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

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Count of DYK Hooks
Section	# of Hooks	# Verified
August 6	1
August 7	1
August 8	1
August 11	2
August 12	2
August 14	1
August 15	1
August 16	3	2
August 17	1
August 18	2
August 19	3	2
August 20	2
August 21	2	1
August 23	5	1
August 24	3
August 25	4	2
August 26	4	1
August 27	7	2
August 28	4	3
August 29	3	1
August 30	8	6
August 31	9	6
September 1	5	3
September 2	3	3
September 3	7	4
September 4	12	8
September 5	8	5
September 6	6	2
September 7	10	5
September 8	15	7
September 9	6	2
September 10	8	2
September 11	5	3
September 12	7	4
September 13	6	4
September 14	10	6
September 15	10	3
September 16	9	7
September 17	10	8
September 18	9	3
September 19	9	4
September 20	11	6
September 21	9	5
September 22	7	3
September 23	8	2
September 24	8	2
September 25	8	1
September 26	10	5
September 27	8	2
September 28	10	2
September 29	7	3
September 30	4
October 1	7	2
October 2	8	2
October 3	5	2
October 4	4
Total	338	147
Last updated 17:28, 4 October 2025 UTC Current time is 18:19, 4 October 2025 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 August 6

Viktor Glondys

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• ... that Viktor Glondys was the first non-Transylvanian Saxon in 380 years to be elected bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania?

• Source: Ulrich A. Wien (2017). "Kirche und Politik im Verständnis der Bischöfe Viktor Glondys und Wilhelm Staede", in RT 99, vol. 1, p. 123. (in German). Translated excerpt: “He was first appointed parish priest in the economically cosmopolitan city of Kronstadt in 1922, then elected vicar bishop to the elderly Bishop Dr. Friedrich Teutsch in 1930, and finally, in 1932, he became the first non-Saxon in 380 years to be elected bishop of the regional church.”

• ALT1: ... that Viktor Glondys converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism during his philosophical studies in Graz, likely influenced by the teachings of Alexius Meinong? Source: Beyer, Hans (1964). Viktor Glondys, 1882–1949: ein Beitrag zur Geistes- und Kirchengeschichte des Südostdeutschtums zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen. [Festschrift für Balduin Saria zum 70. Geburtstag] (in German). Oldenbourg. p. 420.
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• Comment: If relevant (I have never done this before), in the source it says "non-Saxon", which is meant to refer specifically to Transylvanian Saxons. This is clarified later when he refers to the Saxons from then on as "Siebenbürger Sachsen" (Transylvanian Saxon).

Moved to mainspace by Apollo468 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

• Apollo468•  21:11, 7 August 2025 (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:
• Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Welcome to DYK! What a thorough article -- you could consider nominating it as a Good Article too. The DYK criteria look well met. Regarding the hook, DYK strongly discourages "first"-based hooks and I don't think ALT0 will work. ALT1 is supported by the source, but as written doesn't strike me as very interesting to a non-specialist. I'd propose the following as something with a "catchier" wording that is still supported by the source:

ALT2: ... that Viktor Glondys converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism while the Away from Rome! movement was popular, but he had his own reasons?

If you're OK with that hook suggestion, we could go with that, or you could suggest some others. There may be something interesting to do with the wars, eg, fleeing on foot shortly after his doctorate, or the controversial Good Samarital speech. The trick (and it is tricky) is to boil down the details into something that feels accessible and leaves the reader wanting more to piece it together. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 08:47, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

@LEvalyn: Hi, thank you for the feedback. I think what you suggested would be a good hook that I would be fine with, but also, since you suggested the speech here is another one if it might be better:

• ... that Viktor Glondys delivered a sermon in 1931 based on the Good Samaritan that rejected Nazi racial ideology, prompting attacks from pro-Nazi groups?

Here are the sources for that one:

• Ulrich A. Wien (2017). "Kirche und Politik im Verständnis der Bischöfe Viktor Glondys und Wilhelm Staede", in RT 99, vol. 1, p. 126. (in German).
• Andreas Möckel (2010). "Der politische Skandal um die Honterusschule im Jahre 1933", in Zeitschrift für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 51–62. (in German).

Apollo468, sorry for the belated reply here -- I think since you did not sign your comment, the ping did not go through. For your new ALT3, I worry about whitewashing the subject, since (as the article conveys in a more balanced way) Glondys was attacked by pro-Nazi groups and criticized for facilitating Nazi activities in the church. This is a topic where I think nuance is important but hard to convey in a one-liner, so I'd prefer to just go with my ALT2 since you're OK with it.

Someone else should evaluate ALT2 as a hook. The rest of the review is all set. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 23:49, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I don't find ALT2 compliant with WP:DYKINT. What else have you got?--Launchballer 09:58, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

I think I'm tapped out on hook ideas. Maybe someone else feels better about the sermon hook, or maybe Apollo468 has some more suggestions. I tried to think of something along the lines of "he went off to grad school, did his PhD, came home, and pretty much right away had to flee fascists on foot into the mountains" but the part that felt interesting is probably only hashtag-relatable to grad students, ie, "can you believe he defended and his life had the gall to get worse". ~ L 🌸 (talk) 23:04, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

LEvalyn I wonder whether there is a hook along the lines of: ... he fled from the Russian Empire in 1916, yet in 1939 his church was accepting Russian refugees? I'm a bit tired, so that's not an accurate suggestion, but the refugee angle would be interesting to readers, and is quite striking. Lajmmoore (talk) 20:30, 25 September 2025 (UTC) @Apollo468, LEvalyn, and Lajmmoore: Please propose a new hook; this hits WP:DYKTIMEOUT in less than 72 hours.--Launchballer 02:20, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: I'm not previously involved in this but I'm personally against a nomination timing out so I hope this is fine. I tried to be wary of the previously mentioned whitewashing concerns, and I'm AGFing that the sources actually support what the article says.

• ALT3 ... that Viktor Glondys resigned from his church position under pressure from the Nazis who viewed him as an obstacle, returned, and then was removed by the Allies for sympathizing with the Nazis?
• ALT4 ... that Viktor Glondys avoided denazification due to staffing shortages at parishes? the article also gives another reason for not being denazified as the "Lutheran principle of forgiveness"(??), and I'm not sure if denazified is an appropriate link, as its specifically talks about Germany and Austria 1brianm7 (talk) 06:13, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 7

Franz Taibosh

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• ... that dwarf circus performer Franz Taibosh was romantically interested in fellow short circus performer Daisy Earles?

• Source: Parsons, Neil (December 2010). Clicko: The Wild Dancing Bushman. University of Chicago Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-226-64742-5.

• ALT1: ... that circus performer Franz Taibosh was billed as 'Clicko: the Wild Dancing Bushman' because he spoke a language with click consonants? Source: Parsons, Q.N. (1989). "Frantz or Klikko, The Wild Dancing Bushman: A Case Study in Khoisan Stereotyping". Botswana Notes and Records. 20: 71–76. ISSN 0525-5090.
• ALT2: ... that Franz Taibosh began his performance career by dancing for British soldiers during the Second Boer War? Source: Parsons, Neil (December 2010). Clicko: The Wild Dancing Bushman. University of Chicago Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-226-64742-5.

** ALT3: ... that the American Museum of Natural History estimated circus performer Franz Taibosh to have been aged 115 at the time of his death? Source: "FRANZ TAIBOSH; African Bushman, a Midget, Had Been With Ringlings (Published 1940)". 1940-09-02. Retrieved 2025-08-07.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/SACHI (band)
  • Comment: Review most interesting hook only, and use others as backup if needed. You do not habe to review all hooks.

Currently requesting a public domain photograph of him from the University of Illinois, which could allow for an image to be included. The image can also be found on this site, so adding an image now is possible, but I'd prefer the original owners' premission.

ALT0 could also mention him being rejected.

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

Roast (talk) 06:32, 7 August 2025 (UTC).

• Verified that the article is long enough and that there are no plagiarism concerns through the Copyvios tool and spotchecking. This article was a very interesting read, thank you.

  ALT0 is mostly verified. The article says he has a "a short stature" but doesn't directly say he has the dwarfism condition.

  ALT1 is mostly verified. The source says on page 71:

  The language spoken by the dancer, as indicated by his later stage name Klikko, was indeed a Khoisan language with clicks in it — though precisely which language was never identified. Where the Bushman dancer came from and where he went to is not clear, but his career as contained in his file at Oxford may be summarised as follows. The first known name of the Bushman is Frantz.

  I don't see "Clicko" mentioned in that source. I do see "Klikko" mentioned in it. I also do see "Clicko" mentioned in the book title Clicko: The Wild Dancing Bushman.

  ALT2 is verified. The book notes on page 9: "Franz recalled having been a post-rider during the war of 1899-1902, riding the mules that carried the mails between Middelburg and the Heydon post office, which was located on The Willows farm. Franz also said, in 1930, that he had been 'an orderly for a British officer in the Boer war'."

  The book notes on page 10: "Franz Taibosh's career as an entertainer began with his dancing for British troops. His small stature also made him an obvious choice to be a jockey in horse racing. Military garrisons, full of troops with money to spend, attracted crowds of hangers-on, young men and boys as well as hawkers and entertainers. Photographs taken during the siege of Mafeking show British troops entertaining each other with a blackface minstrel show."

  Cunard (talk) 10:56, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
  • Verified for ALT2 based on my comment above. Guerreroast (talk · contribs), I think ALT1 is the most interesting hook. Would you modify the article to source the "Clicko" part in He was billed as "Clicko: the Wild Dancing Bushman" because he spoke a language with click consonants. so that that hook becomes an option? Or propose an alternative hook that uses "Klikko" instead?

    I also noted that the Q.N. Parsons source lists six pages (71–76) and the Neil Parsons source lists 14 pages (1–13, 128). These page ranges are too long as I had to review many pages to verify ALT2. See the maintenance template Template:Page numbers needed. Would you modify the article to cite the specific page numbers that are being used to verify each sentence or paragraph? Additionally, the article has the maintenance template {{Missing information}} regarding his performance career which you added when you created the article. Per WP:DYKCOMPLETE, "articles that fail to deal adequately with the topic are likely to be rejected". Is this maintenance template still needed or can it be removed? Thank you. Cunard (talk) 10:56, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

    • @Cunard: The expansion to remove that symbol would require me having the rest of the Clicko book. I'm unsure if resource request would give me that much of a book, but I'll see. If they give it, I'll expand, and if they don't, the review dies. Roast (talk) 03:27, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
      • Although the article could be substantially expanded if you had access to the book, I think its long enough and meets the requirements of WP:DYKCOMPLETE's articles that fail to deal adequately with the topic are likely to be rejected. With that in mind, is it compliant with DYK guidelines for the article to have the maintenance template {{Missing information}} while this article is featured on DYK? Pinging experienced DYK contributor Launchballer (talk · contribs) for any thoughts or guidance. Thank you. Cunard (talk) 03:34, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
        • @Cunard: I don't think the tag's necessary and have removed it.--Launchballer 02:18, 3 October 2025 (UTC)
          • @Launchballer: thank you. @Guerreroast: ALT2 is verified so this article will be ready to be featured on DYK once the page numbers are added to address the Template:Page numbers needed concern I raised above. Cunard (talk) 08:06, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
            • @Cunard: I did the Harvard cite thing for the Neil Parsons source, hut attempting to open and find the page of the Q. N. Parsons source, as the website crashes when attempting to open it; this probably why I cited it that way in the first place. Roast (talk) 15:00, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 8

2014 Moscow school shooting

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• ... that an armed teenager who took his classmates hostage during a school shooting was persuaded to surrender to police after they had called his father to negotiate with him?

• Source: https://rg.ru/2014/02/03/hronika-anons.html The teenager who took the school children hostage was persuaded to surrender by his father

• ALT1: ... that politician Aleksey Pushkov suggested that exposure to American culture was to blame for a school shooting in Moscow? Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-shooting-school-idUSBREA120C920140203/ Duma international affairs committee head Alexei Pushkov suggested Russia had embraced U.S. culture with deadly effect. "Moscow school shooting: American movies and domestic serials, full of violence, are producing results - now it is like the USA here,"
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/del Águila family killings

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

7kk (talk) 00:07, 9 August 2025 (UTC).

• Article hasn't been expanded 5x in the last week, but it -was- recently GA'd, so whatever. QPQ has been provided, copyvio not detected (unlikely anyways due to predominant use of Russian sources). Strongly prefer ALT0. Hook facts are cited inline and verified in the relevant sources. Good to go. Juxlos (talk) 01:28, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
  • @7kk, Juxlos, and Earth605: Pulled per WT:DYK.--Launchballer 12:04, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
    • There are still "failed verification" tags and the hook needs to be fully supported by the citations in the article. 7kk has addressed some of the issue but not everything. —Kusma (talk) 18:38, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

@7kk: Please address the above; this times out on 8 August.--Launchballer 02:21, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 11

National championships in men's college basketball

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Gold medal in college basketball from the 1904 Olympic Games.

• ... that Hiram College's gold medal from the 1904 Olympic Games (pictured) represents one of the earliest national championships in men's college basketball?

• Source: "This tournament marks the beginning of what may in the years to come be an annual fixture, namely — a National College Basket Ball Championship held annually between the colleges of the U.S. played in alternate years in the East and West. Such a championship could easily be made a great athletic and social event."

• ALT1: ... that the Yale college basketball team claimed the national championship in 1899, 40 years before the inaugural NCAA tournament? Source: "In consequence of the number of important victories earned the team lays claim to the basket ball championship of the United States."
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• Comment: First DYK nomination; suggestions/improvements appreciated if I did anything wrong.

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

PK-WIKI (talk) 04:18, 15 August 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: Not a review but, I remove the other bolded articles that is not the nomination. You only bold the article you are nominating. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 09:07, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
• I take.--Launchballer 18:10, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

@PK-WIKI: Significant uncited content in this; please reference. (Note to self; article meets minimum eligibility and is clear of CLOP; hooks need assessing.)--Launchballer 18:16, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Oust Duterte matrix

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• ... that Olympic Gold Medalist Hidilyn Diaz was included in a matrix which lists the personalities who wanted to impeach Then-President Rodrigo Duterte?

• Source: [1]

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nasser Mansour Hadi

Converted from a redirect by TheNuggeteer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 28 past nominations.

🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 12:11, 11 August 2025 (UTC).

• Not a review, but I'm concerned that this hook is a WP:DYKBLP problem? we're making a hook about an allegation of someone being included in a conspiracy that they've denied involvement in. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:08, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

• @Theleekycauldron: Is this good enough? ALT1: ...that the Malacañang Palace released a matrix which reportedly revealed participants in an alleged ouster plot?
• Source: [2] 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 03:38, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

"Revealed" is unacceptable here because it connotes that what was revealed is the truth, and this is not canceled by the word 'alleged' (remember, always take into account how people will interpret your writing, not just how they should interpret it). DS (talk) 18:07, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

@TheNuggeteer: Please address the above.--Launchballer 23:57, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Addressed it (I am not sure if this is okay enough). 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 03:24, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Long enough, new enough. QPQ checks out and so does Earwig. No reason why this might deserve a maintenace template. Your newest ALT is slightly better (it's been edited to include the word 'reportedly'), although it requires knowledge of what the Malacanang Palace is.--Launchballer 18:26, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

• Even "reportedly" is too weak (and I'm not thrilled with 'matrix' either). What about:

ALT2: ...that the Malacañang Palace released a diagram which it claimed revealed participants in an alleged ouster plot?

DS (talk) 19:53, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Maybe:

ALT2a: ... that in 2019, the Malacañang Palace released a diagram which it claimed revealed participants in an alleged ouster plot against Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte?

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:09, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Sure, this seems okay. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 11:35, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Please take a look at this again. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:14, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not happy with mentioning Malacanang Palace in the hook, I don't think a broad audience will have heard of it.--Launchballer 02:23, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Malacanang Palace is the Philippine equivalent of the White House, so maybe the context is there even if international readership does not recognize the name (hence why it is important to mention "Philippine president" in the hook). Other than that, I'm not sure if this angle is workable: "the Office of the President of the Philippines... against President" sounds redundant. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:49, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not convinced we need to mention which president. ALT3: ... that the Office of the President of the Philippines released a diagram in 2019 it claimed revealed participants in an alleged ouster plot?--Launchballer 14:15, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 12

Triệu Quân Sự

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Triệu Quân Sự

• ... that Triệu Quân Sự (pictured), a convicted murderer who escaped from prison four times, was being caught while playing online games twice?

• Source: Escaped four times [3], Twice being caught while playing online games [4]

• ALT1: ... that Vietnamese life-sentenced prisoner Triệu Quân Sự (pictured) said that he escaped from prison because he wanted to get money to play games? Source: [5]
• Reviewed:

Created by KhoaNguyen1 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

KhoaNguyen1 (talk) 01:03, 13 August 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: Not a review but, the first hook seems to violate WP:DYKBLP. I suggest rewording a little bit. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 07:09, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
  • Thank you, I have tried to reword the hook:
    ALT0a: ... that Vietnamese prisoner Triệu Quân Sự (pictured) escaped from jail four times, and half of them ended up being caught while playing online games at internet cafés? KhoaNguyen1 (talk) 07:52, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
    • Almost. ALT0b: ... that Vietnamese prisoner Triệu Quân Sự (pictured) escaped from jail four times, and twice was caught while playing online games at internet cafés? DS (talk) 18:19, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Saiyaara (song)

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• ... that the song "Saiyaara" from the 2025 Hindi film of the same name was shot in a single day and was filmed shortly before the film's release?

• Source: https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/exclusive-saiyaaras-touching-end-credit-song-last-minute-masterstroke-aditya-chopra-reveals-choreographer-vijay-ganguly-shot-just-one-day-month-film/

• ALT1: ... that the song "Saiyaara" from the 2025 Hindi film of the same name became the first Hindi song to reach the top 10 on Spotify's Global Top 50 chart, even surpassing popular international artists? Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/saiyaara-title-song-becomes-1st-bollywood-song-to-enter-spotify-top-50-global-chart-beats-tracks-by-billie-eilish-gaga-101753271974013.html
• ALT2: ... that the song "Saiyaara" from the 2025 Hindi film of the same name became the first Hindi song to reach the top 10 on the Billboard Global 200 chart? Source: https://www.financialexpress.com/life/entertainment-saiyaara-title-song-makes-it-to-top-10-on-billboard-200-chart-beats-justin-bieber-and-blackpinks-rose-3930870/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Issei (YouTuber)

Created by KunalAggarwal95 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

KunalAggarwal95 (talk) 17:04, 12 August 2025 (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: - Unclear if bollywoodhungama.com is generally reliable.
• Interesting: - no

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: KunalAggarwal95 has 8 past DYK nominations. For the past 3 they have used the same review of Template:Did you know nominations/Doris Ilda Allen therefore they have not met QPQ and this can't go. Additionally, the fact that a music video was shot is a day is not very intriguing and the source is questionably reliable even if I believe this fact is true.

@KunalAggarwal95: Every new nomination requires a new review WP:QPQ. You may want to look over the reviewer guidelines again too in order to understand what is required for a DYK hook and what makes a good hook in general. – SquawkGuard (talk) 09:37, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@SquawkGuard: You missed the "ALT1" and "ALT2" hooks. KunalAggarwal95 (talk) 14:09, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

And you missed SG's QPQ comment @KunalAggarwal95:, and I'll be closing this in 24 hours if I don't see a new QPQ.--Launchballer 23:06, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer:  Done KunalAggarwal95 (talk) 06:30, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi again! @KunalAggarwal95: After your new QPQ I did a more thorough review of the page. I think that with edits ALT2 is interesting. (However, the source does not say "Hindi" and it is not cited inline on the page) Additionally, this page needs many copy edits to make it readable.

For example, in the lede the sentence for who composed and wrote the song is unclear. Edits for clarity are needed throughout.

And edits for accuracy are needed in the reception section. Some quotes listed don't exist in the articles cited, or are misquotes/mischaracterizations that were applied to the entire soundtrack not this song. And because most of the cited sources are movie reviews that talk about the soundtrack not this specific song there are WP:Notability concerns, though I am not an expert on song pages WP:NSONG and this one did well on the charts.

It's great you're adding new information to Wikipedia! However, it may be that this song doesn't have "significant coverage" outside the movie. Maybe some of these facts could be added to the soundtrack page? I'm not sure, but for the DYK review

I would remove all of the sources that don't talk about the song specifically, fix quotes, and edit for readability/clarity.

(PS @Launchballer and KunalAggarwal95: I checked out the QPQ Template:Did you know nominations/Issei (YouTuber) and I am going to do some copy edits there too cause the English has some errors.) – SquawkGuard (talk) 11:38, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

@SquawkGuard: Fine! KunalAggarwal95 (talk) 14:34, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 14

Juventus FC (women)

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• ... that Juventus Women were five times champions of Italy within their first five years of existence?

• Source: https://www.myjuve.it/women-competitions-juventus/seasons-list-serie_a-SerAF.aspx

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ragıp Vural Tandoğan
• Comment: Will do the QPQ later

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

Wikipediæ philosophia (talk) 19:45, 14 August 2025 (UTC).

• @Wikipediæ philosophia: The provided QPQ is incomplete as it did not do a full check of the DYK criteria. Please complete the review or provide a replacement QPQ, as the nomination may be failed if you are unable to do this. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:54, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
  • @Narutolovehinata5:,  Done Wikipediæ philosophia (talk) 11:45, 12 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on August 15

Si Renfa

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• ... that Si Renfa's conflicts with the Ming dynasty sparked the Luchuan–Pingmian Campaigns, resulting in the fall of Möng Mao?

• Source: https://www.burmalibrary.org/en/crucible-of-war-burma-and-the-ming-in-the-tai-frontier-zone-1382-1454

• ALT1: ... that Si Renfa's wars with the Ming dynasty led to a series of campaigns that brought about the collapse of his kingdom of Möng Mao?
• Reviewed:

Moved to mainspace by 瑞丽江的河水 (talk) and Hazelnut79 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Xiliuheshui · chat 21:43, 15 August 2025 (UTC).

• A new hook is needed here, as the current hook may not meet WP:DYKINT: it may not be understandable to readers unfamiliar with Chinese history. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:00, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
  • @Narutolovehinata5: Hi, thank you for your comment, I have provided another alt hook, do you have a specific suggestion?--Xiliuheshui · chat 07:15, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Yes, that's better. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:43, 18 August 2025 (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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article is new and long enough, and neutral. Hook is cited and interesting. QPQ not needed. The big problem is that the article contravenes core content policy, specifically WP:PSTS: "Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources". Nearly the whole article relies on centuries-old primary sources. As such, it is not suitable for Wikipedia and needs considerable improvement from its current state. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:23, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

@瑞丽江的河水 and Hazelnut79: Please address the above.--Launchballer 17:46, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Hi, Hazelnut79 has added some footnotes from modern research. Hopefully the current version addresses some of the concerns and is an improvement.--Xiliuheshui · chat 13:40, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

@瑞丽江的河水 and Hazelnut79: I'm not sure adding another two references to 21 is going to do much, but pinging @AirshipJungleman29: for his thoughts.--Launchballer 14:35, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Not really, no. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:05, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 16

Chess at the Olympic Games

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• ... that chess appeared at the Olympics as an esport?

• Source: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1139393/chess-target-la-2028-olympic-culture

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1974 China national wushu team

Moved to mainspace by ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 27 past nominations.

ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 16:58, 16 August 2025 (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: New enough, Long enough. Well-souced and neutral, I fixed the duplicate citation. 7.4% on Earwig. Hook is interesting, cited and in the article. QPQ is done. Good to go then. Good Job Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 02:57, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

• Reviewing for promotion, and I find this hook unsupported and somewhat deceptive. The article says: The game made its debut as an exhibition sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and online chess debuted as an esport via Chess.com at the 2023 Olympic Esports Week. Chess has yet to debut as a full official sport at the Olympics. Neither this sentence nor the source supports the claim in the hook that chess appeared at the Olympics, which signifies its being recognized as an official sport. I don't think Olympic Esports Week would be commonly understood by readers as "the Olympics". I would recommend a different hook, perhaps ALT1: ... the 2023 Olympic Esports Series included online chess? Courtesy ping @Miminity and ArtemisiaGentileschiFan:. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:40, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: I personally would consider the Olympic Esport Series to be the Olympics, but if you insist, I would be ok with ... the 2023 Olympic Esports Series included online chess as an Olympic sport? ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 16:44, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

@ArtemisiaGentileschiFan: But the article says Chess has yet to debut as a full official sport at the Olympics. Do you have a source that describes online chess being included in the Esport Series as making it an Olympic sport? If so, and the article is updated accordingly, I suppose your revised hook would work. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:54, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: A sport at an Olympic event is an Olympic sport. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 17:04, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

@ArtemisiaGentileschiFan: Then why does the article say Chess has yet to debut as a full official sport at the Olympics.?

Because, as the article says, it has been an exhibition sport at the Olympics but not a full event. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 17:19, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Exactly. And I do not think it is common to refer to exhibition sports at the Olympics as "Olympic sports". The whole point of an exhibition sport is that it is being tried out but it is not (yet) an Olympic event. Dclemens1971 (talk) 22:59, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Somewhat related, but what the IOC considers the Olympics and what the general public thinks so are different. The IOC would consider the Youth Olympic Games as part of the Olympic movement, but most people would not consider the Youth Olympics as "real" Olympics. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:39, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

@ArtemisiaGentileschiFan: Please address the above.--Launchballer 02:25, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: I believe I did. I proposed the alternate hook, ... the 2023 Olympic Esports Series included online chess as an Olympic sport?. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 02:28, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

As I pointed out above, (1) it is not common to describe exhibition sports or the Esports Series as "Olympic sports," (2) the most recently proposed alternative hook is at odds with the article text, and (3) the source provided by the nominator does not describe chess as an Olympic sport. For these reasons I cannot approve the nominator's proposed alternative. Any reviewer/promoter who feels differently is welcome to reopen and approve, but if it gets approved and promoted to prep as is I would expect it to be pulled before it gets into a queue due to the issues outlined. Dclemens1971 (talk) 04:18, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

P.S. The ALT1 that I proposed apparently does not have the support of the nominator, but it does have the virtue of being supported by the source and in the article if consensus can be found on that one. Dclemens1971 (talk) 04:21, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971 and ArtemisiaGentileschiFan: I'll chime in and say that, if the use of Olympic sport is an issue, the blurb doesn't necessarily have to be about the esport thing. We could consider something like ... the first attempt to include chess at the Olympic Games failed due to "inflexible regulations"? or ... chess was featured at the Olympics as an exhibition sport?. Does that work?

P.S. Dclemens1971, the one nitpick I have with your ALT1 is that I think the reader might expect the link to lead to online chess. 9ninety (talk) 04:35, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@9ninety: I am fine with both of those, thanks. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 09:56, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

ALT2: ... that there have been attempts to make chess an Olympic sport since 1924?--Launchballer 15:31, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 17

Jenny Lind Porter

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• ... that Texan Poet Laureate Jenny Lind Porter was described as America's new Emily Dickinson?

• Source: Jesse Stuart, noted Kentucky author who is writing the introduction to a new book by Dr. Porter, spoke of her as "America's new Emily Dickinson."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Liatu King

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

CaptainAngus (talk) 22:23, 17 August 2025 (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:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - ?

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is new enough, long enough, sourced, neutral and plagiarism free. Hook is cited and interesting - CaptainAngus I think it would benefit with clarifying the poet laureate e.g. "Texas poet laureate", or "poet laureate from texas" or similar, as there are quite a few such schemes. QPQ is done.

Thanks for the feedback, I updated the hook above! CaptainAngus (talk) 22:35, 1 October 2025 (UTC) Lajmmoore (talk) 19:35, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 18

Lady Jennifer (novel)

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• ... that John Strange Winter’s novel Lady Jennifer was marketed with copies signed by Henrietta Stannard? Source: [6] [7]
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/William III of Agen

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

~ L 🌸 (talk) 08:03, 23 August 2025 (UTC).

• A 5x expansion has been verified by DYK check and I did not find any close paraphrasing. A QPQ has been verified and it is a complete review. The article is long enough for DYK purposes and meets the referencing guidelines.

However, the hook is problematic. Firstly, it is not directly stated in the article: nowhere does it say that it was "marketed with copies signed by Henrietta Stannard". Second, even if the claim was mentioned, it doesn't seem to actually be referenced. Thirdly, and most worryingly, even if those issues were addressed, the hook would not meet WP:DYKINT. The context here is that Winter is actually Stannard's penname, but the average reader may not be familiar with either name, so the connection is lost. Even without the context, the hook does not seem very interesting if the reader is unfamiliar with Stannard and her work (FWIW I've never heard of her prior to this nomination).

You have done a good job of expanding the article, but to be honest, after reading it, I'm not sure if there's actually anything here that's workable. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:26, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

@LEvalyn: The nomination may be marked for closure if you are unable to respond or address the concerns. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:07, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

My apologies for the delay— my off-wiki life has been tumultuous this week. In the next few days I can look for an alternative hook; there may be something I can add to the article with the film adaptation. I personally don’t think the hook relies on knowing either name (she’s a completely obscure author) but I think it’s interesting that she basically makes her pseudonym useless (which I think the cited ad verifies); I may be able to come up with a better wording for that idea. Regardless I’d appreciate a few days to work on it, please, with my thanks for your thorough review. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 20:33, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Narutolovehinata5, what do you think about ALT1: ...that Henrietta Stannard autographed copies of John Strange Winter’s novel Lady Jennifer?

That phrasing is definitely verified by the ad, which has the headline Autographed Copies of John Strange Winter's Latest Novel and says Mrs. Stannard ("John Strange Winter") will be pleased to send a specially signed copy... My aim is to intrigue someone who has never heard of either name -- I think it's interesting that she's a woman with a male pseudonym who is undermining that pseudonym with her marketing campaign.

Or, perhaps another angle is something like ALT2: ...that Henrietta Stannard bundled her novel Lady Jennifer with promotional materials for John Strange Winter's Toilet Preparations?

I'd have to beef it up in the article a bit but the mail-in autograph promo automatically gave a free copy of Comely Woman with every Lady Jennifer, and elsewhere I've seen info about how this book basically just sold her cosmetics line. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 20:04, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Regrettably, I do not think this Stannard/Strange Winter angle will work out, as the main issue (that the hooks do not make sense or will not interest people who do not know either name or at least the context) remains. I understand what you're trying to get to, but it's not showing in the hook proposals, and given what is in the article, the angle just seems like a non-starter. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:16, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

You don't think the cosmetics line part is any better? I didn't think that one relied on the author's names, and in fact we could remove Stannard's name entirely, i.e., ALT3: ... that the novel Lady Jennifer cross-promoted John Strange Winter's Toilet Preparations? (Again, I'd be able to beef up the article properly for that if it seemed like an interesting angle.) I thought "Toilet Preparations" might also be an intriguing product name for a general audience. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 23:17, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

ALT3 is a bit of a weird one in that I'm 50-50. On the one hand, it doesn't solve the "you must know who John Strange Winter" issue, but on the other hand, the name itself along with "Toilet Preparations" might be enough to raise attention. I'm undecided at this point, so I think it might be a good idea to ask for a second opinion from one of the usual DYK scrutinizers like RoySmith, Amakuru, Launchballer, etc. I should note that, if ever, only ALT3 is under consideration, and all the other hooks, particularly those involving the name Henrietta Stannard, are rejected. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:11, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: Most of the material in the film section belongs in the Lady Jennifer (film) article - I'm not sure the 5x expansion will stand after that is taken away. StAnselm (talk) 21:25, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

I wrote all of the film material after the 5x expansion so it's not needed to meet that criteria. Also, I am in the process of merging the articles on the WP:PAGEDECIDE principle that there is no need to have two articles and a DAB for a topic with so little (relatively) to say. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 23:09, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5, LEvalyn, RoySmith, and Amakuru: I'm fine with ALT3.--Launchballer 12:07, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Here since I was pinged above – personally I would not sign off on ALT3. As someone unfamiliar with the subject, the hook as written makes no sense to me. Who is John Strange Winter, and ehat are "Toilet Preparations" (particularly when rendered in title case like this)? And how exactly does the book "cross-promote" them? And then it's not immediately obvious where in the article to look. The words "Toilet" and "cross-promote" don't appear anywhere in the article and it turns out "Toilet Preparations" is actually "J. S. W. Preparations". No offence to anyone, but IMHO it seems a little weak to me to premise the hook on a pun on the word toilet that doesn't even appear in the article.

As an aside, I agree with the comment above that the film article should be redirected to this one, there isn't enough content overall for two separate articles on these closely related topics at this time and WP:NOPAGE would apply for me. It's a pity the WP:BLAR was reverted, it might have to go through AFD or a merge discussion on the talk page. Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 13:08, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for weighing in, and thanks to Narutolovehinata5 for your patience with this one. With regret, I'll withdraw the DYK. It's the first time I've done a 5x expansion of a random historical book without turning up some gold, but they can't all be winners. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 18:30, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Though to be clear Amakuru, they really were called John Strange Winter's Toilet Preparations! I just hadn't clipped the source for the article yet. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 18:36, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi @LEvalyn: thanks for the reply, and if you're able to make the hook tally up with something in the article I'll be happy to re-evaluate it... I haven't looked at this in detail, but hopefully either way we can save something from this, no need to throw in the towel just yet! Cheers  — Amakuru (talk) 19:25, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

That's very kind, Amakuru. The article now says To promote the book, Stannard offered signed copies by mail order... With the novel, she included free copies of Comely Woman, a book of advice promoting her line of cosmetics products, John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations (with a wikilink to Toilet#Names to help solve the mystery of the name), and I've named the section "Publication and promotion" to make it easier to spot. To a certain extent I think "Who is John Strange Winter and what are 'Toilet Preparations'?" is the "intrigue" I was hoping to raise-- hopefully the article now has answers to those. Maybe some more compelling or clearer wordings:

ALT04: ... that the romantic drama Lady Jennifer cross-promoted the product line of John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations? ~ L 🌸 (talk) 21:04, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

ALT05: ... that the author of Lady Jennifer sold signed copies with a promotion for John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations?

and just as a reminder, we've been discussing: ALT03: ... that the novel Lady Jennifer cross-promoted John Strange Winter's Toilet Preparations?~ L 🌸 (talk) 21:04, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: Do any of the above ALTs work, and is this approved? If not, what else needs to be done? Z1720 (talk) 23:37, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Honestly I'm not really sure about this, so it might be better to ask another editor to sign this off. I have no opinion on ALT4/ALT5. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:58, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

@LEvalyn: I just went to verify ALT3, and I noticed that two of the four sources don't mention Lady Jennifer, so whatever they're being used to cite probably shouldn't be in the article.--Launchballer 23:20, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Launchballer, I took out one of them and re-arranged the others to indicate which part of the sentence they support. They're all necessary to support the complete statement that With the novel, she included free copies of Comely Woman, a book of advice promoting her line of cosmetics products, John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 20:40, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Note that Amakuru had objected to ALT3 earlier in the discussion, so that may need to be resolved first if you are considering approving it over the later proposals. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 19:15, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I think "John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations" needs a source that mentions Lady Jennifer, otherwise it needs to come out of the article.--Launchballer 19:30, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

OK, I've added another source that explicitly identifies company by its full name "John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations" and also identifies Stannard/Winter as the author of Lady Jennifer. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 20:17, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Yes, this really. My condition for possibly looking again at ALT3 was that the article and sourcing be brought in place to clearly verify it. As in, a source which explicitly mentions both Lady Jennifer and "John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations", as well as telling us that the former cross-promotes the latter. It sounds like that hasn't happened yet so we're not ready to go with that one.  — Amakuru (talk) 20:20, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm getting a little unclear on what the concern is. The hook is meant to summarize this information from the article: With the novel, she included free copies of Comely Woman, a book of advice promoting her line of cosmetics products, John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations; since that's wordy I thought "cross-promoted" conveyed the gist more concisely, but perhaps ALT04 is better for being more specific.

To spell out the sourcing, this says A copy of the latest edition of "Comely Woman" will be enclosed with each signed copy of "Lady Jennifer"; this spells out what 'Comely Woman' is, saying Comely Woman by ... Author of "Bootle's Baby," "Lady Jennifer," etc. ... tells how and why she invented the many now popular Toilet Preparations she has placed on sale of late years (and generally indicates that's it's a promotional brochure for her products), and this ad and this ad spell out that the product line was sold under the full name "John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations"; the latter also explicitly says that the products are sold by the popular author of "Bootle's Baby," "Lady Jennifer," etc., etc.. I am pretty sure that the book included ads for the cosmetics line -- I know it had 20 pages of advertisements for something but I am still waiting on a library request to have confirmation of what-- but with the current sources maybe it's better to say that the author cross-promoted rather than the book did. Really, I am open to any wording, or any hook. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 22:24, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

ALT6: ... that some copies of the novel Lady Jennifer came with a book of advice promoting John Strange Winter Toilet Preparations?--Launchballer 15:36, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I'd certainly be happy with that, thank you for making a suggestion. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 22:57, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I must ask for another reviewer.--Launchballer 23:05, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Panka Pelishek

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Panka Pelishek in 1929

• ... that Panka Pelishek (pictured) began her teaching career while she was still a student?

• Source: [8] "Още като студентка тя започва да преподава."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/29 BC Yellow River flood
• Comment: Feel free to suggest alt hooks or improvements.

Created by Spiderpig662 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Spiderpig662 (talk) 15:10, 19 August 2025 (UTC).

• @Spiderpig662: Not a review, but have you considered adding the image to the nom?--Launchballer 13:48, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
  • @Launchballer: I've gone ahead and added one now. Spiderpig662 (talk) 15:21, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 19

Walter Bgoya

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• ... that Walter Bgoya published a novel by Aniceti Kitereza almost 30 years after it had been written? Source: Carter, J. Roger (January 1982). "Aniceti Kitereza - the story of a Tanzanian writer". Tanzanian Affairs.
  • ALT1: ... that Walter Bgoya said African intellectuals have a responsibility to raise awareness of the poverty of politics? Source: "Tanzanian Publisher Mkuki na Nyota Is Championing Kiswahili Literature on the Global Stage". Brittle Paper. 18 December 2024.
  • ALT2: ... that Walter Bgoya said Kiswahili is more than a language—it’s a unifying force in East Africa? Source: "Tanzanian Publisher Mkuki na Nyota Is Championing Kiswahili Literature on the Global Stage". Brittle Paper. 18 December 2024.
  • ALT3: ... that Walter Bgoya's son published the first African-language translation of a novel by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah? Source: Chalamilla, Karen (30 July 2024). "Mkuki Bgoya: "Swahili writers should be mandatory reading in Tanzania, but there's a deep trauma around books"". African Arguments.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Raid_on_Mosta

Created by Munfarid1 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 37 past nominations.

Munfarid1 (talk) 08:37, 23 August 2025 (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: - ALT0 is cited to the novel itself in the article, not to a reliable source. ALT3 isn't cited at the end of the sentence in the article, and his son isn't mentioned in the African Arguments source or in the article.
• Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I think ALT0 is the most interesting hook here, with ALT1 and ALT2 being just about interesting enough for DYK but definitely not ideal. ALT3 isn't interesting to the general public and has issues. Overall, ALT0's cite issue should be fixed, and then I'd be happy to approve ALTs 0, 1, and 2. Suntooooth, it/he (talk | contribs) 15:06, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

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Prince Consort Gallery

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Prince Consort Gallery (detail)

• ... that the Prince Consort Gallery (detail pictured) was originally used to display "many of the most interesting and costly possessions" in the Victoria and Albert museum?

• Source: https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/article-index/12-articles/282-museum-displays-at-south-kensington-museum.html

• ALT1: ... that the V&A's rarely-seen Prince Consort Gallery (detail pictured) was originally used to display "many of the most interesting and costly possessions" in the museum? Source: https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/article-index/12-articles/282-museum-displays-at-south-kensington-museum.html
• ALT2: ... that the V&A's Prince Consort Gallery (detail pictured) was once used to display "many of the most interesting and costly possessions" in the museum and later became a lunchroom for school groups and museum staff? Source: https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/rpr/index.php/article-index/12-articles/282-museum-displays-at-south-kensington-museum.html; https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-life/helmut-volter-va-goethe-photography-resident-finishes-at-the-va
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Wisaksono Wirjodihardjo
• Comment: (QPQ review in progress, awaiting feedback; will endeavour to finalise ASAP)

Moved to mainspace by Cl3phact0 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

Cl3phact0 (talk) 17:04, 26 August 2025 (UTC).

Kikwit

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• ... that the city of Kikwit, estimated to have a population of over one million, does not yet have an electrical grid?

• Source: [9] (My translation) The Kikwit population statistics provided by Kikwit City Hall [...] giving a cumulative total population of 1,336,992 for the entirety of Kikwit.
  [10] (My translation) Since its creation, the city has never had electricity.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Anthology of the Killer

5x expanded by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 53 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 00:41, 21 August 2025 (UTC).

• I will review this today. Yue🌙 23:37, 21 August 2025 (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: Randomly spot-checked citations 1, 18, 34–36, 44–47, and 100; no issues arose. Yue🌙 00:04, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

• @Vigilantcosmicpenguin and Yue: Reviewing for promotion and this is failing my common-sense test. First of all, the source (I checked with my own translation says "the city has never had electricity". This is not the same as not having an electric grid; is there a source that specifies the absence of a grid? The source's claim of no electricity is plainly belied by the photos in the article, which show satellite dishes and buildings with air conditioning and what very much appear to be power lines in the lead image. This is a fairly exceptional claim and needs a robust source or perhaps multiple sources. Dclemens1971 (talk) 04:20, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
  • @Dclemens1971: As the article states, electricity has been planned and tested, but not successfully implemented. It can be presumed that the visible power lines are from incomplete constructions. The Actualite.cd source makes it a bit more clear that, in 2024 (the same year the photograph was taken), electricity is not available in Kikwit. I believe this, in addition with the KAS paper, is enough sourcing to verify that the city does not have electricity. However you are correct that my phrasing of "electrical grid" is not quite the same as what the source says, so I have tweaked the article to say "supply of electricity". The same change should be applied to the hook. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 05:49, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
    • @Vigilantcosmicpenguin: I did some digging here because the statement electricity is not available in Kikwit is quite exceptional. There is evidence here (see page 24, table 2) that Kikwit has had (underpowered) gas power plants in 1980 and 2000. This map from Africa Energy indicates a thermal plant was operational in Kikwit as of 2025. A USAID report from 2019 found (p 5) that In Kikwit, only four percent of 174,000 households have access to electricity. As I'd expect in a place without reliable sources of utility electricity, Kikwit residents use generators, a point confirmed by a map based on official data sources: One significant factor contributing to Kikwit's current energy situation is the lack of an extensive power grid infrastructure. The city experiences frequent power outages and relies on small-scale diesel generators for electricity, particularly in rural areas. A 2021 interview with someone born in Kikwit commented on how generators were used and electricity would shut off at 9pm. A 1991 New York Times article describes the city as having had electrical service in the past but now relying on generators. All this indicates the source provided above that says, in translation, Since its creation, the city has never had electricity is incorrect. What I do think is uncontestable is that local power sources are insufficient to meet Kikwit's needs and that as a World Bank report (p 42) indicates, Kikwit is not on the DRC's electrical grid. It may well have its own grid that is underpowered. Moreover, if electricity is supplied via generators, it is still supplied, even if at higher cost and with less reliability. Bottom line, I think the hook needs to be rewritten. Dclemens1971 (talk) 12:16, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
      • @Dclemens1971: Thanks for doing some more thorough research. You're correct that electricity is supplied by generators, which is why I had initially chosen the phrasing of "electrical grid". It appears that Kikwit does not have a grid, even an isolated one, as the World Bank source you provided says: "Isolated grids could also suit a few additional mid-size towns such as Kikwit". Also, to clarify the statement that "Since its creation, the city has never had electricity", I believe this is referring to the creation of the city of Kikwit, which had not had city status before 1970. In any case, you're right that the hook will have to be more precise. How about:

      ALT0a: ... that plans to supply electricity to Kikwit, a city estimated to have a population of over one million, have not yet been successful?

      — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 20:29, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

      • The sources I linked above indicated power was available in the city after 1970 and may still be available today from a thermal plant in insufficient supply for local needs. To be safe I'd want to shift it to something like "... that Kikwit, a city estimated to have a population of over one million, does not yet have a reliable supply of electricity?" but that's honestly not as interesting as your initial hook. However, I'm going to leave it open to another reviewer if they want to evaluate. Any other non-electricity related hooks to throw out there? Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:39, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971 and Vigilantcosmicpenguin: Throwing some alternatives here, although I agree that the electricity angle is the best option here:

• ALT1 ... that the Congolese city of Kikwit, estimated to have a population of over one million, is only served by a single highway?
• ALT2 ... that the city of Kikwit, estimated to have a population of over one million, is not on the Democratic Republic of the Congo's national power grid?
• ALT3 ... that a 1995 Ebola outbreak in the Congolese city of Kikwit was the second major outbreak of the virus?
• ALT4 ... that in 2019, 96% of households of the Congolese city of Kikwit, estimated to have a population of over one million, lacked electricity?

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:16, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

I dislike ALT3 as it is mostly interesting to people interested in epidemiology, and ALT4 has too much focus on a specific statistic. I like ALT1, which is interesting for the same reason as the electricity hook. I will also suggest a similar hook:

• ALT5 ... that the city of Kikwit, estimated to have a population of over one million, has only four paved roads?

I think this is slightly more interesting than the fact that there is only one highway. I think maybe this could be a problem with WP:DYKDEFINITE, but a source from 2023 is recent enough to say there probably haven't been new roads since then. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 01:57, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

I think ALT5 is very interesting, although I can't access the Phippard source to validate the hook fact. Dclemens1971 (talk) 20:24, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Given our recurring issues with definite hooks, it might be a good idea to include "as of 2023" in ALT5 if we end up going with that. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 20:26, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 21

Impersonations of United States immigration officials

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Anonymous ICE agents.

• ... that impersonations of United States immigration officials are a chronic crime problem due to deportation in the second Trump administration?

• Source: * https://prospect.org/justice/2025-06-24-ice-impersonations-proliferate-agencys-undercover-tactics/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250625093350/https://prospect.org/justice/2025-06-24-ice-impersonations-proliferate-agencys-undercover-tactics/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impersonations_of_United_States_immigration_officials#cite_note-Bethune_ICE_2025-06-24-1

From source:

Over the past few months, there have been chronic reports of individuals posing as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, in many cases using these guises to commit unlawful acts. Impersonation of law enforcement is not an uncommon occurrence in the United States, but the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies, and the particular ways in which ICE enjoys anonymity, have led to increased opportunities for such behavior, endangering and exploiting immigrants and their communities, regardless of their status.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jackson Sombach

Created by Very Polite Person (talk).

NOTE: Article was renamed per talk consensus. — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 17:47, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

— Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 14:31, 21 August 2025 (UTC).

• Considering we're not short of Trump-related hooks running lately, and given that US politics is a contentious topic, it might be a good idea to avoid mentioning Trump by name in the hook. People might accuse us of Trump bashing if we run too many hooks related to him or his administration. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:26, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

• Neutrality is an internal-to-the-project factor, not a wider-world factor. We piss off someone with everything we do. The new article is literally downstream by (many) RS from the blunt name of the second article. — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 15:47, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Is mentioning Trump's name actually necessary for the hook fact? Isn't there a way to say the same thing or idea without mentioning him? To others, even just saying that impersonation exists may be an interesting-enough fact regardless of the reason (even if the reason might be obvious). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:01, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

How about...

ALT1: ...that impersonations of United States immigration officials are a chronic crime problem due to deportation policies in the USA?

Is this what you mean? Or like a different target for the second link? I think that was the most fitting target, but maybe another can work. I think most name him however... — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 23:29, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure if "chronic crime problem" is the best wording here, but that's getting close. The idea I had was something like, instead of saying it was a crime, the interesting fact here is that the issue exists at all, or to reverse the order of their mention. Something like "that deportation policies led to a rise in impersonation". Another possible option would be to avoid mentioning the deportation policies and instead to say that "there has been a rise of impersonations since [year]" or something along the lines of that fact; this is not just to avoid mentioning the policies, but it also avoids mentioning the reason, thus "hooking" readers to read the article and learn why it is happening. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:41, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

ALT2: ... that deportation policies in the United States led to increased opportunities for imposters to pose as immigration officials?

ALT3: ... that impersonations of United States immigration officials have become a chronic crime problem in 2025?

Do you mean a structrual flip like this? I feel like excluding the c-word here could be problematic so basically every source frames it in that context. Any instance of it is literally a Federal crime, automatically.

I think I really like ALT3... — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 23:54, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

ALT2 is actually similar to what I had in mind. It's best for a reviewer to decide the final hook, however. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:03, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

• Full review needed now that hook discussion seems set. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:27, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 23

Gene White (American football)

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• ... that although Gene White was not highly recruited to play college football, he "just showed up" for his college's team and went on to later play in the NFL?

• Source: 'just showed up' / NFL

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Christapor Mikaelian
• Comment: To do QPQ within a day or two.

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 412 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:15, 30 August 2025 (UTC).

Nihaluddin

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• ... that Nihaluddin, the 1952 opposition candidate for Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, subsequently had his legislative mandate declared void?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ana Aguayo

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

Soman (talk) 13:58, 23 August 2025 (UTC).

• Article is new enough and 1769 characters. QPQ is done. I don't have access to many of the sources, but source [4] is well-used. The hook is interesting enough, but I will need a source quote to verify. CMD (talk) 19:35, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

@Soman: Please address the above.--Launchballer 14:08, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

1939 Salvadoran presidential election

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• ... that the Salvadoran legislature unanimously re-elected President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez in the 1939 Salvadoran presidential election?

• Source: "Asamblea Nacional Constituyente" [National Constitutional Assembly] (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish). Vol. 125, no. 17. San Salvador, El Salvador. 23 January 1939. p. 177. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2024.

• ALT1: ... that the ruling party of El Salvador reported that the citizenry overwhelmingly supported allowing Maximiliano Hernández Martínez to be re-elected in the 1939 Salvadoran presidential election? Source: Ching, Erik K. (1997). From Clientelism to Militarism: The State, Politics and Authoritarianism in El Salvador, 1840–1940. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara. p. 416. OCLC 39326756.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Brazilian Navy Nuclear Program

5x expanded by PizzaKing13 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 22 past nominations.

PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 08:39, 23 August 2025 (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:
• Interesting: - n
• Other problems: - n

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Long enough, new enough, well sourced. Sources in Spanish so I'll AGF Earwig. QPQ done. About the hooks, none is very great as they are not very interesting. ALT1 is better though. Earth605^talk 04:44, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I would suggest ALT2: ...that there was only one candidate to the 1939 Salvadoran presidential election? or ALT1a: ...that, according to the ruling party, the citizenry overwhelmingly allowed the president to be re-elected in the 1939 Salvadoran presidential election? Earth605^talk 11:11, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Pinging PizzaKing13 Earth605^talk 11:11, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

This Thriving Land

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• ... that This Thriving Land's peak viewership on CCTV reached 4.09%, setting the highest record for CCTV-8 in 2025, and now ranks second in the iQiyi’s all-time chart for Chinese television drama?

• Source: https://pandaily.com/This-Thriving-Land

• ALT1: ... that This Thriving Land set a record with a 41.1% market share and became the first Chinese television drama to exceed 100 million daily playbacks in 2025— the highest in recent 3 years? Source: https://m.tech.china.com/redian/2025/0823/082025_1719161.html
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Created by EleniXDD (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

EleniXDD※Talk 16:37, 23 August 2025 (UTC).

• , QPQ not needed, sourced and appears in article, the first hook seems boring but the second hook works, new enough (same day nom) and long enough, cant really check for COPYVIO's due to language differences so ill AGF. I did a few minor copy editing on the page so everything seems good to go Olliefant (she/her) 02:48, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

EleniXDD Olliefant About the hooks. None are interesting and they are both dull and technical. This could be victim to DYKTIMEOUT if left unchecked (trust me). Earth605 (talk) 16:46, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

I think the second hook is somewhat interesting. I could probably be tightened though. Olliefant (she/her) 19:18, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

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First English Public Jam Session

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• ... that the First English Public Jam Session, held in 1941, was organised in part by Melody Maker?

• Source: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_New_History_of_Jazz/5YTuAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22First+English+Public+Jam+Session%22&dq=%22First+English+Public+Jam+Session%22&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Jazz_War/apsyEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22First+English+Public+Jam+Session%22&pg=PA23&printsec=frontcover

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

TangoTizerWolfstone (talk) 01:48, 31 August 2025 (UTC).

• The article was created within the seven-day limit and meets the length requirements. I did not find any close paraphrasing. No QPQ necessary as this is only the nominator's second nomination. However, the hook as currently written may not meet our interest guidelines, as it may not be clear to a reader unfamiliar with Melody Maker why their involvement is important. Given that the article is quite long and detailed, I would suggest making further hook proposals. I am also pinging Launchballer for hook suggestions as this is a music-related article. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:45, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

• @TangoTizerWolfstone: Please note that if you are unable to propose a new hook, this nomination may be marked for closure. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:42, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
  • @Narutolovehinata5: Hi, sorry, been an exceptionally busy week and lost track of things. How about something like "the First English Public Jam Session, held in 1941, took place in London before an audience of 1,000 spectators?" This explains the 'public' part of the session name. Or maybe "1,000 jazz fans and musicians" to narrow the scope of the audience down?--TangoTizerWolfstone (talk) 09:58, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

@TangoTizerWolfstone: I don't think that works either. Audiences of a thousand for public concerts is quite common and not atypical, so it's not really interesting or unusual. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:01, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: The unusual aspect for the time was it being taped and released on record, apparently unheard of at that point in British jam-based jazz, but that might be hard to get across in the hook. One aspect I think could work for the hook is saxophonist Aubrey Frank playing the session only a day before being conscripted into the Royal Air Force, although I don't know if the absence of an article for himself complicates matters? If not, maybe it could be "The saxophonist Aubrey Frank played at the 1941 First English Public Jam Session a day before conscription into the Royal Air Force?" Or do these sound like other potential hooks?: "the First English Public Jam Session, held in 1941..." "...was promoted as "the greatest British jam session ever"?", "...was intended to showcase British jazz musicians in the best light?", "...was attended and praised by the poet Philip Larkin?", "...established a model for racial integration in British jazz?" (the latter I feel good about as a hook, but if you agree, it might need work to be more specific - IMO it's a bit hard to paraphrase the Stratton source for this without losing the accuracy of his text so help would be appreciated).--TangoTizerWolfstone (talk) 10:53, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

The one about Frank might work if an article could be created for him: this could then be a double hook. Usually, we discourage subjects without articles from being mentioned in hooks, although it's not an absolute rule and it's not prohibited. The issue with the angle is more that it would be more about Frank rather than the Jam Session, so it wouldn't meet WP:DYKMAJOR. As for your other proposals, perhaps the one that would meet DYKINT the best would be "greatest British jam session ever", but we will have to see. I'll get back to this and give some thought regarding options. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:11, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: I'll have a look for hook ideas myself when it isn't half three my time, but have you thought about this yourself?--Launchballer 02:30, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I had taken a look at the article and saw some things like the "greatest British jam session" quote earlier, but I wasn't sure how to word it as a hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:07, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I suggest one of the following:

ALT1: ... that a 1941 jam session was notable for its racial integration?

ALT2: ... that an event once dubbed the first dance music jam session ever recorded took place in 1941?

ALT3: ... that the First English Public Jam Session had nothing to do with fruit?--Launchballer 14:52, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

ALT3 is a cute hook, but sadly it is not directly stated in the article, only implied. ALT2 is technically a "first" hook, although it might be acceptable since the hook fact is it being dubbed the first, not that it is actually claimed to be the first. ALT1 is supported by the article but it does not directly say it was "notable for its racial integration" (or at least that exact wording is not used outside the article); however, as a summary of the article, it seems to be the safest option among the three. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:53, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Gen-Mina people, Mina (historical ethnic term)

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• ... that a 16th century ethnic term used in Africa is still used today for a Brazilian religion, a Togolese and Beninese ethnic group, and their language?

• Source: ""Mina" was, however, as Hall correctly notes, certainly a term which was applied in Brazil, in some contexts, to speakers of Gbe languages. The "Casa das Minas [House of the Minas]" in Sao Luis in the province of Maranhao, for example, is a cult-house of specifically Dahomian origin, venerating spirits associated with the royal dynasty of Dahomey."Law, Robin (2005). "Ethnicities of Enslaved Africans in the Diaspora: On the Meanings of "Mina" (Again)". History in Africa. 32: 258. doi:10.1353/hia.2005.0014. ISSN 0361-5413.

"The name "Minas" remained in use under French colonial rule in the twentieth century, and indeed down to the present, to refer to the inhabitants of Agbodrafo, Aneho and Glidji, and Agoue; although there remains an awareness locally that it should properly be applied only to the Elmina element in Aneho (and its offshoots), a.s distinct from the Gas at Glidji.33 It is not quite accurate, however, to state as does Hall, that these people "call themselves" Mina.34 Rather, this is an external, European coinage, which is nowadays used locally only when speaking in French. At a conference held at Aneho in 2000, I recall a member of the local community insisting that "the Minas exist only for scholars," the self-appellation of the people in their own language being "Gen.""Law, Robin (2005). "Ethnicities of Enslaved Africans in the Diaspora: On the Meanings of "Mina" (Again)". History in Africa. 32: 258. doi:10.1353/hia.2005.0014. ISSN 0361-5413.

"Gen, also called Mina, is used throughout the southeast of Togo and the southwest of Benin." * Faton, Gabriele R. (March 2018). "Waci Speakers in Togo and Benin: A Sociolinguistic Survey". Journal of Language Survey Reports. SIL International.

• • ALT1: ... that some enslaved Africans in the Americas referred to as Mina and the modern-day Gen-Mina people of Togo and Benin may be descended from the same West African population? Source: "Some (probably small) proportion of those identified as "Minas" in the Americas therefore probably did come from the "Mina" communities on the Slave Coast." Law, Robin (2005). "Ethnicities of Enslaved Africans in the Diaspora: On the Meanings of "Mina" (Again)". History in Africa. 32: 258. doi:10.1353/hia.2005.0014. ISSN 0361-5413.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Choquei Template:Did you know nominations/Jenni's Quesadillas

Created by BaduFerreira (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

BaduFerreira (talk) 16:00, 29 August 2025 (UTC).

Dorothy Sproule

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• ... that Dorothy Sproule's poem Coronation Ode was broadcast by the BBC at the coronation of George VI in 1937? Source: "Dorothy Sproule Again Unfurls Her Talent In Gracious Tribute to Her Young Queen". The Examiner. Vol. 24, no. 22. Westmount, Quebec. May 29, 1953. p. 12.
  • ALT1: ... that Dorothy Sproule was described as the "Canadian Poet-Laureate to Royalty" after five British monarchs acknowledged her work? Source: "Dorothy Sproule Receives Letter from the Queen". The Examiner. Westmount, Quebec. August 7, 1959. p. 11.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1935 Salvadoran presidential election

Created by Ploni (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 32 past nominations.

 Ploni^💬  18:32, 27 August 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on August 25

Denise Stoklos

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• ... that Denise Stoklos's "essential theatre" involves minimizing her acting methods while maximizing "the power of drama"? Source: Stoklos has defined her performance work as "essential theatre," as "that which has the minimum possible gestures, movements, words, wardrobe, scenery and accessories and effects. And which contains the maximum power of drama in itself" (1992b, 5). (113)
  • ALT1: ... that two scholars called Denise Stoklos "Brazil's most important solo performer" but also said that she is rarely acknowledged in Brazilian theatrical histories? Source: Denise Stoklos (1950), author, director, and Brazil's most important solo performer, comes from the south of Brazil, and is of Ukrainian extraction. ... Denise Stoklos, though a highly acclaimed and paid artist, works at the periphery of the theatrical establishment. Her solo performances and authored texts get little more than a passing reference in histories and overviews of contemporary Brazilian theatre. (7, 10)
  • ALT2: ... that Denise Stoklos once "sent a fax" to Christopher Columbus? Source: One of the plays listed as creaed by Stoklos is 500 Years: A Fax from Denise Stoklos to Christopher Columbus (107)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ezra Dotan and Template:Did you know nominations/Stanislav Moroz
  • Comment: A voluntary second QPQ since WP:DYKNOM reached the t-limit.

Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 102 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 00:32, 26 August 2025 (UTC).

Bop House

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• ... that the Bop House comprises eight OnlyFans creators?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Istana Park
  • Comment: Driveby nom.

Created by Mooonswimmer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 317 past nominations.

Launchballer 21:42, 25 August 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on August 26

Tomoo (singer)

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• ... that singer Tomoo's song "Lucky" mentions juice as a reference to several scenes in the manga City of characters buying juice? Source: [11] ("TOMOO：ジュースは、どうしても入れたかったんですよ。作中でもジュースを買うシーンが何度か出てきて、真壁まつりちゃんも買っていたし、他にもそんなシーンがあったような……当たり付きのジュースだったかな？　なんだかいいなって思ったんですよね。")
  • ALT0a: ... that for the ending theme to City: The Animation, Tomoo was inspired to mention juice by multiple scenes of people buying it in the anime?
  • ALT1: ... that singer Tomoo was once unhappy with her performance in a singing contest, despite being chosen as one of its finalists? Source: [12] ("ファイナリストに選んでいただいたのは光栄なことなんですが、正直に言うと、そのコンテストでめちゃくちゃ打ちのめされたというか、挫折を味わって。" "全然うまく歌えなかったんですよね。")
  • ALT2: ... that Tomoo decided to pursue a singing career after reading a letter from a friend? Source: [13] ("中2になって初めて心の中のことまでちょっと踏み込んで話せるような特別な友達ができるんです。ある日その子が小さな手紙を私に書いてくれて、その手紙にすごく感動することが書いてあったから私も返事を書こうと思ったけどうまく書けなくて、どうしようか悩んでいたら手紙よりも先に曲ができちゃって。それで誰もいない音楽室にその友達を呼び出して、手紙の返事の代わりに曲を聴かせたら「音楽で何か目指したほうがいいと思うよ」と言ってくれて。")
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Klaus König
  • Comment: Other hook suggestions are welcome. I could fill out the Discography section during the review process, or I can just delete it for now if I can't do it within a reasonable timeframe.

Created by Narutolovehinata5 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 118 past nominations.

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:46, 26 August 2025 (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:
• Other problems: - I'd recommend deleting the discography section if you can't create a table at the moment. The {{empty section}} tag may count as a maintenance tag that needs to be resolved before this appears on the Main Page, but you mentioned her discography earlier in the article already.

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - I found ALT1 and ALT2 the most interesting of these.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Narutolovehinata5: Nice work. I had just one comment above. Epicgenius (talk) 17:10, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. I would ask for help from another editor in making a Discography table, but I'm not sure who I could ask. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:07, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Just copy another article's (such as piri#Discography) and change the values. For now, a lack of a Discography section isn't a disqualifier here, so I just removed the section.--Launchballer 02:32, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Rory Gibson

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• ... that actor Rory Gibson has also worked as a fitness instructor?

• Source: [14]

• ALT1: ... that actor Rory Gibson felt "overwhelmed" by the positive fan reaction he had regarding his role as Michael Corinthos on General Hospital? Source: [15]
• ALT2: ... that actor Rory Gibson regarded his co-star Joshua Morrow as a second father? Source: [16]
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Spark by Hilton
• Comment: Let me know if I should suggest another hook :)

Improved to Good Article status by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 77 past nominations.

DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:21, 1 September 2025 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - This source (hellomagazine.com; ref 22) shows up as unreliable in WP:NPPSG.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - I could verify ALT0 and ALT2, but not ALT1. Could you provide the quote?
• Interesting: - Interestingly enough, ALT1 is the one that was most interesting to me. I didn't find ALT0 and ALT2 as interesting and would only use these if ALT1 doesn't work out.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @DaniloDaysOfOurLives: Nice work. I had just a few comments above. Epicgenius (talk) 17:07, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Pub names

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• ... that the pubs with the shortest and longest names in Britain are both in one town?

• Source: Wolfe-Robinson, Maya (16 June 2019). "Pub with longest name in UK reopens next to pub with shortest". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 September 2020.

• ALT1: ... that the number of British pubs with names about religion decreased after King Henry VIII diverged from the Roman church? Source: Ochota, Mary-Ann (23 October 2016). "The history of pub names". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 18 April 2025.
• ALT2: ... that the most popular British pub names include the Red Lion, the Royal Oak, the Crown, and the White Hart? Source: "Common pub names on Pubs Galore". www.pubsgalore.co.uk.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Polybius (urban legend)
• Comment: Generally tried for hooks based around general facts, rather than specific pubs.

Improved to Good Article status by Chiswick Chap (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 66 past nominations.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:18, 30 August 2025 (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 was promoted to GA on August 26. It is long enough and seems to lack any plagiarism issues. Both the article and the hook are neutral and well-sourced. The hooks are interesting, with a definite preference on my end for the initial hook. QPQ has been satisfied (very cool of you to have reviewed Polybius, very interesting topic to me). Overall, I see no issue not to approve this submission. JJonahJackalope (talk) 17:25, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

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@AirshipJungleman29 and JJonahJackalope: I think this one needs a recheck on source reliability; among other things, I'm seeing a number of citations to tripadvisor, which is not an RS? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 17:18, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Courtesy pings to Chiswick Chap and Tim riley, the GA nominator and reviewer. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 17:22, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

@Theleekycauldron:, I agree with you that better sources could be found for the information cited to Tripadvisor in the article, but are there any other issues of note to the article as it currently stands? Additionally, for Alt2, I feel like a better source could have been used for the hook, but that information is also presented in the article with citations to more reputable sources, such as the British Beer and Pub Association and the Campaign for Real Ale.-JJonahJackalope (talk) 14:20, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I generally think that we shouldn't run an article at DYK if we can't reliably source all of the information in it? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 14:23, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

@Chiswick Chap and AirshipJungleman29: Please address the above.--Launchballer 00:55, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Done. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:19, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

• @Theleekycauldron: Have your concerns been resolved? If not, what needs to be done to get this approved? Z1720 (talk) 14:41, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
  • @Z1720 and AirshipJungleman29: I still see a number of citations to random websites that may or may not have editorial control/fact-checking, which makes me jumpy? Not sure, but don't think this is ready yet, no. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 14:42, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
    • Which websites do you think are potentially unreliable theleekycauldron? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:44, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
    • None of the sources are red- or even yellow-listed. Pub websites are used for their own names; those aren't wikis or blogs that anyone can edit. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:47, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
      • Well, first, yellow at best. Second, why do pubs get in this list without any secondary sourcing/other indication of significance? Third, blog, blog/ad, no idea what this is but it's not an RS, tourism blog, there's 186 sources and I'm not going through all of them but I rest my case. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 15:01, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 27

Vulcan Starship FX6-1995-A

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• ... that there's an interstellar starship docked in Vulcan, Alberta?

• Source: https://canadiancoinnews.com/otd-alberta-town-unveils-starship-monument/ https://www.travelawaits.com/2694547/vulcan-alberta-star-trek-town/

• Reviewed: N/A
• Comment: Alternative text: that town of Vulcan, Alberta has a sculpture of the USS Enterprise

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

Artemis Andromeda (talk) 00:42, 2 September 2025 (UTC).

• I'm taking on this review so that I can get my nerd loyalty reward card stamped and virtue signal my egghead street cred. The fact that nobody else has reviewed this in the last month makes me wonder if the dead Internet theory is coming to pass. I'm currently finishing a GA review and should have this finished by tomorrow. Viriditas (talk) 21:33, 29 September 2025 (UTC)
  • Comment: @Artemis Andromeda: Good work on this article. Although sometimes these kinds of things slip by and make their way into articles, in general we don't do "Overview" sections as that term is used to refer to the lead section. Looking at your "overview", the first thing I notice is that along with the "history" section preceding it, you've got multiple sections at work here, including history, location, description, and design. In sculpture articles, there are any number of ways to do this. Given the content you have now, I would convert the "overview" into "Location and design" and move the location out of this history section into this one. If you can, try to focus more on the history about the statue in the history section. Surely the Vulcan Association of Science and Trek said more about this? I found a huge amount of history.[17][18] There's even an episode about it on the show What Were They Thinking? from 2005. I also clipped some more reliable newspapers.com articles for you that you can use as sources:[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] So lots to say. This sample of sources provides a comprehensive history of the sculpture, from its origins in 1991 to its completion by welder and machinist Gary Stanley McKinnon.[43][44] According to his obit, he also helped build (you will need to verify this) the Town of Vulcan Tourist Center, the Vulcan Cemetery War Memorial, and something known as the High River Medicine Tree. I think you might be trying to avoid duplicating the content already over at Vulcan, Alberta, and I get that, but you can still use a small percentage of it per the guidelines, just keep an eye on the numbers. Also, if anything, some of that content should be merged here, and a "main" link added there. Also, your current history section replicates info in the "overview". In general, each section (except for the lead) should be unique. You had some typos which I think I fixed. Finally, add citations to the paragraphs that don't have them. Viriditas (talk) 21:48, 29 September 2025 (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:
• Other problems: - WP:DYKCOMPLETE

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

QPQ: None required.

Overall: I'm not convinced the article passes WP:DYKCOMPLETE quite yet, but is very close. I have provided a huge number of sources up above in the comments that can help the nominator achieve this goal. My guess is that it would take the nominator only a few hours to solve these issues, at which point we can move on to evaluation of the hook. There's also a lot of repetition of content and a somewhat problematic use of section headings (discussed up above in comments) and uncited material in the body that needs to be resolved. This is not an insurmountable problem and can be easily solved in a short amount of time with a little bit of elbow grease. Viriditas (talk) 23:45, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Ko Myo Shin

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Statue of Ko Myo Shin at a shrine in Mount Popa.

• ... that the nat (spirit) Ko Myo Shin (statue pictured), though widely worshipped as a Shan nat, is believed not to be of Shan origin? Source: TAKATANI, Michio. "An Anthropological Analysis of Burmanization of the Shan" (PDF). library.tsri.or.th. Hiroshima University': 1–4.
  • ALT1: ... that DSA cadets once observed a tradition of paying respect to the spirit Ko Myo Shin (statue pictured) in the days before graduation to ensure a successful military career? Source: "ဗိုလ်လောင်းကို နတ်ပြရခြင်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 3 August 2011.
  • ALT2: ... that in his most popular legend, Ko Myo Shin (statue pictured) became a nat (spirit) after cutting off his own head? Source: Temple, Sir Richard Carnac (1981). မြန်မာ့မိရိုးဖလာဓလေ့ နတ်သမိုင်း: ၃၇ မင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ကျင့်သုံးသော နတ်ပူဇော်သောဓလေ့များ (in Burmese). Cā pe Mitʻ chve Cā pe. pp. 152–157.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Endoji Shopping Arcade Statues

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

Hteiktinhein (talk) 09:14, 1 September 2025 (UTC).

• comment: wait for QPQ. Hteiktinhein (talk) 09:16, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Mohamed Saïl

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• ... that Algerian anarchist Mohamed Saïl depicted the Kabyles as having their own traditions of anti-authoritarianism, decentralisation and mutual aid?

• Source: Porter, David (2011). Eyes to the South: French Anarchists & Algeria. AK Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-84935-076-1.

• ALT1: ... that Mohamed Saïl refused prisoner support from International Red Aid in protest against the treatment of Soviet prisoners in the Solovki prison camp? Source: Boulouque, Sylvain (2021-03-02). "Mohamed Saïl (1894-1953)". Partage Noir (in French). pp. 5–6. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
• ALT2: ... that Mohamed Saïl called for the independence of Algeria to be based on a non-hierarchical and secular society? Source: Porter, David (2011). Eyes to the South: French Anarchists & Algeria. AK Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-84935-076-1.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Good Old Neon

Improved to Good Article status by Grnrchst (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 62 past nominations.

Grnrchst (talk) 17:18, 27 August 2025 (UTC).

Gibraltar Mountain (Washington)

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Northern Face of Gibraltar Mountain at sunset

• ... that the 3,784 ft (1,153 m) tall Gibraltar Mountain (pictured) has been called one of the principal features of the Republic Mining District?

• Source: Umpleby 1910 Ch 1 paragraph 3, "Principle features" opening sentence calls out Granite Mountian, Copper Mountain, and Gibraltar Mountain

• ALT1: ... that the western face of the 3,784 ft (1,153 m) tall Gibraltar Mountain (pictured) is noted to be precipitous? Source: Bancroft 1914 page 137 Topography "With the exception of the west side of Gibraltar Mountain, which is rather steep, the slopes in this area are not precipitous".
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mesola red deer

Moved to mainspace by Kevmin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 376 past nominations.

Kevmin § 16:59, 27 August 2025 (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:
• Interesting: - n

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nominated on day of move to mainspace; appropriately sourced and NPOV maintained; Copyvio Detector comes up clear. The photo, taken by the nominator, is lovely. Unfortunately, neither hook is particularly interesting. Most every notable mountain is a principal feature of something or other, and ALT0 provides reason to be intrigued by either the mountain or the Republic Mining District. Meanwhile, ALT1 is unimpressive; it is not at all unusual for a mountain to have at least one precipitous side and often more. Any other ideas? Minor copyediting needed on the article (missing period, principle vs principal in the hook statement in the article) Dclemens1971 (talk) 02:01, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971:, Alt2: ... that during the last ice age, the 3,784 ft (1,153 m) tall Gibraltar Mountain (pictured) was fully engulfed by the Cordilleran ice sheet?

Sources added for clarity on the fact. The northern 2/3s of Ferry County was fully covered by the ice sheet which blocked the Columbia river to the south. Also as a note. for anyone interested in general geology, geography, or topogrpahy, all three are interesting facts that would incite link clicking. DYKINT is hypersubjective to claim for the 25 million people that view the main page during any given day.--Kevmin § 17:24, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@Kevmin: Checking out the four sources that are in the article to support ALT2 where the claim is made, I find one 404 link and three sources that do not mention Gibraltar Mtn ([45], [46], [47]). This suggests a bit of WP:SYNTH is going on, certainly more than I can accept in a DYK hook. Is the source for this claim located elsewhere in the article? If so, please flag it for me so I can review. As for your comment about subjectivity, indeed, interestingness is subjective and yet each DYK reviewer is required to provide their own considered assessment of it, and one never knows who might choose to review one's nomination. As someone who has traveled extensively in Washington and knows its geography very well, I am quite familiar with the geologic history of the state and even ALT2 I find not particularly interesting (much of the eastern half of the state was formed by the movement and rapid melting of the Cordilleran ice sheet, so this is not a unique feature of Gibraltar Mountain), although it is more interesting than ALT0 and ALT1. Any other ideas? Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:28, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: Most people outside of Washington DONT know the impact of the iceage on the regional geology, do not let personal experience impact that. I have updated the 2006 Community wildfire plan link [Ferry County, Washington Community Wildfire Protection Plan here]. Regarding SYNTH, no the sources are in agreement that the northern 2/3 of Ferry County were covered by the Cordilleran Ice sheet with the ice being an estimated mile in thickness. I'm sorry I cant find a source that details every single mountain peak with an annotated note about the ice being over the height of the mountain. Do you perhaps feel that as a extensive traveler of the area you are jaded to the options presented? Reviewers are suggested to look at interestingness, but how are you to determine what an average 5,900,090 people from across the globe will like? Another option is its very common for reviewers to make suggestions of what they think are the interesting points, and not just repeat requests of the nominator to provide alt hooks.--Kevmin § 20:36, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

@Kevmin: I don't really understand what you're getting at here. First you said that anyone interested in general geology, geography, or topogrpahy would find your hooks interesting, thus implying that I am not interested in those subjects since I did not find your hooks interesting. Then you said I am too jaded based on my experience. What is it? WP:DYKINT does not ask us to determine what an average 5,900,090 people from across the globe will find interesting, it asks reviewers to note what is likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing by readers with no special knowledge or interest in the topic. Your first two hooks can be basically summarized as "this mountain is prominent in this place" and "this mountain has one steep slope". My judgment was that these would not be unusual or intriguing to unfamiliar readers. I did find ALT2 mildly interesting for those readers, but it fails WP:DYKCITE since the sources cited do not indicate that Gibraltar Mountain was covered by the ice sheet or even that it is in the portion of the county that was covered by the ice sheet. Finally, while many reviewers may suggest their own alternatives (and is something I've done before when time permits), WP:DYKRI does not require it or even suggest it. Given the way you've responded to my review thus far, I feel increasingly that devoting more of my volunteer time to reviewing this nomination will not be fruitful, but I'm willing to take one final look before closing the review or turning it over to another reviewer. Dclemens1971 (talk) 21:37, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

1939 Brighton Audax crash

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The aftermath of the crash

• ... that a bedridden woman watched a plane crash into her home through her bedroom mirror? Source: "Mrs Cook, a bedridden occupant of an adjoining flat, saw the whole occurence reflected in her bedroom mirror" - Sydney Morning Herald, 13 February 1939
  • Reviewed:

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

harrz ^talk 16:19, 3 September 2025 (UTC).

• I'll take this as my first DYK review:

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: None required.

Overall: Great job on this. It was a compelling hook for an adequately sized article with decent reliable sourcing. I feel good to give this hook the go ahead! CaptainGalaxy 20:10, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Captain Galaxy and harrz, the image will not be used per WP:DYKDIVERT. Earth605 (talk) 14:41, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Earth605 Can I ask what part of DYKDIVERT does the image violate? CaptainGalaxy 16:16, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Captain Galaxy The media must be suitable The hook is about somebody that saw a plane crash happening. The image is about the aftermath of such crash. Earth605 (talk) 17:17, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Earth605 I would argue that it would be suitable as the image is of the crash that the woman saw. But I'm not going to argue, I will back down. CaptainGalaxy 17:22, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Captain Galaxy Just recapping and courtesy pinging. She saw the crash. The image depicts the aftermath. Not arguing, just pinging. Earth605 (talk) 17:34, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Just noting that I would be fine with the image. The linked article is about the plane crash. This image is the topmost infobox image for that article. It shows the tail of the plane sticking out of the house that it crashed into. There is no other linked "aftermath" article to divert a reader into. That said, there are typically more image hooks than image hook slots and many must be promoted without their images, so it would remain up to the promoter. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 09:36, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

• Harrz, @Captain Galaxy and @Rjjiii, the source states "Mrs Cook, a bedridden occupant of an adjoining flat, saw the whole occurrence reflected in her bedroom mirror". That doesn't support the hook. Please provide a new hook. TarnishedPath^talk 13:25, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

As this was my mistake, I shall adjust the current hook to be able to match:

• ALT1 ... that a bedridden woman watched a plane crash next to her home through her bedroom mirror? Source: "Mrs Cook, a bedridden occupant of an adjoining flat, saw the whole occurence reflected in her bedroom mirror" - Sydney Morning Herald, 13 February 1939

@TarnishedPath, I hope this can satisfy the request. CaptainGalaxy 14:21, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

@Captain Galaxy, I'm not sure if it's as interesting anymore as compared to when I thought it crashed into her own house. I'll leave it for another reviewer to decide and propose that the following may work better:

• ALT1a ... that a bedridden woman watched a plane crash into an adjoining flat through her bedroom mirror?

TarnishedPath^talk 08:47, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Sorry I've only just seen all these new messages. I wasn't sure what the best way to phrase it would be, but I'll try to explain what happened to see if anyone has any ideas. Basically, the plane crashed into a house which had been converted into a small number of apartments. This woman lived in one of the other apartments in the building and watched the whole ordeal through a mirror. I was orginally going to write "her building" rather than "her home" but I wasn't sure if that makes sense. harrz ^talk 10:09, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

ALT2: ... that the 1939 Brighton Audax crash was watched in real time by a bedridden woman through her mirror?--Launchballer 15:52, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 28

Arthur Herbert Thompson, Canción Animal

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• ... that Arthur Herbert Thompson died in the same day as his younger brother but one year earlier?

• Source: https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=PYoFBQAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y

• ALT1: ... that Gustavo Cerati had to convince CBS to let them record Canción Animal in the Criteria Studios? Source: https://www.google.com.ar/books/edition/Alg%C3%BAn_tiempo_atr%C3%A1s_La_vida_de_Gustavo/suO3EAAAQBAJ?hl=es-419&gbpv=0
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Improved to Good Article status by Crispybeatle (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Crispybeatle (talk)

12:30, 2 September 2025 (UTC).

• @Crispybeatle: Unless I'm missing something, it looks like you are nominating two completely separate articles, with the intent of having both hooks run. Dual nominations like this are reserved for when you're nominating a hook that includes multiple bold-faced articles. Please create a separate nomination for Canción Animal. Otherwise, a reviewer looking at this may approve only one of your hooks. (Also, the article you're nominating should be in boldface for both hooks.) Epicgenius (talk) 13:36, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Rejecting Canción Animal as ineligible per WP:DYKNEW (it's currently a GA nominee only); full review needed for Arthur Herbert Thompson.--Launchballer 11:12, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Reviewing Thompson only. The article was promoted to GA status within seven days of the nomination. I did not find any close paraphrasing, and the article is adequately sourced. No QPQ is needed for a nominator with less than give nominations. The hook is awkwardly written: I would instead suggest wording along the lines of "that footballer Arthur Herbert Thompson was killed on the first anniversary of his brother's death?" (I'm not sure if the mention of the battle is necessary or not). The main issue I have right now is the sourcing: neither of the sources used to cite the "death anniversary" angle actually confirm that September 25 was his brother's date of death. One source does not mention Sidney's date of death at all as far as I can tell, the other says he disappeared on that day but does not outright say he died then. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:59, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 29

Virtual unfolding

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Severely charred Diss Heywood scroll

• ... that non-destructive virtual unfolding was used to read burned or otherwise highly damaged scrolls (example pictured)? Source: Scientists have developed brand new techniques to reveal the hidden text inside damaged and unreadable scrolls., etc, see in the article
  • ALT1: ... that non-destructive virtual unfolding was used to read burned or otherwise highly damaged scrolls (example pictured) from Pompeii, Ancient Egypt, Medieval England, Mongolia, and other places? Source: same as ALT0 but with more details. for each scroll see sources in the relevant section
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Albert Gatschet

Created by Artem.G (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 28 past nominations.

Artem.G (talk) 12:23, 5 September 2025 (UTC).

Eyebrow Talk

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• ... that the first Chinese literary magazine for women (cover pictured) was censored for its sexual content and frequent nudity?

• Source: for 'first Chinese literary magazine for women': Sun, Liying; Hockx, Michel (2019). "Dangerous Fiction and Obscene Images: Textual-Visual Interplay in the Banned Magazine Meiyu and Lu Xun's Role as Censor, pp. 36–37

for 'censored for its sexual content': Hockx, Michel. "Raising Eyebrows: The Journal Eyebrow Talk and the Regulation of 'Harmful Fiction' in Modern China". p. 77, 85

for 'censored for its nudity': Sun & Hockx 2019, pp. 38–40

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Diane Orr
  • Comment: Because the question will likely be raised, we've featured artistic nudity above the waist on the front page before; see Female Figure (Giambologna), Feast of the Gods (art), nude study in autochrome by Arnold Genthe. The image is appropriately tame by modern standards, but evidently not the 1910s'!

Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 122 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 16:27, 30 August 2025 (UTC).

• This is not a review, but perhaps the greater concern here for DYK purposes is if it really is the "first Chinese literary magazine for women". That is a "first" hook, and per WP:DYKHOOKCITE, such superlative claims require exceptional sourcing (and ideally a search for possible counterexamples), since ERRORS might throw a fit if it turns out to be false. One solution could be to change "the first" to simply "a", but admittedly that might lessen the hook's punch. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:48, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

@Generalissima: Please address the above.--Launchballer 11:42, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: Would "an early Chinese literary magazine for women" work? Emphasizes that it was one of the first at least Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 18:09, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

It's definitely a safer wording at least. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:30, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on August 30

Angus Watt (financial advisor)

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• ... that Angus Watt was once a financial advisor, broadcaster, diplomat, and colonel at the same time?

• Source: "...Angus Watt, who not only continued to run a successful financial planning company and broadcast each week on Global TV Edmonton and 630 CHED, but found time as Honorary Consul of the Netherlands to visit Queen Beatrix. Watt is also the honorary lieutenant-colonel of the Southern Alberta Light Horse (SALH)."

(Edmonton Journal ) Later retired at the rank of Colonel (Government of Alberta)

• ALT1: ... that Angus Watt started his finance career mainly because of where his girlfriend's friend's father worked?

• Source: "After graduating in 1974, Watt immediately became a rookie at McLeod Young Weir in Toronto. At the time, the father of a friend of his girlfriend’s worked there—the main reason Watt joined." (Advisor's Edge)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Space-Time Painter
• Comment: Should the hook note the diplomatic and military roles are honorary?

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

Yeeno (talk) 23:06, 31 August 2025 (UTC).

Mukund Varadarajan

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• ... that Mukund Varadarajan killed two terrorist commanders in South Kashmir before succumbing to the wounds the second inflicted?

• Source: Shiv Aroor; Rahul Singh (2017). India's most fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes. Penguin Random House. pp. 137–139, 145. ISBN 978-9-38681-542-2.

• ALT1: ... that before he killed two terrorist commanders in South Kashmir, Mukund Varadarajan worked at a business outsourcing center? Source: "Major Worked at BPO Before Realising Childhood Dream". The New Indian Express. 27 April 2014. Archived from the original on 28 April 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Life of a Showgirl

Improved to Good Article status by Magentic Manifestations (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 64 past nominations.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:38, 30 August 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on August 31

Damaris Gelabert

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• ... that the children's music singer Damaris Gelabert was the first Catalan music channel on YouTube to win a Silver Button?

• Source: https://el9nou.cat/valles-oriental/general/damaris-gelabert-guanya-el-boto-de-plata-de-youtube/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gilles of Saumur
• Comment: Musical article for women in red

Created by Moondragon21 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 23 past nominations.

Moondragon21 (talk) 20:36, 31 August 2025 (UTC).

Barbara Buczek

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• ... that Barbara Buczek intentionally composed music so that it was nearly impossible to perform all of its intricacies?

• Source: [48] "She wrote pieces with such a complicated texture and so difficult to perform that a precise realisation of all of the details of the composition is almost impossible."

• ALT1: ... that Barbara Buczek intentionally composed music so that it was nearly impossible to perform all of its intricacies, and called it the "charm of impossibility"? Source: [49] "She wrote pieces with such a complicated texture and so difficult to perform that a precise realisation of all of the details of the composition is almost impossible. The composer defined this idea as "the charm of impossibility.""
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ida Barber
• Comment: Feel free to improve the wording or rephrase.

5x expanded by Spiderpig662 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

Spiderpig662 (talk) 20:53, 31 August 2025 (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: Very nice article. Suggest rephrasing the hooks to: ALT0a: ... that Barbara Buczek intentionally composed music so intricate that it was nearly impossible to realise all of its details?

and ALT1a: ... that Barbara Buczek believed that her intricate music compositions had the "charm of impossibility"? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:12, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

• Reviewing for promotion and I found a significant section of WP:CLOP. Compare these grafs:
  • Buczek defended her doctoral dissertation at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin in 1990 with her thesis hesis "Meeting of contemporary music with plastic arts as a problem of philosophy of culture. The years 1945-1990". She was also a member of the international association of Frau und Musik and the Grupa Krakowska artistic association. (article)
  • In 1990 she defended her doctoral dissertation in the Faculty of Humanities of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin with a thesis "Meeting of contemporary music with plastic arts as a problem of philosophy of culture. The years 1945-1990." She belonged to the Grupa Krakowska artistic association and the international association of Frau und Musik. (source)
• More is visible via Copyvio Detector. Pulling from the approved section to be addressed. Courtesy ping @AirshipJungleman29 and Spiderpig662: Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:26, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: I have now adjusted the wording in the section. Let me know if this is sufficient or needs further work. Spiderpig662 (talk) 19:58, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Trade and Industry Bank

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• ... that the first Lithuanian bank was bankrupt after nine years of operation?

• Source: Terleckas 2000, p. 46, 57

• ALT1: ... that many prominent Lithuanian figures believed that investing in the country's first bank was patriotic? Source: Terleckas 1999, p. 57.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sakalava empire

Created by Renata3 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 72 past nominations.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:52, 5 September 2025 (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: Article was created within a week of the nomination and is 2,526 words (16,271 characters) long. The article is fully-sourced, neutral and plagiarism-free (per Earwig results). Assuming good faith on the Lithuanian-language sources for the hooks. I think the hooks are interesting, although I think there are other details in the article that are more interesting (i.e. the reasons for its bankruptcy, the trials of the bankers, etc.) QPQ is done. I'm happy to pass this as is, but would suggest one or two more ALT hooks that would really grab the reader. Grnrchst (talk) 11:09, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

• Thanks for the review Grnrchst. I don't find much that definitely meets DYKINT in the areas you've outlined. What hooks would you suggest? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:13, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
  • Something along the lines of:

    ALT2 "... that Lithuania's first bank went bankrupt after extending favourable loans for overvalued assets without obtaining guarantees?"

    ALT3 "... that the chairmen of Lithuania's first bank were convicted for criminal negligence after the bank collapsed?"

I think I find the information in ALT2 interesting because of the parallels it had with the 2008 crash, although that might just be me. --Grnrchst (talk) 11:22, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Reviews needed for ALTs 2 and 3. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:08, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

@Renata3, Grnrchst, and AirshipJungleman29: ALT2 has lots of technical terms and I don't find ALT3 particularly interesting. In my opinion, the best hook on this page is ALT0; please provide a quote from the source.--Launchballer 03:17, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Quote: "Surastas vienintelis 1922 m. banko akcininkų sąrašas (jame įrašytos 203 pavardės) rodo, kad vos ne visas tautos žiedas dėjosi į banką iš patriotizmo: buvo garbė ir pareiga pinigais paremti pirmąjį tautinį banką."

Translation: "The only known list of shareholders of the bank from 1922 (with 203 names) shows that almost the entire elite of the nation contributed to the bank out of patriotism: it was an honor and a duty to support the first national bank." Renata•3 04:00, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. And for the bankrupt bit?--Launchballer 04:01, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

You can see English summary of Terleckas article with years of establishment and insolvency on page 62 of Terleckas (1999) article. Renata•3 04:48, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Good enough for me.--Launchballer 11:46, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Renata3 and Launchballer: I'm not familiar with the sources for this article, but ALT3 seems like it is missing some qualifier like "national" or "central". Vilnius Land Bank was already operating when the Republic of Lithuania was founded, and the country's first president even worked there. Also, in the article, the relationship between the Trade and Industry Bank and the Bank of Lithuania was unclear to me. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 10:20, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@Rjjiii: Vilnius Land Bank was a Russian bank. Trade and Industry Bank was the first bank founded and funded by Lithuanians. Bank of Lithuania was founded in 1922 and many of the same people worked at both banks leading to massive conflicts of interest when Bank of Lithuania considered bailing out the Trade and Industry Bank. Renata•3 11:55, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

• The hook has been pulled per this discussion. The hook's claim of this being Lithuania's first bank was challenged, so the hook proposals will need to be modified. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:01, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on September 1

Aline Sitoe Diatta

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• ... that when Aline Sitoe Diatta's death was announced, forty years after she died, she was declared a "heroine of Senegal"?

• Source: Baum 2009, p. 52; Baum 2016, p. 157.

• ALT1: ... that in Dakar, Aline Sitoe Diatta is often called "the woman who was more than a man"? Source: Toliver-Diallo 2005, p. 342.
• ALT2: ... that although Senegal commemorates Aline Sitoe Diatta has a heroic figure of resistance, some scholars have argued that she did not have strong links to anti-colonial resistance? Source: Toliver 1999, p. 210, O'Donoghue 2024, pp. 484–485.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ostjuden

Improved to Good Article status by Spookyaki (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 75 past nominations.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:59, 8 September 2025 (UTC).

• As the GA nominator, thank you. Frequently forget to go DYK noms in the required time frame. Personally would remove one of the commas from the first proposal ("...that when Aline Sitoe Diatta's death was announced forty years after she died, she was declared...") and might rephrase ALT2 as "...that although Senegal commemorates Aline Sitoe Diatta has a heroic figure of anti-colonial resistance, some scholars have argued that she did not have strong links to said resistance?" But otherwise am quite happy with these. Not a formal review, though. Spookyaki (talk) 18:19, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Bukit Gombak MRT station

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Roof of Bukit Gombak

• ... that Bukit Gombak station's roof (pictured) was described by The Straits Times to have an inverted V-shaped roof, reminiscent of the Housing and Development Board logo?

• Source: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19850916-1.2.23.23?qt=%22chinese%20garden%22&q=%22chinese%20garden%22, https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19870413-1.2.25.11

• ALT1: ... that Bukit Gombak station's roof (pictured) was described by The Straits Times to be reminiscent of the Housing and Development Board (HDB) logo, as it is located in a HDB estate? Source: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19850916-1.2.23.23?qt=%22chinese%20garden%22&q=%22chinese%20garden%22, https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19870413-1.2.25.11
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Architectural Fragment, Template:Did you know nominations/2025 Leagues Cup final
• Comment: Open to getting rid of the image entirely. Alternatively, a double nomination with Bukit Batok MRT station could be possible.

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

Icepinner 06:49, 6 September 2025 (UTC).

• @Icepinner: I see that Bukit Batok MRT station is currently being reviewed at GA. What hooks were you thinking of?--Launchballer 10:36, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

  @Launchballer: Well, I was probably thinking of something like:

ALT0a: ...that Bukit Gombak and Bukit Batok stations' roof were described by The Straits Times to have an inverted V-shaped roof, reminiscent of the Housing and Development Board logo?

ALT1a: ... that Bukit Gombak and Bukit Batok stations' roof were described by The Straits Times to be reminiscent of the Housing and Development Board (HDB) logo, as they are located in HDB estates?

ALT0a would probably be more interesting, though the addition of Bukit Batok in both hooks would result in removing the images, which is something I'm okay with. If one of them passed for DYK, then the other wouldn't have a chance at DYK, so that's why I'm suggesting a double nom. Icepinner 11:15, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Update: Bukit Batok passed GAN. Icepinner 09:35, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Alright, let's see a QPQ.--Launchballer 12:24, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Have added my QPQ :) Icepinner 15:05, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on September 3

SS D. M. Clemson (1903)

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D. M. Clemson

• ... that the freighter D. M. Clemson (pictured) is the largest undiscovered shipwreck on the Great Lakes?

• Source: Source: Lost Leviathans: Lake Superior by Brendon Baillod

• ALT1: ... that the freighter D. M. Clemson (pictured) was one of the largest vessels on the Great Lakes in 1903? Source: "Two New Boats to Be Launched" - The Duluth News Tribune (2 July 1903) p. 8
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Toloza
• Comment: This article reached the 5 x threshold a week after the expansion began. I, however, was unable to make a timely nomination due to time constraints in real life.

5x expanded by Saltymagnolia (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 30 past nominations.

✦ Saltymagnolia ✦ 15:39, 12 September 2025 (UTC).

Ruth El Saffar, Diana de Armas Wilson, Rapture Encaged, Quixotic Desire

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• ... that a hospitalized Ruth El Saffar had to dictate the introduction of her final book Rapture Encaged to Diana de Armas Wilson, with whom she co-edited Quixotic Desire a year earlier? Source: Ruth's final book, entitled Rapture Encaged: The Suppression of the Feminine in Western Culture, was published a few days after her death. Six months earlier, during one bleakly autumnal afternoon in the cancer hospital in Zion, Ruth, by then too frail to write, dictated to me [Diana de Armas Wilson] the book's moving introduction. The culmination of a lifetime of writing, this last book attempts to tie up whatever broken threads were left from her work as a cervantista. + Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes. Ed. Ruth Anthony El Saffar and Diana de Armas Wilson. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993. 332 pages
  • ALT1: ... that after co-editing Quixotic Desire together, a hospitalized Ruth El Saffar had to dictate the introduction of her final book Rapture Encaged to Diana de Armas Wilson? Source: Same as ALT0
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hurles Scales (Ruth El Saffar), Template:Did you know nominations/Muller Hill (Diana de Armas Wilson), Template:Did you know nominations/Van Hackett (Rapture Encaged), and Template:Did you know nominations/Luke S. May (Quixotic Desire)
  • Comment: Oh, boy, a fearsome foursome. Not every day I have a chance to do this, let alone time to do the needed QPQs (I'll try to get the fourth one by 11:59pm EST QPQ 4 done). At least it helps with the t-limit part of the backlog. BTW there's a bullet list in Quixotic Desire that Prosesize won't catch, but the page is still above 1.5k.

Created by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 104 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 19:40, 6 September 2025 (UTC).

• Note: In case anyone's reviewing this: Project MUSE has finally reopened for TWL users, so I'm gonna add this source to Quixotic Desire by tomorrow EST. ミラP@Miraclepine 03:03, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
  • Now I've added the ref. ミラP@Miraclepine 17:53, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Ed McCann

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• ... that Ed McCann chose a career in civil engineering after being dissuaded from other branches of engineering by their military applications?

• Source: "McCann was 17 when he first decided to become a civil engineer and it was mostly the reuslt of conversations and a desire to not kill anyone .... I was sent off to a careers fair and there were three engineering stalls that I was drawn to ... I went to the electrical engineering one first and asked what the man at the stall did and he told me that he was designing missile guidance systems. So next I went to the mechanical engineering stall and asked what the man there was working on and he said he designed tank propulsion system, I felt like a theme was developing. I then moved onto the civil engineer ... and I asked him about his work and he told me that he worked on water supply schemes, roads and railways" from: "The Social Engineer". New Civil Engineer. December 2021. pp. 21–22.

• ALT1: ... that Ed McCann said that five secrets from Chris Hoy helped him to design a fast track for the London 2012 velodrome? Source: "McCann cites the success of designing a fast track cycling venue as the result of a conversation with cyclist Chris Hoy who explained the five tricks to designing a record-breaking velodrome" from the same source
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cocoa production in Samoa

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 943 past nominations.

Dumelow (talk) 18:19, 3 September 2025 (UTC).

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Kızılırmak Delta

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• ... that after water buffalo have helped to maintain the Kızılırmak Delta they are turned into sujuk?

• Source: https://www.sondakika.com/guncel/haber-samsun-da-manda-islah-projesi-basladi-18527245/ “ Halbuki değişik bölgelerde baktığımızda biz özel üretimlerin manda etinden mesela bir sucuğun özel üretim denildiği zaman bunu manda etinden yapıyorlar.” Translation:“ For example, when a sausage is called special production, they're made from buffalo meat.”

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Alilot Devarim

Improved to Good Article status by Chidgk1 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 41 past nominations.

Chidgk1 (talk) 07:37, 6 September 2025 (UTC).

Ecclesiastical trial of Stewart Ruch

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• ... that the 2025 ecclesiastical trial of Stewart Ruch had three successive prosecutors during its first three weeks?

• Source: "Three weeks after proceedings began in the Anglican Church in North America trial of Bishop Stewart Ruch, another prosecutor has been appointed — the third named to the role after the previous prosecutors resigned." Religion News Service, https://religionnews.com/2025/08/04/third-prosecutor-in-acna-trial-of-bishop-ruch-is-appointed/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John Stonebraker

Moved to mainspace by Dclemens1971 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 19 past nominations.

Dclemens1971 (talk) 17:45, 4 September 2025 (UTC).

Frederic Willans

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• ... that Surgeon-Apothecary Sir Frederic Willans summoned the Archbishop of Canterbury to attend to the final moments of British king George V?

• Source: "went to my room to be quiet and await my summons to the King's side for the last minutes . It came through Sir Frederick Willans about 11.15 p.m." from: Lockhart, John Gilbert (1949). Cosmo Gordon Lang. Hodder and Stoughton. p. 392.

• ALT1: ... that Frederic Willans succeeded his father-in-law as Surgeon-Apothecary to the Household at Sandringham in 1924? Source: "Willans, Sir F. Jeune ... succeeded Sir Alan Manby as Surgeon-Apothecary to the Household at Sandringham in 1924" from:Matthews, Leslie Gerald (1967). The Royal Apothecaries. Wellcome Historical Medical Library. p. 170. "In 1916 he married Wynefred , only daughter of the late Sir Alan Manby , of Sandringham" from: The Lancet. J. Onwhyn. 1949. p. 245.
• ALT2: ... that Sir Frederic Willans attended the deathbeds of Alexandra of Denmark and George V of the United Kingdom? Source: as above and "he was in attendance at the death of Queen Alexandra in 1925" from: Pope-Hennessy, James; Vickers, Hugo (20 September 2018). The Quest for Queen Mary. Hodder & Stoughton. p. 282. ISBN 978-1-5293-3063-2.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Aso Tateno Dam

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 944 past nominations.

Dumelow (talk) 14:23, 4 September 2025 (UTC).

Homeopathy Unrefuted?

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Poster for the 2022 documentary *Homeopathy Unrefuted?*, featuring sugar reflected in a mirror as homeopathic globules.

• ... that using the Socratic method on homeopaths, as done in Homeopathy Unrefuted? (poster pictured), can prove devastating for their claims?

• Source: Cited at ref 3 in the article: Hippen, Wilfried; Die Tageszeitung, 8 February 2022, p. 24, ISSN 0931-9085. (in German)

• ALT1: ... that Homeopathy Unrefuted? (poster pictured) never sets out to disprove homeopathy—yet its practitioners often end up doing it themselves? Source: per source 1 in article: Thiam, Boussa (February 14, 2022). "Die Widersprüche der Koryphäen". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German).
• ALT2: ... that in Homeopathy Unrefuted? (poster pictured), when homeopaths finish explaining their therapy, few consistent principles remain? Source: per source 1 in article: Thiam, Boussa (February 14, 2022). "Die Widersprüche der Koryphäen". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German).
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Created by KAMfakten (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

KAMfakten (talk) 13:34, 4 September 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: I bolded the article you are nominating, please make sure to bold them next time. Thanks Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 11:35, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

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Wong Siew Te

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Wong in 2025

• ... that Wong Siew Te (pictured), a Malaysian wildlife biologist and conservationist, founded and became CEO of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre in 2008?

• Source: Tan, Cheng Li (2014-05-05). "Sun bears: At home in the forest". The Star. Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2025-08-01.

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

Pangalau (talk) 02:23, 11 September 2025 (UTC).

• This is only a partial review for now: the article was indeed promoted to Good Article status on time so at least that's okay. My main concern is the hook: not only does it not meet WP:DYKINT as being a conservationist being the leader of a conservation group is not surprising or unusual, but it even vaguely sounds promotion. A different hook is needed here: I will do the full review once that is done. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:22, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@Pangalau: The nomination may be marked for closure if you are unable to propose a new hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:12, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Matthew Vickers

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• ... that Matthew Vickers, who specialised in Italian opera, made his debut in Italy singing in the French opera Carmen?
• ALT1: ... that Matthew Vickers, who specialised in Italian opera, made his debut in Italy singing in French?

• Source: Vickers' specialised in Italian singing style (bel canto) operascout profile His opera resume shows almost exclusively Italian opera till he went to Italy, with the exceptions one production of Carmen (French) and one of Susannah (English). resume In an interview in Italy, he noted how that was funny to him. video interview, c. 2 min..

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• Comment: I recently created the articles about Vickers on de.wikipedia and en.wikipedia, and learned that he is a specialist in Italian operas, who ironically sang Bizet's French opera Carmen as his first opera in Europe, in Italy of all places. His first performance in Germany was also in French, in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, but I thought that singing French in Italy would be a better hook, without mentioning the second time that happened. (He actually did sing in Italian in Italy just days after his debut in French!)

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

Suchfaktor (talk) 16:32, 9 September 2025 (UTC).

• The article was converted from a redirect within seven days of creation and also meets the length requirements. Most of the article is properly sourced, although the "Video" and "Awards" sections need a reference. As the nominator has no prior nominations, no QPQ is needed here. The hook is cited inline and verified; however, given how Carmen is one of the world's most famous operas, I do not see how him performing Carmen is by itself interesting to a broad audience, so a different hook angle may be needed here. As this is an opera article, I am requesting help from 4meter4 regarding possible hook suggestions, as well as to give advice to the nominator regarding DYK. I also see that the nominator is largely inactive on the English Wikipedia and has not edited since the 10th, so if they are unable to return, I am also inviting 4meter4 to adopt the nomination. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:51, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: I think you might have missed the point of the hook. The singer specializes in the Italian language repertory and it was therefore ironic that his stage debut in Italy was not in an Italian language opera but in a French language one. That's what the nominator I think was trying to get at. Note that language is not the only thing that separates these operas because different approaches to singing and different styles and performance traditions developed in each country, so it isn't just a matter of singing in a different language. One has to learn the diverging styles and performance tradition associated with the rep as well. That said, it's not unusual for opera singers to specialize in a certain repertory (ie French opera, Italian opera, Russian opera, Czech opera, German opera, etc.) but on occasion go outside that into another area of opera. Most singers won't stay entirely in a single repertoire during their career; partly because a more diverse repertoire keeps them employed, and partly because singers are often expected to tackle roles of varying kinds if they are a member of a repertory company. I wouldn't find this fact particularly unusual or surprising for that reason, and the subtlety of the hook might be missed. I'll give it a read and see if something else might be better. Best.4meter4 (talk) 14:13, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@4meter4: I was aware of that, the thought I had was that the language did not really matter because, as far as I am aware, it is common for opera performers to specialize in multiple operas of different origins. The context you gave might still be too specialist regardless, so this is probably not the best angle to go with anyway. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:17, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: I think for people ignorant of opera (which is most people) they would find it surprising that someone known for singing in Italian would perform in French instead in Italy. It's the informed people like you and me that don't find it interesting. One would have to know opera singers are tackling different language rep routinely to find it boring. I'd be ok with this running for that reason since this is a DYK newbie if we can't come up with something better. Perhaps a covid-19 pandemic hook from the 75th anniversary of Opera Delaware? That's the only unusual thing that is really sticking out to me.4meter4 (talk) 14:25, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Honestly I'm not really a fan of COVID hooks as I feel like that's a horse that's been beaten to death on DYK. Perhaps you could find more information about him that could be added to the article? Maybe Viriditas also has some other ideas on possible hooks. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:38, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5 Honestly, I don't think we are going to do better. He's your typical principal tenor performing in the standard opera repertoire at respectable mainly second tier opera houses in Europe. There's nothing really unusual about his work, and he isn't a top star in the big houses but he is singing major roles in the next step down theaters. The coverage of him is largely in the context of reviews of individual operas. Only one of the sources is specifically about him and his career, and it is behind a paywall which I can't access. I kind of doubt there is going to be anything there but anything is possible. Respectfully, I think we've highlighted the only two possibilities in this discussion. I do think you should weigh the need to support a first time nominator in the decision process, and not be too picky/demanding. It's not like this is a routine contributor throwing up the same problematic hooks (no name dropping required). We can run another covid hook; particularly in support of a first time nominator.4meter4 (talk) 15:08, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

I mean if there's coverage out there about his personal life that could be added to the article. If there really isn't anything more we can do, we could discuss the COVID angle depending on how it's worded, and then present ALT0 and that ALT1 to further discussion by other editors to see their DYKINT compliance. I'm also still waiting for Viriditas to provide advice given they've been helpful in previous opera nominations. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:14, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to consider my nomination! I found it amusing that a tenor who focused on Italian repertoire made his debut in Italy singing in French, and I won't be upset if that's not enough for a DYK. I found additional material about Vickers' life (especially during the pandemic) in video interviews and social media that would make for a very interesting article, but due to the nature of the sources, I did not use that. I added references to the Video and Awards sections now. They had been in the de.wikipedia article, I must have missed them. Perhaps a shorter version of the hook would be better to take the focus off Carmen, that's not the funny part after all – "DYK ... that Matthew Vickers, who specialised in Italian opera, made his debut in Italy singing in French?" Suchfaktor (talk) 06:26, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

I would be okay with that. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:28, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Great, then let's use Alt 1! (I saw that variations are called Alt, so I changed that above.) Suchfaktor (talk) 05:18, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I was ready to approve ALT1, however, the article and the hook don't exactly match. The article says he made his debut in a French opera, but the hook says he debuted in [the] French [language]. My knowledge of opera is admittedly limited so I don't know if it is common for Italian or French operas to be performed in other languages, but the wording is ambiguous enough that a minor reword may be needed here. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:15, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: Thanks for pointing that out! I didn't know there was an Italian version of Carmen, but you're right, there is. I've changed the sentence to make it clear that it was actually performed in the original French, which fortunately is mentioned in the sources I cited. Suchfaktor (talk) 18:29, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the edit. However, reference 12 (which is about Carmen) does not seem to outright say that he performed the role in French. Does he say so in reference 11 (the YouTube link)? If so, could you please provide a timestamp to the relevant part? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:31, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5:Right, it's implied in Reference 12. The last sentence under the Carmen picture on the left says "In lingua originale con sopratitoli in italiano e in inglese" [In original language with surtitles in Italian and in English], and the original language of Carmen is French. However, in Reference 11, after about 41 seconds, Vickers says: "[...]I will make my debut in Italy in French." I can look for another reference if that's not enough; maybe I'll find a review. Suchfaktor (talk) 15:39, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Leik Myrabo

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• ... that Leik Myrabo invented Lightcraft?

• Source: # https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15721164-800-on-wings-of-light-tiny-spacecraft-are-flying-through-the-atmosphere-on-beams-of-laser-light-leonard-david-reports-on-the-start-of-a-new-age-of-cleaner-cheaper-space-flight/

1. https://www.space.com/7067-laser-propulsion-wild-idea-finally-shine.html
2. https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/16547598/high-power-laser-beam-launches-fuel-less-craft

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bohu laser facility
  • Comment: 5x expansion from:

• This version, which was 238 words and 1486 characters...
• this version, which is 1224 words and 8138 characters.
• 5.14x increase.

5x expanded by Very Polite Person (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

— Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 17:57, 8 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 6

Robert Uzgalis

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• ... that Robert Uzgalis made the Leaning Tower of Pisa straight?
  • Source: Source: Mirapaul, Matthew (July 9, 2001). "So Is It or Isn't It a Museum? Only the Web Suffix Knows". The New York Times. p. E2. Retrieved September 11, 2025.
  • Quote: "The Tigertail Virtual Museum is a Web site containing 5,000 famous works of art that Robert Uzgalis, the museum's director, has virtually restored. The works now look as he imagines they did at the time of their creation. Using software to alter images he has pulled from the Internet, Mr. Uzgalis intensifies colors on faded paintings and replaces body parts on chipped statues. He has even straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1931 Salvadoran presidential election; Template:Did you know nominations/Harold Putnam (Massachusetts politician); Template:Did you know nominations/Shel Hershon

Created by Viriditas (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 47 past nominations.

Viriditas (talk) 08:11, 12 September 2025 (UTC).

Rights Georgia

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• ... that "Article 42 of the Constitution" was created in 1997 and later changed its name to Rights Georgia?

• Source: https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/organization/rights-georgia "Rights Georgia, formerly known as Article 42 of the Constitution, ... Founded in 1997 ..." + https://www.statelessness.eu/about/members?f%5B3%5D=country_mem:717 "Rights Georgia (formerly known as "Article 42 of the Constitution") is a non-profit entity founded in September 1997"

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2025 US Caribbean naval deployment
• Comment: The hook aims to grab the reader who initially wonders about which constitution was written in 1997 or was extended to include a 42nd article in 1997, and wonders about whether it's the country Georgia or the US state Georgia, and so decides to seek more info by reading either the new article or the Georgian constitution article.

Created by Boud (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 23 past nominations.

Boud (talk) 16:06, 7 September 2025 (UTC).

Habib Mousa

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• ... that Habib Mousa wrote a song about the village of Enhil to object Turkification of Assyrian villages in Tur Abdin?

• Source: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003207221-10/big-secrets-small-villages-mary-akdemir

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Created by Surayeproject3 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Surayeproject3 (talk) 02:38, 7 September 2025 (UTC).

My Family Member

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• ... that My Dad, the first entry in My Family Member series of illustrated children books, was inspired by the author's discovery of his father’s old gown? Source: as mentioned, among others, in cited and footnoted Duncan (2013) and Evans (2020)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Giant Digger

Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 564 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:34, 6 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 7

Edward D. Maryon

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• ... that Edward D. Maryon's art was heavily influenced by his time at the Presidio of Monterey after being drafted into the Army?

• Source: Dibble 1983: "Professor Maryon's painting career began in the small hamlets near his Salt Lake City home, but it flowered along the ocean front of Northern California, inspired in a large measure by experiences during a two-year tour of duty in the Language School of the United States Army at the Presidio of Monterey, Calif. Waterfront scenes still motivate much of his work."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Flag of Ivory Coast

5x expanded by Usernameunique (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 85 past nominations.

Usernameunique (talk) 21:23, 14 September 2025 (UTC).

Dries Van Langendonck

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• ... that Dries Van Langendonck, the 2023 junior Karting World Champion, grew up adjacent to the corner where Gilles Villeneuve died?

• Source: https://www.rtbf.be/article/dries-van-langendonck-le-belge-champion-du-monde-de-karting-je-veux-continuer-a-m-amuser-11269148

• ALT1: ... that Dries Van Langendonck has been called "the great Belgian Formula One hope"? Source: https://sporza.be/nl/2025/06/04/het-beste-f1-team-ter-wereld-rekent-op-een-belg-dit-is-dries-van-langendonck-het-toptalent-dat-al-indruk-maakte-op-verstappen~1749043896349/
• ALT2: ... that Dries Van Langendonck, who won on debut in British F4, uses six hours of daily sim racing to make up for missed track time due to a lack of funding? Source: https://sporza.be/nl/2025/06/04/het-beste-f1-team-ter-wereld-rekent-op-een-belg-dit-is-dries-van-langendonck-het-toptalent-dat-al-indruk-maakte-op-verstappen~1749043896349/
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• Comment: I would say the main hook and ALT2 are more interesting bits of trivia, but ALT1 is more likely to draw pageviews.

5x expanded by Mb2437 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

MB2437 02:56, 11 September 2025 (UTC).

The Path to Rome

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• ... that one literary critic described Hilaire Belloc as "the quintessential carnival fool" in his own account of his pilgrimage to Rome?

• Source: Frassati Jakupcak 2015, p. 63

• ALT1: ... that The Path to Rome contains several passages where the narrator argues with an imagined reader who is often combative and confused? Source: Frassati Jakupcak 2015, p. 65
• ALT2: ... that Hilaire Belloc began his pilgrimage to Rome in Toul because that was where he had served as an artilleryman? Source: Belloc 1902, pp. viii, 13
• ALT3: ... that Hilaire Belloc described writing The Path to Rome as requiring "no research, no bother, no style, no anything"? Source: Pearce 2002, p. 83
• ALT4: ... that G. K. Chesterton praised Hilaire Belloc's The Path to Rome by calling its narration "flaming and reverberating folly"? Source: Pearce 2002, pp. 83–84
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nina Milkina

Moved to mainspace by ThaesOfereode (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 24 past nominations.

ThaesOfereode (talk) 10:18, 9 September 2025 (UTC).

Russian sabotage operations in Europe

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• ... that European officials have reported a surge of suspected Russian sabotage acts across the continent—including arson, GPS jamming, and infrastructure attacks—since 2022? Source: https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/05/12/russia-is-ramping-up-sabotage-across-europe
  • ALT1: ... that Russian sabotage in Europe is a type of hybrid warfare? Source: https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2024/11/russias-hybrid-war-in-europe-enters-a-dangerous-new-phase/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Harmony Cobel

Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 565 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:54, 7 September 2025 (UTC).

Typhoon Man-yi

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From left to right: Typhoons Yinxing, Toraji, Usagi, and Man-yi

• ... that Typhoon Man-yi (pictured) was one of the four tropical cyclones simultaneously active in November 2024, the first time such an event had occurred in a November since 1951? Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/12/climate/philippines-storms-west-pacific-intl-hnk/index.html

"It is the first time that four named storms have existed at the same time in November since records began in 1951, Japan’s Meteorological Agency confirmed to CNN Tuesday. It’s also the first time in seven years that it has happened in any month."

• • ALT1: ... that Typhoon Man-yi (pictured) was one of the four tropical cyclones active at the same time, the first time that happened since seven years? Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/12/climate/philippines-storms-west-pacific-intl-hnk/index.html

"It is the first time that four named storms have existed at the same time in November since records began in 1951, Japan’s Meteorological Agency confirmed to CNN Tuesday. It’s also the first time in seven years that it has happened in any month."

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  • Comment: May be presented in main page in November (presence of typhoon)

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

RFNirmala (talk) 01:51, 7 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 8

Regional Workers' Center of Paraguay

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• ... that although its predecessor had been dominated by European and Argentine immigrants, the Regional Workers' Center of Paraguay was largely made up of native Paraguayans?

• Source: Alexander, Robert J. (2005). "The Paraguayan Organized Workers before Stroessner". A History of Organized Labor in Uruguay and Paraguay. Parker, Eldon M. Praeger Publishers. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-275-97745-0.

• ALT1: ... that 5 years of conflict between workers of the Asunción tramway network and the Paraguayan police culminated with the Regional Workers' Center of Paraguay organising a general strike? Source: Alexander, Robert J. (2005). "The Paraguayan Organized Workers before Stroessner". A History of Organized Labor in Uruguay and Paraguay. Parker, Eldon M. Praeger Publishers. pp. 101–103. ISBN 978-0-275-97745-0.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jihadist insurgency in Benin

Improved to Good Article status by Grnrchst (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 65 past nominations.

Grnrchst (talk) 13:17, 9 September 2025 (UTC).

Nejishiki

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• ... that the godfather of manga referred to a surrealist one-shot as an "irrational gag manga"?

• Source: Holmberg, Ryan, ed. (2023). "Dreams and Wanderings: The Tsuge Yoshiharu Revolution, 1968–72". Nejishiki. Drawn & Quarterly. p. xxiii. ISBN 978-1-77046-506-0.

Quote: "Ergo, in 1977, when Tezuka, in his widely read How to Draw Manga, offered Nejishiki as his primary example of "irrational gag manga" [...] "

• ALT1: ... that the backgrounds in surrealist manga Nejishiki are inked photographs?

• Source: Holmberg, Ryan, ed. (2023). "Dreams and Wanderings: The Tsuge Yoshiharu Revolution, 1968–72". Nejishiki. Drawn & Quarterly. p. vi. ISBN 978-1-77046-506-0.

Quote: "Though Tsuge's appropriation of found photos was conservative by comparison--with just a few dozen documented swipes--not only did he copy photographs from some of the same books and magazines that Mizuki and his assistants did, sometimes he even used the exact same images."

• ALT2: ... that Nejishiki was a manga with a cult following among the 1960s avant-garde movement?

• Source: Holmberg, Ryan, ed. (2023). "Dreams and Wanderings: The Tsuge Yoshiharu Revolution, 1968–72". Nejishiki. Drawn & Quarterly. p. xxii. ISBN 978-1-77046-506-0.

Quote: "Nejishiki quickly became an icon of its era. It was frequently written about by prominent intellectuals and artists from a variety of fields, [...] spotlighted in publications about contemporary avant-garde culture, [...] "

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

Plifal (talk) 09:21, 9 September 2025 (UTC).

Way of the Warrior

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• ... that Way of the Warrior was filmed in an apartment with a cream-colored screen nailed to a wall, blocking all ventilation and pushing temperatures to 105 °F?

• Source: GameFan ("WOTW was developed on $80,000 out of our pocket in our den. The “blue” screen that we used (the only canvas we could find was actually cream screen) was nailed directly into the walls. (...) there was no ventilation through the windows because the canvas screen covered it. Yet we were using two 1000 watt lights. We had a thermometer in the apartment that hit 105 degrees during Nikki Chan’s filming!")

• ALT1: ... that neighbors thought Naughty Dog was filming adult films due to their setup of shooting the moves of Way of the Warrior from an apartment hallway? Source: Game Informer ("But as bad luck would have it, the apartment was too small. To film the moves in the game, Jason had to open the front door and shoot from the apartment hallway. The neighbors thought the boys were shooting kinky adult flicks.")
• ALT2: ... that Way of the Warrior was the first video game to feature music by Rob Zombie? Source: Game Informer (Page 31: "Rob Zombie seems to pop up on the soundtrack of about every other game released these days. What was the first game to feature the music of Mr. Zombie (or, in this case, his old band White Zombie)?" Page 33: "Way of the Warrior for the 3DO features “Thunderkiss ‘69" among other White Zombie songs. This game is also significant for being developed by Naughty Dog, which went on to create a manic vermin named Crash Bandicoot.")
• ALT3: ... that Harvard University's 1994 valedictorian, David R. Liu, was the lead tester for Way of the Warrior, and would promote the game in television interviews about his studies? Source: IGN ("And their lead tester? He was the Valedictorian of the Harvard class of 1994, a guy named David Liu. Liu’s not only famous for his academic pedigree, or because of his early work with Naughty Dog. He was a prolific, professional Street Fighter II player. “He was one of those savant guys at Street Fighter who’s just insanely good,” Gavin said. Liu would even try to plug Way of the Warrior during television interviews about his time at Harvard, and was on wanted lists at casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City for card counting.")
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ingersoll's Ordinary

Improved to Good Article status by Cat's Tuxedo (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 34 past nominations.

Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 03:22, 9 September 2025 (UTC).

Al Sheehan

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• ... that Al Sheehan was the WCCO expert on contract bridge, but did not know "one card from another"?

• Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-tribune-sheehan-1967/164105154/

• ALT1: ... that Al Sheehan was the WCCO expert on contract bridge, but did not know "a trump from a rubber"? Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=JSEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49 (see page 52)
• Reviewed: Symphony No. 2 (Brian) and Teen Week
• Comment: I volunteer two QPQ credits for one nomination, to help reduce the backlog of nominations without reviews.

Created by Flibirigit (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 168 past nominations.

Flibirigit (talk) 21:10, 8 September 2025 (UTC).

Mihoko Ishida

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• ... that Mihoko Ishida became a singer while playing football?

• Source: Oricon[歌手活動も行っている異色の現役女子サッカー選手・石田ミホコが、セカンドシングル「one for ALL」を本日22日（水）に発売した。Ishida Mihoko, an active female soccer player who also works as a singer, released her second single, "one for ALL," today, the 22nd (Wednesday).]

• ALT1: ... that Mihoko Ishida became a footballer, then a singer, then a coach? Source: The New York Times
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bruce Cathie
• Comment: I don't know football, I just expand this for destubbing effort and this was in risk of deletion. I also don't know how to phrase this hooks.this is the permalink before I expand it (243 characters). Special Thanks Svartner for bringing this to me.

5x expanded by Miminity (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 33 past nominations.

Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 14:47, 8 September 2025 (UTC).

Osmundastrum cinnamomeum

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A cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum) photographed in Virginia in May 2015, showing both sterile fronds and a developing fertile frond.

• ... that the modern Cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum) (pictured) has existed on Earth since the Cretaceous?

• Source: Osmundastrum cinnamomeum has a fossil record extending into the Late Cretaceous of North America, approximately 73 million years ago, making it one of the oldest living plant species.

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

Bubblesorg (talk) 14:02, 8 September 2025 (UTC).

• Fantastic work, Bubblesorg. Thank you for writing and nominating this. The article is fresh, more than sufficiently long, and comprehensive. I see no obvious copyright or neutrality issues. I see a couple of citation needed tags which need to be addressed. The Ecology subsection should be divided into subsections. I think the second paragraph in the Distribution section is too long and too precise; do we need to name each state when e.g. Eastern United States covers it? The hook is very good, though the parentheses are discouraged. I would suggest something like:
• ALT1: ... that the cinnamon fern (pictured) has existed since the time of the dinosaurs?
• ALT2: ... that the cinnamon fern (pictured) was probably eaten by dinosaurs, yet it still grows in the Americas and Asia?

Surtsicna (talk) 07:09, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

I would also note that the fossils discussion is only found in the lede and not found anywhere else in the article. MOS:lede tells us that there should not be any references or unique information in the lede, which is only a summary of the full article. This should be fixed.--Kevmin § 18:01, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Madeleine Tchicaya

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• ... that Madeleine Tchicaya declined the President's offer to run for a second term in the National Assembly, saying she was "bored to death" of politics?

• Source: https://www.afrique-sur7.fr/481793-cote-divoire-deces-madeleine-tchikaya

• ALT1: ... that Madeleine Tchicaya was the first woman to graduate from Ivory Coast’s National School of Administration? Source: https://www.afrique-sur7.fr/481793-cote-divoire-deces-madeleine-tchikaya
• ALT2: ... that Madeleine Tchicaya was requested to withdraw a Presidential candidacy over rumours she was funded by a dictator? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20240308161817/https://www.lebanco.net/news/40047-devoir-de-m233moire-madeleine-tchicaya-la-femme-qui-a-dit-non.html
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Linda Anne Hutchison
• Comment: Regarding the last hook, it's not technically incorrect (it was a presidency), and the dictator is Gaddafi. Subject has been dead for four years. I understand if the reviewer wishes for the hook to be modified, though, for clarity.

Created by Jolielover (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 27 past nominations.

jolielover♥talk 10:40, 8 September 2025 (UTC).

Sursock bronze

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The Sursock bronze on display in the Louvre

• ... that Jupiter Heliopolitanus, depicted in the Sursock bronze (pictured), was a syncretic god rooted in the Canaanite worship of Baal-Hadad?
  Source: Dupont-Sommer 1949, pp. 109, 113. & Seyrig 1929, pp. 315, 346.
  • ALT1: ... that the armor of the Sursock bronze (pictured) features busts of seven celestial Roman deities? Source: Kropp 2010, p. 233. & Cumont 1921, p. 41.
  • ALT2: ... that the Sursock bronze's (pictured) hollow base and prominent Adam's apple suggest it was connected with the oracular functions of the Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus? Source: Dussaud 1920, pp. 5, 13–15
  • ALT3: ... that the Sursock bronze (pictured) was discovered in a damaged state with hacked parts, possibly vandalized by early Christian iconoclasts? Source: Bel 2015, 1:55.
  • ALT4: ... that French archaeologist René Dussaud chose the Sursock bronze (pictured) as the subject of the inaugural article of the journal Syria (jounral) in 1920? Source: Bel 2012b, p. 14. & Cumont 1921, p. 40.
  • ALT5: ... that the Sursock bronze (pictured) illustrates the syncretic nature of Jupiter Heliopolitanus, a deity combining traits of Baal-Hadad, Helios, and Jupiter? Source: Seyrig 1929, pp. 315, 346.& Hajjar 1977b, p. 515. & Cook 1914, pp. 550–551
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Antwerp prison

Created by Elias Ziade (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 51 past nominations.

el.ziade (talkallam) 12:58, 8 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 9

Work Song (Corbin/Hanner song)

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• ... that the music video for Corbin/Hanner's "Work Song" was the first by a country artist to feature time-lapse photography?

• Source: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CMA-Close-Up/90s/CMA-Close-Up-1990-08.pdf

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Niggas in Paris
• Comment: Statement is verified in page 14 of the linked PDF. Close Up was published by the Country Music Association.

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

Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 16:30, 12 September 2025 (UTC).

Capture of Liège (1702)

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• ... that in 1702, Anglo-Dutch forces assaulted the city of Liège while under fire from 72 cannon, 50 howitzers and mortars, and 250 hand mortars?

• Source: Wijn 1956, p. 186.

• ALT1: ... that although the 1702 capture of Liège left Anglo-Dutch forces dominant in the Low Countries, their commander was still dissatisfied? Source: Churchill 1936, p. 605.
• ALT2: ... that during the 1702 siege of Liège, the leading engineer was so angered by a colleague's disobedience he threatened to abandon the siege? Source: Wijn 1956, p. 185.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Škoda 26 T

Created by DavidDijkgraaf (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 76 past nominations.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:48, 10 September 2025 (UTC).

Republican makeup

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• ... that after U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace dismissed the "Republican makeup" trend, its creator, Suzanne Lambert, posted a video sarcastically offering Mace tips on how to better contour?

• Source: Extending an olive branch to Nancy Mace, TikTok; June 21, 2025

• ALT1: ... that TikTok influencer Suzanne Lambert started a mocking "Republican makeup" trend when she posted a video attempting to replicate the style of pro-Trump women in her comments section? Source: "Doing my makeup like the gorg MAGA girlies in my comments, TikTok; November 16, 2024
• ALT2: ... that Democratic influencer Suzanne Lambert describes the goal of Republican makeup as a "matte and flat ... drained [and] dusty" look? Source: Same as ALT1
• ALT3: ... that an old video by Karoline Leavitt proved that Suzanne Lambert had correctly guessed the poor techniques used in applying Republican makeup? Source: [Karoline Leavitt Falls Victim To 'Republican Makeup' Trend Cliche In Throwback Beauty Video The List; March 19, 2025
• ALT4: ... that the Republican makeup look is believed to result from applying foundation too dark for the wearer's skin tone and then blending it with the fingers rather than a brush? Source: All the others.
• ALT5: ... that one commentator says Republican makeup undermines conservative transphobia by demonstrating how performative gender is?"They really seem to make plain how performative gender is because gosh, it takes a long time for these women to be able to present the appearance of femininity. It's rich to see that the supposed, purported immutable, natural fact of gender isn’t even close to sufficient for these people," "All About The 'Republican Makeup' Trend That's Taking Over TikTok", Women's Wear Daily; February 20, 2025.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Agni da Lentini

Moved to mainspace by Daniel Case (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 283 past nominations.

Daniel Case (talk) 02:26, 10 September 2025 (UTC).

• @Daniel Case: Not a review, but I recommend resolving the {{excessive detail}} tag placed by @AirshipJungleman29:. Also, Leavitt was nominated for GA in April and there are GA and WIR events next month, so you may wish to have a 'doubleable' hook ready if it passes.--Launchballer 23:32, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer:Well, since they said they "don't have time or energy to fix everything" after removing 6-7K or so, it doesn't look like they have any interest in coming back. and, really, what's the point of going to that length to fix a problem and only afterwards leaving a tag describing the problem? I sure wouldn't do that sort of thing ... it's like adding a whole bunch of sources to an article largely lacking in them, and only then putting {{refimprove}} on the article or section. At the very least leave something on the talk page about some further changes that might be made on the talk page. As it is it's very drive-by ... why identify a problem if you're not willing to fix it or even say how?

Given my experience reviewing ANEW reports, I am averse to removing such tags when I am the one who did the most work on the article, but here I am hard put to see any other alternative.

The date suggestion is interesting and, of course, amenable to me. Maybe, since Mar-a-Lago face and Donald Trump's makeup are also up for DYK, we might be able to get a really big combination hook. Daniel Case (talk) 01:38, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Sounds more like a merge than a combination hook to me. Bremps... 17:09, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

@Bremps: I've thought about that ... but I don't think a merged article is eligible for DYK. And what might you call it? Cosmetic aesthetic of MAGA? I don't think you could use "Trump" in the title because it would be about more than him or his administration. I think, honestly, if someone had created such an article people would just as readily be suggesting it be split up into something like what we have now. Daniel Case (talk) 19:09, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

The tag has been removed. Daniel Case (talk) 03:13, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

Meteorological history of Typhoon Rai

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• ... that just before Typhoon Rai's landfall in the Philippines, the storm had a rapid intensification of 85 miles per hour (137 kilometres per hour), beating meteorologists' expectations?

• Source: [50]

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carolina Contreras

Created by TheNuggeteer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 31 past nominations.

🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 06:27, 9 September 2025 (UTC).

• Forgot to suggest an alt: ALT1: ... that just before Typhoon Rai's landfall in the Philippines, the storm had a rapid intensification from a category 1 typhoon to a category 5, beating meteorologists' expectations? 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 06:29, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

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Claude Hayes (artist)

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Hayes landscape watercolour

• ... that Claude Hayes ran away to sea in the 1860s before beginning his career as a landscape painter (painting pictured)?

• Source: "He ran away to sea, serving on The Golden Fleece, one of the transports used in the Abyssinian Expedition of 1867 to 1868.

Hayes spent a year in America, then came back and studied art at Heatherleys School and for three years at the Royal Academy Schools, he also studied in Antwerp under Verlat." Haynes Fine Art

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Xi'an Incident

Created by Roundtheworld (talk) and Johnbod (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 246 past nominations.

Johnbod (talk) 01:31, 17 September 2025 (UTC).

Diocese of Zhangjiakou

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• ... that the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association operated its own Diocese of Zhangjiakou prior to Pope Leo XIV establishing a diocese of the same name?

• Source: Hudson, Patrick (11 September 2025). "Pope reorders dioceses and appoints new bishop in China". The Tablet. Retrieved 15 September 2025.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lloyd A. Williams

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

Pbritti (talk) 14:40, 16 September 2025 (UTC).

St. Francis Seminary (Ohio)

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The main chapel at St. Francis in 1926.

• ... that Tom Cruise attended St. Francis Seminary (pictured), a Catholic high school seminary run by the Franciscan Order?

• Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/cruise-at-the-crossroads-34725/

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-priest-remembers/180793452/ https://www.newsweek.com/tom-cruise-was-track-become-priest-his-youth-65601

http://archive.org/details/tomcruiseunautho0000mort_i8f7

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Weezer Cruise

Created by Maximilian775 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 20 past nominations.

Maximilian775 (talk) 19:11, 10 September 2025 (UTC).

New Coimbra Fort

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• ... that Brazilian forces successfully used an image of the Virgin of Carmel to distract attackers during a siege to the New Coimbra Fort?

• Source: Bento, Cláudio. "FORTE DE COIMBRA: DOIS SÉCULOS DE HISTÓRIA, DE FÉ E DE GLÓRIAS" (PDF). Revista da Academia de História Militar Terrestre do Brasil (in Portuguese). Academia de História Militar Terrestre do Brasil, p. 13.

• ALT1: ... that despite being massively outnumbered by enemy forces, the New Coimbra Fort's defenders managed to evacuate in good order during a siege in 1864? Source: Souza, Antonio F. (1919). A invasão Paraguaya em Matto-Grosso [The Paraguayan invasion in Matto-Grosso], p. 11-12.
• ALT2: ... that the New Coimbra Fort was founded by 245 men in 15 canoes, guided by an elderly indian man? Source: Bento, Cláudio. "FORTE DE COIMBRA: DOIS SÉCULOS DE HISTÓRIA, DE FÉ E DE GLÓRIAS" (PDF). Revista da Academia de História Militar Terrestre do Brasil (in Portuguese). Academia de História Militar Terrestre do Brasil, p. 3.
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• Comment: If necessary, I can transcribe/translate the cited sources. They all are linked in the article.

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

Coeusin (talk) 17:49, 10 September 2025 (UTC).

Seasons of Change

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• ... that "Seasons of Change" was written by Blackfeather members, Neale Johns and John Robinson. It was recorded with help from local group Fraternity's John Bisset and Bon Scott. Robinson promised Scott that Blackfeather would not release the song as a single. Fraternity issued their rendition in March 1971 in Adelaide. When it appeared on local charts, label boss, David Sinclair reneged on that promise and released Blackfeather's version as a single in direct competition?

• Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20040806231255/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=106

https://web.archive.org/web/20250124124329/http://www.milesago.com/artists/fraternity.htm

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

Didier Landner (talk) 05:42, 10 September 2025 (UTC).

• @Didier Landner: Hello and welcome to DYK. This nomination's hook exceeds 200 characters; please propose a second hook below my comment, either by trimming the current hook (ALT0a: ... that X?) or by proposing a different hook (ALT1: ... that Y?).--Launchballer 23:14, 10 September 2025 (UTC)
• ALT0a: ... that "Seasons of Change" was recorded by Australian band Blackfeather with help from Fraternity's John Bisset and Bon Scott; after Fraternity's version charted in Adelaide, Blackfeather released their rendition as a 1971 single?
• ALT1: ... that future AC/DC lead vocalist Bon Scott played recorder on Blackfeather's 1971 single "Seasons of Change"?

Better, although a hook should be one sentence, and brackets aren't allowed (possibly move 1971 to before 'single'). We have a workable hook for this, so full review needed.--Launchballer 01:52, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Okay.Didier Landner (talk) 07:01, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

Kushiro Wetlands megasolar issue

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• ... that Kushiro Wetlands are considered ideal for solar panels, which lead to the increase in solar panel plants in the area?

• Source: 「広く平坦な土地」「長い日照時間」「湿原から市街地が近い」という3点が揃う釧路は、開発に絶好の土地。なかでも集中しやすいのは、湿原の南側にある「市街化調整区域」だという。 Kushiro is an ideal location for development, with three characteristics: wide, flat land, long hours of sunshine, and the marshland being close to urban areas. The area where development is most likely to be concentrated is the urbanization control zone south of the marshland.

• ALT1: ... that the solar farms in Kushiro are called by the locals as "sea of mega solar farms"? Source: The Asahi Shimbun
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Toontown Rewritten
• Comment: Open for suggestion for new hook. Also, the issue is still ongoing and I may update it quite a few time every day. Also I moved the article.

Created by Miminity (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 34 past nominations.

Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 05:19, 10 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 11

Best of Wives and Best of Women

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• ... that the title of "Best of Wives and Best of Women" in Hamilton came directly from Alexander's historical farewell letter to Eliza before his fatal duel with Aaron Burr? Source: http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0001-0248 , https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/06/hamilton-unsung-labors-wives/
  • ALT1: ... that Alexander called Eliza "Best of Wives and Best of Women"? Source: same
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sarah Kraning

Converted from a redirect by Bogger (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 35 past nominations.

Bogger (talk) 13:41, 14 September 2025 (UTC).

Sound recording copyright

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• ... that sound recordings did not gain federal copyright protection in the United States until 1972?

• Source: "Congress brought sound recordings within the scope of federal copyright law for the first time on February 15, 1972." (U.S. Copyright Office report, page 5)

• ALT1: ... that the Local Radio Freedom Act (LRFA) has been introduced in every session of the United States Congress since 2007? Source: "Similar concurrent resolutions introduced in previous Congresses, all named the "Local Radio Freedom Act," include the following: ... 110th Cong. (2007)." (footnote 7 in "On the Radio: Public Performance Rights in Sound Recordings")
• ALT2: ... that the United States exempts over-the-air radio broadcasts of sound recordings from copyright protection? Source: "On the Radio: Public Performance Rights in Sound Recordings"
• Reviewed:

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

Qzekrom (she/her • talk) 17:26, 11 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 12

Baltimore classification

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• ... that for almost fifty years the Baltimore classification, which classifies viruses by how they transfer genetic information, was used alongside standard evolutionary taxonomy?

• Source: See many in article.

• ALT1: ... that some viruses can be catalogued into two groups of the Baltimore classification? Source: See "Multi-group viruses" section.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Shaktikanta Das
• Comment: One longer hook which attempts to communicate more information, and one shorter hook which is simpler and (to my mind) less interesting.

Improved to Good Article status by Velayinosu (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 81 past nominations.

~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:20, 16 September 2025 (UTC).

Nick McKenzie

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Nick McKenzie's portrait for Melbourne Press Club board

• ... that in 2023 Nick McKenzie (pictured) won what was dubbed "the trial of the century" against decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith? Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65773942
  • ALT1: ... that Nick McKenzie's (pictured) grandparents are Polish Jews who migrated to Australia when his mother was 15? Source: https://www.australianjewishnews.com/embarking-on-a-journey-of-discovery/
  • ALT2: ... that Nick McKenzie's (pictured) grandparents are Polish Jews who survived the holocaust? Source: https://www.australianjewishnews.com/embarking-on-a-journey-of-discovery/
  • ALT3: ... that Nick McKenzie (pictured) has won Australia's top journalism award, the Walkley Award, twenty times? Source: https://www.smh.com.au/by/nick-mckenzie-hve6q https://www.walkleys.com/awards/walkleys/photography/winners/
  • ALT0a: ... that in 2023 Nick McKenzie (pictured) won what was dubbed "the trial of the century" against Ben Roberts-Smith? Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65773942
  • ALT0b: ... that in 2023 Nick McKenzie (pictured) won what was dubbed "the trial of the century" against Ben Roberts-Smith? (Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 208#Template:Did you know nominations/Nick McKenzie to check for consensus) Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65773942
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ann Davis (convict)
  • Comment: Strong preference for ALT0b, especially since I nominated Ben Roberts-Smith for DYK a few months ago and it was rejected. Refer to Template:Did you know nominations/Ben Roberts-Smith. Roberts-Smith's avenues for appeal have now expired with the High Court refusing leave to hear his appeal. I would really appreciate if Ben Roberts-Smith article is bolded in the first hook given I already provided QPQ for it. I'm able to provide additional QPQ if required for a double bolded hook. If consensus to permit ALT0b is not present in the DT:DYK discussion I started then please run hook ALT0a as my preference.

Improved to Good Article status by TarnishedPath (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

TarnishedPath^talk 11:25, 12 September 2025 (UTC).

• The WT:DYK discussion was archived without a consensus to allow an IAR exemption for Roberts-Smith, so I have struck ALT0b. The nomination may continue as a solo one for McKenzie. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:29, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

No, both me and @Gatoclass: were fine with it, and only you objected to it.--Launchballer 11:35, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Fair enough, I must have missed that comment. I'm willing to give McKenzie a full review, but I would first like to ask TarnishedPath: are you open to Roberts-Smith not being a bolded link, or is his article not being bolded non-negotiable? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 18:45, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

@User:Narutolovehinata5, I'm open to that. However, I would really appreciate if we were able to run the double bolded links. TarnishedPath^talk 21:44, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

@User:Narutolovehinata5, have you forgotten about me? TarnishedPath^talk 13:51, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

It isn't that. I've just been busy over the last few days that I haven't had the time to take a good look at this. I also got scared by the fact that the article is semi'd indefinitely, which spooked me a bit. Anyway, the article was indeed a new GA and I did not find any close paraphrasing, and a QPQ has been done. Among the hooks proposed, the "trial of the century" hook is the best option. However, after thinking about this for a bit, I'm leaning more in favor towards not mentioning Roberts-Smith at all in the hook. The focus is supposed to be on McKenzie, and just saying he won the "trial of the century" is enough. Basically, the fact that it was against Roberts-Smith is a less important/essential detail that could easily be deleted. So something like "... that in 2023, Australian lawyer Nick McKenzie (pictured) won what was dubbed 'the trial of the century'?" is something I would approve. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:15, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

The focus is supposed to be on eligible articles, of which Roberts-Smith is, and if you won't approve ALT0b, I will.--Launchballer 00:01, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

I stated above that I was open to the possibility of Roberts-Smith, not being bolded, but I think that any possible other hook would need to be a cracker to be more interesting than the current ALT0b. That McKenzie beat Roberts-Smith is part of what makes it as interesting, not just that it was dubbed the trial of the century. TarnishedPath^talk 07:18, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

The issue is that not all readers know who Roberts-Smith is, so to an uninterested reader who only sees the hook and does not have background knowledge, saying that he beat Roberts-Smith specifically is the interesting point may not really be the case. Sure, we could include some brief context about Roberts-Smith to make that point clearer, but not only would it make the hook longer, it would re-open a can of worms that was already discussed in the last nomination. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:07, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5. Anyone who doesn't know who Roberts-Smith is, is less likely to know who McKenzie is. That's why we run hooks on DYK, to introduce readers to topics and hopefully get views. I went to WT:DYK prior to presenting the double hook in this nomination and even edited it to remove—what some thought were—extraneous words and obtained consensus to run the double hook. I think it is only fair that this nomination be assessed on that consensus. Do I need to request a new reviewer? TarnishedPath^talk 11:29, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

• Thinking about this, it might for the best to have an uninvolved editor (i.e. someone who wasn't involved in the WT:DYK discussion, meaning neither I nor Launchabller) make the final decision. Personally, I still do not think that Roberts-Smith's name is essential to the hook fact as I think that the "trial of the century" fact is the main hook fact, but if an uninvolved editor approves the hook I will no longer object.

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:40, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Jocelyn Borgella

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• ... that Jocelyn Borgella was the first Haitian to be selected in the NFL draft?

• Source: Miami Times (and several other publications have said the same)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Charles C. Peterson
• Comment: To do QPQ within a day or two.

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 416 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:41, 19 September 2025 (UTC).

• Given that this is a "first" hook, and we've had issues in the past with "first" hooks that seemed watertight "such as first Bermudian MLB player", please propose a different hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:25, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
  • There are many different sources that verify this, e.g. the Miami Times who wrote a story on this exact feat, the Miami Herald / Tampa Tribune / Jackson Citizen Patriot / Detroit Free Press / Saginaw News / Muskegon Chronicle / Ann Arbor News (2) / The Flint Journal (and probably about 15 others) in 1994, several of which had stories focusing on that very feat, the Grand Rapids Press in 1995, the Detroit Free Press in 1997, the Tampa Bay Times in 1998, the Miami Herald in 2014, the Miami Herald in 2022, and the book on him that's literally titled First Football Player of Haitian Descent Drafted In The NFL. He's clearly the first. BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:50, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Fair enough, but you may need to ask for consensus at WT:DYK for that considering the backlash against "first" hooks. In case, for whatever reason, the "first" hook cannot run as is, can you propose alternatives? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:34, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5 Just a gentle reminder to avoid WP:INSTRUCTIONCREEP. We shouldn't be asking editors to jump through extra hoops not outlined at WP:DYKCRIT or asserting WP:CONSENSUS on topics that haven't had a formal discussion / policy or guideline based outcome. To my knowledge we have not prohibited "first hooks", and have never discussed this topic in isolation. At best, we have only had discussions on individual problematic first hooks. The issue with extrapolating wider consensus from those is they are biased in a certain direction because they are in the context of a problematic hook proposal. I personally would be vehemently opposed to a blanket ban as there are many instances where a first achievement is well documented and widely agreed upon across many reliable sources. I don't think you are going to find wide support on a topic ban of this type at DYK, or support for needing to take these types of hooks outside of the hands of the individual reviewer. You probably would get support for a "use with caution" recommendation and requiring multiple pieces of evidence for such hooks. That would seem reasonable. In this case this hook fits the multiple sources criteria for verification as suggested by WP:Verifiability. Best.4meter4 (talk) 14:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Article was 5x expanded in the window, but also reached GA status after the nomination was made so double qualifies. QPQ has been done. No policy errors such as copyright violations detected. The concerns over general first hook issues are completely unwarranted in this case given the number and quality of reliable sources verifying the hook fact. Further, I question whether Narutolovehinata5 has correctly taken the temperature on this issue at DYK. We've run first hooks successfully in the past, and will continue to do so. They can and should be challenged when appropriate, but this doesn't appear to be one of those cases. No further hook proposals are needed.4meter4 (talk) 14:09, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Normally, I wouldn't ask for this, but the relevant discussion at WT:DYK hasn't exactly had a positive response to "first" hooks so far, so it may be a good idea to hold on approving ALT0 for now. It can be approved once the discussion has run its course, a different editor takes a look at this, or if safer options are proposed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 20:08, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

• What does "first Haitian" mean here? First with Haitian citizenship? First one identifying as Haitian? First ethnic Haitian? It would be good to clarify what is being claimed. —Kusma (talk) 07:18, 2 October 2025 (UTC)
  • Not sure of his citizenship, but he was the first ethnic Haitian. I've thoroughly searched and haven't been able to find any challengers to any of his "first" titles. BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:06, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on September 13

The Dead Girls

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• ... that before making Spanish language television series The Dead Girls, director Luis Estrada declined to make it as an English film?

• Source: https://www-gq-com-mx.translate.goog/articulo/las-muertas-serie-de-netflix-entrevista-luis-estrada-paulina-gaitan-alfonso-herrera-arcelia-ramirez?

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ismail Thomas
• Comment: 2nd QPQ for this nomination

Created by TonyTheTiger (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 381 past nominations.

TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:02, 17 September 2025 (UTC).

Amon G. Carter Jr.

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• ... that despite his father being a successful newspaperman, Amon G. Carter Jr. still worked as a newspaper salesman as a child?

• Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tyler-courier-times-obituary-for-amo/65543261/

"Began his newspaper career at the age of 10 as a paperboy with the Star-Telegram."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hal Hirshorn
  • Comment: Could change tot fact to him selling newspapers for his father's company, if need be.

Created by Guerreroast (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

Roast (talk) 01:53, 14 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 14

Mark Aldridge

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• ... that a civil case between Mark Aldridge and a shop owner established that a person can be liable for the defamatory comments of others on their social media posts? Source: https://www.marinolaw.com.au/defamation-say-pay/ "In a recent decision concerning defamation, namely Johnston v Aldridge [2018] SADC 68 (“Johnston”), the District Court of South Australia has found that a person can be liable for defamation as a consequence of other users’ comments on a post. The Court in that matter found that a person who makes a post which subsequently attracts defamatory comments can be liable for the defamatory imputations arising from comments as a “secondary publisher”."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jeffrey Epstein client list

Moved to mainspace by Andykusama (talk) and MCE89 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

TarnishedPath^talk 12:57, 20 September 2025 (UTC).

Thomas Burke (Final Destination)

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• ... that Thomas Burke may or may not be alive?

• Source: For its home release, Final Destination 3 had a Choose Their Fate way of watching the movie, an interactive version of the movie where viewers could choose how certain scenes played out. // But in the only canon timeline, the duo (presumably) lived to fight another day and successfully cheated Death (It’s worth noting that Kimberly’s actions also saved her friend, Thomas Burke, who would have died after her, but we’ll just assume Bludworth didn’t want to complicate matters and stuck to discussing the person whose actual decision affected the outcome.)

• ALT1: ... that while Kimberly Corman has been confirmed to be alive, it is not yet known if her friend Thomas Burke also cheated Death? Source: But that version of the story was never canon and now Bludworth’s information in Bloodlines confirms Kimberly’s method really and truly worked and she’s still alive. // (It’s worth noting that Kimberly’s actions also saved her friend, Thomas Burke, who would have died after her, but we’ll just assume Bludworth didn’t want to complicate matters and stuck to discussing the person whose actual decision affected the outcome.)
• ALT2: ... that according to a book, New York state trooper Thomas Burke was not meant to work the morning of the pile-up on Route 23? Source: (from Page 85 of the novelization Final Destination 2): As Officer Burke waited, he reached for more Tylenol, glancing queasily at the Dunkin' Donuts bag on the seat beside him. It was supposed to be his day off today, but he'd got a call at 6am telling him they had an officer down and they needed him to come in.
• ALT3: ... that according to a book, fictional New York state trooper Thomas Burke was not meant to work the morning of the pile-up on Route 23? Source: (from Page 85 of the novelization Final Destination 2): As Officer Burke waited, he reached for more Tylenol, glancing queasily at the Dunkin' Donuts bag on the seat beside him. It was supposed to be his day off today, but he'd got a call at 6am telling him they had an officer down and they needed him to come in.
• ALT4: ... that... that Thomas Burke and Kimberly Corman, both surviving characters of Final Destination 2 were intended to die in the franchise's third movie if both portraying actors were available to film the scene? Source: "They were going to die to tie the whole thing up to Final Destination 2. I loved the idea and we had it scripted and were going to try it. We were able to get one of the two actors who were available, but the other one wasn't," Perry recalled. // "If we couldn't do it all the way, we decided it was best not to do it. To have just one of them leaves an open ending which would make no sense in Death's overarching plan.
• ALT5: ... that author Iain Borden makes a reference to Final Destination 2 fictional character Thomas Burke in his 2013 non-fiction book Drive? Source: (Page 222)
• Reviewed: Diella (AI system)
• Comment: I have added two alternatives, and I wish to clarify that all Valnet sources, as I explained to the user who reviewed the article when I created it, are solely there as part of the opinion of their contributors, and not referencing any of the fictional character's or movie's or book's info. Thanks.

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

CoryGlee (talk) 14:37, 18 September 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: Not a full review, but the hook is written in an in-universe style that runs afoul of WP:DYKFICTION. Burke is a fictional character and thus can't be living or dead. Additionally, ALT1 contains a spoiler, which would probably rub the reader the wrong way. Bremps... 20:09, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

• • Comment: Hey Bremps, thanks so much for clarifying this to me. I kind of "smelled" that it could be that way because it is tricky indeed... But I've seen tricky DYKs, although not this way. May you recommend me or advise as to what to do next? Can I, upon your wise input, modify this? Or must I wait for a formal review pointing what you did? Thanks a lot. CoryGlee (talk) 20:24, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

• • • Comment: I would recommend reviewing the article and reviewing sources to see if any other interesting facts stick out to you. You can edit your proposed DYK hooks at any time or add new ones (though they still need to be approved). Bremps... 20:38, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

• • • • Comment: Thanks Bremps, I have added two alts... and I beg for help to find a visualization of that page. I couldn't find it on Google Book display, but I am obviously not lying on such a thing, LOL. I'd not lie to get banned for lying in something way too, too verifiable. Thanks. CoryGlee (talk) 21:47, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

• • • • • Comment: Hello Cory, this is still in violation of WP:DYKFICTION. I might not have been clear enough before. Burke is a fictional character, meaning aspects of his (fictional) biography are not eligible for DYK.

• • • • • Here are some theoretical hooks that could be DYKs if they were true (just examples, not true):

• • • • • • FAKEALT0 ... that Thomas Burke has been used as a protest symbol in Madagascar? (Connected to theoretical real world events)
          • FAKEALT1 ... that Emily Blunt conceived of Thomas Burke on a bike ride and suggested it to Final Destination writers? (Connected to theoretical real circumstances of how the character was conceived of in the real world)
          • FAKEALT2 ... that GQ Magazine called Thomas Burke a "home movie icon"? (Connected to a theoretical real review)

• • • • • These are fake facts (don't use them!), but examples of what would be acceptable for a fictional character on DYK. Bremps... 22:02, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

• • • • • • Hi Bremps and thank you for your extreme patience, I am just getting immersed into DYK... Perhaps now it is possible with this new alt that I added. Sorry for the messy nomination. I promise it won't happen in future nominations. CoryGlee (talk) 04:26, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

• • • • • • • Please forget alt4.... I think I nailed it with the 5th CoryGlee (talk) 05:42, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

@Bremps: What else needs doing here?--Launchballer 23:47, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

• Hi, sorry if I was not clear, but this is not a full review, just passing suggestions. Bremps... 03:59, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Raghunath Brahmbhatt, Mohe Panghat Pe Nandlal Chhed Gayo Re

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• ... that Raghunath Brahmbhatt was not credited initially for this popular song from the 1960 Hindi epic film Mughal-e-Azam?

• Source: "Forty years after the film was first released in 1960 by K Asif, the producers of the all-new Mughal-e-Azam have given credit to the late Raskavi Raghunath Brahmabhatt for the lyrics of the song. All these years, the lyrics (of this song) had been credited to the late Shakeel Badayuni."
• Source: "Lyrics: Shakil Badayuni, Raghunath Brahmbhatt for the song 'Mohe Panghat Pe' "

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

Snehrashmi (talk) 02:49, 17 September 2025 (UTC).

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Yasuyoshi Kato

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• ... that Japanese businessman Yasuyoshi Kato is the largest single embezzler in American history?

• Source: Dorothy E. Denning (1999). Information Warfare and Security. ACM Press. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-201-43303-6. Retrieved 2 September 2025.

• ALT1: ... that Japanese businessman Yasuyoshi Kato used embezzled funds to support his wife, who bought twenty Arabian horses, several emus, llamas, potbellied pigs, miniature cattle, and nurse sharks? Source: Murr, Andrew (26 October 1997). "Living High On The Hog". Newsweek. p. 48.
• ALT2: ... that the embezzlement that Japanese businessman Yasuyoshi Kato committed has been called "outlandish in its simplicity"? Source: Murr, Andrew (26 October 1997). "Living High On The Hog". Newsweek. p. 48.
• ALT3: ... that Japanese businessman Yasuyoshi Kato embezzled a total of $100 million (1997 USD) from Day-Lee Foods? Source: Murr, Andrew (26 October 1997). "Living High On The Hog". Newsweek. p. 48.
• ALT4: ... that the judge presiding over the trial of Yasuyoshi Kato criticized Kato's 5-year sentence for his "extraordinary" embezzlement? Source: "Thief gets maximum: 5-year term". Deseret News. Associated Press. 7 October 1997.
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• Comment: Newsweek article used is reliable source per WP:RS/P as it was published well before 2013. Deseret is reliable regardless.

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

Nighfidelity (talk) 12:01, 14 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 15

Red Seidelson

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Seidelson, c. 1923

• ... that American football player Red Seidelson (pictured) reportedly played over 40 games in one season?

• Source: Jews In Sports

• ALT1: ... that at the same time he played in the NFL, Red Seidelson (pictured) worked as a dentist? Source: same
• ALT2: ... that NFL player Red Seidelson (pictured) reportedly had such a reputation as a fighter that police officers sometimes asked him to come with them as "insurance" if they expected "any sticky situations"? Source: same
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rising Star (1991 ship)
• Comment: To do QPQ within a day or so. Both moved to mainspace and promoted to GA recently.

Moved to mainspace by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 417 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:01, 23 September 2025 (UTC).

Byrnihat

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• ... that Byrnihat was ranked as the world's most polluted city in 2024?

• Source: [51]

• ALT1: ... that Byrnihat was ranked as India's most polluted city in 2023 and the world's most polluted city the next year? Source: [52]
• Reviewed:

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

KnowDeath (talk) 22:24, 20 September 2025 (UTC).

• Article is new enough and long enough. No copyright violation detected. No QPQ required. Article appears to be within policy. However, there are a few issues needed addressing. One is the population of the city given in the infobox. The 2011 report may have listed the population as 298 people but current news articles such as (this https://www.dw.com/en/india-how-a-small-town-topped-global-pollution-charts/a-73198598 ) estimate the population at about 50,000 people. This is given in the article, but the info-box maintains the old figure of 298 people which in my view misrepresents this topic area. The second issue is with the hook. The hook fact needs to give credit to where the statistic is coming from. The hook fact should credit a report by IQAir so this doesn't end up at WP:ERRORS.4meter4 (talk) 17:10, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Roberta G. Simmons

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• ... that Roberta G. Simmons once found that an organ transplant "was considered a priceless gift by some recipients and a burdensome debt by others"? Source: She found, for example, that a transplanted organ was considered a priceless gift by some recipients and a burdensome debt by others.
  • ALT1: ... that Roberta G. Simmons once found that an organ transplant was considered by some recipients to be "a burdensome debt"? Source: Same as ALT0
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Isaac A. Hopper

Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 106 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 14:47, 19 September 2025 (UTC).

Masyita Crystallin

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• ... that Masyita Crystallin is currently the only woman director general in Indonesia's finance ministry? Source: https://www.idntimes.com/business/economy/profil-masyita-crystallin-satu-satunya-dirjen-perempuan-di-kemenkeu-00-3m8tp-0svzn9
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sumpeno Putro
  • Comment: Still holds true until now.

Created by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 93 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 03:50, 17 September 2025 (UTC).

Sylvester Espelage

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Espelage, wearing queue, beard, and traditional Chinese clothing, circa 1907.

• ... that Sylvester Espelage (pictured), unlike most American bishops, wore a queue and a long beard during his missionary work in Wuhan?

• Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post-bishop-sylvester-and/163120731/

• ALT1: ... that while Sylvester Espelage (pictured) was serving as a Catholic missionary bishop in China, his brother Bernard was appointed the first bishop of Gallup? Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38774375
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pedro Berroeta Morales

Created by Maximilian775 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 21 past nominations.

Maximilian775 (talk) 12:23, 16 September 2025 (UTC).

Lyubov Radchenko

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• ... that Lyubov Radchenko ran the day to day operations of the Russian socialist newspaper Iskra?

• Source: Savel'ev, P. Iu.; Tiutiukin, S. V. (2006). "Iulii Osipovich Martov (1873-1923): The Man and the Politician". Russian Studies in History. 45 (1): 17. doi:10.2753/RSH1061-1983450101.

• ALT1: ... that after proclaiming it was her duty as a revolutionary to never be "tied down by a family", Lyubov Radchenko got married and had children? Source: Turton, Katy (2018). Family Networks and the Russian Revolutionary Movement, 1870–1940. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 3, 164. ISBN 978-0-230-39307-3.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sabotage in World War II

Created by Grnrchst (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 66 past nominations.

Grnrchst (talk) 09:38, 16 September 2025 (UTC).

• Crossed out ALT0. Not seeing how this is hooky as someone had to run the newspaper. (t · c) buidhe 02:50, 17 September 2025 (UTC)

Maria of Montferrat, Isabella II of Jerusalem

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Death of Isabella II

• ... that two queens of Jerusalem—Maria and her daughter, Isabella II—died in childbirth (pictured), one after delivering the other?

• Source: Perry 2015, p. 7

• ALT1: ... that two successive queens of Jerusalem, mother and daughter, lost their lives to childbirth—Maria after giving birth to Isabella II, and Isabella II after bearing her own heir (pictured)?
• ALT2: ... that mother and daughter Queens Maria and Isabella II of Jerusalem (pictured) both died of childbirth complications shortly after delivering their successors?
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Intelligent and Loyal
• Comment: I nominate this now because Maria of Montferrat passed its GA nomination a week ago. Isabella II of Jerusalem will be formally added to the nomination shortly, after one remaining issue in the GA review is addressed.
  • Isabella added.

Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 253 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 12:50, 15 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 16

Ivete da Graça Correia

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• ... that Ivete da Graça Correia was once called "the public face of the São Tomé anti-drug campaign"? Source: Formada em psicologia-sociologia em Rússia, (ex-URSS) bem como curso de Direito em São-Tomé, Ivete Correia é o rosto público são-tomense da luta contra droga a que se junta a grande missão ministerial da reforma da Justiça e Administração Pública do País./Graduated in psychology and sociology in Russia (former USSR) and with a law degree in São Tomé, Ivete Correia is the public face of the São Toméan fight against drugs, in addition to the major ministerial mission of reforming the country's Justice and Public Administration.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Timor-Leste at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Created by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 105 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 17:59, 18 September 2025 (UTC).

The World After Gaza

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• ... that the 2025 book The World After Gaza was deemed "repugnant" and "monstrous" for being overly and insufficiently critical of Israel?
• ALT1 ... that the 2025 book The World After Gaza was called a "genteel Zionist distortion" as well as a "repugnant book" for its criticism of Israel?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bothell, Washington
  • Comment: I think the hook could be interpreted as positive or critical, so I think it meets the spirit of DYK rules better than most

Moved to mainspace by Buidhe (talk) and GolsaGolsa (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 262 past nominations.

(t · c) buidhe 23:54, 16 September 2025 (UTC).

• I shall review this. Storye book (talk) 10:08, 24 September 2025 (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: Thank you for a courageous and balanced article about a book which appears to have the same qualities. I have mentioned a few examples below in which the article's existing balance can be strengthened.

• Due to the controversial nature of the subject matter, the article must be clear about quotes and sources, so we must keep our distance from sources, and be tougher than usual over minor elements of copyvio. Please put the following phrases in quotation marks, and credit them individually with citations: 1, "personal, historical, philosophical and revolutionary", 2. "against the injustices", 3. "destruction of schools, universities, museums, churches, mosques, and even cemeteries", 4. "do everything in their power to combat". The issue is not primarily about the minor plagiarism here: it's about keeping a professional distance from sources, even though we may share those opinions.
• Please check the article carefully for examples of opinions about the book, and make sure that every opinion is openly (i.e. in the body text) credited to the person or publication who/which gave the opinion. Storye book (talk) 10:47, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

*Actually I did not write most of it, it was a rescued AFC draft. I went back through and deleted a few sentences that could be constructed as opinion based. I think everything else is clearly attributed. Storye book, thank you for reviewing. (t · c) buidhe 15:22, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

• ALT0a: that the 2025 book The World After Gaza was deemed both "repugnant" and "monstrous" for being both overly and insufficiently critical of Israel?
• Thank you, Buidhe. It looks well-balanced to me, now. Good to go with ALTs 0 and 1. (I have added a suggested ALT0a with the inserted word, "both" for clarity - that can be also used if approved by a third party.). Storye book (talk) 15:52, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

: This book is unique in its kind because it is the first time an Indian has addressed the issues of Israel and Palestine. Why is respecting to wp:pov not observed in both the hooks? Why is there an intention to disparage the book when this book has also received positive feedback.GolsaGolsa (talk) 07:55, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

I understood the hooks to be balanced politically, but of course that depends on how one perceives the politics. On this subject, we are never going to be able to convince everybody that everything we write is balanced. Looking at the critics and the book only:

* ALT2 ... that the critic Johny Stanly said that the 2025 book, The World After Gaza, was a compelling examination of the moral failings of a violent past and present. (Source: citation is next to the fact in the article).

* ALT3 ... that the critic Hamilton Cain said that the 2025 book, The World After Gaza, was "a coolly argued polemic that sifts insights from the gore and chaos". (Source as above). Storye book (talk) 09:29, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

• FWIW being criticized by "both sides" could be interpreted positively as achieving objectivity and not shying away from inconvenient facts glossed over by partisans. That was why the initial hook was proposed. (t · c) buidhe 12:23, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

It is my suggestion:

* ALT4 ... that the 2025 book The World After Gaza is authored by Pankaj Mishra and contains themes such as Zionism and the Shoah.(source :The atlantic)

GolsaGolsa (talk) 18:16, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

^ ALT4 is not appropriate for two reasons. (1) it fails DYK interest requirements, and (b) it could be interpreted as a perception from one political/religious aspect only, which in turn could be interpreted as non-neutral. Storye book (talk) 18:36, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

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F. J. King (schooner)

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F. J. King (right)

• ... that the schooner F. J. King (pictured) was considered one of the most sought-after shipwrecks on Lake Michigan?

• Source: https://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/citizen-science-group-finds-legendary-wisconsin-ghost-ship

• ALT1: ... that unlike most wooden ships lost while carrying iron ore, the wreck of the schooner F. J. King (pictured) remains mostly intact? Source: https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2025/09/15/139-years-later-lake-michigan-shipwreck-found-off-door-county/84429389007/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Frank Nimsgern

Created by Saltymagnolia (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 31 past nominations.

✦ Saltymagnolia ✦ 14:16, 23 September 2025 (UTC).

• @Saltymagnolia: I will close this in 24 hours if I don't see a WP:QPQ by then.--Launchballer 12:23, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: done. ✦ Saltymagnolia ✦ 14:56, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Full review needed.--Launchballer 15:28, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Jeremy Hambly

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• ... that right-wing commentator Jeremy Hambly was interviewed for a Today segment on claw machines?

• Source: https://www.replaymag.com/strange-crane-youtube-site/

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/youtube-apparatus/36600D69788530F805C650B70976A585

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448231191776

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/I Will Survive (comic)
  • Comment: hopefully interesting?

Moved to mainspace by Based5290 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

Based5290 :3 (talk) 02:35, 18 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 18

Carme Travesset

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• ... that Carme Travesset became the first woman in Andorra to hold elected office in 1973?

• Source: https://www.diariandorra.ad/nacional/220818/mor-carme-travesset-primera-dona-elegida-uns-comicis_111276.html

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• Comment: Article created by Animaliak for Women in Red September initiative. Article looks pretty good.

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

_-_Alsor (talk) 11:05, 23 September 2025 (UTC).

Beauty and the Bester

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• ... that doctor Nandipha Magudumana received payment for the use of her archives in the Netflix documentary Beauty and the Bester, which she subsequently attempted to prevent from being aired? Source: News24
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jennifer Brooke

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

dxneo (talk) 08:25, 21 September 2025 (UTC).

Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality

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• ... that a Dutch publishing company pirated the first four volumes of Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality, then hired the author to write more? Source: Harrisse 1896, pp. 147, 166.
  • ALT1: ... that the first translation of Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality made the book less Catholic so it would appeal better to English readers? Source: Brack 1994 p.157
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Viktor Glondys

5x expanded by LEvalyn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 23 past nominations.

~ L 🌸 (talk) 03:39, 21 September 2025 (UTC).

Field propulsion

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Rendering of deploying solar sail, a type of field propulsion, released by NASA in 2023.

• ... that field propulsion (solar sail animation pictured) refers to types of spacecraft propulsion that move a ship without conventional rocket engines?

• Source: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/01-niac_2011_phasei_gilland_thepotentialforambientplasma_tagged.pdf

• Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240612082051/https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/01-niac_2011_phasei_gilland_thepotentialforambientplasma_tagged.pdf

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The broad definition of field propulsion refers to propulsion systems in which thrust arises from interactions with external fields or ambient media, rather than from the sustained expulsion of onboard reaction mass or reliance on solid chemical fuels.[1]

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Created by Very Polite Person (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

— Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 17:03, 18 September 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: Reviewer (will not be me), this article was not newly created, it was expanded; 5.5x so, so it's viable. @Very Polite Person:, note that when nominating future articles. Roast (talk) 01:47, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Sorry! I thought I did on the form. — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 18:57, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Tropical Storm Pabuk (2024)

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• ... that although 2024's Tropical Storm Pabuk was outside of the Philippine Area of Responsibility, PAGASA continued issuing tropical cyclone bulletins for the first time since 1963?

• Source: [53]

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Naboth Manzongo

Improved to Good Article status by TheNuggeteer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 32 past nominations.

🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 13:40, 18 September 2025 (UTC).

John Adams Cameron

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• ... that John Adams Cameron lost twice to John Culpepper in elections for the United States Congress that were 14 years apart?

• Source: https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/cameron-john-adams

• ALT1: ... that John Adams Cameron lost all three of his campaigns for Congress? Source: https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/cameron-john-adams
• Reviewed:
• Comment: Haven't written one of these in a while, glad to be back!

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

Staraction (talk | contribs) 00:39, 18 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 19

Bijal P. Trivedi

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• ... that Bijal P. Trivedi wrote a book about how cystic fibrosis went from a "death sentence" of children to a manageable, non-fatal condition due to new drugs that brought “weeping with joy”?

• Source: "Science journalist Trivedi debuts with a glowing account of how Boston businessman Joe O’Donnell, after losing a son to cystic fibrosis in 1986, raised hundreds of millions for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, which pioneered the use of “venture philanthropy” for drug discovery. Trivedi covers low points in O’Donnell’s story (early on, when still struggling to keep his son alive, O’Donnell had “a sick child gasping for breath, a mortgage, no job, no health insurance, and no backup plan”) as well as his triumphs, as he became a powerful businessman and worked with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to fund groundbreaking research. Most notably, this included a well-placed investment in Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which in 2012 pioneered the first of several treatments involving drugs matched to patients’ individual gene mutations. Elaborating on the science as well as the business behind the fight against cystic fibrosis, Trivedi captures the emotions of the families, doctors, and scientists involved in the clinical trials and their “weeping with joy” as new drugs are approved, and shows how cystic fibrosis, once a “death sentence,” became, for many, a manageable condition. This is a rewarding and challenging work.""

Publishers Weekly

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Water buffalo

Created by Thriley (talk) and Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 188 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 23:49, 28 September 2025 (UTC).

Pennywise

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• ... that a Stephen King character has been blamed for a 2016 rash of evil clown sightings?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lysine malonylation
  • Comment: Driveby nom. I only found about this yesterday while putting together a good article review circle, so beg for mercy regarding newness.

Improved to Good Article status by Gommeh (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 326 past nominations.

Launchballer 19:24, 28 September 2025 (UTC).

Archaeology of North Korea

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• ... that the first archaeological excavations in independent North Korea took place shortly before the Korean War?

• Source: "These two archaeologists gave an immediate edge to the initial development of North Korean archaeology. In addition, proper law system on cultural heritage preservation boosted new archaeological tasks [...] murals, were found and excavated at the Anak area around Pyeongyang City (K. Lee, 1990: 109). Interpretation of these excavation results emphasized the eradication of Japanese imperialistic legacy and propelled spiritual resuscitation of the Korean people. This agenda combined with the struggle for power by Kim Il-sung was propagated among North Koreans in order to make them believe that communist North Korea solely assumes historical legitimacy/supremacy over South Korea. The final result of this agenda burst into an undeclared war in 1950." Yoo, Yongwook (2016). "A Story of Their Own: What Happened and What is Going on with North Korean Archaeology?". Archaeology of the Communist Era. Springer Science+Business Media. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45108-4_11. ISBN 9783319451060. pages 281 and 282

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bernardo Zapater

Moved to mainspace by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 126 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 19:54, 22 September 2025 (UTC).

Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus

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S. R. Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology campus

• ... that the Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus (pictured) has been ranked as both one of the US's most significant architectural works and its least beautiful campus? Source: (1) Schweiterman, Joseph P; Caspall, Dana M; Heron, Jane (2006). The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago. Chicago, IL: Lake Claremont Press. p. 51. "During America's bicentennial year, the American Institute of Architects recognized the IIT campus - the largest and most significant collection of Mies buildings in the world - as one of the country's 200 most significant works of architecture." (2) Kaiser, Robert L. (September 13, 1997). "Mies-ly IIT Shrugs Off Ugly Tag Architects Vying to Alter `blah' Image That Sticks With It". Chicago Tribune. pp. 1, 1:1. "Now, in the current edition of a book called "The 311 Best Colleges," the Princeton Review ranks IIT as the nation's "least beautiful campus." The rating is based on responses to a survey of 56,000 college students, said the book's author, Ed Custard."
  • ALT1: ... that when Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was tasked with designing the Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus (pictured), it was described as an "act of God"? Source: Schulze, Franz (1985). Mies Van Der Rohe: A Critical Biography. University of Chicago Press. pp. 220-221
  • ALT2: ... that when Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was tasked with designing the Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus (pictured), the college's trustees were unaware of his plans? Source: Schulze, Franz (1985). Mies Van Der Rohe: A Critical Biography. University of Chicago Press. pp. 220-221
  • ALT3: ... that after the Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus's (pictured) master plan was completed in 1971, no academic structures were built there for four decades? Source: (1) Minutillo, Josephine (October 25, 2018). "Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship by John Ronan Architects". Architectural Record. "The Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship—which hosts a variety of collaboration spaces for IIT’s team-based endeavors, contains state-of-the-art prototyping and fabrication facilities, and serves as the new home for the formerly downtown Institute of Design—is the first academic building completed at IIT in over 40 years." (2) Cholke, Sam (August 12, 2016). "IIT To Build First Academic Building On Campus In 40 Years". DNAinfo Chicago. "will be the first academic building constructed on the university’s main campus in 40 years, since the Stuart Building was constructed in 1971, according to Zonka."
  • ALT4: ... that World War II caused some buildings at the Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus (pictured) to be built with concrete frames and custom steel windows? Source: Schulze, Franz (March 10, 2005). Illinois Institute of Technology: An Architectural Tour by Franz Schulze. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 25, 32.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bernard Vacher
  • Comment: Thanks to LEvalyn for suggesting some of the hooks. This article last appeared at DYK in 2010; DYK renominations are allowed after five years per WP:DYKNEW.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 748 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 13:44, 19 September 2025 (UTC).

2025 Chongqing anti-CCP protest

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• ... that In August 2025, an activist remotely projected anti-CCP slogans onto a building in Chongqing University Town?

• Source: The Times

• Reviewed:
• Comment: First time to nominate DYK.

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

菜國人 (talk) 15:25, 19 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 20

Heinie Jawish

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• ... that Heinie Jawish is the only person born in Syria to play in the NFL?

• Source: PFR

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nat Horne
• Comment: To do QPQ within a day or two. Both expanded and promoted to GA recently.

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 420 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:51, 28 September 2025 (UTC).

Mikan (cat), Longjiaosun, Ciaotou Sugar Refinery metro station, Jiji railway station, Jiji line, Nantou County

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Station master Mikan

• ... that Mikan (pictured), the cat station master of Ciaotou Sugar Refinery metro station, visited the Jiji line in Nantou County for the appointment of Longjiaosun as cat station master of Jiji railway station? Source: [54], relevant quote appears right in the top caption, "集集貓站長「龍蕉Sun」（右）就任，並與高捷貓站長「蜜柑」（左)".
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2025 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reorganization (x2), Template:Did you know nominations/Matei Ghica, Template:Did you know nominations/GV Yishun, Template:Did you know nominations/Brunei Shell Petroleum, Template:Did you know nominations/Nihaluddin

Created by Chipmunkdavis (talk). Number of QPQs required: 6. Nominator has 66 past nominations.

CMD (talk) 19:46, 26 September 2025 (UTC).

Anita Lidya Luhulima

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• ... that Anita Lidya Luhulima and her husband died during their terms as ambassador and deputy ambassador, respectively? Source: Anita's death: https://www.metrotvnews.com/read/NLMCJxyp-kabar-duka-dubes-ri-untuk-polandia-anita-lidya-luhulima-meninggal-dunia, husband's death: https://persada.or.id/2022/02/18/2871/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sushila Karki Cabinet

Created by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 95 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 00:51, 21 September 2025 (UTC).

Fort George, Grenada

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Site of the execution of Maurice Bishop

• ... that the courtyard of Fort George (pictured) was the site of the 19 October 1983 execution of Maurice Bishop, prime minister of Grenada?

• Source: "When Bishop’s confinement became broadly known, thousands of his ardent supporters marched on his home on 19 October and set him free. Bishop next led the crowd to bloodlessly seize control of Fort Rupert, the island’s military headquarters. Other Grenadian regular Army soldiers loyal to the Coard faction then were dispatched in three armored vehicles to retake the fort and recapture Bishop. Shooting started when the soldiers faced off with Bishop’s supporters at the fort’s entrance. Three soldiers and at least eight civilians were killed in the ensuing melee and panic that also injured about 100 other civilians. The surviving soldiers captured Bishop, three of his ministers, and four other loyal supporters and led them away to a walled courtyard. Shortly after, the eight were executed in cold blood by a firing squad of soldiers who (according to subsequent court testimony) declared they were acting under the orders of the Central Committee" from: Kukielski, Philip G. (1 September 2021). "Secret Mission of Urgent Fury". U.S. Naval Institute.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Abubakar Shekau
• Comment: Would be good to run on 19 October for the anniversary, if not I can offer alternative hooks for a general date

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 948 past nominations.

Dumelow (talk) 19:06, 20 September 2025 (UTC).

Lewis House (Tallahassee, Florida)

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The Lewis House in Tallahassee, Florida

• ... that a house in Tallahassee, Florida, has been likened to a boat? Source: Kassab, Beth (December 26, 2001). "Frank Lloyd Wright treasure lies in disrepair". The Orlando Sentinel. Associated Press. "Shaped like a ship rising from a thick North Florida forest, the unique house on a red-clay road north of town is deteriorating, a victim of the elements and neglect."
  • ALT1: ... that the Lewis Spring House in Florida was named after a spring that no longer exists? Source: Kassab, Beth (December 26, 2001). "Frank Lloyd Wright treasure lies in disrepair". The Orlando Sentinel. Associated Press. "Even the spring that gave the home its name has run dry, a metaphor for how this architectural treasure has lost the luster of its past."
  • ALT2: ... that the Lewis Spring House in Florida, which has been likened to a boat, was named after a spring that no longer exists? Source: Kassab, Beth (December 26, 2001). "Frank Lloyd Wright treasure lies in disrepair". The Orlando Sentinel. Associated Press.
  • ALT3: ... that one original owner of the Lewis House in Florida did not like saying its address because "The road is Okeeheepkee, but our home is not Okeeheepkee"? Source: Waters, TaMaryn (August 26, 2025). "Spring House, Frank Lloyd Wright gem in Tallahassee, up for sale". Tallahassee Democrat. p. A1. "As for the name, Mashburn said when someone would ask, "Where y'all headed," when talking to her family, the reply would be Okeeheepkee Road. That didn't exactly roll off the tongue. "Our mother did not like that," Mashburn said. Her mother would say, "The road is Okeeheepkee, but our home is not Okeeheepkee." So her dad dubbed it "Spring House." Mashburn guessed it had something to do with the freshwater spring on the grounds, close to Lake Jackson."
  • ALT4: ... that after a Florida family moved into a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, one acquaintance said, "How could you let an atheist design your house"? Source: Hinson, Mark (November 10, 1998). "The Wright Stuff". Tallahassee Democrat. pp. 1C, 3C.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Solomon Islands at the 2024 Summer Olympics

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 749 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 01:34, 20 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 21

Peter Dickson (announcer)

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• ... that the bombastic voice of The UK X Factor has narrated 30,000 adverts?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sonangol Sinopec International
  • Comment: I cleared this article in January as none of it was sourced, and promptly forgot I'd done that until a week ago, when ITV uploaded an episode of The Price is Right to ITVX for its 70th birthday. I'm not sure what 5x starts from, so I've also nominated this for GA and am happy to go through WP:GARC if necessary. Also, The X Factor was the most watched UK programme of the 2010s, so I'd expect a broad audience to have heard of it (it's certainly going to mean more than the name alone).

5x expanded by Launchballer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 325 past nominations.

Launchballer 14:41, 27 September 2025 (UTC).

• Not a review, but while "bombastic" adds flavor to the hook and will probably get it more attention, I'm not sure if it would hold up to scrutiny. For one, it's only one source (The Independent) that calls him as such, so I don't think we can describe him as "bombastic" in Wikivoice. At best, "bombastic" may have to be in quotes (although that may still not be enough for the attribution police); otherwise, his name may have to be spelled out in full instead as the safest option. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:10, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Sławomir (musician)

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• ... that Sławomir has been described as the "king" of the fusion genre rock-polo? Source: Pilawski, Patrycjusz (7 January 2018). "OJ UW - rock polo". nowewyrazu.uw.edu.pl. University of Warsaw. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2025. Gatunek muzyczny łączący elementy rocka i disco polo [...] "Sławomir, król nietypowego nurtu muzycznego, rock-polo, rozgrzał wczoraj nowogrodzką publiczność do czerwoności"
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Zinaida Nevzorova

Created by Luxtaythe2nd (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Luxtaythe2nd (_{Talk to me...}) 19:21, 22 September 2025 (UTC).

Saving Grace (podcast)

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• ... that GK Barry has stated that her girlfriend is used to her discussing their sex life on her podcast?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Peter Gersten
  • Comment: There probably is a better way of wording this, but I've had enough of this topic for now. Quote's in a comment next to the reference.

Moved to mainspace by Launchballer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 324 past nominations.

Launchballer 22:26, 21 September 2025 (UTC).

The One Where Michael Leaves

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• ... that the second season premiere of Arrested Development required actor David Cross to paint himself blue, a task he described as "a huge pain in the ass"?

• Source: https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a368124/david-cross-arrested-developments-blue-man-group-paint-was-a-pain/

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

Crystal Drawers (talk) 05:33, 21 September 2025 (UTC).

• Article does not currently contain the phrase "huge pain in the ass". How about something pertaining to "He often had to take upwards of three showers to fully remove the paint" ? DS (talk) 19:00, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

or perhaps the fact that, two years later, they learned that the actual BMG just uses face paint and unitards? DS (talk) 21:18, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Sure! I prefer the first one. Maybe ... that the second season premiere of Arrested Development required actor David Cross to paint himself blue, which forced him to take upwards of three showers to remove the paint each day after filming? Crystal Drawers (talk) 03:17, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

That hook is 198 characters which is just a hair under the 200 character limit. I'd shorten it something like:

ALT ... that the second season premiere of Arrested Development required actor David Cross to paint himself blue and take upwards of three showers each day to remove the paint?

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:13, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Sure, that one's good Crystal Drawers (talk) 12:54, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on September 22

Enrique Molina Pico

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• ... that Argentine admiral Enrique Molina Pico commanded the destroyer ARA Hércules during the Falklands War and later coordinated operations of Argentine troops in the Gulf War?

• Source: La Nacion: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/murio-enrique-molina-pico-el-exjefe-de-la-armada-que-peleo-en-malvinas-y-viajo-con-las-tropas-nid20092025/

"Cuatro años después, en 1982, participó de la guerra de Malvinas al mando del destructor Hércules, en una actuación por la que luego fue condecorado"

"En esa tarea, la actuación de Molina Pico no pasó desapercibida: puso en marcha la primera fuerza naval de las Naciones Unidas en el Caribe, con buques argentinos, y coordinó operaciones de tropas de nuestro país en la Guerra del Golfo."

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

Mooonswimmer 00:05, 29 September 2025 (UTC).

Jenny Price, Stop Saving the Planet!

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• ... that Jenny Price once wrote an environmentalist book called Stop Saving the Planet!? Source: In this brief, energetic book, Price pleads for a more comprehensive environmentalism, which she defines as “in here” rather than “out there.” + The book's ironic name
  • ALT1: ... that Jenny Price's environmentalist book Stop Saving the Planet! was once called a "fun introduction to a serious topic"? Source: ALT0 + A fun introduction to a serious topic that should serve as a starting point for further study and action.
  • ALT2: ... that Kirkus Reviews called Jenny Price's environmentalist book Stop Saving the Planet! a "fun introduction to a serious topic"? Source: Same as ALT1
  • ALT3: ... that in her book Stop Saving the Planet!, Jenny Price wants environmentalism to be "in here" instead of "out there"? Source: The first part of ALT0 + In this brief, energetic book, Price pleads for a more comprehensive environmentalism, which she defines as “in here” rather than “out there.”
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Help Mark and Template:Did you know nominations/WMDT
  • Comment: Both articles were created on the same UTC day (the book and the author redirect within minutes, and the author page a bit over 16 hours later).

Created by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 107 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 23:49, 24 September 2025 (UTC).

Warriors (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis album), Gender flip

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Eisa Davis, co-writer of Warriors.

• ... that the gender-flipped story of Warriors (co-writer pictured) was partly inspired by the Gamergate harassment campaign? Source: Associated Press - Miranda: "[Gender swapping the characters] was the coin flip that made me go, “I think I understand how this could be interesting to write.” Around the time I had just gotten out of “Hamilton,” Gamergate was happening online. ... Anonymous online trolls were just like, “I don’t think that women should be in video games. Here’s her f——— home address.” And that kind of act, the chaos of deciding to destabilize someone’s life and then just going back to your computer, the first thing that I thought of was Luther shooting Cyrus, pointing to Warriors and going, “They did it.” And now the Warriors have the rest of the night with every gang thinking they’ve broken the truce and they’re fighting for their lives over the act of one person with a gun. I made that connection and then thought, “Well, if the Warriors are women, how does that change the narrative?” At every point, it complicates it in a really compelling way."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Blurred Lines , Template:Did you know nominations/Euclid's Elements

Improved to Good Article status by Jonathan Deamer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 20 past nominations.

Jonathan Deamer (talk) 19:23, 22 September 2025 (UTC).

Dale Berry

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• ... that Dale Berry had not visited China as of 2013 despite having set his comic series in 12th-century China?

• Source: Levin, Steve (2013-09-23). "Comic-Con draws fantasy legends". The Bakersfield Californian. Archived from the original on 2025-09-22. Retrieved 2025-09-22.

  The article notes: "Berry, 53, who lives in San Francisco, said it takes up to two years to complete one of his "Moonlight Cutter" series, which feature vivid swordplay, ghosts, murdering spirits and cursed spears amid the architecture and costumes of 12th century China. He's never been to China but wants to go. On the other hand, he said, "the China I'd like to visit doesn't exist any more.""

• ALT1: ... that Dale Berry's first comic, Ninja Funnies, surpassed 35,000 in sales? Source: Bentley, Rick (2007-09-20). "Weekend radio host enjoys a double life". The Fresno Bee. Archived from the original on 2025-09-22. Retrieved 2025-09-22 – via Newspapers.com.

  The article notes: "Berry was creating graphic comics long before he got into radio. He has been a professional independent comic-book writer/artist since the 1980s while living in Bakersfield. "Ninja Funnies," his first book, sold more than 35,000 copies."

• ALT2: ... that Dale Berry used his fencing experience to choreograph fight scenes in his comic series? Source: Bentley, Rick (2007-09-20). "Weekend radio host enjoys a double life". The Fresno Bee. Archived from the original on 2025-09-22. Retrieved 2025-09-22 – via Newspapers.com.

  The article notes: "At the same time, Berry was working as a stage hand and doing promotions for the Bakersfield Fox Theatre. And he was a fencing instructor at California State University, Bakersfield. The fencing background helps him create detailed battle sequences for his graphic novel characters."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Qla'

Created by Cunard (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 99 past nominations.

Cunard (talk) 09:43, 22 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 23

Erich Dieckmann (furniture designer)

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Erich Dieckmann, around 1924

• ... that there are still bauhaus masters nobody knows?

• Source: https://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail/stuehle-dieckmann/

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

Ariegel (talk) 14:52, 30 September 2025 (UTC).

• Article is new enough (technically 7 days and a few hours from creation to nomination, but close enough) and long enough. It is well-sourced, neutral, BLP-compliant, copyvio-free, and presentable. A new hook is needed (please read the guidelines at WP:HOOK) - the current hook is improperly formatted, does not appear in the article, and is not verified by the given citation. I am also concerned about the image - the source is a nonfunctional link with no further details, making it impossible to verify that it was actually anonymously published. Either a correct link that verifies the anonymous publication needs to be found, or the image should be removed from this nomination. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:52, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

A Far Better Thing

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• ... that A Far Better Thing is a retelling of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities with fairy changelings?

• Sources: The Nerd Daily: "Dickens, but with fairy changelings."
• Publishers Weekly: "Faeries whisked Sydney Carton away to the faerie realm when he was a baby, leaving behind a changeling named Charles Darnay."

• ALT1: ... that A Far Better Thing is a retelling of A Tale of Two Cities with fairy changelings?

• Sources: The Nerd Daily: "Dickens, but with fairy changelings."
• Publishers Weekly: "Faeries whisked Sydney Carton away to the faerie realm when he was a baby, leaving behind a changeling named Charles Darnay."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Calling Mr. Smith

Created by Bruce1ee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

—Bruce1ee^talk 15:11, 27 September 2025 (UTC).

Sri Haryati

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• ... that Sri Haryati caught COVID-19 less than a year after replacing someone who had died from the virus? Source: "caught COVID-19 less than a year":https://megapolitan.kompas.com/read/2021/05/31/23211721/sudah-divaksin-dosis-kedua-asisten-perekonomian-dki-jakarta-positif-covid "replacing Jakarta’s provincial secretary Saefullah who had died from the virus" :https://jakarta.bisnis.com/read/20200916/77/1292564/saefullah-meninggal-karena-covid-19-ini-perjalanan-karier-sri-haryati-plh-sekda-dki
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pringle House (New Zealand)

Created by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 98 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 16:01, 26 September 2025 (UTC).

Intercultural studies

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• ... that many seminaries have replaced the term missiology with intercultural studies to reflect changing approaches to global Christianity?

• Source: Kollman, Paul (19 December 2022). "Defining Mission Studies for the Third Millennium of Christianity". In Kirsteen Kim; Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press.

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

austiñobobbiño (talk) 15:43, 26 September 2025 (UTC).

Frank Nimsgern

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• ... that Frank Nimsgern received the German Theatre Prize for his various musicals, including a musical adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest?

• Source: Google translate, from the German source - "German Musical Theatre Prize ... This is represented by well over two million visitors to works, such as "Well Forgotten Works." The Ring" (Bonn Opera, Hof Theatre, Neuschwanstein Festival Hall), "Magic Flute" (Deutsches Theater Munich/ Metronome Theater Oberhausen), "Qi", "Elements", "Witches", "Hansel & Gretel" (all Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin), "POE" (Munich), "Phantasma" (Saarländisches Staatstheater), "Falco" (Pforzheim Theatre), "The Man with the Laughter" (Dresden State Operetta), "Jack the Ripper" (Theater Hof / Zeltpalast Merzig), "Paradise of Pain" or "SnoWhite" (Bonn Opera), both of which were published by the ARD as musical film .. Furthermore, the musical implementation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" followed in June 2022 at the Luisenburg".

• Reviewed: The World After Gaza
• Comment: Created 23 September by Dr Blofeld.

Created by Dr. Blofeld (talk) and Gerda Arendt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 118 past nominations.

Storye book (talk) 11:11, 24 September 2025 (UTC).

The article is new enough, long enough, and features appropriate citations. Earwig's shows no copyvio. However, I don't see the fact about the theatre prize in the article. ✦ Saltymagnolia ✦ 14:54, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

• Sorry, intermittent internet, and engineer dropped key*oard which no longer has letter which is *etween a and c in alpha*et. ALT0 fact was later removed from article.
• ALT1 ... that Frank Nimsgern's Magic Flute won a Musical of the Year award, at The Musical Awards in Germany. (sourse: here.)

• The fact about the piece winning Musical of the Year still isn't in the article. I'll add it myself later, if your keyboard is still acting up. ✦ Saltymagnolia ✦ 11:37, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

* Thank you, Saltymagnolia, my keyboard appears to be functioning at the moment. But please add the necessary facts yourself, as I am not an expert in that particular area. Storye book (talk) 16:38, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Delmass cave

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• ... that the Delmass cave features a 14-metre-tall (46 ft) stone façade with multiple levels of windows and arrowslits built into the cliffside? Source: Frangieh 2014 & Baroudi 1998
  • ALT1: ... that local legends claim “bandit-monks” once lived in the Delmass cave, shoeing their horses backwards to mislead pursuers? Source: Baroudi 1998
  • ALT2: ... that the Delmass cave overlooks a caravan road once used by Sultan Qaitbay in 1477 on his journey from Baalbek to Tripoli? Source: Baroudi 1998
  • ALT3: ... that the Delmass cave is the only surviving medieval military site in the Bsharri District in Lebanon? Source: Baroudi 1998
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Abyssinian hare

Created by Elias Ziade (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 51 past nominations.

el.ziade (talkallam) 21:48, 23 September 2025 (UTC).

• @Elias Ziade: Red links aren't allowed in hooks per WP:MPNOREDIRECT, were you planning on making this a multinom?--Launchballer 15:11, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

• Launchballer No sorry, I misplaced a pipe and the other was a typo. I didn’t look back after I submitted the form. el.ziade (talkallam) 15:41, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on September 24

Jairo Penaranda

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• ... that Jairo Penaranda did not enjoy riding llamas?

• Source: Press of Atlantic City

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Oskar Ospelt
• Comment: To do QPQ within a day or two. I think this would be a good quirky hook.

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 421 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:08, 1 October 2025 (UTC).

Owodo

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• ... that King Owodo, the last Ogiso of Igodomigodo, was deposed after killing a pregnant widow, an act punishable by deposition under the kingdom's law? Source: Aiguobarueghian 2020, p. 397. Link: [55], Ọmọregie 1997a, p. 117, Egharevba 1968, p. 3.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/City Landscape

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

Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:48, 30 September 2025 (UTC).

Untitled (collection)

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• ... that Alexander McQueen expressed his career frustrations with a golden shower? Source: Dana Thomas, Gods and Kings p 257–258
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lynch Fragments
  • Comment: I don't mind revising the hook, but I'd like to find some way to retain the cheek, for obvious reasons.

Moved to mainspace by Premeditated Chaos (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 67 past nominations.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 10:29, 26 September 2025 (UTC).

• ALT1: ... that Alexander McQueen tried to name his eleventh collection after a sex act?--Launchballer 12:18, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Bayden Barber

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Bayden Barber in 2025

• ... that the chair of Ngāti Kahungunu, Bayden Barber (pictured), has supported Māori in New Zealand forming their own parliament?

• Source: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/518351/maori-parliament-workings-discussed-at-hui-a-motu-second-phase

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

TheLoyalOrder (talk) 05:48, 25 September 2025 (UTC).

Guard of the National Conscience

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• ... that in the 1920s, the Romanian government discreetly encouraged right-wing radicalism as a counter-revolutionary measure to combat socialist organizations and Bolshevik subversion?

• Source: "Corneliu Zelea Codreanu: Ascensiunea și căderea «Căpitanului»", p. 49

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Created by Cristian9343 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Cristian9343 (talk) 17:17, 24 September 2025 (UTC).

• comment: you need to link and bold the article. Roast (talk) 21:25, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Michael Tene

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• ... that one of Michael Tene's examiners attended his thesis defense right after a government cabinet meeting? Source: Basri, Faisal (2020). "Pembangunan Berkelanjutan 2045: Tanggapan Atas Orasi 90 Tahun Prof. Emil Salim". 90 Tahun Prof. Emil Salim: Pembangunan Berkelanjutan Menuju Indonesia Tinggal Landas 2045 [90 Years of Prof. Emil Salim: Sustainable Development Towards Indonesia's Take-Off 2045] (PDF) (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Yayasan KEHATI. p. 54. ISBN 978-623-7041-03-0.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Arlan (Indonesian politician)

Created by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 96 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 14:36, 24 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 25

Francisco Asenjo Barbieri

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• ... that Francisco Asenjo Barbieri wrote Spanish painter Francisco Goya into one of his zarzuelas as a character?

• Source: Webber, Christopher (2002). The Zarzuela Companion. Maryland: Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 33. ISBN 0-8108-4447-8.

• Reviewed: [[]]
• Comment: I technically did my first large update to the page 8 days ago, but I did not know of DYK criteria before then and I've been doing a large-scale rewrite of the page over the course of the past week. I still have more I want to do, but for now, I'd like to nominate it for inclusion in DYK while its still somewhat eligible.

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

The Robot Parade (talk) 14:26, 3 October 2025 (UTC).

Chem River Battle

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• ... that it is unclear what exact year the Chem River Battle actually happened?

• Source: Discussed at length in the article, with each historian's opinion cited to them

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cormocephalus rubriceps

Moved to mainspace by 3family6 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 110 past nominations.

3family6 (Talk to me|See what I have done) 13:04, 28 September 2025 (UTC).

Mia Lee

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Mia Lee headshot in 2025

• ... that American painter/designer Mia Lee (pictured) made doll fashions from her grandmother's scraps?

• Source: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a42707025/mia-lee-chicago-artist-interview/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ismail Thomas
• Comment: 3rd of 4 QPQ for this nomination.

Created by TonyTheTiger (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 382 past nominations.

TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:00, 27 September 2025 (UTC).

• ALT1...that American painter/designer Mia Lee (pictured) produced cover art and appeared in the music video for a Chance The Rapper song?
• ALT2...that American painter/designer Mia Lee (pictured) produced cover art that was described as an updated American Gothic?

Kate Nambiar

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• ... that in 2023 Kate Nambiar advised the EastEnders team around HIV treatment options for a storyline?

• Source: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/eastenders-hiv-zack-end-stigma-how-far-weve-come-2082547

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

Sleepytimecat (talk) 00:50, 27 September 2025 (UTC).

Burger Continental

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• ... that Burger Continental served dishes like Chicken Erotica to jurors in high-profile cases including the trials of O. J. Simpson and the Menendez brothers?

• Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/01/AR2007080102521.html

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Amfioensociëteit

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

AllWeKnowOfHeaven (talk) 23:20, 26 September 2025 (UTC).

Vindelev Hoard

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• ... that the oldest known reference to the Norse god Odin was found on a bracteate in the Vindelev Hoard?

• Source: https://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/verdens-aeldste-odin-fundet-i-vindelev/

• ALT1: ... that some of the gold pieces in the Vindelev Hoard were damaged by plowing before they were discovered?” Source: Rapport for arkæologisk efterudgravning og forundersøgelse VKH 8206 Vindelev, p. 3
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Created by DraconicDark (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

DraconicDark (talk) 20:44, 25 September 2025 (UTC).

• @DraconicDark: This article looks to be in mostly very good shape. It was recently translated from the German Wikipedia article, which met their equivalent of a Good Article review. No issues with copyright violations, plagiarism, Original Research, NPOV violations, or other policy concerns that would be a dealbreaker for DYK. This is the editor's first DYK so no review is required for QPQ.
  I do see several issues for DYK guidelines that are all fixable. First, the article uses a mixture of inline citations and general references. WP:DYKCITE says that body content outside of the lead and other summaries "must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph". So for example, the section Vindelev Hoard#Discovery is mostly fine, but the source for "The ensemble is of exceptional archaeological importance. No other saucer-sized gold discs like those from Vindelev have been found to date. The craftsmanship of the jewelry also surpasses that of other finds." is currently not cited inline (I assume it is one of the general references at the bottom of the page). To run on DYK, sections like that will need to be followed with an inline citation. The two hook facts "should be cited no later than the end of the sentence in which they appear to meet WP:DYKHFC. For example, the plowing citation looks reliable and backs up the hook fact, but it is currently only a general reference and not cited inline. Finally, the hook and article should both match the source regarding the "oldest known reference" to Odin. Right now the article hedges with "may be".
  So overall this is nearly there and already quite solid. When you're ready for me to take another look, or if you have any questions, feel free to {{ping}} me here. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 22:56, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Cheney Lively

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• ... that Cheney Lively was the first Black property owner and permanent resident of Indianapolis, Indiana?

• Source: Scott, Kate (2020). "Cheney Lively: A Black Woman on the Indiana Frontier". Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. Vol. 32, no. 2. pp. 29–37

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

Ssafder (talk) 14:14, 25 September 2025 (UTC).

• This is not a review, but per WP:DYKHOOKCITE, "first" hooks are now discouraged on DYK unless such claims have airtight sourcing. Right now, the claim that Lively was the first black permanent resident of Indianapolis is unreferenced; however, even if it was, the claim is so exceptional that it is unlikely to gain consensus. Please propose a different hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 06:33, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
• ALT1: ... that Cheney Lively was the only Black female head of household in Indianapolis listed in the 1830 census?
• Source: Scott, Kate (2020). "Cheney Lively: A Black Woman on the Indiana Frontier". Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. Vol. 32, no. 2. pp. 29–37

Articles created/expanded on September 26

Bill Gutteron

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Gutteron, c. 1925

• ... that NFL player Bill Gutteron (pictured) also taught 50,000 people how to swim?

• Source: Centre Daily Times ("But he will, if pressed, admit that since 1920 he has had a hand in teaching at least 50,000 youngsters how to swim.")

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kyōka Moriya
• Comment: To do QPQ within a day or two.

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 422 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:09, 2 October 2025 (UTC).

Pearls Group

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• ... that only 21 lakh out of 5.5 crore investors were refunded with their money over Pearls Group scandal?

• Source: https://www.news18.com/india/pearls-group-owner-passes-away-what-happens-to-5-crore-investors-he-scammed-in-rs-45000-crore-chit-fund-9029357.html

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

Koshuri ^(あ!) 17:16, 2 October 2025 (UTC).

Hernán Romero

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• ... that Hernán Romero appeared in more than 90 stage productions, 25 telenovelas, and 15 films over his seven-decade career?

• Source: https://www.expreso.com.pe/actualidad/hernan-romero-berrio-tributo-al-amigo-que-partio-a-la-eternidad-callao-pucp-patricia-romero-noticia/1225038/

"Con más de seis décadas de trayectoria"

"Más de 90 obras de teatro, 25 novelas y 15 películas, Romero forma parte de la memoria colectiva de la ficción peruana."

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

Mooonswimmer 23:57, 28 September 2025 (UTC).

Theo Waimuri

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• ... that Theo Waimuri’s bid for the General Elections Commission caused three lawmakers walked out from his assessment? Source: https://news.detik.com/berita/d-836237/theofilus-di-fit-and-proper-test-3-anggota-komisi-ii-wo
  • ALT1: ... that Theo Waimuri declared his intention to run for vice president after being disqualified from the General Elections Commission? Source: https://news.detik.com/berita/d-836263/theo-gugur-jadi-anggota-kpu-niat-jadi-cawapres
  • ALT2: ... that Theo Waimuri was reprimanded by the foreign department after delivering an apology to the victim of a slashing attack? Source: https://books.google.co.id/books?id=9qrNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA78
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sunaryanta

Created by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 97 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 15:43, 26 September 2025 (UTC).

Red Yao people

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Red Yao woman with long hair

• ... that the long hair of the Red Yao people (pictured) in China, has become a key promotional brand of tourism for their communities?

• Source: Unique ethnic culture leads to booming rural tourism in China's Guangxi

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jeannette Ng's Campbell Award acceptance speech

Created by Toadboy123 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 66 past nominations.

Toadboy123 (talk) 04:23, 26 September 2025 (UTC).

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Articles created/expanded on September 27

Maher Abbas

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Abbas at the Olympics

• ... that future Olympic runner Maher Abbas (pictured) switched from basketball to track over frustration of referees being "easy to bribe"?

• Source: Atlanta Journal

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jean Bonhomme

Improved to Good Article status by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 423 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:24, 4 October 2025 (UTC).

Aljunied MRT station

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Aljunied's roof

• ... that Aljunied station's dome-shaped roof (pictured) has been described by The Straits Times as a "caterpillar" and a "rib cage"?

• Source: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19860420-1.2.22.25, https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19891215-1.2.44.2?qt=%22simei%20station%22&q=%22simei%20station%22

• ALT1: ... that Aljunied's roof (pictured), which was compared to a caterpillar and a rib cage by The Straits Times, was intended to have an "attractive look"? Source: See above
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Chapel of St. Cornelius the Centurion

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

Icepinner 15:00, 30 September 2025 (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 eligibility:

• Freely licensed:
• Used in article:
• Clear at 100px: - Does not render well at thumbnail size.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Hook could use some trimming; I don't think it is necessary to mention The Straits Times at all. SounderBruce 06:07, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Y: Marshals

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• ... that due to the economic impact of Summit County, Utah losing production of Yellowstone, tax incentives in the state were increased, resulting in Y: Marshals, a spin-off of that series, filming there?

• Source: https://idahocapitalsun.com/2025/06/16/yellowstone-spinoff-among-new-utah-film-productions-approved-under-tax-incentive-program/

• ALT1: ... that due to the economic impact of Yellowstone moving its production from Utah to Montana, tax incentives in the state were increased, later attracting the production of spin-off series Y: Marshals? Source: https://idahocapitalsun.com/2025/06/16/yellowstone-spinoff-among-new-utah-film-productions-approved-under-tax-incentive-program/
• ALT2: ... that a network executive said "we don't do cheap" regarding the appearance of a broadcast telvision spin-off from a high-budget cable series? Source: https://deadline.com/2025/05/cbs-orders-yellowstone-sequel-luke-grimes-kayce-dutton-1236388855/
• ALT3: ... that after a network executive said "we don't do cheap", a broadcast telvision spin-off of a high-budget cable series was allocated $52 million? Source: https://deadline.com/2025/05/cbs-orders-yellowstone-sequel-luke-grimes-kayce-dutton-1236388855/ and https://idahocapitalsun.com/2025/06/16/yellowstone-spinoff-among-new-utah-film-productions-approved-under-tax-incentive-program/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Infantino Street

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

TheDoctorWho (talk) 06:17, 28 September 2025 (UTC).

Amy Louise Daniels

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• ... that Amy Louise Daniels worked with wobbly rats?

• Source: Castle, W. E.; King, Helen Dean; Daniels, Amy L. (1941). "Linkage Studies of the Rat (Rattus norvegicus) IV". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 27 (6): 250–254. ISSN 0027-8424.

• ALT1: ... that Amy Louise Daniels worked to make buffalo milk an appropriate food for infants? Source: "Doctor Prescribed A Buffalo's Milk; Baby Throve!". The Buffalo News. 1940-06-08. p. 61. Retrieved 2025-06-01. and "Buffalo milk formula for baby sent by American to India". The Windsor Star. 1940-06-06. p. 24. Retrieved 2025-06-01.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lily Vorperian

Moved to mainspace by DaffodilOcean (talk) and PuertoRicanLasaga (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

DaffodilOcean (talk) 23:56, 27 September 2025 (UTC).

Asian baby girl

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• ... that a subculture from Asian American gangs became popular on Chinese social media?

• Source: https://jingdaily.com/posts/asian-baby-girl-aesthetic-china

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Titanic Lifeboat No. 6
• Comment: Jing Daily looks to be standard WP:NEWSORG.

Moved to mainspace by Based5290 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Based5290 :3 (talk) 19:49, 27 September 2025 (UTC).

Best Friends Forever (sculpture)

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• ... that when the United States Park Police was supposed to protect protest art of Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein for five days, they instead tore it down in less than 24 hours?

• Source: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/politics/trump-epstein-statue-removed-national-mall/65-f509c666-6627-447e-9726-e8886b843123
  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/27/trump-epstein-dc-statue-removed-damaged-reaction/86346654007/

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• Comment: A statue critical of Trump was permitted to stay up with full-time security until the 28th, but was instead torn down on the 24th.

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

Pinoccappuccino (talk) 15:56, 27 September 2025 (UTC).

• Fresh and more than sufficiently long. I see no copyright issues. I believe the hook could be better, Pinoccappuccino. There is lots of potential in the article and this same fact can be worded better. The Reception section seems incomplete. Have Trump's supporters not have had anything to say? I also do not see anything in the article that supports the inclusions of Category:Censorship in the United States and Category:Vandalized works of art in Washington, D.C.. Sourced content explicitly mentioning censorship and vandalism should be added or the categories should be removed. I have added a free photo of the statue, which may (but does not have to be) nominated with a new hook. Surtsicna (talk) 15:59, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on September 28

Prince Thagara

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• ... that Prince Thagara was so handsome that the future Queen Supayalat disguised herself as a man just to get a glimpse of him? Source: Gilberti, Christian (1 October 2019). "The Last Days of Queen Supayalat". MYANMORE.
  • ALT1: ... that Prince Thagara was once considered for the throne of Burma but was passed over for Prince Thibaw? Source: "ဆယ့်နှစ်ရာသီ ရွှေဖလားထဲက မဲနှစ်မဲကို ပြန်ရေတွက်ခြင်း" [Recounting two ballots from the golden urn of the twelve seasons]. Eleven Media Group Co., Ltd (in Burmese).
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/????

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

Hteiktinhein (talk) 17:49, 2 October 2025 (UTC).

Dorothy Burnham

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• ... that civil rights activist Dorothy Burnham is also a supercentenarian?

• Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20250409082339/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/22/metro/jamaica-plain-celebrates-110th-birthday/

"On Saturday, Burnham celebrated her 110th birthday…"

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Humus form

Converted from a redirect by Guerreroast (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 20 past nominations.

Roast (talk) 01:39, 2 October 2025 (UTC).

Mustarjil

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• ... that British anthropologist Wilfred Thesiger recorded information on the mustarjil, a gender identity associated with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq? Source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7O-SDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA46&dq=mustarjil#v=onepage&q=mustarjil&f=false which refers to his book The Marsh People
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Malpas (band)

Created by Lajmmoore (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 151 past nominations.

Lajmmoore (talk) 19:08, 1 October 2025 (UTC).

Masoud El Amaratly

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Recording of El Amaratly's folk singing

• ... that one of Iraq's most popular folk singers in the 1920s was Masoud El Amaratly (listen above), a transgender man? Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29702694 (scroll to bottom)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kaman-Kalehöyük Archaeological Museum
  • Comment: I'm not sure if DYK runs sound recordings, and if it does how you described it instead of (pictured) so advice welcome on that. I'm also happy to come up with other hooks.

Created by Lajmmoore (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 150 past nominations.

Lajmmoore (talk) 06:50, 1 October 2025 (UTC).

Titanic Collapsible Boat B

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Collapsible Boat B (found upturned and adrift at sea).

• ... that the most senior crew member of the Titanic to survive the disaster, as well as an American colonel, one of the telegraphists, the chief baker, and a teenage boy were saved on an upturned boat (pictured)?

• Sources: FOR LIGHTOLLER: Second Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller (third in from right), who was the most senior officer to survive the disaster // BBC UK — FOR GRACIE: Colonel Archibald Gracie's letter, written during the voyage, said he would "await my journey's end" before he passed judgement on the "fine ship". // BBC NEWS — FOR BRIDE: THRILLING STORY BY TITANIC'S SURVIVING WIRELESS MAN; Bride Tells How He and Phillips Worked and How He Finished a Stoker Who Tried to Steal Phillips's Life Belt -- Ship Sank to Tune of "Autumn" // The New York Times — FOR JOUGHIN: [From page 87 of Daniel Allen Butler book Unsinkable: The Full Story: "...trailing behind Chief Baker Charles Joughin , each carrying four loaves of bread, which were quickly distributed among the boats."] // AND FOR THAYER: [From page 216 of Jack Winocour book The Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors which mentions him as part of the boat].

• Reviewed: New Orleans station (US Navy)

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

CoryGlee (talk) 00:58, 29 September 2025 (UTC).

Voltio (carsharing company)

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Two cars owned by the company

• ... that Voltio (cars pictured) is named after the volt?

• Source: [56] «En la denominación de la compañía [...] el significado intrínseco de la palabra voltio» El “voltio” es la unidad [...] para medir el potencial eléctrico [...]. Translation: «In the name of the company [...] the intrinsical meaning of the word voltio» The volt is the unit [...] to measure the electric potential.

• ALT1: ... that Voltio (cars pictured) has the biggest car fleet in Spain? Source: [57] Voltio se consolida como el servicio de coche compartido líder en España al poseer la mayor flota del país. Voltio consolidates itself as the leader of carsharing in Spain as it has the biggest fleet in the country.
• ALT2: ... that Voltio's name derives from an expression that translates to "going for a walk"? Source: [58] [El nombre] se complementa con el significado coloquial 'darse un voltio', salir de algún lugar para dar una vuelta. [The name] complements with the coloquial meaning of 'darse un voltio', meaning to go for a walk.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Morozova Mansion
• Comment: Reverosie moved it to mainspace.

Moved to mainspace by Earth605 (talk) and Reverosie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Earth605^talk 15:17, 28 September 2025 (UTC).

Velký vlastenecký výlet

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• ... that a 2025 Czech documentary Velký vlastenecký výlet shows the impact of Russian disinformation, following three pro-Russian Czechs as they visit Ukraine during the ongoing war? Source: https://balkaninsight.com/2025/09/15/czech-documentary-on-russian-disinfo-over-ukraine-exposes-bitter-societal-rifts/ + https://www.polskieradio.pl/399/7979/Artykul/3555330,Wielka-wycieczka-ojczyzniana-Czeski-dokumentalista-zabral-zwolennikow-Putina-na-Ukraine
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2025 livestreamed murder in Argentina

Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 570 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:47, 28 September 2025 (UTC).

Glory Hole Park

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Entrance sign

• ... that Glory Hole Park in Aspen, Colorado, is being improved for wheelchair accessibility?

• Source: The City of Aspen is undertaking a three-week project to enhance pedestrian safety and accessibility at Glory Hole Park.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Chatto
• Comment: I leave to others to decide whether this is better with or without the image.

Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 255 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 09:45, 28 September 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: Okay, come on. You nominated glory hole park and don't wanna go for April fools? Not reviewing. Roast (talk) 23:45, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

April Fools? What on Earth for? 😮 Surtsicna (talk) 06:55, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on September 29

European Geniza

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• ... that the "books within books" of the European Geniza are a collection of manuscript fragments recovered from medieval and early modern book bindings?

• Source: https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004427921/BP000001.xml, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Books_within_Books/ARvjAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=european+geniza&pg=PA4&printsec=frontcover

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Saleh Shahin

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

Andre🚐 16:20, 1 October 2025 (UTC).

George Lutfallah

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• ... that George Lutfallah, a wealthy Lebanese expatriate, employed his considerable wealth to advance an ultimately unsuccessful bid for the Lebanese presidency in 1929? Source: Zamir 1997, pp. 60–61
  Riachi 1953, pp. 73–76
  Dib 2006, p. 805
  • ALT1: ... that George Lutfallah sought to use his wealth to become king of Lebanon, viewing the presidential candidacy as a stepping stone to that goal? Source: Riachi 1953, pp. 72, 76
    Dib 2006, p. 805
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Deir el-Balah sarcophagi

Moved to mainspace by Elias Ziade (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 52 past nominations.

el.ziade (talkallam) 16:59, 30 September 2025 (UTC).

Yonki-no-kai Productions

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• ... that in 1969, leading Japanese directors Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Kon Ichikawa and Keisuke Kinoshita came together to form a production company?

• Source: Galbraith, Stuart (2002). The Emperor and the Wolf:The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune. USA: Faber and Faber. p. 473. ISBN 0-571-19982-8.

• ALT1: ... that in 1969, the Yonki-no-kai Productions company was founded by Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Kon Ichikawa and Keisuke Kinoshita with the aim of reviving the struggling Japanese film industry? Source: Galbraith, Stuart (2002). The Emperor and the Wolf:The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune. USA: Faber and Faber. p. 473-4. ISBN 0-571-19982-8.
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Created by Zalaraz (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Zalaraz (talk) 13:50, 30 September 2025 (UTC).

2025 Boeing machinists' strike

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• ... that throughout the 2025 Boeing machinists' strike, Boeing has been able to reject union demands and hire replacement workers due in part to financial backing from the United States government?

• Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/boeing-feels-little-economic-pain-strike-defense-unit-head-ninth-week-2025-09-26/

• ALT1: ... that the recent strikes against Boeing have had much less of a financial impact on the company than the strikes that occurred last year? Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/boeing-feels-little-economic-pain-strike-defense-unit-head-ninth-week-2025-09-26/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Society of Champa

Created by 296cherry (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

296cherry (talk) 17:27, 29 September 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on September 30

2025 U.S. Open Cup final

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• ... that Nashville SC's victory in the 2025 U.S. Open Cup final was the first championship for a major professional sports team from Tennessee? Source: The Athletic
  • ALT1: ... that the 110th U.S. Open Cup final was the first in the tournament's history to have an all-women team of referees? Source: ESPN/AP
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Aljunied MRT station

Moved to mainspace by SounderBruce (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 259 past nominations.

SounderBruce 06:16, 4 October 2025 (UTC).

Sarah Fischer (soprano)

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Sarah Fischer

• ... that soprano Sarah Fischer (pictured) performed the role of Pamina in The Magic Flute for the very first live radio broadcast recorded at the Royal Opera House?

• Source: *Potvin, Gilles (March 4, 2015). "Fischer, Sarah". The Canadian Encyclopedia.

• ALT1: ... that soprano Sarah Fischer (pictured) sang excerpts from the title role in Carmen for the very first BBC broadcast of opera music? Source: *Potvin, Gilles (March 4, 2015). "Fischer, Sarah". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jocelyn Borgella
• Comment: Moved to article space on 23:01, 30 September 2025

Created by 4meter4 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 121 past nominations.

4meter4 (talk) 01:20, 2 October 2025 (UTC).

Bucktooth tetra

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Bucktooth tetra (Exodon paradoxus)

• ... that the bucktooth tetra is used to clean dishes by local people living around the rivers in which it occurs?

• Source: https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/exodon-paradoxus/ "Apparently, locals living in areas where the species is common place dirty pans and dishes into the water and the fish perform a useful task by picking every scrap of food from them!"

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Adamsochrysa

Created by Quetzal1964 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

Quetzal1964 (talk) 19:26, 30 September 2025 (UTC).

Tilly Norwood

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Tilly Norwood

• ... that Tilly Norwood's (pictured) existence has been criticised by multiple Hollywood actresses?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Oust Duterte matrix

5x expanded by Launchballer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 327 past nominations.

Launchballer 18:36, 30 September 2025 (UTC).

• I'm not comfortable with asserting that Tilly Norwood exists, actually. I'm also not comfortable with the article using gendered pronouns for the Tilly construct. DS (talk) 19:48, 30 September 2025 (UTC)
• SAG-AFTRA's criticism of the character seems more significant than unnamed "multiple Hollywood actresses". Listing the names of notable actresses could also make it a better hook. ^Falling_Gravity 01:58, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

SAG-AFTRA isn't likely to mean anything to anyone unfamiliar with the industry. Naming the actresses might add interest, but I'm disinclined to go there given what happened at Michelle Pfeiffer (Ethel Cain song). As for the gendered pronouns, I've said my piece at the talk page, in as much that (in my opinion) avoiding their use would be silly.--Launchballer 04:56, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

I think SAG-AFTRA has higher prominence after the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, which was also about studio's using AI avatars (among other issues), so it's increasingly relevant here. ^Falling_Gravity 04:21, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Comment: @FallingGravity: maybe "creation" as a synonym for existence? Roast (talk) 01:19, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

ALT0a: ... that the creation of Tilly Norwood (pictured) has been criticised by multiple Hollywood actresses?--Launchballer 13:23, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that a Hollywood actress recently described Tilly Norwood (pictured) as "really, really scary"?--Launchballer 15:00, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

We could run ALT2: ... that the talk page for Wikipedia's article about Tilly Norwood (pictured) has been described as "a fascinating window into the semantic debates that our society is facing more broadly" as a result of AI? on 15 January, Wikipedia's 25th. (I'm guessing I can't nominate a talk page and run it as a double nom?)--Launchballer 14:42, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

(seeing this DKY on the article TP). I do think that ALT1 is very good - this whole area is scary, but that is the point and that hook captures it perfectly. Aszx5000 (talk) 11:23, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on October 1

Antirrhinum barrelieri, Antirrhinum controversum

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• ... that Antirrhinum barrelieri was split into two species in 1896, the other being Antirrhinum controversum?

• Source: Ferrer‐Gallego, P. Pablo; Güemes, Jaime (June 2020). "Typification of three names in Antirrhinum (Plantaginaceae: Antirrhineae)". Nordic Journal of Botany. 38 (6): 1–7. doi:10.1111/njb.02669.

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• Comment: QPQ to come. I may need to workshop that hook a bit to give it more punch.

Created by Pbritti (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 83 past nominations.

Pbritti (talk) 04:10, 4 October 2025 (UTC).

New London Cenotaph

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• ... that several parents opted against including their children's names on the New London Cenotaph, with the designers representing these individuals with blank spaces on the memorial?

• Source: Foote 1997, p. 86 Rozelle 2012, p. 150

• ALT1: ... that a cenotaph memorializes the victims of the 1938 school explosion in New London, Texas? Source: Wall 2011, p. 159
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Digswell Viaduct

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

JJonahJackalope (talk) 19:09, 2 October 2025 (UTC).

Politik (song)

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• ... that the Coldplay song "Politik", written on September 11, 2001, has been described as "heavily inspired" by the September 11 attacks?

• Source: From the Grammys website: "According to the book Coldplay: Look at the Stars, 'Politik' was heavily inspired by the September 11 attacks." [59]

From the book "Look at the Stars" by Gary Spivack (p. 80): "Many of the new songs, including 'Politik,' were a direct result of the events of 9/11. In interviews, Martin will say 'Politik' is an 'ode' to 9/11 and how life cannot be taken for granted." [60]

• • ALT1: ... that the Coldplay song "Politik" was written on September 11, 2001, and recorded two days later? Source: From the book "Look at the Stars" by Gary Spivack (p. 80): "Martin will say 'Politik' is an 'ode' to 9/11 and how life cannot be taken for granted. 'I wrote the song on 9/11 and we recorded it on 9/13. We were all, like everyone else I suppose, a little confused and frightened.'" [61]
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  • Comment: One thing I am uncertain about — the article uses DMY dates, so how should dates be formatted in the hook? I assume MDY is fine as that is how 9/11 is known. Also, I should note — for some bizarre reason, the entirety of the book "Look at the Stars" misspells Politik as "Politix." It's unfortunate because, otherwise, the book is incredibly well-researched and features extensive interviews with the band, but I just wanted to flag that as a reviewer may notice as they check the sources. I assume it is some kind of formatting error in the book. I have spelled the song correctly above for the purpose of clarity. Hope that is OK! Finally, I noticed the copyvio score is fairly high but I believe it is a false positive due to the use of quotes... I think that's OK?

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

Veggiegalaxy (talk) 22:44, 1 October 2025 (UTC).

Racing Mount Pleasant (album)

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• ... that Racing Mount Pleasant released "Racing Mount Pleasant" as a single for Racing Mount Pleasant?

• Source: "a song named 'Racing Mount Pleasant' that announced an album, also called Racing Mount Pleasant"

• ALT1: ... that "Racing Mount Pleasant" is a song by Racing Mount Pleasant on Racing Mount Pleasant? Source: Same as ALT0
• ALT2: ... that a critic described Racing Mount Pleasant as "quieter and also less silent" than the band's previous album? Source: "Three years and a name change later, Kingfisher is Racing Mount Pleasant, releasing an hour-long self-titled album that spans thirteen tracks. Not much else has changed, in terms of the band’s makeup or its sonic ambitions. It is still attempting to marry the volume and organized clatter of post-rock with the alarming earnestness of mid-to-late-aughts Midwest emo, though they’ve honed those impulses. They’ve gotten, in many ways, quieter and also less silent." (article requires subscription)
• ALT3: ... that a music critic didn't feel he had learnt anything new from Racing Mount Pleasant? Source: "I didn’t come away from "Racing Mount Pleasant" learning anything new about the heart, or about longing or desire or working back through a past life to make sense of a present one..." (article requires subscription)
• ALT4: ... that "Racing Mount Pleasant" from Racing Mount Pleasant was written before Racing Mount Pleasant were Racing Mount Pleasant? Source: Same as ALT0, plus "Their new official name came from a song title — one that wasn’t even written until near the end of the album process."
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Walter Bgoya
• Comment: ALT0/1 is the more interesting fact IMO, although I'm not sure about the wording; ALT2 and ALT3 are here as backups. (Added ALT4 after nomination, and I like it a lot.)

Moved to mainspace by Suntooooth (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

Suntooooth, it/he (talk | contribs) 21:44, 1 October 2025 (UTC).

Tetsudō Musume

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• ... that some Japanese railway companies have their own character mascots? Source: [62] (Official website), [63], [64]
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Devonshire Lodge
  • Comment: Feedback on the hook wording and the article is welcome.

Created by Narutolovehinata5 (talk), Tebus19 (talk), and Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 119 past nominations.

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:52, 1 October 2025 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on October 2

General Mansilla, Buenos Aires

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• ... that nearly 30% of the population of General Mansilla, Argentina was found to have Enterobius vermicularis, a parasitic disease? Source: Pezzani BC, Minvielle MC, de Luca MM, Cordoba MA, Apezteguia MC, Basualdo JA. Enterobius vermicularis infection among population of General Mansilla, Argentina. World J Gastroenterol. 2004 Sep 1;10(17):2535-9. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i17.2535. PMID: 15300899; PMCID: PMC4572156.
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Created by Lynch44 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Lynch44 14:47, 4 October 2025 (UTC).

Inazuma (Genshin Impact)

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• ... that the region of Inazuma was used to allay concerns that Genshin Impact imitated The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?

• Source: [65][66]

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• Comment: This is my first nomination.

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

Gommeh 📖   🎮 16:29, 3 October 2025 (UTC).

First Luv (song)

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• ... that "First Luv" is Bini's first Tagalog song following English releases?

• Source: ABS-CBN

• ALT1: ... that Bini released "First Luv" their first song after a year of English tracks? Source: Bandwagon Asia, Philippine Daily Inquirer
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Vakul

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

ROY is WAR Talk! 11:05, 3 October 2025 (UTC).

Silver Lake (Washington)

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• ... that golden trout disappeared from Silver Lake?

• Source: Downen, Mark R. (2004). North Cascades National Park High Lakes Fishery Management: Historic, Current, and Proposed Future Management of Sport Fish in High-Elevation Park Lakes (PDF) (Report). Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. https://www.watrailblazers.org/science/ncnpfishmgmtrpt.pdf (page 25)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Diane Orr

5x expanded by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 127 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 20:11, 2 October 2025 (UTC).

Miller House (Columbus, Indiana)

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The Miller House

• ... that when the Miller House (pictured) in Indiana opened to the public in 2011, its high attendance was likened to the opening of a new Disney ride? Source: Berggoetz, Barb (August 6, 2011). "A study in geometry". Indianapolis Star. pp. D1, D4
  • ALT1: ... that although the owners of Miller House (pictured) tried to keep their identities secret, local residents quickly recognized who it belonged to? Source: Miller House and Garden Conservation Management Plan (PDF) (Report). PennPraxis. June 2022 p. 42; Green, Ann (January 19, 1959). "Entirely Personal". The Republic. p. 6
  • ALT2: ... that after the Miller House (pictured) was built, Bahrain's royal family asked the house's architect to design them a residence but was refused? Source: Schwarb, Amy Wimmer (May 1, 2011). "Modern Family: The Miller Home". Indianapolis Monthly.
  • ALT3: ... that after Eero Saarinen designed the Miller House (pictured) as a favor to a friend, he refused to design a residence for the royal family of Bahrain? Source: Schwarb, Amy Wimmer (May 1, 2011). "Modern Family: The Miller Home". Indianapolis Monthly.
  • ALT4: ... that an art collection at the Miller House (pictured) was sold for US$135 million, even though its owners did not think it formed a collection? Source: Showalter, Brenda (September 1, 2008). "Miller home merged design, liveability". The Republic.; Olson, Scott (September 22, 2008). "Art museum pursuing Miller home". Indianapolis Business Journal. Vol. 29, no. 29. p. A3. "In June, artwork from the Miller home sold at auction for more than $135 million."
  • ALT5: ... that the modernist Miller House (pictured) was compared to Palladian villas despite the architect's objections? Source: Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa; Albrecht, Donald, eds. (2006). Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future. Yale University Press. p. 238.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Chris Mañon
  • Comment: Thanks to LEvalyn for some of the hook suggestions.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 752 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 17:00, 2 October 2025 (UTC).

SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade France

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French SS volunteers photographed during a German propaganda campaign.

• ... that recruitment for the French SS Volunteer Assault Brigade was promoted through a Waffen-SS exhibition in Paris that attracted thousands of visitors daily?

• Source: Philippe Burrin, La France à l'heure allemande (1940–1944) (Éditions du Seuil, 2015), p. 442. ISBN 978-2-02-129067-7.

Quote (translated from French): "From 1943, another combat unit was looking for French recruits, the Waffen-SS. (…) In January 1944, a photographic exhibition in its glory was held in Paris for ten days. To the great pleasure of the German organisers, around 2,000 people visited it every day."

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

Aeengath (talk) 10:05, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on October 3

Josefa Tolrà

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• ... that Catalan artist Josefa Tolrà draw, embroider, and write during her mediumistic trance?

• Source: https://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2023/07/01/6494bad4fdddffc53a8b45b1.html, https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/maresme/20140119/54400277296/mataro-josefa-tolra-arte-espiritus.html

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• Comment: I created the article yesterday as part of the Women in Red initiative for October. I think the article is ready.

Created by Alsoriano97 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

_-_Alsor (talk) 09:41, 4 October 2025 (UTC).

• The hook has poor grammar for one, and I'd prefer something simpler, like "... that Josefa Tolrà would create her art in a trance?" Sources are alright. Roast (talk) 17:32, 4 October 2025 (UTC)
  • It's ok for me. _-_Alsor (talk) 18:14, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

South Station Bus Terminal

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• ... that in 2005, South Station Bus Terminal had the busiest pay phones in Boston?

• Source: Boston Globe (second page)

• ALT1: ... that a 1965 proposal by Josep Lluís Sert for South Station included a bus terminal, 5,000 parking spaces, and a heliport? Source: Boston Globe
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Erich Dieckmann (furniture designer)

Improved to Good Article status by Pi.1415926535 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 65 past nominations.

Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:37, 4 October 2025 (UTC).

The Other Side (Kubin novel)

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• ... that Alfred Kubin based the novel The Other Side on his own illustrations for a different novel?

• Source: Frank, Edvin (2024). Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374615321.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Fernald Feed Materials Production Center

Created by Uriahheep228 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

Uriahheep228 (talk) 21:39, 3 October 2025 (UTC).

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Holy, Holy

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• ... that the music video for "Holy, Holy" is purposefully edited to show Geordie Greep consistently bowling strikes?

• Source: https://www.themicmagazine.uk/post/geordie-greep-s-holy-holy-a-chaotic-masterpiece-or-total-misfire - "No matter how many cocktails he seems to be drinking - he scores a perfect strike every time. As the video progresses, the editing gets more obvious, as you see the ball going nowhere near the centre, then Greep steps in front of the shot, and by the time he’s moved aside, all the pins are knocked down."

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

Engineeringest (talk) 17:01, 4 October 2025 (UTC).

Mary Fortune

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• ... that the identity of Mary Fortune, one of the earliest female writers of detective fiction, was not rediscovered until decades after her death?

• Source: Sussex, Lucy; Brown, Megan (2025). Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer, and Her Criminal Son George. Collingwood: La Trobe University Press. p. 270. ISBN 978-1-76064-505-2.

• ALT1: ... that despite being a prolific early writer of detective fiction, Mary Fortune spent much of her later life homeless and in poverty? Source: Sussex, Lucy; Brown, Megan (2025). Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer, and Her Criminal Son George. Collingwood: La Trobe University Press. pp. 263–265. ISBN 978-1-76064-505-2. and Sussex, Lucy (2006). "Mary Fortune: the only truly bohemian lady writer who has ever earned a living by her pen in Australia". Overland. No. 183. pp. 57–58. ISSN 0030-7416. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
• ALT2: ... that the son of Mary Fortune, one of the earliest female writers of detective fiction, was a career criminal? Source: Sussex, Lucy (2005). "Mary Helena Fortune". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
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5x expanded by MCE89 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

MCE89 (talk) 15:44, 4 October 2025 (UTC).

Sleepwalker (EP)

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• ... that Kylie Minogue released an extended play on her SoundCloud account for free?

• Source: MTV AXS

• ALT1: ... that Kylie and Garibay released an extended play for free on SoundCloud? Source: Same as above
• ALT2: ... that Fernando Garibay described his collaboration with Kylie Minogue as "Peter Pan meets Tinkerbell"? Source: Audio interview at 4:00–4:13
• Reviewed: Wyoming PBS

Improved to Good Article status by Damian Vo (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 21 past nominations.

Damian Vo (talk) 07:06, 4 October 2025 (UTC).

Barbados–Indonesia relations

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• ... that diplomatic relations between Barbados and Indonesia were initiated by ambassador Priyo Iswanto with the help of Canada's high commisioner to Barbados? Source: Iswanto, Priyo (2023-12-01), Diplomasi Tiga Zaman pengalaman 36 tahun dalam diplomasi bilateral dan multilateral (in Indonesian), UMMPress, ISBN 978-979-796-842-7
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Yoetikno, Template:Did you know nominations/Mikael Genberg

Created by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 99 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 01:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC).

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