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DYK queue status
Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 30 December 2024 (UTC) Current time: 15:31, 29 December 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 15 hours ago( ) |
Hooks
Fănuș Neagu
- ... that writer Fănuș Neagu (pictured) claimed to have spent the Romanian floods of May 1970 stranded with a feral wolf on the roof of a cannery?
- ... that Sierra Leone is the only country where a British law from 1861 still bans abortion?
- ... that Lewis Worthington Smith received royalties from his textbook The Mechanism of English Style for 20 years?
- ... that Tomas Fung founded the predecessor of the restaurant Ling Nam with only 3,000 Philippine pesos?
- ... that Lothar von Falkenhausen was appointed an honorary professor of Zhejiang University, an honor usually reserved for Nobel Prize winners?
- ... that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a United States regulatory agency, does not require workplaces to have employee break rooms?
- ... that a critic compared vocalist Riley Gale to a "rabid wolf"?
- ... that The Strip documents how the gangster Meyer Lansky would walk his Shih Tzu near the pool while visiting a casino?
- ... that a woman was sentenced to 10 months of forced labor when she "tickled" the breasts of The Motherland Calls?
See how this template appears on both today's Main Page
... and tomorrow's Main Page
To reset the contents of this page for the next update, copy the empty page from Template:Did you know/Clear.
Credits
This space is to credit the creators/nominators of the items in this template that in fact appear on the Main Page. If you replace or remove an item before it appears on the Main Page, please revert the promotion of the hook so its template appears again at Template talk:Did you know and add a note to the nomination's template explaining why you removed it.- Fănuș Neagu – Dahn (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Abortion in Sierra Leone – Vigilantcosmicpenguin (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Lewis Worthington Smith – SL93 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Ling Nam – Vortex3427 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Nom credit: TheNuggeteer (give)
- Lothar von Falkenhausen – Generalissima (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Break room – Bohemian Baltimore (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Riley Gale – Kimikel (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- The Strip (book) – Cunard (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- The Motherland Calls – Joeyquism (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Credit templates
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|29 December|2024|entry= ... that ...?|nompage=Template:Did you know nominations/Article name}}(check if small style templates in use, if so add|small=yesparm) - Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYK|29 December|2024|Article name}}--~~~~ - Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|29 December|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
Images
- Don't forget to add an {{mprotected}} notice to the image description page (or {{C-uploaded}} plus a copy of the author attribution and the licence tag if you have uploaded a temporary copy from Commons).
- Alternatively, consider crediting the image file page even if the file is from Commons:
{{DYKfile|29 December|2024}}
Manually posting the new update (if the bot is down)
- Note: This is the manual method. When using DYKUpdateBot, the bot should automate all of the following except steps 1, 7, and 11.
- Make sure the image/media for the hooks to be loaded is on English Misplaced Pages or protected on Commons. If the image/file is on Commons and not protected, upload it to En and tag it with {{c-uploaded}}. You do not need to protect the picture; this is done automatically because of the cascading protection of the Main Page. Alternatively, if you are an admin at Commons you can protect the picture/file at Commons instead of uploading to En.
- Update T:DYK from the current queue.
- Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear.
- Reset the DYK time.
- Increment the next queue pointer.
- Copy the previous set of hooks (not the new set just promoted to the front page) to the archive. Be sure to copy the final revision of the set (it should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update), and place the timestamp of the DYK update you just made above it. Please include the picture/file.
- Check if the previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
- On the local description page of the picture/file for the previous set of hooks, add
{{DYKfile|29 December|2024|type=image}}(occasionally replacingimagewithvideowhere appropriate). Note that, like the archives, this will create a one-day misalignment between the date on the file page and the date it actually appeared in DYK. - If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).
- Clear the queue you just promoted hooks from with
{{User:DYKUpdateBot/REMOVE THIS LINE}}. - If you have time, check if there are any full preparation areas. Check the hooks for errors, and promote them to the next empty numbered queue if they're good. Clear the prep you took hooks from to look like this. Tag the numbered queue with
{{DYKbotdo|~~~}}once the queue is loaded and ready.