User:Calmer Waters/DYK...From Hook to Main Page

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 hook

The hook is the selling point for getting readers to view the article you are nominating. The following will assist you in getting your nomination approved and keeping your submissions from failing DYK eligibility.

• Make it interesting! Find a fact within the article that is sourced that would be appealing to a large number of readers.

• Ensure it is less than 200 characters in length. The hook itself should be concise (fewer than about 200 characters, including spaces).

• Hooks which focus on negative aspects of living individuals should be avoided.

• Ensure all included wikilinks within the hook are direct links and not redirects or disambiguation pages.

• The hook must be mentioned in the article and cited with an inline citation since inline citations are used to support specific statements in an article. Sometimes the information contained within a paragraph is referenced by a single source. This in return causes the cite to be placed at the end of the paragraph. As this is acceptible for the article itself, for DYK it would also need to be cited directlty after the hook.

• Many times editors will suggest an alternate hook for your entry. Please check back often and provide feedback both on any concerns raised and opinions on alternative hooks offered.

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 and no potental issues are present.

This is used 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.

{{subst:DYKtickAGF}} - Article is ready for DYK, with a foreign-language or offline hook reference accepted in good faith.

This tag is the same as the above tag except is used when the hooked source is either offline (ex. book, journal, newspaper) or a foreign language web site. This is assuming good faith (AGF) of the source.

{{subst:DYK?}} - DYK eligibility requires that an issue be addressed.

This tag is to be used when an issue with either the hook or article is present. This should be used accompned with an explanation of what needs to be addressed or clarified. Also the following template needs to be posted to the nominators talk page:

{{subst:DYKproblem|Article|header=yes|sig=yes}}

{{subst:DYK?no}} - DYK eligibility requires additional work.

This tag is to be used when a major issue with the nomination exist and must be addressed before promotion can take place. The most often examples for this would be prose that currently does not meet the minimum length requirement. This would also include major issues with the article or hook such as a negative point-of-view of a living individual in a hook or copy-right issues with an article. This tag should be accompanied with an explanation of what needs to be addressed. Also the following template needs to be posted to the nominators talk page:

{{subst:DYKproblem|Article|header=yes|sig=yes}}

{{subst:DYKno}} - Article is either completely ineligible, or else requires considerable work before becoming eligible

This tag is used when the article has failed for consideration for DYK. Reasons would include articles that have not been expanded to the minium leagth requirements within 5 days of creation. Also nomination that have not addressed issues within an acceptible amount of time should also be tagged.

Note Please do not automatically delete a nomination without tagging it first. It should instead be reviewed by a second pair of eyes before removal and deletion.