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This page holds approved nominations that are waiting to appear in the "Did you know" section on the Main Page. Following DYK approval, nominations are processed and moved into a Prep area, and from there, prep sets are promoted to a queue, and then to the main page.

To create a new nomination or to see those that are yet to be approved, see Template talk:Did you know. For the discussion page see WT:DYK. Click on the link to go directly to the Special occasion holding area.

  If some of the nominations are not showing up properly at the bottom of the page, these alternative pages can be used to view a subset of the most recent nominations.
Count of DYK Hooks
Section # of Hooks # Verified
November 2 1 1
November 15 1
November 17 1
November 19 2
November 21 1
November 22 2
November 26 1
December 1 2
December 2 3 1
December 10 1
December 11 2
December 12 2
December 13 2
December 15 2
December 16 2
December 18 1 1
December 19 1 1
December 21 2 1
December 22 3 3
December 23 5 5
December 24 2 1
December 25 6 4
December 26 7 6
December 27 3 2
December 28 10 7
December 29 6 5
December 30 9 7
December 31 12 10
January 1 13 10
January 2 19 12
January 3 13 10
January 4 13 10
January 5 20 12
January 6 20 10
January 7 14 8
January 8 11 5
January 9 8
January 10 8
January 11 5
January 12 9
January 13 2
January 14 5
January 15 2
Total 254 132
Last updated 09:45, 15 January 2025 UTC
Current time is 09:51, 15 January 2025 UTC [refresh]

Instructions for nominators

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This page is for those nominations that have already been approved and are waiting to be promoted. If yours has been approved but has not yet been run on the main page, it should either be on this page or will soon be moved here, or already promoted to a Prep area or Queue ahead of an appearance on the main page.

If you wish to create a new nomination, please go to the Template talk:Did you know page; there are instructions there in a section similar to this one on how to nominate an article for DYK.

Frequently asked questions

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Backlogged?

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This page is often backlogged. As long as your submission is still on the page, it will stay there until someone promotes it to a preparation area. To alleviate this problem, if the approved page has more than 120 approved hooks, then sets will change twice per day (every 12 hours) instead of once per day (every 24 hours). When the backlog falls below 60 approved nominations set frequency returns to once a day.

Where is my hook?

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If you can't find the nomination you submitted to the nominations page, and it also isn't on this page, in most cases it means your article has been approved and is either in one of the prep areas, has been promoted from prep to a queue, or is on the main page.

If the nominated hook is in none of those places, then the nomination has probably been rejected. Such a rejection usually only occurs if it was at least a couple of weeks old and had unresolved issues for which any discussion had gone stale. If you think your nomination was unfairly rejected, you can query this on the DYK discussion page, but as a general rule such nominations will only be restored in exceptional circumstances.

Instructions for other editors

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How to promote an accepted hook

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  • See Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas for full instructions.
  • In one window, open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to promote.
  • In another window, open the prep set you intend to add the hook to.
  • In the prep set...
    • Paste the hook into the hook area (be sure to not paste in that that)
    • Paste the credit information ({{DYKmake}} and/or {{DYKnom}}) into the credits area.
    • Add an edit summary, e.g., "Promoted [[Jane Fonda]]", preview, and save
  • Back on DYK nomination page...
    • change {{DYKsubpage to {{subst:DYKsubpage
    • change |passed= to |passed=yes
    • Add an edit summary, e.g., "Promoted original hook to Prep 3", preview, and save

How to remove a hook from the prep areas or queue

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  • Edit the prep area or queue where the hook is and remove the hook and the credits associated with it.
  • Go to the hook's nomination subpage (there should have been a link to it in the credits section).
    • View the edit history for that page
    • Go back to the last version before the edit where the hook was promoted, and revert to that version to make the nomination active again.
    • Add a new icon on the nomination subpage to cancel the previous tick and leave a comment after it explaining that the hook was removed from the prep area or queue, and why, so that later reviewers are aware of this issue.
  • Add a transclusion of the template back to the nominations page so that reviewers can see it. It goes under the date that it was first created/expanded/listed as a GA. You may need to add back the day header for that date if it had been removed from the nominations page.
  • If you removed the hook from a queue, it is best to either replace it with another hook from one of the prep areas, or to leave a message at WT:DYK asking someone else to do so.

Nominations

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Special occasion holding area

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Latest comment: 1 month ago13 comments6 people in discussion
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Do not nominate articles in this section—nominate all articles in the nominations section on the regular nominations page, under the date on which the article was created or moved to mainspace, or the expansion began, or it was listed as a Good Article; be sure to 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, start of expansion, or promotion to Good Article status. The nomination should be made between 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: [1]; discussion setting the six week limit can be found here: [2].
April Fools' Day hooks are exempted from the timeline limit; see Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know.
Note for promoters: please be sure to add an "invisible" comment after a hook when you've placed it in prep, noting that it's a special occasion hook and including the date it is supposed to run. This should keep the hook from being moved after promotion, as sometimes happens to hooks when a queue needs a slot filled or a prep set needs to be made more balanced by swapping hooks between preps.

January 26

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Oliver Hutchinson

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The first photograph of a television image
  • ... that Oliver Hutchinson (pictured) was the subject of the first successful live demonstration of the television on 26 January 1926?
  • Source: "Ninety years ago today, in a building in Soho, the first live television demonstration took place in front of a room of members of the Royal Institution and a journalist from The Times. A face – that of a man called Oliver Hutchinson – appeared on in a small 3.5ins by two inch picture. The Scot's first successful test of his Televisor was in 1924, when he transmitted a flickering image onto a wall ten feet away. Two years later, it was a clearer image of Hutchinson in a different room which is now regarded to be the first television demonstration as earlier showcases projected nothing more than faint silhouettes." from: "Google joins in celebrations for TV's 90th birthday". The Week. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 908 past nominations.

Dumelow (talk) 21:35, 16 November 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
  • Other problems:   - See comments for possible edits
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Well done, thank you esp for the writing and for hunting down the sources for this bio. ALT0 -- would it be better to say "live" rather than public demonstration? The source says "live" and I'm not sure this is "public" in our current usage of the term. Might also move (pictured) after 'television' because it's a great image of that TV demo, not of the subject himself. ALT1 -- this is accurate but strikes me as an odd emphasis on the photograph rather than the pioneering step with television technology. ProfGray (talk) 15:16, 19 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

I have changed "public" to "live" in the article if you want to go with that. I left it a bit ambiguous with the "pictured" as I can't find a source that says this is an image of the first demonstration, it could have been taken another time and wasn't published until June. The demonstration was 26 January. Not sure how long the current backlog is but this could well run on the 99th anniversary of the event? - Dumelow (talk) 19:14, 19 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Great, if you agree "live" is better, then I'd suggest revising the first hook. Thanks for explaining about your caution with the image, that's wise. ProfGray (talk) 19:48, 20 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, I have amended ALT0 to "live" instead of "public" - Dumelow (talk) 08:07, 21 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
@AirshipJungleman29:, hi, saw the revert, is there anything else that I / we need to do? ProfGray (talk) 23:00, 27 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
No, the nominator just wants it to be run on 26 January. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:18, 27 November 2024 (UTC)Reply


January 28

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Artur Bubnevych

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Created by Maximilian775 (talk) and Darth Stabro (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Maximilian775 (talk) 20:58, 14 November 2024 (UTC).Reply


Approved nominations

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Articles created/expanded on November 2

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Oscar Goodman (basketball)

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Moved to mainspace by TonyTheTiger (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 366 past nominations.

TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:23, 5 November 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Covered for newness, length, sourcing, neutrality, is plagiarism-free, and the hook is cited and interesting. QPQ done. Good to go on this one! Sims2aholic8 (talk) 18:03, 7 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

  • What's a "global basketball tournament 1st team all-tournament honoree"? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:22, 8 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
    • Goodman has participated in three FIBA sanctioned tournaments. The first was just a regional competition for countries in Oceania. The second was a tournament for countries in Asia (and/including Oceania). The third was for countries around the world. I use the term global to mean a tournament open to worldwide/global contestants. Such tournaments select honorary teams to recognize the best performers in the tournament. These teams are called all-tournament teams and the players chosen are honorees. Sometimes the tournament will select a best five (the first team) and a next best five (the second team).-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:05, 9 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
  This has likely not been promoted because the "global ... honoree" bit is pretty indecipherable. TonyTheTiger, would it be possible for you to compose a new hook? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:56, 25 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
would changing global to worldwide be satisfactory?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:37, 27 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Haven't checked the article, but the above wording should address the ambiguity given the context provided. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:35, 31 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@TonyTheTiger: Since the nomination is already two months old (meaning DYKTIMEOUT could apply to this nomination) and there have been concerns about "obscure US sports terminology" on DYK, maybe you can reword ALT1 slightly to make it clear what "all-tournament honoree" means? I can imagine that reviewers, and maybe readers, might have a hard time understanding what "all-tournament" means, so a more generalist wording might be in order here. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:58, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
The article itself is approved, just not the hook. ALT2 is not suitable as it includes a phrase in parentheses, which is discouraged per WP:DYK200. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:54, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Frankly, that doesn't really appear to address the interest concerns ("all-tournament"? "top 5 team honoree"?) Maybe another editor can suggest a workshopped wording. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Normally I'd think it was okay, but given how close Australia and New Zealand are (both geographically and historically), it seems less interesting than it normally would. Maybe AirshipJungleman29 or Sims2aholic8 could chime in? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:14, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I get your point, but also from Canberra to New Plymouth it's about 1,400 miles (2,250km), so it's not exactly "close". It's not exactly the same as the span of the United States or Europe but it's comparable, and I think living that far away from home as a teenager is fairly impressive. I'm happy to defer here though if there is strong feeling elsewhere that this fact is not interesting enough. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 13:20, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I suppose ALT6 or ALT7 are safer options. I don't think ALT5 really solves the issue: normally ALT4 by itself would have been fine, it's just that Australia and New Zealand are so close culturally and politically that it doesn't seem as surprising. It's like saying an American spent some time in Canada. If it had been instead, for example, Brazil to the US or vice-versa, maybe. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Having grown up in Buffalo, New York, I don't really buy the America-Canada comparison. This is more like a teenager who grew up in Puerto Rico and had to go back and forth to train his skills in Miami at age 15. However, ALT7 makes a similar point to many of the rejected alts (up to ALT3) above.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:59, 8 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
While ALT7 and ALT8 are okay to me (I'm not sure to other reviewers), I have to be frank in that ALT6 doesn't seem interesting to broad audiences. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:43, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
If 7 & 8 are OK, are we good to go?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:59, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, ALT6 is pretty boring. Unless he joined the national basketball team at 9-years-old or something, ALT7 is also not that interesting (this recent age-related hook got just over 1700 views, so general audiences probably won't care about this hook). ALT8 is kinda just meh, I don't see it getting huge numbers. It might be best to just cut our losses and DYKTIMEOUT this one. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 14:32, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I have listed dozens of American basketball players with less interesting hooks. I don't think I have ever done an Asian before and definitely not a Kiwi. I have heard about American bias. As an American who writes mostly about Americans, I never really paid much attention. I feel bad for the folks down under. I will go back to American basketball players where I can list any smoe without problem.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:09, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I would've said the same things had this been a nomination for an American player. It's weird for you to bring up an American bias when at least half of the people involved in this discussion are not American. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 15:30, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I have surely nominated over 100 American basketball players, many with less interesting hooks than this. The American bias is not a statement about the reviewers, but rather about the content that is favored on ENG wikipedia. Wikipedia favors American content like news shows favor stories about Trump. It does matter whether the news station is pro Trump or anti Trump.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:03, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I have to agree with Hilst here. It's not about an American or non-American bias, but rather if it's a hook that is likely to attract general readership regardless of location. For what it's worth, when I review hooks for interest, if I feel that the hook will only appeal to Americans, I bring that up. There's also been a pushback against hooks that focus on "obscure American sports terminology" so that's also another factor. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:07, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Well, if it all about expected viewership, this guy would have been in the 1-2k range, IMO, with most of these hooks, which counts against him. Personally, I don't see a lot of Kiwi hooks on the main page since most of my DYKs are basketball. Although I would expect him to get fewer views than a similarly accomplished American basketball player, I would expect that he would be more likely to get the Kiwi clickthrough, which would broaden WPs impact. I have gotten a lot of hooks through with the expectation of low page views. We may be in a new era or something. We get a lot of US, UK, and Southeast Asian (former UK colony) region hooks. Australia is also fairly well-represented. I viewed this hook as a subject of interest to a different set of readers. I have never written a page that has been edited by so many New Zealand editors (User:Alexeyevitch, User:Gadfium, User:Schwede66, User:Panamitsu, maybe User:Lukraun) I would expect this article to generate the same kind of clickthrough where New Zealanders have a chance to read about one of their own. I think I have put hundreds of basketball hooks through DYK. I am up around 900 or so DYKs and maybe as many as half of my DYKs are basketball. So lets say I have had 400 basketball DYKs and at most 2 timed out. For this guy to time out it means it is in the bottom 0.5% of interest level. I don't buy it. I check page views. I know this guy is not going to get me 20k views, but I think New Zealand readers would have an astounding interest much like New Zealand editors have had an unusually strong participation rate in editing this article. I may have had one or two time out in the past I dont recall. I wonder if these New Zealand editors find the hook mentioning New Zealand as boring as you guys all do.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:45, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Hilst still has some outstanding concerns that were raised at the WT:DYK discussion, so it might not be a good idea to give this an approval tick until that's taken care of, or their concerns are resolved. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:28, 13 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
That's a bit better. "championship game" could probably be simplified as "final", but I have no prejudice against running this hook. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 14:39, 13 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
User:Hilst, I would have no problem with final, but I'm not sure if the general reader would read it synonymously. I'll leave that tweaking to the queue setup people.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 08:35, 15 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Happy to concur with Hilst on ALT9. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 17:26, 13 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  If there are no longer any concerns with ALT9 then I'm happy to restore the tick for this nomination. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:38, 14 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Articles created/expanded on December 2

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Science Fiction Chronicle

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Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 536 past nominations.

Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:24, 10 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

ALT1: ... that Science Fiction Chronicle, an American science fiction magazine, was initially a section of the fanzine Algol?
ALT2: that Science Fiction Chronicle won the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine in 1993 and 1994?
ALT3: that Science Fiction Chronicle was edited by Andrew I. Porter for over two decades before he was controversially fired in 2002?
  I am approving ALT2 and ALT3 as cited and the most interesting. SL93 (talk) 19:04, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I'm a bit concerned about ALT3 w/r/t WP:DYKBLP? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:52, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Theleekycauldron Ok, but what about ALT2? The two oldest nominations on the approved page are hooks that I reviewed, and I am the main editor who has been promoting lately. SL93 (talk) 22:47, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
mm, i dunno, ALT2 isn't particularly unusual to me. Not only does one magazine win that award every year, and lots of magazines win lots of prose awards every year, but it's not even like this magazine is unusual for winning this award twice in a row: Locus has won it 22 times, including a streak of 7 consecutive wins right before SF Chronicle (heh) won its two. I'm sorry to be kind of filibustering this – maybe Launchballer would willing to promote it – but I don't really want to put my signature on it. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 01:05, 13 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Articles created/expanded on December 18

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Vĩnh Điện River

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  • ... that the Vĩnh Điện River is called Tứ Câu after Tứ Câu bridge, Cổ Mân in Cổ Mân village, and Mân Quang in Mân Quang village?

Cũng như nhiều sông khác, sông Vĩnh Điện chảy qua địa phương nào thì mang tên địa phương đó: sông Tứ Câu (đoạn sông từ cầu Tứ Câu xuống hạ lưu); sông Cổ Mân (đoạn qua làng Cổ Mân, phường Hòa Xuân, quận Cẩm Lệ); sông Mân Quang (đoạn qua làng Mân Quang, phường Hòa Quý, quận Ngũ Hành Sơn).

Like many other rivers, the Vĩnh Điện river carries the name of whatever locality it flows through: Tứ Câu river (the stretch of the river downstream of Tứ Câu bridge); Cổ Mân river (the stretch passing Cổ Mân village, Hòa Xuan ward, Cẩm Lệ district); Mân Quang village (the stretch passing Mân Quang village, Hòa Quý ward, Ngũ Hành Sơn district).
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Moved to mainspace by MuDavid (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

MuDavid 栘𩿠 (talk) 03:48, 19 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

Essentially, the hook as currently written is not "hooky". That is, it doesn't give a good reason for readers of the main page to click on the article to find out more. It doesn't catch attention, is a bit hard to understand, and doesn't seem to be very interesting if at all. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:17, 26 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Narutolovehinata5 MuDavid ALT1 ... that the Vĩnh Điện River is a canal that was dug in the 1820s on the order of emperor Minh Mạng of the Nguyễn dynasty?
ALT2 ... that the Vĩnh Điện River was used to transport sugar and cinnamon for international export in the 1840s? SL93 (talk) 00:27, 31 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
ALT2 is a better hook and closer to what we are looking for. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Okay, if you think that’s more interesting. MuDavid 栘𩿠 (talk) 02:00, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Doing... And @MuDavid: please read the hidden note on the bottom of the nom. ミラP@Miraclepine 20:15, 14 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: None required.

Overall:   Moved to mainspace day before nom and sized at 2650. Sourcing is reliable and verified. Second Narutolovehinata5 on ALT2 hookiness. ミラP@Miraclepine 21:17, 14 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Articles created/expanded on December 19

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2019 NFC Championship Game

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Raheem Mostert
Moved to mainspace by Gonzo fan2007 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 55 past nominations.

« Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:53, 19 December 2024 (UTC).Reply


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Having read through, this looks good to me. Earwig copyvio check looks fine. One small thing (Tyler Ervin, the Packers kick returned, muffed the return and was only able to move the ball to the eight-yard line should read Tyler Ervin, the Packers kick returner, muffed the return and was only able to move the ball to the eight-yard line), but other than that this was a smooth read. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 17:07, 29 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Red-tailed hawk, I fixed the typo! « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 13:58, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Articles created/expanded on December 21

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Tokyo Expressway

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The Tokyo Expressway looking west towards Nishi-Ginza Junction
  • Source: Portions of the highway were opened in 1959, making it the oldest expressway in Japan... The closure is slated to convert the elevated expressway right of way into an elevated park similar to the Coulée verte René-Dumont in Paris. [3]
5x expanded by Mccunicano (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 50 past nominations.

❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️ 04:21, 22 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  •   Article is new and long enough (expansion 374 B → 3108 B, 8.31×). Hook is interesting and cited (a note: if the quote given as the source above is quoting the article, we're good; if it's quoting the source, then the article should be re-worded to avoid direct copying. I'd check this myself but I'm not able to read the source and I don't want to pass judgement based on a translated webpage). No issues from Earwig and the article's sourcing as a whole looks solid. QPQ has been completed, so this will be GTG as soon as I can get confirmation that the article's wording isn't copied from the source (I assume it isn't, just want to cover my bases). PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:10, 24 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Articles created/expanded on December 22

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2025 Seattle Sounders FC season

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Moved to mainspace by SounderBruce (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 245 past nominations.

SounderBruce 05:11, 22 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

You have a point, but most casual fans will not get the significance of this or the intricacies of schedules. It's reliant on rather specialist information (specialists in this case being dedicated soccer fans), and not all soccer fans are like that. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:57, 23 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I'm honestly not sure but I'm leaning towards it being marginal at best. It probably has wider interest than the original hook, but I imagine that it won't do all that well if this is the wording that gets featured on the main page. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:19, 26 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
What about ALT2: ... that after winning the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League, the Seattle Sounders qualified to play in the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in their upcoming season? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:56, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I think this would work better: ... that the upcoming season for Seattle Sounders FC includes a tournament that they qualified for in 2022? SounderBruce 05:32, 31 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
That sounds a lot better, although I might suggest removing the link to the FIFA Club World Cup given that too many links may divert readers away from the bolded link. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:21, 1 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Why not bold link the whole thing, which would remove a pointless link (to the soccer team itself) while still retaining the link to the tournament, which would help readers understand the hook better:
ALT3: ... that the upcoming season for Seattle Sounders FC includes a tournament that they qualified for in 2022? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:17, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
That works for me. @Narutolovehinata5: Will you finish the review? SounderBruce 02:09, 3 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Thank you, this is good to go. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:44, 15 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Devarani and Jithani temples

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Rudra Shiva statue
 
Jethani Temple ruins
  • ... that the Jithani temple (ruins pictured) may have collapsed under its own weight?

Source: Majumdar, Susmita Basu (2003). "Tracing the Religio-Specific Traits in the Saiva Sculptures of South Kosala". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 64: 277–285. ISSN 2249-1937. A peacock with its plumage unfurled forms the ear and the earnings. The eyes are in the form of open mouth of a frog. A descending lizard forms the nose, the two hind legs of the animal form the eyebrows and the front legs form the nostrils of the image. A pair of fishes forms the moustache and the chin is shaped like a hideous crab. Both the shoulders are in the form of a makara (crocodile). On the chest two male human heads have been placed whereas, a larger human head forms the belly. Four female heads are placed (without moustaches) in semi circular fashion on the thighs (two each) out of which the two facing the front are in najali-baddha posture. The urdhvamedhra is made of the head and neck of a tortoise two bell like testicles are designed as forelimbs of the same animal. Two heads of lion form the knees. The identification of this icon is an over discussed problem. This sculpture being the only of its kind has led art historians to put forward as many identifications as possible but unfortunately its unconventional form rules out the scope of textual corroboration. At present it may be concluded that it is a Saiva sculpture. Multiplicity of the heads of Siva is not new to this region or other parts of northern India

    • ALT2: ... that that a Rudra Shiva statue (pictured) within the Devarani temple has a nose made out of a lizard figure, ears made out of peacock figures, while a crab forms the lower lip and chin?

Source: Majumdar, Susmita Basu (2003). "Tracing the Religio-Specific Traits in the Saiva Sculptures of South Kosala". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 64: 277–285. ISSN 2249-1937. A peacock with its plumage unfurled forms the ear and the earnings. The eyes are in the form of open mouth of a frog. A descending lizard forms the nose, the two hind legs of the animal form the eyebrows and the front legs form the nostrils of the image. A pair of fishes forms the moustache and the chin is shaped like a hideous crab. Both the shoulders are in the form of a makara (crocodile). On the chest two male human heads have been placed whereas, a larger human head forms the belly. Four female heads are placed (without moustaches) in semi circular fashion on the thighs (two each) out of which the two facing the front are in najali-baddha posture. The urdhvamedhra is made of the head and neck of a tortoise two bell like testicles are designed as forelimbs of the same animal. Two heads of lion form the knees. The identification of this icon is an over discussed problem. This sculpture being the only of its kind has led art historians to put forward as many identifications as possible but unfortunately its unconventional form rules out the scope of textual corroboration. At present it may be concluded that it is a Saiva sculpture. Multiplicity of the heads of Siva is not new to this region or other parts of northern India

Created by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

AmateurHi$torian (talk) 20:58, 23 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited:   - ?
  • Interesting:  
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   The article was created on December 22, and nominated on December 23 for DYK. Length and sourcing are adequate. The article is neutral in tone, and I found no plagiarism concerns. All of the hooks are reasonably interesting. ALT0 is not explicitly mentioned in the article with the source provided in this nomination. ALT1 and ALT2 are both mentioned in the article, but the sentences which support the hooks do not have citations directly at the end. These need to be added as per WP:DYKHFC. All images used in the article have a public domain license on the Commons. The nominated images are clear at a low resolution, both used in the article and would enhance their respective hooks. The QPQ requirement is complete, although the reviewer forgot the signature. Overall this is a good nomination, but some attention is needed for the hooks. Best wishes. Flibirigit (talk) 17:38, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Flibirigit: Added citations at the end of the sentences supporting ALT1 and ALT2. ALT0 is mentioned at the end of the first paragraph of the "history" section, with its source (Bakker, p. 258) at the end of the sentence.
Furthermore, the article has been renamed since the nomination per this rationale, so the hooks would need to be updated:
  • ALT0a: ... ... that the Jethani temple (ruins pictured) may have collapsed under its own weight?
  • ALT1a: ... that a Rudra Shiva statue (pictured) within the Devrani temple has its body parts made out of animal figures?
  • ALT2a: ... that a Rudra Shiva statue (pictured) within the Devrani temple has a nose made out of a lizard figure, ears made out of peacock figures, while a crab forms the lower lip and chin?
-AmateurHi$torian (talk) 18:50, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks -AmateurHi$torian (talk) 06:03, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Speed Me Up

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Created by Tails Wx (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 27 past nominations.

~ Tails Wx 01:23, 23 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   The only paragraph not cited is the music video summary which should be okay per MOS:PLOTCITE. No concerns for copyvio, any direct quotes are attributed and cited.

The IMDb user rating in the reception section needs to be removed per WP:IMDB since it's user generated content.

Everything else appears to be okay, Alt 1 reads as more interesting to me just because I feel that "16-bit" in ALT0 may disinterest non-technical readers. TheDoctorWho (talk) 05:55, 1 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Brachyrhaphis roseni, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora

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A pair of Brachyrhaphis roseni
  • Source: "Like B. rhabdophora, this fish is a voracious cannibal that pursues its young. A roomy, densely planted aquarium is needed to successfully breed this species." (Rudiger 1998); Brachys from Costa Rica
Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 188 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 16:42, 26 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
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.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   The articles look good. I'm wondering if it'd be best to have the word 'voraciously' in quotes in the hook, given that's the adjective used in the source. Thoughts? Otherwise it should be good to go. BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:28, 28 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

I do not mind. --Surtsicna (talk) 11:29, 31 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@BeanieFan11: An ALT1 has been made just in case for your suggestion. Can this nom be passed now? Cheers! Johnson524 08:29, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Sorry for a late response. I'll leave to the promoter on whether to use quotes or not. BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:48, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Caffey family murders

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  • ... that the sole survivor of the Caffey family murders escaped his burning house and crawled for an hour to a neighbor's following the crime?

Source: https://cbn.com/article/sin/terry-caffey-crime-passion

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

jolielover♥talk 14:33, 23 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  •   Two issues that I have identified. The first is subjective: naming an otherwise non-notable victim of a crime like this in a hook is not my favorite option. I would encourage rephrasing ALT0 to swap out Caffey's name to "sole survivor" or something of that ilk. The second hook is a bit of a mischaracterization, as the discovery of the Myspace page was a catalyst for some of the grievance involved in the crime but not really integral to the plan (going by how CBN describes it). I recommend nixing ALT1 and hearing your perspective on ALT0. Otherwise, I think all is in order. ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:49, 24 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Pbritti: Thanks for the comment, and I agree, the second hook is not my favourite. I've adjusted ALT0 accordingly, let me know if anything else needs to be done! jolielover♥talk 16:55, 24 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  Earwig gave some high readings but those look like quotations causing false positives. No other outstanding issues. Nice work! ~ Pbritti (talk) 17:00, 24 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Eurovision Song Contest 1985

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Bobbysocks!
  • Source: [4]; the exact quote can be found in the live broadcast at 1:46:10
Improved to Good Article status by Sims2aholic8 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 24 past nominations.

Sims2aholic8 (talk) 10:48, 23 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Promoted GA & nominated 23 December 2024; no policy issues as far as I can tell; both hooks verified and interesting, but preferring ALT0; image is licensed properly (no known copyright restrictions). I'm a new reviewer, so a second opinion would be appreciated! Staraction (talk | contribs) 02:24, 24 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

    •   Providing a courtesy second opinion for Staraction. Their review was done appropriately and accurately addressed every element–nice work! I'm tagging this as a AGF review because I'm essentially 100% certain on the source being cited here appropriately sourced but don't speak any Scandinavian languages. In any case, the video is abundantly clear on the content. This is a well-written article. I, sadly, have a hard time making out the image at 120px, but that's a subjective view and I defer to Staraction's original review on that point. Great work to you both! ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:43, 24 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Flag of Mozambique

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Flag of Mozambique
  • ... that the flag of Mozambique (pictured), which depicts an AK-47 equipped with a bayonet, is the only national flag to feature a modern firearm?
Improved to Good Article status by Yue (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 28 past nominations.

Yue🌙 04:38, 24 December 2024 (UTC).Reply


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Everything looks good. The article was made a GA the same day of the DYK nomination. I think the original hook and ALT1 are the best, but ALT2 is interesting too and could work with some slight revision to make it a little less clunky, perhaps. Good work on both the GA and the DYK! Phibeatrice (talk) 05:06, 24 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sam Kee Building

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Side view of the Sam Kee Building
Improved to Good Article status by Yue (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 27 past nominations.

Yue🌙 03:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   All good, article passed the DYK Check as a good article on 21 December. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 04:55, 24 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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2015–16 College Football Playoff, 2016–17 College Football Playoff

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Improved to Good Article status by PCN02WPS (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 84 past nominations.

PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 18:18, 24 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Looks good. Nice work. BeanieFan11 (talk) 03:07, 25 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Sitaleshwar Temple

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  • ... that the Sitaleshwar Temple remained in worship even when it was in ruins with only the pillars of the outer pavilion surviving?
Created by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

AmateurHi$torian (talk) 12:30, 30 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Looking good except that the final sentence lacks a citation. I'm not sure if it's correct. Ref 1 says the lingam "was once accompanied by a sculpture of Shiva-Parvati", not that it was preceded by it.

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Always interesting to see new articles about Dharmic religion. Interesting to learn there's a "Lord of Coolness"! Both hooks are interesting. If forced to choose one, I would go with ALT1. Please take care with giving the full citation for sources so we know where the research was originally published, not just where it can be found online. MartinPoulter (talk) 17:50, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

@MartinPoulter: I've fixed the inaccuracy in the final sentence, and added the citation. As for the full citations, it seems that you've already added them (thanks), but I'll keep it in mind for the future. AmateurHi$torian (talk) 18:27, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Problem fixed: this is good to go. MartinPoulter (talk) 18:51, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

1999–2001 Liechtenstein financial crisis

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

TheBritinator (talk) 16:42, 28 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Looks good. Nice work. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:56, 31 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Du Toit's torrent frog

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

Olmagon (talk) 00:47, 29 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: None required.

Overall:   New enough (GA on 25 December); Long enough and within policy; Has adequate sourcing; Is neutral and free of plagiarism; No pictures used. Hooks are cited; The first hook is particularly interesting; No QPQ required. AmateurHi$torian (talk) 17:00, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Olmagon: I might be missing it since its such a large article, but does the first hook (ie. the fact that only two people have seen it alive) actually appear in the article? Never mind, it appears in the lead. This is good to go. AmateurHi$torian (talk) 17:12, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Loew's Jersey Theatre

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The Loew's Jersey Theatre
5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 691 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 18:52, 25 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  Interesting detailed article on a theatre, on plenty of good sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I'd like to see the image, - it's licensed. I like ALT4 best, not only unusual and funny, also informative. Then comes ALT5. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:00, 25 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon)

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Improved to Good Article status by Viriditas (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 34 past nominations.

Viriditas (talk) 10:46, 2 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited:   - As far as I can tell, cites don't appear immediately after the relevant sentences for the van Gogh and Bruant elements of the hook, ie. "Toulouse-Lautrec's friendship with singer and nightclub owner Aristide Bruant is thought to have influenced his development of The Hangover." and "Van Gogh was present in Lautrec's studio when he began painting The Hangover, and he continued to show interest in its development."
  • Interesting:  
  • Other problems:   - "Modeled by" doesn't feel like quite the right phrasing; it might suggest Suzanne Valadon created a model. Maybe "based on" to keep the verb+preposition pattern, or simply "depicts"?
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Enjoyed reading this, thanks for your work! Good to go after the minor fixes above. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 19:43, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

  • The cited material appears farther down in the paragraph, with the material about Bruant and Valadon referring to Perruchot 1960, Murray 1991, and Frey 1994. Although I cited others, I neglected to note that the Van Gogh material comes from Jacques Lassaigne which is based on several things: Van Gogh's letter, which scholars used to triangulate the dates of his stay in Paris before February 1888, and Valadon's own personal account of Van Gogh showing up every Saturday in Lautrec's studio, where he originally saw the painting. It's pretty complex and I should have chosen something a bit simpler. Looking at the hook up above, it may be best if I add a hook that is slightly less convoluted. For what it's worth "modeled by" is common usage on the Model (art) page and in most art books from the 20th century (see Google Books, it is used everywhere). You're an acknowledged DYK expert, and if you had trouble following the sources, others will as well, so I think it's best if I pick a more practical hook to work with. I will do that shortly, but I will add the Lassaigne cite now. Viriditas (talk) 11:00, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Battle of South Harting

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The Mercurius Aulicus reports on the skirmish in 1643
Created by TheBestEditorInEngland (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

TheBestEditorInEngland (talk) 19:08, 26 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
  • Other problems:   - Since the Mercurius Aulicus is a newspaper, its name should be italicized
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: None required.

Overall:   ~ L 🌸 (talk) 02:16, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

  • I appreciate the hook options provided, but I think ALT0 remains the best: it would work with an italicized title. (The article should probably also be revised to add the italics.) I also have two other concerns: 1, "Battle of South Harting" doesn't seem like the right name for the article, since all the sources just call it "a fight". And 2, I have concerns about the sourcing, which boil down to the fact that I don't think 15th-century propaganda is a reliable source.
So, to break that down, there are five sources in the article:
1. Bacon 1878: This work of Victorian local history largely repeats the Mercurius Aulicus account (which it refers to as "a fight at South Harting"). It adds the corroboration that three soldiers were buried, but otherwise just reports that there is "a vague local tradition that there had been some fight" and hedges the Mercurius Aulicus with verbiage like "it appears..." and "it seems...".
2. Gordon 1877: This Victorian history is nearly identical to Bacon 1878, also consisting of just the parish register, a "local tradition that there was once a fight", and a transcription of the Mercurius Aulicus.
3. Thomas-Stanford 1910: Also says there was "a fight", and using the framing of "it seems", quotes the Mercurius Aulicus. It then goes on to say "The number of slain is probably exaggerated," noting that the parish register only records 3 soldiers buried.
4. Barber & Hall 1985: The only halfway modern source here, and as far as I can work out, it does not say a single word about South Harting. I assume it is used to support background information about Norton and Arundel, but the placement of the citation makes this very unclear.
5. Birkenhead & Heylin 1643: This is the acknowledged propaganda piece that started it all.
It does sound like there was a fight at South Harting which then passed into local legend and has attracted notice from later local historians. But I also think our article needs to be as careful as the sources are, in terms of highlighting which information comes from the obviously non-neutral propaganda source, and I don't think the current state of the article makes that clear enough.
Could you give it a try revising the article to have a bit more rhetorical distance from the NPOV primary source? And please ping me when you think it is ready for another look. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 02:16, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  • Thank you for looking over my DYK nomination and the article in general.
I have now added italics to Mercurius Aulicus in both the DYK nomination and the main article.
As for the title of the article being "Battle" of South Harting, the Merciurius Aulicus does not refer to it with anything similar to battle, fight, skirmish, etc, and merely recounts the events and records it as taking place in South Harting (it does refer to a "hurly-burly" having occured though, for what that is worth...). The 2nd source (Gordon 1877) firstly refers to it as "a battle at South Harting" on page 74 and from then on refers to it as a fight. Since neither force was operating under a larger body and since this was not part of a wider battle, calling it a skirmish in hindsight seems incorrect, although the second engagement at South Harting the following month certainly fits this criteria. I have changed the term "skirmish" in the article to "engagement" as I feel this better fits what occurred. I'm unsure as to what else we could title the article itself though as the contemporary source, as is often the case in the English Civil Wars, does not refer to this engagement using any words like fight, storming, battle, skirmish, etc. Many battles and other engagements at the time were referred to as fight however, and could be the origin of "fight in the Culvers" at South Harting. Off the top of my head, the Battle of Worcester was often referred to as the 'Worcester Fight'. Many of the smaller engagements and skirmishes of the English Civil War on the English Wikipedia are simply titled "Battle of [Insert Place Name Here]" as I feel contemporary naming of insignificant battles was not often recorded. Because of this, I feel like many small engagements of the English Civil War which have articles on the English Wikipedia are titled "Battle of" for the sake of simplicity and going along with the status quo. If the article was named "Fight of South Harting" or "Skirmish of South Harting" it would be the only article named as such, although it isn't the only small engagement fought during the war to have an article.
Looking at the Wikipedia article for Battle, the lede states that "A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force commitment. An engagement with only limited commitment between the forces and without decisive results is sometimes called a skirmish."
The duration of this engagement was relatively short and is defined to the night of 23–24 November 1643, the area is defined as South Harting village, and the force commitment is given by Mercurius Aulicus (if we are to take the figures given at face value). It appears all the forces of each side were engaged in this and the result is given by Mercurius Aulicus as being decisively won by the Royalists. Based on this, and 2nd source firstly referring to it as a battle, I think it may be acceptable to leave the article title as Battle of South Harting, at least for now, but would like to know what you think of this.
As for reliability of the sources used concerning the engagement itself, I completely agree. It is the only source in existence, as far as anyone is aware, that relates to this engagement and is contemporary, besides the parish register entry for the 3 burials which only corroborates that some sort of engagement took place there on that date. Knowing this, I think it should be acceptable to use the Mercurius Aulicus as the primary source for the details of the engagement as long as, as you state, ample rhetorical distance is implemented and the article doesn't portray the M.A. account as being gospel. I have already done this with the lede, but will do this with the rest of the article too.
I will also fix the references so it is much clearer to understand what is being used to support what, and hopefully this will make the article appropriately unbiased so as to feature on DYK. Many thanks for your analysis and I will act on it now.

TheBestEditorInEngland (talk) 10:19, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

  My apologies for the long wait! I lost track of this one a bit. Taking a look at the revised article, I feel my concerns about reliable sourcing have been addressed. I also take your point about the "battle of" naming being common to the English Civil War; it's not an area of expertise for me, so we can follow precedent. With that, then, I think this is ready to go for DYK. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 08:09, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Algemeyne Entsiklopedye

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  • ... that a group of Jewish refugees continued work on their Yiddish encyclopedia after fleeing from Germany and France?
  • Source: Trachtenberg, B. (2006). Di Algemeyne Entsiklopedye, the Holocaust and the changing mission of Yiddish scholarship. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 5(3), 285–300. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725880600961601
Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 98 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 19:00, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

East Kangqiao station

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Created by S5A-0043 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

S5A-0043🚎(Leave a message here) 01:38, 27 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

Joy to the World (Doctor Who)

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Moved to mainspace by TheDoctorWho (talk) and Alex 21 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

TheDoctorWho (talk) 06:32, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   That's a big oops, big enough to attract my attention in the DYK pile! It came out of draftspace on 12/25 and would also qualify as a new-enough GA. All hook facts check out. QPQ present. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:10, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

C/1975 T2 (Suzuki–Saigusa–Mori)

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  • Source: Marsden, B. G.; Roemer, E. (March 1978). "Comets in 1975". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 19: 59–89. ISSN 0035-8738.
  • Source: Marsden, B. G.; Roemer, E. (March 1978). "Comets in 1975". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 19: 59–89. ISSN 0035-8738.
Created by C messier (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

C messier (talk) 12:53, 26 December 2024 (UTC).Reply


 

New reviewer; would like a second opinion. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 22:00, 26 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund

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  • Source: "When it finally collapsed earlier this year, it left 14,500 customers at least $66 million out of pocket, according to a recent liquidator's report."[1]
Created by Jpatokal (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

Jpatokal (talk) 07:45, 27 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  •   Approved. Article is new enough and long enough (created 27/12/24), and generally in good nick. No evidence of copyvio and no images to create any associated issues. BLP issues seem fine to me: all negative statements about living people are verifiable by good sources (I include Precedent here as the official publication of a reputable organisation). Hooks are interesting, supported and in line with the requirements. QPQ is done. It might be good to see more non-news sources, if they exist, in the article, but those chosen are quality outlets and I think NPOV has been well preserved despite the potentially emotive nature of the subject matter. UndercoverClassicist T·C 17:53, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ "This could be among the worst consumer rip-offs Australia's ever seen". August 3, 2022 – via www.abc.net.au.
  2. ^ "This could be among the worst consumer rip-offs Australia's ever seen". August 3, 2022 – via www.abc.net.au.

United Palace

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The United Palace
Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 692 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 03:51, 29 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   @Epicgenius: Very interesting hooks! However, the copyvio percentage is slightly high. I'd suggest paraphrasing some of the quotes. Skyshiftertalk 17:58, 29 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the review Skyshifter. I've rephrased some parts of the article. However, some of the matches are direct quotes, publication titles, common phrases like "designed by Thomas W. Lamb", or proper names like "the New York Theater Organ Society" which I couldn't easily reword. (There is also something weird going on with the Earwig tool - it shows the page as having a 54.8% similarity to https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0656.pdf, but the list of "checked sources" shows a 29.1% similarity, which also is mostly because of the quotes and proper names.) Epicgenius (talk) 18:36, 29 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  good to go! Skyshiftertalk 14:47, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Thasmin

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  • ... that a popular ship between two characters in the television series Doctor Who, dubbed Thasmin, was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker?
"The love story between The Doctor and Yaz was originally created by shippers as a slashfic meme. Jodie Whittaker saw them and suggested to Chibnall that it be made canon in the show, made text instead of subtext, and ended up giving it life in the show's final season."
    • Reviewed:
    • Comment: Wasn't sure whether to class this as newly created or recent GA promo due to its circumstances, so just left it on the default template.
Created by Pokelego999 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 22:04, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

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  • Other problems:   - will address below
QPQ: None required.

Overall:   Splendid work Pokelego999, looking forward to your future contributions to DYK! New enough, by both GA promotion date and creation date. Congratulations on attaining GA status with such quick turnover! Earwig detects low similarity with sources used within the article. QPQ not needed as the nominator has below 5 nominations. There are two things I would like to address before approving the hook. I wanted to discuss with you whether the term "ship" should be used in the hook rather than a less jargonistic term. The GA reviewer noted the same, and I'm wondering if "pairing" or another term would be more accessible for a general audience. In addition, I am curious if there are additional sources for the hook aside from Bleeding Cool that could serve to back it up. It is not as much of an issue, but I am curious if other agencies had covered the same interaction between Whittaker and Chibnall. Ornithoptera (talk) 00:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

  • @Ornithoptera: Perhaps "romantic pairing" with a link to the shipping article would suffice for simplicity's sake? Additionally, I do believe other sources mention this, as I have seen it get brought up in brief across other sources, but Bleeding Cool mentioned it the most directly for the purposes of the article, and is what the statement for this DYK is cited to in the article, so I do not believe there should be an issue there, since Bleeding Cool is a reliable source per WP:VG/RS. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 00:10, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  • Thank you for the quick response Pokelego999! Romantic pairing sounds like a good idea to me, could you propose the alt hook in your reply? I will approve of that shortly. Also, thank you for the clarification. Seems like apart from that, everything should be good on my end! Wonderful work, and looking forward to your future work! Ornithoptera (talk) 00:17, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  • ALT0a: ... that a popular ship between two characters in the television series Doctor Who, dubbed Thasmin, was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker?
Like this? Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 01:24, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Yup, but with the changes that we had discussed! You can alter the hook for ALT0a with what we've discussed and I'll give it the needed approval! Ornithoptera (talk) 04:26, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Oh, woops, brain farted and forgot to actually include the new content in there. Here:
ALT0a: ... that a popular romantic pairing between two characters in the television series Doctor Who, dubbed Thasmin, was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker? Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 03:08, 3 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
The above hook is pretty long at 190 characters and thus would probably fall under WP:DYKTRIM. Perhaps something like: ALT0b: ... that a popular romantic pairing from Doctor Who was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker? Sometimes, it's not actually necessary to mention the article subject by name in a hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:13, 3 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Seems like a reasonable adjustment, Pokelego999, how does it look for you? If you're okay with the wording, I'll let ALT0b proceed! Ornithoptera (talk) 06:37, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Should be good. Thank you to both! Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 12:45, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Awesome! ALT0b approved! Going to cross out the previous versions to make the promoters job a little more easier. Splendid working with you Pokelego999, thank you for your patience and understanding while workshopping this hook. I hope to work more with you in the future! Thank you to Narutolovehinata5 for your suggestion as well! Ornithoptera (talk) 18:18, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

T24 Festival

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  • ... that at the T24 Festival in Seoul, South Korea, former soldier Lee Kwang-nak successfully pitched a 24-person military tent all by himself in under 2 hours despite netizens calling it impossible?
  • Source: What started as an online dare quickly became perhaps one of the most unique events Seoul has seen this year. On the 30th of last month, a netizen posted a message on the photography-enthusiasts website “SLR Club,” asking “Can you pitch a 24-man army tent unaided?” What was meant to be a light-hearted online debate on the website’s message board became slightly more serious when Lee Kwang-nak, who goes by the online nickname of “Bug Lv.7,” replied “I can,” much to the ridicule of his fellow online community members. So “Bug Lv.7” took the stakes higher: “If I can single-handedly pitch that tent in less than two hours, you all owe me 500,000 won, and if I can’t do it, I’ll pay back the same amount.”... A date was set for the “T24 Festival.” Saturday, August 8, on the grounds of Seoul’s Yangcheon-gu Sinwon Elementary School. A website and online advertising campaign spread quickly, attracting interest from the media as well as companies who offered to sponsor the event... And so, at 3:05 p.m., Bug Lv.7 started his challenge, much to the constant online and offline cheers of netizen crowds. The website that was broadcasting the live event attracted thousands of live streamers and since the event was originally broadcast, the video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times... With the event reaching its climax around an hour later, Lee climbed on top of the large, perfectly-pitched tent to announce his mission complete, saying “I really want to thank those who’ve made me into a ‘legend’ and allowed me to prove I could do it, otherwise I’d have forever been remembered as a phoney,” to euphoric cries from the crowd.
  • ALT1: ... that the T24 Festival in Seoul, South Korea, was organized after former soldier Lee Kwang-nak boasted on the internet that he could set up a 24-person military tent all by himself? Source: Same source above
  • ALT2: ... that Lee Kwang-nak became a viral sensation in South Korea after successfully pitching a 24-person military tent all by himself at the T24 Festival despite netizens claiming it was impossible? Source: Same source above
  • ALT3: ... that Lee Kwang-nak boasted on an internet forum that he could set up a 24-person military tent all by himself and subsequently arranged the T24 Festival in Seoul, South Korea, to actually prove it? Source: Same source above
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Good Riddance (album)
Created by Phibeatrice (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Phibeatrice (talk) 18:27, 28 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Overall, the article is new and long enough, and Earwig's Copyvio Detector tool indicates that it is unlikely that it contains copyright violations. QPQ has been satisfied, and all of the hooks provided are properly cited, and interesting. I see no reason not to approve this DYK submission. JJonahJackalope (talk) 18:48, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

KZJO

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Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 724 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 07:11, 29 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

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QPQ: Done.

Overall:   The article says that AFTRA sued, not "the anchors". The page doesn't seem to support that the case was over "the newscast's mere existence". The News Tribune source says compensation was an option: "The union therefore had no chance to bargain for extra pay or other compensation on behalf of the reporters and anchors." —Bagumba (talk) 11:22, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

ALT1 ... that a Seattle TV station's newscast led to another station being sued by its labor union?
ALT2 ... that a labor union sued a Seattle TV station over a newscast aired on another Seattle TV station?
@Sammi Brie: ALT2 seems better (for ALT1, its arguably more station mgmt that's the issue than the actual newscast), can the 2nd "Seattle TV" be cut as repetitive e.g. "another Seattle TVstation"?—Bagumba (talk) 15:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Bagumba: Let's try an ALT2a: Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 15:55, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
ALT2a ... that a labor union sued a Seattle TV station over a newscast aired on another station?
  Approve ALT2a, which check out for being cited and interesting.—Bagumba (talk) 16:18, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Violet Wong

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Violet Wong in 1927
  • Source: *"A Talented Child Actress: Violet Wong, A Tragedienne in the Teens". The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette. 8 September 1928. p. 435. ProQuest 1371399455 – via ProQuest. "The story goes that shortly before the Northern Expedition was launched in 1926, when the Nationalist Government still had its headquarters in Canton, a pretty little maid of 10 one day found herself in the midst of a large gathering of government officials, including General Chiang Kai-shek. ... Violet sang and acted her way into the hearts of her audience. General Chiang was more than pleased; he presented her with an expensive gold watch."
Created by Crisco 1492 (talk) and Staraction (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 728 past nominations.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:25, 29 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

WSJV

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Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 725 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 07:17, 29 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Article is new enough, long enough. Hook fact is interesting (this is back when the internet was seen as a passing fad!) and cited (and unsurprisingly uses e-mail rather than today's email). Earwig shows no issues. Good to go! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:21, 29 December 2024 (UTC)  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:21, 29 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thomas (goose)

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  • ... that the New Zealand goose Thomas has been described as an "icon of the LGBT community"?
Created by Panamitsu (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 60 past nominations.

―Panamitsu (talk) 18:02, 28 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

Second Cathedral of Saint Paul (Minnesota)

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The second cathedral of the Diocese of St. Paul
Improved to Good Article status by Darth Stabro (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 17:20, 28 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  • Review:
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Imzadi 1979 → 05:24, 29 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Last Song for You

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  • ... that the director chose to film Last Song for You in Cheung Chau because he felt the island's atmosphere still captures the essence of late 1990s Hong Kong?
Created by Prince of Erebor (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 28 past nominations.

Prince of Erebor（The Book of Mazarbul） 14:18, 28 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Good to go! Skyshiftertalk 15:55, 28 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ Wong, Gary (13 December 2024). "【專訪】《久別重逢》導演梁禮彥 主演許恩怡". Film Pilgrimage (in Chinese). Retrieved 28 December 2024. Jill表示有兩個原因選擇在長洲取景，首先是長洲的感覺像他小時候的香港。「我喺80年代長大，電影講嘅中學係97/98嗰個時候，即係我細個時嘅長洲，你落船可以去食碗仔翅，跟住食糖水，食山炸雞髀，然後去茶樓飲茶，嗰陣仲有點心車。」 [Jill (Leung) mentioned two reasons for choosing Cheung Chau as a filming location. Firstly, the atmosphere of Cheung Chau still evokes the essence of Hong Kong from his childhood. "I grew up in the 1980s, and the school depicted in the film is set in 1997/98, which is like the Cheung Chau from when I was young. You could take a boat to enjoy a bowl of shark fin soup, then have Tong sui, eat fried chicken legs, and go to the tea house for dim sum. Back then, there were still dim sum carts."]
  2. ^ Wong, Gary (13 December 2024). "【專訪】《久別重逢》導演梁禮彥 主演許恩怡". Film Pilgrimage (in Chinese). Retrieved 28 December 2024. 至於選四國的原因是因為劇本中提及當地的「達摩太陽」，達摩太陽其實是太陽的海市蜃樓，看到達摩太陽意味著會帶來幸運。「有啲嘢我哋睇唔到，但係佢又存在。就好似覺得有啲嘢消失咗，但其實佢並未消失。」 [The reason for selecting Shikoku is that the screenplay mentions the "Dharma Sun" (mirages of sunsets and sunrises) in that place. The Dharma Sun is actually an astronomical mirage of the sun, and seeing it is believed to bring good fortune. "There are things we cannott see, but they still exist. It is like feeling that something has disappeared, but in reality, it has not."]
  3. ^ 何德 (20 December 2024). "《久別重逢》專訪 鄭伊健感Ian似足出道時的自己 柏安妮女兒許恩怡首擔正：希望媽媽覺得自豪！". Yahoo! News (in Chinese). Retrieved 28 December 2024. 導演梁禮彥擔任編劇出身，以往作品包括《復仇者之死》、《殺破狼》系列與《葉問》系列等，來到首部執導作品《久別重逢》，卻風格大轉，講愛情講夢想，難道他心底裡是個浪漫的人？梁禮彥：「我覺！」而身邊的許恩怡也大力點頭。他續說：「動作片的類型情節不同，但我們集中都是寫人物，人物好看就怎樣都好看，所以今次都是寫人物。我一直都喜歡愛情片，但香港以至全世界都很少愛情片。 [Director Jill Leung, who debutted as a screenwriter with past works including Revenge: A Love Story, the SPL series, and the Ip Man series, has made a significant stylistic shift with his directorial debut Last Song for You, focusing on love and dreams. Is he, at heart, a romantic person? Jill Leung: "I think so!" Natalie Hsu, who was besides him, nodded vigorously. He continued, "The plotlines of action films are different, but we always focus on character development. If the characters are appealing, everything else will be appealing too, so this time we are still writing characters. I've always liked romance films, but there are very few of them in Hong Kong and around the world."]
  4. ^ 許育民 (25 December 2024). "久別重逢｜鄭伊健陳卓賢想互換咩優點？ 許恩怡演激勵角色有壓力". HK01 (in Chinese). Retrieved 28 December 2024. 正如今次接《久別重逢》，我想試一種類型，面對 這樣的挑戰，這樣的歲數，我們還有沒有一個化學作用呢？這件事好過我再接那些演江湖大哥角色。 [Just like taking on Last Song for You, I (Ekin Cheng) wanted to try a different genre and face challenges even at this age, [wondering if] we still have a chemistry together? This is better than continuing to take on roles as gang bosses.]
  5. ^ 許育民 (9 October 2024). "久別重逢｜陳卓賢首部主演作品12月上 為電影歌曲身兼曲詞編唱". HK01 (in Chinese). Retrieved 28 December 2024. 而電影歌曲《Tides》亦於前導預告中首度登場，由Ian身兼四職，擔任主唱、作曲、編曲，並與AP潘宇謙共同作詞 [The interlude "Tides" also made its debut in the teaser trailer, with Ian (Chan) taking on four roles as the lead vocalist, composer, and arranger, and co-writing the lyrics with Anson Poon Yu-him.]

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Bonnie Blue (actress)

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Bonnie Blue in June 2024
Created by Launchballer (talk) and Meena (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 265 past nominations.

Launchballer 04:52, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  • Comment I think the facts about her being banned from Australia and Fiji are really interesting/crazy so I want to suggest some alts if you don't mind:
    ALT3: ... that Bonnie Blue (pictured) was banned from multiple countries because of her porn career?
    ALT4: ... that Bonnie Blue (pictured) was banned from multiple countries because she had too much sex?
Di (they-them) (talk) 14:28, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
"Multiple countries" would need an end-of-sentence citation for Australia. That said, "that Matty Healy is banned from Dubai" was the most-viewed non-image hook of May 2023, so perhaps a bald ALT5: ... that Bonnie Blue (pictured) is banned from Fiji?--Launchballer 15:02, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I reworded the sentence in question, so either ALT3 or ALT4 could be trimmed at 'countries'.--Launchballer 04:04, 8 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Article is new enough, long enough, sourced enough (althought some international coverage might be a nice addition), is neutral and is plagiarism free (just quotes from Earwig). Hooks are cited, and interesting. Image is free to use, and is clear, CC BY checked on Commons and YT. QPQ is done. On the hooks, I think "... is banned in Fiji" is a good one - I feel like 'multiple countries' implies several (i.e. 3+), not two places. Lajmmoore (talk) 12:11, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Literarishe Bleter

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Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 99 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 19:10, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   New enough (created on 27 December), long enough, copyvio free, neutral, well-sourced, presentable, hook is cited, hook is short enough and interesting, and image copyright is good. QPQ done. No other major issues. Good work! seefooddiet (talk) 12:37, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Lilium nobilissimum

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An illustration of Lilium nobilissimum from the 1804 Seikei Zusetsu
  • ... that Lilium nobilissimum (pictured) got its Japanese name from the kimono sleeve pouches where the lily's bulbs were stored while scaling the sea cliffs the lily was native to?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Thasmin
  • Comment: Thank you in advance to the reviewer for their time! If there is an alternative way of wording the hook to make it succinct or convey it more clearly, I would be happy to collaborate. In my view, the sleeves which the lily was stored in while locals would put the lily bulbs in while climbing cliffs is quite an interesting hook, but it is a bit wordy as is in my view. For the reviewer's reference, Compton (2021) is available through the Wikipedia Library through Wiley Online Library.
Created by Ornithoptera (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 49 past nominations.

Ornithoptera (talk) 00:14, 2 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   It's a little unusual to launch into taxonomy in the second sentence of the lead. Maybe move that further back?


Some more technical terms in the description section could use some linking or glossing, given that this will be on the main page. As a non-plant person, what stands out to me as a little confusing are the words "entire", "petiolate", "adaxially" and "abaxially" (I'd guess these mean top and bottom, but surely a less technical term can be found?), "tepals" "trilobate". There are a few cases where, for fuller understanding, I think a gloss should and can be added in addition to the link, specifically geophyte, bulbils, and hypogeal germination. There are also a few places where a technical term is favoured over an ordinary one, for example:

  • undulate: why not just say, "wavy"?
  • glabrous: "bald" or "hairless" are synonymous and more accessible.

Regarding the hook: not to be too picky, but that's presented in the article as a hypothesis, and presented in the hook as fact. I think we should qualify it a little more with a "may have" or "possibly" or "it has been suggested"


Alternative hook, I'm not sure if you'll think it's an improvement: ...that in Japan, Lilium nobilissimum (pictured) may have been named after the sleeves used to to carry it from the cliffs it grows on? Cremastra (u — c) 17:18, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hi Cremastra, thank you for your constructive feedback and for taking the time to read the article. I hope you enjoyed it! I have implemented the edits you have suggested within the description and the lead. I'm okay with the ALT1 hook that you have proposed as well, that sounds like a reasonable adjustment. I'm wondering what is the process to get a second opinion regarding the image used, but I can try to do a little more digging around to see if I can find another illustration. The big challenge for me is that, due to the lily's taxonomic history, a lot of the illustrations are mislabelled, at least in English. Regardless, thank you again for your time and I hope the adjustments are satisfactory. Ornithoptera (talk) 20:25, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hi, Ornithoptera, and thanks for making the changes. I'm not going to hold up an otherwise flawless nomination over an aesthetic disagreement about the image, so I've given this the check. Thanks, Cremastra (u — c) 21:52, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Arthur Swanstrom

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Arthur Swanstrom
Sources crediting Swanstrom as a co-lyricist: Bloom, Ken (1996). American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion, 1900-1984. Schirmer Books. p. 425. ISBN 9780871969613. and Vaché, Warren W. (2000). "Arthur Swanstrom, Lyricist". The Unsung Songwriters: America's Masters of Melody. Scarecrow Press. p. 487. ISBN 9780810835702.
Created by 4meter4 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 102 past nominations.

4meter4 (talk) 21:58, 31 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
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QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Epicgenius (talk) 01:14, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

The Scarecrow (children's book)

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  • Source: Andersen: Farquhar, Mary Ann (1999). Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-47507-1.

Pushkin: Bi, Lijun (2013). "China's Patriotic Exposé: Ye Shengtao's Fairytale, Daocao ren [Scarecrow]". Bookbird. 51 (2): 32–38. doi:10.1353/bkb.2013.0038.

Wilde: Wong, Linda (2004). "Oscar Wilde's Literary Influence in Modern China". The Wildean (24): 46–58. JSTOR 45269230.
Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 729 past nominations.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:14, 29 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  • This isn't a review, more of a query, but is there only one source that verifies the "first major work of children's literature in China" claim? That's a rather exceptional claim, so it would be better if there were multiple sources suggesting it rather than just Bi. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:06, 29 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  • Hi Narutolovehinata5 and SL93. I've expanded a bit, with reference to other sources. Sun Yuxiu's publication was a translation ("Among the 102 works included in the collection, however, two thirds were translated from other languages while the remaining were edited stories about the Chinese history. Therefore, it was the translated literature from the West that played the dominant role in the late Qing dynasty."), whereas the sources put greater emphasis on the originality of Ye's literary product. If you are still uncomfortable with Bi's assessment, "first modern collection of fairy tales" or "first collection of Chinese fairy tales" are both supported by sources. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:13, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Sure. Adding ALT. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:18, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
I would be fine with whatever the sources support. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:28, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   I assume good faith on the references that I can't access. I approve ALT1. SL93 (talk) 01:52, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Chauburji (Agra)

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Chauburji
  • ... that the Chauburji (pictured) might have been the original place of burial of the Mughal emperor Babur?
Created by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

AmateurHi$torian (talk) 08:31, 30 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  • Review for original hook ALT0:
General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Plagiarism cannot be checked with offline source; hence AGF. An article for a building of such historical significance shouldn't rely on just 2 book sources, which IMO is not enough to establish notability. Are there really no other reliable sources that refer to its significance or notability? -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 22:01, 13 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

@P199: Sources on the building are hard to find. I've added a couple other sources, though none of them cover it in as much detail as Nath and Raza. -AmateurHi$torian (talk) 23:38, 13 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I am not looking for more sources that are as detailed as the books by Nath and Raza. But you could and should add reliable sources that demonstrate its notability and significance, like government tourism websites. What about sources in the local languages? -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 14:22, 14 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
@P199: Added ASI's official website listing the monument, and some Hindi news sources which discuss the current encroachments surrounding the monument. -AmateurHi$torian (talk) 15:24, 14 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Thanks for adding more sources. No need to hold up this DYK any longer. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 16:19, 14 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

So Medieval

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  • ... that So Medieval's lyrics are "like an audiobook during a car crash"?
Created by Suntooooth (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 08:21, 30 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  •   Approve for orig hook. Nice work! New enough (made 30 Dec), no copyvio, article is presentable and well-sourced, hooks are all fine and well-sourced, and QPQ mostly done (needs to be closed). seefooddiet (talk) 12:44, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Blue Bendy

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  • ... that despite being a post-punk band, the vocalist of Blue Bendy called the genre "lethargic and landfill"?
Created by Suntooooth (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 08:00, 30 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  •   I indeed prefer ALT3; is the most punchy. The orig hook is a little wordy imo; difficult to understand on a quick read because of sentence structure. It could be somewhat interesting, but I'd be more inclined to click ALT3. Otherwise, Article is new enough (created 30 Dec), well-sourced, neutral, presentable, image under valid license, and hook is cited. Nice work! seefooddiet (talk) 12:53, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tesseropora rosea

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Rose barnacles in Royal National Park
  • ... that the picky rose barnacle (pictured) will only eat when the current is strong?
    • Source: [6]: "T. rosea feeds in different ways, extending the cirral fan only in response to the fast water currents. Thus, T. rosea cannot survive in areas with a low current velocity."
  • ALT1: ... that rose barnacles (pictured) eat barnacle larvae?
    • Source: [7] "In adult T. rosea, the largest proportion by far of the gut contents comprised small crustaceans [...] A number of cirripede nauplii [...] were also present."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lilium nobilissimum
5x expanded by Cremastra (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Cremastra (u — c) 21:45, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   Article was recently expanded to the requisite extent. Citations are sufficient. Hook ALT0 is interesting enough, and the image is good to go. QPQ is done. All seems in order. Nice job! ~ Pbritti (talk) 01:30, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Stretcher railings

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Strecher railing feet
  • ... that London's stretcher railings (example pictured) were mass-produced using an all-metal design to make it easier to clean, and still have kinks that were used as feet from their original purpose as stretchers?
  • ALT1a ... that London's stretcher railings (pictured) were mass-produced using an all-metal design to be easier to clean, and still have kinks that were used as feet?
  • ALT1b ... that London's stretcher railings were mass-produced using an all-metal design to be easier to clean, and still have kinks (example pictured) that were used as feet?
  • Reviewed:
Moved to mainspace by Bobby Cohn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Bobby Cohn (talk) 18:30, 30 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  •   A great topic, and the article is new enough and meets the basic GA requirements on length. No evidence of plagiarism; two images, suitably licensed. No need for a QPQ. However, the article relies heavily on Atlas Obscura, which is an unreliable source per WP:RSP. The hook is interesting, but I would suggest trimming for length: something like:

... that London's stretcher railings (example pictured) were mass-produced using an all-metal design to be easier to clean, and still have kinks that were used as feet?

A search on Google Books turned up a few hits that might help to add reliable sources to the article. UndercoverClassicist T·C 22:16, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi @UndercoverClassicist, thanks for the notes. When writing, I was a little suspicious of the source as it looked liked WP:UGC, but I was not aware of WP:AOPLACES. I've removed those citations; it just so happened that in the two instances of those citations, the content was also verified in the immediately subsequent citation and there's no paragraph without an inline, so I believe this should satisfy WP:V but let me know if you have additional concerns. As to your suggestion, I agree, my orginal was a little too wordy. I will endorse your ALT1. Thanks, Bobby Cohn (talk) 23:32, 30 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  Approved either of the ALT1s. The article could do with a a wider bibliography, as (correctly) removing Atlas Obscura has left it a little thing, but it passes the bar that it needs to at this stage. UndercoverClassicist T·C 14:02, 31 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
This is my first DYK nom with an image. The set builder will notice the only difference between the ALT1s is the brackets, and I'm okay if they want to take liberties with (example pictured) vs. (pictured) in either location. Thanks all, Bobby Cohn (talk) 15:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Or the image caption for that matter. Bobby Cohn (talk) 15:43, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Ryusei Nishioka

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5x expanded by Riley1012 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 33 past nominations.

Riley1012 (talk) 01:45, 31 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  •   I am a bit hesitant to say that the hook checks out. He is in fact afraid of heights and doesn't like his own sport. But I must note that these two facts are stated several paragraphs away from each other. Therefore, these facts are not necessarily connected.
    P. S. The article is new enough and long enough. --Moscow Connection (talk) 03:50, 31 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

4th and 26

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Improved to Good Article status by Gonzo fan2007 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 56 past nominations.

« Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:33, 30 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

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Julier Pass

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One of the Roman columns beside the modern pass road.
5x expanded by Toadspike (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Toadspike [Talk] 15:49, 31 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  • There are several other images in the article which might be interesting as an image hook – if the reviewer thinks the engraving of the Roman columns is more interesting than the photograph, then we could go with that one. Alternatively, perhaps a hook could be made about the theater tower, which has a heap of cool photos on Commons. Toadspike [Talk] 15:51, 31 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  • A way to phrase "meters above sea level" more concisely would be appreciated. Toadspike [Talk] 15:52, 31 December 2024 (UTC)Reply
  •   New enough (expanded Dec 31), long enough (1100 B → 8800 B), no copyvio (Earwig says 10.7%, and all paraphrasing seems fine), well-sourced. Both hooks verified in source, but ALT0 is much more interesting. Image is free and clearly depicts a column on a mountain. I think this photo is better than the older illustration. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 23:32, 13 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Jindřich Marco

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  • ... that most of Jindřich Marco's early photography of Budapest was lost when a train carrying his exposed film was ambushed by Red Army deserters, who threw it out of the window?
Moved to mainspace by Hoary (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Hoary (talk) 01:53, 5 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  • Comment by nominator: As most of the material in Birgus's introduction to Hořká leta · Evropa (1995) reappears in his introduction to Jindřich Marco (2014), I've guessed that the latter benefits from almost two decades of reflection, etc, and therefore in the article have cited it rather than the former. (The older introduction does have detail that the newer one lacks, so I may yet change my mind.) The newer book isn't at the Internet Archive, but you'll be able to verify the original "hook" via page 21 of Hořká leta · Evropa. As for "ALT1", you'll find much of this (but no mention of Gottwald) on page 31 of Hořká leta · Evropa; for Gottwald, see Moucha's "Message". (Both these sources are in English.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:14, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: None required.

Overall:   Nominator has fewer than 5 DYK's so no QPQ required. Sourcing for both hooks checked OK. First hook uses the word "early": would be better to specify 1945 or possibly "at the end of WWII" with wikilink. ALT1, if used, should wikilink Klement Gottwald. I have no preference, so let OP or promoter choose. Article itself needs expanded WP:LEAD of about 200 words. Mike Turnbull (talk) 16:12, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the comments, Mike Turnbull.

  • ALT2 (unnumbered hook, adjusted): ... that most of Jindřich Marco's photographs of Budapest in 1945 were lost when a train carrying his exposed film was ambushed by Red Army deserters, who threw it out of the window?
    • Sources: As specified for the unnumbered hook above; see also "Comment by nominator" above.
  • ALT3 (ALT1, adjusted): ... that an irreverent photograph of Czechoslovak President Klement Gottwald brought a ten-year sentence for the photojournalist Jindřich Marco, who had to serve seven years in uranium mines?

Sympathy Is a Knife

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

Locust member (talk) 04:08, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: None required.

Overall:   Any potential copyvio turned up unlikely, nominator has fewer than 5 DYKN's so no QPQ required. The hook checks out in the ET Online source, and seems interesting as it could appeal to fanbases of all three artists. TheDoctorWho (talk) 18:06, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Frankish Tower (Acropolis of Athens)

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  • Source: Miller (1908). The Latins in the Levant. London: John Murray. pp. 401–402. OCLC 1157183453. (beacon); Giochalas, Thanasis; Kafetzaki, Tonia (2013). Αθήνα. Ιχνηλατώντας την πόλη με οδηγό την ιστορία και τη λογοτεχνία [Athens. Tracing the city through History and Literature] (in Greek). Athens: Estia. p. 130. ISBN 978-960-05-1559-6. (salt-store/prison)
Improved to Good Article status by UndercoverClassicist (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 30 past nominations.

Comment: 2nd nomination, per new DYK rules: 1st run was in 2014. UndercoverClassicist T·C 11:42, 31 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

  • Starting review. Zeete (talk) 11:43, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    • Promoted to Good Article on December 30, 2024, last DYK on June 27, 2014, long enough (over 10,000 per DYK check), cited, neutral, Earwig reported violation unlikely (8.3%), QPQ done. Hook interesting, beacon cited, salt-store/prison cited in Greek (AGF), length check ok. ALT1: I can not find "Italian" in the reference or the article. Did you mean Venetians? ALT2: cited, catchy but Lysandros Kaftanzoglou is a stub and might be considered an easter egg, is the link needed?
  @UndercoverClassicist: Please comment on ALT1 and ALT2. Thanks, Zeete (talk) 12:29, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      • @Zeete: Thank you for the review. "Italians" was a reference to Florentines (see the first paragraph of "History"); it probably wasn't built by Venetians, though that was once a popular belief. The jump from "Florentine" to "Italian" is, in my view, a routine calculation as far as OR/verification is concerned. No objection to losing the link if you feel it would be beneficial. UndercoverClassicist T·C 13:32, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    • @UndercoverClassicist: Removing link from ALT2, minor editorial change. Some may challenge the quote marks, since neither reference has them. Regarding ALT1, the article does not have "Florentine" (I could only find it indirectly via Acciaioli family). And isn't the timeframe before the Kingdom of Italy? Also, consider adding this template to the article talk page.
  Good to go with Hook or ALT2. Thanks, Zeete (talk) 15:04, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you: I think we can do without ALT1, though people from Italy have been known as Italians since Roman times, even before Italy was politically united. UndercoverClassicist T·C 15:16, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Old School Baptist Church and Cemetery of Hopewell

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Hopewell Baptist Church
  • Source: NRHP nomination "it is presumed that his remains remain buried underneath the current church"
Created by Zeete (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 49 past nominations.

Zeete (talk) 12:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   Hello Zeete, review is as follows: article is new enough, QPQ checks out, no copyvio detected, hook is interesting and sourced. It did take a little bit of digging to find the citation that it is in the NRHP. Per WP:LEAD, you probably want the info about the historic registries in the main body of the article, and just summaries in the lead, and perhaps citing the "Added to NRHP" infoxbox param with source [2]; but I don't think that prevents the nomination from passing. Nihil obstat. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 04:01, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Chinook Indian Nation

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Headquarters of the Chinook Indian Nation in Bay Center, Washington
Moved to mainspace by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 24 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 03:21, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  I unfortunately could not access the source, but I will AGF. The article meets the criteria in terms of newness (and expansion). QPQ is done. Anonymous 17:36, 1 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I seem to have gotten a little rusty, as I completely forgot to verify that neither the image nor article are in violation of any copyrights. However, I checked, and they both appear good. The image is clear and used in the article. Anonymous 22:01, 1 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

William (bishop of Acre)

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  • ... that in his dying throes a medieval bishop, William, implored his men that the young priest who had stabbed him in a psychotic episode be pardoned?
Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 191 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 14:29, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

ALT1 hook might actually be better. People might assume that bishops are prone to forgiving anyway. --Surtsicna (talk) 23:31, 1 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Jerónimo Muñoz

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  • ... that Jerónimo Muñoz's mastery of Hebrew purportedly caused Jews to accuse Muñoz of being a Jew himself?
  • Source: Navarro Brotons 2019, p. 20.
"Según el testimonio de Esteban de Salazar, los judíos que acudían a oírle afirmaban que era judío y que había sido educado por judíos, a causa de su dominio del hebreo"
[According to the testimony of Esteban de Salazar, the Jews who were present to hear him speak asserted that he was Jewish and had been educated by Jews due to his mastery of Hebrew.]
Moved to mainspace by Kimikel (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 29 past nominations.

Kimikel (talk) 03:53, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

KMUN

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5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 726 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:54, 31 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:   - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Looks good. Nice work. AGF on the offline source for the hook. BeanieFan11 (talk) 03:11, 1 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

It Was on a Friday Morning

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  • Source: Groh, Air Force Chaplains, p. 448: "The directive issued by Veterans Administration Chief of Chaplains James Rogers instructed that 'Hymn No. 286 shall be removed from all new Books of Worship within 24 hours.'"
Moved to mainspace by Extraordinary Writ (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

Extraordinary Writ (talk) 06:14, 31 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Moved to mainspace on 31 Dec, and easily long enough; good sourcing and neutral throughout. Earwig picks up lots of quotes and "role in the folk revival of the 1960s and 70s", but I believe that falls under WP:LIMITED. Hook cited & interesting, and QPQ is done. Well-written and interesting article overall; good work! Staraction (talk | contribs) 15:32, 31 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

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Pantropiko

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Bini at Billboard Korea's K Power 100 event
  • ALT1: ... that despite being released in November 2023, "Pantropiko" by Bini (pictured) became a sleeper hit summer anthem in the Philippines by 2024? Source: Rappler
  • Reviewed:
Improved to Good Article status by AstrooKai (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

AstrooKai (Talk) 12:37, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  

Image eligibility:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:   I am approving the first hook as the most interesting. A QPQ is not needed. I am not sure if the image is clear enough for the main page, but I will leave that to the promoter. SL93 (talk) 02:06, 14 January 2025 (UTC) SL93 (talk) 02:06, 14 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy (novel)

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  • Source: McClurg, Jocelyn (1 June 2013). "Helen Fielding opens up about new Bridget Jones book". USA Today. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: This is timely as the movie based on this book is going to be released in February 2025.
Created by Blackballnz (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Blackballnz (talk) 05:59, 2 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   It is quite surprising that it took us 12 years to get this article, but it is timely indeed. It is new and long enough. Earwig warns of a "likely" copyright violation but I do not see it. Perhaps rephrase a bit just in case. I do not see any bias either. I think that, given the ample coverage, we can have secondary source citations for the entire Plot section despite it not being required per MOS:PLOTSOURCE, and of course the Film adaptation section needs another citation for the last paragraph. I also think that far more interesting hooks can be produced from this article, spoilery and non-spoilery. Surtsicna (talk) 12:20, 8 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  • ALT1: ... that the 1990s romcom heroine Bridget Jones is widowed in the Mad about the Boy novel, with a film to be released in February 2025?
  • ALT2: ... that a revelation about the 1990s romcom heroine Bridget Jones in the 2013 novel Mad about the Boy caused an outcry among the fans?

I think either of these would attract more interest. Surtsicna (talk) 12:33, 8 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks @Surtsicna. I also was surprised that there was no article about this novel, and I was prompted to write it by the upcoming film. I will make those changes that you suggest. I'm not sure about calling Bridget Jones a "1990s" romcom heroine, as she seems to be better known in the films which started in 2001. How about combining the death of Darcy & the upcoming film -

I can add a sentence to the film page about fans being shocked about Darcy's death, as it isn't currently there and there are plenty of references.(Actually, the film page refers to Darcy appearing as a ghost, which isn't supported at all, so I will fix).

I've made those changes - is there anything else I need to do now? Blackballnz (talk)Blackballnz (talk) 21:02, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

  •   All the information from the hook should be in the nominated (bold link) article. I have thus copied the line about the film fans' reaction to the novel. I do like and recommend ALT3. Let's see how it fares on the Main Page! Surtsicna (talk) 09:09, 13 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Erich Lassota von Steblau

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Coat of arms of Erich Lassota von Steblau
  • ... that the diary of Erich Lassota von Steblau (coat of arms pictured) is an important primary source on the Zaporozhian Cossacks of Ukraine of the 16th century? Source: Pausz 2017, p. 16: "Seine Aufzeichnungen sind bis heute die wichtigste Quelle zur Zaporoger Kosakengemeinschaft zu diesem frühen Zeitpunkt." (i.e., "His records remain to this day the most important source on the Zaporozhian Cossack community at this early date.") Also others, see citations in the article
Created by Yakikaki (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 146 past nominations.

Yakikaki (talk) 16:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

Lao Lishi

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5x expanded by Toadboy123 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 45 past nominations.

Toadboy123 (talk) 09:14, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   Really fun to read, interesting carer and fascinating post-career activities, including selling on Taobao to get point of being invited to BABA's bell ringing.

A Voyage to the Moon (Tucker novel)

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Improved to Good Article status by TompaDompa (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 24 past nominations.

TompaDompa (talk) 16:36, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

OK, let's see the criteria:

  • #1 The article is new enough, as it was promoted for GA-status at the very end of last year.
  • #2 It is long enough, consisting of almost 20.000 characters and more than 2.000 words.
  • #3 & #4 Copyvio seems fine, sources consist mostly of academic material, and the article looks good in terms of structure and layout.
  • #5, #6 & #7 Hook is cited to a reliable source, which is online, linked, and can easily be read by anyone. Hook is also short enough, and very interesting.
  • #8 & #10 No images are used and the article itself has no issues.
  • Lastly, #9, QPQ has been done.

I'd say this hook is   approved as is.PanagiotisZois (talk) 19:05, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Jeanne Trevor

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  • ... that the cover of jazz singer Jeanne Trevor's first album spelled her name incorrectly?
  • Reviewed:
Improved to Good Article status by LarstonMarston (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

LarstonMarston (talk) 01:22, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   Pronoted to GA within timeframe. Within policy. No QPQ needed, no image. The hook is good and supported by reliable sources. This should be good to go. Nice work, I liked the article. Yakikaki (talk) 21:54, 3 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Johnson Wax Headquarters

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The Johnson Wax Headquarters
5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 693 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 01:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 22:12, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Eoscorpius

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  • ... that despite living hundreds of millions of years ago, Eoscorpius has been noted for its extreme similarity to modern scorpions?
  • Source: Original description (where the similarity was observed): [8]
  • Source for age: [9]
Created by An anonymous username, not my real name (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

Anonymous 21:11, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   New enough, long enough, sourced and neutral, with Earwig detecting low levels of similarity with other works. Hook is cited, and is found within the body of the article. Wonderful work An anonymous username, not my real name! Small query, but I'm curious if you wanted to turn "British geologist Ben Peach expressed regret that the name Eoscorpius was given to a genus so similar to modern scorpions, speculating a much earlier origin for scorpions as a group." as an alternative hook for thei article? In my view, it has potential, but if you aren't interested in such, I won't hold up the nomination further. Ornithoptera (talk) 00:30, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Incidentally, I only ended up adding that to the article after already writing the original hook. I agree that it has potential, but I wasn't sure how well it could be worded in a concise fashion. My best idea would be something like "... that the name Eoscorpius faced criticism for being applied to a scorpion with relatively modern features?" If you think that's good, then I would be perfectly happy to have that as a DYK instead. Anonymous 01:05, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Truthfully, I think that works quite well! In my view this ALT1 is a more hook-ier alternative to the original, ALT0 and ALT1 approved! Ornithoptera (talk) 04:31, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tiepolo conspiracy

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  • ... that after the failure of the Tiepolo conspiracy of 1310, the houses of the chief conspirators were torn down, and their families were forced to change their coats of arms?
  • Source: Ravegnani 2017, pp. 19-20
Improved to Good Article status by Cplakidas (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 146 past nominations.

Constantine ✍ 14:04, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:   - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Epicgenius (talk) 01:04, 2 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Lee Ek Tieng

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  • Source: Direct quote from Lee, Kuan Yew (2012). From Third World to First: The Singapore Story, 1965–2000. Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 9789814561778, p. 174.
Created by Kingoflettuce (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 175 past nominations.

KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 07:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   Interesting biography article. Overall, the article has no copyright problems and all parts have been cited. The hook is also mentioned in the article along with the source mentioned in the nomination. Good to go. Toadboy123 (talk) 09:31, 1 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Langar Ki Masjid

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Created by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

AmateurHi$torian (talk) 12:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  • Review by Tbhotch

General eligibility:

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
  • Other problems:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   A newly created article that is long enough. The information matches the sources. There are no copyvios. I removed a tag that doesn't apply any longer. The hook is interesting and it is mentioned by the sources. My main issue would be the hook. I propose ALT2: ... that the ceiling of the Langar Mosque resembles a Buddhist chaitya?

I cannot assert it but I don't think that every reader will know that masjid means mosque and automatically link it to Islam. (CC) Tbhotch™ 02:59, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Tbhotch: ALT2 is fine by me. Thanks for the review :) -AmateurHi$torian (talk) 08:18, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Promoted ALT2. (CC) Tbhotch™ 18:49, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Line of Duty

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  • ... that BBC One initially passed on Line of Duty, which would later become its highest-rated drama in 19 years?
Improved to Good Article status by TheDoctorWho (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

TheDoctorWho (talk) 18:23, 7 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   New enough (GA Jan 2), long enough (17 KB), well-sourced, no copyvio. Hook interesting, ALT0 and ALT1 are similar so no preference. Hook verified in source, but would need to specify that it was one specific episode:
ALT0a: ... that BBC One initially passed on Line of Duty, whose finale would become its highest-rated drama in 19 years?
— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 01:24, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Summertime (Cinnamons and Evening Cinema song)

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  • ... that the Japanese song "Summertime" gained traction after it became popular in Southeast Asia two years after its first release?
Created by Lullabying (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 60 past nominations.

lullabying (talk) 02:19, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

Joseph R. Biden Presidential Library

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Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 155 past nominations. Chetsford (talk) 20:56, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Looks good to go. I would tweak the hook to use "his presidential library" as the bolded link to avoid repetition, but I'll leave it up to the set builder. SounderBruce 06:26, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

1972 Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse

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The collapsed Sidney Lanier Bridge
Improved to Good Article status by JJonahJackalope (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 59 past nominations.

JJonahJackalope (talk) 14:09, 8 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   As a recently promoted GA, the article easily passes the requirements. The hook is interesting, concise, and verifiable, and so it too passes the DYK requirements. I wonder, however, if it would be possible to produce an even more interesting hook. This topic strikes me as a potential DYK goldmine. Surtsicna (talk) 00:47, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Surtsicna:, sure, how about:

... that the 1972 Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse (pictured), which was caused by a collision from a cargo ship, caused ten deaths and over a million dollars in damages? The source for the damages is here, while the death toll is here. -JJonahJackalope (talk) 01:17, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

JJonahJackalope, I just noticed that the article about the bridge itself is only 1500 characters long. Would it be possible to expand that article fivefold so that we might have a double hook? This is a rare opportunity. Hall of Fame guaranteed! Surtsicna (talk) 01:34, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Surtsicna:, I was thinking about expanding that article at some point, never done a bridge article before, but I found a few good sources while doing the collapse article, and I'm fairly confident I could get it expanded within a few days. How much time would I have to get it expanded and added to this nomination? -JJonahJackalope (talk) 01:39, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
If it's only a few days that you need, @JJonahJackalope:, you can certainly have them! I think if you just copied the "Background" and "Later history" into the main bridge article (where it probably belongs anyway), you could have it in an instant. But see what you think is best. Surtsicna (talk) 10:36, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I'll let you know as soon as I've completed work on the bridge article and we can move forward from there. -JJonahJackalope (talk) 14:00, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Surtsicna:, I have expanded the article for Sidney Lanier Bridge five times and have reviewed another DYK nomination, Template:Did you know nominations/Roof-end Tile with Human Face Motif. As a result, if it is possible to add the Sidney Lanier Bridge article to my nomination here, I would simply make the hook:

... that the 1972 collapse of the Sidney Lanier Bridge (pictured), which was caused by a collision from a cargo ship, caused ten deaths and over a million dollars in damages?

Let me know what you think of this and if there is anything else I need to do. Thanks, -JJonahJackalope (talk) 21:54, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  This expansion far exceeds my expectations. You certainly did not cut corners like I suggested that you might. Truly impressive. Thank you. Surtsicna (talk) 22:10, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Killing of Fernando Rios

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Created by JJonahJackalope (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 58 past nominations.

JJonahJackalope (talk) 19:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:   - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Long enough and new enough. The article is well-sourced and passes Earwig's Copyvio check. AGF for offline sources. QPQ done. Nicely done. Riley1012 (talk) 15:54, 6 January 2025 (UTC) ≈Reply

NBC Montana

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Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 727 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:40, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   Not a particularly interesting hook as that's far from the first time somebody got upset over a network's coverage, and I've also seen other stories of reporters being attacked. I don't see what stands out about this particular case. It certainly doesn't help how this hook uses vague descriptions and needlessly hides names with WP:EASTEREGG piping. Refactoring the quote is also completely unnecessary. Try coming up with something else. On the plus side, I don't see any copyright or neutrality issues. QPQ has been provided, article is more than long enough, and was taken to DYK a day after passing its GAN. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 20:35, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  • Alright, let's try again, SNUGGUMS: Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:19, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
ALT1: ... that the owner of a Montana TV station bought an American Legion post, gutted by fire, to use as a studio building? [10]
  Definitely much more intriguing! I would only make minor changes here by using a straightforward mention of Arthur Mosby (the owner alluded to) and NBC Montana's name instead of hiding the latter behind pipes. We're otherwise good to go. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 23:26, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Very hard disagree on the latter because the station was not known as NBC Montana until the 1990s. Piped links like this are standard operating procedure for me now because call signs are terrible for views. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:33, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Not sure what you mean by "call signs", but even going with KGVO-TV (its name at the time) would be better than the vague "a Montana TV station" description used. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 00:16, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
@SNUGGUMS: I have written at this point hundreds of radio and TV station DYKs and vehemently would disagree. There's discussion of why I've done this at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know/Statistics/Archive_2 (search "WCBR") and a few other places. It's improved the view rate on my broadcasting DYKs, some of which used to be the least-read in an entire month. I also am getting comments less from people who complain Wikipedia is running too many broadcast station hooks. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

(Shrugs shoulders) It seems quite odd how ambiguity within hooks could somehow boost views. My instinct previously told me that readers would've instead preferred to know a specific name prior to clicking on links. Oh well. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 02:43, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Look at my list of DYKs in 2022 and ask yourself which half is more intriguing to read if you're not familiar with broadcasting. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
This might not be the response you expected, but I personally find the use of names (or lack thereof) didn't affect how eye-catching the hooks were, and was more intrigued by the central points each hook made. Regardless, I won't let that prevent the nomination from passing. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 03:58, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Emmanuel (emu)

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Created by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 25 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 05:29, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:   - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   New enough (created on 3 January) and long enough (4937 characters); Sourced, neutral, and free of plagiarism (Earwig says that a violation is unlikely, and didn't find any myself); Hook is cited (source behind a paywall, But the headline and blurb are accessible) and interesting; No pics; QPQ provided.

Approving this with a slight modification to the hook, that is, wikilinking emu - ALT0a:"... that an emu named Emmanuel Todd Lopez was the target of a death hoax by undercover journalists?".

Another hook could be ALT1: "Emmanuel has been described as "arguably the world's most famous emu"? "Source: (Washington Post) The wording on ALT1 is somewhat clunky, so I'd prefer ALT0a. AmateurHi$torian (talk) 21:21, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

If we go with ALT1, I would like it to use the full name "Emmanuel Todd Lopez" because I think it's funnier that way. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 21:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  • Comment Based on the title of that article, I think this could be another funny alt hook:
    ALT2: ... that an emu was targeted by an Israeli black ops team?
Di (they-them) (talk) 18:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Margaret Reid (politician)

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Improved to Good Article status by Reidgreg (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 25 past nominations.

Reidgreg (talk) 15:28, 2 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   New GA status verified. QPQ done. Well-sourced article with sourcing properly spot-checked in GA review; hook properly sourced and source verified. Earwig found no problematic copying. Often "first" hooks can be a problem but in this case, as the first of a well-enumerated set of people, I think it's ok, and interesting enough. Good to go. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:19, 3 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Mark IV (software)

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5x expanded by Maury Markowitz (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 204 past nominations.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 02:58, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   Article is long enough, qualifies for 5x expansion, and has no evidence of copyvio. QPQ checks out too. The hook is cited in article and is interesting; tho i'll have to AGF on it. The fact it crossed both 10 million and 100 million in sales is interesting, but I can't think of a way to include both in a hook. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 04:27, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Generalissima: I didn't mention this simply because I was concerned about the hook being too long, but looking at it now it seems too short. I think we could get away with "... to cross $10 million in total sales, and the first to cross $100 million as well?" Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:51, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
Works for me! Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 20:18, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul Aermont among the Planets

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  • Source: See the "Publication history" section.
Improved to Good Article status by TompaDompa (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 25 past nominations.

TompaDompa (talk) 16:53, 2 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Newly promoted GA. Looks accurate. Nice work. Approving. BeanieFan11 (talk) 04:08, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tan Gee Paw

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  • ... that Tan Gee Paw was presented with a solid gold medal by Lee Kuan Yew for helping to clean up Singapore's waterways?
  • Source: Boh, Samantha (2022). "Lee Ek Tieng: Aquaman". In Peh Shing Huei (ed.). The Last Fools: The Eight Immortals of Lee Kuan Yew. The Nutgraf Books. p. 136; also corroborated by several contemporary news articles & LKY's memoirs.
Created by Kingoflettuce (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 176 past nominations.

KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 10:40, 2 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  Fantastic article. New enough, long enough, very well cited. Love the hook, expect to see this on the monthly highs. GTG. Maury Markowitz (talk) 02:56, 3 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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An African Song or Chant from Barbados

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An African Song or Chant from Barbados
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sitaleshwar_Temple
  • Comment: Cropped image used because the full image is so detailed. This was initially created as a Google-assisted translation from the German article, but has been greatly expanded with original text. The Melody and Lyrics section plus Notes are largely unchanged from the translation: the rest is mostly original.
Created by MartinPoulter (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 34 past nominations.

MartinPoulter (talk) 17:52, 9 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Article is new enough, long enough, well-sourced, neutral and plagiarism free. Hook is cited and interesting. Pic is free to use, is an excerpt of the image in the article and is clear. QPQ is done. A nice addition! Lajmmoore (talk) 14:35, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Lily Phillips

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Created by Launchballer (talk) and Laura240406 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 267 past nominations.

Launchballer 21:31, 10 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:  
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   Well, that's... honestly, it sounds like a miserable time for all involved. Article is new enough, long enough. Hook facts are interesting. I'm not keen on ALT1, even as an April Fool's hook, because blending the girl next door archetype with an actual person feels like it's going too far. Earwig shows 44.1%, but those appear to all be correctly attributed quotes and titles. No image to check. Article is mostly neutral, though some of the opinions could be better described as such (Gold noting that Phillips was "not very bright and will soon not be very well" - that's not objective fact, but rather an inference drawn from one video). — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:55, 10 January 2025 (UTC)  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:55, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

A lot of the reviews for this descended into outright nastiness; I only included her and Bindel's quotes because Lewis mentioned them in her piece. I've changed both the "noting"s in that sentence.--Launchballer 00:51, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

Swim School

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Improved to Good Article status by Launchballer (talk) and Georgeykiwi (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 264 past nominations.

Launchballer 18:03, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

  •   Everything looks good. Would rewrite hook to note that this was a cover. My first read of this suggested the song was only authored by Swift but not part of her discography. Otherwise, looks pretty good! ~ Pbritti (talk) 22:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
I thought that "originally by" indicated that it was a cover, but would ALT1: ... that a Swim School song described by one reviewer as "a heavy dystopian doom rocker" was originally performed by Taylor Swift? work?--Launchballer 22:17, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
  Approving both. Thank! ~ Pbritti (talk) 22:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

1453

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  • ... that in 1453, a "mystery eruption" cooled the northern hemisphere?
  • Source: Abbott, Peter M.; Plunkett, Gill; Corona, Christophe; Chellman, Nathan J.; McConnell, Joseph R.; Pilcher, John R.; Stoffel, Markus; Sigl, Michael (March 4, 2021). "Cryptotephra from the Icelandic Veiðivötn 1477 CE Eruption in a Greenland Ice Core: Confirming the Dating of Volcanic Events in the 1450s CE and Assessing the Eruption's Climatic Impact". Climate of the Past. 17 (2): 565–585. Bibcode:2021CliPa..17..565A. doi:10.5194/cp-17-565-2021. ISSN 1814-9324. S2CID 233267071.
5x expanded by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 101 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 19:04, 5 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited:   - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting:  
QPQ: Done.

Overall:   This is a particularly intriguing hook. Assuming good faith on the book sources for an article that has been expanded 5x in the week before nomination. EchetusXe 17:58, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

2024 Masyaf raid

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  • ... that during an Israeli raid in Masyaf in September 2024, soldiers who participated in the operation described the blast that destroyed a missile production facility as "a mini earthquake"?
  • ALT1: ... that participating soldiers in an Israeli raid in Masyaf described an explosion that destroyed a missile production facility as "a mini earthquake"?
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: This article is not new, but recently new information about the operation came out that allowed me to significantly expand it. Excluding the infobox, citations, categories, etc., the prose of the revision before my expansion was around 1,571 characters long, and grew to around 10,750 on the revision after my expansion. (I made this estimate myself with an online word counter so there may be mistakes) This is my first time nominating an article 5x expanded, so please let me know if I did anything wrong or left something out. Thanks in advance! :)
    • 5x expanded by Chomik1129 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Chomik! (talk?) 05:47, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: None required.

    Overall:   Well-sourced article with appropriate images Munfarid1 (talk) 13:33, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    @Munfarid1: I added a citation to the article and a shorter alt hook. Chomik! (talk?) 14:37, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    Thanks, now it's ready to go, preferrably with the shorter hook ALT1, even if this will take some time. Munfarid1 (talk) 15:15, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Louis Malet de Graville

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    Coat of arms of Louis Malet de Graville
    Improved to Good Article status by Yakikaki (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 147 past nominations.

    Yakikaki (talk) 21:59, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    •   Article well written and well-source. Interesting hook, with offline source accepted in good faith. Improved to GA statue on 3 Jan, so new enough. Image public domain (though I think this image from the lede is more eye-catching). Good to go. Best, Tenpop421 (talk)

    Coscinodon lawianus

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    • Source: Ochyra, Ryszard; Smith, Ronald Ian Lewis; Bednarek-Ochyra, Halina (2008). Illustrated Moss Flora of Antarctica. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521814027. p. 46
    Rehman, Wahid Ul; Gupta, Kriti; Bast, Felix (2021). "Morphophylogenetic Assessment of a New Moss Species Bryum bharatiense sp. nov. (Bryaceae) from Larsemann Hills, Eastern Antarctica". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 14: 283–289. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2021.07.001. pp. 288–289
    Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 100 past nominations.

    Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 04:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    KREM (TV)

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    Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 729 past nominations.

    Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:44, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   Article GA'd on 3 January and long enough, with no policy issues I can see. Hook (192/200 characters) is cited and in article, and quite interesting IMO. QPQ is done. Good to go; thanks for your work! Staraction (talk | contribs) 18:27, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia

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    Improved to Good Article status by TompaDompa (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 26 past nominations.

    TompaDompa (talk) 19:23, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   Everything looks good here! I prefer ALT0, because I think the explanation does a better job of setting up what's 'hooky' about this detail. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 00:35, 4 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Esus

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    Esus felling a tree
    • Source: MacKillop, James (2004). "Esus, Hesus". Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.
    MacKillop, James (2004). "Lindow Man". A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.
    5x expanded by Tenpop421 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

    Tenpop421 (talk) 00:56, 3 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

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    Bertrand of Toulouse (son of Alfonso Jordan)

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    Created by Borsoka (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 194 past nominations.

    Surtsicna (talk) 12:35, 8 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

    Hook eligibility:

    • Cited:   - I don't have the source, so I could AGF, but from the preview Google does provide, the outrage was about Raymond seeking the assistance of Muslims in capturing 'Urayama, not about him helping the Muslims. Also, I believe the source claims the outrage was about the capture of the fortress, not about the capture of Bertrand. Finally, isn't the end of the hook a supposition made by historians?
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   This hangs on what an AGF source says. Either a clarification about it or a rewording of the hook to be more accurate will do. Muhandes (talk) 17:19, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    All of history is historians' suppositions., Muhandes :) It is true that on page 155 the outrage is connected to the capture of the fortress. On page 157 the outrage is about Bertrand's capture, but it is Raymond's wife and sister-in-law/aunt who are accused of collaboration. Therefore I propose the following alternative hooks:
    See which you like best. ALT2 might be my favorite. Surtsicna (talk) 08:52, 13 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      on either ALT1 or ALT2, with preference to ALT2. Muhandes (talk) 09:52, 13 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Bugia (candlestick)

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    A bugia as depicted in John Naifa's 1925 work "Costume of Prelates of the Catholic Church"
    Created by Maximilian775 (talk) and Darth Stabro (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

    Maximilian775 (talk) 18:56, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   The article was nominated for DYK within seven days of being created and is long enough. The article is adequately sourced, neutral, and is free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing. Hook is interesting. Image appears to be freely licensed, is used in the article, and is clear at 100px. QPQ is done.

    However, I don't feel that the hook is adequately cited. The statements that bugias are used by "Latin Catholic Bishops or other prelates" and that Béjaïa is "famous for its exportation of candle wax" do not appear to be supported in the article by at least one inline citation to a reliable source.

    I would also suggest a small reword of the hook so that Béjaïa is mentioned by name and is not pipelinked, with WP:EASTEREGG in mind. Mattythewhite (talk) 16:13, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Thanks, Mattythewhite -- Do you know if DYKs can have multiple sources? I think to fully prove the whole DYK here a few need to be daisy-chained together, and in searching there doesn't seem to be a defined policy. Maximilian775 (talk) 20:50, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    @Maximilian775: I'm not certain but I assume that more than one source is fine. The ALT1 hook looks fine to me. However, I can't see any mention of bugias in the source? Also, I think the main body of the article needs to mention, with a source, the use of bugias by Latin Catholic Bishops, as it's currently only in the lead.
    @Mattythewhite: just edited the source URL, it was referencing the wrong page.
    As to mentioning bishops, the "description" section mentions cardinals and patriarchs, and the "usage" section mentions the Pope and assistants at the papal -- all 4 of these persons are as a rule, almost always bishops. Maximilian775 (talk) 22:22, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      @Maximilian775: Okay, happy now to approve ALT1. Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. Mattythewhite (talk) 00:16, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Ana María Ochoa

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    Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 67 past nominations.

    ミラP@Miraclepine 03:50, 6 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   Article is new enough, long enough, well-sourced and neutral. No plagiarism, although Earwig looks high, its all based on book titles. Hooks are cited and interesting - love the triple! QPQ is done. Lajmmoore (talk) 21:44, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    CHWI-DT

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    Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 732 past nominations.

    Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:20, 7 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    Stars in fiction

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    Improved to Good Article status by TompaDompa (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 30 past nominations.

    TompaDompa (talk) 18:04, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   New enough, long enough. Hook fact is cited. Earwig shows no issues. I do like the idea of living stars as well, but it's a bit harder to pass WP:DYKFICTION with that. Good to go!  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:27, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Orlando Bagwell

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    • ... that film director Orlando Bagwell initially thought that he would enter a career in medicine?
    Created by SL93 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 421 past nominations.

    SL93 (talk) 19:28, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    •   Article is long enough, new enough, well-sourced, and neutral. Earwig check found 28.1% similarity with a source ("violation unlikely) and even that was due to use of full titles of works and basic facts re his degrees. Hook is interesting, short enough, and supported by inlline citation to reliable source (LA Times). QPQ satisfied. Cbl62 (talk) 19:28, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Liang Sishun

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    • ... that Liang Sishun published a Chinese poetry anthology in 1908, when she was sixteen years old?
    • Source: Liu, Honghong (26 August 2016). 试论《艺蘅馆词选》的编选意图及选词思想 [On the Editorial Intention and Selective Thoughts of Yihengguan Cixuan]. 2016 International Academic Conference of Ci (2016词学国际学术研讨会). doi:10.26914/c.cnkihy.2016.005998. To quote: "《艺蘅馆词选》为梁令娴16岁时选钞，初版印于光绪三十四年（1908），其后续有再版，分别为民国二十四年（1935）上海中华书局排印本及1981年广东人民出版社刘逸生校点本。"
    Created by TheLonelyPather (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 24 past nominations.

    Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 16:34, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply


    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   The link provided for the hook source leads to a 404 – perhaps this link [11] is better? The DOI gives different links for domestic and overseas access, which complicates things. Due to the paywall I would normally mark this as AGF approved, but since this information is confirmed in other sources available online [12][13] I am marking as normal approved. QPQ looks good. Toadspike [Talk] 09:47, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Oh wait, I forgot I have to be a stickler and ask TheLonelyPather to repeat the inline citation right after the sentence where the hook is in the article, so right after the zhi template containing "(藝蘅館詞選; 'Selections of Ci from Yihengguan')." Toadspike [Talk] 09:53, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    Thank you @Toadspike. I just repeated the inline citation. Also thanks for going the extra mile to check alternate sources! Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 12:20, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Macrobdella decora

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    Macrobdella decora
    • ... that some North American swimming spots have had to be closed because Macrobdella decora (pictured) posed such a hazard to bathers?
    • Source: [14] "In some places it can be such a problem to swimmers that swimming must be restricted or even discontinued."
    Improved to Good Article status by Cremastra (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

    Cremastra (u — c) 01:16, 5 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    Agapornis longipes

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    Created by Di (they-them) (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 31 past nominations.

    Di (they-them) (talk) 20:22, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   Looks good; I took the liberty of rewording a bit to avoid too-close paraphrasing. Cremastra (u — c) 01:12, 5 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Charles Assmann

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    5x expanded by WikiOriginal-9 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

    ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 09:12, 4 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

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    Occupation of Trentham Colliery

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    Created by Cielquiparle (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 68 past nominations.

    Cielquiparle (talk) 06:53, 12 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   Approving both hooks. The article says "80 hours", not "three days", but accepting on the basis that sources do say "three days", and WP:CALC (80/24=3.33). Earwig copyvio fine, as are spot checks against Wikipedia Library sources. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 19:59, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Ali-Hajji of Akusha

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    • ... that Ali-Hajji of Akusha supported the Bolsheviks because he believed they would implement sharia?
    • Source: "Daniyalov, Hajji-Ali (1958). Борьба за установление и упрочение Советской власти в Дагестане, 1917–1921 гг. Сборник документов и материалов [The Fight for the Creation and Stabilisation of Soviet Power in Dagestan, 1917–1921: Collection of Documents and Materials] (in Russian). Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. p. 119" & "Abdullayev, Magomed (2013). Триумф и трагедия шейх-уль-ислама Дагестана Али-Хаджи Акушинского [The triumph and tragedy of shaykh-al-Islam Ali-Hajji of Akusha] (in Russian). Makhachkala: Epoch. p. 50–51."
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    Created by Mupper-san (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Mupper-san (talk) 10:11, 5 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    •   Hi @Mupper-san: this article is new enough, long enough, and well-sourced. However, I'm not sure how accurate this hook is from the body of the article. We have Ali-Hajji saying The Bolsheviks are not against us living according to sharia and him, as a member of Bolshevik committee, promising that the committee would establish sharia courts. None of this suggests he thought the Bolsheviks were going to establish the courts, just that he thought they would tolerate the courts, and sought to set them up. Of course, I don't have access to your sources and can't read Russian. Is there something you can incorporate from them that makes what Ali-Hajji thought clearer? Best, Tenpop421 (talk) 01:26, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      • @Tenpop421:, that's a good point, and the choice of the word "implement" was incorrect on my part. I would have no bias against changing the word to "support" or "allow", but I'm unaware of how to the proper procedure for how to adjust a hook if it's just one word. Mupper-san (talk) 01:15, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
        • @Mupper-san: To replace an old hook, you can just strikethrough the old hook and add an "ALT" hook. Do you think this is line with the source?
    ALT1:: that Ali-Hajji of Akusha supported the Bolsheviks because he believed they would allow sharia courts?
    Source: Daniyalov, Hajji-Ali (1958). Борьба за установление и упрочение Советской власти в Дагестане, 1917–1921 гг. Сборник документов и материалов [The Fight for the Creation and Stabilisation of Soviet Power in Dagestan, 1917–1921: Collection of Documents and Materials] (in Russian). Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. p. 119.
    Best, Tenpop421 (talk) 16:31, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    @Tenpop421:, yes, that sounds great. Thank you very much! Mupper-san (talk) 03:36, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      Alright, good to go! Best, Tenpop421 (talk) 11:08, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Cloak n Dagger

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

    Locust member (talk) 20:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    •   New enough GA. Nominator is QPQ exempt. The hook fact is correct and in article. I am concerned, and this is for the promoter, about a MOS:SEAOFBLUE issue with both "Hyperpop" and "Hype House" linked, and I really do not know how to resolve it as both seem to need linking. A second issue could be resolved by unlinking "homestay" in ALT0. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:41, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      • I did think about that, but I believe per WP:SEAOFBLUE it could pass as it only states "When possible, do not place links next to each other", though in this case, it would not be possible, as the source states it in this way. I agree that "homestay" could be unlinked in ALT0 (didn't even catch the sea of blue error in the article), but I don't think we can do much about it in the quotes.
        • Adding a note that the hook fact is indeed inline-cited in this article. I've gone ahead and unlinked "homestay" in ALT0. We may be stuck with the SEAOFBLUE for "Hyperpop Hype House" if that is indeed the case, since we are using a quote. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 04:57, 15 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Abortion in the United Arab Emirates

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    Converted from a redirect by Jolielover (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

    jolielover♥talk 06:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   The hooks provided are interesting and the article is eligible based on newness and length, but there is a sentence that does not have a citation and the first two paragraphs contain copy-pasted text from one of the sources. Provide a citation for the unsourced sentence and rewrite the lead in your own words, then I'll give this another look. --Grnrchst (talk) 13:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC) Grnrchst (talk) 13:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    @Grnrchst: The Medical Liability Law sentence is sourced, through reference nine here. I've gone ahead and added the reference to that sentence too, I just followed the rational of not doing so previously per WP:CONSECUTIVECITE. I also rewrote the lead (I thought the previous phrasing was more detailed personally). For the second paragraph I don't see a way around changing that without changing the meaning, I didn't copypaste it, just what The Ministry of Health and Prevention defined as members of the committee here. Also, please ping me next time, didn't see this one until now. Thanks! jolielover♥talk 18:48, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    @Jolielover: That isn't what consecutivecite is saying though; you're supposed to put citations "at the end of the text that they support", not half way through, which leaves the rest of the text uncited. In any case, thanks for adding it back in. The text in the lead is still far too close for comfort to the original source;[15] either rewrite it properly or provide in-text attribution that makes it clear you are quoting from a source, rather than just leaving unattributed copied text. --Grnrchst (talk) 10:49, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    @Grnrchst: I made some changes, please check now, thanks! 11:26, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      Thanks for taking another look, I think this is good enough to approve now. --Grnrchst (talk) 12:01, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Diocese of Banias, Adam of Acre, John (bishop of Banyas)

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    Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 3. Nominator has 193 past nominations.

    Surtsicna (talk) 16:52, 5 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    •   @Surtsicna: I need a third QPQ (there are two). I'm also having trouble finding the passage in Hamilton that verifies this from your link. Is it possibly the p267 ref? Is it left to assume that there was Adam, there was John, and then there were titular bishops? Otherwise the pages are new and long enough. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:28, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    Hi, Sammi Brie. I counted two out of the three articles at the columbine nomination (the third I had already used up) as two QPQs. Sorry, I have no idea what I meant by "page 120". I had changed hooks quite a bit. Hamilton is quite explicit so there is no need to assume. See pages 84 (Banyas conquered, no successor to John appointed), 397 (succession of the resident bishops), and of course 266-267 for the titular bishops. Surtsicna (talk) 10:48, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      It's a bit of a compilation that requires a rat race search of Hamilton, but it seems to check out. We have Adam, we have John, and then we have a bunch of titular bishops. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 18:20, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic

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    Created by MathKeduor7 (talk) and GregariousMadness (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    MathKeduor7 (talk) 08:30, 9 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

    Hook eligibility:

    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:   - Hook needs work; see comments.
    QPQ: None required.

    Overall:   Article is long enough, new enough, notable enough per WP:BKCRIT criterion 1. Still, I don't find the hook particularly interesting. How about something like

    ALT1: ... that the second edition of An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic more than doubled the length of the original text?

    (cited in the "Editions" section of the article)?  Ploni💬  00:10, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Hi, Ploni. Thank you! Yes, your hook is better than the one I've originally choose. I agree to change it. MathKeduor7 (talk) 00:20, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      Great! In that case looks good to go.  Ploni💬  02:20, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Ernesius

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    • ... that Archbishop Ernesius was sent to Europe to request help for the Kingdom of Jerusalem, but barely survived a sea storm and did not dare set sail again?
    Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 192 past nominations.

    Surtsicna (talk) 14:44, 5 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    •   Most things look good, but can you (1) provide a footnote at the end of the sentence which reads "The prelates were driven...", and (2) can you see if the following hook is appropriate? If ALT1 is true to the facts, can you make sure it is properly cited in the article (e.g., is it the Mediterranean we're talking about)? Arbitrarily0 (talk) 02:20, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      • ALT1 ... that twelfth-century Archbishop Ernesius attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea with two other bishops, but was thwarted by a severe storm?
    Thanks, Arbitrarily0! Footnote duplicated. ALT1 is certainly true, but there is no source saying they were crossing the Mediterranean. That would basically be WP:CALC for there is no other sea for them to cross. Perhaps a combination of ALT0 and ALT1 might be most interesting? Surtsicna (talk) 10:30, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    • ALT2: ... that Archbishop Ernesius and two other bishops attempted to reach Europe by sea, but were driven back by a severe storm and did not dare set sail again?
    • On second thought, I don't think we need a source to identify the sea with the Mediterranean. He was bishop over Caesarea Maritima, after all. But do you have a reason for not wanting "twelfth-century" included? There needs to be some more context for the hook to become interesting. The other concern I have is about "daring" to set sail again. That's not quite what the source says: "none of the passengers would consent to risk again the perils of the deep." Allow me to propose ALT3. Arbitrarily0 (talk) 14:33, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    Arbitrarily0, I think a more concise hook is likelier to hold readers' attention; ALT3, in particular, is over the character limit. I also must confess that I do not see the difference between "did not dare" and "would not consent to risk again the perils", but the ALT3 wording is fine with me. Surtsicna (talk) 14:46, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      Having shortened ALT3 slightly, everything checks out. But, for what it's worth: if someone "does not dare", it means their primary motivation against acting is fear. But "not consenting to risk" is different. It could mean that someone thinks, in a rational, unemotional manner, that the costs do not outweigh the gains. That said, feel free to keep making a case for your original hook; we can also get someone else's opinion. But ALT3, at minimum, is good to go. Thank you, again, for your work on this article. Arbitrarily0 (talk) 16:08, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Mary Sheffield

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    Created by Muboshgu (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 539 past nominations.

    – Muboshgu (talk) 04:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    •   Article is new enough (created 1/4), long enough (1900 characters of narrative text), neutral, well-sourced. Earwig check (here) detected no issues. The hook is interesting, sourced with in-line citation, and short enough. QPQ completed. Cbl62 (talk) 19:03, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Extrasolar planets in fiction

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    Improved to Good Article status by TompaDompa (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 28 past nominations.

    TompaDompa (talk) 23:35, 5 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   New enough (GA on January 5, 2025); Long enough (11061 characters); Within policy - sourced, neutral, copyvio-free (Earwig returns "Violation unlikely"); Hooks are cited and interesting; QPQ provided. This is quite an interesting read :)

    Bao Tianxiao

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    Bao Tianxiao, 1914
    • ... that Bao Tianxiao (pictured) received an award for best original work for his translation of an Italian novel?
    • Source: Sibau, Maria Franca (2016). "Portrait of the Artist as a Schoolboy: Bao Tianxiao's Creative Interventions in "Little Xin's School Journal"". Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. 28 (2): 1–42. JSTOR 24886574.
    Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 730 past nominations.

     — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:50, 5 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

    Hook eligibility:

    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   @Crisco 1492: please provide a more specific page number, I don't want to read 42 pages to verify this fact   charlotte 👸♥ 04:54, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Kokusai Ta-Go

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    • Source: Dyer 2009, Japanese Secret Projects: Experimental Aircraft of the IJA and IJN 1939–1945
    Moved to mainspace by Nigel Ish (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 238 past nominations.

    The Bushranger One ping only 23:30, 5 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    KCAU-TV

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    Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 730 past nominations.

    Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 20:06, 5 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   The article shows no signs of copyright violations or anything, it's also long enough and was recently promoted to GA, and I personally find the hook pretty interesting (especially the children's show part). My only thing to note is that reference 29 only seems to verify the fact Canyon Kid's Corner was a weekly show, and not anything about the station's closure. So I copied reference 10 to have another usage in that paragraph to try and avoid any verification issues. That's all. Other than that, I think this should be good to go. λ NegativeMP1 01:03, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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    The Befrienders

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    • ... that the pilot episode of The Befrienders was widely criticised for being too far-fetched?
    5x expanded by Cielquiparle (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 67 past nominations.

    Cielquiparle (talk) 06:48, 6 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    • Just saw the comment re: hook. Agree it is too generic. Here is one ALT to start.
    Sources are cited in the article in the Reception section. Can come up with others as needed. Cielquiparle (talk) 19:21, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    General: Article is new enough and long enough

    Policy compliance:

    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   Expanded from 947 to 6649 in the four days up to nom, very few issues with sourcing, had to fix some close paraphrasing myself. @Cielquiparle: fix the issues and you're good to go. ミラP@Miraclepine 19:57, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    @Cielquiparle: I see all the issues have been dealt with.   ALT1. ミラP@Miraclepine 16:00, 13 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Grininke Beymelekh, Shloyme Bastomski

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    • Source: Cohen, Nathan (2021). "No More 'Little Jews without Beards': Insights into Yiddish Children's Literature in Eastern Europe Prior to World War I". Modern Judaism. 41 (1): 102–109. doi:10.1093/mj/kjaa018.
    Bar-El, Adina. "Children's Literature: Yiddish Literature". YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Translated by Friedman-Cohen, Carrie. https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/277
    Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 102 past nominations.

    Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 22:38, 7 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

      Interesting story, and fine to have it in two articles, on few but good sources, offline source accepted AGF. I like the hook but think that "World War I" right before the "?" makes reading a bit difficult, - how about saying "First World War", or give a year and just say "World War" (because at the time it was the only one). How about mentioning "in Vilnius", for interest. For DYK formality, perhaps mention the "first" also in the publisher's article, and have a ref right after the sentence. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:46, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Deval Masjid

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    Created by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

    AmateurHi$torian (talk) 17:43, 6 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    it is perhaps preferrable to define for our readers what a "masjid" is. Therefore, I would prefer the following DYK:

    Otherwise, the article is new enough and long enough, and the article is adequately sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems, to the best of my knowledge. The hook is interesting and has been verified by provided inline citation. Moreover, the image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear.Davidbena (talk) 16:46, 9 January 2025 (UTC) QPQ: Done.Reply

    Thanks for the review. ALT1 is fine by me; I'd also suggest ALT2:"... that the Deval Mosque was originally a Hindu temple?" towards the same end, but a bit more concise. -AmateurHi$torian (talk) 10:15, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Victor Cordella, Church of St. Casimir (Saint Paul, Minnesota)

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    The Church of St. Casimir in St. Paul, Minnesota
    Created by Darth Stabro (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 19 past nominations.

    ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 04:16, 7 January 2025 (UTC). Both articles:Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   Epicgenius (talk) 16:01, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Black holes in fiction

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    Improved to Good Article status by TompaDompa (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 29 past nominations.

    TompaDompa (talk) 05:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

    Hook eligibility:

    • Cited:   - n
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: None required.

    Overall:   Article was nominated for DYK within 7 days of reaching Good Article status. Article is over 1,500 words in prose, properly sourced, and written with a neutral tone. Earwig picked up an unlikely violation of 26.5%, which were mostly titles of short stories. Nominator has less than 5 nominations so a QPQ is not needed at this time. The hook is very interesting, but it'd be nice if you could directly list the sources used to support the hook instead of referring them to a section of the article. Other than that, it looks good and almost ready to go. lullabying (talk) 06:53, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Sure. See the "Black Holes" entry in Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia at https://books.google.com/books?id=WETPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA159. TompaDompa (talk) 16:39, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      Thank you. Assume good faith on print sources. Good to go. lullabying (talk) 05:39, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Top Gun: Maverick

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

    Lankyant (talk) 09:36, 7 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    Wu Suxin

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    • ... that the wuxia star Wu Suxin passed as a man in several of her films?
    • Source: *Bao, Weihong (2005). "From Pearl White to White Rose Woo: Tracing the Vernacular Body of Nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema, 1927-1931". Camera Obscura. 20 (3): 193–231. doi:10.1215/02705346-20-3_60-193.: Page 216: "[The Valiant Girl White Rose] was not the first time that Wu cross-dressed. In several films, including The Bandit of Shandong (Shandong xiangma, dir. Chen Tian, 1927) and The Wife of the Detective (Zhentan zhiqi, dir. Zhang Huimin, 1928), Wu cross-dresses, performs martial arts, and gets involved in love triangles between a male peer and a female admirer."
    Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 731 past nominations.

     — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:23, 7 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    •   New enough (created January 7), copyvio OK (no obvious paraphrasing and Earwig returns 3.8%), NPOV, no image, QPQ done, hook is interesting, hook is correctly and inline cited (to Camera Obscura, a journal published by Duke University Press). Looks good! Chetsford (talk) 18:19, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Failed at Math(s)

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    Panchiko playing live on the Failed at Math(s) tour
    Created by Beachweak (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Beachweak (talk) 14:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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    • Interesting:  
    Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
    QPQ: None required.

    Overall:   Overall a very nice article and very nice hook! 🙂 The article is well sourced, cited, neutral, etc., While not a condition for DYK, I would recommend rephrasing a lot of the quotes used in the Composition section in your own words, as its kind of a clunky read right now, and I feel like a lot of those exact quotes don't add much to the page. Thank you for making the page, cheers! Johnson524 08:44, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Thank you for accepting my nomination and thank you for the feedback! I've went and updated the Composition section to re-write a ton of the quotes in my own words and hopefully de-clunkify a lot of the article. Let me know what you think. Beachweak (talk) 15:08, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    Look's a lot better now, thanks for making those changes! 🙂 Johnson524 06:36, 12 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    WPTD

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    Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 731 past nominations.

    Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   Article GA'd same day as nom and definitely long enough. No policy issues as far as I can tell. Hook is sourced, very interesting, and extensively covered in the article. QPQ done. Good to go; well done, as always! Staraction (talk | contribs) 00:52, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Jonna Adlerteg

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    Adlerteg in 2014
    Improved to Good Article status by Riley1012 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 34 past nominations.

    Riley1012 (talk) 16:00, 6 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

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    Shmuel Hurvits

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    • ... that the Yiddish poet Shmuel Hurvits quit his job as a teacher to become a street-paver due to an ideological appreciation for manual labor?
    • Source: Steinlauf, Michael C. (2003). "A. Litvin: Chronicler of Jewish Souls". In Steinlauf, Michael C.; Polonsky, Antony (eds.). Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. Vol. 16. Liverpool University Press. pp. 371–412. doi:10.3828/liverpool/9781874774730.003.0020. ISBN 9781874774730.
    Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 104 past nominations.

    Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 22:52, 7 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    • New enough, long enough, QPQ done. Hook checks out (via TWL) and is interesting. Article is sourced, neutral, does not appear to be plagiarised. No other issues apparent, good to go.   —Kusma (talk) 22:33, 14 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Dez Caught It

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    Improved to Good Article status by Gonzo fan2007 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 58 past nominations.

    « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 21:29, 9 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   Article GA'd 7 January and long enough, with no policy errors as far as I can tell (Earwig picks up some quotes, such as the rule change in 2015). Hook is very interesting and cited in the article, and QPQ is done. Thanks for your great work; I think we're good to go! Staraction (talk | contribs) 02:41, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Mink (manga)

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    • ... that the Japanese manga series Mink featured futuristic technology even though its creator was unfamiliar with computers?
    Created by Lullabying (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 61 past nominations.

    lullabying (talk) 06:39, 9 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    •   article is recently created, within policy and long enough. Hook is interesting and short enough. QPQ is complete. Note, I verified the source to the best of my ability using Google translate. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:27, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Prison healthcare in Australia

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    Improved to Good Article status by Damien Linnane (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 80 past nominations.

    Damien Linnane (talk) 00:59, 8 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    Huaju Film Company

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    • ... that most of the films produced by the Huaju Film Company starred its co-founder and his girlfriend?
    • Source: * Hong Kai (侯凯) (20 January 2022). 华剧影片公司 [Huaju Film Company]. Encyclopaedia of China (in Chinese) (3rd ed.). Archived from the original on 7 January 2025. Retrieved 7 January 2025. [影片多由张惠民导演，张惠民、吴素馨夫妻共同主演。] "Most of the films were directed by Zhang Huimin, with Zhang Huimin and Wu Suxin costarring."; girlfriend: Zhang, Zhen (2005). An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-98238-0. p. 385: "Yu is played by Wu Suxin, Zhang's girlfriend in real life."
    Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 732 past nominations.

     — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:58, 8 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:   - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   New and long enough, with no policy issues I can see. Hook verified (AGF because I don't believe I have access to the given source) and in the article. QPQ is done. Thanks for your wonderful work; I believe we're good to go! Staraction (talk | contribs) 03:06, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Mufasa

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    • Source: "Mufasa was voiced by American actor James Earl Jones."
    • Reviewed:
    Improved to Good Article status by Changedforbetter (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Therguy10 (talk) 15:08, 7 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: None required.

    Overall:   Huh, one I did know (though I'm also a Disney nerd and have a Mulan picture signed by Ming-Na Wen...)! And yes, I think Darth Vader is definitely well-enough known to meet WP:DYK-int. New enough, long enough, interesting. Hook fact is well cited. Earwig comes back with 36%, but going through the returns everything is either a film title or a properly attributed quote. As Launchballer noted, no FU images on the MP, and I see that it has been removed. Good to go!  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Mirza Muhammad Amin Shahristani

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    • Source: Haneda, Masashi (1997-10-01). "Emigration of Iranian Elites to India during the 16-18th centuries". Cahiers d’Asie centrale (3/4): 129–143. ISSN 1270-9247. The sovereign of Golconda at that time recognized his talents and gave him an important position in state administration. He finally became vakil (regent). After the death of the king, however, he was dismissed by the new monarch and subsequently moved to the kingdom of Bijapur seeking another position. Unable to find an opening there, he returned to Iran (autumn 1614). His nephew being ṣadr at that time30, he was received courteously by Shah 'Abbas. He expected a high post at the court, but the Shah, despite his kind welcome, did not offer him an interesting position, being only eager to cash in on the fortune Mir Mohammad had accumulated in India. After four years, Mir Mohammad gave up his post at the Safavid court with the intent of going to the Mughal court. Made aware of Mir Mohammad's ability, the emperor Jahangir wrote him an invitation and Mir Mohammad left Isfahan for the Mughal court in 1027/1617-1831. Jahangir rewarded him with 2 500 zats32 and 200 horses for his painstaking journey and his precious gifts
    Created by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

    AmateurHi$torian (talk) 19:31, 7 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    Eunos MRT station

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

    Icepinner (formerly Imbluey2). Please ping me so that I get notified of your response 11:25, 7 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: None required.

    Overall:   Article is new enough (GA on January 7, 2025) and long enough (6871 characters). It is adequately sourced, neutral, and free of copyright violations (Earwig returns 2.0%). All the hooks are cited, and reasonably interesting. ALT0 could have been made more interesting if there was mention of the "stairs that led to nowhere", but "repeated issues with the stairs" is still interesting enough, at least for a DYK. No QPQ is required. AmateurHi$torian (talk) 20:07, 7 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    • @AmateurHi$torian: now that you mentioned it, do you think that the hook should be changed to "...that a train station in Singapore has stairs that seemingly 'lead to nowhere?". I think "repeated issues with the stairs" isn't that interesting compared to the above one (though I don't know if it's still there or not). Icepinner (formerly Imbluey2). Please ping me so that I get notified of your response 01:46, 8 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    @Icepinner: "Has" would certainly be inaccurate without a source to confirm that those stairs still exist. Since the issue was reported in 2006, it's highly likely they don't. How about ALT3:"that a train station in Singapore was criticized for having stairs that seemingly 'lead to nowhere'?"? AmateurHi$torian (talk) 09:58, 8 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    @AmateurHi$torian: sounds good. Thank you! Icepinner (formerly Imbluey2). Please ping me so that I get notified of your response 13:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    @AmateurHi$torian: can we continue with this nomination? Icepinner (formerly Imbluey2). Please ping me so that I get notified of your response 12:57, 14 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    @Icepinner: It is already approved. (note the green tick mark on my first comment) It takes a while for a promoter to review it and move it into a queue :) -AmateurHi$torian (talk) 15:03, 14 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
    Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification! Icepinner (formerly Imbluey2). Please ping me so that I get notified of your response 01:15, 15 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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    January 2025 Richmond water outage

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    • Comment: Kind of current; I don't know how this process really works, but would love to see this on the Main Page while it is still relevant!
    Created by JuxtaposedJacob (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 07:55, 9 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    •   New article, more than long enough, decently sourced (though there's a heavy reliance on primary sources evident, not a major issue), hook cited and no image copyright issues. I do have one major issue: Earwig detects multiple pretty sizable copyvios. There's two over 40% confidence and going further down I see identical attributions to the sources (while there is an argument for keeping quotes, copyvios can occur if you take the attribution before the quote directly from the source, rather than just the quote itself). Also, the hook isn't too interesting, honestly; I'd propose an alt similar to "...that a blizzard across the United States caused a major water crisis in Richmond, Virginia?" or some variant (let me know what you think of that); "major impacts" happen all the time and being non-specific hurts this one. I advise that you check WP:EARWIG and go and root out the copyright violations, and ping me when that's done. Departure– (talk) 15:18, 9 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
      • @User:Departure– I like your new hook much better. I have edited the page a little bit to remove some of the copyvios (I should have rephrased a bit more when writing the article, which is not normally a problem for me), but in my opinion, at this point, some of it is unavoidable. If you or someone else wishes to edit the page further to remove the copyvios, I would love that (totally not a requirement), but right now I don't have the energy to come up with new, creative ways to say "Tuckahoe Area Library" and "bottled water." All this to say that I am willing to withdraw the nomination if the page is still not acceptable. JuxtaposedJacob (talk) | :) | he/him | 05:05, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
        • Using simple phrases is by no means a copyvio. I've had experience with this, long names such as "National Weather Service Chicago, Illinois" show up as major points towards a copyvio when they're just the name of the entity. I'll take a look at it again in a minute. Departure– (talk) 14:17, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply
          •   @JuxtaposedJacob: still multiple sources over 40% on Earwig, and some at 30% appear to be direct quotations of non-quoted material from the sources. You can use this link to Earwig to root out copyvios - anything with too-close paraphrasing of anything but a quote from an official isn't going to fly. Also, I should state now that DYK typically takes 2 to 3 weeks from an article getting nominated to appearing on the main page - by then, the water crisis in Richmond is likely to be resolved. Other than copyvio concerns, everything seems sourced and no problems with the hook. Departure– (talk) 14:24, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Scrat

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    Improved to Good Article status by PrimalMustelid (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

    PrimalMustelid (talk) 20:08, 10 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   Article recently passed a GA review, so it qualifies on newness and length, it also complies with sourcing, neutrality and policy requirements. The only uncited sections in the article are plot synopses that don't really require an inline citation. It would have been nice to see a picture for this one, but there's certainly not any available in the commons/public domain. The hook is definitely interesting, as this is such an iconic character in this series. Easy pass for me. Nice work! Grnrchst (talk) 12:16, 11 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    10 won bread

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

    seefooddiet (talk) 12:40, 9 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    WUVN

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    Improved to Good Article status by Sammi Brie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 733 past nominations.

    Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:34, 9 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    Policy compliance:

    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:   @Sammi Brie: Recently upgraded to GA status, no problems with the article, and a pretty interesting hook. The ALT1 hook isn't really interesting while ALT2 would be an okay replacement. The first hook is obviously the best. Jon698 (talk) 09:01, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

    Woljeonggyo

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    On the bridge Woljeonggyo
    • ... that Woljeonggyo was an 8th-century bridge that was recreated in 2018? Source: This source isn't used in the article (the sources in the article are mostly Korean-language), but it supports the hook [18].
    Created by Seefooddiet (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    seefooddiet (talk) 12:48, 9 January 2025 (UTC).Reply

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    • Cited:  
    • Interesting:  

    Image eligibility:

    QPQ: Done.

    Overall:     Reviewing each of the links, they are free of bias, direct from the Cultural Heritage Administration. The reconstruction of an 8th century bridge backed by historical record is a worthy add-on to the DYK front page. Appreciate the topic!


    NeverBeGameOver (talk) 06:43, 10 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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