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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 18:23, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Dwarkesh Patel

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  • ... that in August 2025, tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel started a fundraiser that raised over $2 million for anti-factory farming charities?
    • Source: "Earlier this month, a fundraiser for nonprofits that fight to end factory farming went a little viral — at least in one corner of the internet...Dwarkesh Patel, the influential tech podcaster, announced on his show that if his listeners donated a collective $250,000 to FarmKind, an organization that distributes money to anti-factory farming charities, so would he. They did — and then some...So far, Patel and his listeners — including Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, professional poker player Liv Boeree, and popular Substack writer Noah Smith — have raised over $2 million. For the global anti-factory farming movement, which works on a shoestring budget to fix one of the most challenging and neglected social issues of our time, that’s a lot of money."Vox
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jessica Forrest, Template:Did you know nominations/John Holmes Jackson
    • Comment: Alt hooks welcome
Created by Thriley (talk), Veggiegalaxy (talk), Alenoach (talk), and GnocchiFan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 197 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 19:29, 3 December 2025 (UTC).

  • I will review this. Viriditas (talk) 22:12, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
    • @Thriley: why do you need the month and year in the hook? Can you add an ALT1 without it please? Also, you could eliminate more words. "Started a fundraiser" is just redundant. By shortening it to something like "... that tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel helped raise over $2 million for anti-factory farming charities?" gives you an opportunity to add more interesting material to it or just keep it short. Viriditas (talk) 22:25, 7 December 2025 (UTC)
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Moved from AFC draft to mainspace on 25 November. Nominated for DYK 3 December. Based on the timestamps, this is 188.88 hours, or 7.87 days, almost 21 hours over the deadline; I assume this is within the grace period given that the "seven-day limit can be extended for a day or two upon request". I need a second opinion for this review as I made far too many edits cleaning this up, rewriting and adding content, and proposing new hooks up above. Viriditas (talk) 00:52, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

@Viriditas: Thank you for all the expansion. I'm going to offer up another hook. This particular one isn’t as interesting as it could be. Thriley (talk) 06:21, 20 December 2025 (UTC)
  • ALT2 that during an interview with tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, Leopold Aschenbrenner detailed a scenario where a country with a slight edge in AI research uses drones to destroy its enemies nuclear submarines?
Not a full review, but the intro can be expanded and the article requires a consistent date format; if it is Indian-based then WP:DMY, or MDY if US-based. M. Billoo 02:53, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: No - ALT1 is not interesting without context, ALT2 is 207 characters, and ALT3 is 201 characters. Minor issues: missing "...", "enemies" is missing an apostrophe, and "superintelligent" should not be capitalized.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: I checked that ALT1, ALT2, and ALT3 are from the cited WSJ article, but more work is needed to use them. If you can shorten it, I like ALT2 the most. It might be an issue that Patel isn't the main focus of these hooks. You could also try a hook that's still about AI, but with Patel's opinions or summarizing the opinions of his interviewees? I don't see any issues with the article and ALT0a looks interesting enough, so I would approve the submission if you want to go with that. I am a new reviewer and would appreciate a second (third?) opinion. Wimwamble (talk) 06:27, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

@Veggiegalaxy:, @Alenoach:, @GnocchiFan: The initial hook I offered doesn't really read as interesting. I'd like to feature something explored on Patel's podcast, but the 200 character limit does restrict the options. Any alternate hook ideas? Thriley (talk) 18:55, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
I would say 4 > 2 > 1 > 3 (ALT 2 and 3 are intriguing but probably also very confusing without context). Alenoach (talk) 21:42, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
ALT4 looks good. Again, somebody experienced might want to double check. Wimwamble (talk) 06:19, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
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