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Count of DYK nominations
Section	Unapproved	Approved	Total
June 24	1		1
June 29	1		1
June 30	2		2
July 1	1		1
July 3	1		1
July 8	2		2
July 9	2		2
July 11	3		3
July 12	1		1
July 13	3		3
July 15	1		1
July 16	3		3
July 17	1		1
July 18	1		1
July 19	2		2
July 20	2		2
July 21	2		2
July 22	1		1
July 23	1		1
July 24	1		1
July 26	1		1
July 27	2		2
July 30	3	2	5
July 31		1	1
August 1	4	3	7
August 2	1	3	4
August 3		2	2
August 4	4	3	7
August 6	5	6	11
August 7	3	2	5
August 8	5	4	9
August 9	2	4	6
August 10	5	6	11
August 11	6	4	10
August 12	4	7	11
August 13		3	3
August 14	3	7	10
August 15		9	9
August 16	3	8	11
August 17	6	10	16
August 18	3	10	13
August 19	3	8	11
August 20	3	4	7
August 21	2	5	7
August 22	3	4	7
August 23	3	12	15
August 24	1	5	6
August 25	2	6	8
August 26	4	6	10
August 27	2	5	7
August 28	1	9	10
August 29	5	12	17
August 30	5	4	9
August 31	3	5	8
September 1	7	5	12
September 2	6	10	16
September 3	2	1	3
September 4	3	1	4
September 5	2	7	9
September 6	7	4	11
September 7	7		7
September 8	7		7
September 9	2		2
Total	172	207	379
Last updated 08:43, 9 September 2026 UTC Current time is 09:27, 9 September 2026 UTC [refresh]

Instructions for nominators

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

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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 or with the closer, but as a general rule such nominations will only be restored in exceptional circumstances. If your nomination was promoted, but it hasn't reached the main page after two weeks, you can also query this on the DYK discussion page.

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

• See Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas for details on verifying a hook's acceptability.
• Promoters should not promote their own nomination or their own review.
• When promoting hooks intended for a particular date, keep in mind that when the number of available approved nominations exceeds 120 we switch to two sets per day, and when that number drops below 60 we return to one set per day.

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 nomination

• Open the DYK nomination subpage of the nomination you would like to remove.
• 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.
• Alternatively, you can use PSHAW, which automates the process.

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

Articles created/expanded on June 24

Makan Nasiri

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• ... that Makan Nasiri is the only child from the Minab school attack whose remains were never recovered?

• Source: Tehran Times, Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Geoffrey de Henlaw

Created by Mhhossein (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 67 past nominations.

Mhhossein ^talk 21:28, 1 July 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article new and long enough. Neutral, especially given the CTOPIC subject matter, well sourced, and plagiarism free. Hook cited and interesting. QPQ done. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:48, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

• • Pulled. The lead claims two more children were never found, though without references. Given the general... controversiality of the situation, do we have any other potential hooks? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:45, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

@Crisco 1492: I found this naming the children recently added to the lead. In light of that recent addition, I suggest going by the following:

ALT1: ... that Makan Nasiri is a victim child from the Minab school attack whose remains were never recovered?

--Mhhossein ^talk 14:39, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

• Mhhossein: Doesn't work, unfortunately. According to the source you provided, "Esmail Baghaei began his weekly press briefing by honoring three martyred students from the Minab school attack, whose remains were recently identified and reburied." So the official Iranian position is that the remains have been recovered. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:45, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

• @Crisco 1492:: I put the blame on incorrect translation from Persian to English. I say this because after new body fragments were found, DNA test showed no trace of Makan. see this. Also, you can read from Baghaei in my pervious source that "..Amir Ali Jedavi, Masiha Salari, who have been added to Makan Nasiri, who until today we thought was the only missing martyr of America's war crime in Minab." --Mhhossein ^talk
• The phrase "...who until today we thought was the only missing martyr of America's war crime in Minab" means that now we know there are two more children like Makan whose bodies were never found. --Mhhossein ^talk

I'm still iffy. Tagging for re-review. Perhaps someone else can weigh in? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:08, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

I suggest that we stop arguing over the remains or not. We have a sound ref that supports "

• ALT2: ... that Makan Nasiri's mother treasures her son's shoe (pictured) after the Minab school attack? ref here Victuallers (talk) 16:16, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

• Thanks. I'm still going to leave this up for another set of eyes. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:26, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

• As the page creator and DYK nominator, I am open to both ALT1 and ALT2. Maybe ALT2 is even more interesting. Waiting for "another set of eyes" ... ! --Mhhossein ^talk 05:51, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Another set? What?? I thought that was the previous objective. Ping me when you have someone acceptable. Victuallers (talk) 08:36, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
    • My apologies; I thought that the alt was proposed by Mhhossein. I do like ALT2. Reinstating tick. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:46, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

At AFD.--Launchballer 11:01, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on June 29

Piero Volpi

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• ... that Italian physician Piero Volpi indirectly helped Brazil win the 2002 FIFA World Cup by treating the tournament's top goalscorer, Ronaldo, so that he would be fit to play in the tournament?

• Source: https://sempreinter.com/2024/11/18/inter-doctor-piero-volpi-hakan-calhanoglu-doesnt-have-serious-problem/ https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/esporte/fk2411199921.htm https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/esporte/fk0112199912.htm https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/20_aprile_09/piero-volpi-medico-calcio-io-infettato-un-paziente-sport-deve-attendere-3ffffc7e-7a2f-11ea-880f-c93e42aa5d4e.shtml

• • Reviewed:
  • Comment: I would write this hook for the July 19th World Cup final, but that day has already been set in stone. The sentence that this hook was based on was cited four times in the article, so I have provided all four of the citations for you (usually I only choose one).

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

Beta Beta Beta - talk 21:16, 29 June 2026 (UTC).

• Apparently it isn't set in stone actually since I read that DYKs should generally consist of 9 hooks instead of 7, so I think there's room for two more. Beta Beta Beta - talk 21:37, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
  • ... that an Italian footballer helped Brazil win the 2002 FIFA World Cup? Bremps... 05:27, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

I much prefer this hook. In solidarity, Iseult ^Δx talk to me 23:48, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article new and long enough, sourced and neutral. Second hook is much more interesting. No issues. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:01, 24 July 2026 (UTC) ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:01, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

• There is an orange "unreferenced" tag for his career section, rendering this unpromotable at present. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:00, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
  • @Mtvdanilo and Beta Beta Beta: This times out in a few days; can sources be added to the career section? Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:44, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
    • Hello, based on sources from the RSSSF and European Football Statistics, I've added some sources. Thank you for reading carefully. (Mtvdanilo)
      • Re-adding a tick procedurally since the sourcing issue has been resolved, otherwise relying on AJ29's full review. Dclemens1971 (talk) 17:50, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
• Gatoclass and I arrived at similar concerns independently at WT:DYK about sourcing support for saying he "helped them win" (even indirectly); I think another hook will be needed. Fwiw (as a not particularly sports knowledgable person) I think it's interesting in and of itself for a high-level athlete to become a physician after their sporting career. Zzz plant (talk) 21:20, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on June 30

Stephan Ludwig Roth

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• ... that after his 1849 execution, pastor Stephan Ludwig Roth became a "martyr" among the Transylvanian Saxons because of his advocacy of social justice?

• Source: Mall, Jonathan (2019). "Stephan Ludwig Roth und die Juden. Überlegungen zu einem vernachlässigten Aspekt im Denken des "größten Mannes des Sachsenvolkes"". Zeitschrift für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde (in German). 42: 63–81. ISSN 0344-3418. Retrieved 24 August 2025.

"Das Vermächtnis Stephan Ludwig Roths". Hermannstädter Zeitung. 2 October 1970. Retrieved 24 August 2025.

• • ALT1: ... that although the Transylvanian Saxon pastor Stephan Ludwig Roth admired the biblical Israelites and ancient Hebrews, he was openly antisemitic to contemporary Jews? Source: See multiple in "Views on Jews" section.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Abdurrahman Mohammad Fachir

Improved to Good Article status by Apollo468 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 116 past nominations.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:14, 7 July 2026 (UTC).

• New enough (nominated on 7th day of eligibility), certainly long enough. No issues with article presentability and article sources look all good. QPQ is all good. I can't access the source used for the hook. While I trust that it does say martyr, the phrases used in the title/abstract ("Greatest Man of the Saxon People" or "the greatest man that our 700-year [Saxon] history has to offer.") strike me as a little more DYKINT. That same source is used for ALT1, so can't approve that without access (it's also could use some cleanup). I was able to find this source in Romanian that seems bona fide and uses the word "martyr" if you prefer that for ALT0. Let me know what you think about a different version of ALT0 or if you can access the source for ALT1. Dizzycheekchewer (talk) 05:03, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Hi Dizzycheekchewer, your proposed alternative is good with me. Unfortunately, I’m on holiday without my laptop so can’t make any major adjustments. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 10:37, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
    • AirshipJungleman29 ALT0 is approved as is (given additional source), if that's your preference, but did you have any interest in one ("Greatest Man of the Saxon People") or the other ("the greatest man that our 700-year [Saxon] history has to offer.") alternatives as an ALT0a? Let me know and I'll tick it off. Dizzycheekchewer (talk) 18:47, 2 September 2026 (UTC)

Bishop O'Dowd High School

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• ... that the campus of Bishop O'Dowd High School features a 3-acre (1.2 ha) ecological restoration site powered by students on an abandoned rock quarry?

• Source: https://bringingbackthenatives.net/bishop-odowd-high-schools-living-laboratory

• • Reviewed:

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

CostalCal (talk) 20:01, 1 July 2026 (UTC).

• GA, in time, long enough, sourced, no apparent copyvios, no QPQ needed. The image does not indicate the source of the CC license, and so is not currently appropriate. CostalCal, where does the article say that the ecological restoration site was built by students on an abandoned rock quarry? --Usernameunique (talk) 21:24, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Note: Dragon Hoops was bold, but it doesn't appear to be eligible for DYK. I assume the bolding was accidental, and I unbolded it. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 04:30, 2 July 2026 (UTC)*@Usernameunique: @Mandarax: I have deleted the second hook, re-written the first one, changed the source, removed the image, and I believe that this requires another reviewer to check as it has been abandoned for almost 2 weeks now. CostalCal (talk) 23:17, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
  • CostalCal, I was considering reviewing this, but Usernameunique's (courtesy ping) original issue still stands. The whole campus was apparently built on a former rock quarry, but the hook reads as if the student-built eco site was the only thing built on the quarry. To my reading (and maybe UU's as well) it seems to overstate the students' contribution, as though they restored an entire former quarry. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 15:09, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
    • Thanks, Premeditated Chaos. Another issue I see now is that the source refers to it as an ecological restoration project powered by students; powered by students does not necessarily mean built by students. --Usernameunique (talk) 15:27, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

• @CostalCal: Have you resolved the above concern, and is this ready for a re-review? Z1720 (talk) 00:23, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

• I have. CostalCal (talk) 00:33, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 1

Amadu Bansang Jobarteh

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• ... that Amadu Bansang Jobarteh had 4 wives and over 17 children?

• Source: "He was married to four women, Kumuna Sakiliba, Kachikaly Suso, Lanla Conteh and Nyima Cham with over seventeen children."

• • ALT1: ... that Amadu Bansang Jobarteh tuned all 21 strings of his kora by ear? Source: "Amadu Bansang Jobarteh's tuning method is based on the timbango string as system tonic. First he tunes the answerer (jinkandango) string (C) to a fifth above the timbango string (F)... He also checks the upper octave of the timbango (the string he calls kumbengo) against these two strings. He then fills in the lower tetrachord starting at the G immediately above the F (timbango) and then the A immediately above...There is no real sense of absolute pitch among kora players, so when two get together one must make an adjustment up or down to play with the other. Koras are usually tuned to match the range of the vocalist, who is often the player himself. Most are tuned with their system tonic" (p. 160-161)
  • ALT2: ... that Amadu Bansang Jobarteh was called a "library" of African history by the Gambian politician Sidia Jatta? Source: "Sidia Jatta, a renowned Gambian Parliamentarian who is a founding member of PDOIS Party has strong admiration for the great Jali referring to him as a “Library” out of respect for his firm knowledge of African history."
  • ALT3: ... that Amadu Bansang Jobarteh was born into a African caste of musical story-telling griots? Source: "The great jali [Malian: griot] Amadou “Bansang” Jobarteh...was a great oral historian and kora player of his time. "The griot, or African storyteller, was and is today, the main conveyer of the collective wisdom of the tribal peoples of Africa. Stories are presented in a stylistic way and are associated with great enjoyment. Even today among the rural Wolof of Senegal people gather in village squares to hang on each word the griot says."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Radu Cioculescu

Improved to Good Article status by RabidTuberculosis (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

RabidTuberculosis (talk) 21:57, 7 July 2026 (UTC).

• General eligibility:
• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article was promoted to GA on time (July 1) as of the DYK nomination and has no copyright issues picked up by Earwig. QPQ already done. One small issue is that ALT0 says 17 kids, but the source you used says "over seventeen children". Other than that, I like ALT1 the best. -- ZooBlazer 19:48, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

• Pulled over concerns about reliance on self-published sources; see discussion here.
  • @ZooBlazer:@Dclemens1971: I've revised ALT1 per the discussion. Are ALT0 and ALT2 still suitable for promotion? Looking back through the article, I've also proposed an additional hook (ALT3) about the jali caste. Happy to make changes as needed to get this over the finish line! RabidTuberculosis (talk) 03:14, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
    • RabidTuberculosis The issue is less with the hooks (I like ALT2) than with the continued presence of unreliable sources in the article, which violates WP:DYKCITE (and GACR2b). Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:18, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

• @RabidTuberculosis: Have you resolved the issue of unreliable sources in the article, and is this ready for a re-review? Z1720 (talk) 03:35, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

• @Z1720: Issue resolved, should be good to go! RabidTuberculosis (talk) 04:53, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 3

Freddy (soccer fan)

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Langley

• ... that German soccer fan Freddy garnered prominence on X for being a fan of Langley (pictured), but later deactivated his account after people claimed that he was working at Langley?

• Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/freddy-world-cup-viral-fan/687771/

• • ALT1: ... that while visiting Atlanta before the 2026 FIFA World Cup, German soccer fan Freddy described the city's metro system as a GTA lobby? Source: https://nypost.com/2026/06/12/lifestyle/german-world-cup-tourist-goes-viral-eating-his-way-across-america/
  • ALT2: ... that an anonymous German soccer fan named Freddy garnered prominence for his reaction to a Buc-ee's? Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20260612190743/https://people.com/german-soccer-fan-goes-viral-as-he-discovers-u-s-food-spots-in-world-cup-road-trip-11995387
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Felicity Lott
  • Comment: I really prefer alt0, so if you find any issues with it, I would like some refinements.

Created by Knightoftheswords281 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

— Knightoftheswords 12:55, 3 July 2026 (UTC).

• Reviewing. Cielquiparle (talk) 03:54, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
• Great idea for a Wikipedia article. New enough (nominated on same day moved into mainspace), more than long enough (31755 characters). Has a lot of sources – 81 are cited (20 of which Cite Unseen finds generally reliable, 11 no consensus, 5 marginally reliable, and 6 generally unreliable). Drilling down further on the 6 generally unreliable, weirdly at least 2 of them are articles that don't even mention Freddy. Get rid. In fact, strongly recommend getting rid of that entire Background section that has nothing to do with Freddy. This is not a magazine article or essay; it's an encyclopedia entry about Freddy. That section is extraneous and if anything could belong in a completely different Wikipedia article (maybe). It also pushes down the main content of the article and in this day and age of scrolling rather than reading, no one has patience to wade through a bunch of extra information they weren't expecting like "what is the World Cup". In any case, point 3 in the checklist requires more work. QPQ is done. Hooks have a bunch of problems: All hooks suffer from MOS:SEAOFBLUE, an excessive number of blue links to common words and phrases that confuse the reader as to where they should click (the objective is to get them to read the article about Freddy, remember?). ALT0 definitely does not qualify as a picture hook, as Langley is not the main subject of the article. Also it seems funny only to a limited audience (Americans who know what Langley is referring to the CIA headquarters). The whole thing seems like an oversimplification as well. Perhaps the hook can still be saved but it needs a bit more thought put into it. ALT1 fails the interesting test (what is a GTA lobby? even if I work out that it's a Grand Theft Auto reference, why is it interesting to a broad audience?). Also the sourcing for that hook fails point 5 in the checklist (though perhaps an alternate source could be found). ALT2 has potential but "garnered prominence" sounds awkward. @Knightoftheswords281: All this to say, there is a lot of interesting content in this article, so don't hide it, and don't undersell it – with the right hook, this should be a winner in the monthly DYK stats – take a look through the successful past hooks to see what works. Cielquiparle (talk) 04:33, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
  • @Cielquiparle and AirshipJungleman29:, while in retrospect, the background section was prolly too long, I don't agree with its wholesale removal, since the broader "European/international tourists come to America during the WC and love it" has been pretty extensively covered in the sources used in this article, as well as (to a lesser extent) the political atmosphere around the WC. Such a background section with one or two (shorter) paragraphs with the base biographical information included at the top of the following section moved in should be fine and fall under WP:DUE. As for ALT0, I think the interest is more from the wordplay in the hook, which would probably intrigue readers in of themselves (perhaps the link could be changed from GB Center of Int. to just the CIA?); the same is (slightly less) true with (a de-initialized) ALT1, since GTA and its contents are fairly broadly known globally. Also, NYP is considered reliable for uncontroversial, non-political statements per WP:RSP. I've also noticed that ASJM has orange-tagged the article ({{Fanpov}}); if he could point to specific examples throughout the text, I will analyze and rewrite. — Knightoftheswords 16:55, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the ping. It's some excessive detail and some wording. The lead is larger than most FAs, phrases like "eagle-eyed netizens" and "and received extensive attention" are reminiscent of much more promotional articles, the significant amounts of unencyclopedic minor details in his journey (I guess it's good to know which mountains are good sniper points?) contributes to the feeling of bloat, and the use of some fairly tabloidy sources—I've never heard of Dexerto before but I'm not surprised that WP:RSP advises against using it for BLPs—doesn't help. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:08, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
      • Alright. I've been waiting for Freddy to wrap up his trip to the US. I will start the process of updating and remedying the article when I get home. — Knightoftheswords 14:38, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
• @Knightoftheswords281: Is this good to go now? It has been almost a month since the last comment here. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:16, 28 August 2026 (UTC)
  • @Narutolovehinata5: Oh wow, I actually forgot about this while I was moving in the past few weeks. I'll finish it tomorrow. — Knightoftheswords 01:25, 28 August 2026 (UTC)
    • @Narutolovehinata5: I've tidied up the article a bit and have also expanded it to cover the remainder and aftermath of his trip. I did re-add the background section, simply because I believe (as indicated in the sources) that it's a big reason why Freddy became notable in the first place, but I've massively shortened it since in retrospect I was a little rambly about it in the original version (and I also merged parts of the next section into it). The lead has also been shortened (I did that a month ago). All in all, it seems ready to go. I would still strongly recommend some form of ALT0 be chosen; I think its basically acceptable under Hook criteria 8, though if need be, it could be reworded to give readers some more insight. Something like (without picture) ALT3: ... that German soccer fan Freddy garnered prominence on X for being a fan of Langley, but later deactivated his account after people claimed that he was an agent of Langley? — Knightoftheswords 04:09, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 8

Quetena

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• ... that a lava sample from the Quetena volcano in Bolivia chemically resembles rocks from millions of years before its age?

• Source: L 8: rhyodacite, Quetena volcano, 4350 m; 67°23'W, 22°17'S. (p. 95)

High-K calc-alkaline association (Table 2, lavas L 4–L 10). According to the data of Jakeš and White (1972), this group can be attributed to the shoshonite association. (p. 98) In southwestern Bolivia, the Miocene and Early Pleistocene lavas belong to the high-K calc-alkaline association. (p. 99)

• • ALT1: ... that a 1977 survey dated lava flows at the Bolivian volcano Quetena to the Holocene, but a later assessment placed them much earlier? Source: Lava effusions along fissures (Quetena) and a few endogeneous extrusions (Khara Laguna, Escala) occurred in Holocene time. (p. 88) De Silva (2007 pers. comm.) indicated that volcanism in this area is pre-Holocene and may be Pleistocene or older.
  • ALT2: ... that a magnetic survey found a 3D electrical structure in the crust beneath Quetena volcano in Bolivia? Source: Some areas with 3-D effects can be identified (e.g., near Volcan Quetena at distance of 40 km on the Bolivia section, and at isolated stations and at long periods on the Argentina profile). (GSA Data Repository 2015087, p. 2) Skew values are higher in a couple of areas, notably close to Volcan Quetena (west of Volcan Uturuncu) and also in NW Argentina. (GSA Data Repository 2015087, p. 6)
  • ALT3: ... that scientists considered the region around the Quetena volcano as a viable area for a geothermal power plant in Bolivia? Source: There are no geothermal power plants in Bolivia, but seven areas bordering on Chile are considered prospects. They are: Sajama...Quetena. No deep wells have been drilled yet.
  • ALT4: ... that the Quetena volcano shares names with a Triassic rock sequence in Chile? Source: Triassic volcanic and sedimentary units include the Quetena, Observatorio and Cerros de Chuquicamata Sequences [in Chile] (Tomlinson and Blanco, 2008). (p. 209) ...in the sectors of Cerro Quetena and Pampa Limón Verde, they are composed of clasts of muscovite schist, metamorphic quartz, and detrital muscovite and rutile derived from erosion of the LVMC. (p. 210)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/History of Llanthony Priory

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

RabidTuberculosis (talk) 23:46, 10 July 2026 (UTC).

• @RabidTuberculosis I really want to approve this, it looks interesting. There are two unsourced statements in the article, which should be removed or else cited to a source. The first states "The Quetena River rises near the volcano and flows north, eventually joining the Río Grande de Lípez and draining into the Salar de Uyuni." The second unsourced statement says "The surrounding area, part of the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve, is visited by tourists travelling through the Sur Lípez region, and Quetena Chico and Quetena Grande serve as waypoints for guided climbs of the higher, more frequently visited Uturuncu." Also, the source does not state "Quetena is the tallest fissure-vent volcano in the world." NewAccount7295 (talk) 03:59, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
  • @NewAccount7295: Thanks for your thorough review! Added references to both statements, and modified the wording to more closely match the sources. The Quetena River line now cites an open-source science journal and I split the tourism line into two sentences after trimming content a bit. To the last point, the Smithsonian's GVP survey lists every documented volcano (Holocene or Pleistocene epoch) on the planet by type, and lists Quetena as the tallest fissure-vent. The database does not make statements but the data is otherwise unambiguous, so I've left it in the article with a link to the complete database. Please let me know if you have other comments! RabidTuberculosis (talk) 22:38, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
    • @RabidTuberculosis: Those sound like good additions, but for some reason it doesn't look like the edits went through? NewAccount7295 (talk) 23:56, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
      • @NewAccount7295: Ah that's weird, should be good now! RabidTuberculosis (talk) 01:35, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
        • Good to see them sourced now! I'm going to see what another reviewer thinks and ask for ALT3 to be chosen when that happens, although I think "potential area" should be changed to "viable area". The article has pretty good DYK potential. NewAccount7295 (talk) 02:22, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
        • @RabidTuberculosis: Drive-by comment: noticed that the lead statement Quetena is the tallest fissure-vent volcano in the world. is still cited to the Smithsonian source, and I'm not verifying the information from any of the tabs on that page. – Reidgreg (talk) 13:31, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
          • @Reidgreg: Try this link to the Pleistocene database (under which the Quetena subpage is linked): . I'll add this database in the article as well since it may not be obvious to readers! RabidTuberculosis (talk) 16:24, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Sadamasa Arikawa

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Sadamasa Arikawa in 1954

• ... that Sadamasa Arikawa (pictured) helped on cinematography in the Godzilla franchise?

• Source: https://books.google.ca/books?id=VsE8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT247&dq=sadamasa+arikawa&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5loOevMSVAxWxHzQIHWi3L38Q6AF6BAgLEAM

• • ALT1: ... that Sadamasa Arikawa (pictured) left Toho after Eliji Tsuburaya's death in 1970? Source: https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Godzilla_FAQ/7Oh3EQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=sadamasa+arikawa&pg=PA87&printsec=frontcover
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Created by Wikiman2230 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Wikiman (Talk) 18:25, 10 July 2026 (UTC).

• Hello @Wikiman2230: I'm just passing by, and this is not a review. Both hooks don't seem to pass WP:DYKINT, which stated that they should be "likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing by readers with no special knowledge or interest". But the first hook could be made more interesting by mentioning his service as a bomber pilot for the Imperial Japan in WW2 (this is just a suggestion). Also, don’t forget to solve the citation needed tag in the Toho subsection. Kind regards Khoa Nguyễn1|Talk 14:30, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• • ALT2: .. that Sadamasa Arikawa (pictured) was a pilot for the Japanese Air Service before joing the Japanese entertainment conpany Toho? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20060101060933/http://www.henshinonline.com/archive.html

• @Wikiman2230: new enough, long enough. Sources include Medium, which should generally not be used as a source.Alt0 and Alt1 are entirely out. Alt2 is possible but needs updating to show the interest - and needs to explain what Toho is. Jishara (talk) 01:18, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

• • @Jishara: So I fixed the Medium thing by getting rid of it and I have also tweaked the Alt by a tiny bit. Wikiman (Talk) 20:10, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

@Wikiman2230: I've just come across this article again. Iirc, the ping won't work if you don't sign your reply, so you will have to ping the reviewer again and sign four tildes (~) at the end of the reply. By the way, I forgot to say this, but welcome to DYK! KhoaNguyen1|Talk 14:56, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Just popping in. There are two "citation needed" tags in the Later Career section which should be sorted out. Other than this, I think the article is good to go ahead. Ashorocetus (talk | contribs) 11:02, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

• @Wikiman2230: Have the above been resolved, and is this ready for a re-review? Z1720 (talk) 03:38, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

• • yes they have Wikiman (Talk) 12:53, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 9

Thomas J. W. Burgess, Joseph Workman

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• ... that Thomas J. W. Burgess worked as a clinical assistant under his godfather Joseph Workman, who is considered to be the "Nestor" of Canadian psychiatry?

• Source: For Burgess: "He immediately joined the medical staff of the Asylum for the Insane in Toronto, which was under the direction of his godfather and mentor, the renowned Joseph Workman." "Becoming interested in the study of mental diseases, he acted for over a year as clinical assistant to Dr. Joseph Workman in the Toronto Asylum for the Insane."

For Workman: "In 1885, Joseph [Workman] was described as “the Nestor of Canadian Alienists” by the famous English alienist, Dr. D. Hake Tuke, brother of the Dr. Tuke who visited the [Toronto] Asylum in 1845. This title has been interpreted as meaning the Grand Old Man or the Father of Canadian Psychiatry."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Statue of Dante Alighieri (Meridian Hill Park), Template:Did you know nominations/The Giant Spider Invasion
  • Comment: First double nom. 6-7th time I'm here, please copyedit my articles please, Cheers.

Moved to mainspace by DoNothingEveryday (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

DoNothingEveryday (talk) 03:50, 10 July 2026 (UTC).

• I take, will review in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 07:38, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

QPQs fine, no problems with Thomas, but I'm tired from copyediting it, and will review Joseph later.--Launchballer 16:38, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

@DoNothingEveryday: Whew, that was a doozy. Both are long and new enough and Earwig's clean. The source on this page says "was described as "the Nestor of Canadian Alienists", [which] has been interpreted as meaning [...] the Father of Canadian Psychiatry", and the hook puts this in wikivoice. The hook, article, and source should all agree.--Launchballer 12:04, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Launchballer, I rectified the issue to make the hook be less assertive and more "considered to be". Also added the interpretation of the Nestor quote in the legacy part of the article. Cheers. DoNothingEveryday (talk) 12:18, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Launchballer, any updates on the nomination? It's been at least two weeks and I've fixed the issue regarding the vagueness of Workman's title already. Sorry for pinging you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DoNothingEveryday (talk • contribs) 10:02, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

You haven't. The lead now says "he is considered to be the "father of Canadian psychiatry", likening him to the elderly Nestor of Greek mythology", but the body says "Daniel Hack Tuke considered him as the "Nestor of Canadian alienists" at the time, which has been interpreted as meaning "Father" or "Old Mentor" of Canadian psychiatry". The former is cited to two sources, the first of which is offline, and the second of which doesn't contain the word 'father'. Please provide a quote from the former and move it into the body. Also, pings don't work if you don't sign your post.--Launchballer 10:33, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Okay, @Launchballer, I will just change the father thing to Nestor. Possibly less interesting, but more accurate by what it said by the article and book. Also added Tuke's quoting. Found at page 175 of the first volume of the Dictionary of Psychological Medicine Pleases notify me if something's still wrong. Thanks. DoNothingEveryday (talk) 11:12, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Considerably less interesting I'm afraid; you have to know what the word means for it to be interesting and I hadn't heard of it before. I think you should propose a different angle.--Launchballer 11:28, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

I know, @Launchballer, although viewers might be interested on who Nestor is. He is a secondary character in the Iliad who offers advise to the characters. That being said, I might add a technicality here, since the term has been interpreted as "father". I'm adding a alternate phrasing here: ALT0a: that Thomas J. W. Burgess worked as a clinical assistant under his godfather Joseph Workman, who is considered to be the "father" of Canadian psychiatry? Also, I added a link to the offline book "The father of Canadian psychiatry: Joseph Workman". It can be found on Archive.org although I used Z-library to read the book whole. You could find the interpretation of the "Nestor" line in the book at page 69, chapter 8. Let me also know if it is a bit clickbaity of a hook, since it's just an interpretation of a term. DoNothingEveryday (talk) 11:45, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Readers don't tend to click on hooks if they don't understand them. I'm going to call for another reviewer just to check I'm not being unreasonable.--Launchballer 12:07, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

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• ALT0b: ... that "the father of Canadian psychiatry" was the godfather of Thomas J. W. Burgess?

ALT0c: ... that "the father of Canadian psychiatry" was the godfather of his clinical assistant Thomas J. W. Burgess?

The hook can be simplified like (if it complies the reference and above suggestions). Though, full review is still required. M. Billoo 13:42, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

Casabe

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Making casabe

• ... that the main ingredient of casabe (pictured) is toxic?

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• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Speculum Duorum

Converted from a redirect by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 66 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 02:46, 10 July 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - ? The hook fact appears in the article and is cited in the Preparation section, but I think the wording of the current hook is broader than the article text. The article says that casabe may be made from either bitter or sweet cassava, although bitter varieties are more common, and that bitter cassava is toxic unless processed into casabe or farinha. The hook says that the "main ingredient" of casabe is toxic, which compresses those points and may be read too broadly. Could the hook be revised to match the article more closely, or could a source be cited that directly verifies both parts of the current wording: that the main ingredient is the toxic form and that it is toxic before processing?

Suggested wording: ALT1: ... that casabe (pictured) is usually made from bitter cassava, which is toxic before processing?

• Interesting:
• Other problems:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is new enough and long enough, appears adequately sourced and neutral, and QPQ has been supplied. The image is free, used in the article, and clear enough. Holding only for hook wording/verification. The current hook is interesting, but I suggest revising it to avoid overstatement. The image is acceptable, though if the nominator wants a clearer product-focused image, the article's infobox image of stacked casabe could also work. Umais🗣 07:44, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

• Comment @Umais Bin Sajjad: I thought the hook had to be under 200 characters not over the limit. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 19:26, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Kepler-1229b, I've boldly thrown in some refs from the cassava article to confirm that both varieties are toxic, it's just that the bitter version is way more so. You are correct; the hook can't exceed 200, so the original is fine. @Umais Bin Sajjad:, you have been editing but have not responded to the above ping. Can you please have another look? It's not fair to make Kepler wait. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 15:27, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

@Premeditated Chaos: @Kepler-1229b: Apologies for the delayed response and for the confusion. My statement under "Other problems" was a mistake: the hook being under 200 characters is not a problem. My concern was only that the original wording is broader than what the cited source states. The source describes bitter cassava as more commonly used and toxic before processing, whereas "the main ingredient of casabe is toxic" removes those qualifications. I therefore still suggest revising the hook to follow the source more closely

ALT1: "… that casabe (pictured) is usually made from bitter cassava, which is toxic before processing?" Umais🗣 19:08, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

• @Vigilantcosmicpenguin: Does the above hook work for you, and is this ready to be re-reviewed? Z1720 (talk) 00:31, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

• I don't think this is as good as my original suggestion; specifying that the ingredient is cassava makes the hook less hooky (we should leave the reader wanting to know more). However, I'm okay with the addition of "before processing". — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 01:04, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

• Requesting a second opinion on the hook. I suggested ALT1 to make that qualification explicit, while the nominator prefers the original wording. An uninvolved review of the hook's accuracy and wording would be appreciated. Umais🗣 05:32, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Noting that as Umais Bin Sajjad has been blocked indefinitely, another user must pick up this nom. Accessedgrant (Epicgenius mobile alt) (talk) 01:54, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 11

Second Intermediate Period of Egypt

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• ... that the Hyksos adopted the Egyptian deity Set when they arrived in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, and it later merged with the Asiatic deity Ba'al, becoming the hybrid deity Seth-Baal over time?
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Improved to Good Article status by JJNito197 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

JJNito197 (talk) 13:00, 13 July 2026 (UTC).

• Comment (not a review): Hi JJNito197, the DYK article must be linked and bolded in the hook per WP:DYKMOS. —Bruce1ee^talk 13:32, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

• General eligibility:
• New enough:
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• Other problems:

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• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - maybe
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - maybe

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Earwig 24.2% - violation unlikely. Article otherwise looks good. The hook is 209 characters, over the 200-character limit. No hook source was provided with the nomination. Keel and Hayes are the sources? — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 17:56, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

• Hi Very Polite Person, did you mean to mark this nomination to be closed? That's usually what the X mark means. If you are simply flagging areas for improvement, you can type "maybe" in the reviewer template status field or add this template ({{subst:DYK?no}}) to your review. Dclemens1971 (talk) 21:31, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

• Second verse, same as the first, did the wrong variable. Sorry! Yes, just need the right source lined up here for the record. — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 01:10, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

• @JJNito197: Hello, can you please propose a new hook? The current one cannot run as it because it's above the 200 character count, but also because it may need reliance on knowledge about Egyptian mythology. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:21, 28 August 2026 (UTC)
• Not the OP, just going past and was interested: how about

• ALT1 ... that at one point during the Second Intermediate Period, Ancient Egypt might have had three ruling dynasties at the same time?

(15th, 16th and Abydos Dynasty, cited in section on the Abydos Dynasty.) Obleronet (talk) 23:23, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

• ALT1 ... that the Hyksos during the Second Intermediate Period ruled over a settled Canaanite population in Egypt who previously formed their own line of kings, with a certain king Qareh of the 14th Dynasty named "the bald one" in West Semitic?

(14th dynasty cited in section) The point is alluded with corresponding sources that Canaanites had settled in Egypt peacefully rather than invaded, contrary to accounts of the Hyksos, giving more context hopefully. Also like Obleronets Alt! Sorry for the delay.

JJNito197 (talk) 20:55, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup final

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• ... that Ghanaian players received a cheque of GHS 10,000 each for winning the final match of the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup?

• Source: Source: 2009 Black Satellites World Cup winning squad invited to collect matured investment cheques

• • ALT1: ... that Ghana was the first African country to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup after defeating Brazil in the final match of the 2009 edition of the tournament? Source: Andre Ayew: Ghana have 'lost organisation' since winning 2009 U-20 World Cup – BBC Sport
  • ALT2: ... that a Ghanaian player was told not to take off his jersey during the final match of the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup because his physique made him look older than 20 years old? Source: 2009 U-20 WC: Agyemang-Badu recounts shocking moments after scoring winner against Brazil
  • Reviewed: Ahmed Al-Kaf
  • Comment: I will add the QPQ in the coming hours.

Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 45 past nominations.

CoryGlee 02:00, 13 July 2026 (UTC).

• @CoryGlee: New enough (Jul 10), long enough (4400 B). Well-sourced with enough sourcing to meet notability. Rejecting ALT0 and ALT1 as uninteresting. ALT2 is interesting and funny, and verified in source, so ALT2 is good. However, the article has some copyvio issues that must be addressed: Earwig flags the phrase which would be invested for a specific period of time. Please address this and make sure there are no other copyright violations. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 19:22, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Hi Vigilantcosmicpenguin. Odd because it stands at a green score of 8% ... Most DYK nominations stand at higher than 10 or 12%, usually. Anyway, I can easily address that. Will ping you when that is done. CoryGlee 20:49, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
  • I've lowered this to 3.8%, Vigilantcosmicpenguin, even greener than before. CoryGlee 20:53, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
    • @CoryGlee: There are no remaining copyright issues. However, I have noticed some concerns about reliable sourcing (sorry for not mentioning this earlier; that was an oversight). Please explain why the following sources are reliable: Biharsports News, LARED21, Adomonline, GhanaWeb, ModernGhana. Also, one issue with verification: the match against Uruguay is described as "controversial", which is not verified in the source. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 22:21, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
      • @Vigilantcosmicpenguin:. None of them are listed in perennial sources. Many sources which are "unknown" are inserted in DYK nominations. The other problem can be easily fixed. If you are going to push for that thing, I'll let it flow, insert a red icon and redirect the review. Thanks for taking you time. CoryGlee 23:14, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
      • Most sources used in Wikipedia are per default unreliable because most of the websites are not listed in perennial listing. These websites are not user-generated nor blogs. So, Vigilantcosmicpenguin, I will not get into that argument with you. So, please let's be clear, if you are going to push for that (the 8% of copyvio already caught my attention from your review) I would like to redirect this review. CoryGlee 23:16, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
        • Requesting second opinion per nominator request. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 23:49, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

Gold Crown from Cheonmachong Tomb

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Gold Crown from Cheonmachong

• ... that a replica of a Silla dynasty gold crown (pictured) was gifted to President Donald Trump in APEC South Korea 2025?

• Source: As President Lee Jae Myung and US President Donald Trump held talks on the sidelines of the APEC summit, Lee presented Trump with South Korea’s highest state honor and presented a replica of an ancient Korean crown, the South Korean presidential office said Wednesday. The Korea Herald

• ALT1: ... that the Gold Crown from Cheonmachong (pictured) is the tallest surviving ancient Korean crown?

• Source: President Lee also presented Trump with a specially gilded replica of the Gold Crown from Cheonmachong, a Silla Kingdom (57 BC- AD 935) artifact considered to be the tallest, widest and most ornate of Korea’s surviving ancient crowns. (same source as above)

• ALT2: ... that the tree and antler motifs of Gold Crown from Cheonmachong (pictured) represent the connection between heaven and earth?

• Source: The tree and antler motifs symbolize a link between heaven and earth, the jade represents primitive life, and the pendants signify the fruit of life. Kyunghyang Shinmun

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John Chweya
• Comment: Drive-by nom.

Created by Mar del Este (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

KimYubin (talk) 00:54, 12 July 2026 (UTC).

• @KimYubin: the article itself needs cleanup; grammar issues and some POV. Could you handle it? Article needs to be presentable before acceptable for DYK. grapesurgeon (talk) 07:29, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
  • @Grapesurgeon: I have finished clean-up. Also, I changed the page name to Gold Crown from Cheonmachong. KimYubin (talk) 11:07, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 12

2026 Royal Challengers Bengaluru season, 2026 Indian Premier League

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• ... that Royal Challengers Bengaluru became the first franchise to win the Indian Premier League and the Women's Premier League in the same year in 2026? Source: https://www.sportsdunia.com/ipl-news/history-rcb-becomes-first-team-to-win-ipl-and-wpl-same-year
  • ALT1: ... that Royal Challengers Bengaluru became the first franchise to win the Indian Premier League and the Women's Premier League in the same year?
  • ALT2: ... that Royal Challengers Bengaluru became the first franchise to win the Indian Premier League and the Women's Premier League in the same year in 19 years?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hyderabad (PSL team) & Template:Did you know nominations/Khelenge Beat Pe

Improved to Good Article status by Vestrian24Bio (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

Vestrian24Bio 11:03, 13 July 2026 (UTC).

• I take, will review in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 21:08, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

@Vestrian24Bio: Quickfailing 2026 Indian Premier League as it was promoted to GA on 29 June, more than two weeks ago. (Note to self; check newness before checking everything else!) 2026 Royal Challengers Bengaluru season is long and new enough, both QPQs are done, Earwig has no valid complaints. I could assess the two hooks now, but given that I need a single hook from you anyway and the proposed hooks are marginally interesting at best, the time to suggest ALTs is now.--Launchballer 21:48, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: I believe this is interesting as Indian Premier League is the oldest franchise cricket league in the world and this is the first occurrence. Vestrian24Bio 10:23, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

I agree that the hook is interesting as the IPL is the largest cricket league in the world and has a large worldwide following (it's not only popular in India but also among the Indian diaspora). However, just to be sure, I would suggest proposing additional angles as well. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:22, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

• @Vestrian24Bio: Are there any additional hooks you would like to propose? Z1720 (talk) 00:33, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

• @Z1720: Added below... Vestrian24Bio 10:52, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

• ALT3: ... that Royal Challengers Bengaluru became the third team to win two consecutive Indian Premier League finals in 2026? Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/cdxp0pne2nzo https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/rcb-ipl-2026-title-defence-mumbai-indians-chennai-super-kings-csk-10718623/
• ALT4: ... that Royal Challengers Bengaluru scored the highest innings total in Indian Premier League playoffs in 2026? Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/ipl/ipl-2026/rcb-create-massive-record-register-highest-total-in-ipl-playoffs-history/amp_articleshow/131332798.cms

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John Huston filmography

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Huston on set filming a scene in Winter Kills (1979)

• ... that John Huston's (pictured) early screenwriting career was interrupted for four years after he was involved in the automobile accident that killed actress Tosca Roulien?

• Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1933/09/29/archives/car-of-hustons-son-kills-mrs-roulien-body-of-brazilian-actors-wife.html?eafs_enabled=false "CAR OF HUSTON'S SON KILLS MRS. ROULIEN; Body of Brazilian Actor's Wife Is Hurled 36 Feet in Accident on a Hollywood Boulevard". The New York Times. September 29, 1933. p. 22.

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Moved to mainspace by RobertFord II (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

RobertFord II (talk) 18:22, 17 July 2026 (UTC).

• @RobertFord II: The article looks very well-researched and the hook fact checks out, but I would strongly suggest another angle here. I realize it happened a long time ago, but framing a young woman’s death as a career hiatus for a prominent male director does not come across well in my opinion. "Involved" is also a little soft imo, from what I see he was driving. This is just a comment, I am not planning on a full review so anyone is free to take it from here. Zzz plant (talk) 04:09, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
  • @Zzz plant: Fair point. I'm somewhat new to DYK so I'm not sure if I can replace/add a fact. Otherwise, I may re-nominate if this page is one day promoted to FL.
    • @RobertFord II: Welcome to DYK, and sorry for not being clearer in my comment! By other angle I meant you could propose new hooks (we often call them ALTs, so if you add two others it would be ALT1 and ALT2). In the list of approved DYK noms you can see there's often workshopping of a hook before final approval :-) Zzz plant (talk) 03:54, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
      • @Zzz plant: I left a message on the nom's talk page. It doesn't look like they are active at this time. Viriditas (talk) 22:01, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

Atanasie Popovici

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• ... that in 1912, Atanasie Popovici addressed the Chamber of Deputies of Romania on the situation of the Timok Romanians in Serbia, generating great attention in Romania?

• Source: Rancu Bodrog 2017, pp. 578–579: Atanasie Popovici adresează Camerei Deputaţilor din România, în 18 Decembrie 1912, un memoriu privind starea românilor timoceni. (p. 578), Pentru început forurile româneşti de la Bucureşti asigură şi promite petiţionarului ajutor românilor timoceni, dar până la urmă totul a fost vorbărie goală. (p. 578), Presa românească a timpului a susţinut demersurile petiţionarului şi recomandau puterii de la Bucureşti susţinerea financiară a activităţii acestuia. (p. 579). Translation: "Atanasie Popovici addressed a memorandum regarding the state of the Romanians from Timoc on 18 December 1912, to the Chamber of Deputies of Romania.", "At first, the Romanian forums in Bucharest assured and promised the petitioner help for the Romanians from Timoc, but in the end, it was all empty talk.", "The Romanian press of the time supported the petitioner's efforts and recommended that the authorities in Bucharest financially support his activity."

• ALT1: ... that Romanian prime minister Ion I. C. Brătianu invited Atanasie Popovici to the Paris Peace Conference as he wanted the Timok Valley region in Serbia to be discussed at the conference?

• Source: Milin & Cătană 2018, pp. 127, 129: ...delegația tehnică a României va pleca prin Serbia spre Paris. Aceasta era condusă de generalul Prezan și compusă din 20 de persoane, printre care și Atanasie Popovici, deoarece Brătianu ar dori să pună la Paris și problema Timocului (p. 127): "Romania's technical delegation will leave via Serbia for Paris. It was led by General Prezan and consisted of 20 people, including Atanasie Popovici, because Brătianu would like to raise the Timoc issue in Paris." domnul Atanasie Popovici, român din Mihailovac, pe care Brătianu l-a invitat la Paris (p. 129, this is for stronger verification that Brătianu himself invited Popovici): "Mr. Atanasie Popovici, Romanian from Mihailovac, whom Brătianu invited to Paris".

• ALT2: ... that Onisifor Ghibu highlighted about Atanasie Popovici that he managed to interest not only the public opinion in Romania, but also that in Europe on the matters of the Timok Romanians in Serbia?

• Source: Rancu Bodrog 2017, p. 577: Acest om a devenit agitatorul dârz al problemei dezrobirii fraţilor din Timoc, reuşind să intereseze de această chestiune nu numai opinia publică românească , ci şi pe cea europeană”- scria despre Atanasie Popovici prietenul său Onisifor Ghibu.: "This man became the staunch agitator of the issue of the emancipation of the brothers from Timoc, managing to interest not only Romanian public opinion, but also European public opinion in this issue,"- his friend Onisifor Ghibu wrote about Atanasie Popovici."

• ALT3: ... that, due to their opposite views on the Timok Romanians' situation, Tihomir Đorđević described Atanasie Popovici as "the only Romanian protester in Serbia"?

• Source: Țurlea 2012, p. 12: Sub semnătura lui Atanasie Popovici, [...] va fi trimis Conferinţei de Pace, Memoriul românilor din Serbia. Memoriului i s-a răspuns printr-un material larg, înaintat Conferinţei de Pace sub semnătura lui Tih. Gcorgcvici. [...] Iar Atanasie Popovici ar fi fost „singurul român protestatar din Serbia". Aşadar, poziţiile erau diametral opuse.: "Under the signature of Atanasie Popovici, [...] the Memorandum on the Romanians of Serbia will be sent to the Peace Conference. The memorandum was responded to by a large material, submitted to the Peace Conference under the signature of Tih. Đorđević. [...] And Atanasie Popovici would have been "the only Romanian protester in Serbia". Thus, their positions were diametrically opposed."

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• Comment: As a disclaimer, this is my first DYK nomination. I'd frankly like to avoid altering the prose in the article for the sake of having a hook promoted here. So if one hook is problematic in this sense we can have another one reviewed. Hopefully the reviewer is okay with this.

Another note: the Timok Romanians are today known as Vlachs (see linked article) and are not officially known as Romanians in Serbia nor do they majoritarily identify as such. The situation was opposite a century ago (until 1948), and such thing is clarified both in the group's article and on the nominated one. I think it does not violate NPOV to refer to them this way considering the time period, but I thought it was worth noting. Let me know if you think any clarifications are needed or the topic is too controversial for DYK. I can also provide some more context information on this topic to the reviewer at their request in case they wish for more. Super Ψ Dro 14:25, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

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

Super Ψ Dro 12:01, 15 July 2026 (UTC).

• Super D, if I may: those are pretty bland hooks that require specialized knowledge and interest into who IICB and Ghibu were (when even few people in Romania have that as a natural interest -- the first hook even tells people that Timok wasn't even initially interesting to other Romanians). Think of this as an act of storytelling: what draws them in so they learn the rest? The absurdity of that "only Romanian protester in Serbia", for instance, may be integrated into a better hook than any of the ones you have proposed. "Man bites dog", as it were. Dahn (talk) 18:58, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice. It is possible I failed to look at it from a less involved perspective. I'll try a more simple and straight-forward hook. Super Ψ Dro 20:51, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

I have added ALT3. Trying to be more vague now. Note for the reviewer, should Đorđević be linked too? Super Ψ Dro 21:01, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Not reviewing, but yes: I would link him (and Ghibu, and IICB...), but I would also include a detail as to why the claim was made -- as in, that they had vastly diverging opinions on the Timok community (... that, during their conflict over the status of Timok Romanians, Tihomir Đorđević described Atanasie Popovici as "the only Romanian protester in Serbia"? or even: ... that, because of his advocacy for the Timok Romanians, one Serbian adversary described Atanasie Popovici as "the only Romanian protester in Serbia"?). The combination of regional conflict plus outstanding/outrageous claim is likely to attract more interest. Dahn (talk) 04:58, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you again for highlighting what's wanted in a DYK, honestly your last suggestion is absolutely spot-on. I've expanded ALT3, tried to with my own wording again. Regards! Super Ψ Dro 10:50, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Note for reviewers "Would have been" is perhaps not the intended terminology of the source, though it is a literal translation. In Romanian, this phrasing, as with ar fi fost, is used to render an opinion without endorsing it (as in: "if X were right, then Y would be this-and-that"). A less confusing translation is: "was supposedly 'the only Romanian protester in Serbia'." Dahn (talk) 08:35, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Philoxenos Yuhanon Dolabani

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Two poems that Dolabani wrote for Taw Mim Semkath, published in the Assyrian-American periodical Babylon in 1920

• ... that Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan of Mardin Philoxenos Yuhanon Dolabani published 69 books, including 10 translations, and authored many 'culturally Assyrian' poems throughout his life?

• Source: https://archive.org/details/dolabanimetropol0000hori/page/n59/mode/2up

https://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=fcas_fp

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Albert E. Boynton
  • Comment: Aydın is verified to pg. 20 and 22–23, Donabed & Mako are verified to pg. 107

Improved to Good Article status by PresentlySuraye3 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

PresentlySuraye3 (talk) 22:58, 13 July 2026 (UTC).

• @PresentlySuraye3: Not a full review, but neither of the about pages for The Assyria Post or huyada.com indicate that the publications have an editorial staff or review stage. Could you clarify why these should be considered reliable sources? —TechnoSquirrel69 (talk) 02:46, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  • TechnoSquirrel69, I left a talk page message regarding these issues. Feel free to reply there regarding the sourcing. PresentlySuraye3 (talk) 19:41, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

    Thanks; here's the discussion, for the curious. My concerns about Huyada are resolved, and I'll leave the Post to the discretion of the reviewer, since I'm not planning to take a complete look at this. Full review needed. —TechnoSquirrel69 (talk) 00:53, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

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Korean shamanism

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Mudang performing a ritual in South Korea

• ... that in Korean shamanism, deities are believed to torment a person with misfortune or illness to make them become a mudang?

• Source: Kendall 2009, p. xx (ref #146) "The gods choose a Korean mansin and announce her destiny through a period of torment: ill health, madness, and other misfortune."

• ALT1: ... that Korean shamans (pictured) walk barefoot on the upturned blade of knives, claiming that spirits prevent them from being cut?

• Source: Sarfati 2021, pp. 1 (ref #323) "Then he steps onto two sharp blades that are standing on the floor. His feet are bare (...) but he does not get hurt. The observers understand that he is protected by the supernatural powers with which he is communicating."

• ALT2: ... that Douglas MacArthur is worshipped in Korean shamanism?

• Source: Kendall, Yang & Yoon 2015, p. 32 (ref #78) "Some shamans in the vicinity of Inchon venerate painted images of General Douglas MacArthur as a hero of the Korean War, situating him as one among the Generals in their own pantheons."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lin Bing
• Comment: Drive-by nom. Other hooks are welcome.

Improved to Good Article status by Midnightblueowl (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

KimYubin (talk) 23:29, 22 July 2026 (UTC).

• Perhaps instead of saying mudang, can you say shaman? Or is this exclusive to female shamans which is why it's mudang. Perhaps an iteration along these lines: in Korean shamanism, deities are believed to torment a person with misfortune or illness to encourage them to become a shaman? - ABehjat (talk) 17:40, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Your hook is okay, but I think mudang is a more appropriate term because, according to the article and my knowledge, mudang is a gender-neutral term and some scholars think shaman (a term from Tungusic languages) and mudang are not the same concept. KimYubin (talk) 23:18, 23 July 2026 (UTC)
    • I agree; avoid "shaman", which is a contentious term, and go with the more culturally-specific mudang. Midnightblueowl (talk) 18:17, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
• @KimYubin: @Midnightblueowl: Of all the hooks, I prefer the original one. I think ALT2 is the most attention grabbing, but 1. it's a bit unrelated to the photo; I also don't want a photo of Douglas MacArthur because it takes away attention from Korean shamanism and 2. I don't love how distracting ALT2 is; almost feels like it cheapens Korean shamanism by focusing in on a sensationalized fact.

However, I'd like to reword it. ALT3: ... that in Korean shamanism, deities are believed to torment a person with misfortune and illness in order to pressure them into becoming a mudang?

I think the nuance of pressuring needs to be communicated a bit more; not obvious from orig wording. Are you all ok with this? grapesurgeon (talk) 08:20, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

I am okay with ALT3. KimYubin (talk) 13:23, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

One issue; I'm uncertain about the licensing of a number of images in the article and in the image hook. Are you very familiar with copyright @KimYubin:? Can you look into and potentially remove images that are copyright violations? Some of these are photos of dioramas in South Korea, which I think are basically 3D works of art and copyrighted. Also, the image hook is attributed to the Korea tourism ministry, and I think that attribution is likely accurate, but i can't for the life of me find where that image comes from online. grapesurgeon (talk) 14:30, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Grapesurgeon, I have reviewed the images.

• File:33907 뱃기내림에서 깃손받기 국가무형 서해안별신굿및대동굿 2002 인천 강화.jpg, File:33419 할매당집 전경 국가무형 동해안별신굿 2002 부산.jpg, File:27825 곽머리 씻김굿(지전춤으로 망자 위로) 국가무형 진도씻김굿 2001 전남 진도.jpg were not released under a free license.
• File:Jeonsusa Sansingak (Ganghwa) 13-01409.JPG, File:Korea-Saseongam 11-08083 Sanshingak.JPG, File:TalismanoCoreano.jpg - date of creation is unknown.
• I could not find the source of File:양주소놀이굿002.jpg, so I am thinking of switching the hook image to File:Male mudang.jpg.

Can you review the photos of dioramas as I am not familiar with copyright laws about them? KimYubin (talk) 10:35, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

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Letter of Peter to Philip

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Letter of Peter to Philip manuscript

• ... that the focus on suffering in the Letter of Peter to Philip (pictured) suggests that the author, the intended readers, or both may have been familiar with persecution?

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  • Luttikhuizen, Gerard (1978). "The Letter of Peter to Philip and the New Testament". Nag Hammadi and Gnosis. Brill. pp. 96–102. doi:10.1163/9789004437197_008. ISBN 978-90-04-05760-9.
  • Bethge, Hans–Gebhard (1991). "The Letter of Peter to Philip". New Testament Apocrypha: Volume One: Gospels and Related Writings. Translated by Wilson, Robert McLachlan. Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 342–347. ISBN 0-664-22721-X.

• • ALT1: ... that the Letter of Peter to Philip (pictured) only notably strays from later Christian theology by blaming evil powers for suffering, and not human sin? Source: King, Karen L. "Toward a Discussion of the Category "Gnosis / Gnosticism": The Case of the Epistle of Peter to Philip". In Frey, Jörg; Schröter, Jens (eds.). Jesus in apokryphen Evangelienüberlieferungen [Jesus in Apocryphal Gospel Traditions]. WUNT I 254. p. 445-465. doi:10.1628/978-3-16-151543-9. ISBN 978-3-16-151543-9.; relevant section is at pp. 457–465.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Arbel Yehoud
  • Comment: My apologies if, as is likely, I have misunderstood some aspect.

Improved to Good Article status by SnowFire (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 118 past nominations.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:42, 24 July 2026 (UTC).

• Comment as GA nominator (not a review of course). Since the comment thought it possible there was a misunderstanding from the DYK nominator, I'll just say that I think both hooks are accurate with no misunderstandings. The only thing to be aware of is that, strictly speaking on ALT1, it's not like the Letter directly says "evil comes from chief archon Yaladbaoth's meddling, not Adam's disobedience". It's more that this seems like the theology the letter author is assuming and writing in, instead, rather than a direct contradiction. (No change required, just as a bit of background.) I might suggest adding the word "Gnostic" somewhere as well, as "only notably strays" suggests it is surprising that the connection is so close, but someone reading the hook won't necessarily know it was a Gnostic Christian work. SnowFire (talk) 19:58, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

• General eligibility:
• New enough: - Article was promoted to GA 8 days prior to nomination.
• Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - I could not find support for ALT0 in either cited source for it. Unless I have missed something, Luttikhulzen only speaks of suffering in vague terms and not persecution in particular. Bethge says "The text of Ep.Pet.Phil does not provide any concrete clues as to the immediate circumstances, the place and the moment of the suffering, the persecution and the threat. We have to see this central theme of the document in the context of the situation in which not only the author and addressees of Ep.Pet.Phil but also other Christians in the 2nd and 3rd centuries found themselves.... [It is] not to be regarded as a work in which...the primary concern is with a theoretical discussion" which seems to me like the inference is in the other direction from ALT0, i.e. the situation of the context was one where Christians faced persecution, which shows why this letter's topic of dealing with suffering is not a merely theoretical concern. I can't read German to check ALT1.
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - Personally, ALT0 isn't that interesting to me, but I can imagine that other people would find it interesting. ALT1 is interesting, but I don't think ALT1 is good due to the implication that later Christianity uniformly attributes suffering to human sin and not supernatural powers. Demons and fallen angels negatively influencing the world has consistently been an accepted concept in Christian theology, as far as I'm aware.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The topic is interesting. Not sure if there's established policy that would allow the 23.5-hour late nomination be acceptable. If not, then this is unfortunately inelligeable. If so, it must at least have new hook. Ashorocetus (talk | contribs) 11:36, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

@Ashorocetus: In practice, per WP:DYKNEW, hooks that are 1-2 days are generally accepted as long as everything else checks out. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:24, 2 September 2026 (UTC)

OK. But the issues with the hooks still stand. Ashorocetus (talk | contribs) 01:21, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Who's Who in Colored America

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• ... that despite documenting thousands of Black leaders during the Jim Crow era, the publisher of Who's Who in Colored America ran the entire printing and financing operation out of his home in Brooklyn?

• Source: The New York Times Obituary (September 15, 1949) verifies his residence, and the July 12, 1937 Atlanta Daily World clipping establishes 2317 Newkirk Avenue as his publishing business address.
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  • Comment: Article was recently approved out of the Draft namespace.

Created by Genes100 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Genes100 (talk) 14:10, 18 July 2026 (UTC).

• Not a review, just a drive-by observation: there are many sentences lacking inline citations so that will greatly hinder your chance at passing a DYK review. You also need to add the citation in the "Source" section here instead of writing "Inline citations in the History section of the article." APK hi :-) (talk) 10:27, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

@APK: Done! I have updated the source parameter above with clickable links to both historical records and added the inline citations to the article's History section. Together, they cross-verify the home-based operation (the Atlanta Daily World piece confirms the business address, which matches the residential address confirmed in his NYT obituary). Let me know if everything looks good now! Genes100 (talk) 16:57, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

• ALT1: ... that despite documenting thousands of Black leaders during the Jim Crow era, the publisher of Who's Who in Colored America ran the entire publishing operation out of his home in Brooklyn?

  Comment: Proposing ALT1 to adjust "printing" to "publishing" so the hook exactly matches the article.Genes100 (talk) 17:52, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

@Genes100: More of a drive-by comment, but I'm not sure how ALT1 is currently written meets DYKINT as it seems to be reliant on being knowledge on American history. The connection between the publisher being ran out of a Brooklyn house and the documenting thousands of Black leaders seems unclear to me. The actual hook fact might still be salvageable, but at minimum this has to be reworded. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:25, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: Thank you for the helpful feedback! That makes complete sense regarding universal interest and context. To make the contrast clearer and less reliant on external historical assumptions, I'd like to propose the following alternative hook:

• **ALT2**: ... that despite its nationwide scope documenting thousands of African-American leaders, the entire publishing operation for Who's Who in Colored America was run out of a single residential house in Brooklyn?

Let me know if ALT2 works better or if you have any additional formatting suggestions! —Genes100 (talk) 11:18, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

ALT2 is 205 characters long, which is above the 200 limit for DYK hooks. While 200 characters is the upper limit, hooks are encouraged to be shorter than that. A hook of around 120-140 characters is probably the sweet spot if possible. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:31, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the helpful feedback! To resolve the character count issue, I would like to propose a tighter, trimmed version of the hook under the 200-character limit:

• ... that despite documenting thousands of African-American leaders nationwide, Who's Who in Colored America was published out of a single house in Brooklyn?

Please let me know if this works. Thanks again! Genes100 (talk) 10:13, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

The hook fact works, but I'm not sure if it should be a "despite" in this case. There's something off about that wording. How about something like: ... that Who's Who in Colored America, which documented thousands of African-American leaders nationwide, was published out of a single house in Brooklyn? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:03, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Cold spot (astronomy)

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Cold spot (blue) surrounded by older, larger impact craters

• ... that cold spots (pictured) have only been found on the Moon, but scientists expect to discover them on Mercury too?

• Source: "Measuring the temperature of the Moon revealed the widespread presence of “cold spots,” which are features that have distinctly low temperatures during the night, but camouflage with the background during the day. When the BepiColombo spacecraft arrives at Mercury, we will have the first opportunity to observe cold spots on Mercury, thanks to the first continuous measurements of surface temperature throughout the planet's day/night. Using what we know about lunar cold spots, here we model cold spots on Mercury at different locations. For a given location and cold spot size/age, cold spots on Mercury should be colder than cold spots on the Moon during nighttime due to greater daily temperature changes. Cold spots on Mercury should be coldest just after sunset, but visible throughout the entire night. NASA's crashed MESSENGER spacecraft should have a created a cold spot, but it is probably too small for BepiColombo to detect."

• • ALT1: ... that although cold spots (pictured) have only been found on the Moon, there could be even colder spots on Mercury? Source: Same as above.
  • ALT2: ... that footprints left by Apollo 16 astronauts were pressed into looser soil because they had landed on the Moon's oldest known cold spot (pictured)? Source: We identify a faint cold spot surrounding South Ray crater at the Apollo 16 landing site in nighttime temperature data from the Diviner instrument onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Astronaut footprint depths indicate statistically lower density regolith at Apollo 16 compared to other Apollo site... These findings provide both orbital and ground-based evidence that cold spots are caused by a decompaction of the upper centimeters of regolith.
  • ALT3: ... that the young impact craters that create lunar cold spots (pictured) may be the origin of lunar meteorites that later fall to Earth? Source: Cold spots fade over a few hundred thousand years with maximum retention times of one million years... An interesting aspect that Williams and colleagues point out is that cold-spot craters may be excellent candidates for source craters of lunar meteorites. They found the modeled formation ages of the larger cold-spot craters coincide with the 0–1.4 million-year ejection ages (see cosmic ray exposure ages) of lunar meteorites.
  • ALT4: ... that lunar cold spots (pictured) vanish during the day and reveal themselves only in maps of the Moon's nighttime temperatures? Source: The coldest nighttime surfaces are associated with lunar cold spots (Bandfield et al., 2014), highly insulating regions around very young craters extending ∼10–100 crater radii. The three largest cold spots have surfaces that remain > 5 K colder than mean zonal temperatures and maintain this temperature difference throughout the night [but disappear by morning]. Isolated surfaces with warm nighttime temperatures were identified as rocky ejecta from relatively young craters that had not yet degraded in the lunar space weathering environment.
  • ALT5: ... that lunar cold spots (pictured) were first detected by a radiometer on Apollo 17 in 1972 but were only mapped 40 years later? Source: These thermophysically distinct surfaces, or “cold spots,” which were initially observed by the Infrared Scanning Radiometer aboard the Apollo 17 Command-Service Module. [But systematically characterized in 2011]
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1862 Liechtenstein general election

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

RabidTuberculosis (talk) 18:28, 20 July 2026 (UTC).

• Approved for ALT1. Interesting fact. GA review checked out. Image looks good. No major issues with article. NewAccount7295 (talk) 16:05, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
• @RabidTuberculosis, NewAccount7295, Beta Beta Beta, and ToadalChaos: I pulled this because a lot of it sounds like it was written by an LLM. I think it's because of the style of writing using bullet points and some awkward wording, plus em dashes. @CostalCal: also added an AI-generated tag to this article which was removed. I apologize if I'm mistaken, but I think it's worth another look before running it on DYK. HurricaneZeta^C 15:26, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

• • @HurricaneZeta: I appreciate your vigilance against AI text intruding in articles. I researched and wrote this article by hand a few months ago. I used bullets under the 'Formation Mechanism' to simplify the three primary models in the literature, and I used a single dash in 'Lifespan' to accommodate an otherwise unwieldy dependent clause. As with any technical writing, it can sometimes sound clunky or wooden, please let me know if you find anything that can be phrased more fluidly in the article! All the best, RabidTuberculosis (talk) 16:02, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
  • @HurricaneZeta: I didn't get the impression this article was written by AI when reviewing it. I was pretty thorough in my source checks and found no reason to doubt the authenticity of the article. The language may be a bit wooden at times, but to me that comes from trying to adapt the very academic source material to a more mainstream audience – no mean feat if you look at the sources. The use of lists and emdashes in the article is sparing and appropriate, in my opinion – although I did spot a minor error in how they were used (spaces around em dashes, contrary to MOS:DASH), which I have corrected. I personally use endashes on occasion, and always have in my writing (sorry about the tongue-in-cheek use in this message, I couldn't help myself :D ). I also didn't spot any other major signs from WP:LLMSIGNS, though I confess I'm no expert. —ToadalChaos (talk) 15:21, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
• I recently reviewed and approved this article for GA. Since then there have been only minor changes. ALT1 seems like a good DYK hook. —ToadalChaos (talk) 15:21, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
• ToadalChaos, as the GA reviewer for this article, per WP:DYKRR you are not permitted to review the DYK hook. An uninvolved reviewer is needed here. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:14, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
  • @NewAccount7295: Perhaps you'd be willing to re-review? Or @HurricaneZeta: perhaps you can review or reverse the pull? RabidTuberculosis (talk) 19:44, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
  • @Dclemens1971: Apologies for the bad approval; I am not very familiar with the DYK review process. Thanks for the explanation!

Articles created/expanded on July 17

Jomana Alrashid

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• ... that media executive Jomana Alrashid became the first Saudi named to the Time 100 Next list?

• Source: https://arab.news/mnhfk

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Fly, Fly My Sadness

Improved to Good Article status by Jishara (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 23 past nominations.

Jishara (talk) 15:55, 17 July 2026 (UTC).

• The claim of being the first Saudi in Time 100 list is wrong as the potential first may be Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in [2018]. Please provide an alternative DYK or change it to Time 100 Next, which is what your source is indicating. - ABehjat (talk) 21:07, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
  • @ABehjat: updated. Let me know if there's anything else that needs to be updated! Jishara (talk) 21:45, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
    • Thank you for making the change and doing the review. Article prose size is good. I see you've worked with your GAN reviewer to tighten and improve the article and validate the sources. The hook is reasonable and eyecatching and this is a valid submission given the recent GAN approval. Citations are good. Confirmed that you've reviewed another DYK, so you're all set! - ABehjat (talk) 22:22, 17 July 2026 (UTC)
      • Pulled per questionable standalone notability. The article has been nominated for redirection and the tick is pulled procedurally while that discussion takes place. Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:07, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
        • @ABehjat: @Dclemens1971: Redirection nomination closed as keep. Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 12:49, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
          • I asked the non-admin closer to reopen the discussion for an admin to evaluate. Dclemens1971 (talk) 10:18, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
            • Tick back on procedurally now that AFD is closed. Dclemens1971 (talk) 10:31, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
• Pulled per the discussion at WT:DYK#Jomana Alrashid (nom). @Dclemens1971: Since the nomination was nominated as a new GA, should this go through GAR, or is that not needed? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:04, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
  • I'm not thrilled with the sourcing, but I'm not going to nominate it for GAR. The consensus at AfD was that she is a notable figure, and no one seemed concerned enough with the sourcing there. My comments at the AfD are there for anyone to review, and I stand by them, but with two relists there was no support for anything but keeping it. I will let others make decisions about the future of this nomination/article. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:14, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 18

Ana Grozdanović

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Ana Grozdanović

• ... that Serbian politician Ana Grozdanović (pictured) garnered initial prominence from a speech where she stated that only Christians have made cathode ray tubes?

• Source: http://vaseljenska.net/2021/11/24/autorka-pravoslavnih-katodnih-cevi-prica-sto-voli-vucica-i-sta-da-uradi-kesic/

• • ALT1: ... that in response to Serbia's declining birth rate, politician Ana Grozdanović (pictured) called for the mainstreaming of polygyny? Source: https://bilecaonline.com/2024/04/27/srpska-politicarka-predlaze-da-se-muskarcima-dozvoli-da-imaju-vise-zena/
  • ALT2: ... that Ana Grozdanović (pictured) has been described as "Serbia's most beautiful politician"? Source: https://www.sd.rs/vip/vip/ana-grozdanovic-pruzila-podrsku-orlovima-na-evropskom-prvenstvu-u-fudbalu-2024-06-17
  • ALT3: ... that Serbian politician Ana Grozdanović (pictured) believes Vladimir Putin is a "knight of Christianity" against the "friends of Jeffrey Epstein" attempting to fulfill the apocalypse from the Book of Revelation? Source: http://vaseljenska.net/2024/02/22/ana-grozdanovic-mir-nema-alternativu/
  • ALT4: ... that Serbian politician Ana Grozdanović (pictured) has been described as a barbika? Source: https://www.sd.rs/vip/vip/ana-grozdanovic-pruzila-podrsku-orlovima-na-evropskom-prvenstvu-u-fudbalu-2024-06-17
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Đuro Macut
  • Comment: No preference on alts.

Moved to mainspace by Knightoftheswords281 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

— Knightoftheswords 14:42, 18 July 2026 (UTC).

• Comment note to the reviewer that most of the sources in the article are unreliable per WP:SRBRS, therefore the article could easily be put at AfD. Sorry to ruin your day. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 20:11, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
  • @Vacant0: Hi, and thank you for linking WP:SRBRS, which I was looking for when making this article, but couldn't find. Looking at it, it doesn't appear that most sources in the article are unreliable. The vast majority of citations in this article (over 80%) aren't listed as generally unreliable on that page (I'm lumping in a decent chunk of the Vaseljenska articles in there since those are actually op-eds by the subject, so are acceptable under WP:ABOUTSELF). Of the 20% that are, most are cited to other, more reliable sources, so can be simply removed. There are a lot of citations to Mondo and Telegraf, which are considered situational on SRBRS, but even they often are just regurgitations of specific claims she's made, tangentially related to politics, or even sometimes (as a politician not apart of, but aligned with Vucic and the SNS) mildly critical, so I think they largely pass; the frequency of such sources are to be expected from someone like her who is this psuedo-influencer celebrity politician. Article easily passes GNG, with multiple sources from outlets like N1, Nova, Vreme, etc. — Knightoftheswords 21:42, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
    • Most URSes removed. — Knightoftheswords 23:08, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
      • OK, thanks for explaining. I'll let the reviewer come to their conclusion. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 18:34, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 19

Paramita Bandara

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• ... that, hearing of Paramita Bandara's upcoming principalship, the vice-principal of Ang Mo Kio Secondary School allegedly joked, "the 'Dragon Lady' from the east is coming to colonise the north"?

• Source: Ho, Ai Li (17 December 2007). "Dragon Lady and other passionate teachers". The Straits Times.

• • ALT1: ... that principal Paramita Bandara was told, "You are nobody, you are only Ang Mo Kio", while arguing against the move of Ang Mo Kio Secondary School to Hougang? Source: Ho, Ai Li (17 December 2007). "Dragon Lady and other passionate teachers". The Straits Times.
  • ALT2: ... that principal Paramita Bandara had the teachers and parents cook halal food for the opening ceremony of Pasir Ris Secondary School after learning that the caterer had not prepared any? Source: Pereira, Brendan (21 August 1987). "Cooking up a speedy solution". The Straits Times.
  • ALT3: ... that the staff of Tanjong Katong Girls' School petitioned the Ministry of Education against transferring their principal Paramita Bandara after her replacement rejected the offer? Source: Seah, Mei Kiang (20 December 1984). "Teachers appeal against transfer of principal". Singapore Monitor.
  • Comment: See history for attribution.

Moved to mainspace by Somebodyidkfkdt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 06:04, 23 July 2026 (UTC).

• I will review soon. A.Cython(talk) 23:02, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Moved to main space on 18 July and submitted to DYK on 23 July. Long enough. No copyright issues detected, Earwig's Copyvio Detector gives 0%. While the hooks are mentioned and cited, I think only ALT0 has potential to generate significant interest after a bit of rewriting:

• ALT0b ... that Paramita Bandara was described as "the 'Dragon Lady' from the east is coming to colonise the north" ahead of her appointment as principal? A.Cython(talk) 03:30, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

• Not quite sure how DYK works but might I suggest something along the lines of her complaining to the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore over the relocation of her secondary school?. Somebodyidkfkdt (talk) 09:49, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

  ALT4: ... that principal Paramita Bandara, arguing against the move of Ang Mo Kio Secondary School to Hougang, took her complaint to the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore? Source: Ho, Ai Li (17 December 2007). "Dragon Lady and other passionate teachers". The Straits Times.

• @Somebodyidkfkdt and A.Cython: Does this work? Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 11:53, 6 September 2026 (UTC)
  • Well the hooks must be accurate but also have a flare that would intrigue the reader to go and read your articles. I am not taking credit for the one proposed. A reviewer can propose alternatives solely based on the ones provided without adding new facts. The quote of Dragon lady is very interesting but I felt it was a bit covered the rest. My change was to make a bit more direct and central stage. A.Cython(talk) 15:04, 6 September 2026 (UTC)
  • I personally feel like this is quite an engaging hook. Somebodyidkfkdt (talk) 16:05, 6 September 2026 (UTC)
    • @Somebodyidkfkdt: Could you please point to which hook you are referring, e.g., ALT# ? A.Cython(talk) 20:38, 6 September 2026 (UTC)
      • Alt4. Somebodyidkfkdt (talk) 02:13, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
        • I was thinking, "Perhaps school relocation → DPM would sound like an overreaction that intrigues readers." Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 02:27, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
          • I do not think that this is the issue. Apologies for being blunt, but as a reader I do not find the hooks (except for ALT0) interesting enough. I am ok to accept the first one (though I still think there was room for improvement) otherwise I am happy to be overruled by a second reviewer. A.Cython(talk) 21:49, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Harry Potter (pinball)

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• ... that three wands are used to create a ramp in the Harry Potter pinball machine?

• Source: https://pinballmag.fr/flipper-harry-potter-jersey-jack-pinball/ quote: "The wands of our 3 wizards who act as ramps at the top right"

• • ALT1: ... that Jersey Jack took 10 years to secure the license for the Harry Potter pinball machine? Source: https://www.pinballnews.com/site/2025/03/20/texas-pinball-festival-2025/ quote: "He said it had taken ten years of negotiation to secure the licence."
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Moved to mainspace by Wilbers (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Wilbers (talk) 21:23, 19 July 2026 (UTC).

• I will review this CoryGlee 22:34, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
• Wilbers, hi. The article needs a lot of work. First, it was tagged by an editor requesting its key points summarized in the WP:LEDE. Already in the first paragraph because J. K. Rowling objected to the creation of a pinball machine and its association with gambling. –I did not find the word gambling in any of the two accessible sources, and the one leading to a book/publication does not have its page cited. The section Variations in editions needs work on inline citations. A big chunk of the text is linked only to a single reference, and if it were not for ref #15, I would tag it under "single source". Those are the first things to address; there are many more, for example, copyediting from Harry Potter to Harry Potter and using date templates, etc. Ping me when this first part, if it can, is fixed. CoryGlee 01:45, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
• CoryGlee Hello, and thanks for reviewing this. I have expanded the lead (sufficient to remove Template:Lead too short?). I've bought the book by Adam Ruben and found its a single sentence (that I've added to the ref) which doesn't mention gambling (that sentence of the article was written by another editor) so I've changed it accordingly. Citations in Variations in editions improved by using the RePlay article.Wilbers (talk) 14:52, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Re-reviewing, sorry I've been very busy. CoryGlee 23:58, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
  • @Wilbers: It looks better, but the article needs a lot of copyediting and stylising for Wikipedia. Please, check WP:MOS if you wish to continue with this nomination. Example: Dates such as 11th March or 21st March are not acceptable under MOS policies. The same (already mentioned in my first comment) one thing is Harry Potter, and another one is Harry Potter. Please ping me when these critical issues for a (potential) portal article are solved. CoryGlee 20:48, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
    • @CoryGlee: Think I have the italics on all instances of Harry Potter consistent, i.e. italics for the name of the machine or the film series, and no italics for the name of the character (first two instances in overview not italicized because although the final machine is based on the films, in 2014 that wasn't known). Added date template, and corrected date formats and other MoS issues.Wilbers (talk) 13:56, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
    • @CoryGlee: Pinging again as I think you may have missed seeing the previous one.
  • Also, by the way, I need to check the website Pinball News and see whether it is reliable or not. Especially if it is user-generated or independently published. But you can first address those issues above. CoryGlee 20:49, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
• @Wilbers: It is better. Can you please provide a reference as to the reliability of Pinball Magazine? That said the summary tag must be removed. Please work on that. CoryGlee 21:58, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
  • @CoryGlee: Most of the text of ref#18 for Pinball Magazine is a press release (the bit towards the bottom), and most of the rest is photos, with a few useable sentences - the only one of which used is "The rules flowchart for Harry Potter. With eight movies to use, it should not come as a surprise the rules are very deep." The reliability of the website rests partly on the main editor (Jonathan Joosten) being a subject expert - in addition to the 5 issues of Pinball Magazine (the printed ones rather than the website) some of his other work is mentioned on the about page. Summary tag also removed after adding another half a sentence to lead.Wilbers (talk) 00:41, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 20

Bahrija Nuri Hadžić, Osman Nuri Hadžić

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• ... that composer Richard Strauss said that Bahrija Nuri Hadžić was "the Salome whom I have waited for thirty-five years"?

• Source: "Two years later, in 1939, again in Zürich, she sang the role of Salome on the occasion of the seventy-fifth birthday of Richard Strauss, and the performance at the ceremony was conducted by the composer himself, who later stated that it was the “Salome whom I have waited for thirty-five years”."

• • ALT1: ... that after Bahrija Nuri Hadžić's performance of Salome for his 75th birthday, composer Richard Strauss remarked that she was the "Salome whom I have waited for thirty-five years"? Source: "Two years later, in 1939, again in Zürich, she sang the role of Salome on the occasion of the seventy-fifth birthday of Richard Strauss, and the performance at the ceremony was conducted by the composer himself, who later stated that it was the “Salome whom I have waited for thirty-five years”."
  • ALT2: ... that after conducting Bahrija Nuri Hadžić in Salome on his 75th birthday, composer Richard Strauss said she was "the Salome whom I have waited for thirty-five years"? Source: "Two years later, in 1939, again in Zürich, she sang the role of Salome on the occasion of the seventy-fifth birthday of Richard Strauss, and the performance at the ceremony was conducted by the composer himself, who later stated that it was the “Salome whom I have waited for thirty-five years”."
  • ALT3: ... that Bahrija Nuri Hadžić was criticised by supporters of the Serbian Orthodox Church for her portrayal of Salome? Source: Making Muslim Women European - Voluntary Associations, Gender, and Islam in Post-Ottoman Bosnia and Yugoslavia (1878–1941) p. 288 "She reached the height of success, and controversy, playing the role of Salome in Strauss's opera of the same name in Belgrade. Due to the lethal sensuality of its protagonist, the opera was openly condemned by some supporters of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1931."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Caroline Bruce, Countess of Ailesbury & Template:Did you know nominations/Conon (Byzantine general)
  • Comment: I know some of these hooks are wordy, so feel free to change the wording or trim them.

5x expanded by Spiderpig662 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 20 past nominations.

Spiderpig662 (talk) 21:07, 21 July 2026 (UTC).

• I am mad that I did not think to expand this article first, Spiderpig662. It now meets the length requirements and it counts as new. Sources check out. I see no copyright or neutrality issues. I do see potential for a more interesting hook in one of the cited sources, about a Muslim prima donna taught to sing by nuns. Surtsicna (talk) 21:16, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

ALT4a: ... that Muslim opera singer Bahrija Nuri Hadžić attended a music school run by nuns? Source: https://www.bosnianexperiences.com/23-text-no11

ALT4b: ... that Muslim opera singer Bahrija Nuri Hadžić began her musical education at a school run by nuns? Source: https://www.bosnianexperiences.com/23-text-no11

@Surtsicna: How about these hooks? Spiderpig662 (talk) 12:12, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

I love them, Spiderpig662, especially ALT4b. If you have any interest in expanding the article about her father (very short at the moment, so a fivefold expansion would be easy to achieve), we could even go with something about a Sharia judge having nuns teach his daughter to sing. I think it would make an excellent double hook. Of course, if you are not interested in extra work, just let me know and I can approve this nomination as it is. Surtsicna (talk) 14:40, 23 August 2026 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: I've now 5x expanded Osman Nuri Hadžić's article and added it to the nom.

ALT5 ... that opera singer Bahrija Nuri Hadžić began her musical education at a school run by nuns, even though her father was an Islamic scholar? Source: , p. 410

ALT6 ... that Muslim scholar Osman Nuri Hadžić's daughter was taught at a school run by nuns? Source: , p. 410

What do you think of these hooks? Spiderpig662 (talk) 13:06, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

Just passing by: I think that a 75-years-old man show this degree of pleasure about her version of his work is much more unique (and thus more interesting to me) than any Muslim/Christian education. "opera singer" is so general that it means almost nothing, but singing Salome, one of the most demanding soprano roles ever composed, and pleasing the composer: that sounds special. We do have to link Salome, though: not the character, not the play, which would both come to mind sooner. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:22, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt, I am a bit concerned that I do not get anything when I search Google Books for "richard strauss" "1939" "salome" "bahrija". Surtsicna (talk) 18:31, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

You mean it could be a hoax? Well, the Serbian article doesn't have this detail, just says that the composer told her that her Salome was the best. We could be cautious and avoid his reaction, - just saying that this Muslim woman raised by nuns performed Salome and Lulu (both scandalous at the time) would be something good to know. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:27, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

"Hoax" is a strong word. I was thinking more of a legend. It appears, undoubted, in an excellent overview (available online in both Serbo-Croatian and English) of Nuri Hadžić's career by Fatima Hadžić, who cites Mirka Pavlović's 2001 article "Bahrija Nuri-Hadžić: velika evropska operska primadona". The latter article I have not been able to access. A 1939 article claimed that Strauss had declared Nuri Hadžić the best Salome. Anyway, I think that you are onto a really interesting hook, Gerda Arendt, about a Muslim woman taught by nuns performing a scandalous role; could you formally propose it? Surtsicna (talk) 22:16, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

It would have to be in the article to be in a hook. I always think that everybody knows that Salome and Lulu are extreme characters, to put it mildly, but DYK always tells me that we can't rely on people knowing, even when it's linked. Without change to the article we could say:

ALT3a: ... that Bahrija Nuri Hadžić, a Muslim soprano educated by Christian nuns, was criticised by supporters of the Serbian Orthodox Church for her portrayal of Salome? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:35, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

Our Salome article says: "The combination of the Christian biblical theme, the erotic and the murderous, which so attracted Wilde to the tale, shocked opera audiences from its first appearance." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:40, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

2026 Brazilian civil defense system false alarm

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Notification of the misantropi4 alert

• ... that the words misantropi4 or misantropia were used for a false alarm in 2026 (pictured), reaching at least eight federative units of Brazil?

• Source: https://www.poder360.com.br/poder-brasil/alerta-falso-da-defesa-civil-atingiu-30-milhoes-em-7-estados-e-no-df/

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carmarthen Infirmary
  • Comment: Source says 7 states plus DF (Federal District of Brazil); see federative units of Brazil.

Moved to mainspace by Vycl1994 (talk); created by Klebs1 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Dudzcar (talk) 19:06, 20 July 2026 (UTC).

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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Satisfactory article overall. I'm not a native but grammar seems to have improved after someone put the CE tag. Gonna promote. Wikipediæ philosophia (talk)

@Dudzcar:, @Wikipediæ philosophia:, this article contins a grammar maintenance tag which, after having read the article, I believe is appropriate. The "Federal Police" subsection is also unsourced. These issues need to be rectified before we can promote this. Lynch44 16:55, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

Fixed source; I can’t help with that since Im still dyslexic for reading in English (despite logomanic). Im calling Vitorperrut555 can you help us with grammer reviewing and fix that tag? thnx. Dudzcar (talk) 04:47, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

@Dudzcar I'm sorry that you are dyslexic. I have dysgraphia, unfortunately, but I can review for us! :D

And I suspect that this article is generated by AI. VitorFriboquen :] (Talk) 00:07, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 21

Bahanur Şahin Gökalp

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• ... that Bahanur Şahin Gökalp won the gold medal for Turkey with three teammates at the 2022 CEV Snow Volleyball European Tour Kayseri?

• Source: Turkey and France triumph with gold at Kayseri-Erciyes European Tour stop

• • ALT1: ... that Turkish volleyball player Bahanur Şahin Gökalp was part of the women's national beach and snow volleyball teams? Source: Kadınlar Şampiyonlar Ligi, Bahanur Gökalp, Turkey and France triumph with gold at Kayseri-Erciyes European Tour stop
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Abdul El-Sayed

Created by CeeGee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 226 past nominations.

CeeGee 06:55, 25 July 2026 (UTC).

Boum'ba Maza

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• ... that the Haitian vodou lwa of Boum'ba Maza are said to facilitate the magic of the spirit-calling veve sigil?

• Source: Rigaud, Milo (1974). Ve-Ve: Diagrammes Rituels du Voudou [Ve-ve: Ritual Diagrams of Vodou] (Trilingual (French/English/Spanish) ed.). New York: French & European Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-8288-0000-6.
  • pp.71-72: "Ritualistically, the veve voodoo is traced, then the officiating priest following the principle of libation, offer libation over the drawing to impart to it the occult powers of water of the basin. ... In order to intensify the magic capabilities of the drawing it is even ceremonially fed an essential part of the offerings, for in the crossing in its geometrical lines the voodoo mysteries descend from the stars to collect the sacrifices to that they may carry them to the upper atmospheres where they will reach their goal."
  • p. 92: "The Maza have the prerogative of transporting water from one mystery to another. It is said, therefore, that they represent the site of passage, the magic transfer.
  • p. 101:"...[water] is the ceremonial base of magic voodoo rites. Just as people cross themselves with water on entering church, the voodoo priest makes the sign of the cross with water by offering it to the four corners of the world and her pours it three time to animate the veve by the presence of the laws."

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  • Comment: Milo Riguad's writing is pretty esoteric, but I believe I am not synthesizing his meaning, just following the least esoteric statements he makes regarding the veve libation and the Maza's part in it.

5x expanded by Chickenpox4dinner (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

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Articles created/expanded on July 22

1879 Octagon fire

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• ... that Robert Wilson, editor of the Otago Witness newspaper, and several of his family were killed in Dunedin's 1879 Octagon fire?

• Source: "The great fire at Dunedin (from the Auckland Evening Star),"Armidale Express, 26 September 1879. Archived at nla.gov.au. Retrieved 22 July 2026.

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

Grutness...wha? 12:44, 22 July 2026 (UTC).

• @Grutness: this one is new enough, long enough, well-sourced, not copyvio, and with a properly sourced hook. No QPQs and no images needed. However, the hook is unlikely to catch the attention of the average reader. Would you be able to propose one that's a bit broader? I see mention that Wilson had previously stated the building was a death trap in case of fire - something off of that? Jishara (talk) 16:48, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Thanks - I'll see what I can come up with. Grutness...wha? 03:23, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
  • @Jishara: How about: "...that the 1879 Octagon fire remains Dunedin, New Zealand's deadliest fire?" Grutness...wha? 16:52, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
    • @Jishara: again since pings don't work on unsigned comments. ミラP@Miraclepine 14:33, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
      • Whoops - thanks! Grutness...wha? 16:52, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
        • hey @Grutness: not sure that works - maybe that at the time it was the biggest in New Zealand? Something about how the guy who warned it was a death trap died in it? Or maybe mentioning it being the third big tragedy to hit the same place in a year ? Jishara (talk) 17:07, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 23

Postum Cereal Co. v. California Fig Nut Co.

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The Fig-Nuts trademark

• ... that Postum Cereal argued that "Fig-Nuts" should not be a trademark for cereal (pictured) because it could be confused with their own "Grape-Nuts" cereal, and the dispute went to the United States Supreme Court?

• Source: "The chief objection of the petitioner to the registration of 'Fig Nuts' as a trademark for a cereal breakfast food is that it is likely to cause confusion or mistake and deceive purchasers into thinking they are buying the petitioner's breakfast food marked and widely known as 'grape-nuts.'" https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/272/693/

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    • Because a lot of the article copies from O'Donoghue v. United States and CONAN, I created a diff to help with evaluating the original content. The number of original characters in the current version is higher, but the diff offers an easier baseline by cutting out the copied text.
    • "Fig-Nuts" is spelled both with or without the hyphen. I think having the hypen to match "Grape-Nuts" is better, aesthetically.
    • Initially, the suggested picture was of Grape-Nuts the cereal, but I found a picture of the Fig-Nuts trademark in the record for the case. I think it's neat, and it's certainly better for the article. lethargilistic (talk) 07:09, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

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

lethargilistic (talk) 05:09, 24 July 2026 (UTC).

• Approved. There are still over 4000 characters of original prose, so the article is eligible. However, I think the hook could be reworded, and I'm not sure if the image will be used by those preparing the queues (although I think it is interesting for context) due to it being low-quality, but that can be decided later. NewAccount7295 (talk) 16:52, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Maybe this? ALT1: ... that Postum Cereal argued that the trademark for "Fig-Nuts" cereal (pictured) was confusingly similar to "Grape-Nuts", and the dispute went to the United States Supreme Court? lethargilistic (talk) 18:08, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
    • That looks good, although "Postum Cereal" should be written as "the Postum Cereal Company" (linked). NewAccount7295 (talk) 19:37, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
• Sorry, I'm not sure this qualifies at current length. NewAccount7295 seems to have applied the rules for material copied from external freely-licensed sources, which is that the material doesn't interfere with newness but also doesn't count towards the length minimum. But when text is copied within Wikipedia, the result is that the target article isn't fully new. For this to qualify, the article would have to keep the copied text to ≤20% of the prose (making it a fivefold expansion), and I don't see that that's the case here. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 07:29, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
  • I don't think that's conveyed by the rules. DYKNEW says that articles must be new, not that text must be new. It says that an article split is not a new article and triggers a fivefold requirement, but Postum is not an article split. It did not even begin its life as a split. The need to write an explanation of constitutional courts and legislative courts came before I reached for O'Donoghue, and the needs of this explanation were not exactly the same as in O'Donoghue, so I edited the copied text to suit Postum in the same way I would have any other copied text. DYKLEN says that text that is not original does not count towards the length of an article for DYK. It does not distinguish between public-domain and Wikipedia sources, let alone say that using one triggers a fivefold increase. DYKLEN also says New text may not count towards the length requirement of more than one article. I took that as prohibiting multiple simultaneous nominations based on the same text, not as a fivefold trigger. I didn't agree with NewAccount's 4000 character estimate, because I doubt they excluded the Wikipedia text from their count, but I don't think a fivefold increase is warranted here. Or, if it is, then I think the rules need to flag that much explicitly, because that means public domain copying and Wikipedia copying are fundamentally different in terms of the writing commitment they require. The rules should not discuss them in the same breath if that's the case.
    (I also want to emphasize that I'm not being a rules lawyer here. This fivefold suggestion was a genuine surprise to me.) lethargilistic (talk) 14:09, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
    • @Lethargilistic: The relevant guideline here is WP:DYKSPLIT. If an article uses content from a Wikipedia article or multiple Wikipedia articles, even if it is not a split, such context is not counted as "new" for DYK purpose. Thus, any material still needs to be expanded fivefold to be eligible. DYK-nominated articles also cannot simply rely on public domain works, as content copied from them are not counted. The safest solution would be to nominate the article for GA status and see if it passes, in which case it will be eligible as a newly-promoted GA and thus sidestepping any questions about copying. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:30, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
      • @Narutolovehinata5: We should not sidestep questions about copying, because my writing style involves copying, so any disputes like this would be a recurring issue. I'm also not interested in nominating articles for GA.
        I did not "simply rely on public domain works." I did not even count the original characters I added to the paragraphs based on the public domain towards the article length in that diff I provided above, so that's not an issue here.
        The problem is that DYKSPLIT does not say or even suggest that text that is not from a split triggers a fivefold increase. That rule is about the newness of articles, and it says that splits from articles are not new. If you copy from public domain sources to make a DYK, we agree that you just exclude those portions and focus on improving other parts of the article. If you copy from Wikipedia, your reading of the rule essentially says that someone is doing negative-fivefold work towards DYK—despite copying from both kinds of sources being discussed together regarding article length without signaling any difference. If you're right, and this is relying on the subjective, "unfamiliar criteria" rule, then I disagree that this is even within the spirit of DYK, but fine. However, the rules absolutely should be edited to make this explicit, because the rules are misleading in substance if that's the case. lethargilistic (talk) 16:41, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

DYKSPLIT says this: Text that is not original does not count, including text copied from the public domain and from other Wikipedia articles. It does not even technically need to be a "split", since "text copied... from other Wikipedia articles" already counts as copying. What needs to be checked is how many characters of the new article is not copied: my understanding is that it might pass as long as the new prose is at least 1,500 characters long, but that might be contested and I'm not sure if other editors would accept it if they see that the article is mostly copied. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:47, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

That is from DYKLEN, which is about the required length not whether an article is new. DYKLEN's "does not count" does not mean a fivefold increase is triggered; it means copied text is excluded from the count when you look for 1500 original characters. I'm not sure if you're saying that copying from the public domain should trigger a fivefold increase, too? That's definitely not what the rule says or how it has been applied.
The part of DYKSPLIT that triggers a fivefold increase is this: A split from an existing article is not considered new unless the originating article itself meets the newness threshold, although the split article may later qualify for DYK if it is expanded 5x, or designated a good article. It only applies to splits, not copying.
Also, I don't think that this decision should involve whether people like copying or not. A person who writes 1500 characters of original text and nominates for DYK does the same or less work on an article as someone who writes 1500 characters and also includes text copied from free sources. The rule should be interpreted to promote expanding Wikipedia with new articles because that is why it exists. The rule does not exist to discourage (or, really, punish) copying text. lethargilistic (talk) 04:40, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Given the disagreements here, pinging Nikkimaria for a response or check, as she is experienced when it comes to things like copyright and copying. If the article is okay, then this should be given a re-review, but if not, it should be closed as ineligible. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:45, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

In terms of both copyright and assessing volume of new content, I think there is a problem with the attribution here - while there was an edit summary stating that "previous edits" copied from another article, it doesn't say which previous edits. Per WP:RIA "Such belated attribution should make clear when the relevant text entered the page". So regardless of what happens with the article's eligibility, that should be fixed. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:05, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

I'll do that in the morning. lethargilistic (talk) 05:03, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

I've done so. Only the one edit copied directly. By "edits," I meant my subsequent editing to incorporate the copied text. lethargilistic (talk) 16:20, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

@Nikkimaria: Thanks for the response. Regarding the copying issues themselves, does the article seem eligible? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:28, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

With what was copied clarified, my answer would be technically yes. Nikkimaria (talk) 23:48, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

I think the answer is "technically yes" as well, although we should probably amend the rules to cover this situation in the future -- I think it flaunts the spirit to allow some articles and not others based on whether the copied text or the original text was added first. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 09:07, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

I think a broader discussion would be appropriate before amending the rules. I don't think this was a matter of copying first or later, because I didn't have to do any copying from O'Donoghue to make this article. The point of DYK is to create new articles, and this article did not exist before; it was new. But if there's consensus for this article to pass, it's neither here nor there for now. lethargilistic (talk) 14:29, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

• @Theleekycauldron: Based on the above conversation, should this article move forward or should this be marked for closure? Z1720 (talk) 02:57, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
  • I'm the nominator, but FWIW, I think this conversation came to the conclusion that this nomination complies with the rules. At the very least, it should not be marked for closure just because leeky didn't respond to this ping. lethargilistic (talk) 18:33, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 24

Clint Reilly

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• ... that one of Clint Reilly's clients called him "Satan"?

• Source: He is “Nixonian,” says one colleague. “Queeg-like,” says another. State Sen. Quentin Kopp, a former client, refers to him fondly as “Satan.”

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  • Comment: Please be on the lookout for close paraphrasing, as my brain is irretrievably contaminated by copyrighted material after having read nineteen sources and sixty pages. Also, let me know if you consider there to be BLP issues in the personal life section.

Converted from a redirect by Iseult (talk) and Yngvadottir (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

In solidarity, Iseult ^Δx talk to me 14:48, 28 July 2026 (UTC).

• Comment. Please hold off on reviewing this for a day; I had been working on the article with different sources and need time to merge in material. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:59, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Endorsing Yngvadottir’s request; not my intention to place them “over a barrel”. In solidarity, Iseult ^Δx talk to me 16:08, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

And rescinding the request; I've made my big edit and Iseult and I are not wrestling with each other over the article. Yngvadottir (talk) 23:29, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on July 26

Chieko Hara, Miwa Kai, Kiyoko Tanaka

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Tanaka in Warsaw, 1955

• ... that Kiyoko Tanaka (pictured) was hailed as the first Japanese pianist to enter the International Chopin Piano Competition, even though Chieko Hara and Miwa Kai had already done so 18 years earlier?

• Source: "It is important to note that Hara's achievement would subsequently be suppressed as her conflicts with Japanese music authorities deepened. Only twelve years after Hara competed, Kiyoko Tanaka (1932 - 1996) won 10th prize at the 4th competition (the competition was not held in 1942, due to occupation by Nazi Germany). Immediately, the musical authorities claimed that Tanaka was the first pianist ever to compete in the Chopin competition, and attempted to erase all mention of Hara's groundbreaking role in this endeavor. Only upon her death was the truth revealed." p.26-27; "...in 1937 two Japanese pianists – Chieko Hara and Miwa Kai – took part in the Chopin Competition, the first ever participants from an Asian country. Hara was awarded a special prize by the audience." "Kiyoko Tanaka, 10th Prize winner, 5th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1955)"

• • ALT1: ... that 18 years after Chieko Hara and Miwa Kai performed there in kimonos, Japanese media incorrectly hailed Kiyoko Tanaka (pictured) as the first Japanese pianist to enter the Chopin Competition? Source: see above
  • ALT2: ... that the audience rioted when Chieko Hara placed fifteenth at the 1937 Chopin Competition, and a juror refused to sign the prize diplomas when Kiyoko Tanaka (pictured) placed tenth in 1955? Source: "Hara had been getting a lot of attention from the audience since the beginning of the competition, and many expected her to win a prize. Yet, despite their expectations, Hara only wound up taking 15th. The outcry from the public on her behalf was immediate, the entire hall rising up in protest. Security had to be brought in. In the end, a wealthy member of the audience rose up and, in order to quell the violence, proposed giving Hara a special public award as the best non-European contestant." p.26; "Tanaka Kiyoko won 10th place at the fifth competition in 1955. It is said that jury member Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli argued that second-place Vladimir Ashkenazy should be the winner and Tanaka praised more highly. He refused to sign any of the prize diplomas."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ernest Dezentjé Template:Did you know nominations/List of recovering species
  • Comment: If needed, hooks can be made for the articles individually, which may be punchier!

Improved to Good Article status by RabidTuberculosis (talk). Number of QPQs required: 3. Nominator has 20 past nominations.

RabidTuberculosis (talk) 21:01, 28 July 2026 (UTC).

• I take, will review in the next 72 hours.--Launchballer 21:51, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

@RabidTuberculosis: I really am sorry to have kept you waiting for a review, but this is incomplete - as a triple hook, this requires three QPQs. Please ping me when you've done them.--Launchballer 16:19, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Thanks for letting me know! Completed two more reviews, should be ready to go. RabidTuberculosis (talk) 18:00, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, but I'm just not up to this. Reviewer needed.--Launchballer 07:09, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

I'll take over this review. QPQs all check out. The initial hook seems the most interesting to me, but is cited to a master's thesis. Per our guidance on this, master's theses are generally unreliable sources unless they can be shown to have some scholarly influence. This is an edge case, as a Google Scholar check shows the thesis has been cited in academic sources three times. However, two of those cites are in volumes by major academic publishers, so I'm inclined to air on the side of supporting it on that front (The thesis is certainly more reliable than the average newspaper clipping.)

Running the articles through Earwig show no copyvio; mostly proper name and dates popped. Sourcing concerns seem pretty much resolved; it'd be nice for Tanaka's article to use page numbers in the cites to Hagitani though. The articles are generally quite well-written. The picture is PD in Japan and the US, so it's good to go. Nice image, although I don't know if we need to say the location in the caption.

There's one other issue; Kai's article is not currently eligible, since it was in a previously rejected hook in June. Hara's hook is eligible via GA promotion, and Tanaka's is eligible via recency, so this would just need the bolding removed for Kai. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 13:54, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Well, not eligible as not new. That could be brought back via GA.--Launchballer 14:01, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

@Generalissima: Appreciate your review! I recently expanded Kai's article, though it may not meet the 5x threshold, so I've removed the bold from the hooks. The Ando thesis is quite thorough and well-researched, and in lieu of a doctoral thesis I think it is our most reliable biographical source, which as you found is also cited by authorship on Cassado, transnational musicians, and a historiography of classical music in Japan. Happy to make any revisions to the hooks if necessary! RabidTuberculosis (talk) 18:17, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

I think everything is good to go with the first hook now. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 23:13, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

Moved from Wikipedia talk:Did you know § Chieko Hara (nom)

 – Dclemens1971 (talk) 01:10, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

@RabidTuberculosis, Generalissima, and Beta Beta Beta: Did a spot-check on the sources for Kiyoko Tanaka and I found some source-text integrity issues. The sentence reading The Fryderyk Chopin Institute records that between 1955 and 1957, she undertook several tours that established her internationally, with the European musical press describing her as one of the finest pianists of her generation, and that in 1958 she made an extensive and well-received tour of South America is supported by a source whose only reference to Tanaka is as follows: The history of classical music in Japan provides many examples of prominent musicians pursuing successful careers on both the local level – e.g. the pianist, violinist and composer Kōda Nobu (1870–1946), author of the first composed piece of music based on Western music techniques (Violin Sonata, 1895) and her younger sister, the violinist Andō Kō (1878–1963), or Kuno Hisa (1886–1925) – and the international stage – e.g. pianists Tanaka Kiyoko (1932–1996) and Hara Chieko (1914−2001) (Tamagawa, 2012: p.47). Profiles of female musicians were featured in popular magazines like Fujin Sekai [Women’s World] and Fujin Gahō [Illustrated Magazine for Women] in the 1920s (Utagawa, 2019: pp.164–165). Instead, this claim is mostly supported by a different source, the Chopin Institute, but the Chopin Institute bio does not verify that the European musical press described her this way nor that her South American tour was extensive. (It is described as "grand".) This bio is used for several other claims but does not verify that she won a "premier prix" at the Conservatoire, and neither it nor nor this source validate the claim that she was the first Japanese competitor to be placed at the Long-Thibaud competition. The failures of source-text integrity raise concerns about Hagitani 2005, an offline source cited for 19 claims without any page numbers and thus virtually impossible to validate. Dclemens1971 (talk) 02:52, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: Thanks for looking at this article closely! Looks like a small mix-up, sourcing is otherwise sound.

But the Chopin Institute bio does not verify that the European musical press described her this way nor that her South American tour was extensive.

The Chopin Institute bio states "Between 1955 and 1957, she embarked on several highly acclaimed artistic tours, which led the European music press to hail her as "one of the best pianists of her generation." In 1958, she embarked on a major concert tour of South America, a string of unwavering successes. She was always popular in her home country – there were seasons during which she gave dozens of concerts, performing 120 times a year in Japan alone." It looks like the version on the Wayback Machine has different wording without the bits about European press that the article mentions, so I understand why you flagged this. I've updated the article's link to the live URL, so this should be resolved!

Hagitani 2005, an offline source cited for 19 claims without any page numbers and thus virtually impossible to validate.

The Hagitani biography was the most comprehensive account of her life, and I cited pages 24-30 in the first paragraph of Early Life. The rest of the article does not cite individual pages (possibly because of unfamiliarity with sfn notation). It seems the author has removed previews for all of their works on Google Books , and I can't find a PDF or other scan of the text. This is quite unfortunate as, being a Japanese source, it explicitly tracked Tanaka's firsts as a Japanese winner, including for Long-Thibaud. Since the article was written with access to the source, and since the claim checks out through manual verification of prior winners, I haven't edited it.

This bio is used for several other claims but does not verify that she won a "premier prix" at the Conservatoire I believe Hagitani explicitly named the prize, since it's included in the article. However, the Chopin Institute bio states that she "graduated with distinction", and contemporary sources using wording like "diploma with honors" to refer to the Premier Prix interchangeably. The context is that the Paris Conservatoire held a concours (exit exam) that resulted in a prize (either 1st or 2nd) to graduate. "Premier Prix" was a distinction (not a prize in the usual sense, as many students earned it concurrently when graduating) such that students who did not get the distinction could retry the exam to earn a "premier prix" and graduate (see ). Happy to make changes if you have suggestions! RabidTuberculosis (talk) 19:28, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

@RabidTuberculosis I don't understand your point about "Since the article was written with access to the source". Presumably you wrote the article, so you have access to the source and can thus provide page numbers for this source? Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:33, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Yes, I had access to the source when the article was written in July and cited six of the 294 pages. Some time after the article's publication, the source went offline, so I no longer have access. The bibliography lists the biography as a whole. RabidTuberculosis (talk) 19:46, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Then why did you use the source for other claims where you don't have page numbers? It doesn't make any sense that you would use the source for a claim on a page number you didn't read? Dclemens1971 (talk) 20:16, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

I used a translation engine for parts of the book mentioning her name, and was working off translated English text. I left correlating the translated segments used in the article to original Japanese language pages as a TODO, likely because it was non-trivial to do so for the first pages I'd referenced, and the article was still a draft. Will see if I can get a physical copy on loan! Otherwise the reference to the work, even without pagination, should be useful for interested readers. RabidTuberculosis (talk) 00:52, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

I'm sorry but I find this extremely unconvincing. Why, if you reviewed the full copy of the book, would you have one citation go to a specific page but not the others? I am pulling this and will move this discussion to the nomination. Dclemens1971 (talk) 00:58, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

• The following statements are sourced to the Hagitani book with no page number:
  • "From the age of seven, she studied with Motonari Iguchi, and from sixteen with the Paris-trained pianist Kazuko Yasukawa [ja]. In the intervening years, she also worked with Leonid Kreutzer, who had taken refuge in Chigasaki."
  • "She attended the elementary school and girls' high school attached to the Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School (now Ochanomizu University), interrupted by wartime evacuation, and left the high school in 1946 after completing the coursework required to sit the entrance examination for the Tokyo Music School. After the Japanese educational reform of 1947, the school was converted into the Tokyo University of the Arts, which would have required her to re-enroll in a new-system high school before applying, causing her to abandon plans for further study in Japan."
  • "In 1950, on Yasukawa's recommendation, Tanaka was chosen as one of the first postwar Japanese recipients of a French government scholarship and sailed for Europe, arriving in Paris that September."
  • "Shortly after her arrival, she contracted tuberculosis and spent much of her first years in France convalescing, with her practice restricted to an hour a day."
  • "It was the first time that a Japanese musician had taken a leading prize at a major international competition, and the result was reported in Japan as a landmark for the country's musical life."
  • "Tanaka returned to Japan in triumph in 1955 and gave a homecoming concert at the Hibiya Public Hall."
  • "Tanaka was based in Paris until 1959 and in Vienna from 1960, touring from Europe to South America.[6] On June 13, 1966 she appeared with her brother Chikashi at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan in a concert marking his appointment as concertmaster of the NHK Symphony Orchestra."
  • "Tanaka returned to Japan in December 1967 intending a short visit, but fell ill and canceled a European tour scheduled for the turn of the year. Her fingers stiffened, her joints became painful, and she ran a persistent fever; an initial diagnosis of acute liver dysfunction brought on by overwork was later revised, after repeated examinations, to a connective tissue disease. She continued to perform with massage and analgesic injections directly into her hands, but in March 1968, playing Chopin's First Piano Concerto with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, she was forced to stop by the pain at the coda of the first movement and to restart the passage. It was her last appearance with an orchestra.[2][6] After further deterioration she gave a final recital at the Nissay Theatre in 1970 and retired from performance. Her father died the same year."
  • "Tanaka taught at the Kunitachi College of Music from 1973 and at the Toho Gakuen University from 1977, working largely from a wheelchair and, in her later years, giving her university lessons at home.[2][6] In 1980, she suffered a stroke attributed to the side effects of her medication and was left paralyzed on her right side."
  • "Tanaka was found collapsed from a cerebral hemorrhage at her Tokyo home on February 22, 1996 by a pupil who had come for a lesson, and died on the morning of February 26 at a hospital in Nerima, aged 64."
  • "In 1956 Tanaka married the composer Mutsuo Shishido [ja] (1929–2007), then also studying in Paris. The demands of their separate careers kept them apart and they divorced in 1959, though they continued to work together as musicians; Tanaka was the soloist in Shishido's Concerto for Piano, Percussion and Orchestra, recorded in 1964 under Tadashi Mori."
  • "Tanaka was an admirer of Clara Haskil and Wilhelm Backhaus."
  • "Although Tanaka concertized intensively, she made very few authorized studio recordings: a collection of short pieces for Toshiba Records, a Debussy album and Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11 for King Records, and a set of sonatinas for Nippon Columbia together amount to less than three and a half hours of music.[6] Her stereo Debussy album of 1961 was widely admired in Japan, and its performances of Children's Corner, along with the Mozart sonata, were designated listening material for junior high school music classes under the Ministry of Education's revised curriculum guidelines.[6] The only studio recording of a concerto known to survive is Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24, taped in East Germany in May 1967 with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Kurt Masur, six months before the onset of her illness."
  • "Tanaka was reluctant during her lifetime to have her recordings reissued, but a memorial disc released by Yamano Music in 1996 renewed interest in her playing, and in 2005 the music critic Yukiko Hagitani [ja] published a biography, Tanaka Kiyoko: Yoake no pianist."
• The vast majority of the article's text is attributed in one way or another to a currently offline source that you say you viewed, but somehow you only saw/recorded the page numbers for one claim? And you used machine translation to translate the entire book (you say you translated only the parts about her, but the book is a biography of her, according to its title), or at least enough for 19 more citations, but somehow the machine translation didn't record page numbers, chapters or any other way to narrow down where the citation came from? Dclemens1971 (talk) 01:10, 9 September 2026 (UTC)
  • I've already answered, but I'll try once more. I wrote a draft given a mosaic of less complete sources. Upon finding a large, Japanese-language biography containing much richer detail, I isolated segments from chapters I thought would contain the most important missing info (early life/education, analysis of competition/teaching career, recordings and legacy). The large amount of resultant text I then parsed for the most interesting/encyclopedic bits (dates, people, places) and rewrote in my own voice while taking pains not to paraphrase the translation too closely. The first paginated reference is probably the first segment I translated, since it spans 6 pages but merely regards a detail about her brother's later career. I didn't take the time to correlate the ~20 resulting particular lines I wrote in English from the Japanese source text because it was tedious/difficult, since I'm not fluent with kanji. I also thought it might be moot to thoroughly note pages on a foreign text on English wiki, so I moved the source to the bibliography and just cited the work as a whole as the source for lines I'd added to the existing draft. Obviously, this turned out to be most of the richer detail between the "bones" corroborated by other sources. For a new article, I thought I'd covered the subject pretty well and focused on finding historical photos/recordings with my remaining time.

Stepping back for a sec, it is unfortunate that the book is no longer available. I should have cited page numbers more thoroughly. But since there are no "source-text integrity issues" anywhere in the rest of the article, or in the extensively researched Hara article above, I am having difficulty understanding your suspicion. What exactly is there to say, since I cannot access the book again to add the page numbers? Where else do you think the material came from? Do you have reason to believe the lines are the product of LLM hallucination? What exactly are the next steps here? I'm sure it was not your intent, but I must admit that this back and forth has been extremely discouraging. RabidTuberculosis (talk) 04:49, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

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Ti Jean

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Veve of an aspect of Ti Jean

• ... that the spirit Ti Jean, a one-legged cannibal highwayman, evokes colonial fear of maroons?

• Source: Murphy, Kieran M. (December 1, 2021). "What Was Tragedy during the Haitian Revolution?". Modern Language Quarterly. 82 (4): 417–440. doi:10.1215/00267929-9365944. ISSN 0026-7929.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cortical Labs
  • Comment: Cortical Labs review is technically in progress, just waiting for nominator to address concerns, or else procedural closure if it drags out.

5x expanded by Chickenpox4dinner (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

chickenpox4dinner (talk · contribs · email) 17:57, 27 July 2026 (UTC).

Chao Xu (rapist)

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• ... that serial rapist Chao Xu incapacitated his targets with a drink named "The Spirit of Life"?

• Source: How one of the UK's worst sex offenders was finally caught

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gottlob Herbert Bidermann

Created by Toadboy123 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 81 past nominations.

Toadboy123 (talk) 07:58, 29 July 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Earwig gives 25% but there are limited ways to describe Xu's crime and prison sentence. I suggest adding a photo of him. KimYubin (talk) 14:56, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

• pulled for now based on suggestion at WT:DYK. Another angle may be needed and the quote misalignment between source and article should be fixed. Zzz plant (talk) 22:02, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

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Hendrickson Island

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• ... that Hendrickson Island is used for beluga whale hunting and whale research?

• Source: "The maps from the

interviews point to the extensive use of the area around Hendrickson Island for obtaining qilalukkat." - https://www.capekrusenstern.org/docs/icc_study_2006.pdf, "Once we caught a whale, we brought it to Hendrickson Island, the base for one of the longest-running monitoring programs of its kind." - https://oceansnorth.org/2024/09/05/muktuk-under-the-midnight-sun/

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

Weltwirdhund (talk) 20:44, 2 August 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article checks out (note, I was the AfC reviewer who accepted). However this hook isn't really interesting to me and I have a hard time finding interesting facts in the article. Do you have any? If not I'm hesitant on this. 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire, why'd you decline my draft? (talk, contribs)🔥 00:40, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Are you allowed to review if you're the AfC reviewer @Hurricane Wind and Fire:? You raise a valid point, so please address it anyway @Weltwirdhund:, but surely if a nomination can't be reviewed by its GA reviewer, I'd have thought the same principle would apply to AfC.--Launchballer 12:07, 23 August 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: From my rather limited knowledge of DYK I am not aware of anything necessarily saying I cannot review unless there is some unspoken rule or guideline I'm unaware of. Does that mean it needs a separate review? 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire, why'd you decline my draft? (talk, contribs)🔥 13:22, 23 August 2026 (UTC)

I can't find it in the rules anymore, but I vaguely recall there being a rule that GA reviewers are not allowed to review the GAs they promote at DYK, but they are allowed to nominate them. I can't remember if AfC was included in that prohibition, but given it's a similar position I imagine that, as a corollary, it would apply as well. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:25, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

2020 Westgate Entertainment District shooting

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• ... that a woman went into labour during the 2020 Westgate Entertainment District shooting?

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Converted from a redirect by Militant.Insurgency (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Militant.Insurgency (talk) 01:03, 2 August 2026 (UTC).

Pritha Sen

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[[File:|140px|Indian food historian, Pritha Sen]]

Indian food historian, Pritha Sen

• ... that Indian food historian Pritha Sen (pictured) revived a forgotten Bengali riverboat curry by tracing memories of passengers who travelled before the 1947 Partition?

• Source: The hook is supported by the article's "Food history" section, which cites sources describing Sen's research into Goalondo steamer curry and her 2014 pop-up revival of the dish.

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  • Comment: This is a newly created biography article about Pritha Sen, an Indian food historian, food writer, culinary consultant and former journalist known for research into the cooking of undivided Bengal. The hook highlights a specific, interesting fact about her historical food research and public revival work.

Created by LoreGatherer2 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

LoreGatherer2 (talk) 00:36, 2 August 2026 (UTC).

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Martinsburg Street Railway

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• ... that Martinsburg, West Virginia, had a streetcar system?

• Source: https://www.historicberkeley.org/history.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=wB04AQAAMAAJ&q=Martinsburg+Street+Railway#v=onepage&q&f=false: Pg 76

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Moved to mainspace by Wobs100 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Wobs100 (talk) 23:48, 2 August 2026 (UTC).

• Article was moved from draft space on August 1, and was nominated a day later within the proper nomination window. The article is long enough. No copyright violations or other policy concerns found. The only issue here is the hook itself is dreadfully dull; failing WP:DYKINT. Many American cities had streetcar systems. Simply existing is not surprising or unusual in any way. Please propose new hooks below with attention to crafting a hook that features something unusual or surprising per DYK's style guideline. Perhaps the revoking of the charter due to lack of maintenance would draw interest for example. Please propose new hooks below for review.4meter4 (talk) 19:17, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

• A suggestion: the system only operated for a little less than a year (which needs to be made more clear in the article). I think a hook could be developed from that. Acroterion (talk) 19:25, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

1. The system lasted for ~a year and a half not less than a year as the system made it to late 1893 and I'm confused on how the operation time is confusing. 2. Here are some hooks; DYK that the Martinsburg Street Railway operated a trolley park as a way to cool off in the summer? and DYK that the Martinsburg Street Railway helped shape the Boomtown Historic District? (both might need to be reworded) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wobs100 (talk • contribs)

As I said, it's hard to make out the time in which the system actually operated. Acroterion (talk) 02:58, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

Hmm... There are problems with both proposals. The "Boomtown Historic District" of Martinsburg, West Virginia would be of interest to people local to the area, but is too esoteric and obscure a topic to appeal to a global audience. This fails the "no specialized knowledge" criteria at WP:DYKINT.

The sourcing for the cooling off fact doesn't check out as the newspaper is writing about a future trolley park and not about the trolley park after it has opened and was in use. The newspaper is making a prediction about how the park will be used in the future. That claim may or may not have come true. Predictive claims on future events in a newspaper are not reliable claims, and you can't rephrase that type of reporting as a factual claim about the past. There's also a certain marketing element being done. This looks like WP:SYNTH of historic newspaper sourcing.

Now that I am looking more closely at the sourcing, I see there are some other issues. Facebook for example is listed as a unreliable source in the Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources, and while it is from a historical society social media page, we can't accept articles with inline citations to facebook.

Based on these two significant types of sourcing errors, you are going to need to do some rigorous trimming of inappropriate materials, and rewriting to pass WP:DYKPOL. Any self published sources such as social media will need to be removed, and the content cited to those materials will also need to be removed unless you can find reliably published materials to verify the same content. You will also need to go back through the many historic newspaper sources you've cited and double check that you aren't making claims not supported by the materials such as taking a predictive claim about a planned/upcoming project and turning it into a factual claim about the project. Plans can change and don't always come to fruition as originally envisioned, and predictions often don't come true. Just because something was planned or predicated doesn't mean it happened.

Let me know when you are ready for a second look on my part at the sourcing. Once that is done, we can them return to considering alternate hooks. Best wishes.4meter4 (talk) 02:34, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

I am focusing on sourcing Elkins Park right now I'll come back to the other stuff later Update! I fixed Elkins Park take a look and fix any errors I made! Question is https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84038206/1893-07-29/ed-1/?sp=3&q=elkins+park&r=0.197,0.097,0.3,0.109,0 is this enough proof that baseball and dancing were rec activities at the park or is that still implied? Update: I removed Facebook and fixed some (if not many) errors in the newspapers. I found one or two with that problem but a couple others with separate errors that I fixed. May you check on it? I do have ideas for NEW hooks!

• Comment. @Wobs100: This looks much better. In spot checking I am seeing a more careful use of newspaper sources. I could not check every single one (too much!) but it looks good from I did check. I am trusting in good faith that you have correctly identified where adjustments needed to be made. Good work. Please propose new hooks below.4meter4 (talk) 22:15, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

DYK that the Martinsburg Street Railway only operated for two years? (Proposed by Acroterion) DYK the Martinsburg Street Railway halted service due to worn street stones? Lastly, DYK that remnants of the Martinsburg Street Railway were found after twelve years after its disestablishment?

@Acroterion I just saw your message and the Martinsburg Street Railway started operations in October of 1891 and ended in October of 1893 after city council revoked its charter. From there on the railway sat non-operational until its removal in 1896. I hope this helps

• @Acroterion: Would you mind assisting with hook proposals as Wobs100 is new to DYK. The proposals so far seem unsurprising and generic. Not anything really usable per WP:DYKHOOKSTYLE. I think there are some potential things here, but if I propose them, I will not be able to review them. Best.4meter4 (talk) 22:33, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Sure, I'll give it a try. Acroterion (talk) 23:22, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the help you two!

Hazel Miseleni

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• ... that Hazel Miseleni believes that if Malawi could end child marriage then it would save $500m within 15 years?

• Source: Conversely, ending child marriage in Malawi could generate the equivalent of $500 million within 15 years from slowing population growth, increased education and productivity growth.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Shō Toku
  • Comment: There is an image in the article. This is an article by a newbie so do be helpful.

Created by Nathingani (talk), Dsp13 (talk), and Victuallers (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 464 past nominations.

Victuallers (talk) 22:58, 1 August 2026 (UTC).

• New enough - Article created August 1
• Long enough - at about 400 words
• Reliable and copy-vio free - Mostly looks well cited. However, the lead says " She believes that ending child marriage to 20% could deliver Malawi a benefit of $500m over fifteen years." and I'm not sure what "ending to 20%" means. Ending 20 percent of child marriage? reducing to 20 percent of the current rates? The birthdate is also not cited. Normally leads aren't cited, but it's not cited in the rest of the article either.

• Copyright No concerns about copyright violations - Earwig is just bringing up job titles and such.
• Presentable - Looks good. I'd suggest a better picture but it's fine if there's nothing else available, and it's not an image hook anyway
• Verified - Yes - though the article says "Within 15 years the country could be $500m pounds better off" - Is it dollars or pounds? cited article says dollars.
• Under 200 characters - It's around 110
• Interesting - I think so
• Image - Public domain, not running as image hook anyway
• QPQs - says 1 required but i think that's covered by the review of Shō Toku

Will approve when the birthdate is cited or removed, the 20 percent thing is clarified, and the dollar pounds question is resolved. EmergentAnarchy (talk) 09:31, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for picking up those points. They are all fixed I think. The image is the best available. I'll ping you again if we find a better one. The image that we have is poor which is a pity as it's good to see African women on the front page. I will ask... Cheers Victuallers (talk) 10:09, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

The hook is not something she believes especially: she wrote about a World Bank report which says: "Ending child marriage could generate US$ 0.5 billion in annual benefits within 15 years (in purchasing power parity, PPP)". There must be better to be said about her than just her quoting a figure from a report she read. Fram (talk) 10:43, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

You're right, maybe I didn't read it closely enough. It's kind of ambiguous. Might be hard to quote her views from that article as there's another author. Maybe use something from the voice of america interview? EmergentAnarchy (talk) 16:23, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

We could do that but it is not just "something she read". That's an odd interpretation of something she wrote in a persuasive piece, supported by a report she cited. She put her name to "Conversely, ending child marriage in Malawi could generate the equivalent of $500 million within 15 years" ... many readers would interpret that as something she believed in. Victuallers (talk) 08:28, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

It's very strange to highlight (in the lead of the article and as a DYK) a claim someone else wrote and she (or her coauthor) repeated, as one of the most remarkable or interesting things about her. It's unclear why this one line, out of all her writings, interviews, appearances, is given so much weight. Has this specific claim received any attention? Fram (talk) 09:59, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Talking of strange. I'm writing this as a co-author of this article (when stuff is rejected because its written as a co-author). I'm writing this in DYK noms where strange and unusual aspects of articles are routinely shared (and being questioned as to why the aspect chosen is strange and unusual). We are being asked to give more evidence (presumably from something we read), when the existing evidence is rejected because its something she read. Can some 3rd party disentangle this logic bomb for me/us? Or is it "don't like it?". Victuallers (talk) 15:23, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

You have posted this claim about her in the lead of the article, and in the DYK. However, it is something she posted (primary source) as a repeat from something she read (so not even something she invented or calculated), and where we have no indication that any reliable source considers this a notable, noteworthy, aspect of here life and career. It's something you are pushing as especially noteworthy, as if it is the core issue of her life and work, when in reality it is a brief thng in one article she co-wrote and which hasn't gotten further attention. That's WP:UNDUE. We describe people based on a summary of how independent reliable sources describe them, not on cherry-picking one sentence from all she has said and written and arbitrarily making this the core issue of her person and belief system. Fram (talk) 08:51, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

• @EmergentAnarchy: Have the concerns been resolved, and is this article approved? If not, what else needs to be done? Z1720 (talk) 03:02, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
  • The concerns i raised are sorted, but we need a better hook per Fram's comment EmergentAnarchy (talk) 07:50, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

2026 Meghalaya border fencing protests

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• ... that during the June 2026 India–Bangladesh border talks, the Border Guard Bangladesh raised concerns over at least 39 deviations in fencing projects along the frontier?

• Source: [12]

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  • Comment: First nomination. Thank you for reviewing!

Created by Mohammed Shahidullah-Bin-Anwar (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Mohammed Shahidullah-Bin-Anwar (talk) 18:27, 1 August 2026 (UTC).

Yeh Cheng-min

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• ... that the reconnaissance aircraft commanded by Yeh Cheng-min was shot down in the People's Liberation Army Air Force's first successful nighttime aerial shootdown?

• Source: Archived link to source
• Source: "机上台湾当局空军少校飞行员叶拯民等8人全部毙命。这是空军在国土防空作战中第一次夜间击落入窜的飞机。26日，国防部通令嘉奖作战有功人员." (Trans: All eight people on board, including Major Ye Zhengmin, a pilot from the Taiwan Air Force, were killed. This was the first time the Air Force had shot down an intruding aircraft at night in homeland air defense operations. On the 26th, the Ministry of National Defense issued a commendation order to the personnel who had performed meritorious service in the operation.)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Herbert William Parke

Created by Toadboy123 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 82 past nominations.

Toadboy123 (talk) 08:05, 1 August 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on August 2

Sun Pictures

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• ... that Sun Pictures released nearly 20 films between 2008 and 2010, then slowed sharply after a change of government in Tamil Nadu? Source: As Sun Pictures collaborates with Rajinikanth for Thalaivar 168, a look at how the banner is maintaining its market supremacy
  • ALT1: ... that Sun Pictures took over Enthiran (2010), then reported to be the most expensive Indian film ever made, from two other studios in 2009? Source: Why did Enthiran shift to Sun Pictures?
  • ALT2: ... that after Jailer's box-office success, Sun Pictures owner Kalanithi Maran let Rajinikanth pick between two luxury cars, and he chose a BMW X7? Source: Superstar Rajinikanth presented with bonus cheque after Jailer’s historic success, asked to pick from two luxury cars
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  • Comment: I started this expansion on 2 August, so it's past the 7-day limit (about 9 days now). Requesting the standard extension per WP:DYKNEW

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

Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 17:55, 11 August 2026 (UTC).

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Mark Guglielmo

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• ... that Mark Guglielmo recorded "Green and Gold" with Eminem in his Venice Beach bungalow, also used months prior as a filming location for The Dude's house in The Big Lebowski?

• Source: "The handwritten Eminem lyric sheet — written on the back of Guglielmo's restaurant résumé — was sold as Lot 81 at Sotheby's Hip-Hop 50 auction in 2023." Sotheby's, 2023

"The bungalow had also served as a filming location for The Dude's house in the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski just months prior." IMDb

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Created by WikiContrib44 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

WikiContrib44 (talk) 13:44, 11 August 2026 (UTC).

Jasmine Sokko

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• ... that Jasmine Sokko's stage name refers to the Finnish word for 'blind'?

• Source: Eu, Geoffrey (15 April 2021). "The Sound of Independence". The Business Times. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022.

• • ALT0a: ... that Jasmine Wong's stage name refers to the Finnish word for 'blind'?
  • ALT1: ... that Singaporean songwriter Jasmine Sokko refreshed her Chinese with her secondary-school Chinese teacher in preparation for a Chinese-language song? Source: 1. 罗, 瑱玲 (4 October 2019). "发行华语歌曲 楚晴跟母校老师学华文" [Releasing a Chinese-language song, Jasmine Sokko studies Chinese with the teacher from her alma mater]. Lianhe Zaobao (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on 18 October 2019. 2. Tai, Hayley (4 November 2019). "Her World's Oct cover star Jasmine Sokko is South-east Asia's best music act: MTV". Her World Singapore.
  • ALT2: ... that Jasmine Sokko was described by the audience as "exotic" after competing in Chinese electronic music competition Rave Now as the only Singaporean contestant? Source: "Jasmine Sokko on being the only 'exotic' Singaporean on China's Rave Now competition". CNA Lifestyle. 4 February 2019. Archived from the original on 18 September 2021.
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  • Comment: The version immediately before expansion started has 2084 bytes of prose; the current version has 18,000.

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

Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 03:36, 8 August 2026 (UTC).

• I will chope my place first, planning to review later once I get back to my computer. I've done a copyvio check, and it produced a "Copyvio unlikely" result, so that's settled. If you don't hear back from me within 24 hours, then I will let someone else do the review. Then again, this is my first review, so either way, I'll need a second opinion. But I'm planning to nominate a DYK soon, so I guess I need to know the reviewing experience...? Hason-LEK-🇸🇬 ● 💬 ● 🧱 ● 🧪 00:52, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

  @Hason-LEK-SIN: should I offer to review Template:Did you know nominations/Cantonment MRT station? Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 01:45, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

  @Whyiseverythingalreadyused: Once the GA has passed, sure, go ahead and review the Cantonment DYK nomination. Hason-LEK-🇸🇬 ● 💬 ● 🧱 ● 🧪 04:45, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

  @Hason-LEK-SIN: Does this work?

  "that Jasmine Wong's stage name refers to the Finnish word for 'blind'"?

  (the bold link is now piped as [[Jasmine Sokko|Jasmine Wong]]) Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 07:30, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

  @Whyiseverythingalreadyused: As ALT0a, sure! Hason-LEK-🇸🇬 ● 💬 ● 🧱 ● 🧪 08:12, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

• @Hason-LEK-SIN: thanks and Happy National Day! By the way, I used WP:Prosesize to calculate the prose sizes; the sizes I gave in the nomination explicitly exclude HTML code other than running text. If you install the gadget and run it, ver. 1363292352 says both of these:
  1. 'Prose size (including all HTML code): 17 kB'
  2. 'Prose size (text only): 2084 B (346 words) "readable prose size"' (italics are mine)

Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 08:55, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

• @Whyiseverythingalreadyused: I've installed the script. The version from 9 July produces: Prose size (text only): 2084 B (346 words), while the current version produces Prose size (text only): 20 kB (3311 words). Ignoring rounding, 2000 bytes = 2 kilobytes, so the difference between that version and the current version is a 10 times expansion (20/2=10). I'm sold. Pass. (By the way, I've broken the indentation since it's a separate comment) Hason-LEK-🇸🇬 ● 💬 ● 🧱 ● 🧪 01:15, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

• The following list is taken from Wikipedia:Did you know/Reviewer instructions#Review the article(s) because the DYK checklist template is annoyingly inflexible:

Have you checked...

1. ... that each boldlinked article is new enough? If I'm being strict, I'd want to check if the 5x expansion is true, however, I can't really verify that, and IIRC the byte count from reftags isn't counted. Despite that, looking at this difference, I will trust what you are saying with the 5x expansion calculation. Since most edits were done between 4-9 Aug, the newness criteria gets a pass from me. But I would be pleased to know the proper way to do this.
2. ... that each boldlinked article is long enough?
3. ... that each boldlinked article is cited to reliable sources, neutral, BLP-compliant, and copyvio-free?
4. ... that each boldlinked article is presentable?
5. ... that the hook is verified to a reliable source, and that the hook facts appear in the boldlinked article(s)?
6. ... that the hook is under 200 characters?
7. ... that the hook is likely to intrigue a reader with no special knowledge or interest into visiting the boldlinked article(s)?
8. ... that any images are freely licensed, clear at a diminished size, and used in the article? no image, so irrelevant.
9. ... that the required number of QPQs have been submitted, and that they are valid reviews that have not been used elsewhere?
10. ... that there are no other, more subjective issues? For ALT0, would it be better if we use her real name instead of just showing the stage/professional name in the hook? Addressed with ALT0a.

Overall: Looks good overall, will prefer ALT0a. As a new reviewer, though, I will need to request a second opinion, or to ping the @DYK admins: , just to make sure everything is in order, so there's that. Either way, happy National Day, and enjoy the celebrations! 🇸🇬

Hason-LEK-🇸🇬 ● 💬 ● 🧱 ● 🧪 06:20, 9 August 2026 (UTC), last updated: 01:20, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

Deez (musician)

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• ... that the South Korean musician Deez worked around 22 hours a day for a month and a half to finish his first studio album before starting his mandatory military enlistment?

• Source: https://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201005180937221002

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Created by Poirot09 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Poirot09 (talk) 10:31, 5 August 2026 (UTC).

• New enough and long enough. Well-cited. Hook is interesting and cited in the text. I took the liberty of linking to "Conscription in South Korea" and changed "prior to" to "before starting", as I think it emphasizes the urgency a bit more; feel free to change it back. Krisgabwoosh (talk) 15:56, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
• Pulled. I agree with Launchballer's point that this claim is self-serving. I wouldn't even attribute it to him, as working 22 hr/day for 6+ weeks is physiologically implausible and likely an exaggeration on his part in the interview. A new hook is needed. Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:46, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

IranNastaliq

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• ... that the IranNastaliq digital typeface contains roughly 19 times as many glyphs as a standard Farsi font to recreate the complex diagonal cascading of Nastaliq calligraphy?

• Source: Cited in the Rendering and Engine Support section (referencing Farzan Kermaninejad's 2012 Typography Day survey).

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  • Comment: This is my first DYK nomination! The article was recently approved and moved from draft space.

Created by Noamonsol234 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Noamonsol234 (talk) 19:07, 4 August 2026 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, fairly well-sourced, very readable, good hook which is sourced correctly in the article. No GNG needed, image is fine, it's all good. Congrats on your first DYK nom! Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 16:39, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

At AfD.--Launchballer 10:56, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 6

Italian occupation zone in the Balkans (1941–1943)

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• ... that despite being an Axis power, Fascist Italy actively refused to hand over Jewish refugees to the Nazis in World War 2?

• Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/14/nyregion/scholars-praise-italy-s-role-in-helping-jews-in-world-war-ii.html

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Created by Cheese240 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Cheese240 (talk) 14:08, 11 August 2026 (UTC).

• On hold: The article has been nominated for merging at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Italian occupation zone in the Balkans (1941–1943), so the DYK nomination is on hold. TSventon (talk) 14:10, 13 August 2026 (UTC) Off hold as discussion result was no consensus. TSventon (talk) 21:52, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
• On hold again. Copyright problem reported at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2026 August 23. TSventon (talk) 21:06, 23 August 2026 (UTC) Off hold problem resolved on 30 August. TSventon (talk) 11:46, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

Ernst Frey

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Ernst Frey

• ... that soldier Ernst Frey (pictured), despite being born in Austria, was one of the first colonels of Vietnam Army?

• Source: Đại tá Nguyễn Dân và Chúng minh thư đặc biệt. Translation: "Ernest Frey was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1915." [...] "After the Battle of An Khe, Nguyen Dan was transferred back to Viet Bac and promoted to Colonel - one of the first Colonels in our Army" Nguyen Dan in this case was his pseudonym.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Shahar Nakav

Created by KhoaNguyen1 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

KhoaNguyen1|Talk 07:24, 8 August 2026 (UTC).

• Added ALT1, a slight rewording of ALT0. —Bruce1ee^talk 08:25, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

• ALT1: ... that Ernst Frey (pictured), despite being born in Austria, was one of the first colonels of the Vietnam Army?

Thank you, it sounds better than ALT0 in my opinion, so I have struck my hook KhoaNguyen1|Talk 11:40, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

1914 Texas Proposition 1

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• ... that a Texas lawmaker voted to submit a 1914 referendum to voters while saying he would "vote and work against its adoption"?

• Source: https://www.lrl.texas.gov/scanned/HouseJournals/33/03311913_54_1846.pdf (p. 1860)

• • ALT1: ... that two supporters of putting a 1914 Texas referendum to a public vote personally opposed the proposal, with one calling it an “impracticable and dangerous experiment”? Source: https://www.lrl.texas.gov/scanned/HouseJournals/33/03311913_54_1846.pdf (p. 1860)
  • ALT2: ... that before a 1914 Texas referendum was submitted to voters, the Texas House removed language stating that the people's initiative power would be "independent of the Legislature"? Source: https://www.lrl.texas.gov/scanned/HouseJournals/33/03311913_54_1846.pdf (p. 1859)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Febb Burn

Created by Delcoan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

Delcoan (talk) 02:35, 7 August 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this. ミラP@Miraclepine 03:06, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Ref 8 is a Google Sheet and fails WP:UGC. The "map showing the districts in effect at the time of the referendum can be viewed" should be removed per WP:NOELBODY (and to a lesser extent V).
• Neutral: - Only issue is that the analysis section is short; could you try to expand on this or at the least make it a subsection of the results section?
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Created on nom day, prose size 2635 B once the quoteblocks are removed. Approving ALT0/1; not sure ALT2 meets DYKINT. While one of the counties in the results section is missing from the attached ref, it's Pat Dunn County. @Delcoan: address the issues and you're good to go. ミラP@Miraclepine 14:10, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

• @Miraclepine: Hello! I appreciate your review. I have added more prose on the aftermath/analysis part, and have made changes for that sourcing issue. I am not sure what you mean with Pat Dunn County; neither the results table nor the source that the table uses mention that county. Delcoan (talk) 17:34, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
  • @Delcoan: Perhaps a source verifying the 1914 congressional districts would make this airtight. Regarding the county, it's listed as "Dunn", page 171. The "closeness of vote" addition looks good btw. ミラP@Miraclepine 19:04, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Stephanie Williams (comics)

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• ... that Stephanie Williams was the first Black nominee for the Eisner Award for Best Writer in 31 years?

• Source: Allen, Troy-Jeffrey (2026-07-22). "SDCC '26: Eisners So Black". Comics Beat. Retrieved 2026-08-05. "Williams' nomination for her comic book Temporal makes her the first Black woman and the second Black person to be recognized in the Best Writer category. Prior to that, Dwayne McDuffie received nods for Best Writer, Best Continuing Series (with artist M.D. Bright), and Best Editor for his groundbreaking work on Icon at DC Comics. That was in 1995."

• • ALT0b: ... that Stephanie Williams was the first Black nominee for the Eisner Award for Best Writer in over 30 years? Source: Allen, Troy-Jeffrey (2026-07-22). "SDCC '26: Eisners So Black". Comics Beat. Retrieved 2026-08-05. "Williams' nomination for her comic book Temporal makes her the first Black woman and the second Black person to be recognized in the Best Writer category. Prior to that, Dwayne McDuffie received nods for Best Writer, Best Continuing Series (with artist M.D. Bright), and Best Editor for his groundbreaking work on Icon at DC Comics. That was in 1995."
  • ALT0c: ... that Stephanie Williams was the first Black woman to be nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Writer? Source: Allen, Troy-Jeffrey (2026-07-22). "SDCC '26: Eisners So Black". Comics Beat. Retrieved 2026-08-05. "Williams' nomination for her comic book Temporal makes her the first Black woman and the second Black person to be recognized in the Best Writer category. Prior to that, Dwayne McDuffie received nods for Best Writer, Best Continuing Series (with artist M.D. Bright), and Best Editor for his groundbreaking work on Icon at DC Comics. That was in 1995."
  • ALT1: ... that Stephanie Williams wrote a superhero fancomic before entering the comics industry? Source: rosie-knight (2024-11-07). "Stephanie Williams' memes changed superhero stories, on and off the page". Polygon. Retrieved 2026-08-06. "Rather than sending a cease and desist over Living Heroes and its cast of marvelous *wink wink* women, Marvel invited Williams to write a two-page story about Monica Rambeau and her mother, Maria, grocery shopping. It was a monumental moment for Williams' work, as it represented a transitional moment from fan to creator. "Talking and writing about Black women characters at the Big Two was a huge contributor to how I honed my voice," Williams says. "So it felt full circle to then lend that voice to those same characters.""
  • ALT1b: ... that Stephanie Williams wrote a fan comic with Monica Rambeau before writing for the character officially? Source: rosie-knight (2024-11-07). "Stephanie Williams' memes changed superhero stories, on and off the page". Polygon. Retrieved 2026-08-06. "Rather than sending a cease and desist over Living Heroes and its cast of marvelous *wink wink* women, Marvel invited Williams to write a two-page story about Monica Rambeau and her mother, Maria, grocery shopping. It was a monumental moment for Williams' work, as it represented a transitional moment from fan to creator. "Talking and writing about Black women characters at the Big Two was a huge contributor to how I honed my voice," Williams says. "So it felt full circle to then lend that voice to those same characters.""
  • ALT2: ... that Stephanie Williams co-created the first transgender Amazon? Source: Polo, Susana (2021-10-25). "DC's new Wonder Woman comic finds a smart and simple way to include trans Amazons". Polygon. Retrieved 2026-08-06. "In their premiere issue, Williams, Ayala, and Martinez introduce the Well of Souls, an offshoot of the Amazon origin story detailed way back in George Peréz's influential Amazon origin story in 1987. Peréz's Amazons were created within the Cavern of Souls, a place where Greek goddesses make each new warrior from the reincarnated souls of women who died from violence perpetrated by men. The new Well of Souls creates a path from the Cavern to Themyscira, and establishes the idea that the arrival of new Amazons is routine and accompanied by much celebration and welcoming ritual. Including each new Amazon choosing a name for herself. Fans suspected that Bia's admission here held something significant that was yet to be revealed, and Williams confirmed the theory on Twitter, saying "The answer to your burning question is yes. There are trans Amazons. One of the newest Amazons is a Black trans woman.""
  • ALT3: ... that Stephanie Williams was a fan of Street Sharks before writing its comic series? Source: Perez, Javier (2025-08-12). "Interview: Stephanie Williams talks new STREET SHARKS #1". Comics Beat. Retrieved 2026-08-04. "I grew up with the Street Sharks. It was a show that my brother and I watched religiously every Saturday, and we even begged our parents to take us to KB Toys to get all the Street Sharks things, including those hand puppets."
  • Reviewed: This is my first nomination, I am exempt from QPQ
  • Comment: This is a self-nomination and also my first time nominating, so apologies if there any issues here

Moved to mainspace by BlorborosOuroboros (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

BlorborosOuroboros (talk) 22:04, 6 August 2026 (UTC).

Talib Al Mamari

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Talib in 2025

• ... that Omani parliamentarian Talib Al Mamari (pictured) received a human rights award while imprisoned for his activism against industrial pollution?

• Source: Omani MP Talib Al Mamari to Receive 2015 Alkarama Award for Human Rights Defenders

• • ALT1: ... that Talib Al Mamari went from serving in Oman's parliament to being arrested after participating in a peaceful protest? Source: Oman: Release politician jailed for taking part in environmental protest
  • ALT2: ... that Omani prosecutors sought to lift parliamentarian Talib Al Mamari's parliamentary immunity so that he could be prosecuted for defamation over a Facebook post? Source: The Ṣuḥār Paradox: Social and Political Mobilisations in the Sultanate of Oman since 2011
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Improved to Good Article status by Abu Isa (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Abu Isa 🇴🇲 11:13, 8 August 2026 (UTC).

• I will review this one. CoryGlee 03:31, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
• General eligibility:
• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Improved to GA on 6 August, nominated on 8 August. That's cool. Hook is interesting and indeed sourced to linked article. Well-worded and very attractive to readers interested in knowing why warrants environmental activism, formerly seen as a flamboyant interest, a proceeding of prosecution and imprisonment by a state. The article could have more references, but that would be harsh to demand given that coverage for these "common civilians" that have articles on Wikipedia is almost in all cases scarce. The sources given are decent and robust. Only to ask Abu Isa if you can provide at least one other source or two to the section about the award(s) so we avoid any strict editor to tag it as a single source (the section). Also, would you like to include the article's picture in this nomination? And lastly, I made two small edits to the article (dates template and video language). See below.

Edit after inserting tick: Abu Isa please trim the awards entrance to lower the "yellow" on Earwig (48%). Thanks. CoryGlee 00:20, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing this, CoryGlee. I’ve added two new sources to the awards section and trimmed it to reduce the copyvio percentage which is now at 45%. I’ve also added the article’s picture in the nomination. I appreciate the two small edits you made as well, and thanks again for reviewing the nomination. One quick question: when you mentioned trimming the “awards entry,” did you mean to include the quote as well, or were you referring to the above text? I’ve kept the quote for now, but I’m happy to remove it if you wanted it to be included. Abu Isa 🇴🇲 19:53, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your work Abu Isa, however, I am afraid that 45% still stands in a yellow line. Anyway I am pinging all users seeing this, especially experimented DYK admins, to please clarify if a lengthy quote helping a lot to increasing the copyvio percentage must be trimmed too/copyedited to lower that number. If that's given a green light, I will ad a green icon, Abu. If not then I'll ask you to rephrase or make it into prose. I'll be watching this. :-) CoryGlee 17:00, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

@CoryGlee: Speaking as the GA reviewer, I think you're being a bit too strict about the colour of an Earwig result when what is being flagged is a clearly-attributed quote. Earwig can be useful for quick passes, but it is not a tool that understands context, and you as the user need to be able to differentiate between actual plagiarism and false positives. I flagged a longer version of this quote during the GA review, but my concern was about undue weight, not plagiarism. --Grnrchst (talk) 10:51, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

Not hard. Just pointing out to a "limbo" in the rules. All laws or rules have limbos where a smart person can show whatever body of justice how useless the rules are. Is this my fault? I think it is not. That said I am not a troublemaker so if attributed quotes are allowed in spite of Earwig, take it as a green icon. see ya guys CoryGlee 02:42, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

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Light Flip

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Light Flip in red

• ... that according to Wired, the Light Flip (pictured) is the "stylish dumb flip phone of your dreams"?

• Source: "The Light Flip Is the Stylish Dumb Flip Phone of Your Dreams"

Wired

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Doppa

Created by Thriley (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 222 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 19:25, 7 August 2026 (UTC).

• Not a review, but I don't think a reviewer would look favorably on something that reads like an ad (even though that was not your intention). Maybe try another hook? Bremps... 15:54, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

I thought it was a catchy hook with the image. I am happy to provide more hooks if needed. Thriley (talk) 23:07, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

My formal review is to quickfail this as a violation of WP:CRYSTAL. That's because the product is scheduled for release in April 2027 which is 8 months away. A lot can happen in that time and the product might never appear at all. This seems an insuperable objection and so that's that. Thriley is welcome to appeal for a second opinion if they feel hard done by but Bremps' comment above indicates that this topic will be an uphill struggle. Andrew🐉(talk) 18:03, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

@Andrew Davidson: The company has released three phones already. I thought a product like this, with write-ups in major publications, would put it beyond crystal ball territory and more like a film that is in post-production, which I believe we usually run DYKs for. From what I have read, the delay in release is due to chip shortages caused by the AI build out boom. They are taking preorders for the phone, which made me think an article was justified and a DYK nomination ok. Thriley (talk) 18:24, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

@Thriley:. The company seems to be a tiny startup with few employees and little capital. The pre-orders indicate that they still have a kickstarter type of business model and such projects often fail to complete. The article makes definite statements in Wikivoice such as "The Light Phone costs $299 and will be shipped out in April 2027." Even giant companies like Apple and Tesla sometimes fail to deliver on such plans. Andrew🐉(talk) 19:21, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Tiny is a strong word. It is a small startup: . I see no evidence that it would fail to deliver this. I think it is a crystal ball to assume that the preorders definitely indicate it is a kickstarter type business. With three products released over the past ten years, is well beyond kickstarter, more of a niche business. Thriley (talk) 19:25, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Unlike Apple or Tesla, this company has a limited range of products that it invests completely in. Thriley (talk) 19:26, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

The company is too small to have its own production facilities and so its phones are actually made in China. That means they are subject to both the trade wars and shooting wars which have been disrupting such supply chains. And that's on top of the ordinary challenge of producing a new product. Their first phone was delayed by several months as the firm grappled with software issues. Don't hold your breath... Andrew🐉(talk) 22:31, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Apple doesn't have its own production facilities either and produces their phones in China. They are facing the same difficulties Light is, that's why they are raising prices significantly this year. Thriley (talk) 01:14, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

An actual review needed, preferably from someone that actually bothers to read policies before citing them.--Launchballer 05:03, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

I usually re-read policies when I cite them to check that they haven't changed. WP:CRYSTAL says Wikipedia does not predict the future ... short articles that consist of only product announcement information and rumors are not appropriate and that's all we seem to have here. But, as I already indicated, I am quite content that we get a second opinion. Andrew🐉(talk) 06:32, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

Not gonna comment on whether I think this is crystal or not, but I would expect @Launchballer: to provide a more adequate explanation for that comment; "preferably from someone that actually bothers to read policies before citing them" comes across as quite rude. TheBritinator (talk) 14:46, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

Apologies for offending you with that. WP:CRYSTAL is a reason to send the article to AfD and put the nomination on hold; it is not a reason to fail a nomination, never mind quickfail it.--Launchballer 20:16, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

In terms of the {{DYK checklist}}, WP:CRYSTAL would be an entry in the "policyother" parameter. What the policy advises in the meantime is Until such time that more encyclopedic knowledge about the product can be verified, product announcements should be merged to a larger topic (such as an article about the creators, a series of products, or a previous product). The Light Phone article would be a reasonable place to park this topic until the product actually appears. Andrew🐉(talk) 13:35, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Again, please send this to AfD.--Launchballer 14:11, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

I see that @Reywas92: BLARed this last month, although the article was in much a less developed state at the time. Perhaps they'd like to opine.--Launchballer 14:13, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation. No harm done. TheBritinator (talk) 14:04, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

There is nothing in the rules that articles about future topics cannot run on DYK. Just because something is about the future does not mean WP:CRYSTAL applies. The only things that DYK expects from articles about future topics are that they are reasonably complete (per WP:DYKCOMPLETE) and that the actual hook fact (not necessarily the article itself) is unlikely to change prior to its DYK run (per WP:DYKDEFINITE). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:28, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

Once again, full review needed.--Launchballer 13:35, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

2026 Mumbai Indians season

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• ... that in 2026, the joint-most successful team in the Indian Premier League won their first game of the season for the first time since 2012? Source:
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Angry Birds Star Wars II

Improved to Good Article status by Vestrian24Bio (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Vestrian24Bio 10:11, 7 August 2026 (UTC).

Purple Rain (song)

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• ... that Prince performed "Purple Rain" during the Super Bowl XLI halftime show under literal pouring rain?

• Source: https://variety.com/2018/music/news/super-bowl-halftime-top-10-best-and-worst-performances-watch-video-1202683850/

• • ALT1 ... that "Purple Rain" was initially a country song intended to be written by Stevie Nicks? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jul/24/how-we-made-princes-purple-rain-interview
  • ALT2 ... that a 1985 performance of "Purple Rain" by Prince featured a ten-minute guitar solo? Source: https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2022/06/prince-drummer-recalls-epic-1985-concert-syracuse-is-one-of-those-memories-ill-never-forget.html
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Improved to Good Article status by NP2026 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

NP (talk) 00:57, 7 August 2026 (UTC).

• @Gommeh and NP2026: Always good to see a classic song make its way to DYK after an expansion or GA. However, I usually try to spot-check GAs to ensure source verification. The very first sentence I checked reads "The extra verse was about money but was removed because it diluted the emotional impact of the song." The citation is to this article. Besides the sentence being somewhat vaguely written (was the extra verse about somehow making more money or was it thematically discussing money?), it deviates substantially from the actual content of the source and invents the whole "diluted the emotional impact" bit. Citing the same source we get the sentence "Cain reassured Prince by telling him that the songs only shared the same four chords." Again, the cited source deviates substantially from what appears in the actual article. I'm inclined to believe there's a WP:LLM issue here and that the reviewer failed to thoroughly check the content of the article against the sources. I am temporarily rejecting this nomination pending explanations and corrections. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 03:22, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

I did do a source spot check, but that was not one of the citations I checked. The sources I *did* check were all correct as far as I could see, so I'm guessing it was one of the sources I did not select. I do know that the bit about Cain is accurate based on what I read during the source review, but it's possible I may be getting my sources mixed up. Anyway it's late for me now, and I need to be getting to bed. Feel free to make whatever changes you need to. In solidarity, Gommeh ^{(talk 🎮 sign)} 03:40, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

• Since I opened a GAR and have made a handful of content changes, I am now too involved to complete this review. Should the article pass its GAR (it probably will), someone else needs to finish this DYK nom's review. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 00:14, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

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Great Upon Little

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Great Upon Little

• ... that Great Upon Little (pictured) has been called "traditionally a Celtic sacrificial deity"?

• Source:

• • ALT1: ... that the appearance of Great Upon Little (pictured) may have induced visitors to try to overbalance it? Source:
  • ALT2: ... that there used to be 30 climbing routes for Great Upon Little (pictured)? Source:
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Funking Conservatory

Created by Dm4244 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

Beta Beta Beta - talk 05:43, 13 August 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - n
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - n
• Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I'll be reviewing this nomination. Article was new enough at time of nomination, has low Copyvio (5.7%), and QPQ done. While not a requirement, the article is also very well-illustrated which is always nice to see. Before I approve this nomination, I do have a question about how the Sussex Express, The Hastings and Bexhill Independent, The Million, and The Kent and Sussex Courier newspapers that are cited in the History section were accessed. Could a link to these articles be added to these references in the article? BaduFerreira (talk) 02:51, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

@Dm4244: Pinging article creator Beta Beta Beta - talk 03:01, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

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Lotte Rakhat

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A Kazakhstan chocolate bar

• ... that the "Kazakhstan" chocolate bar (pictured) by Lotte Rakhat is known for featuring the flag of Kazakhstan on its packaging?

• Source: Казахстанцы переживают за шоколад «Казахстан» из-за новых правил использования флага [Kazakhstanis are concerned about 'Kazakhstan chocolate' due to new flag usage rules.]. Diapazon (in Russian). 9 July 2026. Retrieved 17 August 2026.

• • ALT1: ... that Lotte Rakhat's "Kazakhstan" chocolate bar (pictured) is known for featuring the flag of Kazakhstan on its packaging? Source: Same as ALT0.
  • ALT2: ... that the "Kazakhstan" chocolate bar (pictured) is known for featuring the flag of Kazakhstan on its packaging? Source: Same as ALT0.
  • ALT3: ... that the "Kazakhstan" chocolate bar (pictured) is often bought as a souvenir by tourists? Source: Same as ALT0.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dan Petro
  • Comment: ALT1 is an alternative version of ALT0 that sounds smoother, but I don't know if that's how the bolding should look. ALT2 is a shorter version of ALT0, but I don't know if the linking is appropriate. The image is optional for all the hooks, and that's the best photograph I could get (by request).

Created by Yue (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 57 past nominations.

Yue🌙 (talk) 07:41, 12 August 2026 (UTC).

• Comment: User:Yue, This is my first review, so please bear with me. Alt 0 seems fine to me, but do you think something along these lines - that new flag-usage rules in Kazakhstan sparked debate over whether the Lotte Rakhat's 'Kazakhstan' chocolate bar would need to redesign its packaging?, would make it more interesting? If yes, then I think the section needs to be expanded a little bit to cover the news about the debate.

  @Jeraxmoira: Howdy! The reason why I didn't write a hook about the flag law concerns is because there hasn't been anything substantive or concrete reported yet. In hindsight though that's probably more interesting than the three hooks here. I'll look into it. Yue🌙 (talk) 19:38, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

W.r.t ALT3, I don’t think the source explicitly mentions that they buy it because it has the same name. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 12:39, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

@Jeraxmoira: How about these hooks? I also think the picture could be omitted in these hooks. Yue🌙 (talk) 06:43, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

ALT4: ... that amendments to a law on state symbols in Kazakhstan led to concerns that Lotte Rakhat would have to change the packaging of one of its most popular products (pictured)? Source: Same as ALT0.

ALT5: ... that there were concerns Lotte Rakhat would have to change the packaging of one of its most popular products (pictured) because of amendments to a law on state symbols? Source: Same as ALT0.

Shrira-Pesenson equation

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• ... ... that a ridge-like wave called a soliton can, if only slightly curved, develop a sharp change — a kink — running along its front, similar to the pattern where ocean waves meet at an angle near a shoreline?

• Source: Shrira, V. I.; Pesenson, M. Z. (1984). "Soliton stability with respect to transverse perturbations of finite length and amplitude". In Sagdeev, R. Z. (ed.). Nonlinear and Turbulent Processes in Physics. Vol. 2. New York: Harwood Academic Publishers. pp. 1061–1068. Pesenson, M. Z. (1991). "Nonlinear waves traveling upon a front of solitons". Physics of Fluids. 3 (12): 3001–3006.

Whitham, G. B. (1957). "A new approach to problems of shock dynamics, Part I: Two-dimensional problems". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2 (2): 146–171. doi:10.1017/S002211205700004X.

• • Reviewed:
  • Comment: As disclosed during the AfC review process, I have a connection to this topic; flagging here for transparency.

Created by Soliton 1983 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Soliton 1983 (talk) 06:17, 9 August 2026 (UTC).

• Comment -- I'm on my 5th re-reading, and I still have not a single clue as to what this hook is about. Dahn (talk) 06:09, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

• Thank you for the feedback — you're right that the original hook leaned too heavily on domain-specific terms ("shock-on-soliton," "Mach stem") that don't mean much without background in the field. I've rewritten it in plainer language:

  ... that a ridge-like wave called a soliton can, if only slightly curved, develop a sharp change — a kink — running along its front, similar to the pattern where ocean waves meet at an angle near a shoreline?

  Hopefully this version is clearer. Happy to adjust further if any part still isn't landing. Soliton 1983 (talk) 11:38, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Jaime Callica

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• ... that actor Jaime Callica was known by his PR team as the "hottest thing out of Canada since the two Ryan's"?

• Source: here in Los Angeles Sentinel and this one from Hallmark Channel

• • Reviewed: Talib Al Mamari
  • Comment: I did not know whether to include Gosling and Reynolds in the hook. I decided not but I hear suggestions.

Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 49 past nominations.

CoryGlee 13:49, 8 August 2026 (UTC).

• Preliminaries first, new enough, long enough, presentable (although it could use some copyediting; the phrase "born as a single child" is a new one to me), no apparent copyvio, QPQ done. For reliable sourcing, what makes BizBooks.net and WhatTheMovie.com reliable? And we should probably avoid using Callica's PR agency as a source. Speaking of Callica's PR agency, this is a catastrophically uninteresting hook. Of course Callica's PR people, the very people whom he pays to get him more attention with unfalsifiable claims like the one in the hook, would say that he's the hottest thing out of Canada since whatever. That his PR people would say this is perhaps one of the least surprising and intriguing facts in the world, and thus fails WP:DYKINT completely. Indeed, this hook is so promotional I doubt even Callica's PR people would have suggested it. Dclemens1971 (talk) 04:29, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

Phoenix Dust Storm Scale

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• ... that in Phoenix, Arizona, dust storms are being categorized like hurricanes or tornadoes? Source: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/107/1/BAMS-D-25-0073.1.xml
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cornelia Flores
  • Comment: A rare drive-by nomination from me of an article. While I am also a paid editor for ASU, which is involved in this system, I was not involved in creating or editing this article. As a Phoenix native, it's cool to see this.

Created by Stu in Flag (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 830 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 02:43, 16 August 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: 1695 words, copyvio shows unlikely violation. Hurricane and tornado scales mentioned, pretty interesting! QPQ done. My only concern is the slight exceed over the nomination deadline of 7 days. Would love to get a second opinion regarding this, thanks! BenTanXiaoMing (talk) 14:30, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

• See WP:DYKNEW The seven-day limit can be extended for a day or two upon request.. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:44, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

• Ah, thank you for sharing that! I have changed the nomination to a green tick :) BenTanXiaoMing (talk) 13:15, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

• , I'm marking this as rejected. See Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Phoenix Dust Storm Scale (nom). TarnishedPath^talk 08:29, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 9

Bob Krieger

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• ... that Bob Krieger flew out to play in an NFL game the day after his wedding?

• Source: Times

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kazuo Ueda (linguist)
  • Comment: To do QPQ within 24 hours.

Moved to mainspace by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 482 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:07, 16 August 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this one. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:08, 17 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Article length and age are fine, no copyvio or plagiarism concerns, reliable sources are used, almost entirely big city newspapers. But the only hook offered is unnecessarily short and pretty vanilla, tbh. I would strongly recommend looking at an alt hook referencing his key role in the Fifth Down Game (1940) or that he received the Distinguished Flying Cross for flying 30 bomber missions over Germany in WWII. Also, at the time of review, no QPQ had been completed. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:23, 17 August 2026 (UTC)
    • Thanks, will do QPQ and look into alternate hooks early tomorrow (August 17). BeanieFan11 (talk) 03:40, 18 August 2026 (UTC)
      • Sorry for delay, will look into this over the weekend. BeanieFan11 (talk) 03:55, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
        • Perhaps ALT1 ... that Bob Krieger left the NFL to fly more than 30 bomber missions over Germany in World War II? BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:00, 27 August 2026 (UTC)
          • QPQ done now, that one is ok but I would also include an ALT2 that Bob Krieger kicked the winning field goal in the infamous 1940 Fifth Down Game? What do you think? Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:57, 29 August 2026 (UTC)
            • My concern with that is few people will know what the Fifth Down Game is – its notable in a Wikipedia sense of course but it isn't well-known. BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:49, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

I actually thought that ALT0 was a decent hook. ALT1 would require in-American football terminology or knowing the concept of four downs, so it would have a more limited audience. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:25, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Pest control of cockchafer

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• ... that beetles were collected and killed after failing to comply with a court order?

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• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Map
  • Comment: Fun little article that I found while going through some random AlexNewArtBot searches.

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

Beta Beta Beta - talk 06:14, 11 August 2026 (UTC).

• Pest control of cockchafers, surely?--Launchballer 08:02, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Flew over my head that cockchafer wasn't pluralized, somehow. Beta Beta Beta - talk 08:23, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

• New enough, long enough, no issue with the prose, no issue with the sourcing. The hook is interesting; QPQ is done. Before this was approved, can I get a quote and translation of the sourcing of hook as I don't speak German. Thanks. Ping @Beta Beta Beta: Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 08:00, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment: As the creator of this article and the nominator of a DYK on the original article from which this one was accidentally created (because of the GA review, well another DYK we have here, don't we), can we also take a look at my DYK? Thanks. Sddarealone (talk) 02:48, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

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Articles created/expanded on August 10

Janggyeong Panjeon of Haeinsa

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Janggyeong Panjeon of Haeinsa

• ... that a data center in South Korea is named after a building for storing Buddhist scriptures (pictured)?

• Source: The name of the data center, Gak, is inspired by the janggyeonggak at the Haeinsa Temple in South Gyeongsang which houses the Triptaka Koreana, a set of more than 81,000 wooden printing blocks from the 13th century that still can be seen today.Korea Joongang Daily

• • ALT1: ... that the design of Janggyeong Panjeon of Haeinsa (pictured) allowed wooden blocks to be preserved over 600 years? Source: On top of the excellent layout of the storage space, the halls were scientifically designed to facilitate adequate ventilation, adjust humidity and maintain optimal indoor temperatures, allowing the wooden blocks to have been preserved in impeccable condition for over 600 years. KBS World
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Uyen Ninh
  • Comment: Driveby-nom. The nomination is a day late as the internet of my house was not working for the past few days.

Created by Mar del Este (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

KimYubin (talk) 07:30, 18 August 2026 (UTC).

Notre-Dame de Paris: Version anglaise

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• ... that William Ruhlmann of AllMusic thought that the English-language version of an "enormous French hit" seemed "to drag along for most of its length"?

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• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bunka Apartments
  • Comment: A better hook is needed.

Created by Moscow Connection (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 45 past nominations.

Moscow Connection (talk) 23:55, 17 August 2026 (UTC).

• I will review this. KimYubin (talk) 10:55, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

• @KimYubin: Reminder ping. Z1720 (talk) 03:06, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - n

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Moscow Connection: Earwig gives 56% & there is too much direct quotation of the AllMusic source. I suggest paraphrasing it & finding other reviews of the album. KimYubin (talk) 03:00, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Madyina Nguluwe in 2026

Madyina Ngulube

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• ... that it was Madyina Ngulube (pictured) who thanked the President when he gave all of Malawi's women football team's players a plot of land?

• Source: Chakwera, ... "On behalf of the players, I thank the President, Chakwera, for what he has done. We will ...

• • ALT1: ... that Madyina Ngulube (pictured) was chosen for Malawi's National Women's Football squad but her suspension kept her from the match where they qualified for the World Cup? Source: The Zambia-based Elite Ladies FC centre-back and Malawi’s Ascent Academy FC midfielder have been suspended from the last-eight match and book place at World Cup
  • ALT2: ... that "the Russian Tank" (pictured) who plays professional football in Zambia also plays for Malawi?

Malawi National Council of Sports says "in Zambia, they call her "The Russian Tank." Power. Strength. Determination. How would you describe Scorchers' midfield powerhouse Madyina Nguluwe"

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Steps of Legacy
  • Comment: relatively new editor - added alt3 as we have an image

Created by Nathingani (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 466 past nominations.

Victuallers (talk) 22:40, 15 August 2026 (UTC).

Cockchafer

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A female cockchafer

• ... that Nikola Tesla as a child made one of his first "inventions" by harnessing four cockchafers (female pictured) to derive power?

• Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My_Inventions

• • ALT1: ... that in 1320, cockchafers (female pictured) were collected and killed because they could not withdraw from a town into a specially designated area in France? Source: https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs/bug-directory/common-cockchafer/
  • ALT2: ... that the soil damage done by first-stage cockchafer larvae is only noticeable above a density of 1000 larvae per m²? Source: https://edepot.wur.nl/121073
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Improved to Good Article status by Sddarealone (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Sddarealone (talk) 20:01, 10 August 2026 (UTC).

• Comment: A similar hook to ALT1 has been proposed for a separate DYK nomination. I was not aware of this DYK nom until going through this article's talk page. Apologies! Beta Beta Beta - talk 06:17, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
  • @Beta Beta Beta: No worries, it was rather surprising to me that the other article which I created just 2 days back would be nominated for DYK so quick :) A more funnier thing would be if both of us reviewed each other's DYKs Looks like I caught a COI loophole here; interestingly it's technically allowed as DYK rules don't oppose it. Sddarealone (talk) 10:06, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
    • Comment: This is much funnier without the image. You could probably do something for WP:DYKAPRIL Froglord (Finnfrog99) (talk) 08:41, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
      • I see where you're going. Here's a hook similar to ALT1 for DYKAPRIL and without the picture.

ALT3: ... that in 1320, cockchafers were punished to death as they could not go to a specially designated area in France?

Sddarealone (talk) 11:27, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

If we're doing DYKAPRIL, why not just ALT3a: "... that medieval cockchafers could face death sentences?" or ""... that, in 1320, cockchafers could face death sentences? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:23, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

Dont put a comma after 'that' Froglord (Finnfrog99) (talk)#

full review still needed Froglord (Finnfrog99) (talk) 12:19, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Zayn Malik

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• ... that Zayn Malik auditioned for The X Factor "for fun, to see what would happen"?

• Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20190106021227/https://www.gq.com/story/zayn-malik-cover-profile-2018

• • ALT1: ... that Zayn Malik was the first British male solo artist to debut at number one in both the UK and US? Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/zayn-malik-makes-history-as-first-uk-male-soloist-to-debut-at-number-one-in-uk-and-us-a6967681.html
  • ALT2: ... that Zayn Malik was the ambassador for Bradford UK City of Culture 2025? Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd10gnlr68xo
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mitchell Burns
  • Comment: My first GA, promoted earlier today. Feel free to suggest other hooks. I prefer the first 2.

Improved to Good Article status by EmergentAnarchy (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

EmergentAnarchy (talk) 15:47, 10 August 2026 (UTC).

• @EmergentAnarchy: I take, will review in the next 48 hours. I may take you up on 'feel free to suggest other hooks'. Out of interest, do you have any plans to take any other One Direction members through GA?--Launchballer 11:11, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
  • I might nominate Niall's at some point, but it's not ready yet. Possibly Liam's as well, if Niall's gets through. The other two are already GAs EmergentAnarchy (talk) 11:16, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

@EmergentAnarchy: The reason I asked is that I attempted to bring Building the Band here last year, but it was rejected. I've since had the idea to run a quadruple hook involving Liam, that show, 3Quency, and Brianna Mazzola (there's a draft in someone else's userspace I expanded). That would of course involve me cleaning up quite a lot of mess at the show's article. But that's by the by.

Long enough, new enough. QPQ's fine. I'm very sorry to say I would have quickfailed this at GA on sourcing grounds; any source that doesn't mention Malik by name, or WP:VENDORs/social media used for prose, or chart publishers for their own charts (which of course they're going to write about) all deserve inline tags. There's a few other dodgy sources as well; I see AllMusic, the Evening Standard, Forbes Contributor pieces, unbylined churnalism pieces from Business Standard, and International Business Times. Quite a lot of work needed to bring this to snuff, but there's plenty of time. Let me know when these have been removed and we'll talk hooks. Also, Earwig's giving some quite high scores, but it would do with an article of this age, and I'll interrogate it another time.--Launchballer 20:38, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

I've removed all music, forbes, and international business times from prose. They were almost all used alongside other sources. the evening standard citation is an interview, so i think it's ok as a primary source. Which other sources need removing? EmergentAnarchy (talk) 17:15, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

Fair point regarding the Evening Standard source. From this revision:

• 8, 15, 182, 194 (unbylined churnalism pieces)
• Most of the sources between refs 21 and 52 (essentially an article about a bandmember should use sources about that bandmember, even for sections about his time in that band, because those that don't can go in the band's article. Basically, I'm saying this section probably has too much detail, although feel free to surprise me.)
• 54, 132, 157, 234 (not seeing what makes them reliable)
• 75, 78, 90, 105, 114, 119, 164, 165, 178, 214 (surely independent sources are available for these claims)
• 95, 130, 131, 148 (you will notice that the charts mentioned in Lola Young and Kim Petras are cited entirely to secondary sources and I think this should as well; same for critical reception)

Apologies if this seems like a lot of work, but it's work that you should have been asked to do at the GA review.--Launchballer 11:54, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

So far I've removed 8, 15, 182, and 194. I've left the ones in the one direction section - it's really more of a summary of that article, which other members have. I've replaced 54, and removed 157. 132 is simply citing a date which i don't think anyone is going to dispute. 234 has a picture but i can remove if you want. Will take at look at the others EmergentAnarchy (talk) 12:51, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

I've replaced more of them, I think everything left is acceptable per primary sourcing policies. Some of the remaining ones are only citing a precise release date, which i think is ok when there's also a news article cited. Others are also backed up by a second source for the same statement. The article on I Don't Wanna Live Forever only cites billboard and other primary sources for chart details, and that's a GA. 148 is Metacritic, which is reliable per WP:METACRITIC EmergentAnarchy (talk) 14:38, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: pinging for a response on this EmergentAnarchy (talk) 20:51, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

Apologies for dropping this. I'm fine with most of the remaining sourcing; I'm not happy with the charts but I think that might be getting into IDONTLIKEIT territory (UK and US chart data almost always makes somewhere, so is probably due), so I'll take it. I need longer to decide what to do about the "most [...] between refs 21 and 52" point.--Launchballer 13:08, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

Feel free to cut it down a bit,it is a little longer than on some other member's articles EmergentAnarchy (talk) 21:25, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 11

Victor Amalraj

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• ... that Victor Amalraj played at Mohammedan SC for six seasons and scored twenty goals?

• Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/victor-amalraj-roots-for-a-single-football-league-in-india/articleshow/69601158.cms

• • ALT1: ... that Victor Amalraj served as the captain of all three famous Kolkata-based clubs? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20220821153706/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/midfield-maestro-amalraj-releases-biography/article65794413.ece
  • ALT2: ... that The Hindu wrote that Victor Amalraj was one of the few people to have captained all the famous football clubs from Kolkata? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20220821153706/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/midfield-maestro-amalraj-releases-biography/article65794413.ece
  • ALT3: ... that Victor Amalraj served as the captain of three Kolkata-based football clubs namely Mohammedan SC, East Bengal FC, and Mohun Bagan Super Giant? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20220821153706/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/midfield-maestro-amalraj-releases-biography/article65794413.ece
  • ALT4: ... that Victor Amalraj served as the captain of three professional Kolkata-based football clubs? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20220821153706/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/midfield-maestro-amalraj-releases-biography/article65794413.ece
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Converted from a redirect by DareshMohan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

DareshMohan (talk) 00:37, 18 August 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: The article currently surpasses the minimum requirement of 1,500 characters of prose, although the sentence "He eventually became the Indian football team captain as well as the captain of those three Kolkata clubs." unnecessarily duplicates content from the sentence before it, and removing it would push the article under the required characters. The lead is also too short and fails to fulfill its purpose outlined in MOS:LEAD, so I added a tag. Apart from these issues, the article is new enough and Earwig did not flag any significant copyvio. Most sources are reliable, although The Sports Column (citation 10) seems to be a user-generated source.

As for the hooks, the original hook reads more as a summary of his career at Mohammedan SC than an interesting fact. ALT1 would be more interesting, but it also has issues. The article does not verify that the Kolkata clubs he captained were the only three clubs based in the city, nor does the source cited (it says that he captained all the three famous clubs of Kolkata, not all three clubs of Kolkata outright). Furthermore, Category:Football clubs in Kolkata shows a lot more clubs based from there.

@DareshMohan: Please try to resolve these issues so the article can be approved. Also, please point out if I made any mistakes in my review. Thank you in advance! Chomik! (talk?) 02:19, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

@Chomik1129: Does it meet the length requirement still? I mean all three famous clubs for ALT1 not all clubs. DareshMohan (talk) 15:42, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

@DareshMohan: The article currently stands at 1,482 characters, so it does not reach the requirement. ALT1 should be reworded as to not create confusion. Chomik! (talk?) 18:17, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

@Chomik1129: I edited the ALT1 to include the word famous. How is the article length right now? DareshMohan (talk) 11:00, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

@DareshMohan: The article is now long enough, however ALT1 might violate MOS:PUFFERY. Can you think of another way to word it or perhaps a new hook? Chomik! (talk?) 11:43, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

Maybe something along the lines of ... that The Hindu wrote that Victor Amalraj was one of the few people to have captained all the famous football clubs from Kolkata?

This would solve the MOS:PUFFERY violation by attributing the word "famous" to the newspaper. The Hindu's description of the clubs as "the three famous clubs of Kolkata" would have to be added to the article if you want to go with this hook. Chomik! (talk?) 18:27, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

@Chomik1129: That works. If not then use, ... that Victor Amalraj served as the captain of three Kolkata-based football clubs namely Mohammedan SC, East Bengal FC, and Mohun Bagan Super Giant. DareshMohan (talk) 04:41, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

I'll put both those hooks up and let a more experienced editor decide whether either is acceptable. Chomik! (talk?) 11:56, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

How about "... that Victor Amalraj served as the captain of three professional Kolkata-based football clubs?" No need to mention which clubs specifically since it would make the hook too long. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:43, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: I like it, feel free to strike the previous ALTs and add it. DareshMohan (talk) 20:42, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Cherry Hill (author)

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• ... that equestrian author Cherry Hill trained horses, judged horse shows for 25 years, and taught equine science at colleges for ten years before writing more than 30 books on horse care and training?

• Source: Alberta Agriculture, “Award-winning author speaking at the 2007 Horse Breeders and Owners Conference,” November 27, 2006 (supports 25 years judging and ten years teaching); Kara L. Stewart, “Profiles & Reflections: Words of Wisdom,” Horse Illustrated, vol. 25, no. 1, January 2001, pp. 38–44 (supports Hill's horse-training career and more than 30 books).

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Created by Amber1947 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Amber1947 (talk) 17:13, 12 August 2026 (UTC).

• **comment only** Nice article. I guess its your first time here. Welcome. I think this is going to be fine, its has the right feel, size and refs. The issue is the hook. Millions look at the main page and very few will be there to read about horsey writers - why would they click on yours? Have a look at the other hooks. Your hook might start "Did You Know that Colorado's Own Horse Expert ..(fill this space with something intriguing)..? Good luck. Victuallers (talk) 07:53, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

Cathy Cabral

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• ... that documents reportedly compiled by Cathy Cabral before her death later became known as the "Cabral files"?

• Source: https://mb.com.ph/2026/01/14/pnp-ready-to-provide-technical-assistance-in-forensic-audit-of-cabral-files

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/MV Jernas

Created by AdobongPogi (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

AdobongPogi^{masarap 🍛} 16:11, 11 August 2026 (UTC).

• QPQ done. Copyvio is high, but it's all unrephrasable things (titles and honors). New enough and long enough. Hook is not that interesting, though - without more context it just seems normal for files made/compiled by someone to be nicknamed as their files. Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 05:34, 12 August 2026 (UTC) @AdobongPogi: Jishara (please ping upon response) (talk) 05:42, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

• @AdobongPogi: The above concerns need to be addressed before this can be approved. Please post below when you are ready for this to be re-reviewed. Z1720 (talk) 03:07, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Rewind (2023 film)

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• ... that Rewind became the first Filipino film to surpass ₱900 million at the worldwide box office?

• Source: https://www.philstar.com/movies/2024/03/30/2343947/marian-rivera-dingdong-dantes-starrer-rewind-tops-netflix-philippines

• • ALT1: ... that Rewind marked Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera's first film together in 13 years? Source: https://www.gmanetwork.com/entertainment/showbiznews/dingdong-dantes-at-marian-rivera-masayang-makatrabaho-uli-ang-isat-isa-sa-rewind/107663/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Crossing the Line (McKenzie book)

Created by AdobongPogi (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

AdobongPogi^{masarap 🍛} 15:39, 11 August 2026 (UTC).

Vermilion (horse)

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• ... that Vermilion is the only Japanese racehorse to win a G1 at five different racecourses?

• Source: https://db.netkeiba.com/horse/2002100877/

The Kawasaki Kinen (Kawasaki Racecourse) February Stakes (Tokyo Racecourse)

and JBC Classic, which is held at a different racecourse every year (Nagoya, Sonoda, Ooi)

• • Reviewed:

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

Horsebutch (talk) 01:42, 12 August 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Alansohn (talk) 20:01, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

• pulled per WT:DYK. There's four [citation needed]s to be resolved, and the hook fact does not seem to be conveyed in the article. I also don't see the hook fact in the source, but I am reviewing it with machine translation so may be missing something.​ Zzz plant (talk) 03:11, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Accra–Winneba Highway

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• ... that following a rock blasting incident on the Accra–Winneba Highway, residents of Kasoa manhandled two Chinese contractors? Source: "See current state of Accra-Winneba Highway after damage caused by diversion of River Ayensu". GhanaWeb. 6 June 2024.
  • ALT1: ... that following a rock blasting incident on the Accra–Winneba Highway, a resident of Kasoa smashed a contractor's head with a wooden plank?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mill Street House
  • Comment: I'll start the QPQ review soon. Please let me know if you have any concerns!

5x expanded by OpalYosutebito (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

- OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 20:27, 11 August 2026 (UTC).

• I’m going to remove the section headers per MOS:NOLEDE. Otherwise, though the article is new enough, long enough, and the hook is long enough and is interesting. Thepharoah17 (talk) 19:57, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

@OpalYosutebito and Thepharoah17: between Special:Permalink/1328104215 and Special:Permalink/1370039694 is not a 5x expanision. Not even close. The article started at 521 of readable prose and after Thepharoah17's edit for NOLEAD it is 1672 characters of readable prose. The article needed to have been at least 2,605 characters of readable prose to have been a 5x expansion. I'm sorry but I'm going to have to reject this. TarnishedPath^talk 13:17, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

@TarnishedPath: I thought that 5x expansion was determined by word count, not byte count. Good to know! - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 14:13, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

@OpalYosutebito: bytes or words. I can't tell you exactly what the conversion is now as I'm on my phone. The main thing is that it has to be readable prose. The expansion you did was closer to 3x. TarnishedPath^talk 14:39, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

I should have wrote characters above, not bytes. TarnishedPath^talk 15:13, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 12

Jaha Koo

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Jaha Koo

• ... that Jaha Koo (pictured), whose works focus on immigration and imperialism, is the first Asian to win the International Ibsen Award?

• Source: 1. His theatre is shaped by translocation: the journey between Seoul and Ghent — where he now lives and works; by histories of colonialism and the unexpected personal impact of imperialism; by a searching look at possibilities and hopes. International Ibsen Award 2. Koo, 42, was named the recipient of the International Ibsen Award 2026 on March 20, becoming the first artist of Asian descent — and the youngest person ever — to receive the prize. The Korea Herald

• ALT1: ... that one of Jaha Koo's plays features a talking rice cooker?

• Source: The endeavour, though, was ultimately successful, and the talking rice cookers form part of Cuckoo, one of a trilogy of plays by Koo showing in Adelaide at OzAsia festival – a sprawling program of contemporary art which takes in everything from music to theatre. The Guardian

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Notre-Dame de Paris: Version anglaise
  • Comment: The article was made by Jaha Koo himself but its tone seems to be neutral. The nomination is a day late but I hope it is okay. I will complete QPQ in 24 hours.

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

KimYubin (talk) 11:00, 20 August 2026 (UTC).

Fulper Pottery Company

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• ... that Fulper Art Pottery's dating system was overhauled after a 2017 study cross‑checked century‑old catalogs and ads to correct long‑accepted mark timelines?

• Source: Kornacki, Jon A. (2017). "Fulper's Marking System." Journal of the American Art Pottery Association, 33(1), 6. Kornacki writes that earlier publications' mark dates were "inaccurate," and that his revised dates come from cross-referencing catalogs, advertisements, and period journals.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/ This is my first DYK nomination.

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

Y.paulsen (talk) 03:25, 15 August 2026 (UTC).

EPO (singer)

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• ... that EPO's third album was recorded in the style of a live radio show, complete with jingles?

• Source: https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/EPO/discography/MHCL-31019

• • Reviewed:
  • Comment: Thank you for your consideration!

Created by 21stcenturycoelacanth (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

21stcenturycoelacanth (talk) 23:08, 12 August 2026 (UTC).

Jia Yueyue and Jia Panpan

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• ... that Jia Yueyue and Jia Panpan were the first giant pandas born in Canada? Source: "Meet Canada's First Giant Panda Cubs". Toronto Zoo. Archived from the original on 6 March 2018.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/YH incident
  • Comment: QPQ coming soon

Improved to Good Article status by OpalYosutebito (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

- OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:14, 12 August 2026 (UTC).

• The article is sufficiently long but has not been created or expanded fivefold in the past seven days.
• The reference is reliable but is a primary source and would be optimally replaced with a secondary source.
• The QPQ is pended. simongraham (talk) 20:25, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

OpalYosutebito, the QPQ is two weeks overdue. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:24, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

• • @Crisco 1492: wait, I already reviewed the article (see the comment beginning with "Overall") - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 03:29, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
    • So you have. Striking the QPQ coming soon comment to avoid further mixups. simongraham, articles improved to GA status go by the date promoted, which is August 12th (same day as the nomination).  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:31, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
      • @Chris Woodrich: Absolutely. simongraham (talk) 18:13, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
    • Also, I agree with Simon that a primary source should ideally not be used for a "first" claim, given how quickly some of those are proven false. Exceptional claims require exceptional sources, after all. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:37, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 14

Epic of Samba Gueladio

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• ... that the Epic of Samba Gueladio has been interpreted as both glorifying violence against slaves and celebrating alliances across ethnicities?

• Source: Glorifying violence: , pp. 43–44; Celebrating alliances:

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup final

Moved to mainspace by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 68 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 19:25, 16 August 2026 (UTC).

Muhammad Tayrab

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• ... that Muhammad Tayrab is thought to have been Darfur's greatest sultan?

• Source: The Darfur Sultanate: A history (2008) by R. S. O'Fahey pg. 57

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Say Hello to Someone in Massachusetts
  • Comment: The source for the hook is offline unfortunately, but I can send a photo of the page if someone drops me an email (Special:EmailUser). I've struggled to come up w more hooks tbh

Created by Kowal2701 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 00:34, 15 August 2026 (UTC).

• New, long enough, nicely written, AGF-ing on sourcing and paraphrasing, QPQ done. The hook doesn't work: it has a subjective absolute (I tend to be lienient with those, but this is a bit too assertive: "did you know that he was the greatest sultan? well did you?!"; it is also arguably not verified, as the quote in O'Fahey is much softer). I have to say I am also struggling to understand why you would struggle to find a hookier hook in an article that contains the following line: "As a trophy, he cut off the chief's beard and displayed it in his house." Another thing (not disqualifying per se, but needs a fix): a large portion, one mentioning that territorial acquisitions made Darfur larger than Nigeria, is only cited at the end, with two sources. But the facts in the paragraph are so diverse that it is quite unlikely that both sources verify the entirety of the claims (including that they both thought of the Nigeria comparison -- did they?). Please fix this by attributing more clearly. Dahn (talk) 19:44, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

• @Kowal2701: The above needs to be addressed before this can be approved. Please post below when you are ready for this to be re-reviewed. Z1720 (talk) 03:08, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Apologies, I'm not ignoring this, it's just been sitting in my pings as I get swamped w stuff lol, I'll address this tomorrow (hopefully), thanks Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 23:42, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Dahn, agreed on the hook (I usually struggle w hooks tbh lol). The bit about Nigeria is on pgs 55-6 of O'Fahey 2008 (Darfur plus Kordofan, an area larger than modern Nigeria, thus became the largest pre-modern state created within what is now Sudan.), tbh I think moving it to be directly inline would make things too cluttered as I'd have to repeat the refs for the previous sentence as well (more problematic because of {{rp}}, subreferencing can't come soon enough!). How's the following:

ALT1: ... that Darfurian sultan Muhammad Tayrab cut off the beard of a rebellious chief he had defeated, and displayed it as a trophy in his house?

Thanks again, Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 21:41, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, Kowal2701. I think you used the most awkward referencing system of those we can use ("sfn" is much simpler, and I personally use an even more free-form one in articles I write), and therefore I see your predicament; while it would be ideal for the citations to be redistributed somehow, it is by no means a disqualifying concern. I have however both suggested the new hook and made significant edits to the article, so I think another reviewer is needed to wrap this up. From my view, it all checks out. Dahn (talk) 04:25, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Matías Gómez (illusionist)

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Matías Gómez

• ... that Uruguayan magician Matías Gómez (pictured) performed 100 editions of Visitas Mágicas, a magic walking tour of the National Auditorium of SODRE, some with simultaneous sign language interpretation?
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: Nomination repaired per tip-off at WT:DYK.--Launchballer 16:20, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

Created/expanded by Keanu314 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 428 past nominations.

Launchballer 16:17, 27 August 2026 (UTC).

• Note for reviewers: Launchballer is listed as the nominator because they helped to fix the malformed nomination, but Keaun314 is the actual nominator and as a new nominator has no QPQ requirement. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:35, 27 August 2026 (UTC)
• Full review:

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Very little in this article is cited. Several paragraphs end without citations, and almost the entire list of his works is unsourced.
• Neutral: - Promotional tone in several places (example: immersive walk-through experience blending magic narrative with the venue's architecture)
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems: - I am highly skeptical this subject is notable; the bio appears promotional, and I intend to nominate at AfD.

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - There are three sources, two do not mention the bits about 100 performances or the sign language, and the third is a 46-minute video in Spanish I have no intention of watching to see if it validates.
• Interesting: - Not really, the fact that a particular performer had a residency at a particular theatre is uninteresting. Sign language interpretation for live events may not be universal but it's certainly not rare or unusual.
• Other problems: - The redlink in the hook will need to be removed.

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: I am skeptical this page will even survive but giving the benefit of the doubt. If it survives, it will need lots of citations, revision of promotional tone, and a new hook to be proposed and cited. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:57, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

• (Currently at AfD) Dclemens1971 (talk) 17:06, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 16

Indherreds-Posten, Johan Bernhard Andersen, Fridtjof Andersen

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Johan Bernhard Andersen

• ... that the newspaper Indherreds-Posten, founded by J. Bernhard Andersen (pictured) and later edited by his son Fridtjof, shifted its political stance from neutral to Conservative, then to Liberal and ultimately to the Radical People's Party?

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Fridtjof Andersen

• • ALT1: ... that Fridtjof Andersen (pictured), who took over Indherreds-Posten after his father, wrote so libelous editorials that he was court-martialed?
  • ALT2: ... that the newspaper Indherreds-Posten, founded by J. Bernhard Andersen (pictured) and later edited by his son Fridtjof, shifted its political stance from neutral to conservative, then to liberal and ultimately to the radical?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet

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

Arsenikk (talk) 19:59, 21 August 2026 (UTC).

• I take, will review in the next 72 hours.--Launchballer 21:08, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

Looking at , it appears that these are your second, third, and fourth articles, so no QPQ was actually necessary.--Launchballer 09:48, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

@Arsenikk: Articles are all fine and Earwig's silent, but the hook requires knowledge of what those political parties all stand for to be interesting, so suggest proposing another angle such as the defamatory editorials.--Launchballer 14:53, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the review and feedback, @Launchballer:. 1) I have added an alternative hook per your proposal. 2) Could the original hook be rephrased using the lower-case terms conservative, liberal and radical? These particular terms are rather universal, and in my opinion the hooks' interest lays in the shift between political ideologies, more so than the party particularities. Arsenikk (talk) 08:15, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

Courtesy ping Launchballer. ―Panamitsu (talk) 08:00, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Sorry for dropping this. @Arsenikk:, ALT2 is more interesting, but I'm probably going to approve ALT1 as well. Per WP:DYKHOOK, I must ask for quotes from the sources to verify them.--Launchballer 12:37, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

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Sabrina Online

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• ... that the anthropomorphic skunk Sabrina of Sabrina Online, a webcomic that began in 1996, was considered by an author on skunks to be "one of the most famous furry comics stars"?

• Source: Alyce Miller, Skunk (pg. 155)
• "One of the most famous furry comics stars is ‘skunkette’ Sabrina, from the webcomic Sabrina Online, a favourite with many in the furry fandom. Introduced in 1996 by creator and artist Eric W. Schwartz, Sabrina is drawn as a sexy-nerd anthropomorphic skunk with glasses."

• ALT1: ... that the creator of the webcomic Sabrina Online had previously made its predecessor comic series Sabrina at See-CAD for a student newsletter at the Columbus College of Art & Design?

• Source: Sabrina Online: Year 5: Adventures in Dating (pg. 38)
• "As you may or may not have known, “Sabrina at See-CAD” started life as a comic strip for “Above Ground”, the student newsletter for the Columbus College of Art & Design... After Sabrina at See-CAD, I planned a second series to take up where it left off. Titled “The Life and Birth of Amy the Squirrel”, it would have centered on the story of Amy getting pregnant and having a child. That series never came to fruition, in part because I didn’t have an outlet for it, but stories, jokes, and concepts from that series lived on, in the form of the internet comic strip “Sabrina Online”. There are quite a few things from this series that didn’t carry over to the next, a continuity ‘reboot’ of sorts, much like when anew, a known comic book or television series jumps to another media, and a new audience."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bartłomiej Kubkowski
• Comment: If possible, I would like any DYK hook for Sabrina Online to be reserved for September 15 for this year to match up with the 30th anniversary of the webcomic on September 15, 1996.

Converted from a redirect by PrimalMustelid (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

PrimalMustelid (talk) 06:54, 18 August 2026 (UTC).

Impress Corporation

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• ... that Impress Holdings published the first email-based magazine in Japan?

• Source: Weekly Tokyo Keizai["日本初のメール新聞として創刊した「INTERNET Watch」、パソコン関連の情報を発信する「PC Watch」などの運営で知られる。It is known for operating services such as "INTERNET Watch"—launched as Japan's first email-based magazine—and "PC Watch," which disseminates information related to personal computers.]

• • ALT1: ... that AV Watch of Impress Holdings was mistaken for an adult site by Twitter users? Source: NetLab ["インプレスが運営するサイト「AV Watch」は、主に“AV（オーディオビジュアル）機器”に関する情報を扱うメディア。しかしTwitterではそのトレンドワードを見慣れないユーザーが“AV”をセクシーな方の略語だと誤解し、期待してツイートを見た後に「だまされた……」「完全に釣りじゃねぇか！」と反応する流れが拡大。"AV Watch," a site operated by Impress, is a media outlet primarily covering information on "AV (audiovisual) equipment." However, a trend has emerged on Twitter where users unfamiliar with the term mistake "AV" for the abbreviation associated with adult content; after checking the tweets with high expectations, they react with comments like "I got duped..." or "It's totally clickbait!""
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nekomata Okayu

Created by Miminity (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 65 past nominations.

Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 03:57, 16 August 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on August 17

Montgeard Church

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• ... that Montgeard Church was paid for by merchants who grew rich from a plant used to make blue dye?

• Source: Odol, Jean (2004). Lauragais, Pays des Cathares et du Pastel. Toulouse: Privat

• • Reviewed:

Created by Widlauragais2 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Widlauragais2 (talk) 06:25, 21 August 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Some short paragraphs are unsourced. There are also several instances where the cited sources do not appear to support the claim made in the article.
  • The statement of "“Further records from the early sixteenth century refer to works in a building already existing on the site, indicating that an earlier sanctuary stood there” does not appear to be supported by the cited source since it did not mention the building or sanctuary on the present-site of the church.
  • The description of the choir (“remodelled in the Baroque period,” the Marian cycle centred on the Assumption, and the monumental gloria) is not directly cited as the existing citations only attached to the word “choir”.
  • The cited sources for the statement “The new sacristy preserves several religious paintings inspired by engraved models” did not state that the status of sacristy.
• Neutral: - Several puffery tone sentences founded in the article such as among the church's most significant works, Among the most significant, The church preserves a rich collection, powerful buttresses, and Among the most notable works.
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article has several issues on sourcing and neutrality that need to be fixed. Once you fixed those problems, I will give green light for your first hook to be published. Faldi00 (talk) 18:59, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

• Widlauragais2, please return to this nomination to address the review's points or this nomination will be closed. Dclemens1971 (talk) 04:33, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

Alex Sanders (politician)

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• ... that Alex Sanders claimed he heard an ivory-billed woodpecker in the Santee Swamp in the 1970s?

• Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/05/13/after-strom

• • ALT1: ... that Alex Sanders was the first ever chief judge on the South Carolina Court of Appeals? Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/05/13/after-strom
    https://southernchanges.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/sc05-3_001/sc05-3_005/#gsc.tab=0
  • ALT2: ... that Alex Sanders led a successful campaign against the construction of a chemical plant near Hilton Head Island? Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/05/13/after-strom
  • ALT3: ... that Alex Sanders faced Lindsay Graham in the 2002 United States Senate race for a seat left vacant after the retirement of Strom Thurmond? Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/05/13/after-strom
  • Reviewed:

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

Muttnik talk 17:12, 19 August 2026 (UTC).

• New enough (5x expansion), long enough, no apparent copyvio, no QPQ needed. Article is presentable. It is overreliant on primary/non-independent sources and I'd like to see some of them replaced with secondary sources, particularly in the section where the article assesses his legacy as a college president. Otherwise the sourcing is reliable. The hooks need work, however. ALT0 needs context to be interesting (say, the context that the bird was then and still is considered extinct, as in ALT0a: ... that a South Carolina politician claimed he heard an extinct woodpecker in the Santee Swamp in the 1970s?). ALT1 is not particularly interesting without context about the court and probably not even then. ALT2 is OK but not particularly hooky. ALT3 is a recitation of a simple fact, not a genuine hook. But there's a wealth of hooks in that New Yorker article: ALT4: ... that before he became a politician, judge and college president, Alex Sanders was a circus performer? or ALT5: ... that as a South Carolina appellate judge, Alex Sanders declined to rule on whether fellatio was adultery? Muttnick, let me know what you think. Dclemens1971 (talk) 04:56, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

Ante Garmaz

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Garmaz in 1965

• ... that fashion designer Ante Garmaz's (pictured) model of a necktie for a River Plate manager has been called the "Necktie of Glory" by fans and media due to its association with winning important matches?

• Source: This article by La Nación // this one by La Página Millonaria and this one by TyC Sports tell the story of "Labruna's necktie"

• • ALT1: ... that fashion designer Ante Garmaz's (pictured) model of a necktie for a River Plate manager was sold as an item for fans due to its association with winning important matches? Source: Same as ALT0
  • Reviewed: José Francisco das Neves

Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 51 past nominations.

CoryGlee 00:46, 18 August 2026 (UTC).

• New, long enough, reasonably well-written (a note on that follows), QPQ done, no plagiarism; hook is interesting and verified. Some aspects of the prose are annoyingly mysterious in nature: Garmaz caused controversy by designing neckties and dressing one guy in a fur coat, we are told, but not why and what sort of criticism (in one case, "conservative sectors of society" are vaguely mentioned, and I sorta get the point the point about what that means in the fur-coat context, but it seems a bit like either the editor or the source took pains not to spell out the detail; if it's the editor, please don't interfere as a gatekeeper -- if it's the source, please quote and attribute the quote so that we may know this phrasing is in the source). I also take issue with the image: it is a cropped version from a picture uploaded by another user; the user is credited as the source (did he print it himself back in the 1960s?); both images need an ultimate source: who printed them, where, when (what magazine, what issue etc.), or else they risk being not just not used on mainpage, but deleted on Commons as well (the Argentine copyright tag requires the image to have been published, and we require exact proof that the publication took place). Dahn (talk) 06:26, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Charlotte Jordan

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Charlotte Jordan in 2023

• ... that Charlotte Jordan (pictured) joined Coronation Street during its 60th anniversary, won a British Soap Award in 2023, and was longlisted for an Inside Soap Awards after she left in 2025?

• Source: https://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/tv-movies/coronation-street/daisy-midgeley-jenny-stepdaughter/ https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/coronation-street/a44081219/british-soap-awards-2023-winners/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20250708133433/https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/a65293001/inside-soap-awards-2025-nominations-vote/

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Meredith Hayden
  • Comment: The three facts (joined Corrie on 60th birthday, won BSA in 2023 and longlisted for ISA after departure) are interesting on its own so I thought I would combine them. Also, its not normally me that edits soap actresses so it would be a surprise seeing me in this topic. Anyone is free to suggest another hook (or a rewording of my existing one). See also Lucy Fallon

Improved to Good Article status by JuniperChill (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 28 past nominations.

JuniperChill (talk) 18:00, 17 August 2026 (UTC).

• I'm not actually sure if the hook as currently written satisfies DYKINT. It's not uncommon for actors to be nominated for or to win awards, even prestigious ones. I took at the article and I actually see more potential in a hook about her girl group than her acting career. Maybe something like this could work? This is just a suggestion, it can still be workshopped further:

ALT1 ... that prior to starting her acting career, Charlotte Jordan (pictured) was part of a girl group that changed names so many times it was referred to as "The Band"?

ALT1a ... that actress Charlotte Jordan (pictured) was once part of a girl group that changed names so many times it was referred to as "The Band"?

ALT2 ... that prior to starting to her acting career, Charlotte Jordan (pictured) was part of a girl group referred to as "The Band"?

ALT2a ... that actress Charlotte Jordan (pictured) was once part of a girl group referred to as "The Band"?

ALT3 ... that Charlotte Jordan (pictured) was a member of The Band?

One minor issue is that she is the source for the claim rather than it being stated as fact, so maybe ALT1 could be reworded to attribute the claim to her. Still, reading through the article, that seemed like the hookiest fact to me. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:50, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

I knew that simply saying that she won the 2023's soap awards wouldn't be interesting on its own, which was why I combined with the fact that she joined Corrie during its 60th anniversary (maybe it would've been even more interesting if it was the 50th, noting that this is the oldest soap that is currently running). Anyway, regarding the attribution, its the management that (eventually) called it "The Band", not herself and is already stated in the article. I guess I find ALT1a the most interesting then seeing as the fact that both the band name changing many times and the name "The Band" are interesting on their own. JuniperChill (talk) 23:27, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

China

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China, with 6% of its population in the western portion

• ... that no one can agree where "China" comes from?

• Source: Wade, Geoff (2009). "The Polity of Yelang and the Origin of the Name 'China'" (PDF). Sino-Platonic Papers (188). That is to say, “China” is a non-Chinese term, applied today by various non-Chinese languages to the successive polities that governed "Chinese” societies. But from where did the term originate? And how did it evolve? This has been a vexing question for Western Sinologists for several generations and one on which no true consensus has ever been reached. pg. 6-7

• • ALT1: ... that less than one in fifteen residents of China live in the western 64% of the country (pictured)? Source: Xiao, Jia (2026). "Calculating the Hu Huanyong Line". Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 116 (1): 17–38. Bibcode:2026AAAG..116...17X. doi:10.1080/24694452.2025.2534549. Fast-forward to 2020, and the population proportion in the north- west has marginally increased to 6.50 percent, and the southeast now dominates with 93.50 percent (Qi, Liu, and Liu 2022). The Hu line not only serves as a population divide...
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gi!nz
  • Comment: Please suggest more hooks if you can think of any; a country is a notoriously difficult thing to write a hook for. 1 October, Chinese National Day, would be a fitting date for China to run. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 10:17, 23 August 2026 (UTC)

Improved to Good Article status by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 161 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 10:17, 23 August 2026 (UTC).

• Haven't checked the article yet, but this BBC piece points to a 2020 National Health Commission report that says more than 50% of Chinese adults are overweight. Suggest making a hook out of that.--Launchballer 20:28, 24 August 2026 (UTC)
  • I feel this would be undue information to include in a country article. Maybe a Health in China article; China's frequency of obesity isn't very unique among other countries. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 07:09, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
• Isn't there a requirement that the picture in the hook needs to be in the article as well? Dahn (talk) 08:43, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

• Oop, the picture got removed. Well, it isn't necessary anyhow. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 10:18, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Pixar Place Hotel

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Pixar Place Hotel

• ... that employees of the Tokyu Group became employees of Disney after the hotel they worked at (pictured) was purchased by them?

• Source: Vrana, Debora (December 12, 1995). "Disney Acquires Pan Pacific Hotel in Anaheim; Real estate: The new Disneyland Pacific Hotel is bought from a Japanese firm for a reported $36 million". Los Angeles Times.

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  • Comment: There are probably a few other potential hooks

Converted from a redirect by NewAccount7295 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

NewAccount7295 (talk) 15:16, 17 August 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: All looks good to go! really interesting hook, Earwig shows 4%, no concerns on copyvio Froglord (Finnfrog99) (talk) 20:00, 2 September 2026 (UTC)

Pulled per WT:DYK.--Launchballer 15:01, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 18

Median Strategies

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• ... that Median Strategies claimed to be a social experiment, not a pollster?

• Source: As cited, see Los Angeles Times Poll showing Bass leading Raman by double digits was bogus, company says

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  • Comment: Self-nomination.

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

TheFeds 22:08, 18 August 2026 (UTC).

• Article is long enough, new enough, and no QPQ is required. However, I am having serious doubts about the notability of this subject. It got articles on it a few weeks ago when it happened, but nothing since then. I doubt this satisfies WP:SUSTAINED and WP:EVENT. I think this can just be merged into 2026 Los Angeles mayoral election. In addition, I don't think this article gives sufficient context to readers, and but contemporaneous reporting did not indicate whether this sequence of events was the company's plan all along, or whether any survey research had ever been conducted by the company. is especially quite vague (and is also unreferenced). TheBritinator (talk) 13:26, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

@TheFeds I'm leaning decline here but I would like to hear what you think first. TheBritinator (talk) 13:29, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Luxembourgish Progressive Youth

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• ... that during the Cold War, the Luxembourgish state intelligence infiltrated the communist Festival Youth?

• Source: Dr. Nadine Geisler, Jean Reitz. Rapport Final - MISSION DE RECHERCHE ET D’EXPLOITATION DES BANQUES DE DONNEES HISTORIQUES DU SERVICE DE RENSEIGNEMENT DE L’ÉTAT 1960 - 2001. Luxembourg, 2020. pp. 71-72, 81

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nysa–Polana complex

Created by Soman (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 458 past nominations.

Soman (talk) 21:31, 18 August 2026 (UTC).

• Unfortunately, much of the article, hook included, is sourced to Geisler and Reitz, which doesn't appear to have a publisher. If it were to be shown to be reliable, we would still require page-by-page citations to the facts, including first and foremost the hook -- not a citation to the whole doc. Please fix this before the article can be even considered. Dahn (talk) 16:42, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

• For a bit of background, Geisler and Reitz are historians who were contracted by Luxembourgish authorities to produce a report on the activities of SREL 1960-2001. The study followed an affair from 2013, which prompted political moves for transparency on the history of the institution. The Geisler-Reitz commission was established by act of parliament (Law of July 23, 2016), study was conducted 2017-2019, and the report was presented in the parliament upon completion. See outline of how the study was initiated after the passing of the Law of July 23, 2016 at "An international competition was launched in September 2016. A commission, called the "evaluation committee," composed of two representatives from the CCP SREL, two members of the University of Luxembourg (de facto C2DH), and the Director of the National Archives, chaired by First Government Advisor Jeff Fettes, heard two teams: a Franco-Belgian team composed of two PhDs in Contemporary History, including the author, and a team of two residents of Dudelange, a PhD and a Master's degree in History. The foreign teams were eliminated in favor of the Luxembourgish teams. Thus, Nadine Geisler and Jean Reitz were entrusted with the task of scientifically analyzing specific historical archives. They submitted their report on February 5, 2020, contractually completing work begun on June 1, 2017." Plenty of other media coverage on the research project and the report - , , , , , etc.. So, whilst the report is not a book or magazine article in the usual sense, it suffices as WP:RS in being a formal scientific work, not self-published. I'll revise the page numbers for the cites to the article. --Soman (talk) 00:40, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

• Page numbers for Geisler/Reitz ref added now, here and in article. --Soman (talk) 10:16, 26 August 2026 (UTC)

• @Soman: I think you can add forum.lu as the publisher of that version of the report, as currently it appears as if it is self-published -- and all the above detail doesn't really address that. I also think you know better than to add the page numbers to one citation. You should make separate citations for each of the pages/page ranges you cite. Also: is is too much to ask that you properly format the title INSTEAD OF HAVING IT IN ALL CAPS and that you put make the link lead to archived version, so that it doesn't rot and become unusable in two years or so? Dahn (talk) 10:02, 27 August 2026 (UTC)

Isla Vista attacks copycat crimes

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• ... that Elliot Rodger's name became associated with the phrase "going ER" on some incel forums, referring to carrying out violence inspired by his attacks?

• Source: ,

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

Militant.Insurgency (talk) 04:52, 18 August 2026 (UTC).

• The article is new and sufficiently long, but is currently flagged for original research, about which there is an ongoing discussion on the talk page. Surtsicna (talk) 21:02, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

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James R. Urbaniak

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• ... that self-taught microsurgeon, James R. Urbaniak was a talented American football player at the University of Kentucky, where in 1957, he was one of the top receivers in the Southeastern Conference?

• Source: "Self-taught in microsurgery, Dr. Urbaniak was not the first surgeon to reattach severed appendages, a practice that began in the 1960s. But he initiated microsurgery at Duke in 1970; performed the university’s first replantation surgery in 1974; conducted vital research; and, according to the university, reattached more than 1,200 severed body parts during his career.

James graduated as valedictorian of his class at Fairmont Senior High School and was named all-state in football. Like his father, he played football at the University of Kentucky, recruited by the storied coach Bear Bryant. In 1957, his senior season, he finished among the top four receivers in the Southeastern Conference, but would go on to gain far wider acclaim with his hands as a surgeon."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/El Dorado, Template:Did you know nominations/Empress Xiaojing (Wanli)
  • Comment: Will likely be offering alt hooks.

5x expanded by Thriley (talk) and ScottyNolan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 224 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 17:40, 26 August 2026 (UTC).

• ALT1 ... that a talented American football player was even better at reattaching amputated digits and limbs? Thriley (talk) 19:45, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Morton Bryan Wharton

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Wharton in 1898

• ... that according to Baptist pastor Morton Bryan Wharton (pictured), he coined the term "pastorium" because other Christian denominations already used other terms for a clergy house?

• Source: To Dr. [Morton Bryan] Wharton was given the problem of devising a new name for the residence, parsonage, rectory, and manse having all been eschewed for one reason or another.

I agreed with Dr. Gwin, remarking that parsonage had come down to us from the Episcopalians and meant originally the living of a parson, and afterwards the place where he lived, and that even the Episcopalians had rejected the word and called their minister's home "rectory" instead. I thought there was no reason why Baptists, of all people, should wear the cast-off garments of the Episcopalians. Presbyterians have shown on all sides their preference for the word "manse," while Baptists and Methodists were clinging on to the old word, parsonage.

• • ALT1: ... that according to Baptist pastor Morton Bryan Wharton (pictured), he would send news articles containing the word "pastorium", a term he coined, to Funk & Wagnalls to add to their Standard Dictionary? Source: I collected some articles in which the word [pastorium] was used and sent them to Funk & Wagnalls, who were engaged on their magnificent dictionary.
  • ALT2: ... that according to Baptist pastor Morton Bryan Wharton (pictured), he worked as a United States Consul at Sonneberg to "regain his health" and to "view the wonders of the Old World"? Source: My object in going abroad was two-fold, to regain my health, and view the wonders of the Old World. The Consulate was sought and accepted, not on account of any honor or great emolument that it might confer, but simply as a means to the proposed end. The position, I thought, would give me many advantages over the ordinary tourist, and the compensation would aid me in carrying out my purposes, in all of which I was not disappointed.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Heba Zagout
  • Comment: 11th time I'm here, mostly here because I'm very proud of this article I've made

Moved to mainspace by DoNothingEveryday (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

ꕥ= DoNothingEveryday =ꕥ 01:05, 20 August 2026 (UTC).

• Article is in good shape without evidence of copyvio, QPQ checks out. I like the first hook, and the source confirms it, but it's rather long and I feel it could be condensed a bit. Maybe ... that Baptist pastor Morton Bryan Wharton (pictured) claimed he coined the term "pastorium" because other denominations had used alternative terms for a clergy house? Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 14:04, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Hello! @Generalissima, that's fine by me. Cheers! ꕥ= DoNothingEveryday =ꕥ 00:16, 4 September 2026 (UTC)

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José Francisco das Neves

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• ... that José Francisco das Neves, a shoeshine boy and newspaper seller as a child, went on to head the Brazilian state power utility Celgene and the federal railway company VALEC?
  • ALT1: ... that during José Francisco das Neves's presidency of Brazil's federal railway company VALEC, stretches of the North–South Railway totalling more than 600 km were inaugurated?
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: Note: I created the article through Articles for Creation (accepted 19 August 2026) and have a declared conflict of interest as a family member of the subject. Both hooks are cited inline to independent sources.

Created by Jalesneves85 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Jalesneves85 (talk) 12:43, 19 August 2026 (UTC).

• Hi Jalesneves85: The article moved to the main space within an acceptable time for the nomination. Sources number 5, 6, 7 and 8 need a link to the archive or newspaper library; otherwise, we cannot even verify those inputs because they do not even cite a book with a cited page. That said, some sources are of WP:PRIMARY nature, but they could be taken within the context of the information they are sourcing. Reference number 10 (which is in Japanese) needs a page on which you can take the reader without having to scroll through the whole paper and/or be forced to use word search. Please insert the page of that PDF so we can check the information. Original hook NOT verified by immediate inline source this does not verify the information and may be a PRIMARY too. Government of Toncantins website refs are broken, please fix or remove them. Finally, only this source partially verifies the hook and much of the article's information. QPQ not required and no copyvio issues (perhaps due to broken) or uninserted links. Ping me when these issues are solved. CoryGlee 02:26, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 20

Dundalk Railway Works

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An example of a Heinkel Kabine scooter.

• ... that these retro three-wheeled Heinkel Kabine scooters (example pictured) were once manufactured in Dundalk, Ireland; in the former Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Locomotive Workshop?

• Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/photographs-emerge-of-futuristic-bubble-car-once-made-in-dundalk-1.4092219

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Moved to mainspace by Sparpo (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Sparpo (talk) 12:54, 25 August 2026 (UTC). General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems: - The article is tagged as a stub, but is not one.

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - There is a citation needed tag.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - There are a couple of closely paraphrased sentences that go beyond just quotes, names, and common phrasings.

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - Why is the fact that this particular scooter was manufactured at the works noteworthy?
• Other problems: - The hook needs some work. It is grammatically incorrect, as the semicolon creates a comma splice. Additionally, "these" is vague (and is almost never used in DYK hooks). The hook assumes both that the image is included and that readers will look at it.

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: @Sparpo: Welcome to DYK. There are a few problems with the article and the hook that need to be addressed - please see above. Epicgenius (talk) 15:27, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

Arashifuji Kanato

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• ... that professional sumo wrestler Arashifuji Kanato first appeared on television as a competitor on obstacle course competition show Sasuke Ninja Warrior?

• Source: 2019 archive of TBS Japan's website

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  • Comment: Unnamed user created article draft. I tripled its size and got it approved.

Created by ~2026-41530-83 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Civilbeard (talk) 19:17, 20 August 2026 (UTC).

Baptism Site International Orthodox University

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• ... that King Abdullah II donated to and supported the construction of the Baptism Site International Orthodox University, the first Christian university in Jordan?

• Source: https://petra.gov.jo/en/news/king-inaugurates-baptism-site-international-orthodox-university-directs-government-to-support-baptism-2030-initiative

https://thecatholicherald.com/article/jordan-inaugurates-first-christian-university-at-christs-baptism-site

https://en.ammonnews.net/article/77248

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Léo Kret

Created by Makeandtoss (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 54 past nominations.

Makeandtoss (talk) 14:40, 20 August 2026 (UTC).

• I am afraid that I cannot accept this article as sufficiently long to qualify for DYK, Makeandtoss. The lead section, which an article of this size does not need per MOS:NOLEAD, repeats the information from the rest of the article, inflating the character count. In other words, the article has fewer than 1500 characters of original text. Surtsicna (talk) 22:25, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: I've expanded the body, which now is almost exactly 1600 characters. Makeandtoss (talk) 08:27, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

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Teun Toebes

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Teun Toebes in 2026

• ... that a 27-year-old Dutch nurse started living in a nursing home in 2020 to see what it's like living in one?

• Source: A cognitively fit and healthy young man, he [Teun] has chosen to live on the dementia ward at Verpleeghuis Groenelaan (Green Lanes Nursing Home), ultimately just to see what it’s like. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/teun-tobes-nursing-home/

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Toribia Álvaro
  • Comment: Please add a more interesting hook if this is not that interesting of a hook.

Moved to mainspace by DoNothingEveryday (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

ꕥ= DoNothingEveryday =ꕥ 11:50, 24 August 2026 (UTC).

• Well, he was 21 when he began living in the nursing home per the source in the article, not 27, so that needs to be reflected in the hook. I was also intrigued by his choice to live in the dementia ward. How is this DoNothingEveryday? ALT1 ... that a 21-year-old Dutch nurse (pictured) moved into the dementia ward of a nursing home to see what it was like living there? I'm also suggesting an image be added for the convenience of the promoters (the image is appropriately licensed and in the article). As for the rest of the DYK criteria, new enough, long enough, presentable, reliably sourced, QPQ done and no evidence of copyvio. Dclemens1971 (talk) 17:33, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello! @Dclemens1971, I may have made a slight error and didn't mentioned that he started living in a dementia nursing home in 2020, when he was then 21 years old. He is now currently 27 years old in 2026. I have rectified the error though, so no worries. As for ALT1, yeah I'm fine having that hook be suggested. Cheers! ꕥ= DoNothingEveryday =ꕥ 23:53, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

Asking for a second reviewer to look at ALT1 since I've introduced a couple new facts in it. Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:09, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

WP:DAILYEXPRESS can sod off.--Launchballer 21:06, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

J. Y. Zhu

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• ... that the world first coast-to-coast woody SAF powered commercial flight was made possible by the SPORL wood preprocessing technology developed by J. Y. Zhu at the USDA Forest Products Laboratory?

• Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-wood-scraps-fuel-planes-180961181/

https://news.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/nara-flight/

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/alaska-airlines-to-make-history-with-flight-powered-by-limbs-and-branches/467036451/

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/J. Y. Zhu

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

FPLSPORL (talk) 21:19, 21 August 2026 (UTC).

• Comment (not a review): Hi FPLSPORL, the DYK article must be linked and bolded in each hook per WP:DYKMOS. —Bruce1ee^talk 23:37, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

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When I Was Done Dying

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• ... that Dan Deacon was inspired to write the song "When I Was Done Dying" after losing his voice made him consider his mortality?

• Source: offtheairas.tumblr.com/dandeacon per www.adultswim.com/videos/off-the-air/ddwiwdd "Q: For “When I Was Done Dying” your voice and lyrics are really front and center, which is unusual for your music. Did anything prompt this? Deacon: In January of 2014, I lost my voice for a long time. [...] Once it finally came back I started thinking about how the human voice is an instrument that expires. At some point, I will not be able to use my voice in the way I can now and that I should be using my voice as much as possible until that time..."

• • Reviewed: [Below]

Created by Gert7 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Gert7 (talk · contribs) 19:03, 28 August 2026 (UTC).

• Comments by Tbhotch

General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems:

Policy compliance:

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• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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Overall: A newly created article that is long enough. Nominated in time. The hook is interesting and is sourced. No files to review. The issues:

• WP:INSTAGRAM and WP:IMDB are not reliable sources. If the statements are important, then a secondary source would have covered them.
• According to WP:QPQ, "If you have nominated five or more articles in the past, you must complete a full review of one other nomination (unrelated to you) for every subsequent article you nominate‍". This is the fifth nomination even though the system didn't request one. Tbhotch^™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 06:54, 8 September 2026 (UTC)
  • Hello and thanks for the review. Unfortunately it seems Deacon losing his voice also applies to the rest of the album, Gliss Riffer, and is already talked about there. As for the QPQ, I did Punks Triangle. Here is a possible alternative:
  • ALT1: ... that Dan Deacon wrote the song "When I Was Done Dying" because he liked the idea that his body, memory and consciousness are three separate things that are constantly oscillating?

• • Source: 'You Have To Be Bored': Dan Deacon On Creativity, NPR. Rath: "The song "When I Was Done Dying" has a pretty trippy narrative." Deacon: "I really like stream-of-consciousness. [...] I like the idea of consciousness, memory and body being three separate things that are constantly oscillating without any control."

• The hook needs to be mentioned in the article (it is partially there). My Instagram/IMDb concern still there. Tbhotch^™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 18:32, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Aobazaka46

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• ... that Aobazaka46 was announced by synchronized video announcements across 13 digital billboards around the Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo?

• Source: Outdoor advertisements in Shibuya, Tokyo, initially displayed only the words “Aobazaka46” and “August 18, 9:00 p.m.,” but at that exact time, the 13 outdoor video screens at Shibuya’s Scramble Crossing announced the “Formation of Aobazaka46” and the “holding of member auditions.” The event was also livestreamed on the official YouTube channels of Nogizaka46, Sakurazaka46, and Hinatazaka46. Each of the 13 outdoor screens displayed a different video, catching the attention of passersby.

• • ALT1: ... that the girl group name Aobazaka46 was selected to reflect the members' youth and imperfection? Source: According to sources, the name "Aobazaka46" was chosen because the group—composed of members who are still growing—was likened to "green leaves" (aoba), a term that conveys the meanings of "imperfect" and "young."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bernhard_Luginbühl

Created by Family27390 (talk) and Petewarrior (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

PetéWarrior (talk) 08:15, 27 August 2026 (UTC).

• Article currently has a stub tag, which is a no-go under the DYK criteria. Three of the sources are not independent, and another three are ORICON NEWS; generally, works from the same author or publisher are treated as a single source for notability purposes. I feel like this should have a couple more sources added, if possible, and the article should be expanded (or at least have the stub tag removed) before a review can continue.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:31, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

  Given that being long enough for a DYK nomination is one metric for whether an article is a stub or not, I have removed the tag. Chess enjoyer (talk) 20:36, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

  Thanks. Just a matter of having enough sources to establish notability now — Chris Woodrich (talk) 20:57, 29 August 2026 (UTC)

  Thank you the review (and for removing the stub tag, which I forgot to take out before submitting). Currently there are sources from Oricon, Nikkan Sports, and Real Sound, and I'll add more suitable ones as I find them. PetéWarrior (talk) 02:46, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

List of seaplane carriers of China

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• ... that six different ships were used as seaplane carriers in China?
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Created by JuneAugust (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

JuneAugust (talk) 06:16, 24 August 2026 (UTC).

• Hi @JuneAugust:, and welcome! The article has been moved into draft space within 7 days of the nomination, is long enough, fully cited, and has no other clear issues. Well done, I am enjoying this article! My only concern is with the hook. Is there a source which directly states China operated six seaplane carriers? As someone working on a series of historic Chinese ships, things can get messy if you stray from the sources. Every hook also needs to have a source that supports the claim. Please ping me if you have the source! GGOTCC 02:17, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
  • @GGOTCC: could I pick another hook, such as ... that there were several seaplane carriers in service in China?--JuneAugust (talk) 04:15, 6 September 2026 (UTC)
    • @JuneAugust: I think the first hook is good, but is there any source which directly states that China operated exactly 6 seaplane tenders? GGOTCC 04:29, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 23

Eweka I

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• ... that, according to tradition, King Eweka I's first spoken words became his name, and later Benin kings visited the site before coronation to choose a regnal title? Source: Egharevba 1968 p. 8 The son of Prince Oranmiyan byErinmwide was born at Ego and brought up at Use (both villages afew miles outside Benin City on the Siluko road), where he won thecelebrated game of akhue. In his early years he could not speak andwhen his father in Ife heard of this he sent seven charmed seeds ormarbles to him, through Ehendiwo. In the excitement of winningthe game played with these marbles he made his first utterance‘Owomika’ (I have succeeded) which has been corrupted into ‘Eweka’. ... Ever since, every Oba has to go to Use, before his coronation to choose a title at the spot where Eweka I won the game of akhue and uttered the word which became his title.
  Bondarenko 2003 p. 66 He spoke his first word after victory in a game and that word wasoivomika, "I succeeded." In the corrupted Bini form of eweka itbecame the prince's nickname. Under the name of Eweka he wascrowned as the first Oba in the palace left by his father about 1200.
  • ALT1: ... that, according to a court tradition, King Eweka I unknowingly gave an order that his grandfather understood as a command to hang himself and he indeed hanged himself? Source: Egharevba 1968 p. 8. The young Oba was advised by the elders to instruct his maternal grandfather, the Onogie of Ego, to appear in complete state dress in order to take part in the celebration of the annual festival and that he should tie egbele to his dress. Now there is an expression zegbele which means ‘to commit suicide by hanging’ and as the young Oba was ignorant of this word he told the Onogie of Ego to put on his state dress and zegbele, believing this word meant to wear an article of dress known as egbele. But the Onogie of Ego understood the true meaning of the word and, taking the utterance heavily to heart, he went and committed suicide.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Franz Schnyder; Template:Did you know nominations/Marin County Civic Center

Improved to Good Article status by Vanderwaalforces (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 20 past nominations.

Vanderwaalforces (talk) 20:52, 29 August 2026 (UTC).

Indtrøndelagens Socialdemokrat

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• ... that the editor of Indtrøndelagens Socialdemokrat was deported for continuing his antimilitary editorial line after the break-out of World War I?

• Source: Both Magnusson, Magne (1985). "Litt om aviser i Levanger". Årsskrift 1985 (in Norwegian). Levanger: Levanger historielag. p. 22. ISSN 0800-1073. and Hansen, Guttorm (1953). Arbeiderbevegelsen i Nord-Trøndelag 50 år (in Norwegian). pp. 59–66.

• • ALT1: ... that the original printer of the newspaper Indtrøndelagens Socialdemokrat refused to print more than two issues due to boycotts from the town's businesses? Source: Hansen, Guttorm (1953). Arbeiderbevegelsen i Nord-Trøndelag 50 år (in Norwegian). pp. 59–66.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Justice sensitivity

• • Comment: Magnusson is globally available to read online, while Hansen can be read online from a Norwegian IP address.

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

Arsenikk (talk) 18:49, 29 August 2026 (UTC).

Ray Garraty

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• ... that after seeing Cooper Hoffman in Licorice Pizza, director Francis Lawrence thought of him first to portray Ray Garraty in The Long Walk?

• Source: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-long-walk-director-how-adapt-stephen-king-scariest-dystopia/

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

BellyKelly (talk) 23:34, 23 August 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on August 24

Stygimoloch

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• ... that the horns and dome of the dinosaur Stygimoloch were thought to belong to different animals until the discovery of a more complete skull?

• Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.1998.10011064

"Galton and Sues (1983) named Stygimoloch spinifer from an unusual partial left squamosal ornamented with well-developed horns and robust bony nodes . This specimen (UCMP 119433) was collected from the Hell Creek Formation, McCone County, Montana. [...[ In 1987, Giffin et al. described a tall, narrow. domed pachycephalosaurid skull (MPM 7111) from the Hell Creek Formation of eastern Montana. They

noted that it was significantly different from any previously known pachycephalosaurid, and named it a new species, Stenotholus kohleri, primarily on the basis of the markedly different shape of the cranium. Gabriel and Berghaus (1988) formally synonymized Stenotholus kohleri with Stygimoloch spinifer. Their comparison of MPM 7111 and MPM 8111 confirmed that both specimens shared the distinctive frontoparietal dome and cranial features characteristic of S. spinifer."

• • ALT1: ... that a specimen of the dome-headed dinosaur Stygimoloch has been dated to only 320,000 years before the extinction of the dinosaurs? Source: https://www.scup.com/doi/10.18261/let.57.4.7

"Based on the new thickness data and ages calculated here, all the specimens were preserved during the final 0.5 m.y. of the Cretaceous. UW 26526 was buried approximately 320 k.y. before the end of the Cretaceous while UW 26525 and UW 26611 were interred roughly 370 k.y. and 457 k.y. prior to the terminal Cretaceous boundary event respectively."

• • ALT2: ... that unlike other dome-headed dinosaurs, Stygimoloch possessed three to four long horns emerging from the back of its head? Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.1998.10011064

"Stygimoloch spinifer, an Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) pachycephalosaurid ornithischian from western North America, has a high-domed, transversely narrow skull, distinguished by a unique cluster of well developed horns and bony nodes preserved along the posterodorsal surface of a thickened squamosal shelf."

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  • Comment: Second alt hook is the most surface level interesting fact about the animal, but I think the first one is more interesting and would be new to readers that are familiar with it from its popularity in children's dinosaur books and the Jurassic World movies. The first alt hook intends to draw interest from the main thing anyone knows about dinosaurs (their extinction). Will fulfil QPQ soon.

Converted from a redirect by LittleLazyLass (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

LittleLazyLass (Talk | Contributions) 03:10, 30 August 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on August 25

Yampit Nawipa

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• ... that Yampit Nawipa is both an active politician and footballer?

• Source: https://kempalan.com/2026/08/12/bupati-turun-gunung-gol-dan-trofi-jadi-buruan-yampit-nawipa-menantang-16-tim-demi-mahkota-papua-tengah/

• • ALT1: ... that Yampit Nawipa continued to play football for for Persipani Paniai after becoming a Regent of Paniai in 2025? Source: https://kempalan.com/2026/08/12/bupati-turun-gunung-gol-dan-trofi-jadi-buruan-yampit-nawipa-menantang-16-tim-demi-mahkota-papua-tengah/
  • ALT2: ... that Yampit Nawipa ordered restaurants in Paniai to serve locally sourced food every Thursday? Source: https://papuatengah.tribunnews.com/paniai/6313/bupati-paniai-keluarkan-surat-edaran-batasi-aktivitas-hari-minggu-wajibkan-menu-lokal-setiap-kamis
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Montgeard Church

Created by Faldi00 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

Faldi00 (talk) 19:19, 30 August 2026 (UTC).

Cikini Incident

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• ... that Sukarno escaped an assassination attempt unscathed, despite numerous fatalities?

• Source: *McIntyre, Angus (2005). The Indonesian Presidency: The Shift from Personal Toward Constitutional Rule. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4616-0465-5.

• • ALT1: ... that the first chief of Indonesia's intelligence agency was suspected in a 1957 assassination attempt on its president? Source: "Zulkifli Lubis". Tirto.id (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 11 February 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
  • ALT2: ... that Sukarno interrupted a puppetry broadcast to announce he had survived a 1957 assassination attempt? Source: "Dari Granat di Cikini Sampai Bom..." Tempo. Vol. 14, no. 33. 13 October 1984. p. 14.
  • ALT3: ... that a 1957 assassination attempt killed several children but left its target unscathed? Source: Chandra, Bobby (7 October 2015). "Tragedi Cikini: Skenario Gagal Membunuh Soekarno  " [The Cikini Tragedy: A Failed Plan to Kill Soekarno]. Tempo (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 25 August 2026. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mongyu dowondo, Template:Did you know nominations/Cassie Howard

Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 826 past nominations.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:13, 26 August 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I like ALT2, alt3, and alt1. (t · c) buIdhe 02:37, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

@Buidhe: AGF approval is deprecated; please use y instead if you're able to verify the hook in line with WP:DYKCITE. ミラP@Miraclepine 00:32, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 26

Southbridge Municipal Airport

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Airplanes destroyed by tornado

• ... that more than half of the airplanes at Southbridge Municipal Airport were destroyed (pictured) when a tornado passed through it?

• Source: Lee, Brian (2014-03-13). "Southbridge resumes planning to rebuild airport hard hit by 2011 tornado". Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Retrieved 2026-08-26. It destroyed the customer base," Mr. Latour said. "The tornado destroyed more than half the airplanes based there.

• • ALT1: ... that Senator John Kerry said that "the most significant natural disaster damage that I've seen in our state" was when a tornado hit Southbridge Municipal Airport (pictured) in Massachusetts? Source: Lee, Brian (2011-06-11). "Kerry surveys damage at municipal airport". Worcester Telegram & Gazette. p. A3.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carrier telephony
  • Comment: News articles from the Telegram & Gazette cited in the article are available through ProQuest at The Wikipedia Library.

5x expanded by PeterCooperJr (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

PeterCooperJr (talk) 01:22, 30 August 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice work on the expansion! Always good to see these kind of improvements to GA airports. Hook is cited in article, but behind a paywall, so I have to AGF. Image is free and clear ❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️ 12:39, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the review. I can often (though not always) get telegram.com articles to show up when I open in a private tab. Also, it looks like the Internet Archive managed to get the full article: https://web.archive.org/web/20260827035302/https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2014/03/13/southbridge-resumes-planning-to-rebuild/38248813007/. I've also added it as the archive URL in the article's reference. —PeterCooperJr (talk) 15:51, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Umbellaoolithus

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• ... that even though it is not known what kind of dinosaur laid the eggs named Umbellaoolithus, their diet has been inferred from the eggshell composition?

• Source: He, Qing; Chen, Yating; Huang, Jiandong; Xing, Lida; Jiang, Qin; Gui, Zewen; Zhang, Wenyuan; Hu, Yi (2023). "Isotope compositions of dinosaur eggs and associated depositional settings in the Upper Cretaceous Huizhou Formation from the Qiyunshan area, Anhui Province, China: implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction". Historical Biology. 35: 1197–1208. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2084695.

• • ALT1: ... that in 2011, construction workers in Anhui, China, unexpectedly discovered a fossil dinosaur nest? Source: "2011年4月,安徽省休宁县齐云山镇一建筑工地施工过程中于徽州组地层中发现蛋化石, 后经抢救性发掘共采集蛋化石两窝...其中一窝后交由休宁县文物管理所, 并经协调转交至安徽省地质博物馆收藏, 本文是对这一窝恐龙蛋的详细记述." = "In April 2011, in Anhui province, Xiuning county, Qiyunshan town, during a building construction project, fossil eggs in the Huizhou formation were discovered, subsequently two nests were excavated and recovered...One of these nests was later deliverred to Xiuning County Museum, and then transferred to Angui Geological Museum. This paper is a detailed description of that dinosaur nest." (my translation; apologies if it's awkward) source: Huang, Jiandong; Wang, Qiang; Hu, Yuanchao; Ren, Xinxin; Wang, Xiaolin (2017). "皖南晚白垩世恐龙蛋新类型" [New oospecies of dinosaur eggs from the Upper Cretaceous of South Anhui] (PDF). Chinese Science Bulletin (in Chinese). 62 (23): 2660–2665. doi:10.1360/N972016-01479. Retrieved 26 August 2026.
  • ALT2: ... that Umbellaoolithus, a kind of dinosaur egg, was laid in an arid or semi-arid environment? Source: He, Qing; Chen, Yating; Huang, Jiandong; Xing, Lida; Jiang, Qin; Gui, Zewen; Zhang, Wenyuan; Hu, Yi (2023). "Isotope compositions of dinosaur eggs and associated depositional settings in the Upper Cretaceous Huizhou Formation from the Qiyunshan area, Anhui Province, China: implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction". Historical Biology. 35: 1197–1208. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2084695.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Henneguya ictaluri, Template:Did you know nominations/Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb
  • Comment: First DYK in nearly 10 years; I wasn't aware of the new rule of 2 QPQs being necessary in backlog mode, hence why the second QPQ was only completed after this nomination was posted.

Created by Ashorocetus (talk).

Starting review--Kevmin § 17:34, 1 September 2026 (UTC)

Article new enough and long enough. Article cited and wording is neutral. No policy issues identified in the prose. No copyvios identified in the article. @Ashorocetus: I like both Alt0 and Alt1, if we go with Alt0 i would recommend trimming it to be more concise, just hit the "high points", al la " its unknown what dinosaur genus Umbellaoolithus eggs were laid by, but it is known they were herbivores" or a similar wording.--Kevmin § 17:46, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't mind that suggestion. BTW it's not just the genus that's unknown, but even whether its a sauropod or ornithischian. Probably not a theropod. Ashorocetus (talk | contribs) 22:20, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

ALT3: * ... that it is not known what kind of dinosaur laid the eggs named Umbellaoolithus, but it is known that they were herbivores?

Tatar and Bashkir community in Japan

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• ... that Tatar and Bashkir migrants to Japan brought Islam to this country and played white people in early Japanese movies?

• Source: https://islamnews.ru/svoy-sredi-chuzhikh-kak-tatarin-smog-stat-populyarnym-yaponskim-kinoakterom

http://mtad.humanity.ankara.edu.tr/I-1_Kasim2004/07_CTAD_I-1_MDundar.pdf

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  • Comment: Trying to make a first "Did you know" in English Wikipedia

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

Taw Tülki (talk) 19:01, 26 August 2026 (UTC).

• Hello, and welcome! The hook is short, interesting and the article is new enough. However, the article needs a pass of copy editing for clarity, grammar, and errors in the references. I am also unsure if the hook is verified. The sources state that two Japanese immigrants who were Tatar/Bashkir played white character(s), but I do not see them making any broader claim that applies to the community. GGOTCC 05:11, 29 August 2026 (UTC)
  • I changed. Check again. Taw Tülki (talk) 06:29, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
    • The article looks much better @Taw Tülki:, but some sections would still benefit from a copyedit as they are ungrammatical. Additionally, I still can not see the sources supporting the hook directly (although I am using machine translation and may be wrong). Some of the community members were type casted as mentioned in the articles, but none of the sources make that claim about the entire community. A better hook (whose claim is directly cited) could do with the Tokyo Mosque, but it does not seem to be the first Japanese mosque as claimed by the article. Is there any potential hook that is directly stated by the sources? GGOTCC 03:36, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
      • All the sources are in the articles I cited about Japanese actors of Tatar descent. Some of them are in Japanese, which, unfortunately, I don't speak.Taw Tülki (talk) 05:03, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
      • Here are links: https://realnoevremya.com/articles/437 , https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/tatar-museum-recieves-first-quran-copy-printed-in-japan/557723 Taw Tülki (talk) 08:07, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Aihole Jain cave

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Aihole Jain cave or Meena Basadi

• ... that the Aihole Jain cave (pictured), contains 6th-century reliefs of the Jain Tirthankara Parshvanatha and Bahubali?

• Source: Shah, Viraj (2008). Jaina Rock Cut Caves in Western India: With Special Reference to Maharashtra. Vol. 1. New Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7320-078-6. Retrieved 26 August 2026.

• • ALT1: ... that the Aihole Jain cave (pictured), is a 6th century rock-cut temple whose plan—with a pillared verandah, hall, side chambers and shrine—helped illustrate the evolution of temple architecture in the Deccan? Source: Ray, Niharranjan (1967). The Art and Architecture of Aihole (PDF). New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. p. 112-113. Retrieved 26 August 2026.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nicolas Gessner

Created by Pratyk321 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Pratyk321 (talk) 16:20, 26 August 2026 (UTC).

• @Pratyk321: Please provide a QPQ, or this may be closed as incomplete. Thanks, Z1720 (talk) 03:40, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
  • @Z1720: I have picked up Template:Did you know nominations/Nicolas Gessner for QPQ.
    • @Z1720: QPQ completed for Template:Did you know nominations/Nicolas Gessner. Could you please proceed with the nomination? Pratyk321 (talk) 18:28, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

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Pete Pedro

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• ... that "Flying Fragment" Pete Pedro, one of the first minorities to play football in the Texas state university system, led the country in touchdowns in 1961?

• alt1... that Pete Pedro, known as the "Flying Fragment", was one of the first minorities to play football in the Texas state university system?
• alt2 ... that Pete Pedro, known as the "Flying Fragment", led the country in touchdowns?

• Source: * here ("Flying Fragment")
• here "Pedro was also recognized in the display because he and two other black football players who played with him were among the first minorities to play football in the Texas state university system."
• here. Reporting on final NCAA statistics for 1961: "Pedro scored the most touchdowns, 22."

• • Reviewed: Treg Songy, Anny Schlemm

Created by Cbl62 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 399 past nominations.

Cbl62 (talk) 15:32, 28 August 2026 (UTC).

• Minority is an adjective, not a noun... (t · c) buIdhe 02:33, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

It is also a noun. See here, 3b in particular. Cbl62 (talk) 03:56, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

Han Ji-pyeong

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Kim Seon-ho as Han Ji-pyeong

• ... that the character Han Ji-pyeong (pictured) from the 2020 series Start-Up was praised by The Beautiful Foundation for breaking the stereotypes associated with orphans who aged out of foster care in Korean dramas?

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  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: Alt 1:... that the character Han Ji-pyeong (pictured) from the 2020 series Start-Up was selected as one of the characters of the year at the 16th Seoul International Drama Awards?

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

Preferwiki (talk) 05:05, 27 August 2026 (UTC).

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Paul E. Niemeyer

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• ... that Paul E. Niemeyer's original arcade cabinet illustration for the Mortal Kombat dragon faced left, where all subsequent games it faced right?

• Source: Friedman, Todd (July 5, 2022). "Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Paul E. Niemeyer"

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

StarHOG (Talk) 12:29, 28 August 2026 (UTC).

• Not a review, but this does not strike me as good hook. Why should anyone be intrigued by the direction the dragon faces? Can you come up with something more interesting about Mr. Niemeyer? Cbl62 (talk) 16:27, 28 August 2026 (UTC)
• For me, growing up with this game and others, little trivia connections like this make you go, "oh yeah, it did change..." StarHOG (Talk) 13:43, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

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Octavian Cotescu

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Cotescu in the 1971 film Puterea și adevărul

• ... that actor Octavian Cotescu (pictured) was serving in the Romanian communist legislature when he appeared in a production of Master and Margarita, alongside his topless wife?

• Source: Dragoș Ghițulete, "'Sunt un actor dependent de regizor'. Interviu cu Marcel Iureș", in Revista 22, Vol. XXIV, Issue 1224, September 2013, p. 10: Nici nu se punea problema să înjuri pe scenă la vremea aia, să arăți sâni goi și femei goale sau bărbați dezbrăcați. Nu exista așa ceva. O singură dată s-a întâmplat, într-un spectacol pe care l-am și văzut, director era Săraru, 'Maestrul și Margareta', în care juca unul dintre rolurile principale meșterul Cotescu, care era și membru supleant în Marea Adunare Națională. [...] Am dat exemplul cu 'Maestrul și Margareta' pentru că a fost unul dintre puținele din acea epocă în care Vali Seciu era destul de dezgolită, vorbesc de bustul ei. Superbă persoană, actriță gigantică. Momentul era superbissim, dar uimirea, dincolo de aia artistică și plăcerea, era și uimirea cum de a lăsat-o, cum s-a întâmplat așa ceva.

• • ALT1: ... that, in 1972, Romanian actor Octavian Cotescu (pictured) appeared in a stage production mocking communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, and another one which consolidated Ceaușescu's personality cult? Source: Part one of the hook is about Revizorul ("The Government Inspector"), done by Lucian Pintilie at Bulandra in 1972. Multiple sources attest the date and the fact that it was banned (a quick one is Cora Muntean, "Lucian Pintilie a pierit fără să-și împlinească ultima dorință", in Evenimentul Zilei, 18 May 2018, p. 16: După interzicerea spectacolului cu piesa „Revizorul”, în 1972 (după cea de-a treia reprezentație), Lucian Pintiliea primit un pașaport și a fost îndemnat să plece din țară.). The most precise account as to how it was about Ceaușescu is in Eugenia Vodă, "Cu George Constantin: 'Nu văd de ce ne mințim în continuare'", in România Literară, Issue 17/1990, p. 17: după [filmul lui Pintilie] Reconstituirea, s-a întărit paza artei, s-au înmulţit vizionările, a urmat o stringere foarte serioasă de şurub. A stîrnit realmente panică in conducerea de partid. Ceva mai tîrziu, in Revizorul, Ceauşescu se vedea caracterizat şi ironizat — aşa ne-a povestit Brad, anul trecut. [...] Şi Burghezul gentilom, spectacolul nostru de la Nottara, se referă la persoana lui Ceauşescu. Azi spectacolul nu mai are aceeaşi priză, optica oamenilor s-a schimbat, dar la premieră oamenii săreau pur şi simplu de pe scaune, săreau un sus de bucurie şi de plăcere. După cîteva reprezentaţii, spectacolul a fost oprit. S-a făcut o vizionare cu Tamara Dobrin şi eu public, să vadă cum reacţionează lumea, şi mi-a scos foarte multe lucruri. In seara aia, Brad a făcut gafa să vină la mine în cabină, să-mi explice că Tamara, de fapt, este un om de bine, că vrea binele nostru, şi că nu se poate, ce ne facem dacă se ridică cineva în timpul spectacolului şi strigă „Jos Ceauşescu!“ Atunci eu mi-am ieşit din fire, ne-am certat foarte tare, am răcnit „D-ta ţii cu noi sau ţii cu ei ?“, i-am adus aminte şi de Revizorul, şi de Iona, şi de toate. Şi aşa, a doua zi, Brad ne-a adunat pe toţi şi a încercat să ne explice cum a fost cu Revizorul...
    The second part of the hook is about Puterea și adevărul, which was initially a 1971 film (with multiple sources on its ambiguous content that seemed to favor Ceaușescu's take on communist lore) and then a play. It seems that particularly in the stage version it was more egregiously pro-Ceaușescu (possibly because of the Revizorul thing?). The sources is Adrian Cioroianu, "Efectul de ecou. Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu: omul din umbra propriului mit", in Dilema, Vol. IV, Issue 178, June 1996, p. 14: în ianuarie 1973, revista Teatru publică piesa Puterea și Adevărul a lui Titus Popovici, transcripție scenică a filmului omonim. In anul următor, piesa va fi retipărită și în Revista Română, revistă literară de propagandă publicată, pentru exterior, în mai multe limbi de circulație. Piesa, pusă în scenă la Teatrul Bulandra, de către Liviu Ciulei, a fost, unii dintre noi își amintesc, un succes. Nu tocmai pentru calitățile literare, ci pentru că piesa era o reprezentare alegorică a “afacerii” Pătrășcanu”. Constatăm, fără voie, că Pătrășcanu este sortit să fie mai norocos în teatru decît în viața reală. In piesă el se numește Petrescu, este inginer (inginerul, o altă figură mitică a comunismului românesc), este un om luminat, demn, și a fost el însuși închis, adică pedepsit de căre colegii de partid dintre care se individualizează figura lui Pavel Stoian (= Gheorghiu-Dej), fost prim-secretar al comitetului regional de partid. Dar, surpriză! (?). Petrescu (= Pătrășcanu) nu este decît pretextul, pentru că personajul prin excelență pozitiv al piesei, care-l va înlocui în scaunul de prim-secretar pe Stoian cel chinuit de regrete și bolnav de cancer (ca și Dej!), este mai tînărul, mai dinamicul și în orice caz purul Mihai Duma, alias Nicolae Ceaușescu. Aceasta a fost ultima misiune politică a lui Pătrășcanu: de a deveni o cărămidă cu ștaif în soclul cultului Conducătorului. După 1968, recursul la Pătrășcanu devine oarecum firesc; el simbolizează linia națională, sugrumată odată de moscoviți, dar reînviată la timp de către ai noștri, de cei buni.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ante Garmaz; Template:Did you know nominations/Albrecht von Nürnberg

5x expanded by Dahn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 132 past nominations.

Dahn (talk) 07:32, 5 September 2026 (UTC).

Rapid Refresh Forecast System

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Dust storm enveloping North Phoenix, Arizona, August 8, 2025.

• ... that the Rapid Refresh Forecast System can simulate a thunderstorm and forecast a dust storm (example depicted) down to the same 3-kilometer (1.9-mile) patch of ground?

• Source: "Updated: Implementation of the Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS) and RRFS Ensemble Forecast System (REFS): Effective October 6, 2026" (PDF). National Weather Service Headquarters. 6 July 2026. Retrieved 5 August 2026.

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

Stu in Flag (talk) 02:16, 2 September 2026 (UTC).

Max Waldo Bishop

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Max Waldo Bishop

• ... that Max Waldo Bishop (pictured) knew about the plans to bomb Pearl Harbor 11 months prior in World War II?

• Source: https://adst.org/early-warnings-of-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor/

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Created by Wikiman2230 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Wikiman (Talk) 17:25, 30 August 2026 (UTC).

• New enough and long enough. There is an uncited sentence in the third paragraph that must be attended to. I also think that the hook could be modified to avoid the implication that the individual purposeful withheld the information – the way I first understood it. Maybe... Krisgabwoosh (talk) 22:36, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
  • ALT1: ... that Max Waldo Bishop (pictured) tried to warn officials about the attack on Pearl Harbor 11 months before it happened?

King County Search and Rescue

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• ... that members of King County Search and Rescue responded to a bear attack in only 12 minutes?
  • ALT1: ... that King County Search and Rescue responded to five incidents in one week on Mailbox Peak?
  • ALT2: ... that King County Search and Rescue has responded to avalanches, homicides, and urban missing persons?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cikini Incident Template:Did you know nominations/Autistici/Inventati

Created by Buidhe (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 277 past nominations.

(t · c) buIdhe 02:39, 30 August 2026 (UTC).

• Hello @Buidhe:! The article is new enough, long enough, and a QPQ has been completed. However, there are several red errors in the references that need to be addressed before the article passes. In addition, I am unsure how the current hook is interesting. Emergency responders often have a response time in minutes when reacting to a call. Perhaps incorporating its status as a charity could be more interesting, or noting that the group was training nearby when the attack happened? Please ping me! GGOTCC 02:26, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
  • GGOTCC What reference errors? Perhaps you are confusing these guys with urban first responders? Even if a helicopter is used the minimum response time for organizations like this one is measured in hours—12 minutes is unheard of. (t · c) buIdhe 03:47, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
    • I've fixed most of the reference errors, but i can't do anything with number 13. it redirects to a youtube channel, and i think the wayback machine is down EmergentAnarchy (talk) 21:25, 4 September 2026 (UTC)
      • The ref errors are fixed, thanks @EmergentAnarchy:! Regarding the hook, most people may not know the difference between the types of rescue organizations, as I just demonstrated. I think focusing on how the King County Search and Rescue was training nearby when the attack happened would be beneficial, for instance:

Alt1...that the King County Search and Rescue was able to respond to a bear attack in only 12 minutes because they were training on the same mountain?

GGOTCC 23:33, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Fortescue Cuming

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An engraving of Cuming by Saint-Mémin

• ... that after traveling down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, Fortescue Cuming (pictured) apparently never returned to his wife in Connecticut?

• Source: "These were the occasion of the trip taken in 1807–09 down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and through Louisiana and the Floridas" ... "Cuming seems not to have returned to his wife, who was buried in New Haven in 1821." — Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 4 (1930), p. 592.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Operation Spring High and Template:Did you know nominations/Chantal Jaquet

Created by Alekjds (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 31 past nominations.

Alekjds (talk) 18:12, 29 August 2026 (UTC).

• What's dyk worthy about this? Spousal abandonment used to be pretty common. (t · c) buIdhe 01:35, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
  • In my opinion the fact that he went off on a two-year journey and never went home to his wife is striking to a modern reader. Other editors are welcome to weigh in on that point. But I'll add an ALT in case I lose the fight:

ALT1: ... that Thomas Clark judged Fortescue Cuming (pictured) to be "reasonably sane"?

(Source: Thomas D. Clark, "Travelers' Accounts as a Source of Kentucky History", The Filson Club History Quarterly, vol. 14 (1940), p. 212: "His observations are reasonably sane, and the information which he has preserved for the historian is definitely valuable.")

Alekjds (talk) 05:25, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 30

HMS Taku (1900), Russian destroyer Leytenant Burakov (1900), SMS Taku, French destroyer Takou, Hai Lung-class destroyer

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Taku off Hong Kong, not Taku

• ... that Taku, Taku, Takou, and Taku (pictured), comprised the Taku-class destroyers?

• Source: "The four ships were afterwards distributed amogst the allies, Britain acquiring Hai Lung, the Commodore's ship, Russia Hai Hua, Germany Hai Jing and France Hau Hse...all were renamed Taku (French Takou) - page 117 and 118 of The Chinese Steam Navy 1862-1945

"...sister to the Taku class, as China's four destroyers have been named by their captors" from The Engineer Volume 91

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/List of seaplane carriers of China, Template:Did you know nominations/King County Search and Rescue, Template:Did you know nominations/Nicholas de Trinbey, Template:Did you know nominations/Clodomira Acosta, Template:Did you know nominations/1985 Greek constitutional crisis, Template:Did you know nominations/California Creek (Washington)
  • Comment: Taku Taku

Created by GGOTCC (talk). Number of QPQs required: 6. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 25 past nominations.

GGOTCC 23:48, 5 September 2026 (UTC).

• I take, will review in the next few days.--Launchballer 19:34, 6 September 2026 (UTC)
  • Better as "Taku, Taku, Taku, and Takou", I think. Or maybe "that the only ship in the Taku-class destroyers not to be named 'Taku' was 'Takou'" ? DS (talk) 00:12, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
    • While writing out the hook, I listed the ships in that order, but found including (pictured) halfway through the hook was visually disruptive and detracted from the point if Takou is listed afterwards. I like your idea, but the uniqueness of Takou's name is somewhat lost if the reader did not know that three other ships and the class shared a name. GGOTCC 00:43, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

How are you parsing "the only ship in the Taku-class destroyers not to be named 'Taku'", if it's not "all the other ships in the Taku class were named 'Taku'" ? DS (talk) 18:21, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Because that claim works for many classes and is not interesting. If this was a class of two destroyers, Takou would be the only member of the class not named Taku. That would be like having a hook stating, "Did you know that USS Mount Whitney is the only Blue Ridge-class command ship not named Blue Ridge" because Blue Ridge is the only other member of the class. Here, every Taku qualifies for DYK and listing them all five illustrates the point better. Besides, the point of DYK is to showcase new content. All five qualify and make an interesting hook together. GGOTCC 18:49, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Army Derby

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First round of the 2026 Gagarin Cup, most recent Army Derby series

• ... that after defeating CSKA Moscow in the Army Derby in a reverse sweep, SKA Saint Petersburg would lose the next seven playoff series against them (2026 series pictured)?

• Source: "СКА - ЦСКА: Почему армейское дерби - самое скандальное и беспощадное в российском хоккее". Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian). 2019-03-27. for the reverse sweep, "Итоги сезона. СКА: пять разгромов в регулярке и выход на «заколдованный» ЦСКА в плей-офф". Kontinental Hockey League (in Russian). 2026-06-18. for the seven series

• • ALT1: ... that the only reverse sweep in the history of the Kontinental Hockey League happened in the Army Derby in 2015 (2026 rematch pictured)? Source: "Отыграться с 0-3 и проклятие Кубка Континента". Kontinental Hockey League (in Russian). 2024-03-22.
  • ALT2: ... that SKA Saint Petersburg broke CSKA Moscow's perfect season in 1984 and reverse swept them in the Army Derby in 2015 (2026 rematch pictured)? Source: "СКА - ЦСКА: Почему армейское дерби - самое скандальное и беспощадное в российском хоккее". Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian). 2019-03-27.
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Created by Шахматист2025 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Шахматист2025 (talk) 22:13, 2 September 2026 (UTC).

Ross McDonnell

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• ... that the award-winning film director Ross McDonnell was temporarily jailed by the Taliban?

• Source: J. Blue, Victor (21 December 2023). "Ross McDonnell's Life and Work Were All About Connection". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

• • ALT1: ... that a co-producer on The First Wave later drowned? Source: https://theemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/43rd-Annual-Documentaries-Winners-9-29-22.pdf https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/ross-mcdonnells-life-and-work-were-all-about-connection
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Angry Video Game Nerd, Template:Did you know nominations/James Buchanan

5x expanded by Finnfrog99 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 31 past nominations.

Froglord (Finnfrog99) (talk) 14:50, 31 August 2026 (UTC).

• I will take this review. HerBauhaus · talk 10:04, 2 September 2026 (UTC)
• The article is new and long enough, well sourced and neutral, with no copyvio concern. A few points remain: 1) Source reliability: Cite Unseen flags source 7 (HuffPost) as generally unreliable, so please replace it or remove the Anaheim award claim; 2) Hooks: ALT0 is the stronger hook. "Temporarily" is implied by the source, but not stated explicitly, and the hook reads more strongly without it; "award-winning" should also be sourced in the nomination (source 17 supports it). If ALT1 is retained, its "co-producer" fact needs to be added to the article with a citation; 3) QPQ: 1 review is still outstanding; and 4) Copyedit: a final copyedit would help, including correcting Sweet Justice to Swift Justice. HerBauhaus · talk 11:51, 2 September 2026 (UTC)
  • WP:HUFFPOST is fine, thats an error on CITEUNSEEN. I'd rather both hooks be approved, rather than just one, so the promoter can choose. If its sourced in the article, it doesnt need to also be sourced in the review, thats just a bit of courtesy. Sourced co-producer, fixed sweet justice. When I originally nominated this hook, it only needed one qpq, guess Ill go do another, weird. Froglord (Finnfrog99) (talk) 13:14, 2 September 2026 (UTC)
  • @HerBauhaus: added another qpq Froglord (Finnfrog99) (talk) 14:54, 2 September 2026 (UTC)
    • The sourcing and hook issues are now resolved. On source 7, I agree the citation is acceptable after a closer look: the item is explicitly by indiewire. I’d still note that the Cite Unseen warning was not simply an error. WP:HUFFPOST has mixed treatment, so the flag correctly prompted a closer look. Citation Watchlist also flags it for inspection. Before I approve, could you please give the article a final copyedit? There are still a few obvious typos, for example "one two Emmy Awards" in the lead and "it's neck" in the final section. HerBauhaus · talk 13:45, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

Lobbes Bible

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Inhabited initial from the Lobbes Bible

• ... that the Lobbes Bible (illustration pictured) is one of the earliest medieval books in which the illustrations are consistently related to the narrative of the text? Source: Most easily accessible in Don, p. 3 ("The manuscript has a special importance within the history of medieval book illustration for it is the earliest extant Bible - possibly the earliest manuscript of any sort - in which the imagery is entirely confined to the initials in such a way that the initials as they introduce each book contain a running illustration of the adjoined narrative text. No earlier known Bible uses historiated initiatials so exclusively or so consistently."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lagerstroemia indica 'Lingmeng'

Created by Yakikaki (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 169 past nominations.

Yakikaki (talk) 09:22, 30 August 2026 (UTC).

• @Yakikaki: DYK is currently in backlog mode, so this nomination will require 2 QPQs. Please provide the second link as soon as possible. Z1720 (talk) 03:45, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

• OK, I didn't notice that, but I will of course do so. I'm away travelling until Sunday so it will be hard to do it before then, but I'll make sure to do it on Monday latest. Yakikaki (talk) 05:12, 3 September 2026 (UTC)

• @Z1720: Second QPQ done now: Template:Did you know nominations/Killing of Dot King Yakikaki (talk) 15:20, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Lego Vidiyo

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Lego Vidiyo app logo

• ... that there was a Lego app similar to TikTok (pictured)?

• Source: Multiple:

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Down the Mine (pilot)

Improved to Good Article status by NewAccount7295 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

NewAccount7295 (talk) 01:34, 30 August 2026 (UTC).

• "similar to TikTok" is very vague—a lot of things could be described that way. (t · c) buIdhe 02:16, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

• @buidhe Examples? NewAccount7295 (talk) 02:24, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
  • It's not a suitable hook. (t · c) buIdhe 02:31, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
    • @buidhe I could extend it to be more precise if that is needed, but I thought the hook was short and to the point. Readers learn the rest by reading the article. Would you mind elaborating a bit more on how you feel it isn't suitable? Here is ALT1: "... that a Lego-themed app had features similar to TikTok (pictured)?" or ALT2: "... that Lego Vidiyo was described as TikTok but for children?" This source can be added as a sixth source for the claim although it isn't in the article yet. The first hook is still my favorite though. NewAccount7295 (talk) 02:46, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

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Bert Matter

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• ... that Bert Matter, organist at the Walburgiskerk in Zutphen for 33 years, composed minimal music? Source: several
  • Reviewed: List of operas based on the Andromeda myth, Ferdinand Stadler
  • Comment: I'll try to make an article about the church, for a link or even double nom.

Created by Ymblanter (talk) and Gerda Arendt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 2188 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:26, 7 September 2026 (UTC). General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: A fine hook. I've a two minor queries: the article presently has only reference 1 and his offical website noting "minimal music". Is it possible to include at least one more reference? Also, is it following the 5x criteria? Thanks. MSincccc (talk) 16:21, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for looking. This was an emergency nomination not to miss the deadline, - I'll check for more refs, perhaps tomorrow. The article was created on 31 August, - I don't know what you mean by 5x. Before turning to him, I want to improve Geles Cabrera, again with a deadline. -- (forgot to sign yesterday)

I added another obit, please check, MSincccc. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:54, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Ymblanter created a short church article. I think the original name provides more insight in where this may be. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:09, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Lidia Doce

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• ... that Lidia Doce offered to get Che a puppy?

• Source: Che's own words: Guevara, Che. "Retratos de revolucionarios: Lidia y Clodomira". Pasajes de la guerra revolucionaria [Passages from the revolutionary war]. p. 289. ISBN 9789590104008. Ella conocia cómo me gustaban los cachorros y siempre estuvo prometiéndome traer uno de La Habana sin poder cumplir su promesa.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Joe Hill's ashes

Created by Chao Garden (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

— Chao Garden 🌱 ~ say hello 05:38, 5 September 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this soon per QPQ! :D - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 00:32, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Sam Obisanya

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• ... that Sam Obisanya was originally written as a Ghanaian character in Ted Lasso, but was changed to Nigerian after Toheeb Jimoh was cast in the role?

• Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ted-lasso-casting-process-changed-213000280.html

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  • Comment: Newly created article. The proposed hook is supported by the source.

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

Afro 📢Talk! 06:25, 3 September 2026 (UTC).

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Jadwiga Szmidt

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• ... that physicist Jadwiga Szmidt nearly died of gas suffocation when she opened a box when working in Ernest Rutherford’s laboratory at the University of Manchester?

• Source: https://doi.org/10.1119/1.17687

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Jane Kekulani Fayerweather

Created by MumphingSquirrel (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

MumphingSquirrel (talk) 09:06, 7 September 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this. ミラP@Miraclepine 02:49, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Some cn and fv tags.
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• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - Found two close paraphrasing: "Under Rutherford, she conducted research into radioactivity. On the basis of this research, she published two papers in the Philosophical Magazine" = "She worked there on radioactivity, and the results of the research were two publications in J. Philos." -> Maybe change to "She published two papers in the Philosophical Magazine on the basis of radioactivity research conducted under Rutherford". Another one is "She organised the students’ activities in the radiological laboratories[failed verification], supervised the experiments and taught courses on radioactivity. At the same time, she took a research interest in X-ray technology and developed filters for the monochromatic X-ray effect." = "She conducted the students' activities in the Laboratory of Experimental Physics there, supervised the students' practice, and delivered lectures on radioactivity. She was particularly interested in x-ray physics, and she used to prepare special filters for the monochromatic x-ray effect."

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - While the hook says it was a box, the ref says it was a "container" but Rutherford lab note cited by piekniejszastronanauki.pl says it was a "bottle". This should also be reflected by the article.
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Created six days before nom, prose size 4996 B. The hook is also verified by the piekniejszastronanauki.pl ref: "The circumstances of the accident that nearly killed the researcher are described by a Rutherford laboratory employee: […] the accident occurred when [Szmidt] was alone in the laboratory trying to open a sealed bottle of a toxic gas – sulfur dioxide. The escaping gas almost suffocated her, and she was very lucky to survive." (translated from Polish). @MumphingSquirrel: Address the issues and you're good to go. ミラP@Miraclepine 15:53, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Canadian Association of Stand-up Comedians

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• ... that the Canadian Association of Stand-up Comedians has lobbied to have comedy recognized as an art form?
• Source: OpenLobby.ca quote: "Under Heritage Canada (Canada Arts Council), recognize stand-up comedy as an art form so that comedians can apply for touring grants and album creation grants."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dazed and Confused (film) and Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Faventia
  • Comment: Possible special occasion for 24 September, the anniversary (8th) of their first petition being heard in the House of Commons.

Created by Reidgreg (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 32 past nominations.

Reidgreg (talk) 11:55, 6 September 2026 (UTC).

• I will take this review. HerBauhaus · talk 15:11, 7 September 2026 (UTC)
• Article is timely and at 4506 B (716 words) long enough. Earwig is clean, with overlap coming from names and standard phrasing. A few points before approval: (1) NPOV/copyedit: there are a few phrases that could be tightened, for example "unfair barriers", "considerable inequality of treatment", "rejected out of hand", and "It was lobbied to challenge this practice...". (2) Hook: it works well, but I suggest "stand-up comedy" rather than "comedy" to match the source more closely. (3) QPQ: two QPQs are required and the linked reviews are from May 2024 and June 2026, so please confirm they have not already been used, or provide two current reviews. HerBauhaus · talk 06:17, 8 September 2026 (UTC)
  • ALT0a: ... that the Canadian Association of Stand-up Comedians has lobbied to have stand-up comedy recognized as an art form?
  • re: (2) included that as an ALT, though some sources do shorten this to "comedy". (3) If you go to the pages for the two QPQs provided and click on "What links here" in the side/toolbar, you can see that there are no other DYKs linking to them. (1) Some of those phrases do pop, I could use some suggestions. I've tweaked them a bit. I feel that the third paragraph of Lobbying does show that there is considerable inequality of treatment for cross-border work. – Reidgreg (talk) 20:21, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

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