agreements among rational agents (Le Pargneux, Arthur; 2025). "Contractualist Moral Cognition: From the Normative to the Descriptive at Three Levels of Analysis": https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcs.70011

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

Ztahmasebi (talk) 22:51, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on November 28

2010 Arizona Proposition 112

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• ... that in 2010, Arizona voters rejected a ballot measure by just 194 votes?

• Source: https://azcapitoltimes.com/election/2010/12/20/recount-confirms-defeat-of-proposition-112/

• ALT1: ... that in 2010, Arizona voters rejected a ballot measure by less than 200 votes? Source: https://azcapitoltimes.com/election/2010/12/20/recount-confirms-defeat-of-proposition-112/
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Created by Thefinals626472 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Thefinals626472 (talk) 21:00, 28 November 2025 (UTC). General eligibility:

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral: - Why is there only the "Support" section? Was support for the referendum split on party lines?
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - The Contents section is copypasted from the government website, which is less than ideal; you also need to paraphrase quotes.
• Other problems: - I'd prefer you to focus on what legislators and ordinary people thought about the referendum and whether they actually needed it. Maybe some polls if you can find them? Were there any high-profile lawsuits?

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - The hook is OK but the article text already has a better one. Find it (if I do it for you we are going to need a separate person to approve this nomination).
• Other problems: - ?

QPQ:
Overall: I don't want to trash this nomination, but there's a lot of work to be done.

• Why is the whole table bolded and not just the majority outcome? You may want to colour-code outcomes if you know how to do it, but at least if you decide to bold it, bold the majority outcome.
• There are a few good articles about referendums you may want to read to understand what the article should more or less look like (search by "referendum" keyword); there are also reasonable articles about propositions in neighbouring California, e.g. Prop 13 or 2025 California Proposition 50, which do not have an official good article label. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 11:37, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Hello! Thank you for your review. I have attempted to fix the concerns by doing the following:

Neutral: I have added an opposition section, and added info that it had bipartisan support.

Contents: I have removed the exact wording from the government pamphlet and replaced it with just some of the full ballot measure wording with a Ballotpedia source.

Lawsuit: I added to the recount section with how and when the results were certified.

Hook: My guess for your proposed hook is: ... that in 2010, Arizona legislators unanimously backed an amendment to weaken the citizen initiative process?

Table: Completely changed the table and added colors. Thefinals626472 (talk) 15:57, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Though, groups who attempted to gather signatures to qualify for the 2010 ballot said that the signature requirement, which was higher than most other states, was hard to reach, and that the deadline being moved would make it even more difficult -> that's not really in English, although I do understand what you try to say.

I generally think that the Contents section is not needed, you can incorporate the question somewhere else. The ALLCAPS is not something we normally do.

As for the hook - meh, it wouldn't be that interesting. There's another one, but if you can't find it, we can go with the original one, which is pretty good. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 05:48, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

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Articles created/expanded on November 29

R & S Building

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The R & S Building

• ... that when a former New York City morgue was proposed for conversion to a children's shelter, a local community board censured the city government for not following city law? Source: Stamler, Bernard (February 15, 1998). "Board vs. Children's Shelter". The New York Times "...first used as a city morgue, the R & S Building on the campus of Bellevue Hospital Center has been vacant for nearly two decades. Last year, after Bellevue officials put the word out that it was available, the Administration for Children's Services decided it would be a good spot for a shelter for abused children. ... The community board said that by failing to seek community response to its plan for the city property, the agency had violated the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. ... Last Wednesday, the board voted to condemn the city for failing to follow the land-use law and to demand that it do so."
  • ALT1: ... that when a renovation of New York City's R & S Building (pictured) was proposed, a local community board censured the city government for not following city law? Source: Stamler, Bernard (February 15, 1998). "Board vs. Children's Shelter". The New York Times "...first used as a city morgue, the R & S Building on the campus of Bellevue Hospital Center has been vacant for nearly two decades. Last year, after Bellevue officials put the word out that it was available, the Administration for Children's Services decided it would be a good spot for a shelter for abused children. ... The community board said that by failing to seek community response to its plan for the city property, the agency had violated the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. ... Last Wednesday, the board voted to condemn the city for failing to follow the land-use law and to demand that it do so."
  • ALT2: ... that economic issues spared a New York City building from demolition? Source: Hesch, Merrill (July 1986). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP R & S Building (Report). National Archives and Records Administration. Item 8, pp. 5–6.
  • ALT3: ... that a former New York City morgue later became an emergency children's shelter? Source: Bernstein, Nina (June 1, 2001). "New Center for Foster Children Echoes Changes in an Agency". The New York Times. "The city's new emergency intake center for children entering foster care is set to open for the first time this evening ... Vacant for nearly two decades, the building had once been the Bellevue Hospital morgue."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Li Shaozhu
  • Comment: Transpoman is the article creator; I'm merely the nominator.

Created by Transpoman (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 765 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 20:19, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

Portrait of Elizabeth II (Freud)

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• ... that it is not known who owns Lucian Freud's portrait of Queen Elizabeth II?

• Source: '"We can report that Freud’s painting did not enter the Royal Collection, but instead was the personal property of the Queen. It is unclear whether her will (which as monarch is to be sealed for 90 years) specifies that ownership of the Freud should pass to the collection or go to her son. " 'Lent by His Majesty Charles III' —new king's first art loan is Lucian Freud's portrait of his mother', 3 October 2022, The Art Newspaper

• Reviewed: Milk token and Andreas Papandreou
• Comment: Reviews to come. I would like this DYK to be held until 21 April 2026 to mark Elizabeth's 100th birthday.

Created by No Swan So Fine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 133 past nominations.

No Swan So Fine (talk) 10:28, 1 December 2025 (UTC).

• @No Swan So Fine: Please note that per a recent WT:DYK discussion, sentiment at DYK is leaning towards providing QPQs before the nomination and not after. Per WP:QPQ, I will close this within 24 hours if the necessary QPQs are not provided. In addition, with April 21, 2026 being far beyond the six-week limit specified at WP:SOHA, it is unlikely that the request will be granted unless you make a request at WT:DYK. However, given that the requested date is very very far away (beyond even April Fool's Day!), I suspect that consensus will not approve the request, so my suggestion is to let this run as a regular hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:36, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your timely advice - I'm really not familiar with the mechanics of DYK. No Swan So Fine (talk) 14:56, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

2014 Isla Vista killings

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• ... that 22-year-old Elliot Rodger murdered six people during the 2014 Isla Vista killings because he claimed women rejected him and he had never had sex?

• Source: The Independent

• ALT1: ... that 22-year-old Elliot Rodger murdered six people and injured fourteen others during the 2014 Isla Vista killings because he was a lifelong virgin and believed women had rejected him? Source: BBC
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/It's Only a Game (collection)

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

Shoot for the Stars (talk) 00:53, 1 December 2025 (UTC).

• comment: would suggest waiting to see if Rodger's article passes GAN for a double hook. Roast (talk) 02:03, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
• Comment: I find the idea of linking a horrific real-life murder spree that took the lives of six innocent people as a cute little bite-sized "fun fact" to be in incredibly, incredibly poor taste. CornyDude22 (talk) 13:17, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

While I'm not opposed to this running in principle - one of the WP:DYKAIMs is to showcase the range of our content and that includes topics like this one - presenting what are the deranged rantings of an incel on the main page is a bit much. I have struck the two hooks, and suggest that @Shoot for the Stars: propose something else; I suggest ALT2: ... that six 2014 killings committed by Elliot Rodger sparked discussion of broader issues of violence against women and misogyny? or perhaps something about California's first red flag law. You may also wish to see if either WP:GARC or WP:GARP would take Rodger's article so this can run as a double nom.--Launchballer 20:53, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Genene Jones

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• ... that a killer nurse from Texas reportedly inspired the character of Annie Wilkes in Stephen King's Misery?

• Source #1: 'Misery' Nurse Set for Early Release (Newsmax) states: The pediatric nurse who inspired Stephen King's novel "Misery" by killing dozens of young children is to be released after serving only 35 years because of a Texas state law granting mandatory release to inmates with good behavior.
• Source #2: This one at The Conversation: Indeed, it has been suggested that the real life serial killer nurse Genene Jones, who murdered as many as 60 babies in Texas in the 1970s and 1980s, was the inspiration for King’s character.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Raudin Anwar
• Comment: I decided to avoid the term "serial killer" in the hook because (and regretfully) this frail-looking evil woman managed to "technically" escape the term and nearly got free! Edit upon seeing tag: I see that probably Newsmax triggers depecrated tag... Please if you need me to find out more reliable sources (The Conversation I think it's okay), ping me.

5x expanded by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

CoryGlee 20:19, 29 November 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: would suggest rewording it to remove all links but Jones' in order to keep traffic from the hook to the improved article. Perhaps "... that a Stephen King antagonist was reportedly inspired by a real-life killer nurse? The inclusion of 'real-life' can be removed if preferred. Roast (talk) 00:48, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Comment: yes, sorry, I still don't get those issues fully. Sorry Guerreroast. Sorry. CoryGlee 01:30, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on November 30

MLS Cup 2025

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• ... that MLS Cup 2025 will be the final professional match at Chase Stadium? Source: The Athletic (subscription required)
  • ALT1: ... that the broadcast of MLS Cup 2025 will use iPhones for some footage? Source: Sports Business Journal
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Poecilia butleri, Template:Did you know nominations/Event perception
  • Comment: More hooks to come after the match is played on December 6.

Converted from a redirect by SounderBruce (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 261 past nominations.

SounderBruce 19:02, 4 December 2025 (UTC).

• I'll review this! Both hooks seem interesting at first glance, and I'm looking forward to possible future hooks after the game. JTtheOG (talk) 06:53, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Not a review, but ALT1 is probably the better hook here since it is less reliant on football/soccer knowledge and this is more "accessible". Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:28, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Public art in Battery Park City

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• ... that in 2004, two painted slabs of the Berlin Wall joined the collection of public art in Battery Park City in New York City?

• Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weVXBWtt6zo

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• https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=132053
• https://bpca.ny.gov/place/berlin-wall-segment/
• https://www.6sqft.com/where-to-see-pieces-of-the-berlin-wall-in-nyc/
• https://www.untappedcities.com/mapping-the-5-pieces-of-the-berlin-wall-in-nyc/

The YouTube video is part of a series of videos produced by the Battery Park City Authority about public art in the neighborhood and is the most detailed source.

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

Aude (talk) 01:25, 4 December 2025 (UTC).

• If this is not interesting enough, I would be okay with a different hook from the article, such as about Roy Lichtenstein’s sculpture, or Wheatfield — A Confrontation. Also, I think the impacts of the upcoming flood resiliency construction project are not well-known, though not sure how interesting it is. Aude (talk) 02:04, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Black Council (novel)

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• ... that the main heroine of the first Ukrainian historical novel was saved from forced marriage by her kidnapper?

• Source: There he learns, that Lesia, whom Gvyntovka wanted to marry to Somko's renegade scribe now serving Briukhovetsky, had been kidnapped by Tur together with her parents and brought back to the family's homestead. (— Ні, — каже Череваниха, — хіба він викрутив нас із біди, а не ми викрутились од йо́го. Братік мій узяв нас був добре в свої руки. Того ж дня ввечері, як була та безталанна рада, і почав зараз сватать Лесю за ледащи́цю Вуяхевича. Як ось смерко́м їде Кирило Тур, а за ним десятеро запорожців, у двір. Показав братові якийсь перстень: „Оддавай”, каже, „мені Череваня з усім його кодлом”. — „На-що? Куди?” — „Звелів гетьман забрати та везти просто до Га́дяча. Мабуть”, каже, „Череванівні на роду́ написано бути гетьманшею”.

[...] — Стали просити, — знов веде річ Череваниха, — стали просити Кирила Тура, щоб не губив невинної душі — куди! І не дивиться. Запрягли коні в ридван, посадили Василя Невольника за погонича і помчали нас із двора. Ми плачемо. А Кирило Тур тоді: „Не плачте, курячі голови! Вам треба радуватись, а не плакати: не в Га́дяч я одвезу вас, а в Хмари́ще”. Ми давай дякувати, а він: „Що́ мені з такої дяки? Тоді мені подякуєте, як на рушнику з вашою кралею стану”. Ми знов так і похололи: із одного лиха та в друге! І таки справді думали, що в йо́го ця думка в серці. Та вже, як привезли́ нас у Хмари́ще, тоді вразький запорожець сміється та й каже: „А ви справді думали, що я такий дурень, як яке Шраменя! Нехай вам цур, вражим бабам! Од вас усе лихо стає на землі! Лучче з вами зовсім не знатись! Нехай лишень зва́рять нам вечеряти: нам іще далека дорога”.

Пантелеймон Куліш (1943). "XV-XVIII". Чорна рада. Краків ; Львів: Українське видавництво. - https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0_(1943)/XVIII)

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

Skoropadsky (talk) 17:31, 1 December 2025 (UTC).

• See WP:DYKFICTION. Perhaps a hook just about it being the first Ukrainian historical novel! Though, that type of hook may be challenged, as many superlative hooks are. Roast (talk) 00:07, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Best to keep in mind WP:DYKFIRST. Bremps... 04:29, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
    • I already mentioned that in my original comment. Roast (talk) 06:56, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
      • My bad, I was being blind. Carry on. Bremps... 16:58, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

1986 Intercontinental Cup

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Norberto "Beto" Alonso

• ... that the 1986 Intercontinental Cup was River Plate's Norberto "Beto" Alonso (pictured) last match as professional footballer?

• Source: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/deportes/futbol/la-avivada-detras-del-gol-de-river-campeon-del-mundo-y-el-particular-escalofrio-que-sintio-el-beto-alonso-nid1854041/

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

Crispybeatle (talk)

02:25, 1 December 2025 (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:
• Other problems: - One comment to be made: There's a section that refers to Steaua București's goal as "wrongfully" ruled offside. The sourced quotes seem to suggest this is coming from the players themselves, and not objective analysis of the game. Not sure this fits into WP:NPOV but that is a nitpick.

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - The hook seems to focus more on Beto Alonso than the subject itself. The current hook is also somewhat uninteresting. I would find a hook that garners more interest and focuses more on the match itself.

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: Article is well written, sourced, and plagirism free. I just have a few comments on the hook's interest and the neutrality of a statement of the article. Once the nominator has covered those issues, or spoken on them, I'd support! Great work on this article! --^The Robot Parade 05:27, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Old City of Haifa

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Old City of Haifa, 1945

• ... that the Roman and Byzantine Old Haifa, Medieval Old Haifa, and the Old City of Haifa (pictured), are all different places?

• Source: Pringle, Denys (1993). The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus: Volume 1, A-K (excluding Acre and Jerusalem). Cambridge University Press. pp. 222–223. ISBN 978-0-521-39036-1. Retrieved 2025-12-01. and Pringle, Denys (1993). The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus: Volume 2, L-Z (excluding Tyre). Cambridge University Press. pp. 150–152. ISBN 978-0-521-39037-8. Retrieved 2025-12-01.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Morris Katz (political strategist) and Template:Did you know nominations/Cyprinodon dearborni

Created by Onceinawhile (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 85 past nominations.

Onceinawhile (talk) 22:35, 30 November 2025 (UTC).

• Surprised to see this article in its current state: it's a highly sensitive topic, yet major claims lack sourcing; some parts rely entirely on Ilan Pappé, whose works are considered highly controversial by many historians, and whose own public remarks also raise POV concerns (including describing himself as a "good friend" of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, and his recent report of being detained and questioned by US authorities over alleged Hamas support). Key context is missing as well, including the Battle of Haifa, actions by both sides, and calls by the city's Jewish leadership for Arab residents to remain. Tagging for NPOV and sourcing issues. Rafi Chazon (talk) 08:15, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

The majority of this comment is built on the claim that: some parts rely entirely on Ilan Pappé. Pappé is used once, for half of a minor bullet. So no problem to delete the Pappé source entirely, but I believe it has been established elsewhere that he is a reliable source, so your claims about him may conflict with community consensus. Suggest we let others comment.

On the Battle of Haifa (1948), we can add more context from that article, but it won’t change the explanation of the reason for the demolition, which took place afterwards. We could also add more context from Nakba. The Old Jaffa or Old City of Acre articles do not go into that detail - they are more focused on heritage and architecture, which in my view is also most appropriate for this article. Onceinawhile (talk) 14:28, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

• The article is new and sufficiently long, but several paragraphs lack sources and the other two Old Haifas are not mentioned in the article. Perhaps a hook about its destruction and the reasons for the destruction would be more interesting. Surtsicna (talk) 08:16, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I have been preparing those additional sources, including explaining the other “Old Haifas”, and will add them shortly. Onceinawhile (talk) 14:29, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: I have added the remaining sources and explained the complex situation with the other two old Haifas. Onceinawhile (talk) 21:35, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Skip Thomas, Ludwig Minelli

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• ... that Skip Thomas would reportedly play strip poker with the nurses at a local hospital during the NFL season?

• Source: Richmond, Peter (2010). Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 198. ISBN 978-0-06-183430-1. "Part of his rehabilitation process was fairly unique: 'I had a bunch of nurses down there I'd play strip poker with'."

• ALT1: ... that after crashing his Chevrolet Corvette, NFL player Skip Thomas had a bump so large on his head his helmet couldn't fit for a week? Source: Cooney, Frank (October 27, 1977). "Crash hurt Raiders' defense". The San Francisco Examiner. "I totaled my Corvette earlier in the week and wasn't able to wear my helmet all week because of a big bump on my forehead."
• ALT2: ... that Dr. Death was named for his wild personality, not his appearance? Source: Richmond, Peter (2010). Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 195-196. ISBN 978-0-06-183430-1. "The oft-repeated legend that Boomer Brown gave him the nickname when Skip looked particularly cadaverous after a tough practice is apocryphal. [...] 'That was basically why they called me Dr. Death, because I was so wild'."
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1986 Intercontinental Cup
• Comment: There could be so many more hooks written about Skip Thomas. Dr. Death is interchangeable with Skip Thomas in these hooks, and vice versa.

5x expanded by The Robot Parade (talk) and Bridget (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

--^The Robot Parade 05:38, 1 December 2025 (UTC).

• That is one of the best nicknames I have ever heard. I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 15:31, 1 December 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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Looks good. Nice work. The featured hook should mention his nickname in some way, as that is one of the best NFL nicknames I've heard. One potential option could be a simplified version of the initial hook, something like "... that Dr. Death played strip poker?" The promoter can choose which hook to feature. BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:21, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

@BeanieFan11 and The Robot Parade: I've been eyeing up the also recently-5x expanded Ludwig Minelli with the intention of driveby nominating it for a few days now. He also had the nickname Dr. Death. Fancy making this a double hook such as ALT3: ... that an NFL player and a human rights lawyer both had the nickname "Dr. Death"? I can handle the QPQ.--Launchballer 11:06, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: I'm not opposed to the suggestion! As nominator, I think the proposed double hook could absolutely work. What's ironic is through my research I found another Dr. Death, a UCLA footballer named Oscar Edwards, who seems to have enough coverage to meet WP:GNG. So another Dr. Death DYK nomination may be on the way, haha. --^The Robot Parade 14:59, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Alright, I've added credits for Minelli; my QPQ is Mustarjil. That will need a review (perhaps by BeanieFan11); let me know if you write Edwards' article.--Launchballer 15:41, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: I've submitted Draft:Oscar Edwards for review. If its approved in time, it can be nominated as another article for an ALT 4 hook. --^The Robot Parade 23:57, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

I guess I should call for a reviewer properly.--Launchballer 09:10, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

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Cecil Kent Drinker

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• ... that Cecil Kent Drinker proposed safety measures to ensure factory workers did not suffer the same outcome as the Radium Girls?

• Source: After receiving the full report from Drinker, the New Jersey labor commissioner declared that all the recommended safety measures be put in place which prompted the factory to close. After the workers sued the company, major industry safety improvements were put in place and radium-based paint was banned in the 1960s. (Source)

• ALT1: ... that Cecil Kent Drinker conducted research that resulted in the development of high-altitude oxygen masks and goggles for pilots? Source: During World War II, he conducted research for the United States Armed Forces' National Defense Research Committee which resulted in the development of high-altitude oxygen masks and goggles for pilots. (Source)
• ALT2: ... that Cecil Kent Drinker was the first dean of the Harvard School of Public Health to admit women as degree candidates? Source: He was the first dean to admit women into the school of public health as degree candidates. (Source)
• ALT3: ... that Cecil Kent Drinker was a drinker? Source: He suffered from alcoholism and lost his leadership position at Harvard in 1942. (Source: Spears page 82)
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/HMS Busy (1778)Template:Did you know nominations/Jermyn Street showroom of Andrew Grima

5x expanded by Dwkaminski (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 25 past nominations.

Dwkaminski (talk) 22:10, 1 December 2025 (UTC).

• @Dwkaminski: Please note that WP:QPQ requires QPQs to be provided at the time of the nomination. This nomination may be closed within 24 hours if the necessary QPQs are not provided in time. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:40, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
  • completed one on HMS Busy Dwkaminski (talk) 13:31, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, but as you have over 20 nominations and we are currently in backlog mode, you need to provide another. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:51, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Also completed Jermyn Street showroom of Andrew Grima Dwkaminski (talk) 18:56, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

• I'm not sure any of these hooks pass WP:DYKINTEREST. for ALT0-2, it's obvious that someone would have held these roles, so it's not necessarily sufficiently novel to name the person involved. ALT3 is an interesting wordplay but I'm not sure it's enough for the main page. (t · c) buIdhe 17:42, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
• Wow... tough room. Agree that ALT3 is a throw-away. Fair enough on ALT2 that someone had to be first but disagree on ALT0 and ALT1. Howzabout:
  • ALT4: ... that Cecil Kent Drinker published his safety report on employee radium exposure only after the president of the United States Radium Corporation issued a forged report in his name? Source: A Harvard School of Public Health colleague, Alice Hamilton, learned that the United States Radium Corporation had submitted Drinker's report to the New Jersey Department of Labor with the results altered to show the company in a better light. With this evidence that Roeder had acted in bad faith, Drinker ignored the threat of lawsuit and published his unaltered report. (Source)
    • That's definitely the best one proposed. Although you might consider combining ALT3 and 4 by substituting "a drinker" bold linked instead of his name. (t · c) buIdhe 18:31, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
      • I'll pass on combing ALT3 and ALT4 as proposed. I thought it was funny to do the play on words but don't want to forsake his name in the main hook for one negative portion of his life. Thanks! Dwkaminski (talk) 18:38, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 2

Shuanglong Bridge

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• ... that the 17-arch Shuanglong Bridge (pictured) is considered the largest and most artistically valuable ancient stone bridge in Yunnan, China?

• Source: Department of Urban Planning of the Ministry of Construction; National Cultural Heritage Administration, eds. (2002). 中国国家历史文化名城 [China National Famous Historical and Cultural City]. Beijing: China Youth Press. p. 994. ISBN 7-5006-3399-8.

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Created by 瑞丽江的河水 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Xiliuheshui · chat 22:33, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

Federal Way Downtown station

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• ... that a rejected sculpture at Federal Way Downtown station would have had a circus elephant balancing on a tree trunk? Source: The Seattle Times
  • ALT1: ... that part of Federal Way Downtown station is on the site of a never-built sex shop? Source: The News Tribune
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Diego García Miravete
  • Comment: More hooks to come after opening day (December 6).

5x expanded by SounderBruce (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 262 past nominations.

SounderBruce 21:59, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on December 3

Alexander Binder (photographer)

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• ... that photographer Alexander Binder created thousands of portrait photographs, but is not himself featured in any surviving portrait?
  • Reviewed: This is my first nomination, no QPQ needed.

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

Weltalf (talk) 09:28, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

• Not a review, but two paragraphs are unsourced (with a third ending in unsourced claims despite having sources), and the not himself featured in any surviving portrait part isn't even mentioned in the article. Nominated articles generally should not have unsourced claims and the hook should be in the article itself; please see the DYK rules at WP:DYKG. Welcome to DYK though. ミラP@Miraclepine 22:08, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Here is a review:

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

Policy compliance:

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

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - n
• Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: The article is new enough, having been created 3 December, and nominated on the 5th. It is also long enough, and Earwig reports no copyvio concerns (although as most the sources are offline ones, there is a certain amount of AGF here). see below) Also noting as Miraclepine has above that there are unsourced paragraphs and facts in the article, which needs fixing. I find the hook fact interesting, but it isn't cited in the article. If the hook is sourced to an offline source, you will need to provide a quote so that I can verify it.

What is a "signet"? I have not come across the term used like this before (only in signet ring) and am not convinced this is standard usage for how photographers sign their work.

Besides fixing the hook and sourcing issues, I would also encourage you to put a couple of other facts from the article in the lead, so it is a better summary of the article.

These are all fixable issues, Weltalf, please don't be discouraged, have a go and ping me when you're ready for me to look at it again. DrThneed (talk) 22:46, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Alright I did a check on the one online source, which is in German, and realised a couple of sentences are straight translations of copyrighted material: "In the late 1920s and 1930s, up to 1937, the Binder studio was considered the largest photographic studio in Europe." and "In 1948/49, the Binder studio was taken over by the company Hasse and Wiese.". I believe this is a copyright violation and these should be rephrased. DrThneed (talk) 23:07, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Wicked (2024 film)

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• ... that Jon M. Chu split the story for Wicked into two parts when making the film version to avoid cutting plot points? Source: https://deadline.com/2022/04/wicked-universal-two-part-release-1235010059/
  • ALT1: ... that Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo insisted that the vocals for the Wicked movie be recorded live? Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/wicked-ariana-grande-cynthia-erivo-live-vocals-1235857287/
  • ALT2: ... that fans of the Wicked movie recreated the poster used to promote the Broadway musical, but got backlash from star Cynthia Erivo? Source: https://www.thecut.com/article/wicked-poster-controversy-explained-cynthia-erivo-reacts.html
  • ALT3: ... that Mattel accidentally added the wrong website link to the packaging of promotional dolls for the Wicked movie? Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo
  • ALT4: ... that when dubbing for the Wicked movie, many actresses who were part of the stage show internationally returned to voice their characters? Source: https://www.excelsior.com.mx/funcion/wicked-pelicula-danna-paola-ceci-cueva-doblaje-espanol/1670776; https://www.omelete.com.br/filmes/wicked-dublagem-brasileira-musical; https://www.news1.kr/entertain/movie/5577057; https://playbill.com/article/verkaik-and-schere-to-star-in-germanys-wicked
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Linked fate

Improved to Good Article status by Gommeh (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Gommeh 📖   🎮 20:39, 4 December 2025 (UTC).

Ring Ding Ding (song)

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• ... that there was another song sampling the Crazy Frog ringtone in the UK Singles Chart in 2005?

• Source: [23]

• ALT1: ... that the song "Ring Ding Ding" was delayed due to copyright concerns from the owners of the Crazy Frog? Source: [24] "We tried to get it out as a single but it has taken six months to get through the red tape, we've now got a remixed version of the original out with a slightly different frog to beat the copyright problems."
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kingdom of Kubala
• Comment: First hook assumes knowledge of the official Crazy Frog song, but looking at the charts on Axel F#Crazy Frog version that's not a huge ask (those adverts were everywhere). You are welcome to suggest hooks (I'm bad at writing things in brief). The claim that he received a murder threat is eye-catching, but writing it down may look vulgar or violent.

Created by Unknown Temptation (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

Unknown Temptation (talk) 15:39, 3 December 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on December 4

Jimmy Essex

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• ... that actor Jimmy Essex performed in various schools in London as part of his band "MITSOTU"?

• Source: [25]

• ALT1: ... that Jimmy Essex often gets asked if he is related to Joey Essex? Source: [26]
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Emirto de Lima
• Comment: Please let me know if I should suggest another hook

Improved to Good Article status by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 39 past nominations.

DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 06:15, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

• @DaniloDaysOfOurLives: Not a review (for now), but yes, new hooks are needed here. ALT0 is not interesting to a broad audience (I do not see the band name as "quirky" enough to be interesting by itself), and I don't imagine ALT1 as being interesting to readers outside the UK (is Joey Essex well-known in the UK? I've never heard of him before). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:29, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Civic nobility in the Papal States' March of Ancona

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• ... that the patriciate of Macerata in the Papal States lasted 360 years (1477–1816), the longest of any aristocratic regime in the March of Ancona?

• Source: The fact is supported in the article by the sentence:

"The longest-lasting aristocratic regime was in Macerata, where the patriciate endured for 360 years from its class closure in 1477 to the 1816 reform (excluding the Napoleonic period); it was followed by Fano, Fermo, Recanati and Ripatransone, all with durations exceeding three centuries."

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

Sivigliano (talk) 20:12, 4 December 2025 (UTC).

• Noting here, as I did on your talk page, that the article is not very accessible to non subject-matter experts at present. Also, the article looks like it might be a translation of this Italian Wikipedia article, per it:Discussione:Nobiltà civica nella Marca pontificia#Versione della voce su wiki eng, which may require attribution (ie. Help:Translation#Licensing). Staraction (talk | contribs) 22:27, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

I have now added the appropriate translation attribution on the article’s talk page using {{translated page}}, and I have also copy-edited the whole article to improve accessibility for non-specialist readers (shorter sentences, brief explanations of key terms). Further suggestions are of course very welcome. --Sivigliano (talk) 16:29, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on December 5

Loma people

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• ... that art, culture, and forest relationships are explained deeper and stronger than before on this page then in the previous versions of the Loma People Article. I correct mis information aswell?
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5x expanded by EmmaChamarro (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

EmmaChamarro (talk) 05:19, 6 December 2025 (UTC).

Clarence Boggie

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• ... that prior to being charged for murder in 1935, Oregon lumberjack Clarence Boggie had been convicted and pardoned twice for robbery?

• Source: "Seattle Times Digs Evidence That Frees Lifer". Editor and Publisher. Vol. 82, no. 1. Duncan McIntosh. 1 January 1949. p. 35. Retrieved 4 December 2025.

• ALT1: ... that Clarence Boggie died less than seven months after being pardoned by the governor of Washington? Source: "Heart Attack Fatal to Pardoned Man in California". Spokane Daily Chronicle. Vol. 63, no. 244. Associated Press. 2 July 1949. p. 1. Retrieved 4 December 2025.
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• Comment: Found out about Boggie while looking at some newspaper archives.

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

Nighfidelity (talk) 21:09, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

Auto-Vue Drive-In Theatre

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• ... that a second hand digital projector and screen helped keep the Auto-Vue Drive-In Theatre from becoming a hops farm?

• Source: Projector & Screen- ref 20 Callaghan "After 50 years, Eastern Washington's only drive-in theater changes hands"The only challenge that remained was how they were going to get a new digital projector to replace the outdated film one. New projectors usually cost around $90,000. A solution arose when one of Wisner’s friends told him he could buy a projector for $30,000 for the Alpine and then replace Auto-Vue’s projector with the one that previously had been in the Alpine. Wisner said from there, “everything worked out perfectly.” He had a few friends who were welders – the price of steel was down at the time – and a semitruck driver willing to carry cargo for free culminated in Auto-Vue’s survival."

Screen - Ref 20 Callaghan & Ref 19 Clark "Here's to a happy ending for Colville Auto-Vue". "A tip lead him to Soap Lake for a used screen that was still standing and in good, non-rusty shape. It was his for a $4,000 scrap metal fee"

Hops-Ref 19 Clark "His plan back then was to close the drive-in, which his family had operated since 1974, and turn the land into a hops farm.

• • ALT1: ... that by 2013 the Auto-Vue Drive-In Theatre was Eastern Washingtons last operating drive-in? Source: Ref12 Hansen "Colville's Auto Vue Drive-In falling victim to technology's high price": "Last year, the Auto Vue announced that 2013 would be its final season. After that, there will be no drive-ins in Eastern Washington."

ref 20 Callaghan "After 50 years, Eastern Washington's only drive-in theater changes hands" title and " Today, there are about 335 left, only five of which are in Washington. The only one left in Eastern Washington, Auto-Vue Drive-in Theatre, was recently bought by a couple, along with Colville’s other cinema, the Alpine Theatre."

• • ALT2: ... that the Auto-Vue Drive-In Theatre was one of 300 U.S. theaters to show Garth Brooks: A Drive-In Concert Experience during the 2020 lockdown? Source: Ref 15 Chareunsy "Brooks makes a drive-in date with fans". "The three nearest venues airing the concert are listed on ticketmaster...and Auto Vue Drive-In Theatere in Colville.."

Ref 16 Johnson "Garth Brooks' special drive-in concert is Saturday. Here's where you can watch it in Utah". "Last Friday, hundreds of thousands of fans waited online anywhere from two to four hours to get a ticket to a special drive-in concert the country star is performing for 300 drive-in theaters across North America this Saturday"

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Silver Lake (Washington)

Moved to mainspace by Kevmin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 381 past nominations.

Kevmin § 20:30, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

Ednyfed Fychan

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Arms of Ednyfed Fychan

• ... that the earliest important ancestor (arms pictured) of the Tudors was the seneschal of Llywelyn Fawr of Gwynedd when the role changed from a domestic servant to the prince's right hand man?

• Source: * Stephenson, David (2014) [1984]. Political Power in Medieval Gwynedd: Governance and the Welsh Princes. Studies in Welsh History (2nd ed.). Cardiff: University of Wales Press. pp. 11–12. ISBN 9781783160044. IA politicalpowerin0000step.

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

Tipcake (talk) 11:24, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

Mike Soutar

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Mike Soutar

• ... that Mike Soutar (pictured) was inspired to set up his consultancy firm by a dodgy chicken caesar wrap?
  • ALT1: ... that Mike Soutar (pictured) went viral on TikTok for his forensic investigations of business plans?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Niniek Kun Naryatie
  • Comment: Soutar recently filmed a series of The Celebrity Apprentice. If that gets an article, I intend on submitting an extra QPQ and adding "the Celebrity Apprentice advisor" to the front of this hook - and if a double nom appears before then, I may swap it.

Moved to mainspace by Launchballer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 349 past nominations.

Launchballer 10:01, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

Article is new enough, long enough, QPQ was done, and the article looks great (very fun read!), but I was just wondering what the sources for these hooks are? I don’t see them linked anywhere on this nomination page. Side note, I feel ALT1 is the better choice by a slight margin, but either seems good for the main page. Seems good to go once the sources are added here. Crystal Drawers (talk) 01:44, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Surreal (cereal)

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• ... that Dwayne Johnson, Serena Williams, and Michael Jordan all advertised a brand of cereal in March 2023?
  • ALT1: ... that Surreal recently launched a line of cereal that came with a free vibrator in every pack?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Charlie Mitchell (chef)
  • Comment: ALT0 is intended for April Fool's day.

Moved to mainspace by Launchballer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 348 past nominations.

Launchballer 09:09, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

• General eligibility:
• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral: - spotting a gap in the market for a cereal that was both healthy and tasty - said in wikivoice, this implies that there were no cereals before Surreal that were both healthy and tasty, and that theirs actually is both. I think it's better to say "the pair said that they founded the business because they thought that existing cereals were either tasty or healthy, but not both."
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems: - It would help to note which country the cereal brand is from. and had run sales in Europe and marketing -> this fragment is IMHO a bit weird.

The brand launched with four lines; cocoa, cinnamon, frosted, and peanut butter. - I think you want a colon instead of a semicolon, and also I believe that "flavour" is better than "line". Line IMHO is better if, let's say, Mars Inc. describes its bars: the Bounty line, the Twix line, the Mars line, the Snickers line... Mars and Snickers are somewhat similar, but you can tell all are distinct bars. What's happening here is that they have the same cereal but with different flavours. Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - The vibrator one definitely wins it, and if approved, I will ask queue preparers to leave it aside for April Fools Day instead of ALT0. I mean, the title of the cited The Standard article, "Would you want a free vibrator with your box of cereal?" is not even a dialogue that would often appear in porn videos.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: There are a couple of minor things that need fixing, but the article is good. The ALT1 hook is gonna be a DYK killer. I just added a wikilink to vibrator just so the reader confirms that they are not perverts and we really mean the sex toy. After you fix these, it's good to go with ALT1 for April Fools, if you agree. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 16:50, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Jamaica Jerk-Off

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• ... that the title of an early Elton John song has been described as "something you might stumble upon in the darkest, dirtiest corner of the internet"?
  • ALT1: ... that a "truly filthy" version of Elton John's "Jamaica Jerk-Off" was released as part of a UK Top 40 EP in 1977?
  • ALT2: ... that Elton John's seventh album has been described as "a solid sixteen quality songs and also "Jamaica Jerk-Off""?
  • ALT3: ... that the song "Jamaica Jerk-Off" has been described as being "among the most controversial in [Elton] John's entire back catalogue"?
  • ALT4: ... that "Jamaica Jerk-Off" has been described as being "as ill-advised as any classic rock song has ever been"?
  • ALT5: ... that "Jamaica Jerk-Off" has been described as "the part of every "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" discussion that everyone dreads"?
  • ALT6: ... that an early Elton John song has been described as "only marginally less horrifying" than its title?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Killing of Lloyd Reed
  • Comment: There are tons of hooks in this one.

Moved to mainspace by Launchballer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 347 past nominations.

Launchballer 08:32, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, I find all of them interesting (expect maybe ALT1), not seeing any in article problems, QPQ done, only issues is that I think the hooks need more links (like [Elton John] and [Goodbye Yellow Brick Road]) and what are these sourced to? Olliefant (she/her) 18:35, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Caterina di Meo Lippi

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• ... that some scholars believe that Leonardo da Vinci's mother was a slave?

• Source: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/da-vincis-mother-slave-scli-intl

• Reviewed: Murder of Mark Lawrence
• Comment: QPQ coming soon

Moved to mainspace by Panamitsu (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 92 past nominations.

―Panamitsu (talk) 07:09, 5 December 2025 (UTC).

• @Panamitsu: Please note that per WP:QPQ, a nomination without a provided QPQ may be closed. I will be closing this nomination within 24 hours if a QPQ is not provided. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:31, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Note that this was just discussed earlier at WT:DYK: Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#QPQ_Timing_and_WP:QPQ. QPQs have been required when nominating since 2024. At least you don't have to provide 2 reviews now that we are out of backlog mode. JuniperChill (talk) 12:36, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
    • @JuniperChill: We are out of UBM now, so are you sure about two reviews?--Kevmin § 20:02, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
      • I clearly said that on the last sentence. Maybe you misread it. JuniperChill (talk) 20:07, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
        • I very much did misread! My apologies. :O --Kevmin § 20:35, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
          • Just provided a QPQ. Not sure why we're having a conversation here haha. ―Panamitsu (talk) 20:45, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Dolina effect

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• ... that you can sign a deed for an apartment and yet, due to weaknesses in Russian law, courts will often give back the "fraudulently" sold real estate but not require that the seller return the money? Source: Basically the whole premise of the article
• ALT1: ... that due to weaknesses in Russian law, signing the deed and paying money to the owner does not at all mean that at the end of the day, you will be with the apartment or the money? Source: as above
• ALT2 ... that criminals could scam buyers of their newly-acquired property by claiming in court that they themselves were scammed and so lost all money from the deal? Source: [27]
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Snow removal in Montreal
  • Comment: The sources are almost entirely in Russian, so it would be preferable for the reviewer to know the language.

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

Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 05:26, 5 December 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.

Note: Articles intended to be held for special occasion dates should be nominated within seven days of creation from the start of expansion, or promotion to Good Article status. The nomination should be made at least one week prior to the occasion date, to allow time for reviews and promotions through the prep and queue sets, but not more than six weeks in advance. The proposed occasion must be deemed sufficiently special by reviewers. The timeline limitations, including the six week maximum, may be waived by consensus, if a request is made at WT:DYK, but requests are not always successful. Discussion clarifying the hold criteria can be found here: Hold criteria; discussion setting the six week limit can be found here: Six week limit.

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