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Current time: 20:31, 30 September 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 20 hours ago() |
NOTE: Because a preponderance of hooks on the suggestions page are biographies or are U.S. related, it is usually appropriate to have several hooks on biographies or U.S. topics in any given update, but never more than half of either. Further information is available at WP:DYKSG#J. Thanks.
Tips on assembling sets are at Wikipedia:Did you know/Preparation areas.
Hooks
- ... that the South Africa Red Ensign (pictured) was raised over Windhoek following the British conquest of German South West Africa in 1915?
- ... that after admitting he took $10,000 to help a fictitious Arab sheikh, Joseph A. Maressa argued that "it would be patriotic to take some of this OPEC oil money and get it back to the United States"?
- ... that the opening episode of Cash Trapped contained a continuity error which revealed the outcome at the start of the game show?
- ... that ...
- ... that in 1960, two barges collided with the 4,162-foot (1,270 m) Severn Railway Bridge, causing two bridge spans to fall into the river?
- ... that a reviewer of Zwölf Stücke, Op. 65, twelve organ pieces by Max Reger, wrote that the composer was "still in his storm and stress period"?
- ... that research by Columbia Law School professor Jeffrey Fagan into stop-and-frisk in New York City was a major factor in Judge Shira Scheindlin's decision to rule the practice unconstitutional in 2013?
- ... that swarms of dykes have intruded into Uruguay?
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Credits
- South Africa Red Ensign – The C of E (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Joseph A. Maressa – Alansohn (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Severn Railway Bridge – Cwmhiraeth (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Jeffrey Fagan – Everymorning (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Cash Trapped – Launchballer (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Cash Trapped – Mogomaniac (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Example – Editor (give) (tag)
- Zwölf Stücke, Op. 65 – Gerda Arendt (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Uruguayan dyke swarms – Mamayuco (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Credit templates
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|30 September|2024}}
(check if small style templates in use, if so add|small=yes
parm) - Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYK|30 September|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
- Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|30 September|2024|Article name}}--~~~~
- Notify contributor about addition to a Portal: (can be modified for more than one portal) – ({{UpdatedDYKportal}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKportal|Article name|Portal:Portal name}}--~~~~
- Note that portal notifications are only done if you have taken the trouble to add the DYK hook to a relevant portal, which is entirely optional. The other notifications must be done before the preparation area page can be reset.
Images
- Don't forget to add an {{mprotected}} notice to the image description page (or {{C-uploaded}} plus a copy of the author attribution and the licence tag if you have uploaded a temporary copy from Commons).
Posting the new update
- Note: This is the manual method. When using DYKUpdateBot, the bot should automate all of the following except steps 1 and 10.
- Make sure the image/media for the hooks to be loaded is on English Wikipedia or protected on Commons. If the image/file is on Commons and not protected, upload it to En and tag it with {{c-uploaded}}. You do not need to protect the picture; this is done automatically because of the cascading protection of the Main Page. Alternatively, if you are an admin at Commons you can protect the image/file at Commons instead of uploading to En.
- Update T:DYK from the current queue.
- Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear.
- Reset the DYK time.
- Increment the next queue count.
- Copy the previous set of hooks (not the new set just promoted to the front page) to the archive. Be sure to copy the final revision of the set (should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update). Please include the picture/file.
- Check if the previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
- If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).
- Clear the queue you just promoted hooks from with {{User:DYKUpdateBot/REMOVE THIS LINE}}.
- If you have time, check if there are any full preparation areas. Check the hooks for errors, and promote them to the next empty numbered queue if they're good. Clear the prep you took hooks from to look like this. Tag the numbered queue with
{{DYKbotdo|~~~}}
once the queue is loaded and ready.