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"Template:Did you know nominations" redirects here. For the list of approved nominations, see Template talk:Did you know/Approved.

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 nominations
Section	Unapproved	Approved	Total
April 19	1		1
April 20		1	1
April 22		1	1
April 26	1		1
April 27	1		1
April 28	1		1
April 29	1		1
May 1	1		1
May 2	2	1	3
May 3		1	1
May 4	1	1	2
May 6	3		3
May 7	4	2	6
May 8	4	1	5
May 9	1		1
May 10	2	2	4
May 11	4		4
May 12	2	2	4
May 13		2	2
May 14	4	1	5
May 15	1		1
May 16	4		4
May 17	1		1
May 18	3		3
May 19	2	2	4
May 20		2	2
May 21	2	6	8
May 22	5	4	9
May 23	3	5	8
May 24	5	4	9
May 25		6	6
May 26	3	5	8
May 27		3	3
May 28	2	13	15
May 29	2	2	4
May 30	3	8	11
May 31	5	12	17
June 1	5	9	14
June 2	2	7	9
June 3	2	8	10
June 4		10	10
June 5	2	5	7
June 6	4	14	18
June 7	4	7	11
June 8	4	9	13
June 9	7	14	21
June 10	5	5	10
June 11	5	9	14
June 12	6	4	10
June 13	4	6	10
June 14	9	8	17
June 15	5	4	9
June 16	7	3	10
June 17	12	2	14
June 18	4	2	6
June 19	7	2	9
June 20	4		4
June 21
Total	172	215	387
Last updated 00:08, 21 June 2026 UTC Current time is 00:23, 21 June 2026 UTC [refresh]

Instructions for nominators

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

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Frequently asked questions

How do I write an interesting hook?

Successful hooks tend to have several traits. Most importantly, they share a surprising or intriguing fact. They give readers enough context to understand the hook, but leave enough out to make them want to learn more. They are written for a general audience who has no prior knowledge of or interest in the topic area. Lastly, they are concise, and do not attempt to cover multiple facts or present information about the subject beyond what's needed to understand the hook.

When will my nomination be reviewed?

This page is often backlogged. As long as your submission is still on the page, it will stay there until an editor reviews it. Since editors are encouraged to review the oldest submissions first, it may take several weeks until your submission is reviewed. In the meantime, please consider reviewing another submission (not your own) to help reduce the backlog (see instructions below). Because of WP:DYKTIMEOUT, a nomination should be reviewed within two months since the reviewer/promoter may agree to reject and close an unpromoted hook after that time has passed.

Where is my hook?

If you can't find the nomination you submitted to this nominations page, it may have been approved and is on the approved nominations page waiting to be promoted. It could also have been added to one of the prep areas, promoted from prep to a queue, or is on the main page.

If the nominated hook is in none of those places, then the nomination has probably been rejected. Such a rejection usually only occurs if it was at least a couple of weeks old and had unresolved issues for which any discussion had gone stale. If you think your nomination was unfairly rejected, you can query this on the DYK discussion page or with the closer, but as a general rule such nominations will only be restored in exceptional circumstances. If your nomination was promoted, but it hasn't reached the main page after two weeks, you can also query this on the DYK discussion page.

Instructions for reviewers

Main page: Wikipedia:Did you know/Reviewer instructions

Any editor who was not involved in writing/expanding or nominating an article may review it by checking to see that the article meets all the DYK criteria (long enough, new enough, no serious editorial or content issues) and the hook is cited. Editors may also alter the suggested hook to improve it, suggest new hooks, or even lend a hand and make edits to the article to which the hook applies so that the hook is supported and accurate. For more information on the DYK rules and review processes, see the DYK guidelines and the reviewer instructions.

To post a comment or review on a DYK nomination, follow the steps outlined below:

• Look through this page, Template talk:Did you know, to find a nomination you would like to comment on.
• Click the "Review or comment" link at the top of the nomination. You will be taken to the nomination subpage.
• The top of the page includes a list of the DYK criteria. Check the article to ensure it meets all the relevant criteria.
• To indicate the result of the review (i.e., whether the nomination passes, fails, or needs some minor changes), leave a signed comment on the page. Please begin with one of the 5 review symbols that appear at the top of the edit screen, and then indicate all aspects of the article that you have reviewed; your comment should look something like the following:

  Article length and age are fine, no copyvio or plagiarism concerns, reliable sources are used. But the hook needs to be shortened.

  If you are the first person to comment on the nomination, there will be a line :* <!-- REPLACE THIS LINE TO WRITE FIRST COMMENT, KEEPING  :* --> showing you where you should put the comment.
• Save the page.
• After the nomination is approved, a bot will automatically list the nomination page on Template talk:Did you know/Approved.

If there is any problem or concern about a nomination, please consider notifying the nominator by placing {{subst:DYKproblem|Article|header=yes|sig=yes}} on the nominator's talk page.

Advanced procedures

How to promote an accepted hook

At-a-glance instructions on how to promote an approved hook to a prep area

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

Check list for nomination review completeness

1. Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post: .
2. Check to make sure basic review requirements were completed.
   • Any outstanding issue following needs to be addressed before promoting.
3. Check the article history for any substantive changes since it was nominated or reviewed.
4. Images for the lead slot must be freely licensed. Fair-use images are not permitted. Images loaded on Commons that appear on the Main Page are automatically protected by KrinkleBot.
5. Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
6. Hook should make sense grammatically.
7. Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
8. Try to select a funny, quirky or otherwise upbeat hook for the last or bottom hook in the set.

Steps to add a hook to prep

• In one tab, open the nomination page of the hook you want to promote.
• In a second tab, open the prep set you intend to add the hook to.

Wanna skip all this fuss? Install WP:PSHAW instead! Does most of the heavy lifting for ya :)

1. For hooks held for specific dates, refer to "Local update times" section on DYK Queue.
   • Completed Prep area number sets will be promoted by an administrator to corresponding Queue number.
2. Copy and paste the hook into a chosen slot.
   • Make sure there's a space between ... and that, and a ? at the end.
   • Check that there's a bold link to the article.
3. If it's the lead (first) hook, paste the image where indicated at the top of the template.
4. Copy and paste ALL the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) at the bottom
5. Check your work in the prep's Preview mode.
   • At the bottom under "Credits", to the right of each article should have the link "View nom subpage" ; if not, a subpage parameter will need to be added to the DYKmake.
6. Save the Prep page.

Closing the DYK nomination page

1. At the upper left
   • Change {{DYKsubpage to {{subst:DYKsubpage
   • Change |passed= to |passed=yes
2. At the bottom
   • Just above the line containing

     }}<!--Please do not write below this line or remove this line. Place comments above this line.-->

     insert a new, separate line containing one of the following:

     To [[TM:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]

     To [[TM:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]

     To [[TM:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]

     To [[TM:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]

     To [[TM:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]

     To [[TM:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]

     To [[TM:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]

   • Also paste the same thing into the edit summary.
3. Check in Preview mode. Make sure everything is against a pale blue background (nothing outside) and there are no stray characters, like }}, at the top or bottom.
4. Save.

For more information, please see T:TDYK#How to promote an accepted hook.

Handy copy sources:

• To [[TM:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
• To [[TM:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
• To [[TM:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
• To [[TM:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
• To [[TM:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
• To [[TM:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
• To [[TM:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]

How to remove a rejected nomination

• Open the DYK nomination subpage of the nomination you would like to remove.
• In the window where the DYK nomination subpage is open, replace the line {{DYKsubpage with {{subst:DYKsubpage, and replace |passed= with |passed=no. Then save the page. This has the effect of wrapping up the discussion on the DYK nomination subpage in a blue archive box and stating that the nomination was unsuccessful, as well as adding the nomination to a category for archival purposes.
• Alternatively, you can use PSHAW, which automates the process.

How to remove a hook from the prep areas or queue

• Edit the prep area or queue where the hook is and remove the hook and the credits associated with it.
• Go to the hook's nomination subpage (there should have been a link to it in the credits section).
  • View the edit history for that page
  • Go back to the last version before the edit where the hook was promoted, and revert to that version to make the nomination active again.
  • Add a new icon on the nomination subpage to cancel the previous tick and leave a comment after it explaining that the hook was removed from the prep area or queue, and why, so that later reviewers are aware of this issue.
• Add a transclusion of the template back to this page so that reviewers can see it. It goes under the date that it was first created/expanded/listed as a GA. You may need to add back the day header for that date if it had been removed from this page.
• If you removed the hook from a queue, it is best to either replace it with another hook from one of the prep areas, or to leave a message at WT:DYK asking someone else to do so.

How to move a nomination subpage to a new name

• Don't; it should not ever be necessary, and will break some links which will later need to be repaired. Even if you change the title of the article, you don't need to move the nomination page.

Nominations

Older nominations

Articles created/expanded on April 19

Leon Milton Birkhead

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• ... that Sinclair Lewis said he chose the minister Leon Milton Birkhead to advise him in writing an anti-ministerial novel because he could swear, smoke, and drink in front of Birkhead?
  Source: Kahn, Ely Jacques Jr. (1947-08-02). "Democracy's Friend—III: Presenting Controversial Matters Controversially". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2026-04-19.
  • ALT1: ... that some friends of Leon Milton Birkhead believed he uncovered hundreds of Nazi collaborators because he was confused for a bumbling tourist?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Charles_Goldstein
  • Comment: so... I'm not finished with this article. Because I turned a 1-paragraph stub into a 5-paragraph stub a week ago, the 5x expansion rules says I have to finish it... but I'm not done, and I don't have the time. I'll have the article done in a month or so, I recommend not reviewing it till then, because it'll just have to be reviewed again. When the article is expanded, it will also have some less verbose hooks: e.g., "that some friends of Leon Milton Birkhead believed he uncovered hundreds of Nazi collaborators because he was confused for a bumbling tourist?"

5x expanded by 1brianm7 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

1brianm7 (talk) 23:22, 24 April 2026 (UTC).

• New enough (nominated within 5 days of start of 5x expansion) and long enough (8998 characters which is more than a 10x expansion). Main issue with sourcing that jumps out is that the article probably needs to be reworked to minimize or completely remove citations to the Lulu Press book because it's self-published, unless the author is a recognized expert in the field (per WP:SPS). (Usually you can do this by finding alternate sources for each claim...and the book itself may provide clues to where some of the information came from.) Otherwise, Cite Unseen finds 4 generally reliable sources, Earwig says copyvio is unlikely, and tone of article is neutral (though I did fix some wording related to place – e.g. don't say "came to America" because our readers could be anywhere in the world). QPQ is done. ALT0 is not OK because it doesn't match what it says in the article or in The New Yorker; Sinclair Lewis didn't say it, Birkhead said it about Lewis! I have added your proposed ALT hook as ALT1 as it seems promising but the claim and source for it are not in the article yet. @1brianm7: Good work so far. Could you work on addressing the issues above and maybe propose one more ALT hook? Cielquiparle (talk) 04:52, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

  @Cielquiparle: thanks for the review, I plan to get working on fixing this article up once I am finished with Draft:Tom Pritchard (chef) in a few days. I think Jim Grebe counts as a self-published expert. He had previously been published by the Unitarian dictionary in a biography of Birkhead, the book received reviews from multiple critics (it might meet WP:NBOOK, lol; they praised its research but thought it was a bit dry), he has since published excerpts of it in reputable publications, and the journal article cited in the article recommends it for readers who want to learn more about his ministerial days. Grebe isn't hagiographic (i.e., some white supremacy isn't whitewashed), it is well-referenced (often to unpublished primaries, however), and his biases (he is a congregant at All Souls, and so spends too much time talking about unfocused church matters) aren't debilitating. I have been thinking about this article and, if you agree Grebe is reliable, had thought up: "ALT2: ... that, after doctors told him he had a year to live, Leon Milton Birkhead went into debt to visit Nazi Germany? I plan to limit Grebe's use in the Friends of Democracy section. 1brianm7 (talk) 17:16, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

@1brianm7: Ok thanks for explaining the justification for using Grebe as a source; it's actually very helpful to have a record of this within the DYK nomination in case other editors have the same question down the line. (And yes...I had read one review of the book as well.) Please proceed with making sure at least one hook is adequately explained within the article with a citation. (Liking your proposed ALT2 though it's not in the article...yet.) Cielquiparle (talk) 06:33, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

@1brianm7: Any updates? Cielquiparle (talk) 05:23, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

@Cielquiparle: thanks for the ping, I've added the section verifying the hook and will work on the article more later in the week. 1brianm7 (talk) 06:48, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

So, this is the earliest nom open on T:DYK, which is an unfamiliar sensation. Since Cielquiparle reviewed, I have expanded the articles sources threefold, its bytesize threefold, and its character count threefold. I'm uh... not done yet, but I'm pretty close. 1brianm7 (talk) 23:57, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 26

Puerto Paraíso

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• ... that Puerto Paraíso was visited by Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, and Michelle Rodriguez while they publicized Fast & Furious 6 during its Mexican premiere?

• Source: Nieto, Nancy Mora (2013-05-19). ""Rápidos y Furiosos 6" invadirá las salas de cine del país" ["Fast & Furious 6" will invade movie theaters across the country.]. SinEmbargo (in Spanish). Notimex. ProQuest 1353056561. Retrieved 2026-04-26.

  The article notes: "Los actores Diesel, Rodríguez y Luke Evans, quienes se encuentran en esta ciudad para promocionar el filme, presenciarán la premier, previa a su estreno el próximo viernes en más de dos mil pantallas del país. Su llegada a la Plaza Puerto Paraíso causó revuelo entre la gente, que por momentos se amontonaban en algún punto por el que pensaban podrían arribar los actores y, con suerte, poder fotografiarles."

  From Google Translate: "Actors Diesel, Rodriguez, and Luke Evans, who are in this city to promote the film, will attend the premiere, prior to its release next Friday on more than two thousand screens across the country. Their arrival at Plaza Puerto Paraíso caused a stir among the people, who at times crowded around any point where they thought the actors might arrive and, with luck, be able to photograph them."

• • ALT1: ... that one journalist cited Puerto Paraíso in comparing Cabo San Lucas to Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, while the same year another reported the mall was largely deserted? Source: Webster, Dan (2003-01-26). "Los Cabos Confidential; Heading south for fun and sun? Here's where; to go, and perhaps more importantly, what to say ..." The Spokesman-Review. pp. H3, H5. Factiva sprv000020030129dz1q00009. NewsBank 0F8DEE8E4CEEA943. ProQuest 2366375451. Retrieved 2026-04-26.

    The article notes: "Little traditional charm remains in today's Cabo San Lucas. With newly created shopping spots such as the sparkling Puerto Paraiso mall, Cabo San Lucas looks in places more like Rodeo Drive than anything traditionally Mexican."

    Mellin, Maribeth (2003-03-09). "Los Cabos stays afloat despite murky travel waters". The San Diego Union-Tribune. NewsBank 116D3A3D09207227.

    The article notes: "Nightclubs tend to come and go in Los Cabos, even though San Lucas is known for its wild night-life scene. Wild Coyote, a flashy club in the near-empty Puerto Paraiso mall, hardly lasted one year, and the disco by the San Lucas spotlight seems to change names seasonally."

  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Phoenixes Flying Together

Created by Cunard (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 106 past nominations.

Cunard (talk) 09:19, 26 April 2026 (UTC).

• @Cunard: I don't think ALT0 is "likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing" – movie stars do promotional tours very often. ALT1 has potential, but reads very confusingly; could it be reworded? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 05:17, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
  • @Theleekycauldron:, thank you for reviewing the hooks! Here are rewordings of ALT1:

    ALT2: ... that Puerto Paraíso helped prompt one journalist to compare Cabo San Lucas to Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, yet another described the mall as largely deserted six weeks later?

    ALT3: ... that Puerto Paraíso prompted one journalist to compare Cabo San Lucas to Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, yet another described the mall as largely deserted six weeks later?

    Webster 2003 was published 26 January 2023, while Mellin 2003 was published 9 March 2003, which is 42 days (6 weeks) later. Cunard (talk) 06:25, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

    • Thanks, Cunard! I think it's still a bit too wordy, but I'm not sure how to cut it down – will leave it to the reviewer / promoter to suggest further alts. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 19:41, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 27

Amay Ektu Jayga Dao

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• ... that "Amay Ektu Jayga Dao", a devotional song by Manna Dey, found the same importance as Amar Sadh Na Mitilo, that was sung much earlier?

• Source:

• • ALT1: ... that "Amay Ektu Jayga Dao" was the last song written by its lyricist reflecting his depression before he jumped into a river from a ferry and died? Source:
  • ALT2: ... that "Amay Ektu Jayga Dao" was the last historical hit song of both its singer Manna Dey and its lyricist Pulak Bandyopadhyay? Source:
  • Reviewed:

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

Babin Mew (talk) 17:33, 2 May 2026 (UTC).

• Full review to follow, but for now I would suggest proposing additional hooks. The first and third hooks require familiarity with Dey or her repertoire, and in any case may not be understood by non-Indian or non-diaspora readers. There is more potential in ALT1 (although rather dark), but it may need a rephrase or to be made more concise. Once additional hooks have been proposed I can do a full review. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:36, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

As the nominator has not responded, asking Launchballer for hook ideas and maybe to copyedit the article. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:48, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that "Amay Ektu Jayga Dao" was the last song its lyricist wrote about depression before his suicide?--Launchballer 04:50, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Great, but I think "its lyricist" should be linked to Pulak Bandyopadhyay. Babin Mew (talk) 11:36, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Thank you. Has the article been copyedited yet? Just waiting for that before moving on to the review. ALT1 is admittedly dark and I have some reservations about running a hook about suicide on the main page, but neither of the other proposed hook facts are interesting. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:27, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Any idea where the hook fact that it's the very last about depression appears in the article? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 05:24, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

In the last paragraph. Babin Mew (talk) 07:13, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 28

Petal (album)

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• ... that Ariana Grande did not wear her signature hairstyle ponytail for the cover artwork of Petal?

• Source: The Hollywood Reporter

• ALT1: ... that Ariana Grande once suggested that she would need two brains and six arms for Petal?

• Source: Rolling Stone

• • Reviewed:

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

Camilasdandelions (✉️) 10:40, 29 April 2026 (UTC).

• @Camilasdandelions: Hi, thank you for bringing this up. While the article is new and long enough for the DYK, and the hook is properly attributed in the article as well, I think isn't this too early to run a DYK, considering we are about three months away from the album release? The article may grow more and more if it stays in the waiting list. Just a concern which I shared, I may be wrong. Thank you! M. Billoo 20:00, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
  • M.Billoo2000 There is no rule that the album should be "three month away" from it release. Camilasdandelions (✉️) 01:26, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

@Camilasdandelions: I am only concerned because something has happened with me as well at Talk:Roshni (album). I am currently seeing this article as a borderline notable and WP:TOOSOON, although I may be wrong because it has a SIGCOV for its announcement and a commentary that supports the hook. What to do now? M. Billoo 01:17, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

@M.Billoo2000: Then I believe the this article's DYK could not be passed in the past either; at that time, its cover artwork and release date were not even unveiled (and still now). If there's a rule associated with those things, again, that article would not also be passed at that time. Also, recently, this article's DYK entry has also been passed although it is not yet released in streaming services.

I just saw the article you posted here, and I believe it lacked some secondary sources to verify its notability, I guess. Also another user stated the reliability of the source cited in hook: "I would recommend using better sources or this nom will fail." But I'm not so sure about this situation per those two successful cases above. Thank you for concerning about this though, and I think it's better to wait other editors' opinions. Camilasdandelions (✉️) 01:27, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

I understand, thank you for sharing some other examples. Stove is in the past now, so no comments on it. For the recent one, "Begged", I can see secondary coverage about how the song has been received after being premiered on a TV show. And for the Roshni, it has been argued that there are only primary statements and no secondary coverage. Same, for now, I can see here for Petal. So I guess it is no problem in waiting for the DYK approval. There is another recent example, which you may be aware of, Template:Did you know nominations/The Life of a Showgirl. At the time of nomination, there was enough commentary about Taylor Swift's announcement and album covers. M. Billoo 13:29, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

@Camilasdandelions: Been a few weeks, any progress on this one? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:24, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Theleekycauldron Why not? I'm still waiting for a review. Camilasdandelions (✉️) 22:33, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

@M.Billoo2000: There is no rule prohibiting DYK running unreleased content (see User:Andrew Davidson/Main Page Errors#Gorillaz), and if you won't tick this off, I will.--Launchballer 22:56, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer and Theleekycauldron: I will not mind. My concern was not an unreleased content. But that the article currently does not have enough secondary independent coverage, and mostly relies on the primary statements only. Like Grande announced... Grande confirmed... Grande posted on social media... Grande's team made an account... etc. The hook is well sourced though. And only that is why I called it a TOOSOON for now. Thank you. M. Billoo 01:01, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

The cover artwork one, the DYK hook, relies on the reliable secondary sources though.. Camilasdandelions (✉️) 02:31, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

As also stated above, please see Template:Did you know nominations/The Life of a Showgirl as well. At the time of nomination, the article had enough secondary independent coverage . See WP:FUTUREALBUMS as well. I think it is not bad to wait a little more, considering the album's first single is releasing this week, and we soon may have a tracklist as well. Thank you. M. Billoo 10:18, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

Regardless of how far off the album release is, the proposed hook admittedly doesn't sound very intriguing to begin with, so I recommend coming up with at least one alt. What else can we reasonably use from currently available secondary sources? SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 13:50, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

SNUGGUMS what about her new label BabyDoll Music? It is the first time for her to release the album through her own imprint. Camilasdandelions (✉️) 05:32, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Ideally the hook should be one targeted even towards non-fans. That suggestion sounds like a hook mainly targeted towards Grande fans rather than general music fans or the general public. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:45, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

While imprint certainly is an improvement over the ponytail idea, Narutolovehinata5's comments make me hesitant to fully endorse it. Feel free to list other ideas you can come up with that aren't primarily aimed at her fanbase. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 12:28, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

@Camilasdandelions: Please propose a new hook as the interest of the above proposal was challenged. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:36, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Not sure why the proposed hook is not interesting, since Grande did not use her signature hair style ponytail in her album cover for the first time. I actually see no other ideas for this album for now. @Launchballer: are you willing to take a review for it though? Camilasdandelions (✉️) 14:10, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Pony tail details frankly are trivial per WP:NOTADIARY and only appear to be of interest to her fanbase, if anyone at all. Now that I give this more thought, the imprint might be our best bet unless anybody else has a better idea to use. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 17:06, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

I still don't think that the imprint thing is that interesting, because it would require knowledge about her career that many casual listeners, let alone people who aren't her fans, don't know. The hair style is probably something that only fans even know (I didn't even know her hairstyle is a signature). Maybe Launchballer has some ideas on what could be used as a hook, but if that doesn't work out, maybe the article just isn't a good fit for DYK. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:19, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Changing labels is fairly common. Maybe "that Ariana Grande once suggested that she would need two brains and six arms for her eighth album?". (I did recently find out from Bridge of Lies (game show) that Grande has released many more fragrances than albums, so if she promotes the album with one, 'that she plugged her eighth album with her 30th (or however many) fragrance' would work.)--Launchballer 23:45, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Done. Would you mind if I adopt "... that Ariana Grande may have hinted at her eighth studio album by revealing that she had "eight glossy balms" in her bag?" as an ALT2? Camilasdandelions (✉️) 02:09, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

@Camilasdandelions and Launchballer: Everything (or, at least most of them) inside the background section is directly un-related to the album Petal. So, I do not see ALT1 complying WP:V and it seems WP:SYNTH. Potential ALT2 looks like speculation, or WP:FANCRUFT, unless it is properly attributed. But again, TOOSOON and no independent secondary coverage... M. Billoo 14:35, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 29

Piedmontese literature

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• ... that Piedmontese literature dates back to the 12th-century Sermoni Subalpini and includes contemporary musical contributions by Cameroonian artist Tatè Nsongan?

• Source: The 12th-century origin is supported by Clivio (2002), p. 29. The contemporary contribution by Tatè Nsongan is supported by the official Mau Mau biography (http://www.maumau.it/biography.html) and Tesio/Malerba (2024), p. 15.

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

Bertin Osengh (talk) 11:52, 29 April 2026 (UTC).

• Hi, Bertin Osengh. Thanks for your submission. This article counts as new and is sufficiently long. Most of the cited sources appear to be of very high quality. I see no obvious neutrality or copyright concerns. There are minor formatting issues, but nothing worth holding the nomination back. I opened the Dal Pozzo reference for a spot check, and even though it did verify the statement, it did not do so in the context of literature. In fact, it does not deal with literature at all; it really is just a glossary. A significant example of this modern hybridization is the band Mau Mau, founded in 1991 by Luca Morino, Fabio Barovero, and the Cameroonian percussionist Tatè Nsongan. I do not see this in the cited source; it only explains the origin of the name Mau Mau. Could you please quote Clivio for the hook fact? Surtsicna (talk) 20:04, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 1

Rochdale A.F.C. 1–1 York City F.C. (2026)

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• ... that Rochdale v York City in April 2026 was the first time since 1989 that a football league title in England was decided by a single match on the final matchday?

• Source: Yorkshire Post - IT’S up for grabs now, remarked the late, great Brian Moore on the last final-day title shoot-out in English football’s top-five tiers back in 1989. For Liverpool and Arsenal read Rochdale and York City, but with drama to even surpass Michael Thomas’ mad moment at Anfield.

• • ALT1: ... that prior to the 1–1 draw between York City and Rochdale in April 2026, York City's manager called it "one of the biggest games in the English football pyramid"? Source: BBC - York City boss Stuart Maynard has called his side's final-day National League title decider at Rochdale "one of the biggest games in the English football pyramid".
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sirex obesus

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

ShadowBallX (talk) 23:12, 2 May 2026 (UTC).

• Only thought of this after the nomination, if it's possible once this gets approved for it to run on May 24th, as that would be the final matchday of the 2025–26 Premier League season (the top division of association football in England)? ShadowBallX (talk) 23:26, 2 May 2026 (UTC) You can ignore this since the date has long passed. ShadowBallX (talk) 01:28, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - no
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - original hook is phrased differently from what is stated in the article

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @ShadowBallX: Article was nominated for DYK on May 2, so just one day after being moved to mainspace. It is long enough with 5458 characters (939 words) of readable prose size. It is neutral in tone and no cases of copyright violation or close pharaphrasis have been found. Hooks themselves are interesting and properly sourced. The QPQ has been fullfilled as well. Below I note the issues with the nomination.

First, and most importantly, there are too many failed verifications after I checked every source in the article. There are many statements that aren't properly supported by the references plus one case of citation needed. These should be fixed as soon as posible. Second, the original hook should be rephrased to be identical to what is stated in the source. Something like the following. If the editor approves this one then I shall struck the first version.

ALT0b: ... that Rochdale v York City in April 2026 was the first time a single league match was a title-decider in England since Liverpool faced Arsenal in May 1989? NeoGaze (talk) 17:09, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

• Pinging @Kieran McConnell: since they were the one who added the part that needs a citation. As for the failed verifications you added, I've gone through all of them, and most of them were indeed supported by the sources (and I fixed the ones that weren't were fixed). ShadowBallX (talk) 21:40, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

@ShadowBallX: Thanks for your quick fix, if Kieran doesn't reply in a timely manner I suggest removing that part. Now about the hook, are you okay with my proposed alternative version of the original hook? You can also rewrite the part of the article so that it mirrors the phrasing of the hook. I leave it up to you. NeoGaze (talk) 07:58, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 2

The Celebrity Traitors series 2

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• ... that both Rob and Romesh are set to compete on the next series of The Celebrity Traitors?

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  • Comment: I will try and think of a better hook...

Created by Max263 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Max263 (talk • contribs) 19:26, 8 May 2026 (UTC).

• Suggest "that the lineup for the upcoming series of The Celebrity Traitors has been described as "one of the most high-profile casts ever assembled for a reality TV show"? from .--Launchballer 14:29, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Barda Qaraman

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• ... that the town of Barda Qaraman was created and given the name "Eggplant" by Saddam Hussein to mock the Kurds?

• Source: https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/387900

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

Yescarrot (talk) 14:10, 2 May 2026 (UTC).

• No QPQ required. Article is new enough and long enough and no copyright violations detected. Hook fact is verified and interesting. However, the article itself has some factual contradictions, fundamental missing content, and I think some misleading structural issues. The lead for example states "the town was renamed Bazinjan", but Bazinjan was in fact the original name of the town when it was founded by the Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein according to the cited source. It was therefore not a renaming. This is also stated further down in the body of the article. The contradiction needs to be fixed. In general the article could be much more clear that the town was founded by Hussein and his regime with the name Bazinjan in (give a date).

Structurally the history section starts with the "1919 Battle of Bazyan", but this is not really part of the history of the town which was founded decades later. At best this should go under the etymology section so as not to confuse readers that these events are in fact related to the town's history which they aren't. I would argue that the history has too many subsections, and that the subsection titles misrepresent the history. For a town founded in living memory the whole history falls under the "modern era". There should be two subheadings: "Bazinjan and the Ba’athist regime" and "Barda Qaraman". That's it. It's understandable that the town is trying to co-opt a better past from unrelated history given the town's thorny origins, but we shouldn't be forwarding propaganda of this type as history. That's misrepresentation and white washing. The sources to a certain extent are playing into this whitewashing narrative (by purposefully not saying when the town was founded and under what circumstances), and I think we need to be careful here in evaluating what content is in fact reliable and if the historicity is in fact true. With the sources themselves not giving a straight forward narrative and being opaque that raises red flags as to reliability of the materials being used.

Given the town was founded in the not too distant past (it has to be somewhere between the years 1979 and 2003), the absence of a year of founding is odd. And given that the town was obviously created as a function of oppression of the Kurds, I would imagine there might also be a story of forced relocation to the town at the time it was created. At the moment this seems somewhat incomplete in presentation as to when the town was founded and under what circumstances. A content gap of this type seems to fail WP:DYKCOMPLETE. This might mean trying to locate a better source on the early history of the town. If there is a good faith reason not to believe this content can be sourced please let me know, but I think a year of a town founded in living memory should not be impossible to source.

Get back to me on this, and once these issues are solved, I'll re-review. On a side note an extra set of eyes on this one would be appreciated; particularly in weighing how to fairly evaluate source reliability and how the history of the town should be presented based on the materials. Best.4meter4 (talk) 17:41, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

@Yescarrot: Please respond in comments here rather than in edit summaries. Some good progress has been made through the removal of unrelated history, but the issue still remains that the lead makes a false claim about the "renaming" of the town to Bazinjan. Bazinjan was the original and first name of the town at the time it was founded according to https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/387900 . The lead needs to be rewritten to be factually accurate. I've placed tags in the article to reflect that. Also putting in the years of Saddam Hussein's reign in the heading makes it seem like the town was founded in 1973. We don't know that. We only know it was founded sometime during his time in power (1973-2003) which is why we need a source discussing the founding of the town with specific dates. The town could have been founded in 2000 or 1992 or 1974 or whenever in that 30 year window. There's no way of knowing at present with the current materials. This a very basic fundamental fact that needs to be hunted down. I would consider the article insufficiently complete until that information is located.4meter4 (talk) 15:46, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@4meter4: Yup, this works. Anyways, I have fixed the “renaming” of Bazinjan to “was named”, however, I cannot find the exact date of creation of the town, nor when it was named that derogatory name.

@Yescarrot: I found this report dating it to a group of "camps" established during the 1970s and 1980s. This at least narrows the window enough for historical context. I suggest using it. This book also makes reference to some of the camps inhabitants originally being from nomadic tribes. This article in The New York Times emphasizes the history of the town as a place for many different kinds of displaced people. I note that the NYT article is calling the town Barda Qaraman in 2002 which matches the claim the name was in use prior to 2003. The NYT article could add something of value to the history section if you have access. If not I can add to it, but I might need to ask for a different reviewer if I start contributing as an editor. Please remember to sign your comments (see Wikipedia:Signatures on how to do that if you are unfamiliar using the edit feature) Best.4meter4 (talk) 16:30, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@4meter4: I have used web archive to check the NYT article, and I found a camp (mostly talks about that). However, the town’s name is “Barda Qaraman” in 2002, so that’s good information. However, it might be the Kurds calling it Barda Qaraman, while the Arabs still calling it Bazinjan. The “book” you talked about was unavailable to view for me, and I checked the PDF, the best information, stating the camp was built between the 1970s and 1980s, which narrows it down. I will find more information. Yup.Yescarrot (talk) 10:04, 8 May 2026 (AST)

To move this along I went in and fixed factual errors, source misrepresentations, and lots of unnecessary repetition. I've also added a couple higher quality sources. I am now no longer an uninvolved editor, so this will need to be taken up by a different reviewer.4meter4 (talk) 15:38, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

• Okay, then I'll review this. ミラP@Miraclepine 15:22, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough:
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Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Well, the sourcing is confusing re WP:FRANKENSTEIN; the article appears to conflate Barda Qaraman the town and a Kurdistan refugee camp with the same name (this Guardian article confirms they're not the same; see edit history for details). The mentions of Barda Qaraman in https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/iq350a.pdf only refer to the displaced persons camp, with the mentions of towns built by Ba'athist Iraq being in general (and after the first mention of Barda Qaraman), hence the second sentence should be written like this accordingly. The second paragraph's final sentence doesn't directly say that "Local residents and tourists visit the site to learn about Kurdish history", just that they consider it a historical site (see Khalid and Duleimi's quotes). I could add these, but they would be too major an addition for me to do myself since they're introducing new facts (and I had to remove a lot of the coatrack), though I can copyedit redundancies in the first paragraph after they are implemented.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - I have reservations about the hook's verifiability. On one hand, ALT0 seems to meet DYKCITE since it technically claims it's called "Eggplant", but then the kurdistan24 source is apparently a translation given the name was (erroneously?) translated alongside the text.
• Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Apologies for the delay; I got a last-minute work call before I could finish and I needed to reflect on this given so much changes had to be made given the WP:FRANKENSTEIN problem. Created two days before creation, prose size 2073 B. Outside of minor fixes per V, not much to say except the issues I already brought up. There are issues with WP:LEDECITE, but consider them optional. Nom so QPQ not needed. Given the issue with ALT0 (and the changes made to the page), I'm inclined to propose an ALT1 to be safe:

• ALT0b: ... that upon creation, the town of Barda Qaraman was given a name meaning "eggplant" by the Saddam Hussein regime to mock the Kurds? Source: Bardaqaraman suffered dearly under the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. The regime created the small town between Kirkuk and Sulaimani and named it “Eggplant”. “Saddam’s regime brought Kurdish people here to make them suffer,” said Ali Bazyani, a local historian in Erbil. “This name was just to insult, belittle, and mock Kurdish people.”
• ALT1: ... that upon creation, the town of Barda Qaraman was given a name meaning "eggplant" by the Saddam Hussein regime to mock the Kurds? Source: Same as ALT0b.

@Yescarrot: What are your thoughts on the hooks, and do you approve of the changes I made (as well as the changes I want to make)? Because I had to make a lot in order to get the article closer to passable quality, so I need to ask to be safe. I also may have to fix these hooks after the fixes are made. ミラP@Miraclepine 13:24, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

• Comment. I'm not seeing how The Guardian article is supporting a claim that these are two separate locations (although my knowledge of this content area is not strong). I'm guessing it is because of geographic description? 4meter4 (talk) 15:33, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

• Yes. The Guardian says that "the Barda Qaraman refugee camp [is] set on a desolate rocky hillside south of the city of Sulaymania, each week." But the town, at least according to coordinates and Google Maps, positions it northwest of the same city. Given the name Barda Qaraman is laudatory towards Kurdish military actions, it makes sense that there would be two places with that name, so we can't automatically say that they're one and the same. ミラP@Miraclepine 15:49, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 4

Murder of Ángeles Rawson

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• ... that Ángeles Rawson, a 16-year-old girl murdered in Buenos Aires, was the second most searched person on Google in Argentina in 2013, only behind Canadian actor Cory Monteith?

• Source: Infobae Infobae – 16 December 2013 / Qué buscaron los argentinos en Google durante 2013 [What did Argentines search on Google in 2013?]

• • Reviewed: Nik-O-Lok Company

Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 36 past nominations.

CoryGlee 18:41, 5 May 2026 (UTC).

• Not surprising, it's a known phenomenon that murder of young women and girls are often widely publicized. (t · c) buIdhe 23:14, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Is that a review by you Buidhe? If so, what are your observations? Only the hook? What about the rest? Please let me know, especially if it is a review taken up by you. I mean because you used a symbol. Thanks!!!!!!!!! CoryGlee 23:50, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Yes you are right by linking that "white woman syndrome", there should be a similar term for cases like George Floyd or Daunte Wright, a felon and a wife-beater killed because of their actions and yet receive so much publicty. Mew... CoryGlee 23:51, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
    • Pinging Buidhe to not drag this into a weeks-long issue. If not clarified, in 24 hours, I will add a red icon (redirect for another review) to make it clear that raised concerns were not addressed. Best to you and everyone! CoryGlee 01:32, 7 May 2026 (UTC)
      • The hook is ineligible if it doesn't meet any one of the requirements. Do you have an alternate hook to propose? I don't see how police violence is relevant to the point I made, which is that such crimes as the article describes often attract a great deal of attention. (t · c) buIdhe 01:47, 7 May 2026 (UTC)
        • Oh yes, no problem Buidhe, I will propose several others. The point was not in favor of police violence, which is despicable. It's just pointing out how two criminals made headlines mainly because they were utilitarian for people who boast of race equality and that stuff. I mean, there are racists who celebrated those two men's deaths, I am not one of them. The relevant point is that if innocent women do not make headlines because it "attracts a great deal of attention", neither should two criminals whose only feature was obvious for part of the media. MLK and Rosa Parks are much better examples of being a true victim of police violence than these two. That was my comparison point on coverage hypocrisy. I will ping you when new hooks are proposed. CoryGlee 01:59, 7 May 2026 (UTC)
• ALT hook: ... that the Buenos Aires City Legislature renamed a public square in honor of a murdered Buenos Aires teenager?
• ALTa: ... that the Buenos Aires City Legislature renamed a public square in honor of a teenager murdered in 2013?
• Source: here at Infobae.
• Pinging Buidhe. Thanks. CoryGlee 03:33, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Pinging Buidhe to know whether you continue with this review. Thanks! CoryGlee 10:28, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
    • Pinging Buidhe for a last time before redirecting review. Not rushy but I saw the red box with empty queues and I think that it makes no sense to keep this dragging on. Thank you! CoryGlee 03:22, 13 May 2026 (UTC)
      • Given the backlog and need for hooks amid empty queues and preps, I feel able to request another reviewer. Original comment, placing an icon, seemed to come from an intended review; it did not. User has been pinged several times and continues editing. So, let's not drown ourselves either by long queues or the lack of them! CoryGlee 22:56, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 6

Furry pornography

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• ... that furry pornography discourse spans from Kirk/Spock fan works to real-world assassins involving Kirk and Trump?

• Source: https://worldtribune.com/what-the-hell-both-trump-and-kirk-shooters-had-furry-fetishes/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/probe-reveals-trump-shooter-thomas-crookss-links-to-furry-porn-maga-says-kid-was-programmed-to-kill-president/articleshow/125393725.cms

https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/tyler-robinson-played-furry-shades-of-gay-porn-game-report/

• ALT1: ... that the term yiff originated in a constructed language?

• Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20190913170903/https://www.dailydot.com/irl/furry-yiff-meaning/

• ALT2: ... that Tony the Tiger has been the subject of sexualized fan art?

• Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/29/tony-the-tiger-frosties-begs-furries-stop-tweeting-him-porn

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tony-tiger-frosted-flakes-horny-twitter-furries_n_5bc015e8e4b01a01d689054b

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

Issac I Navarro (talk) 07:35, 13 May 2026 (UTC).

• Article has been expanded five times its size (from ~7k bytes to ~35k bytes). Sourcing is decent, but there are some issues with the ones used in the hook. I am unsure about the quality of the New York Post and Huffington Post per WP:RSP. Can you please provide a rationale as to why these should be acceptable for DYK? (Additionally, while this has nothing to do with DYK eligibility as none of the hooks use these as sources, I should let you know that Medium, Know Your Meme and the California Post are generally unreliable, and the Irish Sun is deprecated). Gommeh ^{(talk! sign!)} 14:06, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

• Over the next day I will go ahead and see if I can find some alternative sources. To address why I used the New York Post and Huffington Post as sources; given the nature of the subject of this article, the amount of credible references wasn't much. I wasn't familiar with this subject when I stated editing, I saw that there was a number of social media and blog like posts when looking for sources the vast majority of had no use for an encyclopedia. However, some of it led to me find better terms to search. Furthermore, for the did you know your meme ref, I should of added Template:Primary sources references section / (better source needed tag), or not included that one at all. For the other sources that you mentioned, I ran into the same issue, this topic seems vast given the amount of explicit content and the way that it just exists and interacts on the internet though there wasn't much credible references illustrating this. Issac I Navarro (talk) 16:21, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Enzo Richer

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Enzo Richer competing in FREC in 2025

• ... that Enzo Richer (pictured) became the first person to compete in FREC as a Luxembourger despite being born in France?

• Source: 2025 Formula Regional European Championship - Enzo Richer

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  • Comment: Created by KVYTICAL, major edits made by Formula Downforce, BurningBlaze05 and sucessfully submitted to moved to mainspace, following a major edit by me, F1fan00 and post-movement edits made by MSport1005

Moved to mainspace by F1fan00 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

F1fan00 (talk) 09:29, 8 May 2026 (UTC).

• @F1fan00, KVYTICAL, Formula Downforce, BurningBlaze05, and MSport1005: Rejecting Pierre-Alexandre Provost per WP:DYKNEW. Enzo Richer is technically nowhere near 5x, but I'd be tempted to IAR given that much of the last pre-expansion revision is mostly notes and keys; I must however ask for the {{BLP sources}} and unsourced content to be resolved.--Launchballer 23:13, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Apologies, didn't notice that this was eligible as new to mainspace. I resolved the tag by removing all of the unsourced content, which means this is under 1500 characters. I'm guessing that included the hook, because I don't see it there now. (Earwig's fine.)--Launchballer 19:31, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I have fixed the hook so it only shows Richer, sorry if this was at all an inconvenience and hope this is still eligible F1fan00 (talk) 11:58, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

@F1fan00, KVYTICAL, Formula Downforce, BurningBlaze05, and MSport1005: Please address the above.--Launchballer 11:55, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

@F1fan00, KVYTICAL, Formula Downforce, BurningBlaze05, and MSport1005: Apologies for dropping this. Most issues seem to have resolved themselves, except I don't see the hook in the article.--Launchballer 04:18, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Fly, Fly My Sadness

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• ... that the Bulgarian-choral-Throat-singing fusion on Fly, Fly My Sadness was inspired by playing multiple albums at the same time?

• Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-03-ca-60109-story.html "Feeling His Way": "Alperin listened to cassettes of a Russian folk choir and a traditional Tuvan throat-singing group... Alperin recalled getting a sudden intuition: What if they played both tapes simultaneously?"

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

ALittleClass (talk) 18:51, 7 May 2026 (UTC).

• @Spravato: I am nominating this because it was moved to mainspace the day before the nomination, which according to WP:DYKNEW qualifies the article under the DYK "newness" criteria. I politely ask you to reconsider. ALittleClass (talk) 21:11, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
• @ALittleClass:, oh sorry, my bad. I’m new to DYK. I’ll give it a further look today.🥤Spravato!🍒/🧋 21:15, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
• , I finished reviewing. It's overall a great article. However the multiple albums thing is a bit vague. My alternative hook would be "... that the Bulgarian-choral-Throat-singing fusion on Fly, Fly My Sadness was inspired by playing folk choir and a throat singing group at the same time?"
• @Spravato: This hook also works, but personally, if I was scrolling DYK, I might prefer my original hook for it's brevity, and I am okay with the vagueness. I have asked some others and they said the first hook was acceptable and concise (By the way, I do appreciate that you suggested a revised hook and it's the job of the reviewer, I'm just trying to defend my reasoning). So, I would like to have nominate my original hook for DYK. ALittleClass (talk) 20:31, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
• @ALittleClass:, I'll tell you what, since im new to DYK and your reasoning is sound. I still stand by my original hook. I will request a second opinion🥤Spravato!🍒/🧋 22:50, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
• @Spravato: Hi, I just got back from a week-long trip away from my computer. I'm not shut to suggestions on this hook, but if you are able, please tell me when you can finish reviewing this hook, or pass it onto another reviewer. ALittleClass (talk) 22:36, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
• @ALittleClass:, I requested a second opinion above. When the second opinion comes, then I will finish

Articles created/expanded on May 7

Popular Socialist Party (Haiti)

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• ... that Haiti's Popular Socialist Party supported a conservative in the indirect presidential election of 1946 because it believed its candidate would not be popular enough to win?

• Source: Smith, Matthew J. (2009). Red & Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-8078-5937-7. Retrieved 9 May 2026. Notwithstanding this hostility, the PSP made a judicious evaluation of the political situation and acknowledged that their candidate Georges Rigaud had little hope of success. They decided, therefore, to back Edgar Néré Numa, the conservative black deputy from Les Cayes. The decision to back Numa, according to Sam, then general secretary of the party, was not taken because Numa was black but because he appeared most sympathetic to the goals of the Socialist Party even though he himself was not a socialist. Still, the fact that a light-skinned candidate would never win in the heated political climate of 1946 was not lost on the socialists.

• • ALT1: ... that Haiti's Popular Socialist Party may have withdrawn its 1946 presidential nominee because of the colour of his skin? Source: Same as ALT0.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Right of Salvadoran expatriates to vote
  • Comment: For context that is in the Wikipedia article but not obvious from the quote from the source, the contemporary rivals of socialists like the PSP were the black nationalist noiristes, who claimed the mulatto (mixed-race) PSP was trying to stop black emancipation, hence the likely, but not official, reason for the PSP's change in support.

5x expanded by Yue (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 52 past nominations.

Yue🌙 (talk) 19:28, 9 May 2026 (UTC).

• Long enough, old enough, reference accepted on good faith. Both hooks work; ALT0 is more defensible with the source but AlT1 is more provocative. Daniel Case (talk) 04:58, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Vita Sadalbergae

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• ... that the Vita Sadalbergae (written c. 680) is an anonymous Latin biography and hagiography of Saint Sadalberga, founder and abbess of the Abbey of St John, Laon?

• Source: Barnwell, P. S. (30 December 2008). "Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (300–900)". Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature. 92 (1): 5.

• • ALT1: ... that in the hagiography the Vita Sadalbergae, the protagonist, Saint Sadalberga, had to overcome three obstacles in order to enter the monastery? Source: Hochstetler, David (1992). A Conflict of Traditions: Women in Religion in the Early Middle Ages 500-840. Lanham, Maryland: University Press. ISBN 0-8191-8609-0, pp. 27-28.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Siege of Salona (537)

5x expanded by Figureskatingfan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 56 past nominations.

Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 19:00, 8 May 2026 (UTC).

Discussion about improving article between creator and expander/nominator

• "Anonymous 1996" is not a proper citation. The article's two headings, "Background" and "Influence", suggest that it has nothing about the Vita itself. A statement about the Vita's historical value—The Vita is the only source for the civil war between Dagobert II (676–79) and Theuderic III (675–91)—has been removed. A redlink to the Vita Anstrudis was also removed. Srnec (talk) 02:13, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  • I formatted it that way because it was from the Vita's translation in the McNamara book, which is in the second section of the chapter about Sadalberga (pp. 178–194). As this article states, the Vita was written by an anonymous author. What would be a better choice?
  • I don't understand your problem with the headings. The first is its historical context, including a brief summary of its plot. The second is a discussion of its impact and influence, including what scholars have said about it. Can you suggest better heading titles?
  • I returned the missing statement and the red link, as per your request. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 04:37, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
    • Nothing in the citation indicates that you are citing a translation of the Vita itself: Anonymous (1996). "Saint Sadalberga". In McNamara, Jo Ann; Halborg, John E.; Whatley, E. Gordon (eds.). Sainted Women of the Dark Ages. Translated by McNamara, Jo Ann. Duke University Press. pp. 178–194. ISBN 0-8223-1200-X. I would use the format <ref>''Vita'', ch. __, translated in {{harvnb|McNamara|Halborg|Whatley|1996|p=__}}.</ref> for footnotes—but that's not the only option. It just needs to be clear what it is. The title of Anonymous 1996 is given as "Saint Sadalberga", which does not indicate the Vita.
      • Okay. The Vita is short, only a few pages, so there's only one chapter. Should I fill in "1" in the blank space? But thanks for the assistance and guidance, and for teaching me about how to format historical sources. (This means that I'll have to reformat the same source in Sadalberga, which is easy enough.)
    • We go from background to influence without discussing content. I'm not necessarily saying the article is deficient, but its structure may leave readers confused. What if I don't care about background and influence and just want to know what's in it? Srnec (talk) 17:04, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
      • The content includes the plot summary, in the first paragraph. I could either separate the two paragraphs in current "Background" section, even though I personally don't like single-paragraph sections. Or I could rename it to "Plot summary and background." I could also rename the "Influence" to "Historical impact and influence". I will follow your suggestions. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 18:14, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
        • Looking at it more closely, I'd say the Background section really isn't. It is more synopsis and dating. Likewise, the Influence section is probably more Analysis. When I write articles on pre-modern literary works, I think in terms of composition (authorship, dating, place of composition), synopsis (what it says), transmission (manuscripts, editions, translations) and reception (how is has been used and read). The organization of the article often follows the same path. But every case is a little different. This is a suggestion. Srnec (talk) 01:01, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
          • So I've followed your suggestions above. I think it's ready for a review now. Thanks, Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 23:02, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Mo'Kalamity

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• ... that reggae musician Mo'Kalamity derives her stage name from American frontierswoman Calamity Jane?

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• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Adán Gordón
  • Comment: There's a lot interesting about her but I'm struggling to condense something into a hook other than the one above

Created by Kowal2701 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 22:35, 7 May 2026 (UTC).

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

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: My first review to go with my first nom as a voluntary QPQ. Long enough, and it seems to me you nominated the article shortly before creating it? But that still counts as new enough I suppose. The hook doesn't wow me but it is decently intriguing I suppose. I just feel the article could be worked on more, it only has one section in the body and could benefit from a discog table and ideally an illustration. Otherwise all good, but per recommendations I'll ask a second opinion since this is my DYK reviewing debut. Procrastineur (talk) 16:17, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Pastéis in Brazilian political campaigns

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• ... that in Brazil it is common for politicians to eat pastéis to win votes during election campaigns?

• Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20220924071023/https://tribunapr.uol.com.br/eleicoes/2022/simpatico-ou-oportunista-de-onde-vem-a-fixacao-dos-politicos-pelo-pastel-de-feira/

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

DanGFSouza (talk) 16:01, 7 May 2026 (UTC).

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

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: QPQ not needed. New enough and long enough. Sufficiently sourced and passes Earwig. Cited and interesting. Good to go. PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 19:26, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

• Pulled from prep for copyright cleanup based on post by GreenLipstickLesbian at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Prep_6. Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:19, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
• Cassilvwikis, please address the copyright concerns raised at DYKT or this nomination will likely be closed. Dclemens1971 (talk) 17:47, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
• Also pinging DanGFSouza, who as nominator has responsibility for shepherding this nomination through the DYK process. (I have updated this nomination page to reflect the recent moving of the article; this nomination page should not be moved.) BlueMoonset (talk) 14:46, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Did a bit of cleanup regarding the paraphrased bits. Please check the text for grammar and consistency. DanGFSouza (talk) 15:41, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
• Are we sure that this should be separate from Pastéis? Surtsicna (talk) 19:39, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 8

United States UAP files

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A file in the first batch containing an email

• ... that the Trump administration released previously classified documents (example pictured) on unidentified anomalous phenomena on May 8, 2026?

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  • Comment: This is a new topic, so it might be edited a lot more and already is getting edited a lot.

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

ReelCosmix (talk) 22:51, 11 May 2026 (UTC).

Just noting here (I can't participate for review, I helped on the page) that this got renamed to United States UFO files and it's this person's first DYK. — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 02:30, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

• @Realcosmixyt: Not a review either, but WP:GBNEWS is not a reliable source.--Launchballer 14:30, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

I would also add that this is a dull hook. Basically "this happened". Daniel Case (talk) 16:43, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Agreed. Viriditas (talk) 20:04, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

I can review this if nobody else is going to take it. Viriditas (talk) 20:04, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Some initial comments:

• The reaction from scientists was mixed... I don't see a mixed response. I see a unanimous "nothing to see here" response. Mixed implies something else entirely.
• I don't think you need a separate conspiracy section. If anything you can merge whatever you can salvage into background, where conspiracy is already mentioned.
• You've got a half-dozen or so poor sources that you don't need. An article about UAPs should be especially conservative in its approach.
• The last para. of "Third June 12, 2026 release" engages in several well-known fallacies common to this subject and should probably be revised or deleted. There may simply be a better way to say this.
• Second paragraph of "Second May 22, 2026 release" has an unsourced sentence.
• Some of the material appears excessively wordy and can probably be cut back.

More later if nobody comes forward to provide a review. Viriditas (talk) 20:14, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Note: after some outside consultation on another talk page, a like-minded colleague, who takes a far more hardheaded, realist, and practical approach than I do, leads me to believe this nomination should fail. I don't believe I'm ready to make that determination, as I remain optimistic that either the nom or someone else can make the requisite changes required for this nom to move forward. Viriditas (talk) 00:27, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

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Iris Duane

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• ... that future MSP Iris Duane was named among YWCA Scotland's "30 Under 30" list in 2023? Source: https://glasgowguardian.co.uk/2024/06/30/meet-the-uofg-student-running-for-parliament-in-conservation-with-iris-duane/ https://youngwomenscot.org/30-under-30/iris-duane/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Charles Bornou
  • Comment: Authors list chosen from substantial editors. Other authors made more minor edits in the first few days. Happy for the list to be changed.

Created by TheBritinator (talk), Anameofmyveryown (talk), and Funcrunch (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 37 past nominations.

Bogger (talk) 15:04, 11 May 2026 (UTC).

• Already nominated this as part of a double with Q Manivannan.--Launchballer 15:06, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
• @Bogger: There is already an active nomination involving this article. TheBritinator (talk) 15:14, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
• Four weeks have passed since the last edit (major or otherwise) and it should be stable enough. I'll review this. ミラP@Miraclepine 18:06, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
  • @Bogger: If the Q Manivannan double hook is approved, feel free to withdraw this. ミラP@Miraclepine 23:40, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Q Manivannan, Iris Duane

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Q Manivannan and Iris Duane

• ... that Q Manivannan (pictured) and Iris Duane are the first two transgender people elected to the Scottish Parliament? Source: https://www.thenational.scot/news/26091897.first-two-transgender-msps-elected-scottish-parliament/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/msps-scottish-green-party-holyrood-scottish-edinburgh-b2973385.html
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Crystal Z Campbell
  • Comment: Mostly driveby noms, though I did a bit of beefing up of Duane to meet 1500. Will see who else deserves credits in the morning.

Created by TheBritinator (talk), Gaia Octavia Agrippa (talk), EmyRussell (talk), PatGallacher (talk), Funcrunch (talk), and Launchballer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 396 past nominations.

Launchballer 00:39, 10 May 2026 (UTC).

• Comment: It should be noted these articles may fit the technical requirements, but they are being rapidly changed and there is a couple of things that haven't reached a consensus yet. TheBritinator (talk) 15:25, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

We can run them when they stabilise. Do me a favour and check I haven't missed any credits off.--Launchballer 20:09, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

• Created Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Iris_Duane separately. -Bogger (talk) 15:07, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
• Four weeks have passed since the last edit (major or otherwise) and it should be stable enough. I'll review this. ミラP@Miraclepine 18:07, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Only a few issues. WP:TELEGRAPH says it's no consensus for trans issues, but Manivannan's ref 11 isn't related to trans issues but immigration issues? Duane has two cn tags, and her 2026 grade at university is only backed by a headline.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - See below.
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - The hook says "first transgender" but the article says "first openly transgender".

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Both created two days before nom. Manivannan and Duane were 1802 and 1513 B at nom time, and are sized at 4112 B and 1528 B. Pic is freely licensed and, while technically not in either articles, is a collage of each articles' infobox image. Though not noted initially, the QPQ is two articles.

Only two sources cite the claim in either article; this is an exceptional claim hence we need exceptional sourcing like these five articles:

• Q Manivannan and Iris Duane have been elected as Scottish Greens MSPs on the Edinburgh and Glasgow lists, respectively. It marks the first time transgender MSPs will be in the Scottish Parliament, while the Greens are also on track for a historic result in Holyrood.
• Scotland has elected its first two transgender MSPs to the Holyrood parliament. ... Dr Q Manivannan and Iris Duane both secured regional list seats for the Scottish Green Party.
• Scottish Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay has hailed as 'historic' the election of Scotland's two first openly transgender MSPs. Iris Duane and Q Manivannan were elected to Holyrood on the Glasgow and Edinburgh and Lothians East regional lists.
• Scotland has elected its first openly trans members of parliament at the elections that took place on May 8, marking a historic moment for LGBTQ+ representation in the country. Both members of the Scottish Green Party, Iris Duane and Q Manivannan were elected to the Holyrood, making history as the first two trans members of parliament ever elected in Scotland.
• Two Scottish Green MSPs, Iris Duane and Q Manivannan, became the first openly trans members at Holyrood following the May vote.
• While the Herald Scotland source also says that Manivannan alone "became the first trans-identifying MSP in Scottish history", that's only one source compared to five.

@Launchballer: address the issues and you're good to go. In the meantime, since the Duane article barely meets length criteria and a month has passed into her term, you may wanna see what to add. ミラP@Miraclepine 22:03, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

I fixed the CN tags when I saw them and will look into expanding Duane when I'm more with it. The Telegraph is an article about immigration that happens to be about a trans person, so should be fine. I've added a third source but am leery of adding any more given WP:CLUMP, and have trimmed "openly". And what do you mean by grade?--Launchballer 22:43, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

I see they're all dealt with except the headline-cited grade. As for grade, the headline says "Meet the fourth-year candidate for parliament"; grade is a North America-specific term. Let me know when you're done expanding the article. ミラP@Miraclepine 02:07, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Fahima Mirzaie

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• ... that Fahima Mirzaie was named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021 for her work as Afghanistan's only female whirling dervish?

• Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-59514598

• • ALT1: ... that Fahima Mirzaie, Afghanistan's only female whirling dervish, was forced to flee the country in 2021 just as she was preparing for her first national tour? Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-58602631
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Created by Jishara (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Jishara (talk) 15:02, 8 May 2026 (UTC).

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

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: PresentlySuraye3 (talk) 17:31, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

My only suggestion is for the first hook, to write "Afghanistan's only female whirling dervish dancer" to be more specific. Otherwise looks good!

• @Jishara and PresentlySuraye3: While the BBC says she is Afghanistan's first and only female dervish dancer, the New Arab (also in the article) describes A female-led whirling dervish group based in Afghanistan... Fahima Mirzaie, a 24-year-old student, founded the Kabul-based Sufi dance and performing arts group, which has strong female leads as well as members who are both male and female. AP and Golden Threads also say that there are other Afghan women dervish dancers. The BBC appears to be wrong here, and the hooks thus are incorrect as well. Can you suggest some different options? Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:22, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: maybe ...that Fahima Mirzaie, the head of a female-led whirling dervish group in Afghanistan, was forced to flee the country in 2021 just as she was preparing for her first national tour? citing to AP and the BBC world asia article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jishara (talk • contribs) 19:42, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 9

Pierre Noël Lecauchois

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• ... that Pierre Noël Lecauchois's client was almost burned at the stake, because the order to stop her execution was delayed?

• Source: Explaining the torture & execution associated with the sentence: "Salmon was sentenced to be tortured (for the names of her accomplices)... and to be burned at the stake." Explaining how the stay of execution got there just in time: "[Lecauchois] immediately petitioned the king for a stay of execution, which was duly granted, although the royal order barely got to Caen in time, on 27 July 1782, just a few days before Salmon was to be examined and executed."

• • ALT1: ... that two of the lawyer Pierre Noël Lecauchois' former clients were married in a ceremony financed by members of the House of Orléans, which he attended? Source: "La Comtesse de Genlis, qui se montra très émue par le destin de Marie Salmon et la Comtesse d'Orléans préparèrent pour leur part le mariage de Marie Salmon avec le soldat Jean-Pierre Savary — également réhabilité par Lecauchois après une révision de son procès... La Maison d'Orléans... ne se contenta pas de fournir les carosses décorés à ses armes dans lesquels prirent place Marie Salmon, son époux, l'avocat Lecauchois, l'éditeur Cailleau et l'avocat parisien Bijot jusqu'à l'église ; elle fit également cadeau d'une somme princière de 9 000 livres à la mariée."

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  • Comment: Full disclosure about Alt0: Marie Salmon (his client) had a DYK hook run in March that referenced the first time she avoided being executed, whereas this hook references the second time she was nearly executed. About Alt1: the "which he attended" at the end sounds a little awkward to me, so I'm not against leaving it off. But I also wanted to emphasize that he was present at the ceremony.

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

Chao Garden 🌱 (hi) 23:21, 9 May 2026 (UTC).

• In progress ...
• Article is new enough (moved to mainspace May 9th, nominated the same day)
• Article is long enough
• Sourcing seems appropriate
• Earwig finds no copyright problems
• Nominator is QPQ exempt
• ALT0 seems oddly worded. Lecauchois wasn't granted the stay, his client was. It's also kind of wordy; its well within the 200 character limit, but it still seems like it could be improved with some trimming.
• ALT1 just seems overly complex and convoluted, so I'm rejecting that one outright.
• RoySmith (talk) 16:11, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

• Hello RoySmith, I have reworded ALT0 and crossed out ALT1. He is the one who petitioned for the stay on her behalf, hence the original wording: "was granted a stay of execution for his client...". Also, noting that the source says: "[Lecauchois] immediately petitioned the king for a stay of execution, which was duly granted, although the royal order barely got to Caen in time..." — Chao Garden 🌱 ~ say hello 16:37, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

• Also, to address your feedback about trimming it: what part of it do you believe could be trimmed? His profession seems relevant for context. Mentioning the short time frame is interesting, no? Also, specifying that she was going to be "tortured and burned at the stake" is accurate & also, I believe, interesting. Thank you — Chao Garden 🌱 ~ say hello 16:41, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

• Reflecting on this again, I think trimming "tortured and burned at the stake" to just "burned at the stake" would be fine, so I made that edit. — Chao Garden 🌱 ~ say hello 02:42, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

• Hello @RoySmith: I've made another revision to ALT0 above (I think this revision better reflects the source, which says that the stay of execution / royal order was delayed getting to Caen.) I've also updated the article to make the same distinction. When you have a chance, could you take a look at the revised hook & let me know what you think? Thank you! — Chao Garden 🌱 ~ say hello 17:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

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Articles created/expanded on May 10

Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows, Castelpetroso

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• ... that the Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows in Castelpetroso, Italy, was built across three generations of the Gualandi family of Bologna over more than eighty years?
  • ALT1: ... that the bishop of Boiano himself reported experiencing an apparition of the Virgin Mary on 26 September 1888 at the site of the present Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows?
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  • Comment: First DYK nomination. COI/PAID disclosure on User:Dt.fabio and Draft talk:Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows, Castelpetroso. Article accepted via AfC on 10 May 2026 by Ozzie10aaaa. Both hooks cited in the article: HOOK A cited to Vanilla Magazine and AgenSIR (visible in History section); ALT1 cited to Vanilla Magazine (Macarone Palmieri apparition reported in The 1888 apparitions section). QPQ not required (first nomination).

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

Dt.fabio (talk) 13:51, 11 May 2026 (UTC).

• Doing... Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 22:30, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

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

Policy compliance:

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

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

QPQ: None required.

Overall: I'm going to spot-check all instances of refs 3, 5, and 10 in this version:

• canonical inquiry doesn't appear to be supported by the source
• nor is Following this episode, Acquaderni—together with Bishop Macarone Palmieri—became the principal promoter of the construction of a sanctuary on the site, organizing a fundraising campaign that drew donations from across Italy and from Italian emigrants abroad., the source doesn't mention Acquaderni
• nor is Economic difficulties, the death of Bishop Macarone Palmieri in 1897, and the disruption caused by both World Wars meant that the perimeter walls were not finished until around 1950, the source doesn't mention economic difficulties or Palmieri's death
• nor is The sanctuary was solemnly consecrated on 21 September 1975, in the presence of Bishop Carinci—now buried in the sarcophagus behind the high altar—and of all the bishops of Molise, the source only says construction was completed in 1975 with no further detail

I'm going to stop the spot-checks here as all of the first four have brought up issues, please can you go through the article and ensure the content is supported by the sources cited? In case you used an LLM to translate this, please see WP:LLMTRANSLATE, if this was LLM-generated, please see WP:NOLLM. Thank you Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 23:32, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

• • @Dt.fabio: Any progress here? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:27, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the thorough review, @Kowal2701. I am currently working through the four sourcing issues you identified, cross-referencing the article text against the primary sources — specifically Mattei's published history of the sanctuary and archival issues of Il Servo di Maria. I will update the article and citations accordingly within the next few days. I appreciate your patience. Dt.fabio (talk) 12:26, 30 May 2026 (UTC) @Kowal2701 thank you for the careful review. I have now corrected the article and want to account for each of the four issues you raised.

1. Canonical inquiry — A new inline citation has been added to the sentence on Bishop Macarone Palmieri's formal declaration of 23 February 1889: Il Servo di Maria, 23 February 1889, p. 105, as cited in Mattei, Il Santuario dell'Addolorata a Castelpetroso, Grafica Isernina, 1982, pp. 65, 71–73. The existing Marie de Nazareth ref has been retained as a secondary source.

2. Acquaderni as promoter — The phrase "organizing a fundraising campaign that drew donations from across Italy and from Italian emigrants abroad" has been removed, as overseas fundraising was conducted by Don Domenico Lombardo at a later stage, not by Acquaderni. The sentence now reflects what Mattei documents directly: the establishment of a committee comprising the bishop, the archpriest of Castelpetroso, Acquaderni, and others, with Il Servo di Maria as the official fundraising organ (Mattei, p. 65; Il Servo di Maria, 9 February 1889, p. 68).

3. Economic difficulties / death of Macarone Palmieri / World Wars — The three factors are now individually sourced: death of Macarone Palmieri on 27 February 1897 via Catholic-Hierarchy; World War I and II disruption via Mattei, pp. 195–196 and 211; perimeter walls completed in 1950 via L'Addolorata di Castelpetroso bulletin, Anno Santo 1950, p. 260 ("ultimate le mura perimetrali del Tempio"). The word "around" has been removed as the source is explicit.

4. Consecration 1975 / burial of Carinci — The names of the co-consecrating bishops are now cited to Mattei, p. 325. The description of Carinci's burial has been corrected from "sarcophagus behind the high altar" to "beneath the Throne of the Virgin Mary within the sanctuary", per Find a Grave (memorial no. 50858694).

Additional correction — The gallery caption gave Macarone Palmieri's birth year as 1838; corrected to 1817 per Catholic-Hierarchy.

I hope this addresses all the concerns raised. Dt.fabio (talk) 14:47, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

@Dt.fabio, thank you but my concerns were with the article as a whole, not just those four instances. Can you please look over the article and ensure the text is directly supported by the sources before I do another spot-check? If this one brings up issues I'm afraid I'm going to have to fail this Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 21:53, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying your point. I will go over every passage of the article carefully. I am now working to verify all the sources with greater accuracy and, where needed, to integrate or replace them using a historical monograph on the sanctuary. I would ask you for the patience of a few more days. I will let you know here as soon as I am done. --Dt.fabio (talk) 07:58, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

@Kowal2701, I have gone through the entire article, checking the sources and adding references to the monograph on the history of the sanctuary (Antonio M. Mattei, Il Santuario dell'Addolorata a Castelpetroso, Grafica Isernina, 1982) where needed. I have corrected a number of errors and inaccuracies. Thank you for your comments. --Dt.fabio (talk) 07:12, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. Doing a spot check of refs 3, 4, and 16 on this version:

• ref 3 doesn't mention anything about On 19 March 1995, the solemnity of Saint Joseph, Pope John Paul II visited the shrine., nor anything about on 5 July 2014, the same Pope made a pilgrimage to Castelpetroso, meeting the youth of Abruzzo and Molise on the basilica's forecourt., nor From February 1993 to 2005 the sanctuary was entrusted to the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate and the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate. Care subsequently passed to the Conventual Franciscans of Abruzzo and Molise. Pastoral care is currently entrusted to secular priests of the Archdiocese of Campobasso–Boiano, assisted by the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará (SSVM).

Dt.fabio, have the sources been mixed up by chance? Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 10:37, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your notes, Kowal, and you were right — the sourcing wasn't clear. I've now cited the sanctuary's own site for the papal visits. For the pastoral care section I've removed "February 1993", since the sources agree on the year but not the month, and I've also removed "of Abruzzo and Molise", as no source confirms it. Rather than just address the three statements you flagged, I went through everything that relied on that reference. I've added the Mattei volume as the source for the bishop's reported vision, and I've removed the Vanilla Magazine source from the article entirely. Whenever you have a moment, I'd be grateful if you could proceed with the second spot-check. Thanks again. Dt.fabio (talk) 16:29, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Bill Bray (bodyguard)

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• ... that singer Michael Jackson once thanked Bill Bray "for being a father" to him?

• Source: https://ew.com/michael-jackson-security-guard-who-is-bill-bray-11961741

https://people.com/who-is-bill-bray-all-about-michael-jacksons-longtime-security-guard-11956126

• • ALT1: ... that Bill Bray was described as Michael Jackson's "surrogate father" by people close to the singer?
  • Reviewed:

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

AdobongPogi ^{masarap 🍛} 05:44, 10 May 2026 (UTC).

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

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

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

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Nothing wrong here. Everything checks out, no eligibility issues and issues with the article as everything is cited and neutral, and the hooks are interesting and cited. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 05:10, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

• @AdobongPogi and TheNuggeteer: As I review for promotion, I see overreliance on unreliable sources. The Hindustan Times and Geo News sources should be removed; they are tabloidy unbylined South Asian news churnalism. "True Michael Jackson" appears to be a self-published source. TMZ is of questionable reliability and I'd recommend finding a replacement there as well. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:45, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Done. You may check it, Dclemens1971. Ping me if there's other issues. AdobongPogi ^{masarap 🍛} 18:26, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

@AdobongPogi: Still four citations to the self-published "True Michael Jackson" website. Dclemens1971 (talk) 20:38, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

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The History of Java

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Illustration of Prambanan in The History of Java

• ... that the illustration of ruins in The History of Java (example pictured) is more beautiful than it actually is?

• Source: "Presented as unpoetically as possible in the form of technical drawings, the contrast could not be more striking between these and the romantic aquatints produced by William Daniell that depict the ruined candis surmounted by masses of luxuriant vegetation ... and his "superlatively beautiful" ruin landscapes, at least to one reviewer, rendered the candis infinitely more pleasing to the eye" 1

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5x expanded by Ivan530 (talk).

• Alt1 ... that Stamford Raffles collected over thirty tons of Javanese objects to help him write The History of Java.
• Source: "Most of this huge first collection, over thirty tons, unloaded from the Ganges in London in 1816, was to aid the writing of The History of Java." from page 110, Forge, Anthony (1994). "Raffles and Daniell: Making the Image Fit". In Gerstle, C. Andrew; Milner, Anthony Crothers (eds.). Recovering the Orient: Artists, Scholars, Appropriations. Harwood Academic Publishers. p. 109–150. ISBN 9783718653416. via Google books

Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

- Ivan530 (Talk) 17:20, 15 May 2026 (UTC).

• Nice to see an improved article that addresses non-Anglophone culture. Prose size has been expanded from 465 bytes to 2595 bytes, so the 5x requirement is met and the nomination is timely. The article is generally well-written and Earwig confirms this is original text, but there are some tweaks needed. The first paragraph of the Publication history section needs a citation. Citation 2 needs more details; it gives an author, date, and title but it's not easy for the reader to find what kind of publication it is. If it's a book, the publisher and page number(s) need specifying and ideally there should be an ISBN or OCLC number. The lead really ought to be more than one sentence. Wherever "Raffles'" is used possessively, it needs a possessive apostrophe.

The image is highly relevant to the hook, readable at thumbnail size, used in the article, and in the public domain. QPQ not needed.

I don't find the language of the hook very elegant: there isn't agreement between the plural word "ruins" and the singular pronoun "it". The same idea can be expressed by "the illustration of ruins ... exaggerates their beauty" and I propose that change. MartinPoulter (talk) 11:18, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

@TSventon: after writing the above review I noticed your post on the article's Talk page suggesting a tweaked hook. We're agreed that the hook needs changing. I'm interested in your opinion of my suggestion above. MartinPoulter (talk) 11:30, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

@MartinPoulter: have you looked at the relevant pages of Tiffin, 539 and 540? The hook should be a statement of fact and beauty is subjective. Tiffin is describing and quoting from a rather convoluted 19th-century review. It is also well known that artists often try to make their subjects more beautiful.

Citation 2 seems to be from a book published by Brill and I agree that an ISBN and page numbers should be added. The edition in the Wikipedia Library is dated 2008. TSventon (talk) 13:00, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

@TSventon: Thanks for your insight and your improvements to the article. You make a good point. @Ivan530: I don't have much time to concentrate on this at the weekend, but I'd like to explore alternative hooks and I'm open to your ideas if you have any. MartinPoulter (talk) 10:35, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

@TSventon: @MartinPoulter: Sorry for late response, I got very busy in the last few days. I agree that it should be different hook as this is my first time nominating DYK after all. Hopefully I'll think a new one soon. - Ivan530 (Talk) 03:50, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Ivan530 and MartinPoulter: I have added another possible hook, Alt1 above, but will be happy if you can improve it or find a better one. If possible, it would also be useful to add some modern criticism of the way Raffles justifies British colonialism and his own work. TSventon (talk) 13:10, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Nice. Yours are better than mine. Also thank you for finding that source, I will be reading that. There are some sources in Indonesian on criticisms that I skipped when expanding the article (due to reliability concern). Probably I need to search for it and read it again - Ivan530 (Talk) 14:16, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Ivan530: can you access Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library? I found the following via Cambridge University Press:

• Chapter 4 - Raffles' Java as Museum in Farish A. Noor, The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse. (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2016) TSventon (talk) 15:18, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@TSventon: Yes I can. Just found those source. TIL you can access each library directly and search on those. The search result seems better. Usually when I try The Wikipedia Library I just use the search bar on it and ended up disappointed with the result. - Ivan530 (Talk) 15:51, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

What I often do (including today) is Google the book title and go to the Wikipedia Library if the book is available through one of the TWL publishers. I think I initially found the book through Google books. TSventon (talk) 16:09, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Ivan530: please can you respond to MartinPoulter's requests from a week ago? They may have been obscured by later discussions. The first paragraph of the Publication history section needs a citation. Citation 2 needs more details; it gives an author, date, and title but it's not easy for the reader to find what kind of publication it is. If it's a book, the publisher and page number(s) need specifying and ideally there should be an ISBN or OCLC number. The lead really ought to be more than one sentence. TSventon (talk) 20:23, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

@MartinPoulter: @TSventon:: The publication history are from before my edits started (link) and unfortunately uncited (the article only have one source back then). During expansions I added citations for the reprints but unfortunately haven't found the citations for the amounts of copies sold for the first editions. For the aquatint being painted by Daniell, I remember it being mentioned in citation 5 (Tiffin), though I'll check it again.

For citation 2 that was copied (diff) from French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies during creation of the "Background" section. If it's dubious here then it will be dubious in there too. But it can be replaced (or added) with "Raffles' Java as Museum" (precisely on page 70-71) which is suggested reference by TSvention in above. It's not added in article yet. Added as reference. - Ivan530 (Talk) 21:10, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

For the unreferenced Publication History, I think I narrowed it down to Nineteenth century prints and illustrated books of Indonesia (1979) based on this auction page. Currently I'm waiting for Resource Exchange Request to see if it is correct. - Ivan530 (Talk) 00:17, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Sorry I've been away from this for so long. @TSventon: I'm impressed with your alternative hook. I'm happy that it's appropriately formatted and cited in the article with an inline source. My understanding is that since the image is not relevant to the hook, if I pass this hook, the image is not included in this nomination. I have put in citation details for the Carey book and added citations for a couple of sentences. @Ivan530: I think this will be ready to go once the uncited sentence about aquatint paintings has a source. I still think it would be nice if the lede were a bit longer. MartinPoulter (talk) 11:29, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Kiara St. James

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• ... that Kiara St. James once helped end a law known as the "walking while trans" law?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tele7ABC
  • Comment: Driveby nom.

Created by Funcrunch (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 399 past nominations.

Launchballer 01:37, 14 May 2026 (UTC).

• Date, size, QPQ, spot checks, fine. I am concerned about the hook, which is much less about the subject than about the (unlinked) walking while trans. IMHO after reading this hook the readers won't care about the subject much, but they are interested in walking while trans concept. I think a more interesting hook about her is possible, for example, about her difficult childhood or sex work. We can also try to pack the hook with multiple factoids and retain the walking... concept there. But right now, I don't think the hook is fair to her - many would just click through to walking while trans, ignoring her bio. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:55, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

We could pipe St. James to "a former sex worker".--Launchballer 12:22, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

As a reader, I am annoyed when the names of people are obscured by pipes. Surtsicna (talk) 07:12, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that former sex worker Kiara St. James once helped end a law known as the "walking while trans" law?.--Launchballer 07:38, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

I'm not sure I like a Black trans activist being identified on the home page of Wikipedia as a "former sex worker", when that was a relatively minor part of her working history. Funcrunch (talk) 21:28, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

What is your opinion of the original hook? (In my experience, biographies of women usually do well.)--Launchballer 04:26, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

I'm OK with it, though I might rephrase, i.e. ... that Kiara St. James helped end what was known as the "walking while trans law"? Funcrunch (talk) 23:54, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Colin Queen

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• ... that Lamborghini-supported Colin Queen is a racing driver despite having a congenital heart defect?

• Source: https://racer.com/2025/05/08/colin-queen-from-chd-survivor-to-lamborghini-super-trofeo-north-america-racer

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

Road Atlanta Turn 5 (Talk) 12:32, 12 May 2026 (UTC).

• The article is new and long enough. Sources check out. There are no obvious copyright or neutrality problems. I like the hook, and it is covered by the source, but the article does not discuss the significance of his medical condition for his racing career, and so it would appear that the hook fact is not explained in the article. Could this be explained in the article, Road Atlanta Turn 5? Surtsicna (talk) 08:00, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Maria Afonso

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• ... that the reliquary believed to contain the remains of Maria Afonso may actually hold the body of her infant nephew instead?

• Source: Rossi Vairo, Guilia. "O Mosteiro De S. Dinis E S. Bernardo De Odivelas, Panteão Régio (1318-1322)" (PDF). Família, Espaço e Património [Family, Space and Heritage] (in Portuguese). CITCEM. p. 438. ISBN 9789898351142. Numa primeira interpretação, entendeu-se que a mesma conservaria os restos mortais duma filha natural de D. Dinis, D. Maria Afonso, professa no Mosteiro de Odivelas, possivelmente abadessa da comunidade entre 1317 e 1318, a qual teria falecido em 132025. Na realidade, uma observação atenta do jacente exclui a possibilidade de se tratar de uma jovem mulher.; Nephew: Varela Fernandes, Carla (December 2006). Proposta de identificação de um jacente medieval. O infante D. João [Proposal for identification of a medieval recumbent effigy. Prince John] (PDF) (Report) (in Portuguese). Art History Institute - University of Lisbon. p. 73. Retrieved 11 May 2026. D. João was the son of Afonso IV and Beatriz and is believed to have died at about one year of age, having been buried in the church of the Monastery of St. Dinis of Odivelas, where his grandfather, King Dinis, and his aunt, Maria Afonso (II), already lay. (this whole source is also about the theory that the tomb contains the remains of John & not Maria)

• ALT1: ...that the daughter of a king may have been murdered in the church she worked at?
• Source: da Cruz Parra, Ana Raquel (2017–2018). A Paternidade na Idade Média: o caso de D. Dinis (Report) (in Portuguese). University of Lisbon. p. 110.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lego Horizon Adventures

Created by Jolielover (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 36 past nominations.

jolielover♥talk 15:05, 11 May 2026 (UTC).

• This is a new and sufficiently long article. Sources verify the content, but one appears to be a random blog. I also do not understan what "in exchange for her body" means. I see no neutrality or copyright issues. I believe that a hook about her murder would be more interesting to readers. Thanks for writing this, Jolielover. Surtsicna (talk) 07:25, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: I deemed the source appropriate as the author Maria Máxima Vaz is an academic & professor at NOVA University of Lisbon (see , ), she is a historian specializing in Maria Afonso's father King Denis. For the second part, I wrote it like how the source does as I do not want to insert any of my original analysis. To me it sounds like he did that to have her as his mistress, but like I said, I don't want my interpretation in since it's not 100% clear. And sure, I added an alt hook, feel free to rephrase it if you'd like. I just personally am iffy about hooks about crime, but this one is 700 years old. jolielover♥talk 10:43, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Sources can still be unreliable even when the author is an expert, Jolielover. If she is an academic historian, can we not cite a published, peer-reviewed source instead of the blog? I think your interpretation of "in exchange for her body" is reasonable, but so is your decision not to interpret it yourself. Unfortunately, saying "in exchange for her body" in wiki-voice does not work because it is not exactly idiomatic. Perhaps a Portuguese speaker can tell us whether this is an expression that means becoming one's mistress. Otherwise it should probably go under quotation marks. Surtsicna (talk) 11:48, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: From my experience, sources can be considered reliable if written by an accredited academic, even if it's for a source of generally questionable reliability per RSP. I find Maria to be a credible writer. Also, it's not a blog. It is a newspaper. This section shows all their journalists. There's no reason to believe this source is unreliable. I also added quotation marks per your suggestion. jolielover♥talk 12:16, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

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Kampala – Hamburg: Roman einer Flucht

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Van Dijk in February 2007

• ... that author Lutz van Dijk (pictured) inspired himself by murdered Ugandan LGBTQ rights activist David Kato to write a novel about a gay Ugandan teenager on his journey to escape persecution?

• Source: inspiriert vom Aktivisten David Kato

Lutz van Dijk hat sich für seinen Roman vom Aktivisten David Kato (1964–2011) inspirieren lassen, der 2004 die Organisation „Sexual Minorities Uganda“ (SMUG) gegründet hatte. Als die ugandische Zeitung „Rolling Stone“ 2010 auf der Titelseite „100 Fotos von Ugandas Top-Homos – Hängt sie auf!“ mit Namen veröffentlichte, verklagte er erfolgreich die Zeitung. Drei Wochen später wurde er ermordet. by the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel

• • Reviewed: El Sol Rojo
  • Comment: I will add QPQ in coming hours

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

CoryGlee 01:45, 13 May 2026 (UTC).

• Hi CoryGlee, would you mind reworking this hook? At the moment it doesn't make grammatical sense. The prose is also a bit shaky at times in the article so a copyedit would be worthwhile. A few related points:
  • "A resident of Cape Town and knowledgeable about Africa, he said that neither he nor his husband suffered from any attack" relevance of his knowledge of Africa here? Scanning the interview, it doesn't seem like the interviewer is making the claim that he is knowledgable, so is it van Dijk making this claiM?
  • "highlight that there is no Islamism in Uganda and its religious influences to persecute homosexuals." I don't understand this.
  • See the example at WP:RECEPTION under "Don't make subjective claims in Wikipedia's voice"; there's a few places the reception section strays here.
• So on. Ping me when the article is ready for review. Whonting (talk) 06:48, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  • I guess you do not know German or failed at comprehending the reception section. No single claim is subjective. It's all in source and the comments are typical of book's or film's reviews... I will address the other issues and ping you, Whonting. CoryGlee 12:43, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
    • @CoryGlee: I agree with Whonting about the hook. "Inspired himself by" sounds incorrect in English; we would say someone "was inspired by" or "took/drew inspiration from". I am similarly confused by some of the article prose, such as "...there is no Islamism in Uganda and its religious influences to persecute homosexuals." - does "its" refer to Islamism or Uganda? Zzz plant (talk) 16:45, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
      • @Zzz plant: I did not object to that, I said that they don't understand the process and policies well. Since when is sourced reception an "own voice"? I will easily solve the grammar issue and if not addressed by the reviewer I would like to make it sure that it was not used as QPQ. Ping u when done. CoryGlee 05:26, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
        • @Whonting: – Hi, I have addressed the grammar/syntax issues and thereby strike the original hook, inserting here an ALT.
        • ALT1 ... that author Lutz Van Dijk drew inspiration from murdered Ugandan LGBTQ activist David Kato to write a novel about a gay Ugandan teenager and his attempt to escape persecution in Uganda?
        • Same source – Thanks. CoryGlee 01:56, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Trinity Rooms

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• ... that in 2003, Trinity Rooms, a nightclub in Limerick, Ireland, marched an elephant through its entrance to demonstrate its size?

• Source: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40758693.html

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

CeltBrowne (talk) 17:33, 12 May 2026 (UTC).

• Article is new enough, long enough, and was nominated in the proper time frame. No copyright violations detected. Hook fact is interesting and verified to the cited source. Unfortunately there are some significant WP:Verification problems which causes the nomination to fail WP:DYKCITE. There are unsourced claims in several spots in the article, some of which are tagged. In double checking paragraphs with only one citation at the end, I am catching places where the sources do not verify or support all the claims in that paragraph. In general, the article has not properly attributed where the content is coming from, and a rigorous amount of fact checking will need to be done to get this approved.

The nominator needs to go through the article and cite exactly where the content is coming from. I shouldn't be catching text that isn't supported in the sources being cited with inline citations. Note that this also means no lazy put all the citations/sources at the end of the paragraph. If all of the content is not in any one source, than there needs to be multiple citations within that paragraph with only the source verifying a particular claim being cited directly after each fact. We don't want the article getting pulled at WP:ERRORS for false citations. For example "Cahill, a hired English hitman, was paid €10,000 to carry out the killing." When I opened up the first citation after that fact at the end of the paragraph that fact wasn't found in that first source. That should not happen. If the whole text of the paragraph isn't found in any one source, then multiple citations must be used so that the reader can immediately find the correct source with that fact. We can't run this until the citation issues are fixed. If two or more sources are bundled each source should have all of the content in it. If it doesn't, than you need to add more citations in a paragraph so that only the source with that fact is being claimed as verifying a particular fact. Note I will check every sentence to make sure it is verified and that the citation immediately after each claim is in the source being cited. Ping me when you are ready for another look.4meter4 (talk) 20:16, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@CeltBrowne: Any progress here? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:30, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

@Theleekycauldron: I'm tied up with work for at least the next week, but after that I may be able to clean up the article CeltBrowne (talk) 16:36, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

@CeltBrowne: are you still able to carry on resolving the five citation needed tags? because its been almost a month since the initial review, over a week since you last commented/replied and there hasn't been any edits since 20 may. I'll give you until the 22nd (one more week) before this nominaion may be closed. (just as a tip, every end of paragraph outside the lead generally needs a citation, both for DYK and for good articles) JuniperChill (talk) 21:39, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

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Sant Quirze de Pedret

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The southern apse of Sant Quirze de Pedret with the Parable of the Ten Virgins

• ... that on seeing pictures of the murals of Sant Quirze de Pedret (detail pictured), painter Santiago Rusiñol was uncharacteristically stunned, while Miquel Utrillo said: "They should do things like this all the time."?

• Source (same book): In an anecdote concerning the publication of the first fascicle devoted to the Pedret paintings, Pijoan recalls that 'one of the works was taken to the famous club of Modernists at the Continental, who pretty much ruled the roost in those days. Rusiñol looked at them and couldn't make a joke (which is saying some- thing). Puffing on his pipe, Utrillo said: "They should do things like this all the time."(Ylla-Català, Gemma (2016). "Romanesque Art and Modernity. Raimon Casellas, Josep Pijoan and the Aesthetic Value of Romanesque Painting". In Lahuerta, Juan José; Philippot, Emilia (eds.). Picasso and Romanesque Art. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, with the collaboration of Tenov Books. ISBN 978-84-8043-287-0., p. 195)

• ... that writer Raimon Casellas described the murals of Pedret (pictured) as "rudimentary as the painting of a child and at the same time powerful, very powerful, like a wine stored in the cellar for centuries."?

• Source (same book, quoting from Casellas' 1908 study on the paintings of Pedret): "Only a direct viewing of the mural paintings or the contemplation of the beautiful three-colour prints that exactly reproduce them, can give you the sturdy impression of that art from the Middle Ages, rudimentary as the painting of a child and the same time powerful, very powerful, like a wine stored in the cellar for centuries." (Ylla-Català, Gemma (2016), p. 195)

• ... that the 12th-century murals of Sant Quirze de Pedret (pictured) were used on Spanish Tourism Board posters in 1930 to promote tourism to Spain?

• A tall d'anècdota, val la pena re- cordar que les pintures de Pedret van servir per promocionar el turisme es- tranger en un parell de cartells de l'any 1930 (fig. 3). [...] El cartell es va publicar en tres llengües: en castellà i francès promocionava Espanya, mentre que en anglès el lema era "Visit Barcelona". Va ser l'única vegada que es va utilitzar la imatge de Pedret com a epítom de l'art romànic per fomentar el turisme a escala estatal, tot donant una imatge ideal (Cayuela Vellido, Begoña (2022) Sant Quirze de Pedret, un paisatge pictòric romànic. Edicions Universitat Barcelona. ISBN 978-84-9168-816-7, p. 22)
• Translation: As an anecdote, it is worth remembering that Pedret's paintings were used to promote foreign tourism in a couple of posters from 1930 (fig. 3). [...] The poster was published in three languages: in Spanish and French it promoted Spain, while in English the slogan was "Visit Barcelona". It was the only time that the image of Pedret was used as the epitome of Romanesque art to promote tourism on a national scale,

• • Reviewed: Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

PontiffSulivahn (talk) 15:39, 15 May 2026 (UTC).

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

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

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• 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: Some correspondence between the wording of the article and the source www.diba.cat/documents is due to factual information. The hook, however, seems not very interesting for general readers. - I would appreciate it, if you could add another hook or two highlighting the rare character of the church and its murals. Munfarid1 (talk) 16:26, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

• Thanks for improving the article and reviewing the submission, Munfarid1. I thought it was pretty cool that the 12th century paintings were received in such a way by these two 19th century painters and art critics. Maybe that was not clear and something like: "... that 19th century artist Santiago Rusinol was stunned upon seing the 12th century murals of Sant Quirze de Pedret while art critic Miquel Utrillo said: "They should do things like this all the time."?" would be better? I will also try to think of another hook. Do I have to do this until tomorrow so that the article is not older than seven days? Also, is this the right field to answer you and suggest the other hooks?

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• • Hi @PontiffSulivahn:, this is the place to reply until we have reached a consensus about the hooks. And no worries, the intervall for DYK counts only from the date the article was created until your submission for DYK. The time I need to finish the review with your input does not count for the deadline. So you have time to think about another hook or two. If you want to rephrase the original ALT0, strike it through and add an ALT0a below with the new wording and source. Be aware it cannot exceed 200 characters, and generally, the shorter is the better. Best, Munfarid1 (talk) 21:59, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
  • @PontiffSulivahn: Any progress on this one? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:29, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
  • @Theleekycauldron: a bit! I found another quote that I thought is in line with common hooks (above) and I have found another source which I think can show the importance of these murals in popularising Catalan Romanesque murals. Unfortunately the source is in Catalan which I do not speak, so Google translate will have to do. This is why the church and its murals are primarily important. I will do this tomorrow.
  • Hello @Munfarid1: and @Theleekycauldron:, I think I found an even better hook, but I think either of them is fine and can be applied to the image. Let me know what you think or if you need anything else.
  • Hello @Munfarid1: and @Theleekycauldron:, did you get a chance to review my new hooks?

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7

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• ... that Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 is listed as the only one in the category (ADCA II) due to its feature called pigmentary retinopathy?

• Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/handbook/abs/pii/B9780444632333000129

• • Reviewed:

Created by NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 19:43, 14 May 2026 (UTC).

• This is not a review and I won't be reviewing this due to the subject matter (medical information) being outside my expertise DYK-wise. However, I would suggest proposing a different hook or angle, as the current hook may be too technical for laypeople (as in non-medical readers may not know what ADCA II and retinopathy are). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:00, 26 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Then, I propose this hook as alternative:

ALT1: ... that Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 is listed as the only one in the category because it can affect vision?

• Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/handbook/abs/pii/B9780444632333000129

NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 10:44, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

Hexham Abbey high-altar cross

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• ... that four decades after she worked on the Hexham Abbey high-altar cross, Lilian Hawthorn moved to Hexham and looked after the objects on the abbey's altar?

• Source: Hexham Abbey, quoting the Abbey Chronicle: "Miss Lilian Hawthorn. … It was she who, as an Art student, made the enamel centre piece for the cross on the High Altar. … When in 1939 she came to live in Hexham, she took a very active part in the life of the Abbey, and undertook the care of all the Altar linen and brasses".

• • ALT1: ... that three years after Herbert Maryon, the director of the Keswick School of Industrial Art, designed the Hexham Abbey high-altar cross, his successor designed a matching pair of candlesticks? Source: Hexham Abbey: "Base / Robert Hilton, designer (Director of KSIA 1905–1921) / Keswick School of Industrial Arts / 1905".
  • ALT2: ... that the Hexham Abbey high-altar cross is still in use 124 years after it was made? Source: Hexham Abbey: Gives location as "on high altar".
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/44 West 77th Street
  • Comment: I'm in contact with the abbey and may be able to add a photograph in the foreseeable future.

Created by Usernameunique (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 94 past nominations.

Usernameunique (talk) 22:46, 18 May 2026 (UTC).

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

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Promoted to GA on 26 May 2026, 1566 words. Earwig shows no concern. QPQ done. Would be great if a close-up photograph can be added! I prefer ALT0 or ALT2 :) BenTanXiaoMing (talk) 02:53, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks very much, BenTanXiaoMing. Agreed re photos; as you can see from this photo, the cross would look good at thumbnail size. The Abbey has a meeting on Thursday during which they'll discuss my request for photos, and I'm optimistic that they'll be able to help. If so, I'll add a photo here and ping you. --Usernameunique (talk) 02:59, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Looking forward to it :) BenTanXiaoMing (talk) 03:29, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

@Usernameunique: Hello :) Any updates? Thank you! BenTanXiaoMing (talk) 07:56, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for following up, BenTanXiaoMing. They sent me the photos last week; I just need to confirm permissions with them. I just sent an email following up. --Usernameunique (talk) 08:34, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

BenTanXiaoMing, success! Just added the photo to the article and above. (Will be adding more to the article shortly, too.) --Usernameunique (talk) 12:11, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Looks good! BenTanXiaoMing (talk) 09:15, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

BenTanXiaoMing, interesting development—Hexham Abbey has decided they would rather send some photos from their official photographer than use these. In the meantime, however, they've also asked that the photos already sent be taken down (which isn't an issue, since they hadn't sent a permissions email). This is great news all in all, as it sounds like we have some high-resolution, professional-quality photos to which to look forward, but it does mean we're back without an image for now. Sorry for the back and forth! --Usernameunique (talk) 14:18, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

That is wonderful! Looking forward to it. In the meantime, should I change the DYK status to while waiting for the images? Thanks! BenTanXiaoMing (talk) 12:15, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, BenTanXiaoMing! That might make sense—I'm not sure how long it will take to receive them and we probably should not wait indefinitely, but giving it a little time wouldn't hurt. --Usernameunique (talk) 12:26, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

BokHee An

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• ... that BokHee An, who plays the longest-running recurring character on television show Grey's Anatomy, is also a professional surgical technologist?

• Source: https://www.educationandcareernews.com/careers-in-healthcare/scrubbing-in-with-greys-anatomy-star-and-real-life-nurse-bokhee-an/

• • ALT1: ... that almost every member of the original cast of the television show Grey's Anatomy shadowed BokHee An, a surgical technologist who also plays Nurse BokHee in the show? Source: https://www.shondaland.com/shondaland-series/greys-anatomy/bokhee-an-is-the-glue-who-holds-grey-s-together
  • ALT2: ... that during the first 14 seasons of the television show Grey's Anatomy, BokHee An's character Nurse BokHee, the longest-running recurring character on the show, only spoke once? Source: https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2467308/greys-anatomy-finally-let-nurse-bokhee-speak-again-and-it-was-perfect
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Created by Jishara (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Jishara (talk) 05:43, 14 May 2026 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Per WP:BUSTLE, that source (used for ALT2) is only "marginally reliable". It would be great if you can find a more reliable source for this, since ALT2 is definitely interesting. The Shondaland website might be considered a primary source since it's a website by Grey's Anatomy's showrunner Shonda Rhimes.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - I would clarify what Grey's Anatomy is (i.e. a television show).

QPQ: None required.

Overall: @Jishara: Nice work on this article. As a longtime Grey's viewer, I'm surprised that Nurse BokHee hasn't had an article till now. Just a few issues to address above, and this is good to go. Epicgenius (talk) 18:30, 20 May 2026 (UTC) Epicgenius thanks for checking this! I've updated as best as I can - shondaland website is the only source I can find for Alt1, but i've changed Alt and Alt2 sources. I've also clarified what Grey's Anatomy is! Jishara (talk) 02:51, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Jishara: No problem. These sources look all right, but could you add them to the actual article as well? Then the nomination would be good to go. Epicgenius (talk) 04:31, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: Absolutely! I had already had Education and Career News as a source on the page, but have edited to add CinemaBlend as well.

Looks good to go. Epicgenius (talk) 13:30, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

• – Jishara, re the line: making her one of the longest-serving actors on Grey's Anatomy and her character the longest-serving recurring character. Is there a source which says this explicitly? The source listed at the end of this sentence mentions her long tenure but doesn't say longest. Poking around the article I see other sources which note her long tenure and that she's been there since the pilot, and one could then deduce she's the longest-serving actor. But we should have a source which says this explicitly and can be cited on that sentence. Best, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 02:16, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

@Vermont - i've cited a source that states she's the longest serving supporting character, and two other sources are cited that both list her as one of the longest-serving actors on the show. Let me know if that works! Jishara (talk) 18:52, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

• Jishara, thanks! Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 01:39, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

• ALT2 is interesting, but it's not actually in the article. It says she speaks rarely, but that's it. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:44, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 15

King (Kanye West song)

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• ... that Kanye West shouted out civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. on his new song, "King"?

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• • ALT1: ... that Kanye West credited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his interracial marriage on the intro track of his new album? Source:
  • ALT2: ... that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shouted out by Kanye West on the intro of West's new album?

• Source:

• • Reviewed:

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

haventcameupwithanameyet(TALK) 00:20, 20 May 2026 (UTC).

• Comments by Tbhotch

General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems:

Policy compliance:

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

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• Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: A new article that is long enough. Nominated in time. It is sourced to reliable sources and the spotcheck match. No copyvios, neutral tone. I don't know why the singles chart is not ordered, but not a DYK issue. The hooks: ALT0 and ALT2 are the same, but with different voice. Praising someone is not in itself hooky enough, while ALT1, which is hookier, has source issues. The source says:

"What is surprising, though, is how he referenced Martin Luther King Jr. to flaunt their relationship. [lyrics] This not only refers to the civil rights leader's efforts against segregation, but also might be a wider commentary on how Ye's predecessors in Black society paved the way for his star status. Also, most simply, it's a connection to the track's title."

The article cites another source backing ALT1, but the text is mostly what the hook says. : "Kanye West credited the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his interracial marriage on a track from his new album Bully." Tbhotch^™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 21:16, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 16

Battle of Cut Foot Sioux

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• ... that the Battle of Cut Foot Sioux may have given its name to both Cut Foot Sioux Lake and Cut Foot Sioux Trail after a Dakota warrior was found with severed feet?

• Source: Warren, William W. (2009). History of the Ojibway People (2nd ed.). Minnesota Historical Society. pp. 127–128. ISBN 978-0873516433.

• • ALT0a: ... that the Battle of Cut Foot Sioux may have given its name to both a lake and a trail after a Dakota warrior was found with severed feet?

• Source: Warren, William W. (2009). History of the Ojibway People (2nd ed.). Minnesota Historical Society. pp. 127–128. ISBN 978-0873516433.

• • Reviewed:

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

jan Manisijun (Magnesium) (talk) (contribs) 22:26, 17 May 2026 (UTC).

• Hi JanManisijun, the article is new enough and long enough. You did not need to provide QPQ. There are two textual issues.
  • Three uncited passages: As a result of increased demand for resources from this alliance, the Ojibwe began to expand westward into the Great Lakes region, and eventually northern modern-day Minnesota. and beginning their progressed displacement from the Mississippi River., The Ojibwe continued to assume control over the Upper Mississippi and present-day northern Minnesota, and had full access to the now routed Dakota villages. At DYK, articles need to have a citation to cover all claims (beyond the lead section).
  • The trail is not mentioned in the body of the article with a citation, which is necessary because it is the hook fact. The lake, however, is.
  • The hook source is an offline book. Is it possible to provide the passage in the source that verifies the hook? (I have changed ALT1 to ALT0a as it is the same fact reworded; I prefer this wording).

This looks nearly ready, but there is work to be done. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 07:20, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Ray Allensworth

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• ... that Ray Allensworth was named to the Time 100 Next in 2025 for her work leading the team behind the first private spacecraft to successfully land on the moon?

• Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20251119010121/https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318811/ray-allensworth/

• • ALT1: ... that Ray Allensworth led the team behind Blue Ghost Mission 1, the first private spacecraft to land on the moon? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20251119010121/https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318811/ray-allensworth/
  • Reviewed:

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

Jishara (talk) 06:10, 16 May 2026 (UTC).

• – hi Jishara, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for creating this article! I expect this could be a good candidate for DYK, but there are some issues which I think would need to be addressed first. At the moment, the article makes a number of claims which are not sufficiently supported by the sources, including those in the hooks. Namely whether she "led the team behind" Blue Ghost Mission 1; the only source which seems to state this plainly is her entry in the TIME100, which as an award blurb is questionably independent and not a great source. The article also relies heavily on interviews/quotes and includes comments on her motivations in accepting roles, her goals, and the difficulty of her tasks, things which are not really encyclopedic. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 00:35, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
• Hi Vermont! I've updated the article a bit, removing the difficulty and motivation lines and adding additional sources for the led the team part. Please let me know if there are still more updates needed. Jishara (talk) 03:59, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Nusuk

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• ... that Nusuk was used by Hajj 2023 applicants from 57 countries after Saudi Arabia replaced a lottery process with priority-based selection?

• Source: Al Jazeera says pilgrims from Europe, Australia and the Americas were chosen "based on priority" for Hajj 2023, and that Nusuk was used for applicants from 57 countries.

• • ALT1: ... that Nusuk, a Saudi pilgrimage app launched in 2022, surpassed 51 million users worldwide by March 2026? Source: Saudi Gazette reported that the Minister of Hajj and Umrah announced in March 2026 that Nusuk had surpassed 51 million users worldwide.

• ALT2: ... that after Saudi Arabia moved away from lottery-based selection for Hajj 2023, applicants from 57 countries used Nusuk to seek a place on the pilgrimage?
• Source: Al Jazeera says Saudi Arabia used a lottery system for Hajj 2022, while pilgrims from Europe, Australia and the Americas were chosen "based on priority" for Hajj 2023, and that Nusuk was used for applicants from 57 countries to select Hajj packages and payment options.

• • Reviewed: [[]]
  • Comment: Special occasion request: please hold for 26 May 2026, the expected Day of Arafah / 9 Dhul Hijjah 1447 AH, if approved in time.

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

Umais🗣 08:06, 17 May 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this! Finnfrog99 (talk) 18:29, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

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

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Looks good to go! but dont think ALT1 is interesting, only approving ALT0. Finnfrog99 (talk) 18:35, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

• This was only approved a few days before the date request; but there a few issues with the hook, so I'm afraid this can't be run in time. ALT0 is written fairly confusingly, it doesn't really make clear what the app does or what the lottery/priority system is for non-Muslims, and ALT1 was not approved. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 22:41, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I agree ALT0 can be clearer. Would this version address the concern?

• ALT2: ... that after Saudi Arabia moved away from lottery-based selection for Hajj 2023, applicants from 57 countries used Nusuk to apply for Hajj packages?

This keeps the hook focused on what Nusuk was used for while retaining the lottery-system context. Umais🗣 05:16, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

Pardon my ignorance, but what's a Hajj package? I'm not sure the average reader will know, either. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 04:54, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

By "Hajj package", I meant the service package applicants choose for the pilgrimage, usually covering arrangements such as accommodation, transport and related Hajj services. I agree that wording may not be clear enough for a general reader, so I have updated ALT2 to avoid that term. Umais🗣 18:38, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Lace (novel)

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• ... that the most "infamous sex scene" of the bonkbuster genre is featured in a novel where a goldfish is inserted into a vagina?

• Source: "Sex can be euphoric and multi-orgasmic – this is certainly the case in what is arguably the most infamous bonkbuster sex scene, the goldfish scene from Conran’s Lace.

Here, the imperious Prince Abdullah scoops a “little fish” from “the bowl […] that always seemed to be at his bedside” and pushes it inside the woman in his bed (who “started to groan with pleasure”), before he “languorously” sucks it out." https://theconversation.com/shopping-showjumping-and-a-notorious-goldfish-sex-scene-the-bonkers-world-of-the-bonkbuster-209985

• ALT1: ... that a novel where a goldfish is inserted into a vagina has been compared to Jane Eyre and Little Women?

• Source: Jane Eyre: "Ask any woman of a certain age and sensibility to tell you their favourite books about friendship – I’ve done this a lot lately, because I’ve been editing an anthology on the subject – and nine times out of 10, they will say Jane Eyre and Lace, putting no paper between the two." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/11/shirley-conran-legacy-lace

Little Women: https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-lace-author-sewed-up-s/197665930/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Qojin
• Comment: Nomination is slightly rushed, happy to make adjustments in the coming weeks.

Created by Lajmmoore (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 173 past nominations.

Lajmmoore (talk) 09:43, 17 May 2026 (UTC).

• Article is new, long and referenced enough, QPQ was done, earwig detected no close paraphrasing, and the hooks, well... are interesting to say the least, and they do seem to be cited, so i will approve the hooks, with a preference to ALT0, which I corrected slightly because of what i felt was a missing "is". Thanks for the nice article!!. R. M. Holda - (talk) 02:02, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
• – Lajmmoore, Robert Motecinos Holda, I agree on the preference for ALT0, but I am concerned that the hook is of broader scope than the source content. The most "infamous sex scene" of the bonkbuster genre is strictly stronger than the source's arguably the most infamous bonkbuster sex scene. I'm also concerned that ALT0 seems to frame these as two separate facts – it can be read to imply that the "infamous sex scene" is not the goldfish one – where the source is quite clear that it is referring to the goldfish scene. I'll propose another hook below. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 02:50, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
• ALT2: ...that the bonkbuster novel Lace features an "infamous sex scene" where a goldfish is inserted into a vagina?
  • @Vermont: I believe that whoever wrote the source for ALT0 said that “it was “arguably” the most infamous scene” as a narrative/writing choice rather than saying that it was not the most infamous scene. As for the framing in ALT0, i believe that removing the quote marks (“) should do the trick to remove any doubt that it’s refering to that specific scene. I personally believe that alt2 could be modified to remove the “infamous” since even without it the hook is interesting. R. M. Holda - (talk) 04:41, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the comments, I would prefer it if we can keep a novel where a goldfish is inserted into a vagina as the bold link. I don't think it's an EASTEREGG - I chose to nominate it like that because the title Lace is so short. On the note of 'arguably' - i concur it is in the source as a narrative device, not something to give doubt to the veracity of the claim. How about: Lajmmoore (talk) 08:14, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
    • ALT3 ... that an infamous sex scene in the bonkbuster genre appeared in a novel where a goldfish is inserted into a vagina?
      • @Lajmmoore: I like ALT3, therefore i will approve it (although i still believe that ALT0 is clear enough) R. M. Holda - (talk) 22:48, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
        • I also think ALT3 is the best option here. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 01:49, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

What's wrong with ALT1? Gatoclass (talk) 14:59, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Gatoclass: I don't think it's as interesting as using the "infamous sex scene" line. That it's been compared to two other works doesn't tell your average reader very much. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 01:49, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

IMO "infamous sex scene" adds nothing of value, since said sex scene is already explicitly described in the rest of the hook. That a novel with such a sex scene would be compared to classics like Jane Eyre and Little Women, however, is mind-blowingly unexpected. As soon as I read that hook, I had to go read the article to find out just how these books in wildly different genres could be considered in any way comparable! Gatoclass (talk) 05:24, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Ah, that makes sense. To the reviewer/promoter, please feel free to ignore my previous preference for ALT3. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 00:38, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 17

Aladár Horváth

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• ... that Aladár Horváth was one of the first three Romani members of the National Assembly of Hungary after his 1990 election?

• Source: Kóczé, Angéla (2015). "Political Empowerment or Political Incarceration of Romani? The Hungarian Version of the Politics of Dispossession". In Krasztev, Péter; Van Til, Jon (eds.). The Hungarian Patient: Social Opposition to an Illiberal Democracy (1st ed.). Central European University Press. p. 100. ISBN 9786155053054. JSTOR 10.7829/j.ctt16rpr6b. The SZDSZ contained among its members the most progressive forces that collaborated closely with the Brotherhood. Besides Aladár Horváth, they also nominated Antonia Hága to be an MP. In the first Hungarian parliament between 1990 and 1994, there were three Roma MPs, two of whom were on the SZDSZ list. In addition, the well-known painter Tamás Péli was elected by the MSZP.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Robert S. Cooper

Created by Mupper-san (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

Mupper-san (talk) 18:09, 17 May 2026 (UTC).

• – hi Mupper-san, a question before review. In the article's lead, we have: he was the first Romani member of the National Assembly. And in the body, we have: one of the body's first three Romani members. I get that all three were elected at the same and are all in a way "first", but if a reader were to click this hook they'd see what appears to be conflicting information. Would it be sufficiently accurate to edit the lead to match the body text? Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 00:55, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
  • @Vermont Thanks for bringing this up, it must've slipped my mind. I've fixed this now in the lead so that it matches up with the body. Mupper-san (talk) 10:32, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 18

Cynthia Houniuhi

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• ... that Cynthia Houniuhi gave a six-minute speech to the International Court of Justice that helped convince them that preventing environmental and climate damage is a foundational duty?

• Source: https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/pacific-islands-students-fighting-climate-change/

• • Reviewed: Template:Did_you_know_nominations/The_Magical_Revolution_of_the_Reincarnated_Princess_and_the_Genius_Young_Lady

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

Jishara (talk) 22:01, 25 May 2026 (UTC).

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

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Jishara: The article's age is exactly 7 days, no copyvio or plagiarism concerns, however I think the hook is a bit of a mouth full and the 15th reference of the article is Facebook which should be removed for WP:BLP reasons. 1timeuse75 (talk) 17:08, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Sixth Doctor

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• ... that the Sixth Doctor had a companion named Frobisher, a "self-styled, street-smart detective" and shapeshifting alien who often took the form of a penguin?

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The Sixth Doctor's cat pin

• ALT1 ... that the Sixth Doctor wears a cat pin on his left lapel (pictured) because actor Colin Baker was inspired by the Rudyard Kipling short story "The Cat that Walked by Himself" to include it?

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

Doomitron (talk) 00:38, 19 May 2026 (UTC).

• I'm not keen on the first suggestion, because Frobisher never appeared in the TV series. For many years, that penguin was only known as a character in a strip cartoon. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:49, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that the photobook The Saxons of Transylvania by Spanish duo Pascual and Vincent is held by the Saxon State Library in Dresden?

• Source: https://katalog.slub-dresden.de/id/0-1688499075

https://www.overlapse.com/catalog/the-saxons-of-transylvania/

• • Reviewed: [[]]
  • Comment: First DYK nomination. Article accepted at AfC on 18 May 2026. Hook fact verified by SLUB Dresden catalogue entry and Overlapse acquisitions list (both cited in article).

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

Eldelgadoariol (talk) 07:56, 18 May 2026 (UTC).

• Welcome to DYK, Eldelgadoariol! The article is new enough and long enough. You did not need to provide QPQ. I am not sure if I like the hook fact. The catalog link loads a 403 for me, so I cannot even verify it. I am worried that there isn't a great hook to be had, and I'm not in love with yours. Is it noteworthy when a museum/library holds a photobook in its collection? To me, unfamiliar with the subject, this reads as rather boring. I'd like to see a stab at something more interesting. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 07:23, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback. Here is an alternative hook:

• ALT1: ... that the photobook The Tree of Life is Eternally Green by Spanish duo Pascual and Vincent includes pressed flowers and leaves that the photographers collected during their travels through rural Romania?

This fact is supported by two independent sources (NEO2 Magazine and Float Magazine, refs 4 and 5 in the article). Eldelgadoariol (talk) Eldelgadoariol (talk) 08:03, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

• @Eldelgadoariol: I'm looking at this and feeling the same issue. ALT1 (gave the hook a name per our norms) is pretty boring. (Also, because it has not been said on this nom page, the nominator has a declared COI.) My growing concern is that there might not be a hook. I'd like you to try again. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:57, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

ALT2: ... that the photobook The Saxons of Transylvania by Spanish duo Pascual and Vincent documents a centuries-old Germanic community in Romania that lost most of its population within a single generation after 1990? Eldelgadoariol (talk) Eldelgadoariol (talk) 19:55, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 19

Greg Hyman

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• ... that before co-creating the Tickle Me Elmo doll, toy inventor Greg Hyman charged for rides on a rocket ship toy he constructed using an old washing machine?

• Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/greg-hyman-dead.html Greg Hyman, Co-Creator of Tickle Me Elmo, Dies at 78... From a young age, he was singularly focused: At 11, he offered inventing lessons involving electricity to his classmates (the first three were free) and sold “rocket ship” rides on a craft he built from an old washing machine, with a baby-carriage cockpit."

• • ALT1: ... that at the age of 11, Tickle Me Elmo co-creator Greg Hyman taught school friends about electricity, with the first three lessons offered for free? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/greg-hyman-dead.html Greg Hyman, Co-Creator of Tickle Me Elmo, Dies at 78... From a young age, he was singularly focused: At 11, he offered inventing lessons involving electricity to his classmates (the first three were free) and sold “rocket ship” rides on a craft he built from an old washing machine, with a baby-carriage cockpit."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nikolai Chernyshev

Created by Alansohn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 63 past nominations.

Alansohn (talk) 20:49, 26 May 2026 (UTC).

• Comment. Proposing drive-by ALT hook.
  • ALT0a: ... that the co-creator of Tickle Me Elmo charged for rides on a toy rocket ship he constructed from an old washing machine?

@Alansohn: The detail in ALT0 ("charged for rides") still needs to be added to the actual article. Cielquiparle (talk) 05:49, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Cielquiparle, done. And no issue on my part with ALT0a. Alansohn (talk) 02:27, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Silver Iocovozzi

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• ... that Silver Iocovozzi integrated his Filipinx heritage and transgender identity into his Asheville restaurant, Neng Jr.'s, and became a James Beard Award finalist within its first year?

• Source: https://www.them.us/story/silver-iocovozzi-neng-jrs-asheville-queer-food-revolution-now-awards-2023

• • Reviewed: Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Bahu_Begum
  • Comment: QPQed

Created by Jishara (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

Jishara (talk) 00:04, 26 May 2026 (UTC).

• i can review this! Finnfrog99 (talk) 10:39, 26 May 2026 (UTC)
  • General eligibility:
• New enough:
• Long enough:
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Policy compliance:

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

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - x
• Other problems: - n

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Hello! most of the article seems good to go, but using the term filipinx in the lead may be a problem, as the term is considered controversial among Filipinos. I think a footnote explaining he identifies as the term is needed (could be combined with pronoun footnote) (MOS:ID applied heavily here) and the term should be avoided in the hook. I think a new hook is required

just to suggest one, ALT1 ... that the LGBTQ magazine Them considers Silver Iocovozzi one of the "leaders of the new wave of queer food culture"?

Also, much smaller issue and wont hold up DYK over it, I think the article underutilizes wikilinks, could be way more (eg. james beard awards, Grand Caymans). Finnfrog99 (talk) 10:48, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

I think that it's worth noting that I myself am agender Finnfrog99 (talk) 10:50, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

From Filipinos; In 2020, the neologism Filipinx appeared; a demonym applied only to those of Filipino heritage in the diaspora and specifically referring to and coined by Filipino Americans[citation needed] imitating Latinx, itself a recently coined gender-inclusive alternative to Latino or Latina. An online dictionary made an entry of the term, applying it to all Filipinos within the Philippines or in the diaspora.[71] In actual practice, however, the term is unknown among and not applied to Filipinos living in the Philippines, and Filipino itself is already treated as gender-neutral. The dictionary entry resulted in confusion, backlash and ridicule from Filipinos residing in the Philippines who never identified themselves with the foreign term.[72][73] Finnfrog99 (talk) 10:58, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

@Jishara: Pinging for a response regarding both the Filipinx concern and the new hook (disclosure: I am Filipino and I can confirm that "Filipinx" is a controversial term over here; Finn and I also discussed the article with other editors on Discord, but his review and hook proposal are his own). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:39, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

• Hi! sorry about the delay, for some reason did not see a notification about this. I do quite like that new prompt, and would be happy for the article to be DYKed with that! Also, added the explanatory footnote re: filipinx. Jishara (talk) 15:01, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Can I approve this, or am I too involved and should instead leave it to another reviewer? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:20, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

I think you're fine.--Launchballer 23:55, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

I was about to approve this, but ALT1 currently isn't DYKHFC-compliant since the fact doesn't have a footnote in the article (it's also only mentioned in the lede rather than the body, but that's not necessarily a DYK issue, just noting it as unideal). I'll give this the tick once the Them reference has been duplicated. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:56, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

@Jishara, Finnfrog99, and Narutolovehinata5: More to the point, I was about to add it to the body myself, except it's in the headline only.--Launchballer 14:15, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Is there a rule against using headlines as hook facts? Or maybe it just needs a reword that says that Iocovozzi was included in such a list? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:15, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

WP:HEADLINEs aren't reliable sources.--Launchballer 00:21, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Guess we need another hook or source then. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:34, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 21

One Person, One Vote?

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• ... that the PBS documentary One Person, One Vote? follows four presidential electors from the 2020 U.S. presidential election, including a Kanye West Elector?

• Source: One Person, One Vote?

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

Cbmovies (talk) 23:46, 25 May 2026 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - There is no reference in the first paragraph of the Synopsis section; a very minor problem but I believe the instructions do specify a reference is needed for at least each paragraph.
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• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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• Cited: - The paragraph that the hook is in has no reference directly mentioning the Kanye West elector. You reference the documentary itself but without linking it; I have no desire to seek it out and watch it to verify. At least one other source of yours I've seen (the Salon review) mentions Kanye so you could use that one in the paragraph.
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• Other problems: - The hook had me a bit confused for a second, because of the ambiguity between the words "elector" and "voter". In my native languge those two words mean the same thing. I'd suggest adding some blue to make it clearer for casual readers.

QPQ: None required.

Overall: With my comments and some MOS adjustments I suggest ALT0b: ... that the PBS documentary One Person, One Vote? follows four presidential electors from the 2020 US presidential election, including a Kanye West elector?
Since this is only my second ever review a second opinion could be useful. Procrastineur (talk) 14:25, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Manē no Tora

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Manē no Tora's title card

• ... that Shark Tank was adapted from a Japanese show that aimed to encourage entrepeneurship (title card pictured) during a lengthy period of economic stagnation in the Japanese economy?

• Source: https://theconversation.com/how-japan-pioneered-the-global-phenomenon-of-entrepreneur-pitch-shows-like-dragons-den-245873

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Canadian totem

Created by Finnfrog99 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 17 past nominations.

Finnfrog99 (talk) 14:25, 22 May 2026 (UTC).

• Saw this at User:ChristieBot/SortableGANoms. Dragons' Den was briefly discussed at Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 213#... that Savannah Bond (pictured) sold cosmetics before entering the adult film industry? and it's unlikely that a broad audience will have heard of it. I suggest replacing "and Dragons' Den were" with "was" (and the cynic in me wants to suggest ALT1: ... that the original version of Shark Tank was opened by a porn star in a sailor outfit?...).--Launchballer 19:22, 22 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Done (thanks for the alt!) Finnfrog99 (talk) 19:54, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 22

Jamie Duncan

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• ... that football player Jamie Duncan was described as a "one-man horror show"?

• Source: Tennessean

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Iron Boy (film)
  • Comment: There's probably better options but I'm nominating this now so it isn't late. To do QPQ within 24 hours.

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 466 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:56, 29 May 2026 (UTC).

Duncan in 2026

• Or perhaps, ALT1 ... that a newspaper said many opponents of football player Jamie Duncan (pictured) "memorized his jersey number or had it implanted on their chests by a Duncan hit"? I also added an image. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:33, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

2024 NBA Finals

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• ... that Jrue Holiday and Scottie Pippen are the only two players to win an NBA championship and an Olympic Gold Medal in the same year twice?

• Source: "ESPN's Andrew Lopez revealed that Holiday has become just the second player to win an NBA championship and Olympic gold medal in the same summer on two separate occasions. The other player to achieve that feat is Scottie Pippen."

Link: https://www.yardbarker.com/olympics/articles/jrue_holiday_becomes_second_ever_player_to_achieve_incredible_feat/s1_13132_40729513

• ALT1: ... that Jrue Holiday was the only player on the 2023–24 Boston Celtics championship roster who had previously won an NBA Final?

• Source: "Boston’s Jrue Holiday won an NBA title in 2021, then won an Olympic gold medal later that summer. He’s got a chance to do it again."

Link: https://apnews.com/article/nba-finals-mavericks-celtics-13fe174d87671a4b6b98b5f24c24731c

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Sxchen1110 (talk) 16:09, 25 May 2026 (UTC).

• Not a review, but I don't think these meet WP:DYKMAJOR since they're primarily tangentially focused primarily on the players in the 2024 NBA Finals, especially given this GA is so large there should be an interesting part about the 2024 NBA Finals or what the players directly did in them. ミラP@Miraclepine 19:49, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

@Miraclepine Would any of these be better:

• ALT2: ... that Jaylen Brown was named the 2024 NBA Finals MVP despite his teammate Jayson Tatum having better statistics and being considered the Celtics' best player?
• ALT3: ... that the Celtics' loss in Game 4 of the 2024 NBA Finals was their largest defeat since 2017? Sxchen1110 (talk) 23:48, 31 May 2026 (UTC).

Apologies, but I wasn't planning on reviewing the entire nom, though I also recommend more unique hooks in case these don't meet DYKINT. Also for grammar, ALT3 should have "the" removed from the 2017 link. ミラP@Miraclepine 01:34, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

1936 State Opening of Parliament

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• ... that a group of Germans gave Edward VIII a Nazi salute as he retuned to Buckingham Palace from his only state opening of parliament?

• Source: "As he passed the Cenotaph a number of Germans gave the Nazi salute" "Rain Mars State Spectacle", 4 November 1936, The Daily Telegraph, page 18

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Poetae Epici Graeci

Created by No Swan So Fine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 136 past nominations.

No Swan So Fine (talk) 12:57, 25 May 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this tomorrow. ミラP@Miraclepine 05:15, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

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

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• Cited: - The "only" part is unsourced, but I found sources confirming this at at page 60, a Justine Picardie book (the quote is "A similar sense of alienation is apparent in the description in his memoir of delivering the King's Speech at his first - and only - state opening of Parliament, on 3 November 1936." and here (which you need to add to the article per WP:DYKHOOKCITE). The other part is fine though.
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - "retuned" should be fixed as "returned". To center the focus to the bolded link re WP:DYKMAJOR, "to Buckingham Palace" should be removed. I could propose other hooks, but the Nazi salute is interesting enough juxtaposed with the UK (especially given Europe's pre-WW2 geopolitical climate).

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Created three days before nom, prose size 5958 B. The Nazi salute is something, but this is a historical topic compared to a BLP subject. Here's my ALT0b (rewritten in line with DYKMAJOR):

• ALT0b: ... that while returning from his only state opening of parliament, Edward VIII passed by a group of Germans who gave the Nazi salute? Source: Same as ALT0 + the sources in the review's "Cited" section, which aren't in the article yet

@No Swan So Fine: address the issues and you're fine. ミラP@Miraclepine 18:06, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Thank you so much, I've added the Picardie cite, and your ALT0b looks great. No Swan So Fine (talk) 14:19, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Murasaki Shion

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• ... that Murasaki Shion's ASMR streams were "absolutely packed with comedic bits"? Source: ASMRといえば、耳に心地よい音声だったと思うのですが、紫咲シオンが行ったASMR配信は、心地よさと真逆、ネタてんこもり。/When you think of ASMR, you typically imagine sounds that are soothing to the ears; however, the ASMR stream conducted by Shion Murasaki was the exact opposite of soothing—it was absolutely packed with comedic bits.
  • ALT1: ... that one ASMR stream from Murasaki Shion had "chaotic, slapstick content that completely shatters the very definition of ASMR"? Source: 特に大空スバルとのコラボASMRは、ASMRの定義を破壊するドタバタな内容。/In particular, the ASMR collaboration with Oozora Subaru features chaotic, slapstick content that completely shatters the very definition of ASMR.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Barbara Viera

Converted from a redirect by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 152 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 16:01, 23 May 2026 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

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

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• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - Hooks need to be clarified.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article was nominated within 7 years of creation from redirect. Earwig picked up an "unlikely copyright violation" of 18%, which is attributed to a quote regarding Murasaki's fictional lore. Article is at least 1,500 words in prose and is properly cited. Currently, my concerns with the article is that there seems to be some descriptions that comes off as promotional, since it overly quotes a lot of reviews from third party sources. ALT2 sounds good but it needs to be clarified as there needs to be a connection as to how "slapstick" breaks the "definition" of ASMR streams. lullabying (talk) 05:43, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

@Lullabying: The quotes don't really seem promotional, each of them are WP:SECONDARY reception quotes clearly attributed to independent news outlets like Dengeki Online, Famitsu, Kai-You, and MoguraVR. Also, the comedic/laughter nature of slapstick should be clear from the word (slap with a stick) and I feel trying to explain how it breaks ASMR definition would make the hook too long. Also, didn't you mean "7 days" instead of "7 years"? ミラP@Miraclepine 17:11, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Yes, I meant to write 7 days. My bad. The writing seems promotional because the reception quotes are pretty much scattered all over the article, including one that describes her scream as "iconic" but not really how it's iconic. I can understand your hook, but to people who aren't familiar with ASMR streams, this should be clarified for them. Can you verify how MoguraVR is a reliable source? lullabying (talk) 03:19, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

@Lullabying: I've trimmed many of the contextless quotes and even added more non-quote content, but the thing with reception quotes is that they're needed to be show that the WP:SECONDARY criterion of GNG is met. Before opening this DYK I did research and learned ASMR is globally popular, but since that idea appears challenged I linked ASMR as a precaution. BTW MoguraVR has been cited by several academic sources (, , , , , , etc.) and scholarly books, they have an editor-in-chief and published books with Shueisha, and they did some interviews with several VTubers and a VR game producer. ミラP@Miraclepine 17:23, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

Article looks better. Thanks for taking up on my suggestions. I still think the hook should be clarified, though, since it seems subjective based on an opinion from a source. lullabying (talk) 23:40, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

@Lullabying: I've added "were said to" to clarify they're opinions:

• ALT0b: ... that Murasaki Shion's ASMR streams were said to be "absolutely packed with comedic bits"? Source: ASMRといえば、耳に心地よい音声だったと思うのですが、紫咲シオンが行ったASMR配信は、心地よさと真逆、ネタてんこもり。/When you think of ASMR, you typically imagine sounds that are soothing to the ears; however, the ASMR stream conducted by Shion Murasaki was the exact opposite of soothing—it was absolutely packed with comedic bits.
• ALT1b: ... that one ASMR stream from Murasaki Shion were said to have "chaotic, slapstick content that completely shatters the very definition of ASMR"? Source: 特に大空スバルとのコラボASMRは、ASMRの定義を破壊するドタバタな内容。/In particular, the ASMR collaboration with Oozora Subaru features chaotic, slapstick content that completely shatters the very definition of ASMR.

What do you think? ミラP@Miraclepine 04:33, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

• Sorry for the delay; I honestly don't feel these hooks are any different than the ones you've proposed. lullabying (talk) 07:11, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

• @Lullabying: Why? The proposal clarified they're commentary opinions (which are subjective). What would make the hook more clear enough? Should I, say, spell out the full name for ASMR? Expand the attribution? ミラP@Miraclepine 14:48, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
• Nevermind, I think that last part is the issue and I got it, though I personally prefer 0c and 1c since they're written to be more centered on the bold-link (see WP:DYKMAJOR):
• ALT0c: ... that according to a MoguraVR writer, Murasaki Shion's ASMR streams were "absolutely packed with comedic bits"? Source: Same as ALT0
• ALT0d: ... that a MoguraVR writer remarked that Murasaki Shion's ASMR streams were "absolutely packed with comedic bits"? Source: Same as ALT0
• ALT1c: ... that according to a MoguraVR writer, one of Murasaki Shion's ASMR streams had "chaotic, slapstick content that completely shatters the very definition of ASMR"? Source: Same as ALT1
• ALT1d: ... that a MoguraVR writer remarked that one of Murasaki Shion's ASMR streams had "chaotic, slapstick content that completely shatters the very definition of ASMR"? Source: Same as ALT1

What do you think? ミラP@Miraclepine 15:13, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Replaced "said" with "remarked" since the latter word is far more likely to indicate opinion. ミラP@Miraclepine 19:18, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Rezlan Ishar Jenie

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• ... that during his assignment in Portugal, Rezlan Ishar Jenie frequently received prank hang-ups from disgruntled populace? Source: Coelho, Alexandra Lucas (14 September 1999). "A Indonésia é uma sala em Lisboa" [Indonesia is a room in Lisbon]. Público. Retrieved 22 May 2026. Oh! Não, não me sinto ameaçado, tenho de perceber esse crescendo de emoção. Os portugueses estão muito emotivos. Há quem telefone e desligue, há quem seja delicado, há quem não seja... ontem [domingo], em Cascais, uma senhora aproximou-se de mim a falar inglês e disse-me: 'vi-o na televisão, por favor faça mais em Timor'. Anteontem [sábado], um homem viu a matrícula do carro e gritou, mas em português... só percebi TImor-Leste
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jan Djong

Created by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 126 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 18:21, 22 May 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on May 23

Juufuutei Raden

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• ... that one journalist believed Juufuutei Raden's dancing mushroom dance heralded a new age for anime and the internet?

• Source: Source: きのこダンス動画のバズは、切り抜きという二次創作を超え、一次創作側のタレントや事務所も無視できない流れとなってきている。新たなアニメ・ネット時代の到来を感じるほど、大きな出来事だ。trans. by Google translate: "The viral phenomenon surrounding the "Mushroom Dance" videos has transcended the realm of derivative works—specifically video clips—to become a trend that even the original creators, including the talent and their agencies, can no longer afford to ignore. It is an event of such magnitude that it truly signals the dawn of a new era for anime and the internet."

• • ALT1: ... that VTuber Juufuutei Raden's first social media post declared she had 6,725 yen in her bank account? Source: Source: 大手事務所からデビューするVTuberのSNS初投稿といえば、しっかりした挨拶やネタを仕込まれることも多く、キャラクターの方向性を知る上でも、非常に注目が集まるところです。 そんな初投稿に儒烏風亭らでんさんが選んだのは「残金6,725円」というなかなかしみったれた世知辛い金額。trans. by Google translate: "When it comes to the debut social media posts of VTubers launching from major agencies, they often feature polished greetings or carefully crafted gags; as such, they garner significant attention as a key indicator of the character's intended direction. Yet, for her own inaugural post, Juufuutei Raden chose to reveal a rather—dare one say—paltry and grimly realistic figure: a remaining balance of just 6,725 yen."
  • ALT2: ... that the curator of one museum attributed an increase in visitors to an advertisement of VTuber Juufuutei Raden? Source: Source: 酒ミュージアムでも学芸員の宮丸晶さん（２８）が、応援広告のそばにファンらが寄せ書きできる「でん同士ノート」を用意した。これまでに「私の知識や興味を広げてくれてありがとう」「らでんちゃんに出会い、学芸員を目指しています」などと約８０人が書き込んだ。宮丸さんは「広告を機に全国からお客さんが訪れ、若い男性も増えた。日本酒の奥深さを広く知ってもらうことにつながれば」と話す。trans. by Google translate: "At the Sake Museum, curator Akari Miyamaru (28) has prepared a "Den-Doushi Notebook"—placed right next to the fan-sponsored advertisement—where visitors can leave collective messages. To date, approximately 80 people have contributed entries, with comments such as, "Thank you for broadening my knowledge and interests," and "Meeting Raden-chan inspired me to pursue a career as a museum curator." Miyamaru remarked, "Thanks to this advertisement, visitors are now coming from all across the country—and we’ve seen an increase in young male visitors, too. I hope this serves as an opportunity to help a wider audience discover the true depth and richness of Japanese sake.""
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Thora_Thersner
  • Comment: I honestly have no clue which hook is most interesting, or even if I'm missing something more interesting.

Converted from a redirect by 1brianm7 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

1brianm7 (talk) 15:57, 25 May 2026 (UTC).

Fenny Nuli

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• ... that as part of an official visit preparation, Malaysian diplomat Fenny Nuli took a 15-hour bus ride with a high kidnapping risk? Source: Lorna, Nura V (30 December 2024). "Resilience, diplomacy, and dedication define her". Sarawak Tribune. Retrieved 23 May 2026. I recall being a young officer sent to Poland, covering Ukraine. I was tasked with preparing for our then Foreign Minister’s visit and had to go ahead as the advance team—which was just me. This was around 2001 or 2002. It was winter, with heavy snow. I flew to Kyiv and met a Ukrainian representative. The only option was a 15-hour bus ride to Simferopol from Kyiv. I didn’t speak Ukrainian, but I had some help. The journey was in the middle of winter, and I don’t think the bus had a heater. When I finally arrived, the students told me, “You’re brave—taking the bus is risky due to the danger of kidnappings.”
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Laurentius Say

Created by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 127 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 06:23, 24 May 2026 (UTC).

• @Jeromi Mikhael: The date, size, spotchecks, etc. all good. QPQ done. But I have a concern about the hook. While the claim repeated in the hook is factually correct (as attested by the quote), it frankly makes little sense. Why did the the students worry about kidnappings? I never heard about kidnappings being a problem in Ukraine in the early 2000s. Frankly, to me this makes about as much sense as telling her she was in danger of abduction by aliens or freezing to death or such. In other words, I don't think we can repeat the claims made by the "Malaysian students" at face value, not without corraobrating evidence. This needs to be reworded in the article, and I don't think we can let such content (IMHO, WP:REDFLAG) appear in the hook; another is needed. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:23, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

• @Piotrus: Hi, thanks for the review! I understand that the claims being made by the hook is a bit mind-boggling, and honestly there's not much source corroborating her claim since it comes from a local newspaper. I could make the hook less bombastic by removing the mention on her alleged possibility of being kidnapped and focusing instead solely on her bus journey.
• ALT1: ... that after her flight was cancelled, Malaysian diplomat Fenny Nuli had to take a 15-hour bus ride in heavy winter snow to Kyiv?
• Regarding the concerns you made on removing the source statement from the article, I don't think that's necessary since I only repeated the student's remark instead of framing it as a fact. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 01:20, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

• @Jeromi Mikhael: Regarding the tag in the article, I think the " Malaysian students, who later informed her that the journey carried a high risk of kidnapping" sentence needs rewriting, as "informed" suggests neutrality, as in, the sentnece doesn't imply at all that the information given to her is, as you said, "mind-boggling". Here, I think, it makes sense to actually use a term like claimed or suggest or such that implies doubt. As for the hook, how about one based on the claim that she was "the first Iban woman to serve as an ambassador"? That seems (to me) more interesting than a long journey in a bus, which is not that extraordinary (I wager many people in Canada or Russia could say the same, for example). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:15, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

@Piotrus: I have no problem on that hook, even I initially thought of that, but I shelved it back as I think the DYK folks won't be too receptive of superlative hooks such as the one you proposed. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 05:41, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Saraswati Gyan Mandir

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• ... that University of Chittagong Saraswati Gyan Mandir is the first and only 'Saraswati Gyan Mandir' in Bangladesh?

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

BadhonCR (talk) 10:31, 23 May 2026 (UTC).

• Hi BadhonCR. The article is new enough and long enough. You did not need to provide QPQ. There are several textual issues, and I would like to start with the hook:
  • The hook right now is boring, and it will be boring to anyone who does not know Bengali. That includes your reviewer. I didn't know until today that a mandir is a Hindu temple. You need to find a hook that might interest someone without that knowledge. Our best hooks are accessible to our global audience. Bangladesh is a majority Muslim country, so I think the fact that a university there built a Hindu temple is worth pointing out. It may also seem unusual (certainly to me) that a Hindu temple is built at a public university. So let's try this. Please point me to the sources that would cover this and provide a translation.
    • ALT1: ... that the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh built a temple for the celebration of the Hindu festival Saraswati Puja?
  • After the lead section, all claims need a citation in an article headed for DYK. A long passage is uncited: Subsequently, with the cooperation of the university administration, alumni, teachers, and well-wishers, infrastructural development activities of the temple premises began. Initially, boundary walls, retention walls, and land-filling works were completed. After these works, annual Saraswati Puja celebrations were organized at the site under the open sky. Please remediate this.
    • Was the temple partially built without a roof and used annually for years? I get that sense from reading this article as it stands, and that may generate a good hook fact.
  • There are many details in this article that strike me as excessive, especially since the entities involved are not notable or don't have articles. Why is it worth pointing out that interior design and technical assistance were provided by The-Ad Communication, for instance? Is the foundation that financed the construction noteworthy?

The best advice I have is to think about this topic as if it is far from you. What might be interesting or noteworthy to a reader from the United States or Europe about this temple? What facts are mere trivia and not worth repeating in an article? Ping me when you've made changes. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 07:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

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Instruction for a Ruler

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• ... that in his translation of Gerald of Wales's De principis instructione, Robert Bartlett described Gerald as "one of the great auto-plagiarists of the Middle Ages"?

• Source: Giraldus (2018). Bartlett, Robert (ed.). Gerald of Wales: instruction for a ruler (De principis instructione). Oxford medieval texts. Translated by Bartlett, Robert (1st ed.). Oxford; New York, NY: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-873862-6.

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

Quoting Querying Questioner (talk) 05:11, 31 May 2026 (UTC).

Endogenization

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• ... that ssDNA viruses such as Circoviridae and Parvoviridae, altough they lack a reverse transcriptase, have undergone endogenization across mammals, seemingly through DNA repair?

• Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg3199

• • ALT1: ... that when the DNA of a virus finds its way into a sperm or egg cell of its host, it can lead to a process known as endogenization? Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141106132315.htm
  • ALT2: ... that around 8% of the human genome consists of DNA acquired from viruses through a process known as endogenization? Source: https://theconversation.com/humans-are-8-virus-how-the-ancient-viral-dna-in-your-genome-plays-a-role-in-human-disease-and-development-192322
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Government of the Ming dynasty

Created by Nahleghini (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 408 past nominations.

Launchballer 03:20, 31 May 2026 (UTC).

• Not my nom; sig was added after I fixed its malformation.--Launchballer 03:23, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

I think ALT2 is the best, then ALT1, then the original suggestion. Velayinosu (talk) 01:34, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Trying my hand at reviewing this:

General eligibility:

• New enough: - n
• 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: - See comments.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: This is my first DYK review so please let me know if I'm doing it right! Article was created on 23 May 2026 and nominated on 31 May 2026; DYKcheck says this article is not eligible because it exceeds the seven day time limit. Earwig scored it at 2%, meaning unlikely copyright violation. Article is well above the 1500 character threshold in original prose. Citations are present for most paragraphs, except for the second and third paragraphs of the page. All images in the article are copyright compliant. I like ALT2 the most as it's under the character count, it is interesting, and the language is accessible enough for most people to also find it interesting/informative. My only concern is that the author of the cited article references a paper from 2001, which is fine, but it would be nice to have an additional citation for that number in the article from a more recent publication that confirms that number (I've seen ranges for this statistic of 5-8%). The original hook has too much jargon and might be confusing. ALT1, while more accessible, doesn't really explain endogenization or why it's interesting. Like I said, I'm new to reviewing DYKs so I would appreciate another look. RobinIsadorable (talk) 20:22, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Agent Kim Reactivated

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• ... that the upcoming television series Agent Kim Reactivated is based on a webtoon that serves as a spin-off to Lookism?

• Source: https://zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=20230412104314

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Moved to mainspace by D.18th (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 03:05, 30 May 2026 (UTC).

• Article is new enough and long enough. This is the nominator's first nomination so no QPQ is required. Earwig finds a match with this page; I presume Wikipedia copied from the article rather than the other way around since that page post-dates the article but out of an abundance of precaution I would suggest rewriting the plot section. The hook as currently written might not be interesting to a broad audience since 1. series being based on spin-offs, or series being spin-offs is very common, and 2. the hook mainly interests Lookism fans and not general readers. I would suggest proposing additional hooks before this nomination can continue. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:46, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the review! I have completely rewritten the synopsis to ensure it is 100% distinct. To address the hook interest for a broader audience, here's the alternative I'm proposing:

• ALT1: ... that media outlets have compared the titular character of the upcoming television series Agent Kim Reactivated to Bryan Mills from the action film Taken?

• Source: https://screenrant.com/netflix-action-thriller-taken-mercy-for-none-agent-kim-reactivated/

Let me know if this work better! ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 09:28, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

To be honest, it's a better hook but probably still not interesting, mainly because for non-film buffs or those otherwise unfamiliar with Taken, it's not very interesting either. My suggestion would be to try proposing a hook that isn't a comparison. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:00, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback. I'd like to try one final alternative hook:

• ALT2: ... the titular character of the upcoming television series Agent Kim Reactivated is a savings bank employee who is secretly a former secret intelligence agent?

• Source: https://www.mk.co.kr/news/broadcasting-service/12055224

If this still doesn't quite meet the threshold for broad appeal, I will likely withdraw the nomination. ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 03:16, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

The issue with that hook is that it violates WP:DYKFICTION. That is, it is about an in-universe fact (in this case, about the main character's jobs) that does not have a connection to the real world. That hook cannot run because it is about a plot point. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 06:57, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

• I think ALT1 is good, but I would shorten it to ALT1b: ... that Agent Kim Reactivated was described as the Korean Taken?
• How about ALT3: ... although the Korean titles of The Dream Life of Mr. Kim and Agent Kim Reactivated are similar, they are completely different genres? (source) You need to find a way to incorporate this to the article though.
• ALT4: ... that Agent Kim Reactivated is So Ji-sub's first SBS drama appearance in 13 years? source
• Or you can wait until the drama airs on June 26 and make a hook based on the reviews from the general public or critics. There is time before the hook is timed out (July 30).

KimYubin (talk) 12:55, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Right now, only ALT1 is the only usable angle here, but it would need to be attributed: who said it? If it was one critic, it should say "that a critic described...". Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:12, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Ruby Rose Turner

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• ... that American actress Ruby Rose Turner debuted as a dancer Spanish-language show Sábado Gigante at the age of seven?

• Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20251212063243/https://www.naijanews.com/buzz/people/who-is-ruby-rose-turner-how-old-is-she-here-are-facts-you-need-to-know/ (original link doesnt work, but i was able to find an archived link)

• • ALT1: ... that American actress Ruby Rose Turner debuted as a dancer at the age of seven, winning a number of minor national competitions? Source: as above
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sydney Craven
  • Comment: Article was created by BrookTheHumming, and moved to mainspace by Pppery via AFC. I made some substantial edits to the article, hence why I'm also crediting myself. I've later added Afrowriter to the credits as I forgot to do so

Created by JuniperChill (talk), BrookTheHumming (talk) and Afrowriter (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 23 past nominations.

JuniperChill (talk) 19:18, 28 May 2026 (UTC).

@JuniperChill Not giving me any credit for editing and cleaning it up into a properly formatted and notable article before submitting it is wild. 😒😒 Afro 📢Talk! 21:08, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

My bad, i have done that now JuniperChill (talk) 21:32, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

• PS: I'm also planning to get this to WP:GA (good article status), which is why I've made quite a lot of edits since i needed to check every source verifies what is being said in the article. This took more work than I expected JuniperChill (talk) 19:31, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
  • And now its passed GA yesterday, even before this had a chance to be reviewed for DYK. What are the chances of that? :) JuniperChill (talk) 11:27, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Aima Baig

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Aima Baig

• ... that some people think that Aima Baig looks like Ariana Grande?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eiga.com
  • Comment: Driveby nom; there are good reasons to not use the image with ALT0, but it may work with other hooks.

Improved to Good Article status by M.Billoo2000 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 400 past nominations.

Launchballer 11:47, 24 May 2026 (UTC).

• • ALT0a: ... that some people think that a Pakistani singer looks like Ariana Grande?
  • ALT1: ... that Aima Baig (pictured) won a Pakistani award for a song inspired by Latin music?

Added two hooks. File:Aima Baig VOA 2023.png this image can be used, as discussed on the main article's talk. @Launchballer: Please suggest how to add image, thank you. M. Billoo 17:06, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

• I added it to the nom. (The trick with most formatting is to find somewhere it works and play around with it.)--Launchballer 17:22, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

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

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

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - I have struck Hook0 and HookAlt0a I am assuming good faith that the non-English sources verify the Ariana Grande similarity claim, but in reading google automatic translation of the sources I didn't find the mention (perhaps the automatic translation is failing me?). That said the HookAlt1 is cited, and I verified that it was in the cite; that said it's not the most interesting hook. Please provide additional hooks for review and ping me when that's done.

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Thanks for making this nomination. RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 04:23, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

ALT2: ... that Aima Baig (pictured) once announced plans to launch a MeToo movement in her country? (@M.Billoo2000: Did you leave off a source for ALT0?)--Launchballer 04:57, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

• @RightCowLeftCoast: For the original hook, the footnote e provides 3 out of 4 references in English. One says, "Aima Baig's uncanny resemblance with Ariana Grande is too much to ignore". Second quotes her, "Just a pony and a liner like her doesn't make me like Ariana Grande. I don't even wanna be like Ariana Grande ... if you're copying someone else's style. It doesn't mean that you're copying that person completely. You're just being inspired by that one person and you wanna try it on your self and see how you look." Third says, "Aima Baig's latest look sparks Ariana Grande comparisons, internet reacts". M. Billoo 06:11, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Many other references in English do also verify this. "Aima Baig faces netizens' wrath for copying Ariana Grande". "Twitter thinks Aima Baig copied Ariana Grande". "Aima Baig criticized for copying Ariana Grande".

Which specific non-English sources are you talking about having translation problems?

Regardless, I have no problem with the ALT2, and I would prefer a pictured hook anyway. M. Billoo 18:40, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

(Also, a Pakistani award for a song inspired by Latin music is a fairly unusual combination, no? It's unlikely to set the world on fire but I wouldn't have thought it be that uninteresting...--Launchballer 18:44, 20 June 2026 (UTC))

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Wolf's Lair (Los Angeles)

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Wolf's Lair, Los Angeles

• ... that Moby flipped the Wolf's Lair for more than 100% profit?

• Source: WP:CALC

• • ALT0b: ... that Moby flipped the Wolf's Lair for more than $6 million in profit? Source: same but simpler WP:CALC
  • ALT0c: ... that Moby flipped the Wolf's Lair for $12.4 million? Source: same but no WP:CALC
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Elsie Eiler
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1) not sure if the year is needed? Moby bought the property in 2010 and sold it in 2014

2) not sure if we want to specify that the property is in Los Angeles (or Hollywood) since it shares its name with a more notable location in Germany. My gut is that the DYK is more hooky without this clarification.

Created by Gb321 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Gb321 (talk) 20:51, 27 May 2026 (UTC).

• Article is new enough, long enough, sourced, neutral, and clean on an Earwig check. Hook could be a bit better (suggested alt below), but verified the buy and sell price. I've added an image, which is PD and used in the article; I've enlarged it a bit for clarity. QPQ has been done :) Suggesting:
  ALT1: ... that former residents of Wolf's Lair (pictured) include the Beatles and Marlon Brando, but only in 2010 was a recording studio added?
  Should be all from me – nice work, Gb321! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:33, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

"but only in 2010 was a recording studio added" isn't very interesting to me, if we're going to go the route of ALT1, I think it'd be better to go ALT1b: ... that former residents of Wolf's Lair (pictured) include the Beatles, Marlon Brando, Debbie Reynolds, Moby, and the Rolling Stones?

I mean, all these musicians live there and none of them think to add a recording studio until Moby? I find that kinda strange, but I guess that's a matter of taste. Happy to let the next reviewer choose. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 04:40, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Marlon Brando isn't part of "all these musicians live there", so if we want to go that route, I propose ALT1c: ... that despite former Wolf's Lair (pictured) residents including the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, a recording studio wasn't added until it was bought by Moby in 2010?

Ultimately, I'm happy to let the next reviewer choose as well.Gb321 (talk) 05:08, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that Kim Jung-soo has been credited as the mother of Buldak Ramen, which was inspired by a spicy lunch at a restaurant in Seoul, South Korea?

• Source: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-05/how-a-spicy-noodle-saved-the-pioneer-of-korean-ramen-from-scandal#:~:text=SEOUL%C2%A0%E2%80%94%C2%A0In%20February%202014%2C%20a%20British,company%20halfway%20across%20the%20world

https://www.forbes.com/profile/kim-jung-soo-chun-in-jang/

https://www.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026051509312290131

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

Manxshearwater (talk) 19:48, 26 May 2026 (UTC).

• Article is new enough, long enough, images are freely licensed, and no QPQ needed. I have two concerns. (1) The sourcing seems fairly weak. The most used sources are non-independent (i.e. re-reporting company press releases) and many others are from unreliable sources (e.g. company blogs, Forbes). I have a hard time telling if she meets the notability criteria. (2) The article does not seem to adequately treat the subject. The Los Angeles Times article writes that Kim was found guilty of embezzling $3.7 million from the company, which goes unmentioned in the article. I also haven't done a full spotcheck of sources for copyvio or verifiability, but the first sentence of the body is not verified by the inline citations (none of the citations in the paragraph state that she graduated from Ewha Womans University). ~ F4U (talk • they/it) 20:49, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

• To clarify, I think the Los Angeles Times article provides independent and significant coverage, but the remainder of the Korean sources provide non-independent coverage (as they're re-reporting company press releases). I did a cursory search for Korean language sources but didn't find any sources independent of the subject. ~ F4U (talk • they/it) 21:03, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

1971 Bon Vivant botulism incident

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• ... that the US government burned 60,000 gallons of soup?

• Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/25/archives/impounded-bon-vivant-soup-will-be-burned.html

• • ALT1: ... that a can of soup paralyzed a 64-year-old woman? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/02/archives/botulism-death-in-westchester-brings-hunt-for-soup.html
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: This is the first time I've ever written an article on an event, so I'll take all the constructive criticism I can get. Also, please feel free to submit alternate hooks.

Created by Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk) 02:53, 30 May 2026 (UTC).

• Article is long enough and new enough. Earwig clears. Article is well-written and well-sourced. Hooks are in the article and sourced inline. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 18:53, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

, I've pulled this from the prep. Curtesy pings @Commandant Quacks-a-lot, @TechnoSquirrel69 and @Darth Stabro. TarnishedPath^talk 06:02, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Unrelated to the reason it was pulled, but what makes Richard Prior's YouTube videos a reliable source? Same for Listverse, which got a reception at WP:RSN summed up as "perfect for completely unencyclopedic content". From a simple glance, I don't see anything cited to Listverse which isn't cited to another source, and Vichyssoise seems to have plenty of reliable sources that say exactly the same thing, so I don't exactly see why they are cited. 1brianm7 (talk) 10:30, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

For listiverse, I was unaware it was a bad source. I'll replace it. As for the video, there's not really anything to indicate it's not reliable. -Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk) 14:10, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

• marking this as needing a new review as Commandant Quacks-a-lot has stated that they have fixed all issues (see Special:Diff/1358862662/1358869101). I don't have time to review myself right now. TarnishedPath^talk 23:42, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

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Elections in Antarctica

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• ... that Argentina, Australia, Chile and New Zealand allow their citizens to vote while stationed in Antarctica?
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Created by Gulf of Carpentaria (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Gulf of Carpentaria (talk) 00:06, 29 May 2026 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - There is information in the lead section that is not cited elsewhere in the article (specifically, the third and fifth paragraphs).
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• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - There is some close paraphrasing from https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2019/democracy-in-the-deep-freeze/. According to the website, "This material is copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2025, except where otherwise indicated. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, all other rights are reserved."

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

QPQ: None required.

Overall: @Gulf of Carpentaria: Good work. This is an interesting hook, but there are some issues above that need to be resolved before the nomination can be approved. Epicgenius (talk) 14:16, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing my DYK nomination. I made it after creating my first article, and I knew that new articles could be nominated for ahook in the main page. Even if the hook it doesn't make it to the main page, I now know how the process for it works. Once again, thank you for your time. Gulf of Carpentaria (talk) 19:44, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

@Gulf of Carpentaria: are you going to make any edits to address the issues identified by Epicgenius? TarnishedPath^talk 10:27, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello. I'll pass this time. I prefer to direct my effort to editing and creating other articles. But thank you for reviewing. Gulf of Carpentaria (talk) 12:44, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

The Guitar and Other Machines

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• ... that The Guitar and Other Machines was the first commercially released album on the Digital Audio Tape format?

• Source: https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/durutti-column-guitar-machines-103128/

• • ALT1: ... that the first commercially released album on Digital Audio Tape was The Durutti Column's The Guitar and Other Machines? Source: https://louderthanwar.com/durutti-column-guitar-machines-deluxe-album-review/
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Created by Horsers (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Horsers (talk) 11:51, 28 May 2026 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - no

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

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Both hooks are equally interesting. (The hook fact about the first commercial DAT release is independently worded and fine.) New enough (moved to mainspace from draft on 28 May 2026, nominated the same day; DYKcheck flags this as old, but that's measured from today and the move resets the clock) and long enough at 1,990 characters of prose. QPQ not required (nominator's first nomination). However there are several instances of close paraphrasing that need addressing. 3 outlined here, there may be more:

• "Producer Stephen Street was brought in"
  • Article: "Producer Stephen Street was brought in, who also played the bass on 'English Landscape Tradition'. Street later paved the way for Reilly's role on Morrissey's debut solo album Viva Hate."
  • Source: "Producer Stephen Street was brought in (paving the way for Reilly's crucial role on Morrissey's Viva Hate)" – Uncut
  • Verbatim opening clause.
• "Miranda Stanton ... Pol"
  • Article: "Miranda Stanton of Thick Pigeon contributed vocals, as did Reilly's partner at the time Pol."
  • Source: "Miranda Stanton of Factory label-mates Thick Pigeon contributing these along with Vini's partner of the time Pol" – Louder Than War
  • Clause structure mirrored; "partner of the time Pol" → "partner at the time Pol" is near-verbatim.
• "bonus discs" sentence
  • Article: "with two bonus discs, one featuring associated studio records, and another featuring a live show recording from a show at New York's Bottom Line Club, as well as two tracks live at WOMAD."
  • Source: "associated studio recordings and a live show from the famous Bottom Line club in New York (along with two tracks taped at WOMAD 1988)" – Louder Than War
  • Same elements in the same order, lightly reworded.

I suggest rewriting the affected passages into independent prose rather than patching individual phrases. There may be other examples; I found these 3 and stopped investigating further. RosePickfair 🌹 (talk) 21:35, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 29

Eugene Mori

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• ... that a successful PR campaign convinced voters to rename their city to Cherry Hill, New Jersey, in order to promote the Cherry Hill Inn, a business owned by Eugene Mori?

• Source: "How Cherry Hill got its name If you grew up in South Jersey, you probably already know that Cherry Hill, New Jersey, got its name from the Cherry Hill Farm.", . "Championed by Republican congressman, William T. Cahill, the township resolved to get a post office of its own in 1959. But there was a hitch. A post office named Delaware Township already existed in Hunterdon County. So the Post Office Department insisted that the Camden County township pick a new name. Several names were considered (Barclay, Colestown and Moriville among them), but Cahill threw his support behind the name suggested by the Post Office Department – Deltown. And Deltown was very nearly approved by the township board until Eugene Mori and his publicity director Tommy Roberts went all out to lobby for Cherry Hill.... Roberts who did PR for the race track said he came up with the name Cherry Hill for a simple reason; to publicize the name of the Cherry Hill Inn.... On Nov. 7, 1961 residents voted 5201 to 3700 in favor of adopting the new name of Cherry Hill."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2023 Jetline roller coaster accident

Created by Alansohn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 64 past nominations.

Alansohn (talk) 23:21, 3 June 2026 (UTC).

Missing one QPQ. A second one needs to be done because we are in backlog mode. Nice little article. I lived in Cherry Hill as a young child, so I enjoyed reading this. Article is new enough, long enough, and no copyright violations detected. No issues found. Hook is interesting and verified to the cited reference. I have no major concerns, and can give this approval as is. My only question is, would it be possible to create a lead section and put in a subheading over the body? The structure of the article is technically stub class at the moment on the content assessment scale because of a lack of a defined lead with a subheading over the body. This is not necessarily a deal breaker, but I do think it would prevent a stub tag from being slapped onto the article while its on the main page. Let me known what your preference is Alansohn, and I'll give it the tick of approval either way once a second QPQ is done. Best.4meter4 (talk) 17:45, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

4meter4, I will add the second QPQ review, as requested. I have a bad habit of creating the occasionally section-less article, but I will add, as requested, and as I should have done in the first place. I had known the Delaware Township to Cherry Hill story before, but the details I found in the source seemed rather hook worthy. Thanks for all the effort you put into the review. Alansohn (talk) 22:05, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

@Alansohn: Any movement on that second review?4meter4 (talk) 13:51, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Frankfurt International Airport Terminal 1

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• ... that the first 747 flight to arrive at Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1 was diverted from London Heathrow Airport because of fog?

• Source: "The first 747 to FRA was a complete surprise". A Visual History of the World's Great Airports. 28 January 1970. Retrieved 25 May 2026. https://www.airporthistory.org/blue-concourse/first-747-to-fra

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

Jlittlebigbeard (talk) 13:08, 4 June 2026 (UTC).

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

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

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

QPQ:
Overall: Moved to mainspace by user. QPQ not required as this user's first nomination. Hook is cited and also is very interesting as someone who is into aviation history. Good to go. Toadboy123 (talk) 04:45, 07 June 2026 (UTC)

• Pulling approval @Jlittlebigbeard and Toadboy123: Several sentences at ends of paragraphs are missing citations. Please address these, as well as the Manual of Style-related changes (for example, initial caps in subheads) before this nomination can move forward. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dclemens1971 (talk • contribs) 22:48, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
• Addressed cleanup; would benefit from further cleanup/copyedit after referencing is completed. – Reidgreg (talk) 17:03, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on May 30

Great Smoky Mountains Parkway

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• ... that the Great Smoky Mountains Parkway is the main road that serves the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and related tourist attractions? Source:
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/LGBTQ rights in Santa Catarina
  • Comment: I know this is cutting it close; I intended to nominate this before, but I got busy with something else. But I think it still meets the eligibility criteria, as it was promoted seven days ago.

Improved to Good Article status by Bneu2013 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

Bneu2013 (talk) 23:10, 6 June 2026 (UTC).

• Hi there Bneu2013, I'll review this DYK

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

This is a very good, fascinating and well-written article. No NPOV issues, properly sourced, earwig is 16 percent, Long enough and no issue with May 30 GA approval to June 6 nomination. DYK has one major issue in that it is not WP:DYKINT. I would assume that the parkway has to do with the national park, so it's not particularly interesting or unusual.

There are a lot of great, interesting things in the article. The parkway partly developing from the work of a colonel + Cherokee surveyors during the Civil War, the Christmas light effort, the connection between the national park and Dollywood, etc. Ideally it's less of a fact and more of a factoid. I'd recommend providing a couple options along these lines if you can. Dizzycheekchewer (talk) 22:00, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

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Thomas Bouchier

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• ... that after 40 years as Regius Professor of Civil Law, Thomas Bouchier arranged for his son to succeed him?

• Source: "In 1712 Bouchier did the faculty of law serious harm by arranging for his son James (1683–1736), who was also a civil lawyer, to succeed him as regius professor..." from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Created by 1stViscountessNivlac (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Nivlac, 1st Viscountess Nivlac (talk) 19:03, 2 June 2026 (UTC).

Pfaffenthal explosion

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[[File:|140px|Emergency personnel attending the scene of the explosion]]

Emergency personnel attending the scene of the explosion

• ... that a mistake made by a novice truck driver led to Luxembourg City's "worst catastrophe since the end of World War 2" (aftermath pictured)?

• Source: "Der direkt Verantwortliche, ein (...) gänzlich unerfahrerner Lastwagenfahrer (...) der das tödliche Benzin irrtümlicherweise (...) pumpte..." ("The man directly responsible, an entirely unexperienced truck driver, who released the deadly gasoline by mistake...")
  "Als die schwerste Katastrophe der Stadt Luxemburg in den Nachkriegsjahren bezeichnete (...) Bürgermeister Colette Flesch (...) das Explosionsunglück in Pfaffenthal." ("Mayor Colette Flesch described the explosion in Pfaffenthal as the worst catastrophe in post-war years".)

• • ALT1: ... that a Dutch-inspired social housing development was built on the site of one of Luxembourg's "worst catastrophes in peacetime"? Source: "Das Projekt, das schließlich hier umgesetzt wurde, kam ursprünglich aus den Niederlanden" ("The project that ended up being developed here originally came from the Netherlands".)
    "«Eine der schwersten Katastrophen in Friedenszeiten» - So lautet der Kommentar von Bürgermeister Colette Flesch über die schreckliche Explosionsserie in Pfaffenthal" ("'One of the worst catastrophes in peacetime" - this was what mayor Colette Flesch had to say about the terrible series of explosions in Pfaffenthal")
  • ALT2: ... that a Luxembourgish local interest advocate cited the "destruction" of one neighbourhood's "sociologial fabric" as an indirect consequence of one novice truck driver's mistake? Source: « Une autre conséquence de l’explosion sera une nouvelle recomposition sociale du quartier, assure [le président du Syndicat d’intérêts locaux Pfaffenthal-Siechenhof] Jean-André Stammet. Elle a détruit son tissu sociologique. » ("'Another consequence of the explosion was a sociological recomposition of the neighbourhood', says [Pfaffenthal local advocacy syndicate president] Jean-André Stammet. 'It destroyed its sociological fabric'.")
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  • Comment: I moved this article to the mainspace yesterday after working on it for a while. I hope the multiplicity of non-English sources is not too much of a headache.
    VRT has not yet confirmed the image license, so I am frankly not sure if it is useable. If not, then I suggest to just use Beim Béinchen 03.jpg in case alt1 is selected.

Moved to mainspace by Procrastineur49 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Procrastineur (talk) 17:24, 31 May 2026 (UTC).

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Articles created/expanded on May 31

Gowganda Formation

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Gowganda Formation visible from Ontario Highway 11

• ... that the Gowganda Formation (pictured) in Ontario is one of the world's best-preserved, best-exposed, and oldest glacial deposits?

• Source: Kennedy, Kirsten; Eyles, Nicholas (2025-02-01). "The Paleoproterozoic (c. 2.3 Ga) Gowganda Formation: Deep water, glacially-influenced debrites and related mass flow along a passive margin". Earth-Science Reviews. 261. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.105033. ISSN 0012-8252.; Eyles, Nick (2002). Ontario Rocks. Fitzhenry & Whiteside. p. 203. ISBN 1-55041-619-7.

• • ALT1: ... that outcrops of a 2.3 billion-year-old glacial deposit (pictured) are visible from major highways in Northeastern Ontario? Source: Eyles, Nick (2013). Road Rocks Ontario: Over 250 Geological Wonders to Discover. Fitzhenry & Whiteside. pp. 443–5. ISBN 978-1-55041-859-0.
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  • Comment: Apologies for nominating late – I always intended to nominate this for DYK, but I was focusing on other projects and forgot about it until now. This is only one day past the standard seven-day cutoff, so may I humbly ask a small extension be made as is sometimes allowable? Thanks.

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

Cremastra (talk · contribs) 20:17, 8 June 2026 (UTC).

• You're good given the grace period at WP:DYKNEW. I'll review this. ミラP@Miraclepine 15:36, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

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

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

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - Since I can't access the Eyles source, need quotes for these per WP:DYKCITE.
• Interesting: - ALT0 is a superlative hook supported by multiple sources, but none of the claims in the lede are backed by more than one. ALT1 is fine BTW and I prefer that over ALT0.
• Other problems: - ALT1 says "2.3" but page says "2.3 or 2.4". Maybe just say "two billion"? ALT1 says "major highways" but only Highway 17 is mentioned.

Image eligibility:

• Freely licensed:
• Used in article:
• Clear at 100px: - While the pic meets the 140px cutoff, it doesn't show that it's on the road, but gives an impression that it was taken on foot, so it's not completely clear. None of the images in commons:Category:Glacially striated tillite outcrop (Gowganda Formation in Ontario) are any better. I'm ambivalent on this since it still depicts the subject; I just won't mind if a promoter declines to show the image.

QPQ: - None yet.
Overall: Created eight days before nom, but within the one/two day grace period. Length 4961 B. Had to make a few minor changes per core content policies. Fixed a typo in ALT1, allowed per WP:DYKRR's [d] footnote. Image is licensed CC-BY 2.0 and from a Ohio State geologist's Flickr.@Cremastra: address the issues and you're good to go. ミラP@Miraclepine 17:33, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments.

"ALT1 says "2.3" but page says "2.3 or 2.4"." 2.3 Ga seems to be the more widely-accepted date; I might actually remove 2.4 Ga from the text altogether, since it seems to be the result of older estimates.

"ALT1 says "major highways" but only Highway 17 is mentioned." Also from Highway 11 per the infobox image; I can add Highway 11 in-text as I believe it's cited in Road Rocks Ontario.

Re the image, the description of the file says it is from a Highway 11 roadcut. The cited coordinates are also directly on the road.

The quotes: Ontario Rocks p. 203: "In 1905, Coleman was instrumental in discovering one of the oldest glacial deposits on Earth at Gowganda in Northern Ontario. Dated at 2.3 billion years old, it..."

Road Rocks Ontario: "Outcrops of the distinctive diamictites of the Gowganda Formation can be seen in many road cuts across a broad area of northern Ontario, all the way from Elliot Lake northeastward to New Liskeard. Excellent outcrops occur on Highway 108 [...] just east of Highway 11 near New Liskeard [...] Many outcrops of these distinctive and very important rocks can be seen along Highway 17 between Thessalon and Espanola, and in the area of Whitefish Falls on Highway 6 south of Espanola." (pp. 444–5)

Cremastra (talk · contribs) 19:49, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

@Cremastra: On the first two replies: per WP:DYKHOOK the article must be changed accordingly to address the issues with the hook. And thanks for the quotes. The issue with ALT0 still isn't addressed though, so I still prefer ALT1. ミラP@Miraclepine 04:03, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

2026 CONCACAF Champions Cup final

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• ... that Toluca FC won penalty shootouts in two finals against the same team in less than twelve months?

• Source: (Spanish): Sin embargo, enfrente tendrán a un Tigres que llega con sed de revancha y cuentas pendientes. Los regiomontanos aún tienen fresca la herida de la final del Apertura 2025 [December 2025] de la Liga MX, cuando cayeron precisamente ante Toluca en el Nemesio Diez, luego de una dramática tanda de penales. / (English): However, they will face a Tigres side hungry for revenge and with a score to settle. The Monterrey team still remembers the wound of the 2025 Liga MX Apertura [December 2025] final, when they fell to Toluca at the Nemesio Diez stadium after a dramatic penalty shootout. OEM

• • ALT1: ... that Toluca FC recently won its first international title in 23 years? Source: Goalkeeper Luis García's shootout heroics lifted Toluca past UANL Tigres on Saturday, securing the club's first CONCACAF Champions Cup title in 23 years. ESPN
  • ALT2: ... that the 2026 CONCACAF Champions Cup final drew higher viewership in North America than the 2026 UEFA Champions League final, which aired the same day? Source: (Spanish): La Final de la CONCACAF Champions Cup entre Toluca y Tigres, transmitida en exclusiva por FOX, registró una audiencia total de 1.9 millones de espectadores a través de señales de televisión de paga y FOX One, consolidándose como uno de los eventos deportivos más vistos del fin de semana ... Por su parte, la Final de la UEFA Champions League entre Paris Saint-Germain y Arsenal alcanzó una audiencia de 360 mil espectadores [por Fox One y Canal FOX en Norteamérica]. / (English): The CONCACAF Champions Cup Final between Toluca and Tigres, broadcast exclusively on FOX, registered a total audience of 1.9 million viewers across pay television channels and FOX One, solidifying its position as one of the most-watched sporting events of the weekend ... Meanwhile, the UEFA Champions League Final between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal reached an audience of 360,000 viewers (on Fox One and FOX Channel in North America). MedioTiempo
  • ALT3: ... that Mexico's Toluca FC recently qualified for its first FIFA Club World Cup? Source: (Spanish): Toluca disputará por primera vez el Mundial de Clubes de la FIFA en su formato ampliado de 2029. / (English): Toluca will compete for the first time in the FIFA Club World Cup in its expanded format in 2029. Excelsior
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sterling Dietz + Template:Did you know nominations/Grayson McCall
  • Comment: Currently nominated for ITN but currently in no consensus, leaning towards no.

5x expanded by Morogris (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 117 past nominations.

Morogris (✉ • ✎) 04:15, 2 June 2026 (UTC).

• Morogris You may have missed that backlog mode was activated on 1 June; a second QPQ is required for this nomination. Thanks. Dclemens1971 (talk) 11:42, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Tortilla, History of the tortilla

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Corn tortillas

• ... that the tortilla (pictured) has been eaten for thousands of years, but has only been considered a national dish of Mexico since the 20th century?

• Source: The twentieth century ushered in a new context in the social life of the tortilla [...] and created a context in which an emerging middle class re-appropriated the tortilla as a symbol of national identity.

• • ALT1: ... that tortillas were first eaten by the Spanish when they met Aztec ambassadors, who attempted to give some to the horses before being informed that horses ate grass? Source: Quoted in : The ambassador then ordered that the food be placed in front of the newcomers and their horses, and in their ingenuous manner they gave [...] a basket of tortillas for the master and another for the animal. This was done until they were told that the beasts ate only corn and grass and soon the Aztec envoys provided the animals with the latter.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jean Varraud, Template:Did you know nominations/Israel D. Andrews, Template:Did you know nominations/Julien Nuijten, Template:Did you know nominations/2026 state visit by Donald Trump to China
  • Comment: ALT1 could perhaps run as an image hook with a cropped version of File:Lienzo de Tlaxcala panel 28.jpg, though I'm unsure if it could be visible at the small size.

5x expanded by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 4. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 65 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 22:08, 1 June 2026 (UTC).

• I take, will review in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 13:25, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

@Vigilantcosmicpenguin: Long enough, new enough. Double QPQs are needed per new nomination, not per article, and as such you only need three QPQs. Earwig is clean. Shame the article was split as a merged article would be below the 10,000 words WP:CANYOUREADTHIS suggests an article should be split at, but I'm sure there's another policy I'm missing. I prefer ALT0, but the hook says 'national dish' and the article and source say 'national symbol' - are they the same thing?--Launchballer 11:40, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

• @Launchballer: I split the article sort of preemptively, as I plan on expanding the articles a bit more (eventually). I believe it's getting long enough that it might become difficult to read, even if it doesn't quite reach 10,000 words. I have no stance on the use of the phrase "national dish" vs "national symbol"; we use the phrase "national symbol" in the article, so it makes sense to change the hook to the same phrasing. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 21:17, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Mark Rosenblatt

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• ... that Mark Rosenblatt still reads Roald Dahl's books to his children, despite Rosenblatt's play Giant depicting Dahl's antisemitism?

• Source: "Does he read Dahl’s stories to his children? Absolutely. “When I read his works to my five-year-old son...""

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Brandon Fellows

Moved to mainspace by Max263 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

Max263 (talk • contribs) 14:37, 31 May 2026 (UTC).

• Comment. @Max263: If the claims made in the hook are not discussed at all in the boldlinked article (in this case Mark Rosenblatt), the hook is ineligible for DYK. Cielquiparle (talk) 22:52, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

@Cielquiparle: Please see from Personal life section: Despite his play Giant depicting the antisemitic views held by Roald Dahl, Rosenblatt still reads Dahl's children stories to his sons. Max263 (talk • contribs) 05:27, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

@Max263: There it is! It matches the hook claim word for word but explains little else. How do we know this is the case? Did he say it in an interview, perhaps? Can you provide a bit more context in that section and also in the career section regarding the play? Cielquiparle (talk) 05:40, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

@Cielquiparle: Yes, it was shared in Times interview above (which i have now credited in article) and two others which are also cited. I will add more context about the play to the article later :) Do you think the hook itself requires more context? Max263 (talk • contribs) 06:37, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Have added further context to the article. Max263 (talk • contribs) 17:18, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Abchanchu

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Character from the Diablada, at the carnival at Oruro, Bolivia. The dance has roots in the legend of Abchanchu.

• ... that if you are walking alone in the Andes Mountains at night, you might be accosted by a shapeshifting Aymaran creature that may suck your blood?

• Source: "El antropólogo Milton Eyzaguirre dice que el anchanchu es el ser maligno más importante de la mitología aymara. [...] Es un ser que chupa la sangre del corazón o de los labios de la gente." [translation: The anthropologist Milton Eyzaguirre says that the anchanchu is the most important evil being of Aymara mythology. [...] It is a being that sucks the blood from people's heart or lips."] From:

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5x expanded by Slava570 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Slava570 (talk) 11:52, 31 May 2026 (UTC).

• Hook violates MOS:YOU, although that does seem like a rule we can bend. Suggest as backup ALT0a: ... that solo night-time walkers of the Andes sometimes have their blood sucked by a shapeshifting Aymaran creature?--Launchballer 12:09, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
• Comment I may do a full review sometime soon, but are the images in the article particularly relevant? I've already deleted one as it has little relevance to the subject. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 02:25, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

@Kepler-1229b: I don't think either hook could run as currently written, since they talk of mythical or legendary creatures as fact in Wikivoice. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:50, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

What if it was something like:ALT0b (hopefully labeled correctly) ... that solo nighttime walkers in the Andes sometimes fear a shapeshifting Aymaran creature will accost them and suck their blood? Slava570 (talk) 17:21, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

That works. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:07, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on June 1

Androgynos (mythology)

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Illustration of an androgynous person in the Nuremberg Chronicles

• ... that androgynoi (example pictured) were primordial beings according to Plato's myth?

• Source: https://vehi.net/berdyaev/tvorch/08.html

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  • Comment: an ALT can be about Herodotus mention.

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

Web-julio (talk) 20:19, 3 June 2026 (UTC).

Candace Bahouth

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• ... that Candace Bahouth wove a specially commissioned tapestry for the cover of the Radio Times commemorative Silver Jubilee issue?

• Source: "An indication of the level of effort put into all these covers, is this amazing cover from 1977. Not an illustration, it’s a real tapestry, made by Candace Bahouth and commissioned by then art editor David Driver." Cowles

• • ALT1: ... that the Moorcroft pottery company commissioned Candace Bahouth to create a mosaic picture of the factory, using pieces of broken stock? Source: "A Moorcroft director saw the windowsill and commissioned me to do a mosaic picture of the Stoke-on-Trent factory with wine bottle chimneys using old Moorcroft shards." The Bath Magazine
  • ALT2: ... that Ed Sheeran stayed at the house of the contemporary artist Candace Bahouth during the 2011 Glastonbury Festival? Source: ""I also do a B&B in my cottage. Four years ago I had Arthur Brown and Ed Sheeran stay. Ed wasn't a big deal then; he was thrilled as he'd just had a number three [hit]. Arthur just said, 'Oh yeah? Well, I've had a number one.'" The Independent
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  • Comment: hello! I am newish to Wikipedia, apologies if I have misunderstood anything in the process.

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

Obleronet (talk) 09:28, 3 June 2026 (UTC).

Darializa Avila Chevalier

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• ... that Darializa Avila Chevalier is the only challenger to outraise an incumbent U.S. representative in New York City so far in 2026?

• Source: https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/05/15/espaillat-avila-chevalier-primary-ny13

• • Reviewed: [[]]
  • Comment: Hello, thought this was a cool fact about a challenger to a well established incumbent politician. First submission here so I welcome your input!

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

Edittttor (talk) 21:06, 2 June 2026 (UTC).

• Not a review (or planning to atm), but per WP:DYKELECT this cannot run until after the primary on June 23. ミラP@Miraclepine 22:02, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

• Good to know. It could still be reviewed and make its way through the process before then though. Edittttor (talk) 22:55, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

James Buchanan Sr.

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• ... that James Buchanan's father was the wealthiest man in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania?

• Source: Jean H. Baker writes in James Buchanan (ISBN 978-0-8050-6946-4) that "Buchanan [Sr.] uprooted...to a...home...in Mercersburg... soon [he] was the richest man in town" (pp 11-12).

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

Rand Freeman _{talk ⬩ in solidarity} 03:08, 2 June 2026 (UTC).

• I withdraw this nomination, realising that this is an exceptional claim and that there are no other claims in the article that are particularly interesting or surprising. Rand Freeman _{talk ⬩ in solidarity} 06:36, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

@RandFreeman: James Buchanan is currently being reviewed at GA, and I intend on driveby nominating that if it passes. This can easily be bolted on to the front of that hook. Are you sure you want to withdraw?--Launchballer 11:16, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Actually, no, @Launchballer. I'll withdraw my withdrawal for now, and wait until the review completes of James Buchanan to see whether this nomination has a chance. Rand Freeman _{talk ⬩ in solidarity} 13:53, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

• In the meantime I've thought up an ALT1: ... that James Buchanan's father died in a carriage accident? Source: Philip Shriver Klein writes in President James Buchanan (can be found at the Internet Archive) that "Buchanan's father died ... when the horse [pulling his carriage] bolted" (p. 37).

But I am not sure how interesting this is, because carriage accidents were far from rare in this time period. Rand Freeman _{talk ⬩ in solidarity} 03:35, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

It's marginally interesting to me, though suggest spelling out that Buchanan was a president. I'll let a reviewer adjudicate. (Note that per my talk page, I won't be nominating the president's article myself, but do watchlist the GA nomination anyway.)--Launchballer 20:14, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Light Up the Night (Protomen song)

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• ... that the music video for "Light Up the Night" was pitched to the Protomen by writer John Sebastian La Valle at one of their performances?

• Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-orlando-sentinel-orlando-designer-br/196117150/

• • ALT1: ... that "Light Up the Night" has been described as the signature song of the 80s film and Mega Man inspired rock opera by the Protomen? Source: https://www.museumofplay.org/blog/light-up-the-night-with-mega-man-rock/
  • ALT2: ... that the music video for "Light Up the Night" includes visual references to The Terminator, Blade Runner, Aliens, Escape from New York, and Kilroy Was Here? Source: https://mediacommons.org/imr/content/light-night-and-bands-pivot-videogame-fandom-80s-nostalgia
  • ALT3: ... that the Protomen released a 16-minute short film to serve as the official music video to "Light Up the Night" 7 years after the song's initial release? Source: https://consequence.net/2016/09/first-look-the-protomens-16-minute-short-film-light-up-the-night/
  • ALT4: ... that the Protomen appear as both characters and in-universe narrators in the music video for "Light Up the Night"? Source: https://consequence.net/2016/09/first-look-the-protomens-16-minute-short-film-light-up-the-night/
  • ALT5: ... that "Light Up the Night" marked a turning point in the narrative and style for the Protomen and was later called back to in Act III: This City Made Us? Source: https://www.museumofplay.org/blog/light-up-the-night-with-mega-man-rock/ ; https://thelivewire.com.au/2026/01/20/album-review-the-protomen-act-iii-this-city-made-us/
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: My apologies if I've added too many alts for review.

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

PBugaboo (talk) 23:53, 1 June 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on June 2

Punks Triangle

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• ... that the creator of Punks Triangle came up with the story's concept because she thought men wearing punk fashion were "cute"?

• Source: Hon Hikidashi (link): "パントラは完全にキャラクターデザインからできた漫画です。パンク系ファッションの男の子同士ってかわいいなとぼんやり思っていて、その二人が登場するなら服飾系学校を舞台にするといいんじゃないかという感じでできました。[Punks Triangle is a manga that I created completely from character designs. I was vaguely thinking that men wearing punk fashion was cute, and if the two characters were going to make an appearance, I felt that a fashion college was a good setting.]"

• • ALT1: ... that the creator of Punks Triangle set the story at a fashion college because the characters wore punk fashion? Source: see above
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sparkle (Honkai: Star Rail), Template:Did you know nominations/Happy Foot Sad Foot sign

Created by Lullabying (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 77 past nominations.

lullabying (talk) 07:23, 3 June 2026 (UTC).

• General:
  • New enough? Yes.
  • Long enough? Yes.
  • Cited hook? Yes, 1 problem
• Article:
  • Copyvio? 2%, OK
  • Non-free images: OK
  • Verifiable? Yes.
  • Neutral? Yes.
• QPQ done?: Yes.

Overall: I prefer ALT0. The order of events in ALT1 sounds weirdly circular. I understand what it's saying based on the origin of the manga, but it sounds a little off to me. The problem I have is with the author's pronoun being "she". I have trouble finding sources on this as the author has no article and mangaka are known for being secretive about their personal lives. If there's no information about this, it might be easier to just fall back to "because they thought". --Gert7 (talk · contribs) 18:37, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

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• ... that Sega approved a a social media manager's idea to murder their mascot?

• Source: https://kotaku.com/murder-of-sonic-the-hedgehog-mystery-game-free-steam-1850344140

• • ALT1: ... that two characters were excluded from The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog as they were considered too young to participate in a murder mystery game? Source: https://kotaku.com/murder-of-sonic-the-hedgehog-mystery-game-free-steam-1850344140
  • Reviewed:

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

IngeniousPachyderm (talk) 14:18, 2 June 2026 (UTC).

• ALT0 won't work because Sonic is a fictional character and can always be brought back. There is one exception to that and that's WP:DYKAPRIL, for which I suggest ALT2: ... that the murder of Sonic the Hedgehog was received positively by fans of his series?--Launchballer 14:26, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
  • @Laun I am good with ALT2 or ALT1, but it may need to be reworded, otherwise it may look odd that "the murder" isn't capitalized as it is in the game title. Perhaps ALT3: ... that the death of Sonic the Hedgehog was received positively by fans of his series? IngeniousPachyderm (talk) 21:22, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

DYKAPRIL explicitly gets us out of having to capitalise it. See the bottom of Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2026/April.--Launchballer 23:55, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer Just took a look and you're right, I see that is the case with multiple DYK submissions there. I am good to go with ALT2. Thank you. IngeniousPachyderm (talk) 01:09, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on June 3

John Gauntlett, Charles Mompesson

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• ... that John Gauntlett was defeated in an election by his next-door neighbour, Charles Mompesson?

• Source: D. W. Hayton. "GAUNTLETT, John (c.1643-1719), of Netherhampton, and Hungerford's Chantry, the Close, Salisbury, Wilts". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 June 2026.

"In the election of that year he and William Nicholas* (third son of Sir John) stood on the Tory interest at Wilton, only to be defeated by Gauntlett’s next-door neighbour in Salisbury, Charles Mompesson*, and another Whig."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tingyun
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Raúl Osiel Marroquín

Moved to mainspace by GoldenBootWizard276 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 18:51, 4 June 2026 (UTC).

• Comment: GoldenBootWizard276, please note you will need to supply a second QPQ because this is a double nomination. Thanks. Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:44, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: Done. GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 20:09, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

I take, will review in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 20:14, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Lots to whinge about here I'm afraid @GoldenBootWizard276:. The two QPQs are not complete because they do not mention copyright or whether the hooks verify, but I'll accept them as you're new. Articles are new enough and technically long enough, although neither deserve lead sections and removing them will take them under 1500. Earwig is clean. Gauntlett contains uncited content, please reference. What makes either of these two meet WP:GNG, given that they each comprise two sources with one used for not very much at all?--Launchballer 23:41, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Some more sources have been added. GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 07:24, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Iron Bridge, Lucknow, Amjad Ali Shah

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Iron Bridge circa 1874

• ... that the first iron bridge in India (pictured) was assembled during the reign of Amjad Ali Shah?
  • ALT1: ... that one of the earliest iron bridges in India (pictured) was assembled during the reign of Amjad Ali Shah?
  • Sources: Ways and Works in India (1894), p. 94 Quote: "Another very early example of an iron road bridge is the singular but pleasing structure built over the Gumti at Lucknow." (Note: The first example discussed in that chapter is the Sagar Iron Suspension Bridge which opened in 1830, 15 years before the iron bridge in Lucknow...Most modern sources simply refer to the old iron bridge in Lucknow as the "first iron bridge in India", which is technically incorrect if you go by completion date...hence the revised wording in the hook to say "one of the earliest".)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna Inc., Template:Did you know nominations/Leon Milton Birkhead, Template:Did you know nominations/Evie MacDonald, Template:Did you know nominations/Riverside–West 105th Street Historic District
  • Comment: Still adding more information to article to back up "first" claim. Update: Now added above.

Created and 5x expanded by Cielquiparle (talk). Number of QPQs required: 4. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 83 past nominations.

Cielquiparle (talk) 03:19, 3 June 2026 (UTC).

• I take, will review in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 11:00, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Long enough, new enough. Backlog mode requires an extra QPQ per nomination, not per article, and as such I've checked the first three only. Earwig is clean. I'll check the hook another time.--Launchballer 11:47, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

I can't access any of the three sources for the first claim. It does seem like a 'they're complex enough that missing one would be difficult', but is there a source about that lists all of them?--Launchballer 19:03, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Working on it. Will excerpt all the relevant passages either way. So far it is solid that this was the first iron bridge. It is the numbering of all the bridges afterwards that is unclear. Cielquiparle (talk) 04:36, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Have struck ALT0 and proposed ALT1 with cited source and explanation. (Also started a new article about the other very early iron bridge.) Cielquiparle (talk) 02:14, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on June 5

When the shepherd lost his sheep

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• ... that in some versions of the musical poem When the shepherd lost his sheep, the shepherd loses his flock as punishment for violating pastoral taboos, such as visiting a lover?

• Source: Habenicht (1968). p.236: "Ciobanului îi erau astfel interzise raporturile sexuale; era oprit pînă şi de la participarea la jocul satului. Femeia a fost oprită să păşească la stînă."; p.237: "Pierderea oilor este aici explicată prin plecarea ciobanului de la stînă în sat, unde a dormit, probabil, la vreo iubită."

• • ALT1: ... that a version of the Romanian folk poem When the shepherd lost his sheep was recorded in 1986 on a piece of birch bark used as a musical instrument? Source: Bogos, Procopie (1990a). "Молдавский музыкальный фольклор" [Moldavian musical folklore]. melody.su (in Russian) https://melody.su/catalog/folklore/64790/; see also Nechiforeac, Teodor & Scorpan 2009, p. 128.: "Cînd ciobanul şi-a pierdut oile: legendă / interp. Procopie Bogos, coajă de mesteacăn (s. Buţeni)."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lazăr Sfera
  • Comment: The article received GA status on June 5, 2026

Created by Iurii.s (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

Iurii.s (talk) 15:21, 9 June 2026 (UTC).

• Not a full review, but this won't be able to proceed until a QPQ is provided. Dclemens1971 (talk) 17:44, 9 June 2026 (UTC) QPQ now provided. Dclemens1971 (talk) 21:12, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Eom Heung-do

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• ... that Eom Heung-do, a local official of the Joseon dynasty, secretly buried the body of King Danjong despite King Sejo's threats to kill the family of anyone who does so?

• Source: 1. Seoul Economy "엄흥도는 세조에게 내쳐진 단종이 1457년 영월에서 죽임을 당하자 ‘시신을 거두면 삼족을 멸하겠다’는 세조의 서슬 퍼런 어명에도 불구하고 단종의 시신을 수습해 장례를 치렀다." (When King Danjong, who had been deposed by King Sejo, was put to death in Yeongwol in 1457, Eom Heung-do recovered and buried Danjong’s body despite Sejo’s stern royal decree that anyone who collected the body would face the extermination of three generations of their family.) 2. entry on Eom Heung-do in Encyclopedia of Korean Culture "영월의 호장으로" (as the hojang of Yeongwol)

• ALT1: ... that a Korean figure born in 1404 is the main character of a 2026 film?

• Source: 1. Kukhak Yeongu Nonchong "조선 태종 甲申(1404)生으로" (born in Gapsin year (1404) during Taejong of Joseon) 2. Hankyoreh "극 중 주인공 엄흥도" (main character of the film Eom Heung-do)

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

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

KimYubin (talk) 11:40, 6 June 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on June 6

Robert A. Ellison Jr.

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• ... that Robert A. Ellison Jr. donated more than 600 ceramic works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a gift valued at over $15 million?

• Source: Cited in ARTnews (Battaglia, 2021) and The New York Times (Vogel, 2009) within the article text.

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  • Comment: Note to Reviewer: I am requesting a minor extension of the 7-day rule. The article was moved to mainspace on June 8th, and as a new editor, I am still learning the DYK submission process. Given the significance of the subject's 600-piece gift to the Met, I hope an "IAR" extension of 48 hours is acceptable. This is my first DYK nomination, so I am exempt from the QPQ requirement.

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

Izzynova (talk) 22:34, 16 June 2026 (UTC).

Izzynova, thank you for an interesting life, art and collection, given in generosity! I have no problem with nominating a bit late, for a first-timer: welcome to DYK! In the hook, I'd like something such as "his collection", otherwise I'd think it's his creations. The value estimate has two references given but I can't find a value mentioned in any of those. The following sentence in the article, about a "great depository", needs a reference. Please place the daughter to her mother, - the "survived by" phrasing is not Wikipedia style. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:15, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Until Dawn 2

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• ... that Until Dawn 2 features a new cast, but brings back Peter Stormare as Dr. Hill from the first Until Dawn?

• Source: PlayStation Blog describes Until Dawn 2 as a standalone sequel "featuring a brand new cast" and states that Dr. Hill returns, "played once again" by Peter Stormare.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Phạm Đoan Trang

Moved to mainspace by Umais Bin Sajjad (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Umais🗣 20:41, 11 June 2026 (UTC).

• @Umais Bin Sajjad: Full review to follow, but for now, I would suggest proposing new hooks as the current one is mainly targeted towards Until Dawn fans rather than the general public. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:52, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

  Thanks for the review. I have proposed two ALT hooks that should be clearer to readers unfamiliar. I think ALT2 may be the strongest but your call. Umais🗣 20:13, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

  ALT1: ... that the ghost hunters in Until Dawn 2 stage fake paranormal videos before encountering real horrors?

  Source: PlayStation Blog states that the game's characters run a paranormal channel, that their scares are staged, and that they later face real horrors.

  ALT2: ... that in Until Dawn 2, the player's choices can decide whether every main character survives or dies?

  Source: Shacknews reported that the trailer states "every character can live or die based on player decisions."

To be honest, I'm not really sure if either hook is interesting to a broad audience. ALT1, probably not, ALT2 is marginal. I may have to ask for a second opinion on ALT2 within the next few days. I'll get to the full review soon. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:34, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Fair enough, thanks. I do not see a stronger hook beyond what I proposed. ALT2 is probably the best of the available options, but I understand if you find it marginal. I'll leave it for your full review or a second opinion rather than keep adding weaker hooks. Umais🗣 05:56, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Really dislike all the ones you have, sorry. DS (talk) 05:06, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

C. W. Kim

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• ... that Korean-American architect C. W. Kim frequently stayed seperated from his family throughout the Korean War? Source: https://goldsea.com/Personalities/Inspiring/kimcw.html
  • ALT1: ... that architect C. W. Kim produced the master plan for San Diego Convention Center? Source: Biberman, Thor Kamban (November 13, 2000). "Kim's Influence Seen in San Diego's Skyline". San Diego Daily Transcript. Vol. 111, no. 226. pp. A1, A10.
  • Reviewed:

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

Yelps ᘛ⁠⁐̤⁠ᕐ⁠ᐷ critique me 11:48, 9 June 2026 (UTC).

• Not a review, but the Wikipedia article says that his birthday is on August 3 while the Goldsea article says that he was born on August 6. What is correct? KimYubin (talk) 14:13, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Oops, an oversight on my part, sorry (to be honest this was my first attempt at reviewing a GA nom, so I definitely made some mistakes and oversights. So this DYK also serves the purpose of hopefully polishing the article) — Yelps ᘛ⁠⁐̤⁠ᕐ⁠ᐷ critique me 15:58, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Recent GA, so easily passes spotchecks, QPQ not needed. But ALT0 is meh - the same could be said about most soldiers who participated in this (or any other) war. ALT1 is also meh for me, since it refers to a specific building. Better, but most folks don't know about it and it doesn't sound special. But how about a hook based on the claim from the article that "Kim is responsible for the design of a number of San Diego buildings"? Although the fact that none of them are blue linked in the paragraph is a minor annoyance; Scripps Clinic and Research is linked later, in a list that contains entries that are not in the prose earlier. I'd strongly suggested reworking the article so that a list of his buildings in one place. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:34, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Edmonds International

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• ... that a hotel designed by Edmonds International was modelled referencing Mayan cosmology?

• Source: "The residential areas of the resort are semi-circular, while the public areas are circular with courtyards in the middle that hold amenities. According to the studio, the circular program was influenced by Mayan cosmology. 'Its architecture stems from organic integration within the geometry of the mangrove where it's situated and the Mayan idea of ​​following the Pleiades formation centering its structures,' said Edmonds International." Dezeen

• • ALT1: ... that according to Travel + Leisure magazine, a resort designed by Edmonds International has the largest penthouse in North America? Source: The Sky Rooftop Villa, at 27,000 square feet, is the largest penthouse suite in North America ... The 192-room Edition, a design collaboration between Ian Schrager Company, Rockwell Group, and architecture firm Edmonds International, is reminiscent of something from a James Bond film. Travel + Leisure
  • ALT2: ... that a hotel and resort designed by Edmonds International were constructed above a mangrove forest? Source: In order to tread lightly on the delicate mangrove swamp during construction, Edmonds Architecture studio Edmonds International has created a hotel near Playa del Carmen in Mexico that comprises a series of interlocking circular forms embedded in a mangrove forest. Dezeen The upscale 182-room resort [The Riviera Maya EDITION at Kanai], designed by architect Michael Edmonds of Edmonds International, was built with an eye to reducing environmental impact, situated within a mangrove forest and featuring design elements inspired by the sacred Mayan underworld. The Hollywood Reporter
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Unlimited Intimacy + Template:Did you know nominations/División del Norte metro station

Moved to mainspace by Morogris (talk) and DrKResearch (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 119 past nominations.

Morogris (✉ • ✎) 23:48, 6 June 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on June 7

Wrest Park

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• ... that after designing the house at Wrest Park, Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey, became the first president of the Royal Institute of British Architects?

• Source: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-11565?rskey=B015wX&result=1

• • ALT1: ... that when leasing Wrest Park, US ambassador to Great Britain, Whitelaw Reid, wrote to President Theodore Roosevelt sharing the details of his shooting excursions? Source: https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o60187/
  • Reviewed:

Improved to Good Article status by LateFatherKarma (talk) and KJP1 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

LateFatherKarma (talk) 12:32, 14 June 2026 (UTC).

P. & C. Garnett Ltd

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• ... that P. & C. Garnett Ltd, based in Cleckheaton, patented the metallic carding wire in the 19th century, giving rise to the industrial textile recycling term 'Garnetting'?

• Source: The hook facts are verified by inline citations [1], [2], and [3] in the article's introduction and History sections:

- Location (Cleckheaton) and company background: Verified by Citations [1] and [2].

- Inventions and rise of the term 'Garnetting': Verified by Citation [3], which supports the text: "The widespread adoption of their machinery in the textile recycling industry led to the mechanical process of recovering fibers being generically known as 'garnetting'."

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

AnthonyWatkiss (talk) 08:24, 8 June 2026 (UTC).

• AnthonyWatkiss, thank you for submitting this to DYK. This is not a full review, but I have a hard time seeing this hook as intriguing to a reasonably broad audience without specialist knowledge as required by WP:DYKINT since it seems to require knowledge of textile manufacturing processes. Do you have any other alternative hooks to suggest? Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:35, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

St Helena Hospice

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• ... that St Helena Hospice raised £70,000 in its first half-marathon?

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" St Helena Hospice has now raised in the region of £70,000 for the charity with 670 people taking part."

• ALT1: ... that a group called the "Wrinkled Wheels" cycled from Land's End to John o' Groats raising money for St Helena Hospice?

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" A GROUP of men are taking on the "ultimate cycling challenge" from Land’s End to John o’ Groats to help St Helena Hospice."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Steven Roberts (actor)

Moved to mainspace by GoldenBootWizard276 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 06:23, 8 June 2026 (UTC).

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Shahar Nakav

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• ... that Israeli footballer Shahar Nakav played in the 2015 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in memory of her older sister, who had lost her battle with cancer earlier that year?

• Source: ynet

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

SuperJew (talk) 10:57, 7 June 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on June 8

My Oshi Is Now My Boss

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• ... that Masayoshi Ōishi, who composed the theme songs for the live-action adaptation of My Oshi Is Now My Boss, also made guest appearances on the show?

• Source: Natalie (link): 鈴木愛理が主演を務めるテレビドラマ「推しが上司になりまして フルスロットル」に、高野洸、ゆりやんレトリィバァ、オーイシマサヨシ、末吉9太郎が出演することが明らかに。[It has been revealed that Akira Takano, Yuriyan Retriever, Masayoshi Ōishi, and 9taro Sueyoshi will be making an appearance in My Oshi Is Now My Boss: Full Throttle, the television drama starring Airi Suzuki.] また主題歌となる「一生☆キミ推し」は、オーイシが大石昌良名義で手がけた楽曲。[Once again, the theme song is "Isshun Kimi Oshi" is composed by Ōishi under the name Masayoshi Ōishi (in kanji).]

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Murasaki Shion, Template:Did you know nominations/Happy Foot Sad Foot sign

Created by Lullabying (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 78 past nominations.

lullabying (talk) 08:12, 15 June 2026 (UTC).

Vitiges

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Ostrogothic King Vitiges

• ... that Vitiges (pictured) divorced his wife to marry by force the granddaughter of Theodoric the Great to strengthen his legitimacy as the king of Ostrogoths?

• Source: Wolfram, Herwig (1988). History of the Goths p.344 But his plan of clan association through personal suitability also demanded that as the new king he give up his advantageous position and move to Ravenna, seize the royal city, and marry Matasuntha, Theodoric’s granddaughter. ... But Vitigis had strengthened his army, he had prevented a war on two fronts with a timely treaty, and he had won the royal city together with the royal child Matasuntha: ... Perhaps she was also annoyed because her royal consort had repudiated his first wife.
  Kovács, Tamás (2019). "Procopius's Sibyl – The Fall of Vitigis and the Ostrogoths" pp. 121-122 Vitigis’s first action was to depart from Rome to Ravenna, where he forced Matasuntha into marriage because he believed that a tie with Theodoric’s family could make his reign more stable. Vitigis was the fifth king of the Ostrogoths, however, his legitimacy was based on Theodoric’s granddaughter, Matasuntha.

• • ALT1: ... that the king of Ostrogoths Vitiges (pictured) wrote a letter to Belisarius urging him to accept becoming the emperor of the Western Roman Empire effectively ending his own reign? Source: Bury, John Bagnell (1958). History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian. Vol. 2 p.212 The regime of Witigis had discredited Ostrogothic royalty, and they would feel no repugnance to submitting to the direct authority of a western Emperor residing at Rome or Ravenna, if that Emperor were Belisarius, whom they deeply respected both as a soldier and as a just man. They entertained no doubts that he would eagerly accept the offer of a throne. ... When these clandestine negotiations came to the of knowledge Witigis, he himself resigned to the situation and sent a secret to Belisarius message urging him to accept the offer.
  • ALT2: ... that the king of Ostrogoths Vitiges (pictured) traveled north to get married while facing a Byzantine invasion from the south? Source: Wolfram, Herwig (1988). History of the Goths p.344 But his plan of clan association through personal suitability also demanded that as the new king he give up his advantageous position and move to Ravenna, seize the royal city, and marry Matasuntha, Theodoric’s granddaughter. ... Between the end of November 536 and February 537 Vitigis led the Gothic army from Terracina to Ravenna and back again to Rome. It is true that within this short period the Eternal City was lost, contrary to the Gothic war plan; even the senatorial hostages whom the Goths had taken could not prevent this. ... But Vitigis had strengthened his army, he had prevented a war on two fronts with a timely treaty, and he had won the royal city together with the royal child Matasuntha: ... Perhaps she was also annoyed because her royal consort had repudiated his first wife.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/352 and 353 Riverside Drive
  • Comment: 2nd QPQ: Template:Did you know nominations/Pierre-Amable de Soubrany

Improved to Good Article status by A.Cython (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 22 past nominations.

A.Cython(talk) 21:50, 11 June 2026 (UTC).

MacOS Golden Gate

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• ... that macOS Golden Gate was the first MacOS version to be supported only on ARM chips? Source:
  • Reviewed: [[]]
  • Comment: Uses the same name as the Golden Gate Bridge. This is a new article, and it may be improved as the page gets updated.

Created by Cosmic840 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

~ŤheŴubṂachine-840≈ ● ✒️ 23:26, 8 June 2026 (UTC).

• General eligibility:
• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems: - Still has maintenance templates that need to be resolved.

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Several sentences/bullets/grafs are uncited.
• Neutral: - Mildly promotional, as I'd expect any article written on the day of a new software release to be.
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems: - Sources OK if we are to accept MacRumors as reliable; it seems to scrape by at RSN.

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - Hook is not in the article and thus not cited.
• Interesting: - Fails WP:DYKINT; hook requires specialized knowledge to understand.
• Other problems: - Unclear - "first version" of what? Of macOS or some broader set of operating systems?

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Much on this article needs to be improved, including a completely different angle on the hook and new citations. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:38, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Central Intelligence Agency v. Sims

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• ... that the CIA was permitted in Central Intelligence Agency v. Sims to withhold the identities and institutional affiliations of scientific researchers who worked on Project MKUltra?

• Source: The Supreme Court today gave the Central Intelligence Agency broad discretion to withhold the identities of its sources of intelligence information from public disclosure.

• • ALT1: ... that the Central Intelligence Agency was permitted in Central Intelligence Agency v. Sims to withhold the identities of researchers who worked on MKUltra, focusing on human experimentation? Source: The Supreme Court today gave the Central Intelligence Agency broad discretion to withhold the identities of its sources of intelligence information from public disclosure.
  • Reviewed:

Moved to mainspace by EggRoll97 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

EggRoll97 ^(talk) 23:12, 8 June 2026 (UTC).

• New enough (returned to mainspace within the seven days before nomination per the move log, following the draftification from the first nomination) and long enough (11,056 characters of prose). The concerns from the first nomination look well addressed: the article now rests mainly on seven law review analyses of the case and has gained case law and reaction sections. Earwig reports 47.4%, but the matches are mirrors of the Supreme Court's opinion, a public domain work, and the overlap is the syllabus-derived holding in the infobox plus passages the article marks as quotations, so I see no copyright concern. Neutral, no BLP issues, no QPQ required. The main hook is cited inline, interesting and 184 characters; I checked it against the cited New York Times piece, which supports the identities, and against the Court's syllabus, which supports both the identities and the institutional affiliations. Three points before I approve:
• ALT1 has a modifier problem: researchers who worked on MKUltra, focusing on human experimentation reads as though the withholding focused on human experimentation. Would ... that the CIA was permitted in Central Intelligence Agency v. Sims to withhold the identities of researchers who worked on MKUltra, a project involving human experimentation? work (177 characters)? Otherwise I would run with the original hook, which is fine as it stands.
• With largely little public awareness of the full reach of the program, the case began to progress through the courts in a relatively subdued manner is uncited; could it be cited and tidied, or trimmed?
• The infobox Prior field has judgment affirmed, 642 F.2d 562, but the body describes that 1980 decision as a remand, and the syllabus gives the judgment under review as 709 F.2d 95 (D.C. Cir. 1983), which the infobox does not mention. Could the Prior field be brought into line with the syllabus?

As a courtesy, a few entirely optional polish points that do not affect DYK and could wait until after promotion: the syllabus describes the District Court's remand outcome as mixed rather than wholesale, the Times gives Wolfe's organisation as the Public Citizen Health Research Group, the appeals court's current name ends in "Circuit", and the Greenhouse citation could carry its full date. Happy to approve once the three points above are looked at. This is my first DYK review, so I would welcome a second opinion from an experienced reviewer before promotion. Metalicat (talk) 19:06, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

• @Metalicat: Thanks for the review! The proposed alternative hook (ALT1a?) sounds fine, it still delivers the general message of the hook and remains source-supported and accurate, so no objections. On point 2, I've just gone ahead and trimmed it out, it wasn't the best wording to begin with and doesn't really matter to the article itself. Infobox (should be?) fixed. Done on the appeals court naming and the Greenhouse citation date. Not sure about the mention of Wolfe's organization, it's listed as Public Citizen in the article already, and the Health Research Group is a division of the overall organization. Not sure what you mean by the syllabus describes the District Court's remand outcome as mixed rather than wholesale, but willing to go see about fixing it up if you could clarify that slightly. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 20:20, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

• @EggRoll97: Thanks for the quick turnaround. Checking against the article: the trimmed sentence, the circuit naming and the Greenhouse date are all done, and the Prior field now carries 709 F.2d 95. Two specks from reading the 1980 opinion at the infobox's own link: its disposition was a partial affirmance rather than a vacatur (We therefore remand the case for additional proceedings. With regard to Exemption 6, the decision of the District Court is affirmed), so judgement vacated and remanded might be better as affirmed in part and remanded; and "judgement" there, and in a remand of the judgement of the District Court in the body, wants the American spelling. To give the promoter something to grab, formalising the adjusted hook:
• ALT1a: ... that the CIA was permitted in Central Intelligence Agency v. Sims to withhold the identities of researchers who worked on MKUltra, a project involving human experimentation? (177 characters)
• On the District Court question: the Court's syllabus describes the remand outcome as split, with the court holding that the identities of researchers who had received express guarantees of confidentiality need not be disclosed and also exempting other researchers on the ground that their work for the CIA, apart from MKULTRA, required that their identities remain secret; the dispute that went up on appeal concerned the remainder. The current sentence, determined that the researchers were not intelligence sources, as the Central Intelligence Agency had not promised them confidentiality, reads as a wholesale finding. Something like held that researchers who had received express guarantees of confidentiality, along with some whose other work for the CIA required secrecy, were exempt from disclosure, but that the remaining researchers were not intelligence sources would track the syllabus, which is already among the article's legal sources if Wells does not cover the detail. Entirely your call, as is Wolfe's title; for what it is worth, the 1980 opinion describes the requesters as respectively an attorney and a physician employed by the Nader group Public Citizen, and my only thought is that "director of Public Citizen" reads as him heading the parent organisation. Neither affects DYK.
• From my side the main hook and ALT1a are both good to go, and the criteria check out as set out above. As this is my first DYK review I am marking this for a fresh set of eyes per the reviewing guide; an experienced reviewer who concurs can convert this to a tick. Metalicat (talk) 20:39, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

• Just noting that the above suggestions are implemented, except the Wolfe one, which I maintain my original general uneasiness about. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 01:28, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on June 9

Stupid Song

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• ... that "Stupid Song" is actually not stupid at all?

• Source: Billboard

• • ALT1: ... that Olivia Rodrigo's "Stupid Song" was inspired by Annie Ernaux's novel Simple Passion, in which the lead character is overcome by longing and obsession instead of being truly happy in an affair? Source: YouTube (event occurs at 11:42), Vogue Adria
  • ALT2: ... that "Stupid Song" by Olivia Rodrigo was referred to with the code word "dumb tune" during the filming of its music video? Source: BBC (event occurs after 9:00)
  • ALT3: ... that "Stupid Song" is the best song on Olivia Rodrigo's album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love according to Billboard? Source: Billboard
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Latin-esque, Template:Did you know nominations/YSL RICO trial

Moved to mainspace by MaranoFan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 89 past nominations.

NØ 19:21, 15 June 2026 (UTC).

• Saw this on the OCC website and thought, yep, this is definitely coming here. ALT0 isn't in the article (and probably shouldn't be added in wikivoice), but I recommend a WP:DYKAPRIL hook starting "that Olivia Rodrigo's stupid song...".--Launchballer 19:30, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

I mean April is pretty far away... Billboard's remark "Stupid Song' is anything but what its title implies" is in the article, so I think that makes the same point of ALT0 in an article-friendly way?--NØ 19:34, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Billboard's remark is not in wikivoice.--Launchballer 19:39, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Hmm, I added the closest thing possible to the article and another ALT hook here. No problem with the reviewer going for the ALTs and striking ALT0 if it still doesn't work.--NØ 20:38, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

• • ALT4: ... that Olivia Rodrigo's "Stupid Song" is not that stupid according to Billboard? Source: Billboard
  • ALT5: ... that a stupid song went number one in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand? Source: AU, IR, NZ

Ok, just two more that just came to me. I'll stop here, lol.--NØ 02:38, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

River Moon

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• ... that following a hip replacement surgery, River Moon was still learning to walk when they opened for Beyoncé?

• Source: George, Cassidy (11 December 2024). "River Moon After Hours Interview: GHE20G0TH1K, marrying Skrillex & becoming a mortician". Hausverbot. Retrieved 9 June 2026 – via YouTube. Event occurs from 2:08 until 2:58.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

• • ALT1: ... that co-managing a meme page helped launch River Moon's music career? Source: Manesis, Isaac Crown (5 September 2022). "River Moon: Chronically Online, Pandemically Viral". Metal Magazine. Retrieved 21 May 2026. Many people were introduced to your work through your membership on @patiasfantasyworld.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Vanillamace

Moved to mainspace by Cybertrip (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

—cybertrip👽 ( 💬 • 📝) 08:39, 15 June 2026 (UTC).

• Just had an idea for ALT2: ... that before pursuing a DJ career, River Moon was a mortician's assistant and a meme page manager? —cybertrip👽 ( 💬 • 📝) 12:54, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

North Fork Snoqualmie River

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• ... that a proposed dam on the North Fork Snoqualmie River may have been an attempt to gain political leverage over Seattle?

• Source: Several observers have maintained that Bellevue's primary reasons for studying this option were to improve its negotiating position vis a vis Seattle in rate-setting discussions and promote Bellevue as a leader in metropolitan affairs. p. 233

Lund, Jay R. (1988). "Metropolitan Water Market Development: Seattle, Washington, 1887–1987". Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. 114 (2): 223–238. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9496(1988)114:2(223).

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Viking Gustafsson Nyberg Template:Did you know nominations/Riau War

Improved to Good Article status by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 146 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 14:36, 14 June 2026 (UTC).

Antonius Agus Sriyono

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• ... that three decades after writing a fictional story about a robber fleeing to Odessa, diplomat Antonius Agus Sriyono visited the city on an official diplomatic mission? Source: "Jadi Diplomat Terinspirasi Siaran Radio" [Inspired by Radio Broadcast to Become a Diplomat]. Tabloid Diplomasi. 28 July 2013. Archived from the original on 13 August 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Aru Kararu no Isan and Template:Did you know nominations/Elizabeth Stevens

Created by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 131 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 05:50, 14 June 2026 (UTC).

• @Jeromi Mikhael: As we are currently on backlog mode and per WP:QPQ, please provide two QPQs. This will be closed within 24 hours if they are not provided. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:29, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

• @Narutolovehinata5: Apologies for my tardiness in providing a QPQ. I've attached my two QPQs above. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 14:03, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Saw: Genesis

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• ... that Saw: Genesis is set about a century before John "Jigsaw" Kramer became a serial killer?

• Source: GamesRadar+ states that Saw: Genesis is "a prequel set 100 years before" John Kramer became a serial killer.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Erik Jongbloed

Moved to mainspace by Umais Bin Sajjad (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Umais🗣 19:49, 11 June 2026 (UTC).

• @Umais Bin Sajjad: Please propose a new hook, as the original one (which I've now struck), fails WP:DYKFICTION as being a hook about an in-universe fact that does not have a relation to the real world. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:54, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

  I have proposed new hooks focused on gameplay mechanics:

  ALT1: ... that in Saw: Genesis, one player can see the whole maze from the start while the other three have to uncover it as they escape?

  Source: Shacknews reported that the map is procedurally generated, that the Judge has the full layout immediately revealed, and that the survivors must explore to remove the fog of war.

  ALT2: ... that in Saw: Genesis, the player who sets traps is physically vulnerable and can be overwhelmed by the players trying to escape?

  Source: Shacknews reported that a careless Judge can be overwhelmed by survivors using weapons found in the level. Umais🗣 21:15, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. However, I don't see either hook as being interesting to a broad audience either? They seem more like describing game mechanics rather than something that would actually attract eyes from people otherwise unfamiliar with the game. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:09, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

• Thanks for review and I understand the concern. Proposing a new hook below focused on a real-world casting detail:

  ALT3: ... that Tobin Bell, who has played Jigsaw since the first Saw film in 2004, also appears in Saw: Genesis?

  Source: GamesRadar+ Umais🗣 18:09, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

To be honest, this probably doesn't work either. If a video game is based on a property, isn't it kind of expected for a character from the original to also appear in that video game? I'm feeling it might be more interesting for fans of the franchise than the general public. I just took a look at the article and nothing came to mind, but maybe another editor could help chime in with another hook proposal? Asking for input from either 1brianm7 or Gommeh who have done some video game-related hooks in the past. Otherwise, ALT3 might be our best option, but I'm not willing to sign it off. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:41, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Nothing else in the article stands out to me. From the GameSpot article, the fact that the game was accidentally revealed on Steam prior to its announcement could be of some interest (though it's not currently in the article), i.e. ALT4: ... that Saw: Genesis was announced hours before it was intended to be?, or something like that. Other possible angles that stood out as possibly hooky if added to the article was the developers trying to not make a Dead by Daylight clone, GameInformer saying that they would've expected a single player game considering the franchise, or some mention of reviewer anticipation of the game (though I'm not sure if that last one is MOS:VG compliant. 1brianm7 (talk) 12:22, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Video games being leaked before their official announcement is actually pretty common these days, but given how not all people or even gamers are familiar with leaks, that could be a possible option with a reword. I'm willing to review the article but leave the final decision on ALT4 to another editor. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:30, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the input. I have added the Steam info, but kept it brief since it should not be overemphasized per MOS. If reviewers think this angle works, a cleaner wording could be:

• ALT4a: ... that Saw: Genesis appeared on Steam before its Summer Game Fest presentation?

Source: GameSpot Umais🗣 16:47, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

• The article is new enough and adequately sourced, with ALT4 (the only hook fact currently under consideration) cited inline and verified in the source (GameSpot is no longer treated as a green source for various reasons, but for this particular case I don't see why it is unreliable). A QPQ has been done. The issue is that ALT4 is not directly stated in the article: the article says that the game appeared on Steam before Summer Game Fest, but not the specific "premature reveal" wording. ALT4a (I've renumbered it as such) is closer to the source and article, but loses the hookiness because it is no longer clear from the wording that it was a premature reveal. Both the hook and article will need to be adjusted. As mentioned earlier, the other options have been rejected due to not meeting DYKINT. Once the issues with ALT4 and its variants are addressed, I will have to ask for a second opinion from another editor on interest as I am not sure if the hook appeals to non-gamers or not. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:14, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the review and comments. I have adjusted the prose and revised hook could be:

ALT4b: ... that Saw: Genesis appeared on Steam in an "apparently premature" reveal before its Summer Game Fest presentation?

Source: GameSpot. Umais🗣 06:48, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. I'll ask for a second opinion on ALT4b's interest. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:21, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3

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• ... that in-game items for Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 were distributed via trading cards?

• • Source1: https://dengekionline.com/data/news/2007/7/26/0fff069f29aa1ff8cb38a11f14cc27bf.html
  • Source2: https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/releases/images/3/39197.pdf

• • ALT1: ... that players could send a demo for Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 from their Wii's?
    • Source1: https://www.engadget.com/2007-11-27-everybodys-nintendo-channel-videos.html
    • Source2: https://www.wired.com/2007/11/video-inside-th-3/
  • ALT2: ... that one game critic compared an outfit worn by a character in Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 to the droogs from A Clockwork Orange?
    • Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20080624042008/http://ds.ign.com/articles/882/882692p1.html
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Descendants of Elizabeth II

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

IngeniousPachyderm (talk) 17:42, 10 June 2026 (UTC).

Confessions II – The Film

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• ... that one journalist suggested that Confessions II – The Film would be remembered as "the vagina laser video"? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/09/madonna-new-video-confessions-ii-the-film, https://theweek.com/culture-life/music/madonna-confessions-film
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The World Is to Dig
  • Comment: Driveby nom.

Created by King10 (talk) and Livelikemusic (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 408 past nominations.

Launchballer 20:48, 9 June 2026 (UTC).

• As much as I despise entries on upcoming or recent commercial items (which we are flooded with at DYK, and which, IMO, should all be viewed as an advertisement strategy by the fans, or worse, and as such WP:COI): the article passes the mark (length, newness, originality, neutrality). Two QPQs are still requied. As for the main issue: the hook is simply prurient (how much should our standards drop on MainPage?); but, what is more, the factoid it refers to is subject to a content dispute, and not currently in the article. Dahn (talk) 05:37, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

I moved this from the talk page. Two QPQs have in fact been supplied as The World Is to Dig is a double nom (none of the previous reviews on that nomination count as full reviews). I disagree that the hook being prurient is a problem; WP:DYKGRAT only applies to excessively sensational/gratuitous hooks and I don't believe a hook about vagina lasers would be that for an article about a video that features them. (Frankly, I'd get rid of that rule altogether as readers can clearly handle it; four of the six highest viewed hooks of the year are sex-based.) I'll ping again when the dispute resolves. (Also, I'm neutral on Madonna.)--Launchballer 06:26, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on June 10

NBA G League Next Up Game

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• ... that the NBA G League Next Up Game has also been known as the NBA G League Up Next Game?

• Source: https://gleague.nba.com/next-up

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kaneza Schaal

Created by TonyTheTiger (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 394 past nominations.

TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:42, 17 June 2026 (UTC).

Verstummte Stimmen

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Memorials in Bayreuth

• ... that part of the travelling exhibition Verstummte Stimmen, about The Expulsion of the 'Jews' from the Opera House from 1933 to 1945, remained permanently in a park in Bayreuth (pictured)? Source:
  • Reviewed: Amanat Khan Shirazi, Jorge Salvaire
  • Comment: Exhibition about Nazi racism towards singers and others working in opera houses, raising awareness, often cited (and could be more) in bios on Wikipedia. I wish we could name the organisers.

Created by Gerda Arendt (talk) and Grimes2 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 2182 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:18, 17 June 2026 (UTC).

Niall Garbh O'Donnell

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• ... that Lord of Tyrconnell Niall Garbh O'Donnell stole his cousin's cattle?

• Source: Paragraph 8 of Clavin, Terry (October 2009). "O'Donnell, Sir Niall Garvach". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006345.v1. Archived from the original on 3 January 2024.

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/LGBTQ history in Iceland + Template:Did you know nominations/Reine Audu
  • Comment: Nominating on behalf of User:SkywalkerEccleston

Improved to Good Article status by Jon698 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 123 past nominations.

Jon698 (talk) 01:25, 15 June 2026 (UTC).

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

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Jon698 and SkywalkerEccleston: All looks good. Turned to GA on 10 June, submitted to DYK on 15 June. Long enough. No copyright issues (Earwig's Copyvio Detector gives 31% flagging a quote). Hook is mentioned in the main body and it is cited. Unfortunately I do not find it interesting enough. A lord steals a cattle, typical, no? May I recommend some alternatives (feel free to modify)?

• ALT1a: ... that Lord of Tyrconnell Niall Garbh O'Donnell stole his cousin's cattle and even attempted to murder him in response to his surrender to the Crown?
• ALT1b: ... that Lord of Tyrconnell Niall Garbh O'Donnell stole his cousin's cattle for surrendering to the Crown? A.Cython(talk) 04:01, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

@A.Cython: Both of those are good hooks and I accept them. However, due to rather annoying DYK rules you can no longer be the reviewer due to your hook proposals. Jon698 (talk) 05:27, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

@Jon698: Well I was not aware of this as from my experience DYK reviewers regularly propose alterations to the hooks.

DYK states: If you only make minor adjustments to another editor's proposed hook (no new facts requiring verification are introduced), you can still approve it. I did not proposed a new hook, but an alteration of the original to make a bit more interesting. I guess the new information is a new fact. Anyhow, from my part this is good to go. Let's wait for another one reviewer to close this. A.Cython(talk) 21:39, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Stephanie of Milly, Siege of Kerak (1183)

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• ... that while Saladin was bombarding her castle during her son's wedding (pictured), Stephanie of Milly reportedly sent him food from the banquet and in return he spared the newlyweds' tower?

• Source: "... when the siege began, Stephanie de Milly sent food to Saladin from the wedding banquet, and he courteously instructed his engineers not to range their mangonels on the tower in which the bride and groom were lodged." (Hamilton 2000, pp. 192-193)

• • ALT1: ... that when Stephanie of Milly could not fulfill an agreement to surrender her castles for her son's freedom, she returned him to Saladin, who released him out of admiration for her honesty? Source: "The Lady Stephanie ... had asked Saladin for the release ofher son Humphrey of Toron. He agreed on condition that her two great castles were surrendered to him. Humphrey was sent from his prison to join her; but neither at Kerak nor at Montreal would the garrison obey her order to give themselves up. As she had failed in her bargain she sent her son back into captivity. Her honourable action pleased Saladin, who gave Humphrey his liberty a few months later." (Runciman 1952, p. 440)
  • ALT2: ... that Kerak Castle was besieged as it hosted a royal wedding (pictured), with the princess-bride and the queen coming under artillery fire along with jugglers, farmers, and shepherds? Source: "The time had come for the marriage to take place between the Princess Isabella, now aged eleven, and Humphrey of Toron, aged about seventeen ... guests began to arrive at the castle. Many of them, such as the bride's mother, Queen Maria Comnena ... With the guests arrived entertainers, dancers, jugglers and musicians ... Suddenly the festivities were interrupted by the terrible news that Saladin was approaching with his army... The farmers and shepherds ... took refuge in the courtyards of the castle." (Runciman 1952, p. 440)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Piedmontese literature, Template:Did you know nominations/1974 Dunedin earthquake, Template:Did you know nominations/Colin Queen

Improved to Good Article status by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 3. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 284 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 23:39, 12 June 2026 (UTC).

• I leave it to the reviewer and promoter to decide whether we should go for the double hook or separate hooks. Surtsicna (talk) 23:41, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

I take, will review in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 00:39, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: Long enough, new enough, QPQs done. No reason why either would deserve a maintenance template. There's quite a lot of ALT0 to take in; how do you feel about ALT0a: ... that when Saladin bombarded Kerak Castle during the wedding of the son of Stephanie of Milly, she sent him food from the banquet?--Launchballer 01:30, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Launchballer, how about ALT0b: ... that when Saladin bombarded her castle during her son's wedding (pictured), Stephanie of Milly reportedly sent him food from the feast, and he spared the newlyweds' tower?
That's already 28 characters shorter. If you prefer that the reader does not know the purpose of her sending the food to her attacker, then I propose changing ALT0a to say "her castle" instead of "Kerak Castle"; I think it is interesting to note that she was the hostess and not someone outside the castle. Surtsicna (talk) 10:09, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

The problem is that "Saladin bombarded her castle" implies that Saladin is female.--Launchballer 14:00, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

The cleanest solution to that might be to attach a masculine title and say "Sultan Saladin" instead of just Saladin. Or perhaps ALT0c: ... that Stephanie of Milly reportedly sent food from her son's wedding feast to Saladin as he bombarded her castle, and he in return spared the newlyweds' tower?
If we go with any version of ALT0, we probably need to add "reportedly" or something similar. This account comes from Ernoul, who says that Stephanie sent food to Saladin along with a reminder that he had once held her in her arms while he was a prisoner in that castle; historians doubt that Saladin was ever a prisoner at Kerak or that he could have held Stephanie as a baby, but at least one thinks it is likely that he did spare the newlyweds' tower, and none comment on the food part. Surtsicna (talk) 15:08, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Kiba Walker

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• ... that drag performer Salem Moon hosted an all-ages trivia night? Source: Walker regularly hosted trivia as Moon at Tulips. For a year and a half, the events built up a dedicated audience at Sips & Quips. That changed on March 27, when Protect Texas Kids circulated an online flier about the all-ages event. When Walker and Tulips’ owners heard about the protest, they decided to turn the trivia night into a fundraiser for LGBTQ Saves, a nonprofit that helps queer youth.
  • ALT1: ... that drag performer Salem Moon raised $9,500 for LGBTQ+ youth after an anti-LGBTQ organization targeted her trivia night event? Source: Kiba Walker learned he could no longer perform in drag at Tulips FTW, a music venue in Fort Worth’s Near Southside, after a fundraiser show that raised nearly $10,000 to help LGBTQ+ youth ... That changed on March 27, when Protect Texas Kids circulated an online flier about the all-ages event. When Walker and Tulips’ owners heard about the protest, they decided to turn the trivia night into a fundraiser for LGBTQ Saves, a nonprofit that helps queer youth ... The fundraiser raised $9,500 for LGTBQ+ Saves. + multiple sources calling Protect Texas Kids anti-LGBTQ+
  • ALT2: ... that Kiba Walker's professional stage acting debut was called "a phenomenal job playing a potentially unlikeable character"? Source: Though this was Walker’s professional theater debut, his extensive experience in community theater was evident. + Kiba Walker does a phenomenal job playing a potentially unlikeable character.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1936 State Opening of Parliament and Template:Did you know nominations/Gowganda Formation
  • Comment: Another Pride Month special, and another drag DYK to boot.

Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 157 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 18:51, 10 June 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on June 11

John Basinger

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• ... that John Basinger is believed to be the only person to have memorized all twelve books of Paradise Lost by John Milton?

• Source: NY Times

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John Greenewald Jr., Template:Did you know nominations/Siege of Ravenna (539–540)

Created by Thriley (talk) and Mwinog2777 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 215 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 19:25, 19 June 2026 (UTC).

Aaron Titus

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• ... that Aaron Titus proposed to his future wife by having her solve an equation whose answer spelled out "Will you mar²y me"?

(Source On Valentine's Day of 1994, Kim received a letter from an office in Washington, D.C. asking her to answer the following question to ensure she understood the required material in order to receive her Ph.D. However, the letter was not from an office in D.C., but from Aaron. The answers to the questions spelled out "Will you mar^2y me?")

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Haffen Park, Template:Did you know nominations/Soonish

Improved to Good Article status by Johnson524 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 34 past nominations.

Johnson524 02:21, 18 June 2026 (UTC).

Ute Walther

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• ... that Ute Walther, who portrayed the Rosenkavalier in the 1985 opening of the restored Semperoper, then went to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in West Berlin for a long career? Source: for the former fact, for the latter
  • Reviewed: Robert A. Ellison Jr., 1 to come
  • Comment: Today is the former day of German Unification, from a time when it seamed a dream: perhaps a good time to nominate a singer between East and West in the 1980s. The Semperoper performance is on YouTube.

Created by Gerda Arendt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 2183 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:25, 17 June 2026 (UTC).

Languages of Palestine

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• ... that diglossia is a major feature of the ancient and modern languages used in Palestine?

• Source: Bianchi, Robert; Hussein Abdel-Razeq, Anwar (2016), "The English Language Teaching Situation in Palestine", English Language Education Policy in the Middle East and North Africa, p. 148-149

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

Tiamut (talk) 09:33, 15 June 2026 (UTC).

Kushitha Kallapu

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• ... that a role filmed by Kushitha Kallapu for the Mahesh Babu film Guntur Kaaram was edited out, and she publicly expressed her disappointment?
  • ALT1: ... that Telugu actress Kushitha Kallapu made her Tamil film debut opposite YouTuber-turned-actor TTF Vasan in Indian Penal Law?
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: First DYK nomination; article moved to mainspace via AfC on 11 June 2026. Hook cited to The Times of India at end of sentence; ALT1 cited to The Times of India (toi-ipl).

Created by Curiouskid007 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Curiouskid007 (talk) 13:37, 13 June 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on June 12

Wood waste burner

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Wood waste burner

• ... that 60% of all timber harvested in North America before 1980 was destroyed in wood waste burners (pictured)? Source: "It remains a rather sinister fact that the wood burner indiscriminately devoured some 60 percent of all timber harvested through the 1970s in the Pacific Northwest and other previously forested regions of North America." Mihalyo, Daniel, ed. (1997). Wood burners. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-104-8. Page 21.
  • ALT1: ... that the invention of engineered wood spelled the end of the wood waste burner (pictured) in the North American timber industry? Source: "The wood burner was gradually abandoned not out of a genuine concern for air quality standards nor due to the benign cultivation of efficiency in order to better sustain ancient forests, but rather from fear of impending financial collapse . . . What was formerly considered waste, refuse, and scrap--not even worth the cost of giving away--was ingeniously transformed into a financial motherload. The system of wood building that has consequently developed in the late 20th century is composed of a bewildering array of engineered composite materials that might otherwise have been incinerated." Mihalyo, p. 21. The aspect of the end in North America is discussed on page 17, where the author speculated that its use would continue in the developing world.
  • ALT2: ... that the invention of more economical uses for wood byproducts spelled the end of the wood waste burner (pictured) in the North American timber industry? Source: Same as prior, just worded a bit differently.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kāneikokala

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

CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 04:10, 19 June 2026 (UTC).

Annie Jane

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• ... that a memorial was made for the 350 passengers who died while traveling on the ship Annie Jane?

• Source: https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/09/29/the-annie-jane/

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Chilseongsin and Template:Did you know nominations/Walter Hagen-Groll

Moved to mainspace by GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) and Lynch44 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 446 past nominations.

SL93 (talk) 22:28, 16 June 2026 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - There are lots of mysterious sources (all books, the Orkney News) that I don't know if they are reliable
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - Is the Orkney News reliable? It does not even mention the memorial, only shows a picture of it
• Interesting: - A memorial is common for ship crashes. A better hook would be the controversy on the ship before the crash.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @SL93: Some issues that need to be addressed. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 02:47, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

I'm an intruder here but I don't know the protocol for commenting. The Orkney News does mention the memorial (but it is only a mention) and it is a traditional newspaper. The two books are available as ebooks and are by reputable publishers (not self publishing and I've linked to their wp articles) and the authors seem to me particularly well qualified. These are not "mysterious" publications. The hook worked for me but I expect I am an outlier. I agree that more dramatic hooks would be easily possible. The book in "further reading" looks interesting but it seems to be only hard copy. Thincat (talk) 09:58, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

May I propose ALT1: ... that the captain of the Annie Jane threatened to shoot anyone who turned the ship around before getting wrecked at sea? Lynch44 10:43, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

TheNuggeteer The sources are fine as described above and the article does mention the memorial. I support ALT1. SL93 (talk) 12:30, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

I am also happy with ALT1. Thincat (talk) 16:27, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Te Whare Tīwekaweka

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• ... that Te Whare Tīwekaweka is the first album entirely in te reo Māori to reach number one on the New Zealand album charts?

• Source: music.nz, "It’s a monumental moment as Te Whare Tīwekaweka is the first ever full Te Reo album to achieve a number #1 accolade in the Aotearoa Top 40 Album Chart"

• • ALT1: ... that the name Te Whare Tīwekaweka translates from te reo Māori as "the messy house", which has been used to describe Marlon Williams' grasp of the Māori language he used on the album? Source: ABC news, "Translating as 'The Messy House', the album's title Te Whare Tīwekaweka is a cheeky nod to Williams's imperfect grasp of te reo Māori (the Māori language)"
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ang Eng Tee
  • Comment: Will sort a QPQ out prior to the nomination being approved and update when I've done that, but wanted to get the ball rolling. Wasn't fully sure about which facts to go for, happy for other suggestions. I had thought about something to do with the album art, or about Williams not having great te reo when he set out to make the album, but wasn't sure how to get them to work.

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

Turnagra (talk) 22:56, 12 June 2026 (UTC).

• Article is in good shape, without evidence of copyvio, and is eligible via GA promotion. I like the first hook, it's clean and concise. However, while I know the language is often referred to as te reo Māori in New Zealand, I think simply calling Māori here would be easier to understand for international audiences. QPQ checks out. Thank you for your good work with this article! Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 14:42, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look and for your kind words! I'm not super fussed with how the language is referred to - my initial reasoning for including te reo was that I was worried just saying "Māori" might not be specific enough, and "Māori language" would be too verbose for DYK. But maybe the context makes just "Māori" fine? So happy if that's the direction we want to go with this. Turnagra (talk) 09:17, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Blue Journey

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• ... that one journalist thought the VTuber music group Blue Journey's melancholic songs may be an attempt to appeal to a wider demographic?

• Source: Shirokuro (2023-07-10). "ホロライブが共同メジャーレーベルを設立した意図「Blue Journey」から考える" [The Intent Behind Hololive's Joint Major Label: Insights from "Blue Journey"]. KAI-YOU (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-03-30. trans. by Google translate (I no longer have access to the original Japanese): "However, in a complete thematic shift, the songs featured in the "Blue Journey" project give voice to dark and melancholic emotions. Stepping away from the contexts of traditional idol performance or specific character personas, these songs can be interpreted as being crafted with the aim of resonating more universally with listeners—regardless of whether they are existing fans or casual listeners."

• • ALT1: ... that the VTuber music group Blue Journey announced its end 366 days after it was announced? Source: Lada, Jenni (2023-03-19). "Cover Teases Hololive Blue Journey Music Project and 'Summer is Coming'". Siliconera. Retrieved 2026-03-30. Blue Journey (2024-03-20). Blue Journey - Disembark Movie [hololive]. Retrieved 2026-03-30 – via YouTube.
  • ALT2: ... that the VTuber music group Blue Journey debuted its only standalone single at the end of its only concert? Source:Matsumoto, Takeshi (2023-09-26). "湊あくあ、宝鐘マリン、角巻わため、常闇トワら擁するBlue Journey 1stワンマンで感じたホロライブ音楽企画の新基軸" [Blue Journey—Featuring Minato Aqua, Houshou Marine, Tsunomaki Watame, Tokoyami Towa, and Others—Reveals a New Direction for Hololive Music Projects at Their 1st Solo Concert]. Real Sound (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-03-30. "その翌週の9月13日に同作と同じタイトルを冠した初ライブが東京ガーデンシアターにて開催された ... そしてここで、この日初披露の新曲「水たまり」をメンバー全員で歌うという嬉しいサプライズが届けられた." trans. by Google translate "The following week, on September 13th, the first live concert bearing the same title as the work was held at Tokyo Garden Theater ... And then came a delightful surprise: all the members sang their brand new song, "Mizutamari" (Puddle), which was being performed for the first time that day."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pallas_Athena_(Rembrandt)
  • Comment: ALT1 is partly sourced to the group's own YouTube channel, YMMV on whether that is appropriate for a hook. ALT2 source confirms it was performed for the first time at their first concert, the discography confirms the other details. I suppose only could be swapped for "first" if that is not fine.

Moved to mainspace by 1brianm7 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

1brianm7 (talk) 19:12, 12 June 2026 (UTC).

David Keen (2001), In a Class of Its Own: A Dunedin College of Education Anniversary History, Dunedin: Dunedin College of Education, Wikidata Q139584085

William Fitzgerald (educationalist)

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Fitzgerald 1883

• ... that William Fitzgerald (pictured) helped develop the University of Otago's first women-only hostel because landladies preferred male students, thinking they required less effort?

• Source: Fitzgerald, Gerald (2016). The Life of William Sanderson Fitzgerald. Gerald Fitzgerald. ISBN 9780473357771. OCLC 951964428.

Also Chisholm, James (22 March 1911). "St Margaret's Residential College". Otago Daily Times. p. 5. Retrieved 15 June 2026.

• • ALT1: ... that William Fitzgerald (pictured) organised the first national teacher's union in New Zealand? Source: as above, and E. J. Simmonds (1983). NZEI 100: an account of the New Zealand Educational Institute. Wellington: New Zealand Educational Institute. ISBN 0-908579-19-5. Wikidata Q140255055.
  • Reviewed: [[]]
  • Comment: 2nd Nomination, so no QPQ required

5x expanded by Str8toftheDome (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Str8toftheDome (talk) 00:59, 12 June 2026 (UTC).

• The source for the hook, as well as most of the article content, is from a self-published book written by whom I presume to be a descendant of Fitzgerald. That is not a reliable source and certainly not for the claim that landladies preferred male tenants. Traumnovelle (talk) 06:26, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Fitzgerald is a common name, I don't know that we can assume a relationship. Regardless, I have added a second source to the hook and article that supports the "men are less work" angle. DrThneed (talk) 06:07, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Arthur Edwards (architect)

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• ... that architect Arthur Edwards designed the Birmingham Municipal Technical School with a steam engine in the basement?

• Source: See: the press cutting, File:Birmingham Daily Post 22 June 1904 page 5 (1).jpg, which is included and cited in the article.

• • Reviewed: William Sirignano and Kamal Chunchie

Moved to mainspace by Storye book (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 123 past nominations.

Storye book (talk) 11:15, 12 June 2026 (UTC).

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

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: All looks good (new created on 9 June and submitted 12 June). Long enough. No copyright issues, Earwig's Copyvio Detector gives 27% flagging a quote. The hook is mentioned in the main body and it is cited. I do not see any issues. Optional: you may want to wikilink engine house. A.Cython(talk) 03:19, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, A.Cython. "Engine house" was already linked in the article, so I guess you meant in the hook? So I have linked it in the hook - hope that's OK? Storye book (talk) 10:50, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Yes it is ok. Nice article. A.Cython(talk) 21:23, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

• – Storye book, A.Cython, I'm worried this veers a bit into WP:OR territory, but I am not expert in this area of history and would like to clarify the reference to a steam engine. The source simply notes that the lower floor includes an ...engineering classroom, with engine house.... The step from engine house to specifically a steam engine is discussed in the article's prose, using a Britannica article on the history of industry to argue that "engine house" implies a steam engine, an implication not stated explicitly by the source. If it is true that there is no possible other variety of engine than a steam engine for them to have built in 1894, then it is likely sufficient for this hook, as "engine room" in the newspaper would then certainly refer to a steam engine. But if this is an inference rather than a certainty, I'd recommend we remove "steam" from the hook. Best, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 20:36, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
  • @Vermont: My understanding from the reading of the article and the relevant sources was that there is sufficient context to draw this conclusion. According to the dictionary a "house engine" can mean a building for housing an engine (such as a fire engine, a railroad locomotive, or a stationary engine). Based on the context provided by the sources there is no indication that there was a fire engine or a railroad locomotive in the semi-basement of the house. I am not aware of any other form of engine beyond steam engine for the era. At least this is was my reading. I would be interested to know if it was something else. Thanks. A.Cython(talk) 23:13, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

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Louis Alexander MacKay

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• ... that Canadian writer Louis Alexander MacKay became a successful poet while teaching ancient Greek and Roman poetry at university?

• Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Canadian_Poetry_1920_to_1960/5YgppDd6JQcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=louis%20alexander%20mckay%20berkeley&pg=PA209&printsec=frontcover (mentions his study of Roman poets and his book about the Greek poet Homer)

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Created by Edward056686 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Edward056686 (talk) 07:00, 15 June 2026 (UTC).

Theo Faiss

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• ... that after Theo Faiss died, he was remembered by Rudolf Steiner as "You dear Sun-Boy, you"?

• Source: Raab 1993, p. 247: Er wurde in einer Ecke des Kantinengebäudes aufgebahrt, wo ihn Rudolf Steiner täglich besuchte, und jedesmal mit den Worten ansprach: «Du lieber Sonnenknabe, du.» (He was laid out in a corner of the canteen building, where Rudolf Steiner visited him daily, addressing him each time with the words: "You dear sun-boy, you.")

• • ALT1: ... that seven-year-old Theo Faiss was eulogized by Rudolf Steiner in 1914, memorialized by Edith Maryon in 1921, and biographied by Lex Bos in 1987? Source: The eulogy is in Steiner 2011. The memorial is In Memory of Theo Faiss. The biography is Bos 1987.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Abdullah Suriosubroto; Template:Did you know nominations/Scarlett Archer

Improved to Good Article status by Usernameunique (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 95 past nominations.

Usernameunique (talk) 14:08, 14 June 2026 (UTC).

HoloX Meeting

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• ... that reviewers thought HoloX Meeting, a manga about five real VTubers, did not require prior knowledge of the VTubers?

• Source: Bolts (2024-02-24). "holoX MEETing! Volume 1 Manga Review". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2026-06-13. "I mentioned that the volume is full of references, but it doesn't rely on them to pad out its runtime. While I wasn't that familiar with most of the idols featured in this volume, I could understand everything just fine."

Lada, Jenni (2024-02-25). "HoloX Meeting Manga Is Great at Establishing Hololive Vtubers Lore". Siliconera. Retrieved 2026-06-13. "You don’t need any prior knowledge of the performers, and it stands up well on its own."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sing_the_50_United_States!
  • Comment: I'd prefer the name not be piped.

Created by 1brianm7 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

1brianm7 (talk) 16:22, 13 June 2026 (UTC).

Nicholas Galitzine

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Galitzine in 2020

• ... that Nicholas Galitzine (pictured) ate around 4,000 calories a day while preparing to play He-Man?

• Source: LA Times

• • ALT1: ... that despite persistent rumours, Nicholas Galitzine (pictured) is not related to the Russian noble House of Golitsyn? Source: Hollywood Reporter
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Doctor Who season 3 & Template:Did you know nominations/The Claddagh Embrace
  • Comment: I hope the image is fine, never had an image hook before.

Improved to Good Article status by Jolielover (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 41 past nominations.

jolielover♥talk 08:39, 13 June 2026 (UTC).

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Sheikh Chilli (folklore)

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• ... that Sheikh Chilli has been compared to Don Quixote?
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: Have banked enough QPQs and will add them when I am online again.

Created by Cielquiparle (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 85 past nominations.

Cielquiparle (talk) 23:39, 20 June 2026 (UTC).

Kanako Wada

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• ... that as a student, singer Kanako Wada originally washed the uniforms of her college's rugby team? Source: DJ Meikan (from the dl.ndl search): ④東京芸術大学美術学部彫刻学科 ... その上ラグビー部のマネージャーで部員たちの泥だらけのユニフォームを毎日洗濯していた彼女。/④ [Attended] Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts .... She also served as the manager for the rugby team, washing the players' mud-covered uniforms every day.
  • ALT1: ... that as a student, singer Kanako Wada once managed her college's rugby team? Source: Same as ALT0
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mooi Indië and Template:Did you know nominations/WKOF
  • Comment: Not sure if I should say "before her singing debut" since sources are vague on when she started with the college rugby team due to her debut coming before graduation.

Created by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 158 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 21:31, 18 June 2026 (UTC).

Stella Lefty

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Stella Lefty

• ... that a woman who had a US Top 20 single earlier this year (pictured) is the daughter of a billionaire?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tulasi Srinivas
  • Comment: Driveby nom; remind me to commission a crop from WP:Photography workshop.

Moved to mainspace by Antrikshy (talk), BrDen (talk), and Nobody's soup (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 414 past nominations.

Launchballer 17:34, 18 June 2026 (UTC).

Fate/Extra Last Encore

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• ... that anime Fate/Extra Last Encore is not an adaptation of the earlier videogame, but instead is set in an alternate timeline in which the original game's protagonist loses to the final boss? Source: https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fate/extra_last_encore and two other sources cited in the Relation to Fate/Extra section
  • ALT1: ... that Fate/Extra Last Encore was conceived as a continuation of the "bad ending" of the video game Fate/Extra, rather than a retelling of its story? Source: same sources as above
  • ALT2: ... that while reviewers criticized Fate/Extra Last Encore for its fanservice-heavy depiction of women, many also praised its gender-swapped emperor Nero Claudius as the series' most engaging character? Source: pretty much all reviews
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/GreenGreen
  • Comment: 2nd QPQ done using my alt account (Template:Did you know nominations/Taste (Haechan album)).

Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 603 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:06, 16 June 2026 (UTC).

Gian Bernardino

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Bernardino in 2025

• ... that Filipino rock singer Gian Bernardino (pictured) is said to have a gender fluid fashion sense?

• Source: https://billboardphilippines.com/editorial-picks/curated/13-halloween-costume-ideas-inspired-by-your-favorite-opm-artists/

• • ALT1: ... that Gian Bernardino (pictured) said he wants to challenge gender norms in the Filipino rock industry? Source: https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/music/2025/9/12/cup-of-joe-s-gian-bernardino-breaks-rock-band-stereotypes-1137
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  • Comment: Might be a cool DYK for Pride Month because this guy is openly pansexual and his article just got promoted to GA yesterday. It's my first DYK nomination so I'm a bit nervous. I'm not the primary editor for this article, but I contributed some prose before it got promoted. Hope it's alright.

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

Handsome Ellis (talk) 23:17, 14 June 2026 (UTC).

• Reviewing this nomination. CoryGlee 12:37, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
• – Moved to GA status on 13 June. Meets requirements and QPQ not done per no need from user nominating this. The original hook is clunky and the ALT1 is not verified per the given source, which indeed covers the issue of gender but does not explicitly mention "a challenge" to the norms, putting it into other distant words, though. I'd advise rewording of the original hook or improvement of an ALT. Ping me when done, user Handsome Ellis. CoryGlee 15:23, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2

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• ... that SCA2 causes slowing of voluntary eye movement, specifically saccades?

• Source: https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mds.26532

• • ALT1: ... that spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 is caused by stretching of polyglutamine tract in ataxin-2 protein? Source: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-71779-1_8
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Created by NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 16:26, 14 June 2026 (UTC).

Forward Sports

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Adidas Brazuca, produced by Forward Sports for the 2014 FIFA World Cup

• ... that Forward Sports had less than two months to move from having no production line for the Adidas Brazuca (pictured) to producing the World Cup ball?

• Source: Dawn

• • ALT1: ... that Adidas asked Forward Sports to help produce the Adidas Brazuca (pictured) for the 2014 FIFA World Cup after its Chinese supplier could not meet demand? Source: Dawn
  • ALT2: ... that Forward Sports had local engineers build production and testing equipment for the Adidas Brazuca (pictured) in seven weeks? Source: Dawn
  • ALT3: ... that Forward Sports made 5.5 million Al Rihla balls for the 2022 FIFA World Cup supply chain, but not the match balls used in Qatar? Source: Reuters
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Newaukum Creek
  • Comment:

5x expanded by Umais Bin Sajjad (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Umais🗣 13:20, 14 June 2026 (UTC).

Semi-automated offside technology

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• ... that semi-automated offside technology can track up to 29 points on each player 50 times per second?

• Source: FIFA states that its 2022 World Cup implementation used twelve dedicated tracking cameras to track the ball and up to 29 data points on each player 50 times per second.

• • ALT1: ... that semi-automated offside technology can use a sensor inside the football to help decide when the ball was played? Source: Adidas stated that the Al Rihla match ball's sensor tracked every touch at 500 times per second and supplied real-time ball data to the VAR team.
  • ALT2: ... that semi-automated offside technology can create a 3D animation to explain offside decisions to spectators? Source: FIFA states that after a decision is confirmed, the same positional data is used to generate a 3D animation for spectators in the stadium and viewers at home.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pedro Morales Pino
  • Comment:

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

Umais🗣 13:05, 14 June 2026 (UTC).

Comic Fiesta

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• ... that Comic Fiesta 2025 featured the premiere screening of the TV anime Sentenced to Be a Hero?

• Source: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-12-09/sentenced-to-be-a-hero-tv-anime-gets-premiere-screening-at-malaysia-comic-fiesta/.231872

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

Sddarealone (talk) 07:49, 14 June 2026 (UTC).

• Long enough, new enough, no issue regarding prose and sourcing. The 27.0% seems to be false positive. QPQ is not needed as nom has less than 5 noms. Now, the problem is now is the hook is not WP:DYKINT. Have any other hook in mind? Pinging @Sddarealone: for response. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 06:30, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

@Miminity: That was quite close but I have another hook.

... that Comic Fiesta 2006 was the birthplace of Cosplay Chess ?

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20111205013429/http://comicfiesta.org/comic-fiesta-101-cf-a-history/ Sddarealone (talk) 08:10, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply, hmm… I think this still don’t pass WP:DYKINT. Cosplay chess seems to not too popular term for human chess. I suggest something like:

• ALT2: … that Comic Fiesta host the largest amateur creative art market in Malaysia?
• ALT3 … that there is a competition for 60 Seconds of Anything in Comic Fiesta?

The last one is a possible WP:DYKAPRIL one. @Sddarealone: Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 13:55, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

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Imperial topaz

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Brazilian Imperial Topaz

• ... that the mining district centred on Ouro Preto, Brazil is the world's dominant source of imperial topaz (pictured) and has been so continuously since the early eighteenth century?

• Source: https://bahia.ws/en/historia-e-caracteristicas-da-pedra-preciosa-topazio/

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

Zúltimo (talk) 12:10, 19 June 2026 (UTC).

Outline of artificial satellites

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Satellite retrieval during space walk.

• ... that artificial satellites (example pictured) make up the majority of modern space launches and missions?

• Source: https://brycetech.com/reports/report-documents/global-space-launch-activity-2024/Bryce_Global_Space_Launch_Activity_2024.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_artificial_satellites#cite_note-Bryce_launches_2024-4

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

— Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 17:25, 17 June 2026 (UTC).

Alien: Isolation 2

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• ... that creative director Al Hope had ideas for Alien: Isolation 2 before the original Alien: Isolation had been finished?

• Source: TechRadar reported that Hope said, "I'd been thinking about creating a sequel before we even finished the first game, about what that could be."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John M. Klineberg
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Created by Umais Bin Sajjad (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

Umais🗣 05:47, 16 June 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this. Thriley (talk) 15:25, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Femmes et Sciences

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Eiffel's 72 men's names

• ... that a tour guide's idea of engraving the name of famous women on the Eiffel Tower (pictured) was inspired by a Femmes et Sciences list?

• Source: It was whilst reading a publication by the Femmes & Sciences association, entitled 40 remarkable women scientists from the 18th century to our days (40 remarkable women scientists from the 18th century to the present day), that I had a lightbulb moment.

• • ALT1: ... that a man who is a member of Femmes et Sciences had the idea of engraving women's names on the Eiffel Tower (pictured)? Source: It was whilst reading a publication by the Femmes & Sciences association, entitled 40 remarkable women scientists from the 18th century to our days (40 remarkable women scientists from the 18th century to the present day), that I had a lightbulb moment.
  • ALT2: ... that the Eiffel Tower features the names of 72 men (pictured), but it was a Femmes et Sciences list that inspired the idea of adding women too? Source: I was presenting the golden border on the first floor, where the names of 72 scientists chosen by Gustave Eiffel are inscribed, and see above
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lawrence Weston Wind Turbine and Template:Did you know nominations/Faileuba
  • Comment: Women in Red are presenting a poster at Wikimania. We'll mention the 370 editathons we've run and a recent (successful) drive to add the names of the 72 Eiffel Women. It would be nice to see this DYK appear on that day - if at all possible. Precise date TBA.

Created by Victuallers (talk), Ipigott (talk), Rosiestep (talk) MumphingSquirrel (talk) & others. Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 457 past nominations.

Victuallers (talk) 18:01, 15 June 2026 (UTC).

will review but need sleep first --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:38, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Interesting article, on fine sources, French sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. Of the hooks, I like ALT2 best, because it points at the unfairness so far, but I would prefer a wording with a link to the tower instead of a man ;) - It would also be easier then to add (pictured). Also: he didn't personally "engrave", or I'd be surprised. The image is licensed, but could we have the version from the article, showing how large that display is? - In the article, the lead says that the men's names have always been there, - could that perhaps be a little more precise, like Eiffel's idea from the beginning? (not required for DYK, of course) - The article is also focused on the project, - are there any more details about other endeavours? (just curious) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:57, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

All good points Gerda, I/We'll look into it. I'd read that Eiffel added the original 72 as a sop to critics who were questioning whether it should be built. I'll see if I can find a ref. Picture agree. Want to find something that is eye-catching though. A removed the man whose decided to add men from alt2 and resisted adding the man who decided to add women too. More will follow. Victuallers (talk) 10:13, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Collei

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• ... that the fictional disease suffered by Collei in Genshin Impact has been compared to Guillain–Barré syndrome and POEMS syndrome? Source:
  • ALT1: ... that as part of a promotional effort for Genshin Impact, Collei was a representative character for a charity program aimed at recycling? Source:
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Aaron Mahnke; Template:Did you know nominations/Furry pornography

Created by Gommeh (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 20 past nominations.

Gommeh ^{(talk! sign!)} 17:29, 15 June 2026 (UTC).

• Gommeh, courtesy ping that a second QPQ is required for this nom, and your one current QPQ may not actually qualify since it does not actually address any of the DYK criteria and is a simple checkmark, even though the nominated article includes an entire section/table with no citations. Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:43, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
  • I believe it should be fine, as I did check all the criteria and found no issues. I did not see it was in backlog mode when I submitted it, and am looking for a good DYK to review as I write this. I also did not see the table (as I normally don't check those, and the DYK hook did not mention it or use the table) so I have simply removed the table from the article (see its history). Gommeh ^{(talk! sign!)} 13:49, 16 June 2026 (UTC) Dclemens1971

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Abdurrahman Mohammad Fachir

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• ... that Abdurrahman Mohammad Fachir waited for a month to tell his pregnant wife regarding his deployment to Baghdad? Source: Khalid, Idham (2015-06-13). "Cerita Wamen Fachir Saat Bertugas Jadi Diplomat di tengah Perang Iran-Irak" [The Story of Vice Minister Fachir While Serving as a Diplomat in the Midst of the Iran-Iraq War]. detikNews. Retrieved 2026-06-16. Fachir ditugaskan ke KBRI di Baghdad, Irak saat sedang terjadi pertukaran rudal antara Teheran (Iran) dengan Baghdad (Irak)‎ tahun 1988 lalu. Dia mengaku membutuhkan waktu satu bulan untuk memberitahu istri mengenai penugasan tersebut.
  • ALT1: ... that a raid on Abdurrahman Mohammad Fachir's house left his son traumatized by door knocks? Source: Idem, ketika saya sedang melaksanakan tugas ke Amman Jordan, ada 3 orang, dua memakai (senpi) AK, satu membawa FN, masuk ke rumah kami, kami kebetulan pada waktu itu ada tamu. Apa yang terjadi? semua harta yang kami kumpulkan habis, dan istri saya mengalami, ya mungkin ya kekerasan. Bahkan anak kami yang paling besar, saat itu masih SD, sempat mengalami trauma sekitar 6 bulan. Artinya, setiap orang mengetuk pintu, dia gemetar.
  • ALT2: ... that Abdurrahman Mohammad Fachir met his wife, who was two years his senior, during the SSEAYP exchange programme? Source: "Program Kapal Pemuda Asia Tenggara-Jepang Ke-43 Dimulai" [The 43rd Ship for Southeast Asian and Japanese Youth Program Begins]. Republika (in Indonesian). 13 October 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2026. Yang tak kalah penting, program ini juga telah mempertemukannya dengan belahan jiwanya, Yasmin Fachir, alumni SSEAYP 1976.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Siege of Malacca (1756–1757) and Template:Did you know nominations/Hartini

Moved to mainspace by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 132 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 16:24, 19 June 2026 (UTC).

2024 Taiwanese President of Legislative Yuan election

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• ... that a damaged ballot left the Taiwan People's Party's candidate with seven votes from its eight legislators in the 2024 Taiwanese President of Legislative Yuan election?

• Source: https://cnews.com.tw/232240201a03/

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

金色黎明 (talk) 13:14, 19 June 2026 (UTC).

Wednesday Addams (Wednesday)

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• ... that Wednesday has been criticized for not being deadly enough?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lucky Avianto
  • Comment: Driveby nom per tipoff at Talk:Enid Sinclair, courtesy ping also to @M.Billoo2000:. Hook is intended for WP:DYKAPRIL; there may be others in the article.

Created by HalfHazard98 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 415 past nominations.

Launchballer 23:01, 18 June 2026 (UTC).

• Under review, thank you! M. Billoo 05:45, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Rizalito David, Jose Montemayor Jr.

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• ... that during his vice presidential run, Rizalito David endorsed presidential candidate Leni Robredo in front of running mate Jose Montemayor Jr.?

• Source: CNN Philippines

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Norman Balon
  • Comment: QPQ 2: Template:Did you know nominations/Halloween: The Game; QPQ 3: Template:Did you know nominations/Annie Jane

Created by TheNuggeteer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 3. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 38 past nominations.

🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 12:37, 18 June 2026 (UTC).

• @TheNuggeteer: (not sure why I pinged you at Balon as well...) Both long enough; David is new to mainspace and Montemayor is a GA. Both QPQs complete. Earwig picks up many WP:LIMITED phrases, though I'm not convinced it rises to WP:CLOP. I am not seeing "in front of" in the article and the hook could easily be trimmed to "endorsed a different presidential candidate to his running mate". (The hook itself is marginally interesting; not so dull that I'd reject it, but the time to propose ALTs is now.) Also, backlog mode.--Launchballer 16:13, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

• @Launchballer: I had another hook idea that both tried to run for president in 2016 and ended up being a tandem in 2022, but it seems too WP:SYNTHy, so I would want to stick with the "endorsed a different presidential candidate" hook. QPQ will come shortly after. I will propose this alt with the same CNN source: 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 01:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
• ALT1: ... that vice presidential candidate Rizalito David endorsed another presidential candidate to his running mate?

Caleb Wales

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• ... that the surname of a Trinidadian football assistant referee caught the attention of Welsh fans and the British press during Wales's first match at the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
  • ALT1: ... that the surname of a Trinidadian football assistant referee caught the attention of Welsh fans during Wales's first match at the 2022 FIFA World Cup? Source: This Trinidadian newspaper: Leading up to the match, British newspaper The Sun published a satirical story about fans' dismay over "Wales reffing Wales."
  • Part of the article read, "(A fan) said: 'Caleb Wales running one of the lines. Come on FIFA, where's the neutrality?' One added: 'One of the linesmen is called Caleb Wales! It’s a fix!'"
  • Reviewed: Gian Bernardino and Submarine (2010 film)
  • Comment: I will add the two QPQ(s) shortly. Please, if approved I would ask it to be shown on the portal before the end of the World Cup since Wales was appointed to this cup again.

Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 43 past nominations.

CoryGlee 12:30, 17 June 2026 (UTC).

• @CoryGlee: There was actually a proposal for a themed set on 19 July, worth adding it to that?--Launchballer 05:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
  • @Launchballer: Hey hi!! Thanks yes where do I insert this one? CoryGlee 11:38, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Premise

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• ... that a faulty premise can turn a whole argument into a fallacy?

• Source: Hansen, Hans (2024). "Fallacies". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. § 1. The Core Fallacies. Retrieved 24 May 2026.

• • ALT1: ... that premises involving common-sense assumptions are sometimes omitted from arguments? Source: Copi, Irving M.; Cohen, Carl; McMahon, Kenneth (2019). Introduction to Logic (15th ed.). Routledge. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-1-351-38696-8.
  • ALT2: ... that premises present reasons to justify or refute standpoints? Source: Copi, Irving M.; Cohen, Carl; McMahon, Kenneth (2019). Introduction to Logic (15th ed.). Routledge. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-1-351-38696-8.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ōtari-Wilton's Bush, Template:Did you know nominations/Hongwu era
  • Comment: My preference is ALT0.

Improved to Good Article status by Phlsph7 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 37 past nominations.

Phlsph7 (talk) 09:27, 16 June 2026 (UTC).

Meccha Chameleon

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• ... that Meccha Chameleon is a rare case of a casual game from a Japanese solo developer reaching the top of Steam's sales charts?

• Source: Inven Global [It is a rare case of a casual game from a Japanese solo developer reaching the very top of Steam's sales charts]

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Comic Fiesta & Template:Did you know nominations/Connie Fleming
  • Comment: Might add hook later as this game is still new

Created by Miminity (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 57 past nominations.

Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 06:30, 16 June 2026 (UTC).

• ALT 1: ... that a reviewer claims that "you don't have to play Meccha Chameleon to play it"?
• Source: Rock Paper Shotgun [One of the game's loveliest qualities is that, strictly speaking, you don't need to play it to play it.].

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Junius Wilson

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Cherry Hospital former campus building

• ... that Junius Wilson was a deaf American who spent almost 70 years as a patient in a mental hospital (pictured) despite not being mentally ill?

• Source: "Going 'Home' at 96, Deaf Man Wins Freedom After Losing 68 Years of His Life", The Salt Lake Tribune. Tribune News Services. ProQuest 288557338

• • ALT1: ... that no one at Cherry Hospital (pictured) tried to communicate in American Sign Language with Junius Wilson until he had been a patient for 56 years? Source: Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson, p. 113-114 ISBN 9780807884348
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Justin Hinds (American football)

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

APK hi :-) (talk) 04:16, 20 June 2026 (UTC).

Justin Hinds (American football)

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• ... that Justin Hinds believed he would become an accountant before pursuing a football coaching career?

• Source: https://andscape.com/features/at-super-bowl-black-assistant-coaches-still-optimistic-despite-blackout/

• • ALT1: ... that Justin Hinds was recommended for his first NFL coaching job by mentor Leslie Frazier through a minority coaching fellowship? Source: https://nypost.com/2026/02/09/sports/super-bowl-2026-how-seahawks-assistant-justin-hinds-earned-players-respect/
  • ALT2: ... that Justin Hinds went from an NFL minority coaching fellowship recommendation by Leslie Frazier to coaching the defensive line of a Super Bowl champion? Source: Same as ALT1 hook
  • Reviewed:

Created by Sxchen1110 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Sxchen1110 (talk) 16:50, 18 June 2026 (UTC).

• Hello, I'll be reviewing this article. So far everything looks good, but I'd like to see some more background of his early life like where he was born. I see it's in the infobox, but it could be added to the prose. As far as the hook suggestions, the ALT2 part about "recommendation by Leslie Frazier" seems unnecessary. Granted, I know very little about football, but is his recommendation considered a big deal to others? The article is long enough and I don't see any copyvio issues. If you're able to, it would be helpful if you could review another DYK nomination. APK hi :-) (talk) 03:51, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Witch and Hound

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• ... that Witch and Hound was inspired by the author dreaming about witches flying around dinosaurs? Source: ("はい。あとがきにも書きましたが、夢を見たのです。ティラノサウルスだかブラキオサウルスだか、何か巨大な恐竜の周りで、ほうきに乗った魔女たちが飛び回り、魔法を放ち、尻尾ではたかれ墜落していく光景を。目覚めて夢を思い返し、興奮しました。「売れたわ」と思いました。")
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Saw: Genesis and Template:Did you know nominations/Gropius House

Created by Narutolovehinata5 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 128 past nominations.

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:27, 18 June 2026 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article was nominated for DYK within 7 days of creation. Article is over 1,500 bytes. Earwig picked up an unlikely copyright violation of 1% as most sources used were in Japanese; I did not see close paraphrasing. The plot section should have at least one source describing the premise. QPQ was done. Hook looks good. lullabying (talk) 09:35, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

@Lullabying: Plot sections are explicitly exempted from the "all sections need references" rule (see WP:DYKCITE). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 15:39, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Char magaz

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Char magaz or charmagaz (चार मगज) is a mixture of the seeds of four different melons

• ... that despite only comprising various melon seeds, char magaz (pictured) is considered a mixture of spices?

• Source: "Part 1 Section 1". Gazette of India Number 165. New Delhi: Government of India. 1 August 1998. p. 107. Retrieved 14 June 2026. 091091 02 Mixture of spices (e.g. Charmagaz)

• • ALT1: ... that char magaz (pictured) is used to make smoothies and other cooling beverages? Source: Razis, Ahmad Faizal Abdull; Shehzad, Muhammed Muzammel; Usman, Sunusi; Ali, Nada Basheir; Iqbal, Shahzad Zafar; Naheed, Nadia; Asi, Muhammad Rafique (2 December 2020). "Seasonal Variation in Aflatoxin Levels in Edible Seeds, Estimation of Its Dietary Intake and Vitamin E Levels in Southern Areas of Punjab, Pakistan". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17 (23): 8964. doi:10.3390/ijerph17238964. ISSN 1660-4601. OCLC 8790171779. PMC 7730547. PMID 33276517.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Megistaspis
  • Comment: Open to other hook suggestions.

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

awkwafaba (📥) 01:42, 18 June 2026 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Two issues.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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

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QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Awkwafaba: I'm afraid I can't pass this nomination, as it fails the newness check. The article hasn't undergone fivefold expansion in the 7 days before this nomination was made. Sorry! Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 20:33, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
@Awkwafaba: Alright, I've re-reviewed the article. The article looks well sourced! I slightly lean toward ALT1. However, I found two issues that need addressing:

• I can't seem to find anything mentioning "mixed in equal proportions." in Ref [2] (which is used as a source for that statement).
• I'm having issues accessing the "Himachal Pradesh Gazette" reference. The current and archive URL both display an error message ("Cannot Create Graphical Report") for me. Do you know what's going on, and can you fix that? Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 06:09, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

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Nrco0e, the article was moved to mainspace on 18 June, making it eligible on that count. Thanks, ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:59, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Oh! My bad, then. Thanks for letting me know, I'll review this ASAP. Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 23:07, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

100 Meters (manga)

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• ... that the anime movie 100 Meters includes a three-minute 40-second long take that includes 9800 rotoscoped frames and took over a year to produce?

• Source: "The 3-minute and 40-second single-take video was produced using rotoscoping techniques over approximately one year, and the total number of drawings is approximately 9800". Translated from source

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  • Comment: This is my first time nominating, please let me know if I made any mistakes.

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

Ajheindel (talk) 01:27, 18 June 2026 (UTC).

Norman Balon

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• ... that Norman Balon revelled in his title as "the rudest landlord in London"?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sasha Stiles
  • Comment: Driveby nom.

Created by ChrysGalley (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 412 past nominations.

Launchballer 21:16, 17 June 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: There are some sentences without attribution in the Landlord of the Coach and Horses section. Also you are missing one QPQ. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 12:31, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Stiles is a double nom and counts as two @TheNuggeteer:, which sentences are you referring to?--Launchballer 15:58, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

"Being "barred" – banned from the pub – is the landlord's discretionary power to get rid of unwanted clients.[7] Balon's autobiography, which he claimed not to have read, had the title You're barred, you bastards!, though few would have got off that lightly. "Fuck off, you cunt" would be a more traditional valediction for the many who incurred his displeasure.[2][3] Even his elderly mother was apparently not exempt: she was barred for being boring and past it.[4] The banishment was usually short term and the recidivists were usually allowed to slink back into the Coach and Horses, albeit with Balon rolling his eyes, after a few days' exile.[8]" "Balon got on well with Margaret Thatcher and Danny La Rue, rather less well with the anti-monarchist member of parliament Willie Hamilton.[2][10]" most sentences here fit well in the wrong examples at WP:INTEXT 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 13:18, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

I attributed "she was barred for being boring and past it"; "He claimed not to have read" falls under "it is preferable not to clutter articles with information best left to the sources", and I'm fairly sure the others are not opinions, though ChrysGalley is welcome to overrule me on that.--Launchballer 16:23, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

For the mother, yes I would say that is fair comment and that is now improved, many thanks. For the other points, I don't think there is much dispute that this person was rude, even he thought he was, and there isn't a disputed opinion here. So these are just "The word pocket comes from French" examples with attributes. This section is in my view overcited and cluttered, but that was because I added them in for not being cited. The Morning Advertiser source is however new, so that I think was another improvement brought about via this process. Since it's the same 5 or so sources circulated around I would have ideally just left them at the end of the paragraph, but 5 cites is a refbomb in my mind, plus there are some direct quotes that need proximity. ChrysGalley (talk) 18:27, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

I have added some more citations to that section, though it's mostly duplications.ChrysGalley (talk) 19:12, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

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