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Revision as of 01:59, 26 June 2008
Here are the unwritten rules of Did You Know. The question marks show where even I'm not sure if that's what the real unwritten rule is.
- No redlinks.
- No forks, that is, an article isn't really new if you copied it from a larger article.
- No ads.
- No items that have already appeared on the Main Page or been rejected for In The News (?).
- The hook's citation should preferably (?) be in English, and with no paid registration required to read it.
- Articles nominated for deletion won't be used unless/until they survive the deletion process.
- Don't falsely assume that everyone worldwide knows what country or sport you're talking about.
- The prose portion of the article, which must be 1500 characters, excludes headers, images and captions, and edit buttons, but includes reference link numbers like .
- Fivefold expansion means fivefold expansion of the prose portion, as defined for the 1500 character minimum rule, not fivefold expansion of the entire article.
- Fivefold expansion is calculated from the previously existing article, no matter how bad it was, no matter whether you kept any of it and (?) no matter if it was up for deletion.
- Don't capitalize your article as it appears in the hook, just because that's how it appears in the article. Capitalize it only if the word would normally be capitalized, even if you weren't linking it.
- No space before the question mark.
The following rules are written but often overlooked:
- Space after the ellipsis.
- The link to your article should be in bold type.
- WP:DASH.
- MOS:NUM#Numbers as figures or words.
Other recurring issues: Authors often complain that requests for changes don't come until the hook is about to expire. However, most reviewers prefer to review the end of the list, hoping that all other changes have come first. That isn't the ideal situation, but it explains what happens.