User:Calmer Waters/DYK...From Hook to Main Page
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After working at Did you Know regularly, you will notice many mistakes which tie-up hook nominations, slowing down their progression to the main page. In some instances, these mistakes will cause the nomination to be declined.
It is because of this, I have provided an indepth step-by-step instruction on how to nominate an article, submit an eligible hook, verifing another editors nomination, promoting a hook to a preparation area, and finally moving a set of hooks both manually and with use of admin tools in a queue.
This is to be used as a reference to new DYK contributers, admin-candidates, and new admins with limited experience in this field.
The nomination template
The hook
The article
Verifying other editors nominations
Any editor who was not involved in writing,expanding, or nominating an article may review it by checking to see that the article meets all the DYK criteria shown above.
Hooks can be tagged with 5 possible assessment results.
{{subst:DYKtick}} - No problems, ready for DYK
Using this tag shows other editors that the hook is ready for promotion to the main page.
This is after the inline reference has been verified, along with date of the article's creation or expansion, and the required length. No issues present themselves with either the hook or associated article. Hook is approprately wiki-linked, title of article featured is bolded, and sourced have been verified as belonging to reliable sources.
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{{subst:DYKtickAGF}} - Article is ready for DYK, with a foreign-language or offline hook reference accepted in good faith.
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{{subst:DYK?}} - DYK eligibility requires that an issue be addressed.
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{{subst:DYK?no}} - DYK eligibility requires additional work.
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{{subst:DYKno}} - Article is either completely ineligible, or else requires considerable work before becoming eligible
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