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For instructions on how to nominate an article, see Template:DYK nomination header § Instructions for nominators.
"Template:Did you know nominations" redirects here. For the list of approved nominations, see Template talk:Did you know/Approved.

This page is to nominate fresh articles to appear in the "Did you know" section on the Main Page with a "hook" (an interesting fact). Nominations that have been approved are moved to a staging area and then promoted into the Queue. To update this page, purge it.

Count of DYK Hooks
Section # of Hooks # Verified
April 14 1
May 6 1
May 21 1
May 25 1
May 27 1 1
May 28 2 1
May 30 2
May 31 1
June 6 3
June 7 2
June 9 1 1
June 10 2
June 11 3
June 12 2
June 13 1
June 15 2
June 16 2 1
June 17 3 2
June 18 2
June 19 2
June 20 3 1
June 21 4 2
June 22 7 3
June 23 6 3
June 24 11 6
June 25 8 2
June 26 6 3
June 27 6 2
June 28 5 2
June 29 6 4
June 30 11 4
July 1 4 3
July 2 6 5
July 3 6 5
July 4 6 5
July 5 13 9
July 6 14 10
July 7 10 6
July 8 11 8
July 9 12 5
July 10 9 3
July 11 12 4
July 12 5 3
July 13 8 4
July 14 9 4
July 15 6 3
July 16 7 1
July 17 8 1
July 18 8 5
July 19 4
July 20 10 4
July 21 6 2
July 22
Total 282 128
Last updated 00:06, 22 July 2025 UTC
Current time is 00:08, 22 July 2025 UTC [refresh]

Instructions for nominators

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If this is your first nomination, please read the DYK rules before continuing. Further information can be found at the DYK guidelines.

Nominate an article

Frequently asked questions

How do I write an interesting hook?

Successful hooks tend to have several traits. Most importantly, they share a surprising or intriguing fact. They give readers enough context to understand the hook, but leave enough out to make them want to learn more. They are written for a general audience who has no prior knowledge of or interest in the topic area. Lastly, they are concise, and do not attempt to cover multiple facts or present information about the subject beyond what's needed to understand the hook.

When will my nomination be reviewed?

This page is often backlogged. As long as your submission is still on the page, it will stay there until an editor reviews it. Since editors are encouraged to review the oldest submissions first, it may take several weeks until your submission is reviewed. In the meantime, please consider reviewing another submission (not your own) to help reduce the backlog (see instructions below). Because of WP:DYKTIMEOUT, a nomination should be reviewed within two months since the reviewer/promoter may agree to reject and close an unpromoted hook after that time has passed.

Where is my hook?

If you can't find the nomination you submitted to this nominations page, it may have been approved and is on the approved nominations page waiting to be promoted. It could also have been added to one of the prep areas, 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 reviewers

Main page: Wikipedia:Did you know/Reviewer instructions

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 (long enough, new enough, no serious editorial or content issues) and the hook is cited. Editors may also alter the suggested hook to improve it, suggest new hooks, or even lend a hand and make edits to the article to which the hook applies so that the hook is supported and accurate. For more information on the DYK rules and review processes, see the DYK guidelines and the reviewer instructions.

To post a comment or review on a DYK nomination, follow the steps outlined below:

  • Look through this page, Template talk:Did you know, to find a nomination you would like to comment on.
  • Click the "Review or comment" link at the top of the nomination. You will be taken to the nomination subpage.
  • The top of the page includes a list of the DYK criteria. Check the article to ensure it meets all the relevant criteria.
  • To indicate the result of the review (i.e., whether the nomination passes, fails, or needs some minor changes), leave a signed comment on the page. Please begin with one of the 5 review symbols that appear at the top of the edit screen, and then indicate all aspects of the article that you have reviewed; your comment should look something like the following:

    Article length and age are fine, no copyvio or plagiarism concerns, reliable sources are used. But the hook needs to be shortened.

    If you are the first person to comment on the nomination, there will be a line :* <!-- REPLACE THIS LINE TO WRITE FIRST COMMENT, KEEPING  :* --> showing you where you should put the comment.
  • Save the page.
  • After the nomination is approved, a bot will automatically list the nomination page on Template talk:Did you know/Approved.

If there is any problem or concern about a nomination, please consider notifying the nominator by placing {{subst:DYKproblem|Article|header=yes|sig=yes}} on the nominator's talk page.

Advanced procedures

How to promote an accepted hook

At-a-glance instructions on how to promote an approved hook to a prep area
Check list for nomination review completeness
  1. Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post: .
  2. Check to make sure basic review requirements were completed.
    • Any outstanding issue following needs to be addressed before promoting.
  3. Check the article history for any substantive changes since it was nominated or reviewed.
  4. Images for the lead slot must be freely licensed. Fair-use images are not permitted. Images loaded on Commons that appear on the Main Page are automatically protected by KrinkleBot.
  5. Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
  6. Hook should make sense grammatically.
  7. Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
  8. Try to select a funny, quirky or otherwise upbeat hook for the last or bottom hook in the set.
Steps to add a hook to prep
  • In one tab, open the nomination page of the hook you want to promote.
  • In a second tab, open the prep set you intend to add the hook to.

Wanna skip all this fuss? Install WP:PSHAW instead! Does most of the heavy lifting for ya :)

  1. For hooks held for specific dates, refer to "Local update times" section on DYK Queue.
    • Completed Prep area number sets will be promoted by an administrator to corresponding Queue number.
  2. Copy and paste the hook into a chosen slot.
    • Make sure there's a space between ... and that, and a ? at the end.
    • Check that there's a bold link to the article.
  3. If it's the lead (first) hook, paste the image where indicated at the top of the template.
  4. Copy and paste ALL the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) at the bottom
  5. Check your work in the prep's Preview mode.
    • At the bottom under "Credits", to the right of each article should have the link "View nom subpage" ; if not, a subpage parameter will need to be added to the DYKmake.
  6. Save the Prep page.
Closing the DYK nomination page
  1. At the upper left
    • Change {{DYKsubpage to {{subst:DYKsubpage
    • Change |passed= to |passed=yes
  2. At the bottom
    • Just above the line containing

      }}<!--Please do not write below this line or remove this line. Place comments above this line.-->

      insert a new, separate line containing one of the following:
      To [[TM:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
      To [[TM:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
      To [[TM:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
      To [[TM:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
      To [[TM:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
      To [[TM:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
      To [[TM:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]
    • Also paste the same thing into the edit summary.
  3. Check in Preview mode. Make sure everything is against a pale blue background (nothing outside) and there are no stray characters, like }}, at the top or bottom.
  4. Save.

For more information, please see T:TDYK#How to promote an accepted hook.

Handy copy sources:

  • To [[TM:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
  • To [[TM:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
  • To [[TM:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
  • To [[TM:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
  • To [[TM:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
  • To [[TM:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
  • To [[TM:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]

How to remove a rejected hook

  • Open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to remove. (It's best to wait several days after a reviewer has rejected the hook, just in case someone contests or the article undergoes a large change.)
  • In the window where the DYK nomination subpage is open, replace the line {{DYKsubpage with {{subst:DYKsubpage, and replace |passed= with |passed=no. Then save the page. This has the effect of wrapping up the discussion on the DYK nomination subpage in a blue archive box and stating that the nomination was unsuccessful, as well as adding the nomination to a category for archival purposes.

How to remove a hook from the prep areas or queue

  • 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 this 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 this 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.

How to move a nomination subpage to a new name

  • Don't; it should not ever be necessary, and will break some links which will later need to be repaired. Even if you change the title of the article, you don't need to move the nomination page.

Nominations

Older nominations

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Articles created/expanded on May 21

Regan Garden

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Regan Garden
Regan Garden
Created by CanonNi (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

'''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 14:28, 29 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Article is new enough and long enough. Hook fact is verified in the sources for 0 and ALT2 - rejecting ALT1 as the source reads “1.2 亿元” - 120 million; not as impressive. QPQ has been provided. No copyvio detected, as expected when all sources are in Chinese. Image is… clear enough at that size, and adequately licensed. Good to go. Strongly prefer ALT2. Juxlos (talk) 09:02, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Pulled. The source says ownership "changed seven times among four countries" but at least two of these were "occupations" rather than ownership. The ALT hook isn't very good either, so I have returned this one for further discussion. Gatoclass (talk) 10:54, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
IMO ALT2 is a DYKINT fail. Suggested alt:
While I think ALT3 is a better hook, I do not see why ALT2 fails DYKINT. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:22, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Firstly, it should be "troops" not "armies". But was the house literally occupied by troops from both armies? The article isn't 100% clear on that.
But regardless, it still just reads as a random list of occupiers. What house doesn't have very different occupiers over the course of its history? That is not unusual at all. Gatoclass (talk) 12:57, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It could be for a layperson. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:20, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it's really a mansion, not just a 'two-story house". Which incidentally is another problem with that hook IMO. Gatoclass (talk) 15:02, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • The body never mentions that the house was the private residence of Victor Sassoon, only that it was owned by a company. It's also not sated that Sassoon was a hotelier (what a life though). Inclined to agree a house changing hands is not particularly unique. Are the 20 acres and 104 acres adjoining? CMD (talk) 08:23, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on May 22

Articles created/expanded on May 25

2024 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

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Cathelijn Peeters, Lieke Klaver, Femke Bol, and Lisanne de Witte
Cathelijn Peeters, Lieke Klaver, Femke Bol, and Lisanne de Witte
  • Source: #1 "1 NED - NETHERLANDS 9 0.139 3:22.39 EL / 1913 KLAVER Lieke 50.57 (1) / 1915 PEETERS Cathelijn 50.96 (5) 1:41.53 (2) / 1908 DE WITTE Lisanne 50.41 (1) 2:31.94 (1) / 1906 BOL Femke 50.45 (6)" (link)
  • Source: #2 "1 NETHERLANDS NED 5 0.180 3:25.07 WL / 712 Lieke KLAVER 50.26 (1) / 713 Cathelijn PEETERS 51.99 (5) 1:42.25 (1) / 710 Lisanne DE WITTE 52.28 (3) 2:34.53 (1) / 709 Femke BOL 50.54 (3)" (link)
Improved to Good Article status by Editør (talk). Number of QPQs required: 4. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 20 past nominations.

Editør (talk) 19:42, 25 May 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
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: These all look good to me. Great work.

Thank you for your review. – Editør (talk) 15:51, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I cannot come up with a combined hook, so I will try separate hooks.
Here are two alternative hooks for 2024 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay. – Editør (talk) 16:58, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Women's 4 × 400 m relay final
Women's 4 × 400 m relay final
And here is an alternative hook for 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay. – Editør (talk) 17:17, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Cathelijn Peeters, Lieke Klaver, Femke Bol, and Lisanne de Witte
Cathelijn Peeters, Lieke Klaver, Femke Bol, and Lisanne de Witte
Please also see the nomination Template:Did you know nominations/2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay with alt hooks where this 2024 event is combined with others from 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2025. – Editør (talk) 19:28, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Now that 2024 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay is used in a five-article hook, that only leaves the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay to get a hook approved. Below is another option for this article. – Editør (talk) 15:41, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on May 27

Articles created/expanded on May 28

Diagnostic overshadowing in autism

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  • ... that that chronic pain or depression in autistic people is sometimes misread as “just part of autism,” delaying diagnosis and care?
  • Source: “Autistic individuals... experience elevated rates of chronic physical conditions, yet symptoms are often dismissed as part of autism rather than investigated as medical concerns.”
— Diagnostic overshadowing in autism article, citing:
Buie et al., 2010. Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorders in Individuals With ASDs: A Consensus Report. PMID: 20048083
  • ALT1: ... that that older autistic adults may go untreated for conditions like sensory loss, pain, or memory decline because their symptoms are wrongly attributed to autism?
  • Source: “Older autistic adults... may be at heightened risk for misattributed cognitive decline (e.g., assuming communication challenges reflect autism when it may signal aging-related dementia or memory loss), untreated sensory loss... or inadequate pain management.”
— Diagnostic overshadowing in autism article, citing:
Hand et al., 2020. Prevalence of physical and mental health conditions in Medicare-enrolled, autistic older adults. PMID: 31773968
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: This is my first DYK nomination. This article highlights a significant and under-recognized health equity issue in autism: how co-occurring conditions like chronic pain or memory decline may be missed due to diagnostic overshadowing.
Created by PulsarPen (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

PulsarPen (talk) 17:37, 4 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • @PulsarPen: Thanks for writing an important article like this! Here's the DYK review:
General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: No - ALT0 isn't fully supported by the article - chronic pain and depression aren't specifically mentioned in the relevant sentence.
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: No - Both hooks need formatting changes.
QPQ: None required.

Overall: The hooks aren't formatted correctly - this guideline describes the standard style that hooks should be written in. As well as this, the first hook (ALT0) isn't supported by the article. Here's suggestions for improving your hooks, with correct formatting and the first hook's issue fixed:

To have the review passed, you'll also have to add citations to the end of a few paragraphs, as "all content that could reasonably be challenged ... must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose)." (from this guideline). Here's all the instances that need a citation:

  • Section "Physical health in autistics", paragraph starting "Such misattributions can result in..."
  • Section "Diagnostic overshadowing in reverse", paragraph starting "This form of overshadowing delays access to..."
  • The first paragraph of the "Systemic contributors" section
  • Section "Diagnostic overshadowing over the lifespan", paragraph starting "This form of lifespan overshadowing reflects..."

And one more minor thing: this doesn't affect whether or not the review passes, but usually when providing sources in DYK nominations, quotes are given from the citations themselves in order to make it easier for the reviewer to verify that the hooks are sourced.

Once the citation issues have been fixed, I'll be happy to pass this! I personally think that the first hook is a little more interesting than the second. Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 23:33, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@PulsarPen: Courtesy ping to let you know that this DYK will be rejected for inactivity soon if there's no reply. Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 15:52, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Suntooooth and @IntentionallyDense, thank you both for your time and thoughtful feedback on this DYK. I’ve carefully addressed each point as follows: My intended edits are below. I’m struggling a bit about how to edit the DYK page…. Please bear with me as I try to figure this out (also appreciate any help on the adding my intended edits below) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PulsarPen (talk • contribs) 00:10, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1. Synthesis Concern (IntentionallyDense) Reviewer comment: The article previously cited only epilepsy and GI disorders but made a broader claim about chronic conditions, which could be WP:SYNTH. My response:
I've rewritten the sentence to remove the unsourced generalization. The updated phrasing now ties each condition (e.g., chronic pain, GI symptoms, autoimmune conditions) to secondary sources that explicitly discuss them. I also added:

  • Mason et al. (2019): A systematic review that documents elevated chronic physical health conditions in autistic adults.
  • Croen et al. (2015): A population-level study supporting multisystem health disparities.

This ensures that the revised statement reflects the scope of the sources used and avoids synthesis.

2. Hook Citation Support (Suntooooth) Reviewer comment: ALT0 originally referenced chronic pain and depression, but those conditions weren’t clearly cited in the article sentence used. My response:
I revised the hook for clarity and ensured it matches the wording and sourcing in the article. The final hook is now: ALT0: ... that chronic conditions in autistic people are sometimes misread as "just part of autism", delaying diagnosis and care? This wording directly reflects the cited section of the article, which now ends with high-quality secondary citations (e.g., Mason et al. 2019, Buie et al. 2010).

3. Citation Placement at End of Paragraphs Reviewer comment: Several paragraphs did not end with citations as required. My response:
I’ve reviewed and updated all flagged paragraphs to ensure proper citation placement, specifically:

  • “Physical health in autistics” — now ends with Mason et al. (2019)
  • “Diagnostic overshadowing in reverse” — now ends with Moyse & Porter (2015), a secondary source
  • First paragraph of “Systemic contributors” — updated to cite Mason et al. (2019)
  • Paragraph in “Diagnostic overshadowing over the lifespan” — ends with Croen et al. (2015) and Mason et al. (2019)

4. Hook Formatting Reviewer comment: Hooks weren’t in standard format. My response:
Both hooks have now been updated to follow the DYK format:

  • ALT0: ... that chronic conditions in autistic people are sometimes misread as "just part of autism", delaying diagnosis and care?
  • ALT1: ... that older autistic adults may go untreated for conditions like sensory loss, pain, or memory decline because their symptoms are wrongly attributed to autism?

Each now appears as a complete question in DYK style and reflects a verified section in the article with inline secondary citations.

5. Quotes from Sources (Optional Suggestion) Reviewer suggestion: Consider quoting the sources in the DYK nomination to make reviewer verification easier. My response:
I’ve added direct quote snippets from Buie et al. (2010), Mason et al. (2019), and Croen et al. (2015) into the nomination template to make verification easier.

“Autistic individuals experience elevated rates of a wide range of chronic physical conditions…” Mason et al. (2019) “Chronic constipation, abdominal pain, and other GI symptoms… are often misinterpreted as behavioral issues in autism.” –Buie et al. (2010) “Autistic adults had significantly higher rates of chronic conditions including hypertension, diabetes, and dementia.” Croen et al. (2015) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PulsarPen (talk • contribs) 00:08, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply, but I'm going to have to ask for a second opinion from another reviewer. I'm not 100% sure that this should pass, and I'm on holiday right now so I don't have time to give this the attention it deserves - but I don't think it's a straightforward pass. (Also, you obviously didn't read the format guideline I linked in the review.) Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 00:26, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The article is currently tagged for issues relating to potential OR and SYNTH, and there is some discussion on this in the talkpage. The page cannot proceed through DYK while resolution of those issues is pending. I don't want this to timeout as it may have taken on the appearance of a slightly byzantine process, but at the same time I'm sure everyone agrees that this is an important topic and it's important to get it right, especially for a main page appearance. CMD (talk) 08:40, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2018–19 College Football Playoff

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Improved to Good Article status by PCN02WPS (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 88 past nominations.

PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 16:02, 28 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@PCN02WPS: Pinging for a new hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:17, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Narutolovehinata5 and Piotrus: any thoughts on these:
ALT3: ... that Alabama's 28-point loss in the championship of the 2018–19 College Football Playoff was double the margin of their prior largest loss under head coach Nick Saban? source
ALT4: ... that by winning the 2018–19 College Football Playoff, Clemson became the first team in the AP poll era to finish a season undefeated with 15 wins? source same as ALT3
ALT5: ... that Donald Trump served Clemson players and coaches fast food during their playoff championship visit to the White House? source
PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 05:06, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmm, for general interest, maybe the last one? All others are pretty technical, and for someone not interested in sports (read: myself) they are not only uninteresting but hard to parse (but, please note, I am not vetoing them, per my previous comments - I fully accept that they can be interesting to those who like sports and understand the related jargon. FYI, by jargon I mean stuff like AP poll or margin of prior score). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:44, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As much as I'm not a big fan of Trump hooks, or at least there being too many of them, ALT5 is probably the best and least specialist option. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:00, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not thrilled about being responsible for another Trump hook, but at this point every football-related one seems unlikely to get approval and that seems to me to be the hookiest non-football-related fact. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 14:27, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We also have this if it is sufficiently free of "jargon" (this feels easily understandable to someone not intimately familiar with CFB - I would hope that people can understand what a "point" is and can make the connection between having fewer points and losing a game, margin of victory is also a fairly elementary concept that I would expect people to be able to understand, especially when worded like this):
ALT6: ... that Alabama's 28-point loss in the championship of the 2018–19 College Football Playoff was their largest loss since 1998? source
PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 16:55, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ALT5 could be modified to mention American football (since the current hook is vague on what sport what the Clemson players played); I am willing to approve both ALT5 and ALT6 once that is sorted out. ALT6 does need to be clarified though: by "largest loss", does that mean in any game, or just any college playoff game? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:46, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The provided source clarifies this right at the top: The 28-point loss is Alabama’s worst since a 38-7 loss to Virginia Tech in the 1998 Music City Bowl. I still much prefer ALT6 to ALT6a, since I feel like "in any game" would be the default interpretation given the wording and the lack of a qualifier, but I don't feel like continuing in this fix loop so I'll offer these up.

PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 14:32, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Given that there are some reservations at WT:DYK regarding using the word "football" without a qualifier, we could just go with vanilla ALT5 after all, or perhaps go with something like this:
ALT5b: ... that Donald Trump served Clemson Tigers players and coaches fast food during their 2018–19 College Football Playoff championship visit to the White House?
Technically it still uses "football" without "American football", but in this case "College Football Playoff" is a proper term, so that should help. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:53, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am not a fan of 5b (the whole title of the article being awkwardly shoehorned in just to satisfy using "football" without "American" attached sounds clunky to me), but also all of the nit-picks are getting a little silly at this point so whatever gets a tick is fine with me. FWIW my preference is 6a, which I think is easily understandable and interesting to a broad enough audience ("largest loss in 20 years" is pretty straightforward). Pinging Piotrus since you can't approve your own hook just in case you like 5b best. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 02:27, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am fine with all variants of 5, although tweaking any mention of football to say American football is probably a good idea, as is mentioning the team's full name (ex. Clemson Tigers rather than Clemson). Sorry to say 6 is very mundane; translating it to my "field", ex. did you know that book x by writer y was his least profitable work - meh... sure, apples and oranges, but I prefer 5, because Trump is general interest, like it (him...) or not. -Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:48, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For what it's worth, per WP:DYKRR, hooks proposers are allowed to approve their own hooks, if and only if they are just minor rewordings of previously proposed hooks and do not introduce any new hook facts that need verification. Per the above discussion, I am self-approving ALT5b (I have also slightly modified it to mention the Tigers' full name). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:48, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on May 30

Lü Hung-chih

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

'''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 13:15, 30 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • @CanonNi: Article is new enough and -just- long enough. QPQ has been provided, copyvio not detected (and unlikely due to Taiwanese-only sources). The hook, though, states that Lü is "the longest-serving leader", a factoid which is not mentioned in the article (or in the thenewslens.com article, which was published well before him being leader). Could you provide a mention and a source for that claim? Juxlos (talk) 04:12, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • @CanonNi: Zhwiki is not an acceptable WP:RS; could you get another source supporting that claim? Maybe the party's website or somesuch. Also, the claim needs to be within the article - the average reader would not be wandering over to zhwiki. Juxlos (talk) 08:06, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Failing that, you could go with an alternate hook:
Juxlos (talk) 08:09, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Juxlos: Ah, alright. Let's go with ALT1 then, since sources seem to suggest the band still being somewhat active. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 07:13, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Juxlos (talk) 07:16, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Rjjiii, CanonNi, and Juxlos: Pulled per WT:DYK.--Launchballer 09:49, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@CanonNi: Are you interested in addressing the concerns? Here's the link to the WT:DYK discussion. Z1720 (talk) 22:59, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The nominator has not edited in ten days. Given the circumstances and their lack of activity (their last edits prior to July 10 were in late June), I would not oppose closing this unless another editor is willing to adopt it. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:01, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fire-eye

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White-backed fire-eye antbird
White-backed fire-eye antbird
  • ... that the fire-eye antbirds' (pictured) calls instead of songs are used to tell the species apart?
  • Source: In a 2017 study, researchers found that "when [they] examined Pyriglena

vocalizations in this context, the outcomes revealed substantial diversity in their calls, rather than their songs [thus it] underscores the need to consider all vocalizations in taxonomic studies."

https://doi.org/10.11646%2Fzootaxa.4291.2.3
    • Reviewed:
5x expanded by Tkronos1 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Tkronos1 (talk) 13:08, 30 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@Jaireeodell: Hooks must not contain parentheses outside of (pictured) per WP:DYK200.--Launchballer 16:41, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Launchballer: Thanks! I didn't know that. Would this work? ALT1 ... that the fire-eye antbirds' (pictured) use calls, not songs, to identify different antbird species? Jaireeodell (talk) 21:36, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Fine by me, though I recommend ALT1a: ... that fire-eye antbirds (pictured) use calls to identify different antbird species rather than songs?. It's the same as ALT0 with no new information, so you could approve it yourself.--Launchballer 13:21, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Launchballer and Jaireeodell: Are we certain that the source says it is the birds who use these calls? To me it sounds like it says that it is the researchers who do. Surtsicna (talk) 18:14, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well, they aren't calling to blend in with other species, are they? Even so, to your point, would this work: ALT2: ... that fire-eye antbirds (pictured) may be identified from different antbird species by their calls rather than their songs?. Jaireeodell (talk) 19:11, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Jaireeodell I think that is okay in essence, although some tweaks to "may be identified from different antbird species" could reduce redundancy, for example "may be distinguished from each other". CMD (talk) 08:49, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on May 31

Werner Mamugwe

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  • Source: Oiva Angula. SWAPO Captive: A Comrade’s Experience of Betrayal and Torture. Penguin Random House South Africa, 2018
Moved to mainspace by Soman (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 436 past nominations.

Soman (talk) 23:32, 31 May 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
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Dwkaminski (talk) 13:54, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ALT0a ... that in 1962, Namibian activist Werner Mamugwe was banned from entering Bechuanaland, present-day Botswana?
Admittedly it's clunky, but the context is there at least. The issue is that the article does not elaborate on why he was banned, and the article does not discuss it further other than the mention. If it could be elaborated on, maybe a proper hook could be proposed. Other than that, I think the most interesting part of the article was the one about how he had to survive a few days in the wilderness, although I don't know how to write that as a hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:02, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Better as ALT0b: ... that the Namibian activist Werner Mamugwe was once banned from entering the Bechuanaland Protectorate? which could interest readers more. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:12, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Soman: Any concerns with ALT0b? @Dwkaminski: As the original reviewer, can you check to ensure ALT0b is approved? Z1720 (talk) 23:01, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles created/expanded on June 6

Michelle Pfeiffer (Ethel Cain song)

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Improved to Good Article status by Locust member (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 299 past nominations.

Launchballer 00:07, 12 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

I did mention at Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam that 5000+ views a day says a broad audience knows who she is and that therefore almost any hook would pass the 'intriguing' part of WP:DYKINT. I'm not going to refuse to suggest a "normal" hook at this point, but given that pop music hooks do poorly at WP:DYKSTATS (I was shocked by how badly Push 2 Start did), I strongly recommend that we go with an April Fool's hook for this (albeit maybe not this one).--Launchballer 01:03, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Eh, two other editors objected to the hook (not just me), so it seems that there is loose consensus at least to move away from this angle or even from an April Fools' angle entirely. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:06, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's a good hook that creates plenty of intrigue and should get plenty of hits, indeed, it would probably do better if it wasn't used on April Fool's Day (when a bunch of questionable hooks tend to degrade overall impact) but just used as a standard quirky. Not every hook needs to spell out every aspect of the topic - probably half the hooks posted omit detail to create more interest. Gatoclass (talk) 02:51, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gotta agree with Naruto, this is not "interesting". The only thought that I am left with after reading it is "where's the rest of the sentence?" And just because a broad audience knows who someone is does not mean that "almost any hook" would be intriguing. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 13:16, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Shorter hooks tend to be more effective, and omitting the quote marks would only be allowed on April Fool's Day.
ALT1: ... that Michelle Pfeiffer has been described as "a breath of fresh air"?
ALT2: ... that a Michelle Pfeiffer performance typically lasts about 4 minutes and 31 seconds?
ALT3: ... that Michelle Pfeiffer has been described as "stylish"?
ALT4: ... that Michelle Pfeiffer has been described as possessing "a cresting emotionality grand enough to fill the tallest IMAX screen"?
ALT5: ... that Michelle Pfeiffer was inspired by Michelle Pfeiffer?--Launchballer 16:54, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ALT5 seems interesting.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 18:23, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I can live with ALT5. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:30, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer needed. Z1720 (talk) 23:03, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1910 Italy v France football match

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Italy team before the match
Italy team before the match
Created by Wikipediæ philosophia (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

Wikipediæ philosophia (talk) 22:25, 7 June 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
QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Wikipediæ philosophia, there is uncited material in the article I have tagged which needs citing. The article also needs a copyedit for prose. These are issues I would expect the reviewer to pick up. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:17, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
apologies I reviewed that DYK before the article underwent major changes and was tagged for copyedit. Moondragon21 (talk) 13:52, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Z1720:,  Fixed (Thanks to User Vaseline, who gave me a hand). Wikipediæ philosophia (talk) 19:31, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Z1720:, frankly, no. Concerning the copy edit, probably it would be more sensible to ping someone who may be interested in. I always strive to write as correctly as possible, but my English isn’t C2 yet, lol. Regarding the lacking sources, I’ll fix asap. Wikipediæ philosophia (talk) 16:00, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Wikipediæ philosophia: The Guild of Copy Editors might be able to help with the copy edit. Z1720 (talk) 16:03, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Apologies, but is there a better hook than this? I'm not really sure what is supposed to be interesting here: that Italy won 6-2, or that their first opponent was France. If it's the high score (for a soccer match), I can see that point being overlooked by non-soccer fan readers. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:02, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Catastrophically evaporating planet

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

jlwoodwa (talk) 01:40, 6 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • article is long enough, new enough, and within policy. Hook is short enough and interesting. QPQ is not required. Note to the nominator(s), next time please provide a source for the hook in the nomination. I am using this one, btw. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:59, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What kind of copyedit, Gatoclass? It looks fine to me. Surtsicna (talk) 08:24, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well then, perhaps you can explain to me what is meant by "The composition of the tail can be determined by modelling the transits caused by the dust tail. For Kepler-1520b and K2-22b one work found magnesium-iron silicates fitting the transits well.[3]"? Gatoclass (talk) 04:05, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Fdfexoex, Meli thev, and Jlwoodwa: Any of you interested in conducting a copyedit of the article for clarity? Z1720 (talk) 23:04, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on June 7

Peace discourse in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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  • ... that the goal of "peace" may mean different things to Israelis and Palestinians?
  • Source: Sambaraju & McVittie 2018, p. 116: “There remains the question of what is to be, or indeed can be, done about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. One useful starting point would be to reconsider the use of talk of peace and violence in this context. If the term ‘peace’ is indeed nothing more than ‘an attractive but empty box’ (Gavriely-Nuri, 2010, p. 566), into which anyone can place and argue for what is to count as peace, then it can achieve little to retain this as the most desirable description of an outcome. Equally, where it becomes bound up with expectations (or lack of expectations) of international actors, then ‘peace’ potentially does little more than add layers of misunderstanding to existing complexities and to obscure what is at issue.”
Created by Onceinawhile (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 82 past nominations.

Onceinawhile (talk) 19:17, 7 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

OK, how about:
Onceinawhile (talk) 22:38, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think those are better, with 1 being more factual and 2 being more interesting in my opinion. I’ll leave the full review to someone more experienced and less involved, but feel free to ping me if there is no timely review available. FortunateSons (talk) 19:48, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Onceinawhile ALT2 is more interesting, however I don't see 'security maintained through oppressive military control – has not proven sustainable' or similar explicitly stated in the article. Am I missing something? TarnishedPathtalk 05:39, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@TarnishedPath: the first part is in there: Supporters of Israel, particularly those on the right-wing, primarily advocate for a negative peace or oppressive peace, where peace means security for Israelis with continuing control over, oppression of, or subjugation of Palestinians. I have just added two more sources, with quotes, to support the sentence.
With respect to the "has not proven sustainable", sadly I don't think a source is needed to prove such a statement as we sit here in June 2025, per WP:SKYBLUE. Onceinawhile (talk) 20:13, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Onceinawhile, it was specifically the "has not proven sustainable" bit that I was having trouble finding in the article. While that might be SKYBLUE to you and me I think someone might pick it up during the review process. TarnishedPathtalk 23:45, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@TarnishedPath: thanks for clarifying – I have added a source and a quote. Onceinawhile (talk) 14:34, 22 June 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
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article created 7 June and nominated the same day. Earwig comes up as 52.2%, however this is a consequence of usage of quotes in references. Both ALT1 and ALT2 are interesting and supported by sources. I have a preference for ALT2 which I think is more interesting but either of the ALTs are good. QPQ done. Good to go. TarnishedPathtalk 08:57, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gatoclass pulled the hook yesterday from the queue with an edit summary of "hook issues, possible article issues". Pinging Onceinawhile and TarnishedPath. SL93 (talk) 23:29, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If the hook is the primary issue, there are two others which are also interesting which can be used. @Gatoclass: can we get some clarification please? TarnishedPathtalk 23:47, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The original hook above looks fine.
With regard to the article, it isn't irredeemable, but using words like "oppressive" in Wikipedia's voice is inappropriate and needs to be properly attributed. Gatoclass (talk) 09:24, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gatoclass: "oppressive" is directly supported by scholarly sources in this context, as quoted in the article. This is a sensitive topic, so we must find the optimal language - not too strong and not too weak. The word “oppressive” is better than stronger words like apartheid, persecuting, dehumanizing, terrorizing, and better than doublespeak like governing or administering, that obscure the topic at hand. Its usage here is carefully thought through:
  • The word is factual: encapsulating the well-known Israeli restrictions on Palestinian movement, goods, basic utilities, speech, assembly, self-determination, residency, trade, and legal rights around matters like home demolitions and administrative detentions.
  • The word is carefully contextualized: While the word on its own can raise a question of justice/morality, its use here is clearly and consistently subordinated to the Israeli justification of peace and security. This ensures it is appropriately and neutrally contextualized in both the hook and the article.
The intention is to communicate the underlying debate on the topic of peace - Israelis primarily want security, Palestinians primarily want fundamental rights, and Israelis primarily aim for security at the expense of those Palestinian rights.
Onceinawhile (talk) 10:02, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How about:

@Gatoclass: thanks. It doesn’t quite work because:
  • the nebulous terms “security” and “justice” communicate almost nothing on their own
  • The primary point of interest is why those two topics appear mutually exclusive in the Israeli-Palestinian context, since most of the world’s other neighboring adversaries are able to achieve an element of both
  • Palestinian future human “rights” are undoubtedly more important than the past historical “justice”
  • It needs a word like “commonly” or “often”, as neither are monoliths.
Two alternatives below:
  • ALT4: ... that Palestinians commonly frame peace as conditional on justice, while Israelis commonly frame it as conditional on security without justice?
  • ALT5: ... that Palestinians often frame peace as conditional on the re-establishment of their fundamental rights, while Israelis often frame it as conditional on their security at the expense of Palestinian rights?
Onceinawhile (talk) 14:16, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, but both those hooks are violations of WP:DYKBLP in my view, which specifies that hooks must adopt "a neutral point of view." Since we can't seem to agree on a hook, I will take this to WT:DYK for wider input. Gatoclass (talk) 15:02, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gatoclass: What is your assessment of non-neutrality based on? If it is based on your instinct, you are not assessing it at all. Our neutrality policy says it "…means representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant that have been on a topic." If you are unable to show that other viewpoints exist on this topic, then your gut instinct may well be wrong. Onceinawhile (talk) 22:58, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, firstly, I'm sure there used to be a DYK rule that said something along the lines of hooks relating to politically charged topics should not give the impression of favoring one side over another. There have been a lot of changes to the rules over the last few years and maybe somebody decided that NPOV was sufficient, I don't know. I might look into that when I can find the time.
Regardless, the hooks above imply that "peace without justice" or "peace at the expense of Palestinian rights" is the official, stated position of the Israeli state. I very much doubt that Israel has ever formally and publicly adopted such a position, because that would be very detrimental to their international image. Now, those positions may well be the effective position of the state, but that's not the same thing. So at the very least, the hooks would have to be modified to say something along the lines of " ... that reliable sources broadly agree that the effective position of the Israeli state is such-and-such", but then you are getting not only a very clunky hook, but also raising the problem of trying to demonstrate a rubbery opinion about what reliable sources broadly agree upon. To put it another way, facts on DYK have to be incontrovertible, not merely based on somebody's opinion of what reliable sources broadly have to say, because that is a can of worms that a project like DYK does not have the resources to verify. Gatoclass (talk) 00:11, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not terribly keen on ALT1, but it does pass the neutrality test. Gatoclass (talk) 15:44, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have no objection to ALT1.
But, for the record, the implications of Gatoclass and Airship’s comments regarding ALT2, ALT4 and ALT5 so far appear to be based on incorrect pre-conceptions. Even if we move ahead with ALT1, Gatoclass and Airship will benefit from a deep read of the sources, as these statements are wholly factual, even if they may be uncomfortable. Onceinawhile (talk) 23:07, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For the record, it seems that Onceinawhile's comment appears to be based on the incorrect preconception that being "wholly factual" is the only criterion DYK must take into account. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 07:53, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Quite frankly, I think ALT1 sucks and I'd prefer not to see it run, so I am still hoping to persuade the nominator to accept ALT3, but he seems to have disappeared ATM. If he won't accept it though, I guess it will have to be ALT1. Gatoclass (talk) 09:12, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1 at least makes people think. ALT3 is unacceptable because it implies "security" as defensive (usual for most societies), whereas the Israeli approach to security is offensive and requires the permanent oppression of another people. A similar case can be made for Palestinians and the word "justice", where their need for fundamental rights is clear but their approach to historical redress can be outside of the achievable window (see South Africa – with peace they got their rights but still lots of historical injustice unaddressed). The difference being that the potential for a wide interpretation of "justice" is obvious to most people.
It can be argued that the inability to understand what "security" means to Israelis is the primary reason that the conflict is so divisive today. Onceinawhile (talk) 09:24, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) In any case, having just tried to verify ALT1, it turns out that it misstates the source (which itself is remarkably badly written and obscure). So I think it's a strike.
Having said that, on reflection I can't see much wrong with ALT0, it's short, to the point, and I think sufficiently interesting, so I would consider that a viable alternative. Gatoclass (talk) 09:37, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am fine with ALT0. I don’t see how ALT1 misstates the source – it literally quotes from it (see "layers of misunderstanding" in the quotation at the top of this thread).Onceinawhile (talk) 09:40, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well for one thing, the source says it "potentially" adds layers of misunderstanding, so the hook is inaccurate on that count. More importantly though, it isn't at all clear from the context that the writers are talking of layers of misunderstanding between Israelis and Palestinians specifically - they might mean it potentially adds layers of misunderstanding for the "international actors" it references. Additionally, it doesn't actually say the different concepts of peace are those advanced by either Israelis or Palestinians, it just talks about the concept of peace being like a box that "anyone" can fill as they please. So for my money the hook is an accuracy fail in multiple ways.
With regard to your comment above about ALT3 implying "security as defensive" and therefore somehow justified, that is a misreading of the hook, because it does not say the Israelis consider peace to be conditional on security, it says they frame it as conditional on security, which is a different thing altogether.
Regardless, since you still don't appear ready to accept ALT3, as I said I too am willing to accept ALT0. Gatoclass (talk) 10:07, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I personally think you're being a tad bit semantic on ALT1, but if ALT0 is what we can agree on lets do it. There's no need to further debate the issue. TarnishedPathtalk 12:02, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
+1 to hook ALT0.VR (Please ping on reply) 13:19, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Selim Al Deen Muktamanch

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Muktamanch from Right entrance
Muktamanch from Right entrance
5x expanded by FaysaLBinDaruL (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

~ Φαϊσάλ (talk) 21:05, 7 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

ALT 3: ... that rain unexpectedly began to fall moments after the monsoon song began at same place, twice? Source: Source 1; Source 2

~ Φαϊσάλ (talk) 12:35, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The hook may need to be revised as it is hard to understand. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:42, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Narutolovehinata5: "the song gained a legendary reputation after two remarkable performances at Jahangirnagar University’s Muktamanch, rain unexpectedly began to fall moments after song started. In 1991, just moments after the song began, rain unexpectedly began to fall. The phenomenon repeated itself in 1992 at the same venue during another performance of the song—further cementing its mythical connection to the monsoon." - This is the attractive/amazing info linked to the song and place. To keep the hook's length within 200 prose characters, and make it more interesting the hook is abbreviated as the ALT 3 one.
This is a common practice for DYK. For example, you may check Scenes in the Square. There is a Mr. Bean statue. Its is mentioned in article as well. For DYK the nominator make it more interestingly proposed the hooks as ".. that you can sit next to Mr. Bean (pictured) in Leicester Square?" without mentioning the name of article. Also many times two article is represented in one hook. ~ Φαϊσάλ (talk) 15:50, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I take.--Launchballer 15:49, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I just realised this is a double nom, and I'll use this when I have an idea for a double hook, so this can wait until I've completed a single.--Launchballer 15:51, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@FaysaLBinDaruL: GPTZero says Muktamanch is AI-generated and Sraboner is AI-polished, care to explain yourself?--Launchballer 08:48, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Launchballer: Thanks for your concern. Muktamanch is not generated, rather translated using AI comparison between Being Translator and Google Translate from BN to EN. Both of these translator is not always give "close and accurate meaning". It was tiresome for me to translate and compare and determine the best translation. I did write some of my EN articles by selecting best translation before AI arrived. Translator websites often cannot provide the right punctuation. I took help from AI for correct punctuation, according to EN grammar.
As for "Sraboner..." the heading was sounds like "simple English", I tried to put more rich and accurate wording, but the translation from original BN article is not deviated. for "Production" paragraph, I followed songs related good article style. Hook's info are not polished, rather written using best vocabulary. ~ Φαϊσάλ (talk) 23:05, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
PS: None of the original BN wiki articles are AI generated, you may check using GPTZero, for in depth review. ~ Φαϊσάλ (talk) 23:07, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on June 8

Articles created/expanded on June 9

James Edwin Thompson

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  • Source: "James Edwin Thompson Surgical Papers". The Portal to Texas History. March 13, 2025. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  • Reviewed:
Created by Sailing427alt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Hi I'm Sailing427, but you can call me Sailing. Look at my profile. (talk) 19:12, 9 June 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
QPQ: None required.

Overall: Dwkaminski (talk) 19:36, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comments:
    • Early life and education section:
      • "During his studies, between 1886 and 1887, he was President of the Medical Students' Debating Society." needs a reference
    • Career section:
      • "Thompson became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons on the 23rd of July, 1886, followed by becoming a fellow on the 13th of June, 1889." needs a reference
      • Article states, "Beginning in 1891, Thompson served as the University of Texas Medical Branch's inaugural Chairman of Surgery, holding the position until 1917" but reference 1 says "In 1891 Thompson moved to the United States and became professor and first chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, remaining in that position until his death." Reference 3 says he took the position in 1891 and held it for 26 years - therefore 1917. Which is it? 1917 or 1927?
    • Earwing's copyvio detector shows 21.3% - violation unlikely. Most of score is proper nouns. Could be some slight re-writing but not significant.
    • Less than 5 DYK submission so no qpq required
    • @Sailing427alt: Please see my review comments above. I struggled with the hook if it was interesting enough. I landed on yes, but do you want to propose any alternatives? I see you resolved the 1917/1927 issue on the page. Could you add the other references and we should be good.
    • @Sailing427alt: Thank you for adding the requested references and proposing an ALT hook on my wikipedia home talk page. Next time you can add any conversation or alternatives right here on the review template page. Let's go forward with ALT0. Approved for ... that Dr. James Edwin Thompson was a founding member of the American College of Surgeons and their first vice president in 1913?
  • This has been pulled per a WT:DYK discussion that raised concerns about the promoted hook's meeting DYKINT. A new hook is needed here. Courtesy pings to AirshipJungleman29 and RoySmith. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:05, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Dwkaminski: Pinging for input. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:03, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think the proposed hook is an improvement and would approve it if @Sailing427alt: adds the content to the article and submits the alt hook. Dwkaminski (talk) 12:37, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Dwkaminski: Sailing427alt hasn't edited in over a month, which is a bit of a problem. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:00, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Give me about a day and I will add the content, I approve of the new hook. Hi I'm Sailing427, but you can call me Sailing. Look at my profile. (talk) 12:21, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Courtesy ping for @Dwkaminski: and @Narutolovehinata5: Hi I'm Sailing427, but you can call me Sailing. Look at my profile. (talk) 00:17, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on June 10

Sraboner Meghgulo Joro Holo Akashe

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

~ Φαϊσάλ (talk) 14:17, 17 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Sure. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:17, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Will take; my review will be at Selim Al Deen Muktamanch.--Launchballer 15:53, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on June 11

Undefeated (band)

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[[File:|140px|Lis Dunckel of Undefeated ]]
Lis Dunckel of Undefeated
  • ... that when Lis Dunckel replaced the previous bassist for Undefeated, she didn't know how to play bass?
Created by 3family6 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 109 past nominations.

3family6 (Talk to me|See what I have done) 12:46, 13 June 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

Image eligibility:

  • Freely licensed: No - All images used in the article have lacked permission for more than a week. They should be removed unless permission is received.
  • Used in article: Yes
  • Clear at 100px: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Interesting hook. Well-cited article, although I would personally mark out the primary sources using {{Primary sources references section}}. ―Howard • 🌽33 13:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@3family6: Forgot to ping. ―Howard • 🌽33 11:47, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. Regarding the images, the band told me ,(via email) that they've sent in the forms, it's the Wikimedia volunteer side that hasn't responded. I'm not sure what the approach is in such situations.--3family6 (Talk to me|See what I have done) 11:53, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I suggest consulting c:Commons:Volunteer Response Team/Noticeboard ―Howard • 🌽33 12:16, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I'll leave a message there.--3family6 (Talk to me|See what I have done) 20:37, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's currently in process. I reached out to the band again and Meredith is attempting to re-send the information.--3family6 (Talk to me|See what I have done) 23:28, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Howardcorn33 The file was deleted as the ticket from the band was not satisfactory. I wanted to ahead with your recommendation of including {{Primary sources references section}} but I don't know how to technically use it. The infobox image is still in process, that seems to be the only unresolved issue.--3family6 (Talk to me|See what I have done) 20:18, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]



Articles created/expanded on June 12

Italian reserve football teams

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  • Source: Article Source 1, Source 7 and Source 9
Created by Wikipediæ philosophia (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

Wikipediæ philosophia (talk) 21:34, 14 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article was created on June 12, and was nominated for DYK on June 14, which is in the seven-day period. It is long enough with 4001 characters (687 words ) of readable prose size. No image is used and the QPQ requirement has already been fullfilled. Down below I list the issues I found with this nomination:

  • The copyvious tool has detected a case of copypasted text, which is the following: was admitted to Serie C on 27 June 2024 to fill a vacancy created by Ancona's exclusion. In their debut season, Milan Futuro were immediately relegated to the Serie D. They placed 18th in the regular season, and they lost to SPAL (2–1 on aggregate) in the relegation play–offs. You should rewrite this part in your own words and without abusing close paraphrasing.
  • There is a short citation (Gravina & Brunelli 2020) that is incomplete.
  • The current Reserve Teams section has no sources.
  • The original hook isn't particularly interesting or intriguing. ALT1 is more interesting, so I propose going with it once the aforementioned issues are dealt with.

@Wikipediæ philosophia: Best wishes! NeoGaze (talk) 22:33, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@NeoGaze:, I can’t do the edits right now ‘cause I’m on vacation. I’ll do that on 18 July (more or less). 02:29, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No problem! Enjoy your vacation. NeoGaze (talk) 16:57, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@NeoGaze:,  Done. Wikipediæ philosophia (talk) 21:56, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Murder of Luigia Borrelli

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Created by Moondragon21 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

Moondragon21 (talk) 05:50, 12 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Dull hook. A lot of murder investigations have been reopened after long periods of time (see Murder of Sherri Rasmussen, for instance). Daniel Case (talk) 04:28, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Better. Just provide a source when you make it ALT1. Daniel Case (talk) 02:18, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Daniel Case: Done. Moondragon21 (talk) 05:22, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I meant here in the nomination, actually, but I checked it in the article and it's fine. I'd put it in the lede where you first mention it. Daniel Case (talk) 04:31, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Daniel Case: Now it's in the lede. Is everything alright now? Moondragon21 (talk) 02:59, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I meant in the article lede, right after that term in Italian is mentioned. Daniel Case (talk) 02:03, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Daniel Case: I think it is already. Moondragon21 (talk) 03:40, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, it's not. First sentence: "The murder of Luigia Borrelli, known in Italy as delitto del trapano" Right after that is where it should go. Daniel Case (talk) 03:52, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Daniel Case: I am confused. What should the sentence be word-for-word? Moondragon21 (talk) 08:17, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I took care of it. Daniel Case (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Case: thanks. How is the DYK looking now? Moondragon21 (talk) 17:12, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Better in this department, but given the degree to which I have been involved already I think it better if someone else does the full review Daniel Case (talk) 18:16, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Thanks for the advice on the hook. Moondragon21 (talk) 11:10, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Moondragon21 your provided QPQ Template:Did you know nominations/1910 Italy v France football match is a tick-box review which did not pick up on easily-identifiable issues, and is therefore not a "full review" per WP:QPQ. I request that you review another nomination, and do so properly this time. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:19, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
apologies I reviewed that DYK before the article underwent major changes and was tagged for copyedit. AirshipJungleman29 a new QPQ is now provided. Moondragon21 (talk) 15:22, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I take.--Launchballer 15:58, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Moondragon21: Lots to whinge about here I'm afraid; the first two paragraphs of the body are unsourced, I'm uncomfortable with mentioning the murder weapon in the hook per WP:DYKGRAT, numerous sections deserve {{clump}} and these want resolving, and this badly needs a copyedit. As the replacement QPQ is also tickboxy I intend on promoting that hook before I approve this one. That said, however, this is long enough and new enough and Earwig checks out. Ping me when the above is addressed and we'll talk hooks.--Launchballer 16:23, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Launchballer: Thanks for the advice I have tried to solve those issues. How is it looking now? Moondragon21 (talk) 19:37, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on June 13

Doll Hut

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

Sewageboy (talk) 05:33, 14 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

They still seem to be active, so I've left them a talk page message. If there is no response within the next few days, this can be closed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:08, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on June 15

Rini Widyantini

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  • ... that Indonesia's current state apparatus minister, Rini Widyantini, once took care of one of her predecessors' child? Source: "In September 1970, our first child was born, and we named him Rezal Ashari... When the two of us returned to campus, we left Rezal in the charge of the Nadisah family, who very kindly agreed to babysit him. Pak Nadisah’s youngest daughter, Rini Widyantini, was the most involved in taking care of Rezal." Kusumaatmadja, Sarwono (2020). Steering a middle course: from activist to Secretary General of Golkar. ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. Singapore: ISEAS. pp. 100. ISBN 978-981-4881-65-4.
5x expanded by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 83 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 03:40, 17 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Hey, Jeromi Mikhael. The article is more than long enough and counts as new. The 2020 book by Kusumaatmadja does not, as far as I can see, mention Widyantini on the cited pages 118–120. It mentions her only on page 100, and there it does not say anything about her date of birth or place of birth. Could you please double check and ensure that everything in the article is sourced and that the cited sources cover the information they are supposed to cover? I also wonder whether a more interesting hook could be produced from the article. One might even wonder whether focusing on a woman minister acting as a nanny for her male predecessor is a sensitive choice of hook. Surtsicna (talk) 08:35, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Z1720: Hi, really sorry for the late response, I've amended the citation for the phrase and included a relevant citation for the date and place of birth. I'm not so sure if that's offensive, since Rini was acting as a host for her predecessor and that she did it out of kindness? If you think that's offensive I could offer this alternative: ALT 1: "... that Indonesia's current state apparatus minister, Rini Widyantini, was appointed as spokesperson in a coffee morning event?", which could be sourced to citation no. 13 in the article. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 09:07, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is not particularly offensive to me, Jeromi Mikhael, but I can imagine that someone might wonder why we are focusing on that rather than on her accomplishments. As for ALT1, we again seem to be faced with the verifiability problem: I see no mention of a coffee morning event in the (automatically translated) cited source. Surtsicna (talk) 23:43, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on June 16

2025 Chennai Super Kings season

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Improved to Good Article status by Vestrian24Bio (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Vestrian24Bio 16:05, 17 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • This is a comment and not a review: I have mixed feelings about this hook. On the one hand, the hook is borderline specialist since it requires knowledge that the Super Kings are usually good. On the other hand, the IPL is a huge deal in India, a country of over 1 billion people. This is a weird case in that I'm not actually sure if the hook as currently written is interesting to a broad audience, as whether or not it does depends on how you define "broad". On the one hand, cricket is really only popular in a relatively small number of countries, so outside of those countries the hook may not be as interesting. On the other hand, three of the countries where cricket is big (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) are very populous, so in theory the number of people this hook attracts is very large. It's a question of how wide the hook's interest is versus how deep. I don't swing either way (although I'd be leaning more towards it being interesting), so it would be good to ask for a second opinion here, ideally from a non-cricket fan. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:01, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Some extra hooks, which are hopefully more interesting (link placement may need some adjusting):
The last one requires a source from the team's main article as well. It cites [5], which should do. Toadspike [Talk] 12:00, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think ALT3 would be the best option here, although of course the article would need adjustment. @Vestrian24Bio: Thoughts on the above proposals? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:49, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Narutolovehinata5 and Toadspike: I support ALT3 as well and also made the necessary changes to the article now. Vestrian24Bio 13:42, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on June 17

Apolonia Dorregaray Veli

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Created by MumphingSquirrel (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

MumphingSquirrel (talk) 13:28, 27 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • I am afraid I have some problems with the sources, MumphingSquirrel. References #1 and #4 are blogs. References #2, #5, #9, #10, #11 and #12 are offline sources the existence of which I cannot verify online. #6 looks splendid–but does not mention the subject of the article. #7 is again a blog but the article published there is purported to have been first published by the Instituto Nacional de Cultura of the Museo Nacional de la Cultura Peruana, and I was able to find a reference to this article on a credible website. Reference #8 is the aforementioned credible website. Reference #9 is another credible website that mentions the subject. The source cited for the hook does not, as far as I can tell, verify the hook; I do not see the age of the art form mentioned anywhere, and the source is cited in the article is another source, the aforementioned #5. Is it possible to swap the blogs for more reliable sources? And is it possible to cite an accessible source that verifies the hook? Surtsicna (talk) 17:43, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Surtsicna, thanks for the feedback. I'm unexpectedly away from home with a family thing of unspecified timescale, so will struggle to look at this properly for at least a week or so. Will pick it up when I'm back home. MumphingSquirrel (talk) 21:18, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MumphingSquirrel: Just following up. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:59, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on June 18

Arthur Newnham

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CricketArchive is an alternative, but is paywalled Cricket: as above, or his Wisden obituary also verifies – https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/229835.html Moscow: Victoria Cross Online – https://victoriacrossonline.co.uk/lanceray-arthur-newnham-gc-mc-direct-recipient/

Transcriptions of Indian newspapers also suggest this, but don't flat out say it
    • Reviewed:
    • Comment: Think this is OK. If the sourcing for serving as a military attache is not OK, we have two Indian newspapers which say he was with the Bombay Staff Corps in Moscow when he was married so an alternative ending along the lines of ...and was married in Moscow might be possible
5x expanded by Blue Square Thing (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Blue Square Thing (talk) 05:44, 22 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

There are 14 sources in the article, with the clear indication there are more in printed media that hasn't been digitised. My experience with articles such as this suggests notability is OK with this, but, to be honest, I only submitted this because it was the last article in a list that was being set up to be sent to draft space. I'm perfectly find with it failing DYK if you don't feel that having a book reference makes it dubious. You'd probably need to look in Indian sources fwiw – that's where he seems to have spent most of his working life. After retirement I'm 99% certain he was living in the south of France, but, presumably, returned to the UK at some point, perhaps in 1939. Anyway, I'd sort of forgotten about this, so whatever Blue Square Thing (talk) 19:07, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A lack of Google Books coverage doesn't equate to non-notability: probably most subjects I write about for DYK aren't written about much in books. If you think the article is non-notable then take it to AFD and place the nomination on hold (though I'll say that the subject looks notable to me); otherwise I don't see anything that should stop this nom. BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:56, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I asked whether there were sources beyond the obituaries and marriage registers, BeanieFan11. Do they seem sufficient to you to establish notability? Surtsicna (talk) 08:06, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Blue Square Thing: Are you able to add additional sources? @Surtsicna: If you still think this article is not notable per WP:GNG, can you please bring the article to WP:AfD? Z1720 (talk) 23:27, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I doubt very much I'd be able to access the sources that people would be looking for. At AfD this is no worse than a redirect to one of the lists that he appears on, but I think there's a very, very strong NEXIST argument that can be made here. There are clearly multiple references to him and his family in Indian newspapers – Allen's Indian Mail, Times of India etc... (I can see, for example, that The Pioneer named him as one of the principal cricketers in India in 1889, but there's no chance whatsoever that I'll be able to find articles from that source digitised not behind a paywall, and the searching looks like it would take a while – I have more than 2000 hits on Newnham with a time restriction of 1880 to 1910 in various Indian papers at Granth Sanjeevani) The only ones that are accessible are those that have been digitised by volunteers. I suspect there will also be references to him in Moscow media which is totally inaccessible to me. And probably from the south of France. I imagine that a full trawl through the Times and other such sources will find refs as well – he's certainly mentioned quite frequently in Cricket (the search function is OK, but not perfect obviously). It wouldn't surprise me to find more detailed references in Malvern archives as well, which are largely not digitised. Ultimately what Wisden says is really quite strong – it doesn't say these sorts of things about most people who got obits. And he played for the Gents v Players – this is pretty notable by itself. Put everything together and you've got WP:BASIC I think – the first bullet.
This doesn't need to go to DYK from my pov. Honestly, I think it's better sourced than at least one of the articles at DYK right now, but I think I've given up trying to work out any of this sort of stuff :-)
I could trawl all the sources but I'll be away for most of the next six weeks. There will be times I can check back here, but I doubt very much I'll have more than a block of two or three days to focus on any articles. There's no way I'll have time to do the leg work to find the sources, if they've actually been digitised. But, and I don't invoke NEXIST frequently, I have no doubt whatsoever that they're there Blue Square Thing (talk) 08:49, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't looked into it much, but I would say the Wisden obituary is SIGCOV, and Blue Square Thing is someone I trust regarding the notability of cricketers (i.e. if he says a cricketer is notable, I would think he's probably right). BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:08, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Death (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

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An example of a Paul Poiret coat
An example of a Paul Poiret coat
Converted from a redirect by Kingsif (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 139 past nominations.

Kingsif (talk) 03:56, 18 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Oh I missed that, sorry! BuySomeApples (talk) 21:54, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@BuySomeApples: Having crossed off alts 1 and 3, I've added 5 and 6 in their place, including an optional image hook (something a bit different to portraits and buildings, which it's always nice to feature). Kingsif (talk) 23:57, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nice work! I agree about the pic. BuySomeApples (talk) 19:52, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on June 19

Supreme state organ of power

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  • Source: Towster, Julian (1948). Political Power in the U.S.S.R.: 1917−1947. Oxford University Press. 212; Gasper, Donald (1982). "The Chinese National People's Congress". In Nelson, Daniel; White, Stephen (eds.). Communist Legislatures in Comparative Perspective. State University of New York Press. pp. 160–190. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-06086-3_7. ISBN 0-87395-566-8. 171.
5x expanded by TheUzbek (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

TheUzbek (talk) 10:14, 26 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

George Garcia

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  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bob Wicks
  • Comment: Will complete QPQ within the weekend. What's novel here is while election commission officials vote all the time in general elections, and while there are several special/by-elections, it's not often that a special/by-election happens on the district where an electoral commission is a voter on.
5x expanded by Howard the Duck (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 27 past nominations.

Howard the Duck (talk) 11:54, 20 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • I'm honestly not a fan of hooks that require the nominator to explain its importance or interestingness in the nomination. DYKINT suggests that hooks need to be interesting to non-specialist audiences, meaning the hook should be more-or-less self-evident without requiring too much knowledge. Do you have any other suggestions? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:46, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I mean special/by-elections rather important in many places, and for someone who administers elections to personally vote on one must be rare.
    Other facts are that he counseled for politicians before becoming involved with the Commission on Elections but I thought that's boring. Howard the Duck (talk) 10:51, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It still feels like specialist information at best. It's probably better to just go in a different direction, if possible. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:53, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
By-elections are standard fare in English speaking countries. This is not specialist at all. Such elections are standard fare on WP:DYK.
Also some other facts are unsavory and may not pass WP:BLP more so on the Main Page. Howard the Duck (talk) 11:02, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Narutolovehinata5: Does the above satisfy your concerns? @Howard the Duck: Are there any additional hooks you would like to propose? Z1720 (talk) 23:29, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Far from it: the reason I did not comment further was because I still thought the hook was problematic, even with the additional context. If a hook requires a nominator's explanation to be interesting, at the very least it meeting DYKINT is tenuous at best. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:45, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I won't be making any further changes as I believe it passes WP:DYKINT and none of the other articles I cited above had been placed in similar circumstances. Special elections are standard DYK fare and this blurb should not be held to a higher standard.
Given the above, I am marking this for closure for lack of a DYKINT-compliant hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:59, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have opened a discussion about this at WT:DYK#Template:Did you know nominations/George Garcia. Howard the Duck (talk) 01:42, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As per the discussion, a new hook can be formed that is more interesting and has some more importance history-wise, ALT1 ... that George Garcia successfully defended Filipino politician Grace Poe's birthright citizenship before the Supreme Court of the Philippines? SonOfYoutubers (talk) 00:44, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be fine with delinking "Supreme Court of the Philippines" and just call it the "Supreme Court". Now this has almost no context whatsoever, so let's see how the gatekeepers like this. Howard the Duck (talk) 11:35, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it should be shortened down to just 'Supreme Court', that's way too ambiguous and can represent the Supreme Court of any country. I also think it's fine linked. SonOfYoutubers (talk) 14:20, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The blurb already specifies Grace Poe is a "Filipino politician". I don't think Zambia's supreme court determines the birthright citizenship of Filipino politicians. I can be fine with linking to "Supreme Court". Howard the Duck (talk) 14:29, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well, hypothetically, it could be any other supreme court. Birthright citizenship can also be acquired from jus sanguinis, maybe in a case where someone fights in another country for citizenship despite being born in another territory. Anyways, no, I think it's fine to keep it because readers could also glance over the 'Filipino' part and might not even notice it. SonOfYoutubers (talk) 14:36, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hypothetically, someone else on the review process may say parts of the blurb are redundant, but I'd yield on this. Howard the Duck (talk) 14:42, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not to go off-topic (and I apologize for this but I see a pattern), but please be more respectful. The other reviewers and I are just trying to do our job to help nominations be approved, including yours. Calling them "gatekeepers" and constantly objecting doesn't exactly help. SonOfYoutubers (talk) 14:53, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I know gatekeepers object to that term, and I do sincerely apologize if the term can be thought of as offensive, but I'd just want to make sure the nomination goes through without any more hitches. I'm trying to cover all bases here. This nomination has lasted for almost a month. People object to every part of the process here, it's not just me who objects. WP:DYKHOOKS have to be pithy as well, that's why I'd want it to be shortened and have redundant parts of the hook - which someone else may object to later(!) - be edited. Also, someone else down the line may object that the hook doesn't focus on Garcia but on Poe; I've been told that this is fine, but like I said, someone else may object to this down the road. Like I said earlier, I'd yield on both just to get this over with. Let's just hope nobody else objects on both accounts. Howard the Duck (talk) 15:01, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's fine if there's another objection/edit, although I would rather, for both your and this nomination's sake, that any minor edits like shortening of the hook occur during promotion rather than here; I understand the frustration of a nomination taking a long time, minor edits shouldn't lengthen it. Certainly now, because of the discussion opened earlier, nobody should object against the hook based on DYKINT, since it seems most agreed that the new hook is interesting enough now; if somebody does, then they are personally objecting rather than using community consensus, although I guess another discussion could always be opened if somebody really wants to. To help quicken the process, I'll add the symbol requesting a new review on this same edit so that the new hook is reviewed. SonOfYoutubers (talk) 15:14, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know that some sort of this fact has already been on DYK? Can we do that instead? LOL. Howard the Duck (talk) 14:29, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have no clue if you can just copy past hooks, but either way, it should focus on the article's subject matter (George Garcia). That hook specifically focuses on the case itself and its result/effect. SonOfYoutubers (talk) 14:36, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]



Articles created/expanded on June 20

Matt Koart

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  • ... that American football player Matt Koart, considered small for his position, added over 40 pounds (18 kg) in college by "stuff[ing] myself so bad"?
  • Source: LA Times (archived to avoid paywall - "Koart came to USC as a freshman in 1981 weighing 217 pounds. That’s a reasonable weight for a fullback, but not a defensive tackle ...'I used to stuff myself so bad,' he said. 'I'd take a weight-gaining powder, put two bananas in it, grind it up and then shove it down my throat--2,000 calories. And that was after I ate.' ... Koart weighs 260 pounds and is a mainstay of USC’s experienced defensive line")
5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 382 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:00, 27 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Comment: INO, I don't think the quote works here. Why not paraphrase? Also, it's far more interesting to say that he had to force himself to eat to gain weight for the position of a defensive tackle by eating 2000 calories...after he ate his regular meal? Viriditas (talk) 09:19, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wilf Pine

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  • ... that Ozzy Osbourne dislocated the arm of Black Sabbath's manager Wilf Pine on a vibrating bed?
  • Source:Butler, Geezer (2023). Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath and Beyond. HarperCollins.
  • ALT0a: ... that Black Sabbath manager Wilf Pine's arm was dislocated in an incident involving Ozzy Osbourne and a vibrating bed?
  • ALT0b: ... that Black Sabbath manager Wilf Pine suffered a dislocated arm in an incident involving Ozzy Osbourne and a vibrating bed?
  • ALT0c: ... that Wilf Pine, manager of Black Sabbath, had his arm dislocated by a vibrating bed because Ozzy Osbourne kept feeding it quarters?"
    • ALT1: ... that Black Sabbath manager Wilf Pine was a fixer for the New York Mafia?
    • Source:Pearson, John (2003). One of the Family: The Englishman and the Mafia. Arrow Books.
  • Reviewed:
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    • Created by Ericoides (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Ericoides (talk) 12:28, 27 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Comment: The overly long-ish paragraphs are fine for older people like myself who grew up with that style and have no problem with it, but apparently people under the age of 30 are adverse to it and prefer paragraphs half the size you are using due to their unique readability preferences attributed to social media. Something to consider if you want to increase younger readership of your article. I've been told by several people that they refuse to read articles like this, which I find strange and unusual, but every generation has their idiosyncrasies. Viriditas (talk) 09:33, 9 July 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
    QPQ: None required.

    Overall: Hello, friend. It looks like you forgot to add citations in eight separate instances. Given your style, I think you assumed the reader knew that the material was sourced later, but current house style is to have the citations at the end of the sentence or the paragraph. I was able to fix one instance because it looked like you moved the citation to support the hook, so I doubled it up after that one example. But the other eight need you to do the same. Everything else checks out. For a list of the eight instances, citations should appear after the following words, usually at the end of a paragraph supporting the material that comes before it, but you can do it any way you want: 1) "...the role of booking acts and general management."; 2) "...and finally Procol Harum to play over the following weeks."; 3) "...along with members of The Herd and The Mindbenders."; 4) "...Pine decided to accept the offer and leave the Arden organisation."; 5) "...the next groups he signed for Meehan being the Edgar Broughton Band and Stray."; 6) "...But when Hemdale removed their public listing from the stock market, the deal fell through."; 7) "...Alfonse Sisca and Arnold Squitieri from the Gambino crime family."; 8) "...Pine is buried in Milford Road Cemetery, New Milton." I assume that all you have to do is duplicate the citations already in use. Also, don't forget, you need to double up the citation when you refer to a quote. The citation style has become more strict over the years. Add those in and I will pass. Addendum: While I think ALT0 is fine, you're going to run into opposition from others because you are playing around with the ambiguity to make it interesting. As the source shows, Ozzy didn't really dislocate Pine's arm, the vibrating bed did; all Ozzy did was add an excessive amount of quarters to the machine, which likely did cause his arm to become dislocated, legendary story or not. I don't have a problem with your wording, and I think it's fine, but having seen how this kind of thing plays out, you're going to get people who argue that it isn't an accurate hook. With that said, try to come up with some alternate hooks for ALT0 that preserve the meaning and intent but also stay true to the source. Update: Sourcing added, so passing ALT0 and ALT1 for now. Continuing discussion about more hooks below. Viriditas (talk) 22:40, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Viritas, thanks very much for the advice and for checking and improving this submission. I've done what you asked. Please do let me know if there's anything more that needs to be done. I've added a wikilink for the bed: Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed. The brand isn't specified in Geezer's book but it was the only one available in the early 1970s, so I think we can add the interesting link. If not, it can easily be amended to vibrating bed, per the original. Ericoides (talk) 13:17, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It's an interesting question. We agree that it is highly likely that a vibrating bed refers to a Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed. But the source doesn't say that, and it adds unnecessary words to your hook. Current house style leans towards having as few links as possible to increase the number of visits to your nom, and to limit the number of words. My preference would be to avoid linking as much as possible, but styles vary. If you link to Ozzy and Black Sabbath as is your wont, then try to move the blue link to the front so that your link is given priority for visits (this is DYK after all). Example: "... that Wilf Pine, the manager of Black Sabbath, had his arm dislocated by a vibrating bed because Ozzy Osbourne kept feeding it quarters?" Let's also remember that the source says that Ozzy fed the machine 15 quarters (going from memory, I think that's what it says). In that era, each quarter gave you 15 minutes, which means Wilf Pine was subjected to 225 minutes (3 hours and 45 minutes) of vibration. This means you also have an opportunity to create an uproariously comedic hook, provided it adheres to the source. Although it doesn't say that each quarter equals 15 minutes, that's how it worked, and given we know the number of quarters used from the source, there should be a way to create a hook that meets WP:CALC. I don't usually make use of CALC in my hooks, but I know that User:Launchballer does, so I'm going to ping them for advice here. Viriditas (talk) 22:46, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I've amended and shortened the hooks per your comments, and removed the bed link both here and in the article. I've added your hook as ALT0c. Ericoides (talk) 06:21, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I've now removed all the links except the one to the subject himself. Ericoides (talk) 05:55, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    ALT0, ALT1, ALT0a and ALT0b. However, I'm not allowed to approve my own hook, so...
    For ALT0c. Viriditas (talk) 10:16, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]



    Articles created/expanded on June 21

    Phyllis Edness, Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones

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    • ... that Phyllis and Phyllis competed for Bermuda at the 1948 Summer Olympics?
    5x expanded by Arconning (talk) and It is a wonderful world (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 39 past nominations.

    Arconning (talk) 04:16, 27 June 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
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: Both were 5x expanded and are long enough. Source verifies hook. No copyvio detected. Hook is interesting and cited. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 03:38, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Strong Court

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    • Source: "Effective leadership of the Court was, at least at times, passing from Strong's hands" (Snell and Vaughan, 1985, p 62). "Henry Strong seemed to dominate the court, and under his leadership, or lack thereof, the court spiralled downward in the estimation of both the bar and the public." (Ian Bushnell, 1992, p 168)
    "The attempts to force retirement, the repeated absences of several justices, and the problems caused by Chief Justice Strong's personality naturally resulted in instability on the Court." (Snell and Vaughan, 1985, p 58).
      • ALT1: ... that the Strong Court was created by the appointment of Samuel Henry Strong to the role of Chief Justice of Canada, despite Strong's many attempts to resign from the Court? Source: "Several times between 1884 and 1888 Strong actually tendered his resignation. He had stayed on at the prime minister's request, but in 1888 Sir John A. Macdonald finally gave way, writing to the minister of justice: 'I have written Strong. You would grant his pension. He may as well go.' Strong did not go, however." (Snell and Vaughan, 1985, p 45)
      • ALT2: ... that despite its name, the Strong Court did not have the respect of the Canadian legal community or public? Source: "Equally unfortunate was the entrenchment of the public's generally negative perception of the institution. A Toronto law journal commented in 1896 that 'this Court has long lacked the confidence of the Bar, both in the English-speaking provinces and in Quebec, and the present state of affairs will minimize what confidence still exists." AND "The Court's reputation remained poor; the editor of the Canada Law Journal wrote privately that the Supreme Court 'is held in Contempt by the profession.'"(Snell and Vaughan, 1985, p 58, 79)
      • Reviewed:
      • Comment: I think the name of the court can be used to make a good pun, but I am having difficulty thinking of one
    Created by Caddyshack01 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Caddyshack01 (talk) 14:36, 21 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    SWAT (Regina)

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    • Source: According to research conducted by Sam Alvaro for a Carleton University thesis, less than 2% of Canadian police department adopt the SWAT name. The majority of police tactical units in other departments use names such as Emergency Response Team, Emergency Response Unit, Emergency Task Force, Emergency Services Unit and Groupe d'intervention (English: Intervention Group). Linked paper.
    Created by Ominae (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 18 past nominations.

    Ominae (talk) 14:13, 21 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

     Reviewing... Flibirigit (talk) 16:56, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

    Hook eligibility:

    • Cited: No - ?
    • Interesting: No - ?
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: The article was created and nominated for DYK on June 21. Length and sourcing are adequate. The article is neutral in tone. No plagiarism was detected. No images are used in the article, and the QPQ is complete. ALT0 uses the subjective phrase "one of the few". Depending on interpetation, it might not be easily verfiable. Whereas the source clearly uses "less than 2 per cent", which is not subjective and easily verifiable. ALT1 and ALT2 both mention a non-notable person by name, which is typically frowned upon. It also takes focus away from the Regina SWAT. I suggest rewording those hooks to remove the person's name. ALT3 is interesting, mentioned, cited, and verified. ALT4 unnecessarily mentions Regina twice, I suggest rewording. I am willing to approved ALT3 only at this time, and will wait for further comments on the other four hooks. Flibirigit (talk) 02:00, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    • Good day. I can rewrite the ALTs that are problematic.

    Ominae (talk) 04:04, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Articles created/expanded on June 22

    Charles Champaud

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    5x expanded by Arconning (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 42 past nominations.

    Arconning (talk) 03:41, 28 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • @Arconning: New enough (expanded Jun 22), long enough, well-sourced, no copyvio (Earwig says 0.0%). However, this expansion does not appear to be long enough: 933 B → 2914 B is less than 5x. If this can be expanded to 4665 B, it will be acceptable. Hooks interested and verified in source (using machine translation). If ALT0 runs, I would probably specify "Sofia, Bulgaria" to be understandable by geographically-unaware readers. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 19:26, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Isoup Ganthy

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    • ... that Isoup Ganthy, part of Cambodia's first Olympic team, later died in prison after being accused of working to overthrow the country?
    5x expanded by Arconning (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 35 past nominations.

    Arconning (talk) 04:59, 25 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • @Arconning: I appreciate your contributions to destubbing this article and think your proposed hook is really interesting, but is ineligible for DYK as it has not actually been expanded 5x (616 to 2460 is not a five times expansion, it would have to be to 3080 bytes to truly by considered a "five times expansion") :( Icepinner (formerly Imbluey2). Please ping me so that I get notified of your response 16:09, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Icepinner: Actually, what we consider for 5x expansion is not bytes but prose character count. With that said: @Arconning: given that a 5x expansion is close, will you be able to bring this across the finish line? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:02, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Narutolovehinata5: It will be done in a day or two. Arconning (talk) 23:19, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Narutolovehinata5: of course, that's what I meant. Regardless, it still doesn't qualify for DYK under 5x expansion as of present. After talking with some editors off-wiki (and feeling a little guilty seeing how others editors apply extensions to similar nominations), I will allow an extension for this article so that it may meet the 5x requirement for DYK. @Arconning: please expand the article to meet the 5x requirement, and then I'll take another look at it :) Icepinner (formerly Imbluey2). Please ping me so that I get notified of your response 00:56, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Icepinner:, I've added some info, expanded the article some more. Arconning (talk) 02:04, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Arconning: thanks for the timely response! Will look at it soon. Icepinner (formerly Imbluey2). Please ping me so that I get notified of your response 03:17, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Danan: The Jungle Fighter

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    Improved to Good Article status by CooperCool23 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    COOPER COOL 23 user page 22:16, 22 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Saskatchewan Highway Patrol

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    • ... that the Saskatchewan Highway Patrol was in a controversy in 2020 where firearms were purchased, but were deemed questionable during an audit in 2019?
    Converted from a redirect by Ominae (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 19 past nominations.

    Ominae (talk) 14:12, 22 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    At 25:00, in Akasaka

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    • ... that the creator of At 25:00, in Akasaka rode on an ambulance for the first time while writing the second volume?
    • Source: Chil Chil [ja] (link): "――執筆中の思い出に残る日常エピソードなどうかがえますでしょうか / 多分初めて救急車に乗りました。今はまったくなんともないのですがめちゃめちゃ健康の大切さを実感しました。[Please share a lasting memory from your daily life during your writing process. / That might be me riding an ambulance for the first time. Right now, it's nothing really serious, but I realized how very important it is to take care of my health.]"
    Created by Lullabying (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 69 past nominations.

    lullabying (talk) 20:04, 22 June 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
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: Created yesterday and it's already at 6111 B in prose size. Everything else is good. ミラP@Miraclepine 03:13, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    • Pulled per DYKINT. Nobody cares about the author's ride in an ambulance. Please try to come up with something a little more interesting and pertinent to the subject, thanks. Gatoclass (talk) 10:14, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Gatoclass: Well, I did find it a little unusual and was open to this possibility. After all, what also helps is that the creator is unlikely to have a standalone article. However, I'm busy atm and will be until Thursday, so in case this is not enough, I had drafted these more-interesting hooks in advance since there might not be time to debate ALT0's interestingness:
    ALT1A: ... that the creator of At 25:00, in Akasaka found that depicting television scripts gave her "a little more atmosphere" in writing dialogue than in other manga? 苦労した点、また楽しかった点など聞かせてください ... ドラマの台本だから！ と思って普段自分の漫画で使うセリフより少し雰囲気のあるセリフを選んで描けたのは面白かったです。/Please tell us about the things you struggled with and the things you enjoyed. ... It was interesting that I was able to choose lines that had a little more atmosphere than the ones I usually use in my manga because it was a drama script. Television's not stated per se but it's obvious from the work's plot.
    ALT1B: ... that the creator of At 25:00, in Akasaka found that depicting drama scripts gave her "a little more atmosphere" in writing dialogue than in other manga? Same as ALT1A
    ALT2A: ... that the two stars of At 25:00, in Akasaka found it challenging to portray themselves as actors who "act within a show"? 俳優の役を演じるという、いわゆる二重構造についてはどういう印象を受けましたか？/What was your impression of the so-called double structure of playing the role of an actor? [Niihara and Komagine reply that acting as actors was challenging.
    ALT2B: ... that the two stars of the television drama At 25:00, in Akasaka found it challenging to portray themselves as actors who "act within a show"? Same as ALT2A
    ミラP@Miraclepine 01:40, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Articles created/expanded on June 23

    A Balloon in Mid-Air

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    • ... that A Balloon in Mid-Air depicts a flight over the San Francisco Bay Area by artist Jules Tavernier with aeronaut Étienne Buislay, who died in a balloon accident a week later?
      • Sources: Chalmers, Claudine (2013). Chronicling the West for Harper's: Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavernier in 1873–1874. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 196-197. ISBN 9780806143767. OCLC 830992700. Quote: "The Frenchmen [Tavernier and Frenzeny] went up again on another ascension on October 4, with the very same reckless French aeronaut [Étienne Buislay]. That balloon ride was successful although the balloon was blown over to the East Bay. Tavernier drew, from these October adventures into the volatile San Francisco skies, fresh inspiration for what became his very first painting in San Francisco." See also: "Ballooning". Daily Alta California. 26 (8952). October 5, 1874; Crouch, Tom D. (1983). The Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America. Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 425-426, 475. ISBN 9780874743463. OCLC 9827066. Quote: "San Francisco witnessed several balloon disasters during the 1870s. Joseph Gruet ("Etienne Buislay"), who had flown with James Allen during that aeronaut's short stay in the city, died, it will be recalled, in a [balloon accident]...on October 11,1874...[he became] tangled in some dangling lines [and] fell onto the rocks of Bernal Heights...he died several days later." Additional note: Amateur historian Woody LaBounty provides a unified account of both on his "San Francisco Story" blog, which is a great read, but has a lot of unusual info that appears to diverge from all the other sources, such as his claim that Étienne Buislay is someone else entirely. I suspect these are just simple errors, not an alternative theory. Final note: For some reason, most of these sources refer to the balloon as a hot-air balloon rather than the gas balloon that it is. I don't understand this error, especially coming from aviation historian Tom D. Crouch. Perhaps the term "hot air balloon" is shorthand for all balloons, gas or otherwise?
      • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mykola Chaikovsky; Template:Did you know nominations/Deportation and detention of American citizens in the second Trump administration
    Created by Viriditas (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 42 past nominations.

    Viriditas (talk) 00:51, 30 June 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
    Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: A great article. The only thing is that the article cites multiple books by Scott A. Shields and one by Jerry Kuntz without providing page numbers. Are the page numbers known? Aneirinn (talk) 02:12, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Aneirinn: Thanks for the review and your kind words. In response to your query, I have added page numbers for Shields (2006) and Kuntz (2022). However, Shields (2014) is a rare book that only exists in print form and I don't have access to it. Booksellers are asking US $200-300 online for it. I was linking to it solely as an example of the exhibition catalog. To clarify, I have converted it to a bundled citation with two additional sources which are online, Shields & Chalmers (2014) and Reynolds (2014), which supports the same info. Let me know if there's anything else I can do. Viriditas (talk) 05:12, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Westhope

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    5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 732 past nominations.

    Epicgenius (talk) 03:18, 25 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • New enough (expanded Jun 22), long enough (24 KB), no copyvio (Earwig flags some short phrases but nothing problematic), well-sourced. ALT1, ALT2, ALT3 verified in sources. I think ALT4 is the least interesting; the other three are good, and if I had to choose I would go with ALT3. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 18:38, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    S-1 (supercomputer)

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    • ... that the S-1 supercomputer was designed to have 16 processors, each with the power of a Cray-1? Source: statement made in both Stump and abstract of Widdoes
      • ALT1: ... that the S-1 project was designed with the ultimate goal of building an entire supercomputer on a single silicon wafer? Source: MacKenzie 1998, p. 120.
    Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 206 past nominations.

    Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:30, 23 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Arielle Prepetit

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    Created by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

    DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 11:01, 23 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]


    Articles created/expanded on June 24

    Gérard Lefranc

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    • ... that world champion fencer Gérard Lefranc stood at over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) and was nicknamed the "Green Giant"?
    • Source: e.g. La Voix du Nord ("Lefranc was adopted by the carnival-going community, who gave him a nickname: the 'green giant'—he stood over two meters tall ... Gérard Lefranc was also a former elite athlete. A member of the French fencing team, the Calais native won the world team title in 1962")
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lumberjack Band (1/2)
    • Comment: To do QPQ within a day or two. I'm a bit late with the nom (I had suggested it as a possible double-hook over at Randy Winkler, but the reviewer hasn't responded yet, so nominating this as a standalone hook before it entirely runs out of eligibility); hopefully that can be excused per WP:DYKG: The seven-day limit can be extended for a day or two upon request.
    5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 387 past nominations.

    BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:29, 3 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    John Schulman

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    • ... that John Schulman, the leader of the team that developed ChatGPT, said that his first period of serious self-directed study was inspired by the television show BattleBots?
    • Source: “ The first serious self-study I did was in eighth grade, when I became obsessed with BattleBots (televised robot-combat event). Hoping it would help me built a better ‘bot, I did a lot of reading on physics, electronics, and mechanical engineering. The robot I was working on with my friends never got built, but I continued my reading.”
    AAPT
    Created by Thriley (talk) and Cl3phact0 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 178 past nominations.

    Thriley (talk) 02:45, 3 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    This is stated in the career section. Thriley (talk) 21:15, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It does not say what is stated in the hook. Aneirinn (talk) 02:03, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    This is how his role is described in various media: “At OpenAI, he led the reinforcement learning team that developed ChatGPT” source: ChatGPT architect, Berkeley alum John Schulman on his journey with AI There is no need for an overly detailed description in the hook. He did indeed lead the team that developed ChatGPT. Thriley (talk) 02:36, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    That is the QPQ that is required for a Did You Know nomination. Thriley (talk) 02:39, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • The hook should state what can be referenced by the source as it is not overly detailed, but is what is true. He was not the only person that was the head of a team that worked on this creation. Aneirinn (talk) 03:42, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The article I linked above calls him "ChatGPT architect." Thriley (talk) 14:32, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hook seems likely to leave the reader wanting to know more per WP:DYKINT. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 17:33, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Mikayla Raines

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    Converted from a redirect by Soulbust (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 46 past nominations.

    Soulbust (talk) 17:39, 1 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Emirto de Lima

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    • ... that Dutch composer Emirto de Lima competed for Colombia at the 1932 Summer Olympics?
    5x expanded by Arconning (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 46 past nominations.

    Arconning (talk) 12:29, 29 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Paul R. Anderson, Hurst Robins Anderson

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    5x expanded by PCN02WPS (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 92 past nominations.

    PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 05:33, 25 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]


    Articles created/expanded on June 25

    George Arthur Lincoln

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    • ... that George Arthur Lincoln, the principal planner of George C. Marshall's World War II military campaigns, liked to spend time "mending fences, attending cattle, and riding" at his ranch in Colorado?
    • Source: General Lincoln, who won his star at the age of 38, served las General of the Army George C. Marshall's principal planner for American military campaigns in Europe and Asia, including the projected invasion of Japan that dissolved with the atomic mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese surrender he helped to draft.” NY Times
    “The Lincolns have a ranch outside of Denver. The general tries to spend as much of his leisure time as possible there, mending fences, attending cattle and riding” NY Times
    Created by Thriley (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 179 past nominations.

    Thriley (talk) 17:56, 3 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem

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    Sibylla crowns Guy
    Sibylla crowns Guy
    • ... that Queen Sibylla (coronation pictured) agreed to divorce her unpopular husband, Guy, on the condition that she could choose her next husband, only to choose Guy again and crown him king?
    • Source: "...Sibyl agreed to a divorce in 1186 on three conditions ... that she should have the right to choose a new husband herself ... Heraclius crowned Sibyl and then asked her to bestow a second crown on a regent to share the work of government with her, whereupon she called Guy of Lusignan forward and placed the crown on his head..." (Hamilton 2000, p. 220)
    • ALT1: ... that Queen Sibylla (pictured) outwitted her lords by agreeing to their demand that she divorce her husband, Guy, requiring them to promise to accept her next choice of husband, and then choosing Guy again? Source: (Hamilton 2000, p. 220)
    • ALT1: ... that Sibylla of Jerusalem (pictured) defied her brother the king's command to leave her husband, refused to ascend the throne without him, and went to share his hardships at a siege in which she died?
      Source: "Baldwin, it would seem, had reckoned without Sibyl’s great attachment to her husband, which was constant throughout her life." "She was instrumental in his becoming king, and in 1188 left the safety of Tripoli to share with him the hardships of the siege of Acre at which she died." (Hamilton 2000, p. 196)
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Andrea Enisuoh
    • Comment: It would be wonderful if the nomination could be given some time for the GA review of the article about Guy to be finished. Then we can bold Guy's name too and have a nice double hook.
    Improved to Good Article status by Reverosie (talk) and Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 230 past nominations.

    Surtsicna (talk) 19:25, 2 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Article new enough (GA Jun 25), long enough (26 kB), well-sourced to academic sources, no copyvio (Earwig flags a Wikipedia clone). Hooks verified in Hamilton 2000, and the hook fact made me laugh out loud. I will note, however, that the article does not use the word "divorce", although it is used in the source, so perhaps the word should be added. Approving the nom, but per the nominator's wishes, this should be held until Guy of Lusignan passes GA. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 22:30, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Charles Winckler

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    • ... that Charles Winckler was selected to the Olympics in swimming, track and field, and won a gold medal in tug of war?
    5x expanded by Arconning (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 53 past nominations.

    Arconning (talk) 13:49, 30 June 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
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: 5x expanded. Long enough. Hook is interesting and cited. QPQ done. No copyvio detected (other than a wiki mirror). The second paragraph of the lead is uncited though and that info does not appear to be duplicates in the body. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 04:33, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    LuLu the Piggy

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    LuLu the Piggy at the left corner
    LuLu the Piggy at the left corner
    • Source: "Siam Discovery collaborates with the popular art toy LuLu the Piggy to launch Thailand’s first pop-up store, offering exclusive merchandise and experiences from July 5 to August 31, 2024. Siam Discovery The Exploratorium amplifies its positioning as ‘The Biggest Arena of Lifestyle Experiments’ that offers thrilling and exciting experiences where everyone can endlessly Experiment, Create, and Cultivate. Siam Discovery collaborates with the sought-after art toy characters LuLu the Piggy to launch Thailand’s first pop-up store "LuLu the Piggy – Stay with you Bangkok." Making its debut in Thailand, this exclusive pop-up store caters to the growing art toy lover community, underlying Siam Discovery’s "Be the first" commitment. Collectors can now shop their favourite LuLu the Piggy items in Bangkok, thanks to Siam Discovery and Toyzero+, from 5 July to 31 August 2024, on the 1st floor of Siam Discovery." Bangkok Post
    Created by ChiJap (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    ChiJap (talk) 11:00, 30 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • The proposed hook is demonstrably false. The source is only saying that it's the first Lulu pop-up store in Thailand, and it's a press release and wouldn't be adequate for such claims anyway. Indeed, the article is cited only to primary sources and press releases; it will need references to independent reliable sources to show notability. The article is missing an important contextual link to art toy in the opening sentence, and the "Characteristic" section fails to frame the description in a real-world perspective. The image copyright might be an issue, as it appears to be a temporary rather than permanent installation so it's unclear whether FOP actually applies. A QPQ review is also needed, as nominator has more than 5 DYKs under another account. Other than that, article is new and long enough. I'm going to fail this as the article needs significant rewriting to properly present the subject's real-world significance, not just its marketing material. --Paul_012 (talk) 07:35, 1 July 2025 (UTC), updated 09:27, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • ALT1:... that the first blind box series of LuLu the Piggy (pictured) was launched in 2019?[1] ChiJap (talk) 22:49, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • Thanks for providing the QPQ and alt hook. The added source provides much more in-depth information, though I'm not knowledgeable enough to assess its independence and am still not quite sure that the article demonstrates the topic's notability well enough. Personally, I don't find Alt1 interesting, but I'm going to go ahead and request a second opinion to help look at the notability concerns. --Paul_012 (talk) 14:41, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • ALT2:... that LuLu the Piggy (pictured) became a trendy toy since its first introduction at the 2019 Shanghai Toy Show?[2] ChiJap (talk) 00:01, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • ALT3:... that during the 2024 Summer Olympics, Hong Kong shopping mall, MOSTown, had hosted a LuLu the Piggy (pictured) sports themed campaign that was based on the event?[3] ChiJap (talk) 16:07, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    References

    1. ^ "TOYZEROPLUS与罐头猪LuLu：走出"潮玩圈"皆是旷野" [TOYZEROPLUS and Canned Pig LuLu: Beyond the "trendy toy circle" lies the wilderness] (in Chinese). Sohu. 20 July 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
    2. ^ "Lulu the Piggy, Gintama pop-up stores delight Shanghai fans". Shanghai Municipal People's Government. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
    3. ^ Meng, Ailing (9 July 2024). "LuLu the Piggy invites everyone to join the MOST-OLYMPIGS Summer Adventure". Lifestyle Asia. Retrieved 9 July 2025.

    Karel Frankenstein

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    5x expanded by Arconning (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 51 past nominations.

    Arconning (talk) 08:31, 30 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Mule (wanderer)

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    • ... that a nomad known as "Mule" sued to protect the "sacred relationship between man and horse to travel together with reverence and respect for this beautiful place in which we all reside called Earth"?
    • Source: "An activist and wanderer known across California as “Mule Man” says the CHP violated his right to intrastate roadside travel and his “ages-old nomadic way of life” when he was arrested near Paso Robles in 2020.

    The complaint says that Sears seeks to “protect this ages-old nomadic way of life and the sacred relationship between man and horse to travel together with reverence and respect for this beautiful place in which we all reside called Earth.”"

    The Tribune
    Created by Thriley (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 177 past nominations.

    Thriley (talk) 14:43, 29 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

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

    Hook eligibility:

    • Cited: Yes
    • Interesting: Yes
    • Other problems: No - minor
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: Looks mostly good. My main concern is that the full quote does not appear in the article, only a portion of it, and there's two bare URLs. Also, is he "Mule" or "Mule Man" like the source says? Add the quote, fix the refs and it should be good to go. @Thriley: BeanieFan11 (talk) 19:56, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Erika Jonn

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    Farm in Skåne by Erika Jonn held in Sweden's Nationalmuseum
    Farm in Skåne by Erika Jonn held in Sweden's Nationalmuseum
    • ... that although artist Erika Jonn did not have an exhibition of her work in her native Sweden in her lifetime, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm now holds her painting "Farm in Skåne"?
    Created by MumphingSquirrel (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

    MumphingSquirrel (talk) 21:12, 27 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    General: Article is new enough and long enough

    Policy compliance:

    Hook eligibility:

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

    Overall: The problem is that there is no topic of the art inside the article that is on the hook. Just a caption of the art is mentioned. And the other problem is that the art is not mentioned on the cited page that is on the hook. All you need is to include a topic for the art inside the article and provide another citation for the hook or else you should change the hook entirely. ChiJap (talk) 21:25, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @MumphingSquirrel: Please respond within the last 7 days or else this entry will be closed. ChiJap (talk) 14:19, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    HMS Unicorn (1776)

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    • ... that the HMS Unicorn was decommissioned in August 1779, but was recommissioned the following month (September 1779)?
    • Reviewed:
    Created by Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk) 00:06, 26 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]


    General: Article is new enough and long enough

    Policy compliance:

    • Adequate sourcing: No - History section has unreferenced facts. Service in the American Revolutionary War section has a bulleted list with only one entry referenced. The paragraph introducing the list is also unreferenced, and there is a random reference floating after the list. First paragraph in After service in the American Revolution section is unreferenced. Infobox also has lots of facts not referenced in the infobox nor mentioned/referenced in text
    • Neutral: Yes
    • Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: Yes

    Hook eligibility:

    • Cited: No - DYK info is in the article but has no reference
    • Interesting: No - I think the hook could be made interesting if it included the reason why the ship was recommissioned. Without this reason, I don't think it is interesting enough.
    • Other problems: No - mentioning September 1779 is unnecessary, readers will know what month follows August 1779
    QPQ: None required.

    Overall: DYK nomination needs work but more significantly, I think the article itself is not in the proper shape for a DYK. Particularly, the lack of references and the improper formatting of the references the article does have, both of these issues are problematic. Gb321 (talk) 04:31, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Commandant Quacks-a-lot: Please address the above and comment below when this is ready for a re-review. Z1720 (talk) 23:32, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Articles created/expanded on June 26

    Calle José Ortega y Gasset

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    The street in 2015.
    The street in 2015.
    • ... that Calle de Lista was renamed due to the death of a philosopher?
    • Source: [19] Madrid es Noticia 4 July 2019
    • Reviewed:
    Created by Earth605 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Earth605 (talk) 05:37, 29 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    General: Article is new enough and long enough

    Policy compliance:

    • Adequate sourcing: No - The article contains references to unreliable sources, such as Blogspot and Wordpress.
    • Neutral: Yes
    • Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: Yes
    • Other problems: No - Several claims are only presented in single-sentence paragraphs that could easily be in one or two paragraphs altogether. This is not a policy, but it is something to point out; the "History" and "Notable deaths" sections contain examples of WP:PROSELINE. (Linking may also need work. In one instance, Eva Perón Park is linked to the Argentine politician.)

    Hook eligibility:

    • Cited: Yes
    • Interesting: Yes
    • Other problems: No - The hook refers to Calle de Lista but this was the former name of Calle José Ortega y Gasset. It would be clearer to mention the current name.

    Image eligibility:

    QPQ: None required.

    Overall: This appears to be a good-faith translation, but the hook needs additional work before it is suitable for appearance on the Main Page. Cattos💭 19:31, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I fixed all problems an thought a new hook:

    ALT1 ... that Calle José Ortega y Gasset is named after a philosopher?

    And fixed the image caption. If you think anything is wrong please ping me!Pinging @Cathodography.

    DYK needs preps. Some reviewer see this. Pinging @Narutolovehinata5, Pinging @AirshipJungleman29 Earth605 (talk) 14:32, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi, @Earth605:. Sorry for the long wait; the ping you tried to attempt did not work. You're supposed to sign your comments. You were also not able to ping the two reviewers. Regarding the hook, the original hook was already fine. I only suggested to change the subject name to what was in the article. Regarding the article, I am still worried with the references that are used, such as madrid.city-tour, madrid-nu.nl. These may be promotional tourism websites and I wouldn't be comfortable in using them in an article. You should analyze other citations that are present, not just the two I mentioned. ALT2 ... that Calle José Ortega y Gasset was renamed due to the death of a philosopher? Cattos💭 20:35, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry for that mistake! Some of the sites that you are concerned with I will remove in a not very distant future (I am illegally accesing Wikipedia right now ;] ) except the City Tour one, as 1. it's operated by the Ayuntamiento de Madrid (aka it's reliable) 2. it's only purpose in the article is to highlight the parts of the street. Thanks for talking back @Cathodography:! Earth605 (talk) 15:07, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
     Done I've done a total cleansing of unreliable sources. Earth605 (talk) 15:08, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Just so you know, @Earth605:, you weren't able to ping me correctly again. You need to ping and sign your comment in the same edit. That said, I saw this DYK anyway. I were still able to find some referencing problems such as the use of primary sources, but I was able to find substitutes for these, particularly of news articles. I also did some copyediting myself. Just a heads-up when you're editing: you used the media outlet's name as the "last name" parameter in citations, but that field is meant for the author's last name. If no author is listed, it's better to leave it blank. Cattos💭 17:52, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry for those failed ping attempts; a great chunk of what I learned in Wikipedia was self thought by look at the source code of pages and memorizing this. BTW, I approve ATL1. If for any reason it isn't possible, then it's ATL2. No need to reply here, just pinging you so you see this, @Cathodography:. Earth605 (talk) 07:15, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Earth605 and Cathodography: The article was already under the DYK minimum of 1500 characters, but after trimming to remove duplication, it is now under 1400 characters. If this is to run, some expansion of non-trivia material is needed. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:51, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Woops! Will fix tomorrow Spain hour. Or maybe now. Earth605 (talk) 18:32, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
     Done Article has now 1606 characters. @AirshipJungleman29: Earth605 (talk) 05:39, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Palaeocarpinus

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    A Palaeocarpinus fruit
    A Palaeocarpinus fruit
    • ... that Palaeocarpinus fruit fossils (pictured) have been recovered from Cold Ash and Hells Half Acre?
    • Source: Crane 1981 Type locality the Cold Ash Quarry in Reading, England.
    Correa-Narvaez & Manchester 2021 distributions in tble 2 Fossils from the Cold Ash Quarry and new fossils from the Hells Half Acre site in Wyoming
    Moved to mainspace by Kevmin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 372 past nominations.

    Kevmin § 02:30, 27 June 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
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: Draft moved to mainspace recently. Both hooks are interesting and cited. AGF on the sources. Image is freely licensed. QPQ done. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 04:21, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Episode 6994

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    Improved to Good Article status by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

    DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 00:56, 27 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    It solves the WP:SEAOFBLUE concerns, but I still have reservations about either hook as currently written meeting DYKINT. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:43, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Narutolovehinata5: Surely a character returning to a show after 27 years is interesting? I reworded it slightly now. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 23:45, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It is, it's just that I think a better wording could be proposed that would not be reliant on knowledge of EastEnders. I also suspect that "Episode 6994" would turn off readers, so a possible wording could involve piping it without naming the episode by name in the hook. Maybe someone like Sammi Brie could help with that? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:48, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @DaniloDaysOfOurLives and Narutolovehinata5: Perhaps try this... These episode number titles remind me of my call signs. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 01:01, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    * ... that actor Paul Nicholls made a surprise return to the soap opera EastEnders as character Joe Wicks after 27 years?
    **That sounds great with me! :) DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 01:02, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    References

    1. ^ Tyler, Laura-Jayne (19–25 October 2024). "Hits & Misses!". Inside Soap. No. 42. p. 98.

    Marcel Schwerzmann

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    • Reviewed: [[]]
    Moved to mainspace by 1AmNobody24 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Nobody (talk) 16:01, 26 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    I added a source that should be alright. The Sea of blue issue shouldn't be too hard to fix, either by unlinking transatlantic or by rewording the sentence. Nobody (talk) 17:53, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    They are indeed a notable person. Maybe some alternative hooks could be suggested. Aneirinn (talk) 07:52, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    This could be better. Nobody (talk) 18:47, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Aneirinn: Does the above satisfy your concerns? If not, what else needs to be done? Z1720 (talk) 23:34, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]


    Articles created/expanded on June 27

    Rusiate Rogoyawa

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    5x expanded by Arconning (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 58 past nominations.

    Arconning (talk) 15:50, 4 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • The article is expanded five times and is free of copyright violations. QPQ has been done, and the hook is interesting. However, there is an issue. Upon looking at the sources that you provided, there was a conflicting year when Rogoyawa saw the snow for the first time. According to Ledger-Enquirer and Calgary Herald, the year was 1982, while The Baltimore Sun stated that it was in 1983. Can you address this issue? After that, the hook can be promoted. Faldi00 (talk) 16:12, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Men in This Town

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    • Reviewed:
    Converted from a redirect by 1arch (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    1arch (talk) 15:42, 3 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • ALT1: ... in "Men in This Town", Shakira sings about trying to find a decent man in the superficial clubs of Los Angeles, while referencing suicide?

    1arch (talk) 10:22, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Eschiva of Bures

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    • Source: "... a messenger , sent from Tiberias by Princess Eschiva , arrived on horseback in Saforie, where the Latin Kingdom's army was preparing to encounter the invading forces of Saladin ... The king decided, against the better advice of Raymond of Tripoli, to leave Saforie early in the morning and try to relieve beleaguered Tiberias, a decision which led to the disastrous defeat at Haṭṭin two days later." (Braun & Razi 2016, p. 216)
    • ALT1: ... that Princess Eschiva's husband was condemned as an unchivalrous coward for counselling against helping his besieged wife–but when the royal army went to save her, they were destroyed? Source:
      "Gerard of Ridefort and Raynald of Châtillon condemned Raymond’s caution as cowardly and unchivalrous, as it left the count’s wife Eschiva and her attendant ladies at the mercy of Saladin’s army." (Lewis 2017, p. 268)
    • ALT2: ... that Princess Eschiva was instructed by her husband to escape into the sea if she could not defend her castle, but surrendered it when she thought that he and her sons had been killed in battle? Source:
      "Raymond III told his wife Eschiva and her bailifs to take to their boats and find refuge in the sea, should they not be able to defend the town against Saladin , and wait there till he came to save them." (Braun & Razi 2016, p. 217.) "Eschiva, under the assumption that her husband Raymond III of Tripoli and her children had been killed in the Battle of Hattin, agreed to surrender Tiberias’s citadel to Saladin." (Reynolds 2019, pp. 12–13)
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Apolonia Dorregaray Veli
    • Comment: Please consider which hook is most interesting. All opinions are welcome.
    5x expanded by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 227 past nominations.

    Surtsicna (talk) 19:37, 28 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (film)

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

    BarntToust 15:40, 27 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    @BarntToust: I've taken the liberty of moving the hooks on that page to this one. For what it's worth, I read the article after seeing it at WP:GARC and the bit about the gold script stuck out; I therefore propose ALT7: ... that a cast member's script for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 cost $100,000 to print?--Launchballer 21:49, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    User:Launchballer I prefer main. Provocative beats impressive in my mind. BarntToust 22:14, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    And mainly because of the fact there's one opportunity to give the idea of Latinas being Shadow's thing a chance to show up on the main page. I could see Jeff Fowler going to GA rather easily and getting a dyk with the concept of him giving the script, and if Jim Carrey were to get to GA, a DYK could be produced of him receiving the script. No other relevant, notable articles for Latina—Shadow business to be included in. BarntToust 22:20, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I think that the idea of Latinas in the DYK is best because of its genuine uniqueness to this article. Jim Carrey's costly script, I can think of two other places where that would work.

    ...that a script for a Jim Carrey movie cost $100k to print?

    that... it cost Jeff Fowler $100k to print a script for Jim Carrey?

    On that note, it is impossible to include anything, period, on Shadow the Hedgehog's DYK because it's already a good article. Only other place where anything about Latinas could be written. That's my standpoint, considering the opportunity and uniqueness of Shadow liking Latinas. BarntToust 22:30, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Remezcla

    Above is a more concise submission that I'd like to put as final for my viewpoint. BarntToust 22:37, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    • The way this is framed now feels like it'd fall afoul of WP:DYKFICTION. I think that the other issue with this hook, both the original and revised versions, is that it doesn't meet WP:DYKINT- someone with no special knowledge of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise won't necessarily know who Shadow the Hedgehog is, or why it would be interesting or unusual if he loved Latinas. The idea of Jim Carrey getting a gold script to reprise his role, though, is more likely to be perceived as generally unusual and novel even if someone has never heard of Sonic before. silviaASH (inquire within) 23:00, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    ... that Sonic the Hedgehog 3 makes its character Shadow love Latinas because the film's director wanted an homage to Sonic fandom shitposting?
    There we go, this one technically works within DYKFICTION. But I see where the 100k gold script part falls much more securely within the lines. I'd be chill with either one, be it this one or ALT 7 though given this explanation. BarntToust 23:05, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Xeokit

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    xeokit BIM Viewer
    xeokit BIM Viewer
    • ... that xeokit SDK can visualize 3D BIM models directly in your browser without needing any proprietary software?
    • Source: xeokit SDK enables the visualization of 3D BIM models in standard web browsers without requiring proprietary software, facilitating vendor-neutral workflows helping avoid vendor lock-in.
    • Reviewed:
    Created by Drashevski (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Drashevski (talk) 12:40, 27 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Well first off the hood needs a link to the actual article! Looking it over, and some of the external pages, I think this is reasonable article. My only concern is the cites - there's plenty of them but most of them point back to GitHub or similar. There are some reasonable mentions in 3rd party papers (basically the second half of the cite list) but there's also a fair number of passing mentions. As always I err on the side of inclusion, so if anyone agrees this passes, the issue is the hook. This seems reasonably hooky: Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:25, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    ALT1: ... that the Xeokit software development kit is used to build browser-based programs that can view detailed 3D architectural models (pictured) on the web?
    That still seems a bit too technical or at least specialist. Is there a way to make it more layperson or non-techy friendly? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 06:04, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm going to disagree with that. The reader has to know what the web is and what a browser is, and I would wager that the average reader what architecture is, and what a 3d model is. They may not know what a software development kit is, but I think they can figure that out from the term itself. This does not seem overly technical or in-universe to me, but YMMV. Maury Markowitz (talk) 23:59, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The layperson probably thinks of "browser" as being like Chrome or Safari (i.e. a web browser), and it's not clear from the hook that it's talking about that. Of course, it could just be because it's full of techy-sounding terms, which muddles the waters somewhat. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:16, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I think we can safely add "web" to the "browser" bit instead of the end, and I don't think we need SDK, so how's this? Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:43, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    ALT2: ... that Xeokit is used to build web browser-based programs that can view detailed 3D architectural models (pictured)?

    Articles created/expanded on June 28

    Eva O'Hara

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    Improved to Good Article status by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 17 past nominations.

    DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 01:15, 4 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Randy D

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    • ... that Randy D became interested in broadcasting while working as a parking attendant at Lincoln Center?
    • ALT1: ... that according to Randy D, his country's noise law "killed" entertainment? Source: "Meanwhile, veteran entertainment promoter Randy Dopwell told SEARCHLIGHT that he believes that when the noise act was enacted entertainment was killed." [27]
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gauthier Mvumbi
    Moved to mainspace by Joofjoof (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 20 past nominations.

    Joofjoof (talk) 20:25, 1 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Samuel S. Mayerberg

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    Created by Guerreroast (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

    Roast (talk) 05:49, 30 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Article is new enough and long enough. One image (File:Samuel Spier Mayerberg 1960 alt.jpg): the source website says this is PD, but I'm not sure how that's possible given that they also say the author is unknown and that it was created in 1960 -- unless there's some special consideration in play, like the author being an employee of the US Government, a work from that date must still be in copyright. No other concerns regarding copyvio, BLP, plagiarism or similar. I'm not convinced about some of the sourcing: this website, for instance, seems to be used to support a date -- what makes it a reliable source? Similarly, one much-used source is local news, which is dicey per WP:RS. More subjectively, I'd like to see a couple of spit-and-polish tweaks before it hits the main page -- for example, is it normal to refer to a Jewish religious group as a "church"? UndercoverClassicist T·C 18:45, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • @UndercoverClassicist: Removed this source; it was a local source from University Academy public school, but I couldn't find any further backing of its reliability. Fixed "church" issue, changed for congregation. Picture is from Harry S. Truman Library, which is federally-ran, so a government employee is extremely likely to have taken the picture.
        • Hm -- I'm not convinced here. A library is a collection of records and documents; it's very unusual for a library not to include materials relevant to its subject made by people to whom it has no relation. Likewise, it's very common for online repositories of this sort to mark media as "public domain" to indicate that they don't know of any copyright, which isn't good enough for us -- we need to be positively sure that no copyright exists. I agree that it's reasonably likely that a government employee took it, but if the source isn't even willing to say that (never mind give a name), I don't think we can use such an assumption as the basis of a PD claim. However, the image would certainly be amenable to an FUR. UndercoverClassicist T·C 20:55, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
        • @UndercoverClassicist: If the picture is questionable, I don’t think a FUR would be possible, because Samuel S. Mayerberg.jpg on Commons also exists, and is lifted from tne Library of Congress. Though, if that also has similar problems, a FUR could be done. Roast (talk) 20:22, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
          • File:Samuel S. Mayerberg.jpg doesn't have a US PD tag, and almost certainly isn't PD in the United States, for similar reasons to the article image. Perhaps you could ask about both images on Commons and see what the view is there? UndercoverClassicist T·C 20:28, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
            • @UndercoverClassicist: So given the Wikimedia Commons discussion is going no where, I’d suggest deleting the pictures from Commons to ensure the DYK passes then worry about a non-free alternative in the in-between time of accepting and its appearence on the front page. Though, I'm unsure how to delete files on Commons, and need help with that. Roast (talk) 16:46, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
              • The conversation on Commons has had less than a day; that's very early to be calling it stalled. Indeed, it's been less than 12 hours since I posted the explanation of what exactly the question was. It wouldn't be necessary to delete the images from Commons to get this DYK through, and I wouldn't recommend opening a deletion request there unless there's a positive reason to believe the images are in copyright (however, to use them in a DYK/GA etc, we need a positive case that they're not copyrighted).

    UndercoverClassicist T·C 16:53, 2 July 2025 (UTC) Local source is from the Kansas City Public Library, which itself cites other newspapers and books, and such should be given the same verdict as the Dictionary of Missouri Biography source—both of which have a citation im common. Roast (talk) 19:33, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Gaetano di Mauro

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    5x expanded by Mitchea99 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Mitchea99 (talk) 03:36, 29 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    The article meets the freshness and length criteria. I see no copyright issues. I like ALT1 better. I see sentences with no citations at the ends of three paragraphs. Furthermore I see no citations in the "Karting record" and "Racing record" sections. Is this something that can be addressed, Mitchea99? Surtsicna (talk)
    Mitch is currently away (per their userpage), so I'm assisting them with adding the missing sources. The issues with the ends of the paragraphs have been resolved, and the tables will hopefully be done soon. I'll reply to this again when the tables have been fixed. GalacticVelocity08 (talk) 00:45, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Notifying User:Surtsicna that the referencing concerns are almost fully resolved now, with the only thing being unreferenced is the Stock Light results. I'm still trying to find something for that (there's a website that I found but it won't load). If I'm unable to find anything, then I'll put it into an invisible comment for now. I informed Mitch about this (offwiki) but due to timezone differences I figured I would just send this reply now so any other concerns can be fixed, if any. GalacticVelocity08 (talk) 01:34, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for notifying, GalacticVelocity08. We are close to wrapping this up. Surtsicna (talk) 07:43, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm still unable to find a source for the Stock Light section; I found something for 2018 but it isn't a perfect match, and absolutely nothing for 2017. I've contacted one person to ask but in the mean time it's in an invisible comment until a source can be found. If anything else needs to be fixed before this DYK can proceed, please let me know. Thank you for the patience! GalacticVelocity08 (talk) 00:16, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Mitchea99: Please address the above. Z1720 (talk) 23:36, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the ping. I'm on vacation without my laptop and a cheap phone (watch me somehow break this page formatting) so haven't been checking wiki much. I've gone through archive.org to find the Stock Light points documents, the sources should be added soon. Thanks everyone for the help. Mitchea99 (talk) 00:31, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]


    Articles created/expanded on June 29

    Lourdes Klitzkie

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    • ... that runner Lourdes Klitzkie took up the sport in her late 30s to combat boredom but then qualified for the Olympics?
    5x expanded by Arconning (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 59 past nominations.

    Arconning (talk) 15:02, 5 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • @Arconning: Copyright, interestingness, hook verification, spotcheck, QPQ, 5x expansion all check out. That being said, I've got two issues: first, I don't know if we've got her middle name correct. It's used on Olympedia, yes, but almost nowhere else.[29] Looking at newspaper articles from the time, as well as this post made by the university she taught at[30] (same image as the one Klitzkie provided to the Coloradoan), and they use the middle name Palomo. From looking at older Guam newspapers, I think that's her maiden name, but she appears to use it as her middle name (Maybe she was born Lourdes Mendiola Palomo, but dropped Mendiola upon her marriage to Bob Klitzkie?) Can you look into that?
      Similarly, on DYKCOMPLETE, it's missing a bit of info about her life and previous career, namely, that she was a professor. I found a couple newspaper articles either about her or that mention her and might be usable, [31][32][33][34], and local person/human interest story about her education from before her time at the Olympics [35]. But yeah, post-Olympics she became a Professor Emeritus at the University of Guam [36] so the article probably needs to at least reference that for DYKCOMPLETE. That will help with my third thing too; although the article is technically long enough without quotes, if somebody copyedits this it could easily go under the minimum length. Adding information about her academic achievements should mitigate that risk. But apart from that, interesting article on an interesting person, well done! GreenLipstickLesbian💌🦋 03:29, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Public grocery store

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    Interior view of the commissary at Naval Station Norfolk, August 2002.
    Interior view of the commissary at Naval Station Norfolk, August 2002.
    Created by Bohemian Baltimore (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 08:06, 5 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Now this is a trending topic. Thanks, Bohemian Baltimore. The article is new, long enough, and apparently comprehensive. I understand that the lead is supposed to look like a lead and summarize the rest of the article without citations, but I am concerned that it draws conclusions which are not found in the body; this means it needs citations. Most of the sections consist of single (and very short) paragraphs, and most paragraphs in turn are single sentences; I would also strongly suggest reworking these to fit MOS:LAYOUT. Surtsicna (talk)
    • Courtesy ping to Bohemian Baltimore as the previous ping attempt did not include a timestamp. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 02:05, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Bohemian Baltimore I'm afraid there are still paragraphs (single sentences, actually) missing sources. I have now marked them for you. There is also the option of simply deleting those bits if finding sources is a problem. I have also structured the article according to MOS:SECTION by removing small sections in favor of a bullet list. Surtsicna (talk) 16:44, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    1953–1954 royal tour of New Zealand

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    Elizabeth II on tour on 25 December 1953
    Elizabeth II on tour on 25 December 1953
    Moved to mainspace by Panamitsu (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 80 past nominations.

    ―Panamitsu (talk) 22:45, 29 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Comment I think the stamp would work well as the image for a hook Lajmmoore (talk) 14:13, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • The article is new, technically long enough and well-sourced. I see no copyright issues. What concerns me, Lajmmoore, is that the article looks very much like an engagement diary. They did this and that on this day, then this and that on that day, and so on. While I do not doubt the notability of the topic, I feel that the article fails to present it. Are there no contemporary commentaries on the significance of the visit? Later discussions of long-term significance? Surtsicna (talk) 18:56, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I do not see any discussion of that in the article, Panamitsu. Historians and reporters have commented on it, haven't they? I see academic articles on Google Scholar (at least one of which is readily available) and countless books on Google Books (this one, for example). Surtsicna (talk) 14:50, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    That PDF link won't work because of the way its hosted, you should just mention the name of the article. Traumnovelle (talk) 21:19, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Right, of course. The article is Marketing the Modern Empire: Elizabeth's Royal Progress. Surtsicna (talk) 12:45, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It's mentioned in the Background and Statistics sections. I appreciate the feedback but what part of the did you know criteria does this fall under? I'm a bit bored of working on this article lol so I don't really want to expand it too much. ―Panamitsu (talk) 22:50, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It falls under WP:DYKCOMPLETE. I'll gladly give you time to rest from this topic. Perhaps you'll flesh it out later. Surtsicna (talk) 12:45, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry but I don't agree that this article doesn't satisfy WP:DYKCOMPLETE. While it could be expanded more, it has information about the coronation, the possibility of previous royal visits, the amount of people going to see her, stamps, a commemorative medal and the Royal Visit Honours. WP:DYKCOMPLETE lists things such as empty sections and an article about a book that discusses the author but not the contents of the book. I'm really sorry to be bitter like this, but I cannot see the problem with this article's completeness for DYK and I won't be expanding it. ―Panamitsu (talk)

    Articles created/expanded on June 30

    Nándor Dáni

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    • ... that sportsman Nándor Dáni competed in athletics, cycling, rowing, and speed skating during his career?
    5x expanded by Arconning (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 61 past nominations.

    Arconning (talk) 10:37, 7 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Episode 4043

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    Created by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 20 past nominations.

    DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 09:12, 6 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Kathleen Romoli

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    Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 90 past nominations.

    ミラP@Miraclepine 20:49, 4 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Operation Security and Order

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    • Source: Abdullah, Taufik; Abdurrachman, Sukri; Gunawan, Restu (2012). Malam Bencana 1965 Dalam Belitan Krisis Nasional: Bagian II Konflik Lokal. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia. p. 214: "Dalam pertempuran yang sangat tidak seimbang ini, pasukan Banteng Wulung melawan tanpa rasa takut, bahkan cenderung konyol dan nekad, karena mereka bergerak maju hanya dengan senjata pentung atau dengan ikat kepala yang dikebut-kebutkan ke arah lawannya". Translation: "In this highly unequal battle, the Banteng Wulung troops fought without fear, even tended to be silly and reckless, as they advanced armed only with clubs or by wildly waving their headbands toward the enemy."
    Created by Faldi00 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

    Faldi00 (talk) 07:46, 3 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • - looks good to me: Earwig shows up unlikely to be a violation, hook fact checks out per the text mentioned above (AGF that's what the source actually says). Article doesn't look to have major issues otherwise, I'll AGF that the translation is a good one too. And QPQ done. Good work, thanks.  — Amakuru (talk) 14:35, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Kattar Karachi

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    Created by M.Billoo2000 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    M. Billoo 15:25, 1 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    @Narutolovehinata5: Thank you for the feedback. Really sorry to disturb, but I see a very similar one currently on display: "... that mine labourer Golekane Mosweu became an Olympic runner after someone noticed his fitness?" And one earlier this month: "... that the Miley Cyrus song "Easy Lover" was intended for three different albums before its release?" Can it be rephrased to look better? M. Billoo 16:06, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    How about rephrase it as: ALT2: ... that rapper Talha Anjum turned into an actor by cinematic representation of his album in the film Kattar Karachi? M. Billoo 21:26, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    That could work, but the hook needs to be copyedited for grammar. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:25, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    ... that Pakistani rapper Talha Anjum made his acting debut in the film Kattar Karachi, which is based on his album? M. Billoo 23:39, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Suicide by electrocution

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    Electric fence at Auschwitz, 2009
    Electric fence at Auschwitz, 2009
    Moved to mainspace by Daniel Case (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 282 past nominations.

    Daniel Case (talk) 04:24, 1 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Stephen of La Ferté

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    • ... that when the allegedly poisoned Patriarch Stephen was visited by the king and asked how he was, the dying prelate replied, “Sire, I am faring as you desire”?
    • Source: "When the King came to visit the dying Patriarch, to ask how he was, the latter bitterly remarked: ‘Sire, I am faring as you desire.’" (Runciman 1952, p. 177.)
    • ALT1: ... that Stephen of La Ferté was implored by Saint Bernard not to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but went anyway and became patriarch? Source: "Bernard's reprimand fell on deaf ears. Stephen not only made his pilgrimage but was elected patriarch of Jerusalem in 1128 and never returned to Europe." (Jotischky 2010, p. 6)
    • ALT2: ... that Stephen of La Ferté was waiting for a ship to take him back to Europe from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem when the patriarch of Jerusalem died, and was subsequently elected to succeed him? Source: "He was waiting for a ship home when the patriarch of Jerusalem died. He was promptly elevated to the patriarchate..." (Riley-Smith 1997, p. 184)
    • ALT3: ... that Stephen of La Ferté was appointed patriarch of Jerusalem because he was the king's cousin, but this backfired when Stephen demanded the king's submission? Source: "If Baldwin had hoped that the ties of cousinhood would make for cordial co-operation, he was soon disillusioned." (Runciman 1952, p. 176)
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1953–1954 royal tour of New Zealand
    5x expanded by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 229 past nominations.

    Surtsicna (talk) 19:37, 30 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Saskatchewan Marshals Service

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    Also, there's no free images of the SMS in Commons.

    5x expanded by Ominae (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 20 past nominations.

    Ominae (talk) 10:14, 30 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Current nominations

    Articles created/expanded on July 1

    PJ Judge

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    * ... that a Judge controlled the drug trade in Dublin's north-western suburbs in the 1990s?

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

    ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 13:05, 7 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • article was recently created, long enough, and within policy. QPQ isn't required. Regarding the hook, I don't find this as interesting, mostly because it relies on word play and not necessarily an interesting fact about the article. This is sometimes relaxed for April fools, but otherwise I don't see it as interesting enough. That said, would you consider:
    ALT1: that "the Psycho" controlled the drug trade in Dublin's north-western suburbs in the 1990s? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 02:22, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    ALT1 sounds fair enough to me, yeah. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 12:32, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    to ALT1. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:25, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Gonzo fan2007 and Ser!: I'm not sure if this hook can work as written; "controlled the drug trade ... in the 1990s" seems misleading when he died in 1996. While it takes away some of the shortness of the hook, but:
    ALT1a: ... that from the early 1990s until his death in 1996, "the Psycho" controlled the drug trade in Dublin's north-western suburbs?
    seems to be more in line with what the source says. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 18:19, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Works for me. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 18:21, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Works for me also. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 18:22, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Perfect! Let's throw this back in approved. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 21:16, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Gonzo fan2007 and Ser!: actually, sorry, I'm going to be a stickler again: both the wiki article and source state "Finglas, Cabra and Ballymun" but do not describe them as Dublin's north-western suburbs. While this may be true, it should be sourced; and the hook makes it sound like he controlled the drug trade in all of the northwest suburbs, rather than the three specifically names. Unfortunately it makes a less pithy hook, but
    ALT1b: ... that from the early 1990s until his death in 1996, "the Psycho" controlled the drug trade in Finglas, Cabra and Ballymun?
    may be the way to go unless you have a different source. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 21:28, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Works for me. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 21:30, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Again, also works for me. While those three essentially make up the largest points of Dublin's north-western suburbs, I understand the need for verifiability. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 21:38, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Perfect! ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 22:04, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Andrea Enisuoh

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    • ... that in 1989 activist and writer Andrea Enisuoh was the first Black woman to be elected to the UK National Union of Students Executive Committee?
    • Source: Cooke, Diane (4 April 1989). "Young, Gifted, and Black". The Manchester Evening News. p. 8.
    • ALT1: ... that in 2010, activist Andrea Enisuoh and Hackney residents campaigned to keep the name of their local library, honouring Trinidadian writer CLR James? Source: "Andrea Enisuoh". Women From Hackney's History. 1. The Hackney History Society (Friends of Hackney Archives): 45.
    • Reviewed:
    Created by I&I22 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Medievalfran (talk) 21:26, 1 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Thank you for joining DYK, Medievalfran. The article is new and looks fairly comprehensive given the coverage, but I am afraid that there are some issues with this nomination. Several paragraphs are missing citations. The hooks are missing wikilinks, but that much is easily sorted. The two greater problems with the original hook is that it is not quite supported in the article and that it is not exactly interesting. I had never heard of a National Union of Students Executive Committee. Frankly, being a first black woman member of it does not sound like much. ALT1 is only slightly better. I suppose something could be done with the Trinidadan television transmission thing, but it is not mentioned in the cited source (which is an issue of its own). Surtsicna (talk) 18:22, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Z1720 Thank you both for your follow-up. I will add citations for missing paragraphs asap. I am not sure how to address the comment, "The two greater problems with the original hook is that it is not quite supported in the article and that it is not exactly interesting. I had never heard of a National Union of Students Executive Committee. Frankly, being a first black woman member of it does not sound like much.". I myself am Black British and find it SHOCKING that Andrea Enisuoh could be the first Black British woman to join the National Union of Students Executive Committee. It would not matter to me that I did not know of the National Union of Students Executive committee was.I would understand thatnthe organisation is a national union aka a big deal and "should" be at the forefront of progressive thought and practices. What this DYK illuminates is that contemporary intersectional systems of oppression are alive and well in London and that advocacy efforts are never-ending and must be continuously maintained, with much work to do. If I was to see this DYK, I, as a reader, would be inspired to double-up my engagement and participation in local community efforts, understanding that all efforts towards peaceful living matter greatly and that it is often mothers leading the charge.


    Articles created/expanded on July 2

    Marc Mac

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    • ... that Marc Mac is a British-Jamaican producer (one half of the group 4hero) whose album 'Two Pages' foretold the future sounds of drum 'n bass music?
    • Reviewed:
    Created by I&I22 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    I&I22 (talk) 16:10, 3 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • New enough in mainspace and long enough. Nominator is QPQ-exempt. I don't think the hook works: it's puffery and unattributed. (The discography does not need a citation, though the detail on the labels and versions is probably excessive.) Look for a different fact, I&I22; I don't think this would be allowed to stand unless attributed to someone reasonably well-known. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 18:58, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Sammi Brie - i don't really understand what you are saying here. Do you mean to express that Marc Mac is not well known? this is not true and a wildly unsubstantiated statement. it is not at all "puffery and unattributed" where did you get that? why would i bother even making the article if he wasn't an important yet overlooked piece of music history - he is well known as a pioneering artist of jungle and d'n b.if you do a little research it is easy to see this. i have no idea what qpg is but i will look it up thank you and figure out citations etc. also i don't understand speaking like this to ppl volunteering their sweet irreplacable time and learning the ropes on wikipedia, "Look for a different fact,". i get it - directness and all that i - i don't mind directness - but it seems a bit abrasive. Anyways, maybe i just have misunderstood you? and am making assumptions as have often encountered aggressive, condescending, unkind, rude, assumptive, suspicious or impatient-sounding comments from other more experienced editors when i have made some newbie error. alrightee i am not on here to bicker but it is fun when the convo is more respectful especially when putting in the time to learn and participate. thanks again and will look into it — Preceding unsigned comment added by I&I22 (talk • contribs) 20:27, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @I&I22: Please read WP:PUFFERY for more context. Generally speaking, Wikipedia wants to avoid subjective words like "pioneering" in articles, especially without proper attribution. It's more of a case of show than tell, i.e. show how the person is "pioneering", rather than saying they are so. Regarding the "well-known" thing, I think Sammi was talking about a reviewer or source that says Mac is "pioneering", rather than claiming that Mac is not well-known. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:10, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Narutolovehinata5: I see. Thank you for the puffery reference. On my end I understand the word pioneering differently, less promotional I suppose. I am on a bit of a break from Wikipedia. Can either of you let me know if there is a deadline for the updates? Much thanks I&I22 (talk) 05:54, 10 July 2025 (UTC)I&I22[reply]


      • Narutolovehinata5 is right. To make a claim like that requires appropriate backup, and big claims require lots of proof. That's a big claim. I'd be more than happy to help, but that's an important principle for editors to grasp. This sentence, for instance, has no reason to be there because it sounds so promotional: Reinforced Records has supported new musical genres and emerging artists, pioneering the sounds of 90's British dance music scene through mentorship, networking opportunities, collaboration and music production. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 05:38, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Sammi Brie: ok, great that is helpful to know. Yes there are many sources to cite. I can't remember what I wrote before, but I cited many academic references on his article. I have changed the dyk question, does that read better - in keeping with Wikimedia protocols? Marc Mac is in the main reference books for edm particularly British ones. He and his group members coached Goldie in crafting/translating his sonic visions for Goldie's epic masterpiece Timeless. Their label Reinforced Records mentored and supported many essential UK edm producers. As this artist seems to have shied away from promos due to racial unrest which led to family tragedies perhaps - they have kept a behind the scene profile but they are an essential part of British culture and mentioned often in Wikipedia so found it was important to mention them and provide a more accurate context for the other article mentions. I appreciate the support and guidance as i fail my way to greater understanding. I do not understand the Wikipedia culture completely yet and am duty-bound to represent the underacknowledged cultural contributions of BIPOC folx.:)

    @Narutolovehinata5: Hello! I have no idea how to format my changes...I have edited directly into the code...does this work with these kinds of DYK projects? I understand now that my question was way too mundane!

    Walter J. Muilenburg

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    Created by SL93 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 442 past nominations.

    SL93 (talk) 02:46, 2 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]


    Articles created/expanded on July 3

    Lizzie the Elephant

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    Lizzie the Elephant pulling a cart
    Lizzie the Elephant pulling a cart
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    Created by Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk) 16:32, 3 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Well, this is sweet and definitely attention-grabbing, Commandant Quacks-a-lot. Thank you! It is new, long enough and apparently comprehensive. I see no copyright issues. The sources range from excellent (e.g. the BBC article) to much less so; I see two blogs and two self-published websites. I would also appreciate if the sources were properly cited, with the name of author, date of publication, publisher, etc. Surtsicna (talk) 18:03, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello! I have gone throught and improved all but two of the citations in the article. Now for the blogs and self published sources. In "The Railway Museum Blog", the term "blog" in the name is somewhat misleading. It's a website from the National Railway Museum in the UK, and is mostly devoted to news relating to, well, railway and museum things. The Elephant Database is indeed a self-published blog, but the only website I can find that officially says that Lizzie's birthdate in unknown. Most websites just don't mention her birth. Dissapointing, I know, lol. Anyway, no other websites listed are self-published or blogs. Sorry I couldn't respond to you in the DYK nominations official page. Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk) 15:08, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I would suggest not saying anything about Lizzie's date of birth if the best source we can find is a self-published blog. Not saying anything actually implies that we do not know. Surtsicna (talk) 15:37, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    In that case, I shall remove it. Thanks for the tips! Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk) 18:24, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Alright. I think this looks ready now. Let's go, Lizzie! Surtsicna (talk) 16:46, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Abhi Na Jaao Chhod Kar

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    5x expanded by SerChevalerie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    SerChevalerie (talk) 14:57, 3 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    How that this hook sound?
    ALT1 ... that in 2022, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan called "Abhi Na Jaao Chhod Kar" the most romantic song in Hindi cinema?
    It might work since Khan is a Bollywood superstar and Bollywood has a large audience internationally. I mainly put "Bollywood actor" since he might be less well-known in the Western world. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:24, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Personal opinion, I still don't think it's interesting (I even think it's worse). Like, imagine a DYK hook that was like "Leonardo DiCaprio called 'City of Stars' the most romantic song in American cinema". Who really cares what Leo thinks about that song, even if he's objectively a great actor? Just my two cents though. jolielover♥talk 18:15, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Looks good to me! SerChevalerie (talk) 20:02, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    He is one of the most famous Bollywood actors of all time (I guess his popularity and fame would be comparable to, for example, Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise for Western film buffs), so I thought it was interesting that he would make such a comment. Anyway, I'm not seeing anything else in the article that would meet DYKINT, so if ALT1 fails then unfortunately we may have to fail this nomination. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:08, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Articles created/expanded on July 4

    50 (Herb Alpert album)

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    • Comment: Source:[1]
    Created by JTtheOG (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    JTtheOG (talk) 22:51, 5 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    References

    1. ^ Farber, Jim (September 16, 2024). "Herb Alpert's 50th Album Is Here. What's Kept Him Going Places?". The New York Times.

    Meléndez–Quiñónez dynasty

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    Alfonso Quiñónez Molina
    Alfonso Quiñónez Molina
    Improved to Good Article status by PizzaKing13 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

    PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 17:09, 4 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Article passed GA review on the 4th, and is well structured, fully cited, long enough, not plagerized, and has no other pressing issues. The hook is well structured, very interesting, and is cited. The primary hook seems the best imo, and I have nothing to add. Well done! GGOTCC 20:31, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Articles created/expanded on July 5

    RhonniRose Mantilla

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    Created by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 19 past nominations.

    DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 09:02, 6 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    On Eagle's Wings

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    Improved to Good Article status by Darth Stabro (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 45 past nominations.

    ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 03:55, 6 July 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
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: Article promoted to GA status on 6 July 2025. No copyright violations or other issues detected. I lean towards ALT1 over ALT0, but either hook is interesting enough. Looks good to go!  Ploni💬  14:50, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Breton Civil War, 1341–1343

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    • Source: Sumption, Jonathan (1990). The Hundred Years War 1: Trial by Battle. London: Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-13895-1. Page 408.
    Created by Gog the Mild (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 89 past nominations.

    Gog the Mild (talk) 00:25, 6 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Excellent article, Gog the Mild. Thank you. It is long enough and impeccably sourced. I do not see any copyright issues. I am puzzled by the scope of this article versus the scope of Initial campaign of the Breton Civil War, however. This article covers May 1341 – 19 January 1343, while the other covers May 1341 – February 1342 of the same conflict. For that reason I find it difficult to discern how much of the content of this article can be considered "new" for DYK purposes per WP:DYKLEN. Surtsicna (talk) 10:35, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi Surtsicna and thanks for picking up the nomination. This is an overview article. It is the lead article of this topic. (Once I have sorted Vannes it will be going to WP:FGTC.) In a similar way, Roman invasion of Africa (204–201 BC) is the lead article of the topic of the same name which was promoted to FT last month. Breton Civil War, 1341–1343 is aimed at readers who want an overview of the period when royal armies were clashing and things seemed to be building to a climax, but without reading through seven articles with their overlap. The climax then never happened, which is kind of the point. Obviously there will be a degree of overlap between this article and each of the seven sub-articles - especially for their backgrounds and aftermaths - that also is kind of the point.
    I am unsure to what extent any of this addresses your concerns, but hopefully you will let me know. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:01, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    If I understand you correctly, Gog the Mild, your intention is for Breton Civil War, 1341–1343 to have seven sub-articles, one of which is Initial campaign of the Breton Civil War. And then Breton Civil War, 1341–1343 is itself a sub-article of Breton Civil War, right? I do not know how to treat this overlap for the purposes of DYK's newness criterion, but I am very much inclined to pass the nomination because of its sheer quality. Surtsicna (talk) 18:33, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hi Surtsicna. Yes, you understand correctly. (See here for a slightly more complicated example. (Itself a sub-article of Hundred Years' War, 1337–1360; in turn a sub-article of Hundred Years' War; and in its turn a sub-article of Anglo-French Wars!) Breton Civil War should look something like that when completed.) I am unsure how to deal with the overlap for DYK. In theory I could go through all 8 articles hand sorting non-overlapping words to see if they get over the threshold. Except I have a life. For what it is worth this has not come up before at DYK as a problem in my 7 or 8 similar previous examples, including two last month. Regarding your bias towards quality, may I commend you for it and urge you to follow your instinct. Time to IAR? Gog the Mild (talk) 19:51, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, sir. Time to IAR! If anyone objects, well - the article is due for a GA nomination anyway. Surtsicna (talk) 20:40, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Surtsicna, the article is at GAN and a review has started. I would be a little surprised if anyone did object. It is a bit of a corner case, and who would want to relitigate it. And thank you. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:38, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Diaphoretickes

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    Giant kelp
    Giant kelp
    • ... that Diaphoretickes, a group containing an enormous diversity of eukaryotes including plants, ciliates, and kelps (pictured), derives from a Greek word meaning "diverse"?
    • Reviewed:
    Improved to Good Article status by Snoteleks (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    — Snoteleks (talk) 22:10, 5 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Starting review--Kevmin § 14:42, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Snoteleks: Article expansion new enough, GA new enough, Issues raised during and just after Ga have been resolved. Article is fully sourced and neutrally worded. AI detection came back as human, no copyvios are close paraphrasing identified in the prose. The hook is confirmed and verified in article and source. The hook itself could used some work though, right now its very clunky and a general "rule to live by" is the less extra links in a hook the better. could we reword the center to maybe just listing two or three example taxa, say "...including giant redwoods, ciliates, and kelps (pictured)..." with an image of one of the taxa to draw readers in more.--Kevmin § 01:44, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Plotkin's Vaccines

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    Created by BD2412 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

    BD2412 T 16:43, 5 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Comment: @BD2412: Regarding the hook and the article, please see MOS:DOCTOR. Viriditas (talk) 10:21, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • @Viriditas: Got it, thanks. BD2412 T 15:42, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
        • @BD2412: Regarding the difficulty of finding the Gates quote: the reason you can't find it is because it doesn't appear in the 7th or the 8th editions of the book (but it might appear on the front or back cover, likely the back). Prior to the 7th, the book was simply titled Vaccines (6th ed.) The original foreword by Gates in that edition was located on p. ix, and that's where you will find the quote.[46] As you can see, the original quote refers to the original title, not the new one. So when they came out with the 7th, they removed the quote in its entirety because the title had changed to Plotkin's Vaccines (and nobody wants to mess with a quote by Bill Gates). From then on, they continued to use the part of the quote without mentioning the old title as a blurb instead, likely on the back cover. If you really want to link to the original quote, you can cite the 6th ed. and p. ix. Or if you know for certain the quote is on the back cover of the 7th or 8th ed. you can link to "back cover". The question then becomes, did the Gates quote first appear in the 6th ed. or before? I don't know, but if you want to get that detailed in the future ("Bill Gates wrote a foreword for the x edition...") you can, but it's probably not necessary at the moment. Just wanted to solve your "page number needed" issue. Viriditas (talk) 19:56, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
          • I could cite IAVI as a secondary source for that proposition. BD2412 T 20:15, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
            • Whatever works for you. FYI... I just confirmed that the foreword was written for the 6th edition in 2013. You can look at the 5th edition here. Also, if you look at the cover of the 6th edition I linked to up above, it is advertised as "foreword by Bill Gates" for the first time, so the quote originated in 2013 in a foreword for the 6th edition. Viriditas (talk) 20:38, 8 July 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
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: Article is new enough, was moved from draft space, and is long enough. Content and hook are both sourced, free from plagiarism, and interesting. Now for the pre-Festivus sharing of grievances: 1) Structure. I expected Arabic numerals or Roman numerals to describe the structure, not bullets. Perhaps I'm not used to it and bullets work better? 2) The hook is quite long at 187 chars, and you've got your main blue link to your article third, which will decrease views. You can move it to the front and shorten the hook with something like "... that Plotkin's Vaccines was written by rubella vaccine inventor Stanley Plotkin after he identified vaccinology as a distinct field of medicine?" or some other variation along those same lines. Maybe play around with some alts. Also, I believe this same info is sourced in other places if someone objects to using an interview as a source. I think I just saw the same material in his own textbook. Passing as I think it meets the criteria, but concerns noted up above. Viriditas (talk) 21:40, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Aerial combat of 5 October 1914

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    Created by Moondragon21 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 19 past nominations.

    Moondragon21 (talk) 10:05, 5 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    For now, I've struck the hook given that the sourcing in the article doesn't meet the exceptional standard needed to meet DYKHOOKCITE. @Moondragon21: Can you please propose a new hook? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:26, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    ALT1 ...that French pilot Joseph Frantz won the Legion of Honour for his actions on 5 October 1914? same source. Moondragon21 (talk) 17:14, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Better, but I have some reservations since it's more about Frantz than the event. I'll let a reviewer decide. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:23, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Articles created/expanded on July 6

    Ann Davis (convict)

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    Created by Nick-D (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 29 past nominations.

    Nick-D (talk) 11:09, 7 July 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
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: Article created 6 July 2025, nominated for DYK on 7 July 2025 and is of sufficient length at 2817 characters. Earwig comes up as 20.6%. Both hooks are supported, however I find ALT0 more interesting. Good article which increased my knowledge of early Australia. TarnishedPathtalk 10:59, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Rohard the Elder, Anselm (bishop of Bethlehem), Geoffrey (abbot of the Temple of the Lord)

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    • Source: "They were charged to tell John that the Kingdom of Jerusalem could not supply provisions for a large army, but that the emperor would be welcome if he came with a bodyguard of ten soldiers." (Hamilton & Jotischky 2020, p. 73)
    Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 3. Nominator has 233 past nominations.

    Surtsicna (talk) 10:48, 7 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Each new enough, long enough, and adequately sourced. Three QPQs done, as needed. Earwig's copyvio checks were squeaky clean. I'm a little concerned about ALT1: the source states that Geoffrey was skilled in Greek (and that this was unusual for clergy) but that is not the same as saying that the others knew no Greek. The same source, visible through Google Books, verifies the other hooks. I prefer ALT0 to ALT2 but both are within rules and that decision can be up to whoever prepares the set. Good to go with ALT0 or ALT2. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:02, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks, David Eppstein. I see no practical difference here, but we can always say "skilled in Greek" instead of "spoke Greek".
    • ALT1a: ... that Bishop Anselm, Abbot Geoffrey, and Viscount Rohard were sent on a delicate mission to the Greek emperor–but only one of them was skilled in Greek?
    Let that be the third option should there be complaints about ALT0 and ALT2. Thank you for the review! Surtsicna (talk) 09:21, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Elias (bishop of Tiberias)

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    • ... that when Queen Melisende wanted to get rid of her husband's friend Elias, she made him an offer that he could not refuse?
    • Source: "If she wanted to put selected men in the top positions, Melisende can have had no desire to retain Elias, while Elias could not possibly refuse promotion from chancellor to bishop of Tiberias." (Mayer 1972, p. 117)
    Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 232 past nominations.

    Surtsicna (talk) 15:48, 6 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Article is new and long enough. QPQ has been provided. Hook is interesting enough, verified in the Mayer source. Copyvio only flagged source titles in the bibliography, so good to go. Juxlos (talk) 09:33, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Bath fire station

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    Bath fire station
    Bath fire station
    • ... that the Art Deco Bath fire station is proposed for demolition with the only part to be saved being a stone crest?
    • Source: Offline, but quotation is: "just one feature will be retained, as 'the existing crest on the building will be reclaimed and repositioned near the new building entrance'" from: "Nooks and Corners". Private Eye. No. 1652. 27 June 2025. p. 22.
    Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 924 past nominations.

    Dumelow (talk) 09:35, 6 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Taking a look at this article. Length - 5172 characters total, reasonable. Each source is carefully cited and free of plagiarism (one line is a direct quotation from the article). The sources themselves do check out and is free of bias. I recommend using ALT1 as the lead, because that makes the fire station a significant piece of work for women's history, it falls in line with the objectives of the WikiProject Women in Red initiative. I think this is a nicely written piece overall. I give it a in my book. NeverBeGameOver (talk) 21:15, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Cliffhanger (novel)

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    Created by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 21 past nominations.

    DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 09:19, 6 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • , preference for main hook, it's short, sweet & effective. Article is in state that is satisfactory regarding newness and sans copyvio. This is my first time working the "AI detector" of GPT, and I personally distrust the veracity of such tools but this one does not seem to be angry with this article. BarntToust 18:08, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Montana Manning

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    Created by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 18 past nominations.

    DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:55, 6 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    I'm also not sure if the article meets WP:DYKCOMPLETE given the complete lack of any personal information, including about her early life. If no sourcing about that can be found, then perhaps we could let that pass, but still. The article itself is rather light on details in general, but I guess the hookiest part is this:
    ALT1.5 ... that when former girl group member Montana Manning appeared on the soap Hollyoaks, she did not want to sing as she wanted to keep her music and acting careers separate?
    That's admittedly not really all that unusual in entertainment since plenty of singer-actors keep both careers separate, but this is the hookiest hook I could come up with. Maybe the article just isn't a good fit for DYK. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:17, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Unfortunately, I could not find any personal details. My biographies are usually extremely detailed and have a lot of info but there were a lack of sources for her, although she does meet the notability criteria. I personally believed that both hooks I proposed were interesting as it is not usual for actors to go on girl groups or want to not sing in television parts. I like how @Narutolovehinata5: has changed Hook ALT1 and I am in support of that wording. I will have another look to see if I find anymore sources - I did various thorough searches before but maybe I will get lucky... DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 04:46, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Narutolovehinata5: @Aneirinn: Luckily, I was about able to find an interview with her and expanded the article with more early life/personal life information and have proposed 3 more hooks. I know YouTube is not the best source but it works in an WP:ABOUTSELF way. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:50, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Pinging @Narutolovehinata5: @Aneirinn: in case you did not see the above DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 12:43, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thinking about this, ALT3 might be the most interesting option, but the hook as currently written is vague: it's talking about Smith not swearing in his movies, but the hook could easily be misinterpreted to mean that Manning appeared in Smith's movies and also did not swear in them. ALT2 is a possible backup option due to "reader may wonder why" reasons, while I don't see ALT4 as particularly unusual or interesting. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:11, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Pinging @Narutolovehinata5: I have altered AL3 :) DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 12:18, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you. I've struck ALT0 and ALT4 and am returning this to Aneirinn for a new look. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:40, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    The best options are ALT2 or ALT1.5. ALT3 cannot work as it is written because it is not true. Aneirinn (talk) 01:34, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]


    Articles created/expanded on July 7

    The Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer UK & Ireland Tour 2024

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    Created by JJonahJackalope (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 73 past nominations.

    JJonahJackalope (talk) 21:32, 7 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    @Aneirinn: Okay, what about ALT1: ... that while many reviewers described The Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer as an odd pairing, their 2024 co-headling concert tour received generally positive reviews?
    This fact is well-cited in the article, with multiple sources here. Radio X BirminghamWorld Manchester Evening News Huddersfield Daily Examiner
    @Aneirinn:, any opinions on this ALT hook? -JJonahJackalope (talk) 12:07, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Bond End Canal

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    • ... that discharge from a lock on the Bond End Canal was used to flush a sewer?
    • Source: "the short waterway found a new role in helping to solve a common problem of the day: removing sewage ... a system was devised whereby every time the river lock here was used, water was forced through the sewer as a flushing agent" from: "The Bond End Canal". Waterways. No. 276. Summer 2022. pp. 20–22.
    • ALT1: ... that the route of the Bond End Canal later became a railway and then a road? Source: "the route of its infilled sections can be traced through the towns simply by following Evershed Way. This road was built in the late 1980s on the route of a railway, which, in turn, had been constructed on the line of the canal" from: "The Bond End Canal". Waterways. No. 276. Summer 2022. pp. 20–22.
    • ALT2: ... that in the 18th century, workers were ordered to break through the bar separating the Bond End Canal from the Trent and Mersey Canal to try to remove an impediment to trade? Source: "the promoters of the T&M refused to allow a connection between the two canals. As usch the Shobnall Bar cam into being ... this required goods to be transhipped between boards on either side of the bar at what is now Shobnall Basin. This proved such an inconvenience that one night the Burton Boat Co attempted to break through the Shobnall Bar" from:: "The Bond End Canal". Waterways. No. 276. Summer 2022. pp. 20–22. the canal was built in 1775 and the bar was replaced with a lock in 1794
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Public Facility Maintenance Agency
    Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 925 past nominations.

    Dumelow (talk) 20:30, 7 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    Letov Š-10

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    • Source: Němeček, Václav (1983). Československá letadla (1918-1945) [Czechoslovak aircraft (1918-1945)] (in Czech) (3rd ed.). Naše vojsko. p. 36.
    • ALT1: ... that anchovies had engines? Source: Němeček, Václav (1983). Československá letadla (1918-1945) [Czechoslovak aircraft (1918-1945)] (in Czech) (3rd ed.). Naše vojsko. p. 36.
    • ALT2: ... that sardines had engines? Source: Němeček, Václav (1983). Československá letadla (1918-1945) [Czechoslovak aircraft (1918-1945)] (in Czech) (3rd ed.). Naše vojsko. p. 36.
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    • Comment: For WP:DYKAPRIL
    Improved to Good Article status by CosXZ (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Cos (X + Z) 18:21, 7 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Hi CosXZ, review follows: short article but for an aircraft of limited production and use; it has passed GA review on 7 July; sources are all offline but I have confirmed existence of the subject in Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation of 1980; hooks are interesting and mentioned in the article; will need to AGF that there is no copying from offline sources, the Earwig online checker is clear; hooks are fun enough for April Fool's Day, if needed. I do wonder if it should be "had" rather than "have" as the article doesn't say if any samples survive, but will leave that to the promoter - Dumelow (talk) 08:02, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Alaíde Foppa

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    • Source: "Over time, she formed relationships with members of the revolutionary movement—including a brief romantic relationship with Arévalo, with whom she had a son, Julio [es]—and embraced their ideals." Sourced from Leyte Chávez 2022, p. 129: "Her brief romantic relationship with Juan José Arévalo, the country's first democratically elected president, among other events, highlights the writer's obvious closeness to the revolutionary regime from its earliest years. Even after the relationship between Arévalo and Foppa broke up, her commitment to the Revolution's political and cultural project remained."
    • ALT1: ... that Alaíde Foppa taught the first class on women's sociology at a Latin American university?"
    • Source: At the School of Political Science, she offered the first course on the sociology of women ever to be offered at a Latin American university." [55]
    • ALT2: ... that Alaíde Foppa speaks on behalf of all women in her poem "Ella se siente"?
    • Source: "In this poem ["Ella se siente"], using the personal pronoun Ella, which serves as the subject, Foppa refers to every woman who exists and has existed on earth and speaks of her state of mind, a state of mind universally shared by individuals of the female sex." (Cocco 2023, p. 23)
    • ALT3: ... that according to Elena Poniatowska, Alaíde Foppa lived in 58 different houses throughout her life?
    • Source: "She tells them that she has lived in 58 houses in her life..." (Poniatowska 1990, p. 8)
    • Reviewed:
    Improved to Good Article status by Spookyaki (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Spookyaki (talk) 17:17, 7 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Comment: not to be that one friend that's too woke, but surely this brilliant and accomplished woman could have a hook better than one about a romantic relationship? jolielover♥talk 18:06, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • That's fair. Did think of that after I made the nomination. I don't know if there's anything else in the article that's quite as hooky/would inspire as many clicks (which is of secondary importance) that isn't related to her disappearance, which I think would be even worse, but I'll go ahead and add some alts. Hopefully these better reflect her life and individual agency as a person. Spookyaki (talk) 20:07, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Flag of El Salvador

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    Flag of El Salvador
    Improved to Good Article status by PizzaKing13 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

    PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 16:39, 7 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Article was promoted to GA on July 7, is long enough and well-sourced. The first hook is interesting; your comment is valid but I think it's ok to state an obvious fact without a source saying that (about El Salvador not having an Atlantic coastline). ALT1 is meh, but maybe is interesting to flag enthusiasts. qpq done. approved! Artem.G (talk) 10:45, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Articles created/expanded on July 8

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