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To report errors in the queue, please place a message at WT:DYK or WP:ERRORS.

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

ADMINISTRATORS: Please ensure that there is always at least one update loaded into the Queue at all times to prevent overdue updates to the main page.

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

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

The next update will be produced from queue 6. After doing a manual update, please update the pointer to the next queue.

Current number of hooks on the nominations page

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

Section	# of Hooks	# Verified
Count of DYK Hooks
November 21	1
December 4	1
December 7	1
December 8	1
December 9	2
December 12	1
December 15
December 20	1
December 21	1
December 25	1
December 27	1
December 29	1
December 30	1
December 31	1
January 2	2
January 3	1	1
January 4	1
January 5	2
January 6	2
January 7	2
January 9	1
January 10	1
January 11	2
January 13	1	1
January 14	5	2
January 15	5	3
January 16	2	1
January 17	4	3
January 18	8	5
January 19	7	6
January 20	13	6
January 21	4	2
January 22	5	3
January 23	8	5
January 24	15	11
January 25	11	5
January 26	6	5
January 27	14	5
January 28	5	2
January 29	9	3
January 30	7	5
January 31	8	3
February 1	2
Total	167	77
Last updated 03:07, 1 February 2022 UTC Current time is 12:25, 15 May 2026 UTC [refresh]

DYK time

Earliest time for next DYK update: 22:58, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Current time: 12:25, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Last updated: 4 years ago(

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Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 6 Prep 6	1 February 15:58	1 February 18:58	1 February 22:58	1 February 23:58	2 February 04:28	2 February 07:58	2 February 08:58
Queue 7	2 February 03:58	2 February 06:58	2 February 10:58	2 February 11:58	2 February 16:28	2 February 19:58	2 February 20:58
Queue 1	2 February 15:58	2 February 18:58	2 February 22:58	2 February 23:58	3 February 04:28	3 February 07:58	3 February 08:58
Queue 2	3 February 03:58	3 February 06:58	3 February 10:58	3 February 11:58	3 February 16:28	3 February 19:58	3 February 20:58
Queue 3 Prep 3	3 February 15:58	3 February 18:58	3 February 22:58	3 February 23:58	4 February 04:28	4 February 07:58	4 February 08:58
Queue 4 Prep 4	4 February 03:58	4 February 06:58	4 February 10:58	4 February 11:58	4 February 16:28	4 February 19:58	4 February 20:58
Queue 5 Prep 5	4 February 15:58	4 February 18:58	4 February 22:58	4 February 23:58	5 February 04:28	5 February 07:58	5 February 08:58

Queues

Queue 6 [edit]

Queue 7 [edit]

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

Dudleya cymosa subsp. pumila

... that the Sonoran blue butterfly uses Dudleya cymosa subsp. pumila (pictured) as a larval foodplant and hummingbirds feed on its nectar?
... that the Twin Parks housing project in New York City, the site of a January 2022 fire that killed seventeen people, won architectural awards after it was constructed in the early 1970s?
... that Australian neurosurgeon Jeffrey Rosenfeld led the team developing a wireless device that promises to give limited vision to the totally blind?
... that the Little Theatre, once deemed a "gem among playhouses", was later planned to be replaced by a driveway for The New York Times?
... that the 1810s reign of Ioan Caragea introduced Wallachia to carom billiards, sugar sculptures, and an eponymous plague?
... that La Poutine Week is the world's largest poutine festival, with 700 restaurants serving 350,000 people?
... that while waiting for an interview, journalist Rod Beaton was involved in a shoving incident with baseball player Barry Bonds?
... that the Godzilla Megamullion is at least ten times larger than all other known megamullions?

Queue 1 [edit]

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

Luke Kunin

... that in 2016, Luke Kunin (pictured) became the first sophomore captain of the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team since 1975?
... that despite experiencing midnight sun and polar night, Svalbard observes daylight saving time?
... that a work by Bettie Freshwater Pool was proposed to be the official state song of North Carolina?
... that after viewing the Coates round house, the prospective occupant's fiancée refused to marry him unless the canal company made the property more habitable?
... that Qadi al-Fadil began his career under the Fatimids, became Saladin's chief minister, and was renowned for the elegance of his epistolary writing?
... that George Balanchine only started working on his ballet Mozartiana three weeks before its premiere?
... that the spotted lanternfly has been used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat swelling since the 1100s?
... that the Connecticut Valley Railroad successfully fooled the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad into purchasing it by pretending that it planned to expand northwards?

Queue 2 [edit]

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

Palestinian-controlled West Bank

... that the Palestinian enclaves in the West Bank (map pictured) constitute an "archipelago" of 165 islands?
... that in 1995, Hurricane Flossie damaged many tapes of Jerry Lewis telethons belonging to the Muscular Dystrophy Association?
... that author Theresa Pulszky escaped from the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by pretending to be the companion of a German couple?
... that the video game JFK Reloaded recreates the assassination of John F. Kennedy from the perspective of the killer?
... that Mao Zedong initially approved the Dalai Lama's escape into Indian exile, but later ordered that it be prevented?
... that The Constitutional Courant was a single-issue newspaper published by William Goddard for the sole purpose of criticizing the Stamp Act in 1765?
... that Genevieve Beacom became the first woman to pitch in the Australian Baseball League when she made her debut for the Melbourne Aces in 2022?
... that Interstate 229 once ended at a gravel road?

Queue 3 [edit]

Queue 4 [edit]

Queue 5 [edit]

Instructions on how to promote a hook

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

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

Check list for nomination review completeness

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.

a. 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.

1) For hooks held for specific dates, refer to "Local update times" section on DYK Queue.

a. 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.

a. Make sure there's a space between ... and that, and a ? at the end.

b. 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.

a. 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

At the upper left
- Change {{DYKsubpage to {{subst:DYKsubpage
- Change |passed= to |passed=yes
At the bottom
- Just above the line containing
  }}
  insert a new, separate line containing one of the following:
  To [[T:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
  
  To [[T:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]
- Also paste the same thing into the edit summary.
Check in Preview mode. Make sure everything is against a pale blue background (nothing outside) and there are no stray characters, like }}, at the top or bottom.
Save.

For more information, please see T:TDYK#How to promote an accepted hook.

Prep areas

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

Prep area 4 [edit]

... that Isabel Leighton (pictured), an actress and writer, created a chair in hematology at Yale University in honor of her husband?
... that the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is the only contemporary art museum in the country with a permanent collection?
... that the Windows 95 game Banzai Bug, in which a player controls a bug that must escape from an exterminator's house and is told as a war story, was created as "The Flight-Sim with an Attitude"?
... that Jérôme Chappellaz wants to collect ice cores from Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro to preserve them in Antarctica?
... that the Zigzag House was designed for two people who supported the circus arts?
... that the New Zealand stonefly Stenoperla prasina was the 5 millionth specimen digitised by the Natural History Museum in London?
... that shortly after getting married in 1875, Robert A. Emmitt crossed the Cascade Mountains driving a cattle herd while his wife led a pack horse that carried their possessions?
... that Mark Birley described the interior decor of his Bath & Racquets Club as the "post-Mussolini epic style"?

Prep area 5 [edit]

North African amulet in the shape of a hand

... that in the jewellery of the Berber cultures, a silver amulet of a hand (pictured) was believed by both Muslims and Jews to protect against the evil eye?
... that illustrator Al Hirschfeld knew he would get his own Broadway theater for his 100th birthday, but he died before the renaming?
... that Alexander Buchan, one of the artists on the first voyage of James Cook, was not mentioned in Cook's journals until he died after an epileptic fit?
... that there is disagreement about whether Lots of Mommies, in which a girl is raised by four mothers, should be considered an LGBTQ picture book?
... that German economist Ingo Böbel became Professor of Economics at International University of Monaco after serving a prison sentence for embezzlement and tax evasion?
... that the educational computer games Designasaurus and UMS 1 together gained their publisher over $5 million during 18 months in the 1980s?
... that the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "Asuka Strikes!" includes references to the works of William Shakespeare?
... that the 1979 Book of Common Prayer contains a Star Wars prayer?

Prep area 6 [edit]

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... that the Colonial Defence Committee advised British colonies not to permit more than two foreign warships into harbour at a time, in case of a surprise attack?

Prep area 7 [edit]

Rat being trained to sniff out land mines

... that Magawa, an African giant pouched rat (example pictured), sniffed out more than 70 land mines in Cambodia?
... that footballer Dean Whitehead was compared to Roy Keane a year before Keane was appointed as his manager?
... that the McLaren MCL36, McLaren's 2022 Formula One car, has been in development since 2019 because of the pandemic's interruptions to the sport?
... that after nearly killing a man in a duel, Edgar P. Rucker went on to become the attorney general of West Virginia?
... that development on the video game Expeditions: Rome was not affected by lockdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic because the developer was already split between Copenhagen and Istanbul?
... that "Nobles of the Mystic Shrine" was first conducted with a band of around 6,200 members, the largest band John Philip Sousa ever conducted?
... that as part of the ongoing assisted migration of forests in North America, the western larch were selected for reforestation projects nearly 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) north of its native range?
... that a would-be buyer of San Angelo, Texas, radio station KBIL-FM had no knowledge of the transaction?

Prep area 1 [edit]

Midnight Sun Mosque, in the midnight sun

... that the northernmost mosque in the Western Hemisphere (pictured) was built in Winnipeg and shipped to Inuvik by barge and truck?
... that Red Clay State Historic Park was the last capital of the Cherokee Nation in the eastern United States?
... that in 1917, flying ace Otto Jäger was wounded by a propeller?
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Prep area 3 [edit]

Johann Christoph von Ponickau

... that Bach's cantata Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn, BWV 157, was first performed 295 years ago today during a memorial service for Johann Christoph von Ponickau (pictured)?
... that the headquarters of Advanced Logic Research were the subject of an attempted armed invasion in 1989 during a surge of computer chip robberies?
... that Brandon Tanev claims to have seen a ghost while his head shot was being taken for the Pittsburgh Penguins?
... that Amory Street station and Babcock Street station replaced four predecessor stations?
... that during the Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003, all ten of Venezuelan chocolatier María Fernanda Di Giacobbe's businesses went bankrupt, except for one?
... that Monorail Inc.'s first computer, with its all-in-one design and flat-panel display, prefigured the iMac G4 by over five years?
... that Saba Malaspina was "the only important Roman historiographer from the 13th century"?
... that Pontius Pilate continued writing letters and reports for centuries after his death?

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