Did you know? (DYK) entries are interesting facts that many people may not know. On this page possible entries are listed and members of the DYK project assess the nominations for the DYK section. DYKs are listed on the Main Page.
How to enter a DYK
List articles on this page under the Nominations area, below. The newest nominations go at the top. If you would like to make a nomination, you should read the rules below.
If there is a picture that you would like to see used with your nomination, please add it with your nomination as shown below. Any user may nominate a DYK suggestion.
Rules
Only one article can be nominated for a Did You Know hook.
This does not mean there can only be one link in the hook. It means the hook is to feature one article.
This main article is the link which is in bold. This article must meet the DYK rules.
The text of the article must be at least 800 characters. The number of characters can be measured with this tool.
The hook used to encourage people to read the article should be interesting to read. Information mentioned in the hook should be in the article text (not in a footnote, or in a linked reference, or in an infobox).
Whether a hook is not interesting should not be a matter for only one reviewer to decide. The first reviewer marks as {{DYKalmost}} if they feel the hook is not sufficiently interesting, with wording like "Is there a more interesting hook?". If 2 assessors (including the initial one) agree that the hook is uninteresting and no alternative has been put forward, the nomination is rejected with {{DYKno}} and advice to the nominator that "2 reviewers feel that this hook is not interesting, please suggest an alternative hook."
Articles may be re-nominated, but a different hook must be chosen. Also, two different hooks of the same article should not be added to the same update or updates that follow each other.
DYKs should not be very good articles (VGA) already as VGAs already get their own spotlight on the Main Page as the "Selected article".
Editors may only nominate up to four hooks at any one time. If more nominations are desired, existing nominations must either be removed, promoted to one of the DYK queues or placed in the holding area.
Hooks cannot be moved to a queue or removed from the nominations page until they have been there for a minimum of three days from the date they were originally posted. The only exception to this are hooks that can be "snowed". Hooks can also be removed if there has been no input from the nominator after five days from the last review. Unreviewed hooks however cannot be removed until there has been a review.
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Latest comment: 6 hours ago24 comments6 people in discussion
Please add new nominations below with newer nominations at the top. Nominations should be headed with a ===Level Three=== header containing a link to the article that the hook is from. If possible, all hooks should contain a relevant file from Wiki Commons – this can be a picture or a sound. The subject article should be '''bolded'''.
It is cited but only by one source. Is there perhaps another source that back that one up. It's an awfully big claim for one source. fr33kman18:04, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Moving this out of the holding area. Is it just me who finds this statistic very boring and expected? --Ferien (talk) 21:26, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Not all statistics are boring and expected. Plus there's two votes approving the hook (from six months ago), not sure why it was moved back here because of an opinion. I think this hook is good enough to be moved to the holding area. TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 21:31, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
It's not the fact that it is a statistic that makes it boring, it's that the statistic (IMO) is boring. We have about 200 hooks floating about in queues and the holding area, I really don't think "X% of people trim their pubic hair" or equivalent is as interesting at all, and this is a requirement for DYK. It's a thing that a lot of people do, as the hook demonstrates - what's interesting about that? Of course, if no-one else finds it boring it can be moved back, but I moved it here because yeah, I really don't see the point. --Ferien (talk) 21:40, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Similarly, I'd find something like 80% of people drive their car to work in the US boring. (just made up btw) Maybe this makes my point better. --Ferien (talk) 21:44, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
To be fair, I said not all statistics are boring. The hook's statistics isn't really that boring in my opinion. My interpretation of "interesting", especially coming from these hooks, is facts that not everyone might know/wouldn't have known had it not been for this hook. I think this hook falls under my interpretation. TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 21:47, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
I don't know who reviewed this hook, but there should be a decision made on which hook to use rather than leaving two in the holding area. --Ferien (talk) 21:19, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
I moved it because there was a consensus the hook was interesting, just more about how to establish the hook which I figured could have been decided when the hook is promoted. TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 21:30, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
I don't know how others treat the holding area, but it's said The only changes permitted here [in the holding area] are formatting or spelling changes, or adding an associated file. Making a decision on which hook to use isn't part of that. --Ferien (talk) 21:32, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
I figured to establish which hook to use/format is best fell under "formatting or spelling changes". My bad if I took this interpretation the wrong way. TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 21:34, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
I don't think it's a big deal, but we have the time to decide which hook to use, so why not.. also second hook is probably best choice reading them now. --Ferien (talk) 21:42, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Hooks that are ready to be moved to a queue for update may be held in this area until a space in a queue becomes available. To be eligible to move into this area, a hook must meet all of the promotion guidelines as outlined above. Hooks in this area do not count towards a user's nomination limit. If you change or re-review a hook in this area, it must be moved back to the main nominations section for discussion to continue. The only changes permitted here are formatting or spelling changes, or adding an associated file.
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Now and Then (Beatles song)
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