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12-hour sets?

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WP:DYKNA currently has over 130 approved noms. Should we start doing 12-hour sets? – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 11:33, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This was discussed at Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 202#Approaching 12-hour backlog mode? and Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 203#WP:DYKUBM and the consensus was that we start when there are seven filled queues.--Launchballer 13:08, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, good to know. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 13:14, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If two more preps are promoted in the next 20 hours—we have five queues filled and need seven—we will switch to 12-hour sets after midnight and continue for three days, after which we switch back. We actually have over 200 approved noms (202 to be precise): the 133 that are counted in the table, and another 69 that aren't transcluding on the Approved page and therefore aren't counted by the bot as being approved, because the bot can only count transcluded noms. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:56, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If this does happen, then my #Ceechynaa +1 hook will need to move. I put in a request that it run on the 29th, her birthday.--Launchballer 04:43, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There's another GA backlog drive in January. Which means if we don't dig into our own backlog over the next few weeks, we'll be totally swamped by February. So, we need to get those queues filled. RoySmith (talk) 00:50, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
theleekycauldron any idea when PSHAW's queueing function could be opened up to us template editors as well as admins? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:30, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@AirshipJungleman29: yes! right now. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 17:45, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 5

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Hi. I nominated Rescatemos a David y Miguel for this date, and the nomination was approved on December 9. According to the established timeline, it should have been placed in Template:Did you know/Preparation area 5 by now, but it is still in the approved queue. In the past, I've missed similar nominations even when they were submitted within the established 6-week period. I understand that there are many hooks waiting to be posted before this one, but my main concern is that I've planned other articles for February and March that I won't need to nominate within the next three to six weeks due to the DYK rules, which could potentially apply to the same situation and I'd need to know if I'd have to nominated them even before the 6-week period. (CC) Tbhotch™ 06:25, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above comment is confusing, especially regarding the February/March aspect. Can you please clarify that matter?
As for the January 5 request, the current prep for that is Prep 5, which is already filled up, which means a hook will have to be bumped to later. Right now we already have almost all preps filled, and we're soon switching to two-sets a day temporarily, although I'm not sure if January 5 will be affected by that or not. In any case, depending on how things go, your request could still be fulfilled, but it also may be too impractical to follow. In such case, would you be okay if the request is not fulfilled? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:57, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Year

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As announced in an archived thread, I expanded a cantata article to GA to hopefully be presented on 1 January. Template:Did you know nominations/Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41 is ready for review and consideration. We talk again about a 300 years anniversary. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:32, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Prep 2 is already filled up and ready to go, so I don't think it likely that the nom will get approval and be swapped in on such short notice, unfortunately. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 17:59, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The miracle happened for yesterday, and I announced this to come when I announced the other on 20 December, so it's not really short notice. I felt I was already pushing the GA reviewer, and I didn't want to make the same mistake as in the other case, nominate for DYK before GA was through. - You and anybody willing: you could simply review this, and then discuss if we should present a New Years cantata perhaps some day in February. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:06, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please reserve a space for 6 January. No, not another chorale cantata, just a 290 years anniversary of a famous piece, and I don't know yet if I'll manage expanding. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:34, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
These short notice requests can be impractical and a hassle to prep builders, especially now that we're approaching two-sets a day and special occasion requests can become even more of a hassle (see #12-hour sets? above) . There is a reason why it's usually recommended not to request a special occasion request if it's less than a week out. The suggestion would be, if you want to have a special occasion hook, to nominate the articles far in advance, to give time for reviewers to check and double-check. After all, it's not uncommon for noms to be brought up here for re-checking, and very tight time requirements could affect article/hook/set quality. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:53, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are holidays, there's real life. Reviewing a fresh GA should be easier than something that nobody reviewed before. I requested a free slot - no more because I couldn't know if I'd manage GA at all - on 21 December which is 11 days in advance in my math. Forget 6 January. I won't get to it. There's real life. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:18, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In this case, nobody needs to sacrifice a hook, because I have one in that set (Q1, by User:Crisco 1492) that I don't want there: Bunt sind schon die Wälder, for several reasons:
  1. The date is wrong. It's a fall song, with a little melancholy that summer is over, not a starting point, - the sentiment is wrong for the start of the year, on top of the season.
  2. I don't like the hook, as explained at length in the nom more than once. I won't repeat it here.
Can we please try to review the cantata article, to have instead something related to the date and the spirit? Perhaps we should archive the other because the next time it would fit will be in September. I had already unwatched, having given it up, - sorry about that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:41, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind, happy new year to all loking here! - We have the fall hook on the Main page right now (which looks thoughtless to me, sorry), and 24 hours on OTD will be better for the cantata than twelve on DYK. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:52, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Queue 1

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John Green (basketball) (nom)

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Personally, I don't understand much of the hook and thus don't appreciate why it's interesting; would like others' opinions to whether I'm alone in that. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:47, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Have to agree on this one. The hook says he was only the top scorer in one of those 12 Final Four teams, which is still impressive but probably not broadly interesting enough for DYK's purposes. The hook is in Queue 1 which is currently scheduled for January 1, so this will need either a bumping off or a pull. There might still be potential in the "leading scorer" angle, but probably not with the current wording. Maybe some of the following suggestions would work?
  • ... that John Green was the UCLA Bruins' leading scorer during the 1961–62 season, in which they reached the Final Four for the first time?
  • ... that John Green, who was once drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers, later worked in banking and real estate?
Also pinging nominator Bagumba, reviewer RecycledPixels and promoter Crisco 1492 regarding this discussion. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 15:08, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Most non-sports fans should be somewhat familiar with the concept of a leading scorer, and "Final Four" is linked. The more interesting part for a basketball fan would be the linkage to John Wooden. Would it be more accessible to explicitly mention that the coach is a Hall of Famer? —Bagumba (talk) 15:55, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Probably not. When we write hooks, we aim for the broadest possible audience, not the narrowest one. If the hook is mainly intended to appeal to basketball fans, at the expense of everyone else, that's not a good hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 16:27, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For the record, the article ended running with the original hook and was viewed 2,527 times. Up to editors if that's okay or not okay. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:59, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For the record, it was also only a 12-hr run. As for the original complaint of "don't understand much of the hook", many hooks are of minimal interest or even foreign to those outside the domain, but those curious about a hook with "leading" and "first" mentioned will sometimes click to learn. That some "don't understand" should not necessarily be a showstopper, and is anyways probably mostly a given. —Bagumba (talk) 12:37, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural impact of Dragon Ball (nom)

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@Di (they-them), Pofka, and Crisco 1492: unless I'm missing something, the wording "Latino icon" only appears in the headline of this LA Times article, which is not a reliable source per WP:HEADLINES. Little bit of workshopping needed? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:47, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Personally, an appellation in a headline is still calling someone something; WP:HEADLINES is more for objective fact than subjective identification, by the looks of things. If we want to pick nits, The Washington Post quotes the title of the essay in its body. We could also use "saint", which is in the body of both the LA Times article and the Washington Post.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:54, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @AirshipJungleman29: Hi, Goku is called as "Latino icon" in other sources too: The Washington Post and USA Today, so these two sources probably should be added as references to the article for better verifiability. Overall, I think Goku's popularity in Latin America and the usage of this nickname is not a doubtful fact. -- Pofka (talk) 16:37, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chrystal (musician) (nom)

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Launchballer, the article has been tagged as an orphan, which you may wish to address before the main page appearance. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:47, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Added a link from Co-op Academy North Manchester.--Launchballer 15:10, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Straight-tusked elephant (nom)

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Hemiauchenia, per WP:DYKHFC, the hook fact in the article needs an end-of-sentence citation. Wonderful article, though; FA quality to my biologically-inexpert eye. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:47, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AirshipJungleman29: Done. [1] Hemiauchenia (talk) 14:57, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Older nominations needing DYK reviewers

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The previous list was archived a few hours ago, so I've created a new list of all 30 nominations that need reviewing in the Older nominations section of the Nominations page, covering everything through December 20. We have a total of 283 nominations, of which 190 have been approved, a gap of 93 nominations that has increased by 6 over the past 5 days. Thanks to everyone who reviews these and any other nominations!

More than one month old

Other nominations

Please remember to cross off entries, including the date, as you finish reviewing them (unless you're asking for further review), even if the review was not an approval. Please do not remove them entirely. Many thanks! BlueMoonset (talk) 21:08, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Prep building

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I'd like to try promoting a hook or two. I've read WP:DYKPBR and WP:DYKPROMO. Could somebody please mentor me? I feel too nervous to try it alone. ―Panamitsu (talk) 22:15, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure Panamitsu. The actual edits are straightforward with WP:PSHAW; the difficulty is making sure the nominations meet the criteria, and remembering some of the more obscure prep-building rules, mostly found at places like WP:DYKVAR, WP:DYKIMG, or WP:DYKMOS. Once you've done a couple, you'll wonder why ever you were nervous. If you promote one or two to the final prep set (currently 4 but it could change by the time you read this), ping me and I'll look them over. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:42, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! ―Panamitsu (talk) 21:18, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tellus (app)

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  • ... that while Tellus packages together cash from multiple consumer depositors to make real-estate loans, and is not FDIC-insured, it states that it does not offer mortgage-backed securities to consumers?

I understand the reviewer overturned the objections I raised at the nomination page, but the hook as currently written is probably not suitable. It is 199 characters long (just one character under the limit), and while the nominator said trimming was difficult and the reviewer said one was not needed, the hook is probably still too complicated and long. In addition, the hook is also US-centric (most readers outside the US do not know what the FDIC means, let alone what "FDIC-insured" means). The hook also arguably fails WP:DYKINT due to being reliant on somewhat specialist information (specifically finance-related information that can be rather complicated). This does not mean the article can't be featured on DYK, of course, just that the promoted hook was not the best option.

Given that Prep 5 is going to be promoted to Queue in a few days, I've bumped it for now to Prep 2 to buy more time for discussion and workshopping. If this isn't resolved soon this may need to be pulled back to DYKN for more work.

Courtesy pings to the nom Red-tailed hawk, reviewer Storye book, and promoter AirshipJungleman29. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:35, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I looked, knowing nothing about financial companies. The hook makes me want to know more because I don't understand it exactly, - isn't that what is demanded from a good hook? I see that the nominator gave a detailed explanation of why the FDIC clause is relevant, and while I have no time to read it all, I would simply respect it. Can we have a link there, perhaps? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:55, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) There are times when it is prudent to list verifiable facts (which the hook does) and not replace those facts with your own opinions (which a simplification would have to be), otherwise you would find yourself on the wrong end of a legal situation. So that hook has been very carefully worded in terms which have a clear meaning in financial and legal terms, which makes the hook clear, concise and to the point. If you were to rephrase any of those terms for purposes of explanation, that rephrasing would of necessity be longer than the original financial terms.
Tellus loans money to real-estate buyers, who pay back the loans with extra cash called interest. At the same time, Tellus gets its loaning-out money by using people's savings. Tellus gets its hands on those savings because people deposit their savings with Tellus in return for extra money called interest. And so it goes round and round. So, in that arrangement, everybody should get richer, so long as the real-estate buyers remain rich enough to (1) repay their loans and (2) pay interest to Tellus on the loans. Now, can you see where the hitch might be?
In a national financial crash (Wall Street being subject to booms, busts, panics and all) Tellus would be caught like a juggler of Ming vases, with all its treasure in the air and no safety net. That is to say, Tellus has no appropriate insurance because, not being a bank, it is not allowed to have FDIC insurance, and it does not back its dealings with assets like mortgage-backed securities. (A security is something that you give people potential access to if they don't trust you). Therefore Tellus is based on risk, like the uninsured teenager who borrows his dad's car, or the gym teacher who has kids doing tightrope walking over a hard floor without a safety net. The risk being run by Tellus is a run on its assets (a "run" is people queueing around the block to get their investment money back, but the doors being locked because the money is gone). But it hasn't got much in the way of assets because it has all its balls in the air, so to speak. And it hasn't got insurance. This one could be interesting, come the next crash. Well, that is how I see it as an ordinary layman. Though no doubt Red-tailed hawk will correct my wilder assumptions, I suspect that a wise investor would not invest in Tellus.
Now - do you see just how clear, concise and to-the-point that hook is? The phrase, "is not FDIC-insured" should start the alarm bells ringing, and our readers can look up the rest. Storye book (talk) 11:03, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The issue is probably hard to explain on my end, but it basically boils down to "the hook is not easily understandable to people who may not be that well-versed in finance", whether in real-life or on Wikipedia. The explanation you give is actually pretty hard to parse for a layperson, and I imagine many readers would feel the same. There's a solution of course: go with a different angle (there were other proposed hooks in the nomination).
In any case, the real-life activities of Tellus are not relevant to the discussion here: the question is if the hook as currently written meets WP:DYKINT or not (i.e. if it is a hook that is "likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing by readers with no special knowledge or interest"). The answer here is, with some exceptions, likely to be no. The primary concern is DYKINT, with conciseness being a secondary issue that contributes to DYKINT but is not necessarily the main issue itself. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:22, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that it is too hard to understand - I still don't understand how the first and second facts pertain to the third after reading it several times. Surely a less technical hook could be found? Gatoclass (talk) 13:41, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What part of "is not ... insured" do you not understand? Just because you don't understand it, it doesn't mean that the millions of real-estate purchasers (i.e. anyone purchasing a house or land by taking a loan) out there will not understand it. For anyone who takes a quick glance at the above hook, having invested in Tellus, that uninsured bit will jump out.at them. If part of a hook rings alarm bells, you don't need to understand the rest (bearing in mind that the article will explain it if you click).
Firstly, only Americans, and probably only Americans with financial nous, will know what "FDIC insurance" even is. Secondly, there are lots of investments that are not insured - otherwise my share portfolio would look a lot healthier. Thirdly, as I said, there is no clear connection between the first two facts and the third, so the hook is basically just a puzzle,
There are several other hooks on the nomination page that look viable, why not go with one of them instead? Gatoclass (talk) 14:04, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) I think there's a fundamental difference in understanding here regarding the issue. The issue is if a broad audience, in this case a layperson, will understand the hook or not. The hook, as Gatoclass brought up above, is very technical (or in DYK-speak, specialist), and is probably not going to be easily understood by the average reader. It doesn't matter if it will "ring alarm bells". DYK is not meant to be a warning, or the place to post such warmings. You seem well-versed in the topic but you need to understand that not everyone else is, and the understanding needed to get the hook and find it interesting is probably only a small minority of readers. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:06, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If part of the issue is that the FDIC is relatively unknown outside of the United States, then one could modify the hook to have FDIC. But I do appreciate the perspective from Gerda (a non-U.S. person) and Storye book that this would be more broadly interesting and understandable to a global audience than NLH5 has argued. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 16:39, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How about:

That includes all the significant bits in fewer words. RoySmith (talk) 16:45, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Or if there is a way of rephrasing "FDIC-insured" to a less US-specific description. I think the term mortgage-backed securities have been sufficiently enshrined in the worldwide consciousness, more so than the countless hooks we run with obscure US sport terminology, at least. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:06, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
To be honest, a lot of people may not even know what "mortgage" or "security" means, so while removing the mention of FDIC might help, I still have concerns that we should be running this angle at all. It also doesn't seem to address Gatoclass's concern regarding how it's not that clear that one leads to another. Can't we just go with another a completely different angle rather than trying to workshop this? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:44, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You've dropped it three preps so we have time for "discussion and workshopping" Narutolovehinata5, now you say that we shouldn't bother? If people have forgotten a key element of the greatest economic crisis since WWII in 15 years, I have concerns for the human race. I'd bet that awareness of the term is much higher than whatever "transmitter tubes" (Queue 7), a "Final Four team", or "a report from AT&T" (Queue 1) mean, none of which I personally understand. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 01:24, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Frankly, I am a bit upset by the use of WP:ROLLBACK in Special:Diff/1265975666, since it doesn't appear to meet WP:ROLLBACKUSE and it appears to be using the tool in furtherance of a content dispute. I'd strongly urge Narutolovehinata5 to self-revert as this discussion continues. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 01:30, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Meh. Rollback is the easiest way to revert multiple edits in one click. Yes, there's societal norms about when it's appropriate to use the rollback link (as detailed in WP:ROLLBACKUSE, and yes, N5 violated those norms, but in the scheme of things, that's always struck me as a rather petty thing to worry about. RoySmith (talk) 01:56, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The lack of an edit summary is the issue. —Bagumba (talk) 06:23, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In hindsight, I probably should have just used Twinkle rather than vanilla RB. I completely forgot that RB doesn't have edit summaries. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:40, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"Discussion and workshopping" was referring to the hook, and if it doesn't work out, it can be replaced. Maybe I just worded my thoughts badly, but the point is I'm not convinced that said angle is the best option among the possible options in the article. If consensus decides to go with it, so be it, I just personally don't think it's the best option. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:09, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I can see somebody not understanding what "security" means in this context, but I think the vast majority of readers will know what a mortgage is. They may not understand the details, but certainly they should get "it's how you borrow money to buy a house". RoySmith (talk) 02:01, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A link to deposit insurance, perhaps? But that page is a bit of a disaster sourcing-wise. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 22:45, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
ALT2 from the nom is still available. It isn't the greatest hook out there, but among the choices offered it probably is the one that was the most accessible. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:49, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that ALT2 would be fine. I can't imagine anyone not understanding ALT2.
I should add that my above interpretation of ALT3 does not come from specialist knowledge. I'm just intelligent. Intelligence doesn't mean having a better brain than anyone else (I don't believe that anyone has that), or having a privileged education or background. Intelligence is about being curious for knowledge, and about making an effort to understand things. .If there are people among our readers who can't be bothered to click on a hook to find out what a word means, then those people are in the minority. Our readers are looking at Wikipedia, aren't they. That means they are curious to know things. Being curious to know things means you are intelligent. So please give our readers some credit for not being lazy fools. Storye book (talk) 10:12, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Some people seem very attached to the FDIC hook, evidently because they believe it will serve as a warning to potential investors. I'm inclined to think that anybody needing investment advice from DYK hooks has money management issues well beyond anything a DYK hook can fix.
Regardless, I still think the FDIC hook doesn't manage to get the "risk" aspect across terribly well - ALT1 seems better in that regard to me, ie:
* ALT1: ... that 68% of funds lent by Tellus between April and December 2023 were given to affiliates of one real estate investment firm to invest in Silicon Valley housing?
Having said that, the RoySmith version at least has the virtue of being concise, even if the point of it is still lost on me (and therefore, presumably, many others). But given my general disinterest in the topic, I'm not going to insist that I am right and others are wrong. I've had my say along with the others in this thread, so perhaps it's time to stand aside and let somebody uninvolved make the choice. Gatoclass (talk) 06:40, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have particular attachment to the FDIC hook, beyond my dismay at how we are assessing the general public's knowledge of the most important organization in the global banking system (save, say, the Federal Reserve). — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 22:55, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Given how no consensus has been reached regarding what hook to use, I've gone ahead and pulled it back to DYKN to allow an uninvolved editor to decide. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:04, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If you would like to—as an involved editor—state your objections here, that is fine. But I do think that you should self-revert; both the bumping and the pulling are objected to, and you should not have done so unilaterally. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 22:40, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Prius Missile

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Hello, the nominator has gone above and beyond fixing the problem over at Template:Did you know nominations/Prius Missile, and I've passed it, but they are currently on a self-imposed wikibreak (they had an admin temporarily block them so they can focus on other things). I think ALT3 and ALT5 could be good to go (but need some minor grammar work), but I think ideally a new ALT6 would be best based on my comments in the review. If anyone is interested in Japan, Toyota, or car culture in general, I would appreciate your help in coming up with a new hook. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 23:24, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have superseded the tick since there isn't an approved hook at the moment, and moved the nom back to the Nominations page. I hope a new hook can be proposed and approved soon. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:04, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nom needs restoration to queue

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Template:Did you know nominations/Retelling. It was pulled due to minor errors, without a ping to me or the reviewer. Fortunately, the reviewer noticed and ping me; I've addressed the issues, pinged people a while back, but nobody came to restore it, so I am posting this here. TIA. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:54, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was restored before I got there. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:01, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, anonymous fixer.
Resolved
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:15, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Queue 3

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This is my first time moving a prep to queue, so sorry if I've missed anything.

Paora

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I promoted this hook, so someone else should check this one. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 14:56, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me.--Launchballer 15:25, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Austin Staats

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@SammySpartan, RoySmith, and Crisco 1492: There are no sources in the article that verify the hook. Also, there's a lot of proseline in the last few paragraphs of the article. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 14:56, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Article has "Playing at OOC, Staats had back-to-back breakout seasons in 2017 and 2018, where he totaled 156 points and helped the team go undefeated, winning the NJCAA national championship and earning All-America honors in both years", but you're right that it doesn't seem to fully support the hook fact.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:09, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I remember looking at this during review and decided that if the team went undefeated then each player must also have gone undefeated, so I'm good with it. RoySmith (talk) 15:44, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As Long as You're Mine

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@Bogger, MaranoFan, and Premeditated Chaos: I'm not sure about the sources for this hook. The Cambridge source seems reliable, but it doesn't state that the 1970s version was the "basic tune". musicalschwartz.com is a primary source, and Musical Theatre Review seems to be a blog (which allows people to advertise their shows and buy news features for £50!) – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 14:56, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

From the Cambridge source, "Elphabas theme, associated with her 'wickedness', which opens the show... Schwartz took it from the song 'As Long As You’re Mine'", so if you want to change "basic tune for ...", to something like "Elphaba's theme in..." in the hook? -Bogger
The book the website cites is pretty clear: "Schwartz would associate several themes with Elphaba. One possible leitmotif had already turned up out of his “trunk” of unused music. After reading Wicked the novel, he sat at his piano penciling out song fragments, and remembered a 1971 pop melody that he had composed for a song about romantic partners stuck in a complicated, unsatisfying relationship. But while he never did anything with the song, he says, “I always liked this tune a lot.” Then when thinking about a duet for Elphaba and Fiyero’s romantic scene in Act II, he wrote new lyrics for this melody, changed the bridge, and thereby created “As Long As You’re Mine,” a love song set in a troubling time." I've swapped the cite in the article, that ought to suffice to not require changes. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:34, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That works for me. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 22:17, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Prep 5 (now Queue 5)

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This is short one hook. If somebody could fill that in, I'll promote it to queue.

Fictional planets of the Solar System

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@Theleekycauldron, TompaDompa, and PrimalMustelid: The title of the article (and thus the wording of the image caption) is misleading. Some of these are indeed fictional in the sense of "made up for entertainment purposes", but others were hypothesized as legitimate science that just turned out to be wrong. I see that @RandomCritic made exactly this point at the 2018 AfD, yet we seem to have lumped both fictional and hypothetical into an article whose title ostensibly claims it's only about fictional. Also @Crisco 1492 who did the recent GA review. RoySmith (talk) 16:05, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • The article is about their treatment in fiction, whether that's where the concept of the planet originated or not. I think the article makes this rather clear (often but not always corresponding to hypothetical planets that have at one point or another been seriously proposed by real-world astronomers and whatnot). It's not terribly different from mistaken ideas about real planets appearing in fiction (e.g. Martian canals as a feature of Mars in fiction). I suppose the title could be changed to a "[...] in fiction" format such as Fictitious planets of the Solar System in fiction or Imaginary planets of the Solar System in fiction or even Additional planets of the Solar System in fiction, but I don't think that's self-evidently an improvement. If it's just about the image caption (Orbits of some fictional planets of the Solar System), the word "fictional" there could trivially be changed to "fictitious". TompaDompa (talk) 16:41, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    It's mostly about the image caption. My first reaction was, "WTF, Jupiter isn't a fictional planet, nor are Mars, Earth, Venus, or Mercury". Then I looked closer and saw the caption was only talking about the three on the other side in green, but as I read the article it became apparent that "fictional" didn't really apply to them either. Just changing the caption to say "fictitious" doesn't fix that. I like the image, but I think it needs a better caption. RoySmith (talk) 16:47, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    "Fictitious" means "not real" both in a fiction and non-fiction sense, though. So do "imaginary" and "made-up", though with somewhat different connotations and a less formal tone. Anyway, the original caption was Schematic diagram of the orbits of the fictional planets Vulcan, Counter-Earth, and Phaëton in relation to the five innermost planets of the Solar System., which I'm guessing was cut for length. I'm unsure what the limit on the caption length is, but something like "Orbits of three imaginary and five real planets of the Solar System" could be an alternative. TompaDompa (talk) 17:00, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sonya Friedman (translator)

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@AirshipJungleman29, Silver seren, and CurryTime7-24: This could be enhanced with the usual biographical data like date of birth, education, family, etc. And an {{infobox person}}. But that's not a DYK requirement, so it won't hold us up, just something to consider for future work. RoySmith (talk) 16:23, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also @Gerda Arendt you'll probably be interested in this one. RoySmith (talk) 16:25, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have any of that information. If anyone else can find it, feel free to add it to the article. SilverserenC 05:43, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Papa (2024 film)

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@AirshipJungleman29, Prince of Erebor, and Crisco 1492: just a nit: "cotton-tree" is hyphenated in the hook but not in the aritcle. Pick one and be consistent. RoySmith (talk) 16:31, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@RoySmith: The hook I originally proposed follows the article and is not hyphenated. AirshipJungleman29, may I ask why a hyphen was added during the promotion and which version do you think is better? —Prince of Erebor（The Book of Mazarbul） 17:00, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ravenpuff added the hyphen. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:26, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A hyphen is useful here as per MOS:HYPHEN, but I concede it isn't absolutely necessary, so feel free to remove it if you prefer. — RAVENPVFF · talk · 02:44, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I understand now! The hyphen was added because it functions as a single adjective before the noun it modifies. I trust your judgment that using the hyphen is the better choice in this case. Thanks for the copyedit, Ravenpuff! —Prince of Erebor（The Book of Mazarbul） 07:22, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Canaanite ivory comb

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@AirshipJungleman29, Flibirigit, Raydann, and Z1720: The source says written in the Canaanite language, which got turned into written in a phonetic alphabet which isn't the same thing. RoySmith (talk) 22:40, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Queue 6

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Amalberga of Temse

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@Figureskatingfan, Grnrchst, and AirshipJungleman29:

  • ... that Saint Amalberga of Temse (pictured) is the patron saint of upper-limb injuries, because of the legend that Charlemagne broke her arm while trying to force her to marry him?

I cannot find in the article where it states that she is the patron saint of upper-limb injuries because of this legend. Can someone quote the text where this is stated, or add it more explicitly to the article? Thanks, Z1720 (talk) 21:32, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Z1720, added the info to the final sentence of the article, as per your request. Thanks, happy New Year. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 23:30, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

St Bride's Church, Mauku

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@Traumnovelle, Soman, and AirshipJungleman29:

  • ... that St Bride's Church still has loopholes from use as a military outpost in the 19th century?

I cannot find this fact in the sourced used to verify this fact. Can someone quote where this is stated in the source, or use another source to verify this? Z1720 (talk) 21:43, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

'The external walls still have the loopholes cut in during the military scare of 1863.' Traumnovelle (talk) 22:27, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There's a subpage titled "Detailed List Entry" you need to click on. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:50, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

12-hour mode

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We've got seven queues filled now and 136 approved nominations, so per WP:DYKROTATE (note g), I think it's time to go to 12 hour mode. If nobody objects in the next couple of hours, I'll make the switch right after midnight. RoySmith (talk) 22:08, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:52, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
My hook (Gohobi) is in Prep 7. I'm not sure if it will be affected by DYKROTATE, but given how it took a while to be reviewed and I don't have hooks running on DYK often, I'd rather it not be in a set that will only run for 12 hours. Will Prep 7 be affected by this? If not, that's okay, but if it will, would it be okay if it be bumped to the first non-12 hour hook set? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:24, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it is a good idea to accommodate requests like this: there are lots of editors who have worked hard on their articles and would rather that they run in 24-hour sets, and it would be difficult to accommodate all of them. Even worse, it would mean that editors "in the know" at DYK would request their hooks running in 24 hour cycles, bumping newer editors to the 12-hour sets because they do not know about DYK's bureaucracy. Z1720 (talk) 23:27, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm with Z1720. RoySmith (talk) 23:34, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I understand that, it's just that in the past I didn't make many nominations, and whenever they did end up being approved and running, it often coincided with 12-hour periods, so there was a time when most of my noms ended up running in 12-hour sets even when those sets were not the norm. It might not be a big deal for other noms who have frequent noms and thus don't get this issue. In any case, based on my calculation, I think Queue 1 will be the first to be affected, so Prep 7 would just be outside and won't be affected, I was just making sure. And I don't mind if the request isn't granted regardless, it was just a thought. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:36, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As it happens, the just-promoted Queue 7 was the first of the six 12-hour sets, and the current Queue 5 will be the last of them. We'll go back to 24-hour sets starting with Queue 6, unless a huge amount of work is done to full lots of preps and promote an average of two a day to queues over the next three days. I'd expect it to take several days to get back to seven filled queues... BlueMoonset (talk) 05:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Unrelated to above, but the Revelation of the Magi hook will need to be bumped given that it's a special occasion request for January 6. If there are any other special occasion hooks then they will also need shuffling. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:39, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's 6 sets away, so let's hold off on that until after the switch. RoySmith (talk) 23:45, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done. We run this way for three days. After the 0000 Jan 3 (UTC) update, we should revert back to one per day, or at least evaluate if we still meet the criteria to continue in two per day mode. RoySmith (talk) 00:53, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's after the switch, so the Revelation of the Magi hook should be bumped from Queue 6 to Prep 2 so it can run on Epiphany (January 6). (Maybe switch the quirky hook in Prep 2 with this one in Queue 6?) Someone might also want to add a comment to the Revelation hook to note that it is a special occasion hook for January 6, in case we end up starting another three-day 12-hour group before it runs. It really helps when special occasion hooks are labeled as such! Also, congratulations to the folks who promoted all those preps to queues to allow this to happen! BlueMoonset (talk) 05:11, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:22, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Repeat nomination: Frankish Tower?

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I'm afraid I cannot find this in the instructions, or the previous discussions which I know we've had on the topic -- where do things stand as regards repeat nominations? Frankish Tower (Acropolis of Athens) just made GA today. I was hoping to nominate it for DYK when I found that it had already run in 2014. UndercoverClassicist T·C 22:30, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Second paragraph of WP:DYKNEW; it ran more than five years ago so a repeat nomination is welcome. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:52, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Aha, thank you. Purely practically, do you know how to set it up? The usual form doesn't work, because the page title is "taken". Do we do e.g. Template:Did you know nominations/Frankish Tower (Acropolis of Athens)/2? UndercoverClassicist T·C 23:32, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There's no "official" or "standard" format for titles for repeat nominations, especially when the concept is still new (the change that allowed them was only done earlier this year and there haven't been that many such noms yet). However, usually noms usually go with "[nominated article] 2" or "[nominated article] (2nd nomination)". I personally prefer the latter due to precision since the former could be ambiguous and the "2" could be misinterpreted as being part of the title. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:41, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
How strict is the five year rule? I want to review the GAN Jane Fonda's Workout, but I don't want to hamper its ability to appear on DYK for a second time. It last appeared on DYK on 25 September 2020, and if I review it now, it probably wouldn't be nominated until the first week of January 2025. I realize that's under the bar, but would it be accepted for DYK? Viriditas (talk) 23:50, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The rule is still new and repeat nominations are still uncommon, so there's still a lot of uncharted territory. I imagine IAR exemptions would be liberally granted to nominations created just under the five year rule (for example, last run was February 2020 and it is nominated January 2025) since given backlogs are long enough that the five-year limit will no longer apply anyway by the time they actually run. As for your scenario above, given that there's a several months long gap, I imagine that would be less likely to apply, but it might be worth discussing with the article expander if they are okay with a second run on DYK, or if it's okay if it doesn't run again. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:54, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have asked the nominator to consider withdrawing for nine months. I doubt they will do that, but it's worth a try. Viriditas (talk) 09:45, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Likewise, although the standard time limit is seven days since the article was created or moved to mainspace, we allow an extension by a day or two by request. I also prefer "(2nd nomination)" because that's the format used on AfDs. Because the rule was recently implemented to allow reruns, I bet there's an oversight on some who forgot that articles that previously featured on DYK have accidentally appeared twice, likely because the title was different from the first to second nomination. In short, I remember 7 days/1500 characters as the requirement for the article. JuniperChill (talk) 11:11, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Great stuff. I've made Template:Did you know nominations/Frankish Tower (Acropolis of Athens) (2nd nomination), which I think will work correctly? UndercoverClassicist T·C 11:43, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Queue 4

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Marie-Thérèse Eyquem (nom)

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@Dudhhr, CaptainAngus, and Crisco 1492: I can't find where the article states she was the first woman to be appointed a national secretary. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937 (nom)

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I promoted this, so someone else will have to check it. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Crisco 1492 and AirshipJungleman29: The article has "modern folk tale" in quotes and the hook doesn't. (Also, I really don't think it's a good idea to queue a set unless you're checking it immediately; had I realised that queues 5 and 6 had been done but not queue 4, I would have objected to 12 hour mode starting.)--Launchballer 20:19, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
My concern has been resolved.--Launchballer 21:12, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree about the checking issue. In theory, everything is checked before being promoted. In practice, a lot of people (myself included) tend to promote and then do the checks immediately after. But to promote a set and then come back the next day to do the checks? No bueno. RoySmith (talk) 21:56, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I tend to post before promoting to queue, but the last two times I've done that someone else has gone in and promoted while I'm still waiting on the resolution of issues. Not really seeing a point of sitting on something if someone else is just going to promote anyways. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Yeah, that's why people promote first. But if you do that, you really need to manage the window of time between when you promote and when you review, and as far as I'm concerned, the only acceptable window size is "immediately". RoySmith (talk) 22:04, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Flora Hommel (nom)

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@Lajmmoore, CaptainAngus, and Crisco 1492: "despite" sounds odd in this sentence, wouldn't something like "after" be better? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:20, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Lajmmoore and Crisco 1492:, to me, the word "despite" underscores the core fact of this DYK. If I'm scared of heights, and go on to teach skydiving... I did that 'despite' my fear. :) But, I think "after" works as well, so I'm fine if you think that's the better word choice. CaptainAngus (talk) 14:57, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that "despite" is the wrong word here. I've changed it to "after". RoySmith (talk) 15:05, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Queue 7

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The Heart Knows Its Own Bitterness

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@ProfGray: while not disqualifying for DYK, I recommend that the yellow "overly lengthy quotes" tag at the top of the article be resolved. I think the "Text of the sugya" can be replaced with commentary or analysis of the text to help the reader understand its purpose in the article. Z1720 (talk) 15:46, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kurt Burris

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@Cbl62, ThaesOfereode, and AirshipJungleman29: I have added a citation needed tag for the first paragraph in "Oklahoma Sooners". Z1720 (talk) 15:51, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The King of Comedy Visits Shanghai

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@Crisco 1492, Kingoflettuce, and AirshipJungleman29: WP:DYKCOMPLETE says the article should be reasonably complete. This article's "Premise" section is quite short. Can this section be expanded upon, with some explanation of the highlights of this film? If this is not possible (because it is a lost film) can that lack of information be explained in the article? Z1720 (talk) 15:54, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • The sources quite literally don't provide a plot summary. He came, he did funny things. Several gags are identified based on advertising material, but their relation vis-a-vis each other is not clear; we can't say for certain, for example, that the baby on the oxcart came before or after "Chaplin" doing the splits between cars while talking with two beautiful women. Although I can certainly surmise a logical progression, it would be WP:OR. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 16:23, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Crisco 1492: I think the gags can still be outlined, even if the chronological order is unknown. Instead, the premise section can outline that the following gags/segments are known from the advertisements developed for the film. Z1720 (talk) 19:21, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year!

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While it won't be 2025 yet in Wikipedia time for another 8 hours, I'd like to wish the community a happy new year. Cheers to great hooks and great nominations! Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 16:10, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy new year also from me. On the Main page: what I think was a good hook to start the year, but it didn't make it to DYK (but OTD). I hope for a little broader approach for topics off the main stream, to provide a wider field of information. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:37, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year everyone! Shubinator (talk) 18:51, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Page warring

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Influencer was recently moved to Social Media Influencer (12/28) and back to Influencer (12/31). It was promoted to prep 3 in the middle of the changes. The content is not too dynamic, but should we maybe let this settle for a week or so before running it?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 10:03, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If the moving continues, then perhaps it should be pulled until the instability subsides. Right now, it isn't scheduled to be promoted to the main page until 7 January, so we have time to see what happens. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:39, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User:BlueMoonset, unless you are aware of a return to 24-hour sets, it will appear on January 5 at 0:00. There seems to be a little bit of back and forth about content. I'd be comfortable if we could pull this for a week or so. It seems that more than the page name is under contention at this hour. I am fairly confident that it will settle down, but can't necessarily say that it has. This would give us time to make sure it is buffed up to an agreed final form for a main page run.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 19:48, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Per #12-hour mode, we're running 12-hour sets for a fixed three days. We go back to 24-hour sets on 3 January.--Launchballer 20:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User:Launchballer, thx. The schedule on the queue page does not reflect this expectation.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:16, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@TonyTheTiger I assume you're talking about the table at WP:DYKQ#Local update times? Yeah, that's a problem, but I don't know that there's a good fix. In theory, comes 0000 UTC Jan 3, we go back to 24 hour sets, but for all anybody knows, we could still have enough backlog and filled queues to immediately qualify for another 3 day sprint, so we keep going. Nobody can predict the future, so it's hard to see how that table could ever be anything more than a best guess. RoySmith (talk) 22:09, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
per the nominator's request, I've pulled the hook for now. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:11, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The page title doesn't really affect the hook. At this point, undiscussed moves should no longer be happening with the page. Any more in the short term would warrant move protection. —Bagumba (talk) 16:51, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Taylor Swift hooks

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Right now, we have Taylor Swift hooks in Prep 1, Prep 3, and Prep 5. Given how we were once criticized for that (people joked we were turning into a Taylor Swift fansite), would it be a good idea to delay some of the hooks to spread them out a bit more? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:34, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Once preps 1 and 2 have been promoted I plan on kicking back But Daddy I Love Him from prep 3 to the next prep 2.--Launchballer 04:36, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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For example, an article is nominated for both DYK and for an OTD blurb. It ultimately runs on OTD first, but is otherwise also eligible for DYK. Is it really fair to disqualify said article from DYK just because it has already appeared on OTD? After all, unlike ITN (where such disqualifications make more sense), OTD features are only for one day, and theoretically, by the time an article would have featured on DYK as well, its appearance on OTD would have already passed and not be remembered. We already have people suggesting that it's not necessarily an issue for similar topics to run on DYK in a short span of time unless it's too much, so I can't imagine allowing an article to run on both OTD and DYK would harm much either.

Essentially, instead of the "articles that have appeared as an OTD blurb (excluding births and deaths) within the last year are disqualified from running on DYK, and any already-promoted noms must be pulled and failed" rule, maybe we can relax the rule and allow articles to run on both, provided there's a time gap between the two? Like at least a week? I can't imagine this adding much to the backlog or to editor workload as few DYK regulars are also OTD regulars, and both Main Page sections appeal to different audiences. I also can't imagine such cases of articles running on both DYK and OTD being all-too-common anyway since presumably many would actually go for DYK since it's more likely to attract an audience. This would just give editors the option. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:10, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know. One example was a recent cantata for New Year's Day. It was ready (GA) and could have simply appeared, but see the discussion. As I thought it would be silly to have it any other day, I went to OTD, and it even got a blurb close to the suggested DYK hook. Almost 3,000 views, - I doubt that it would have gotten as much attention within half a day on DYK. I don't want this piece on DYK on top, - people might wonder why we feature a New Year's fact (a 300 years anniversary, to make it worse) any other day. I didn't want the fall fact that we had instead either, but didn't watch it, preoccupied with health issues in the family. At least, due to the two-sets-per-day, it appeared the day before. - I am sorry that I had to deal with 4 of those 300 years anniversaries on dates between 25 Dec and 1 Jan. It will happen one more time, in the next Christmas season. I hope I'll get to the articles sooner, but if not, I'd hope for a bit more flexibility. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:19, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
DYK slots are a finite resource, and we're already oversubscribed, which is why we need to run two sets per day sometimes. It was just a couple of days ago that you were complaining that you were going to get short-changed if your hook only ran for 12 hours instead of the full 24. So, given that we have more material than we can handle, why would we want to make more exceptions to our rules do allow somebody to double-dip at OTD and DYK for the same article? RoySmith (talk) 14:22, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It was just a thought I had since sometimes it would feel unfair if an article wasn't rewarded for its improvement. Besides, this wouldn't just apply to those nominated for both OTD and DYK within a short amount of time, but even say articles that were nominated days apart. We already allow Recent Deaths and non-blurb OTD entries to appear on DYK even if it was within a year of their appearances, I can't see any harm in allowing OTD blurb articles to also be allowed to run on DYK as long as the time in between isn't too short (like maybe a week at least, if not more). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:30, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The harm is that for every additional article we run, some other article has to be delayed, or only run for 12 hours, or not run at all. It's a zero sum game. RoySmith (talk) 15:05, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is probably rare enough that it does not matter much either way, but in general, I agree with RoySmith and see little reason to expand the pool of DYK-eligible articles. OTD worthy anniversaries make more sense at OTD than they do at DYK anyway. —Kusma (talk) 14:37, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well, OTD has standards too (they won't run poor articles) -- so, article improvement is recognized, it just does not have to be recent improvement, unlike DYK. Alanscottwalker (talk) 15:43, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Queue 3

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Israel Ta-Shma

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@AirshipJungleman29, ProfGray, and Crisco 1492: The hook says "jewish songbook" but the article says "religious song book". It's reasonable to assume "religious" means "jewish", but the article doesn't actually say that. Also, is it "song book" or "songbook" (no space)? Pick one and be consistent. RoySmith (talk) 15:51, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

American Wedding (song)

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@AirshipJungleman29, Jolielover, and Tbhotch: I'm concerned about WP:DYKHOOKBLP, i.e. "Hooks that unduly focus on negative aspects of living persons should be avoided". RoySmith (talk) 15:57, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I fail to see how the hook focuses on anything negative about a living person, it just simply mentions that the song was pulled from streaming platforms due to incorporating Hotel California, which is true. jolielover♥talk 16:04, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A living person committed a licensing violation which resulted in legal action against them and the hook is about that. RoySmith (talk) 16:11, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Roy, the hook is negative about a BLP. It needs to be changed or pulled. Valereee (talk) 16:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What about avoiding the mention of the artist, so the hook is: that the song "American Wedding" was pulled from streaming platforms after the Eagles threatened legal action for its unauthorized use of "Hotel California"? jolielover♥talk 16:46, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
How about
... that the song "American Wedding" has been described as "dark, playful, a little tasteless, and absolutely riveting"?
which avoids the topic entirely. RoySmith (talk) 17:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That is quite boring. I do not think being threatened with legal action is "something negative about a living person". As far as I can see the question of whether the song infringes on the Eagles' copyright has never been resolved. Either the original or Jolielover's variant are fine with me. —Kusma (talk) 17:21, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Brandon Smith (wide receiver)

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@AirshipJungleman29, BeanieFan11, and Skyshifter: I count six signings in the hook but seven in the article. Somebody needs to take a closer look at this to make sure I'm reading it right. RoySmith (talk) 16:01, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • See my comment at the DYK nom: 11 signs/releases (or we could do 12 if we include being re-signed to a reserve/future contract after his second signing) – in which case the hook would be ... that after being signed, released, signed, re-signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, and signed again, football player Brandon Smith made his NFL debut? BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:45, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    But he also had signings with other leagues (XFL and UFL) during that span, and there's nothing in the hook that qualifies their exclusion. But if we included all leagues, is there a comprehensive source that verifies none were missed? The "signed, released" sequence seems to be more exhaustive formatting than actual witty content. —Bagumba (talk) 17:49, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    But he also had signings with other leagues (XFL and UFL) during that span, and there's nothing in the hook that qualifies their exclusion. – the hook does specify "made his NFL debut", as opposed to e.g. "made his professional debut". BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:08, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    That doesn't restrict the signings to NFL only though. It would need to be like: ... that after being signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, and signed again in the NFL, football player Brandon Smith made his NFLleague debut? (but that's even clunkier). —Bagumba (talk) 18:26, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Or maybe ... that after being signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, signed, released, and signed again in the NFL, football player Brandon Smith made his debut? BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:47, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Too much columbine?

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We've got hooks in Queue 1, Queue 3 and Prep 6 that talk about columbine species. I'm all for more science hooks, but maybe we want to spread these out more? RoySmith (talk) 16:20, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kicked both it and the Swift hook back.--Launchballer 20:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Back to 24 hours?

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@DYK admins: As of this moment, we've got five filled queues. If we can fill another two queues before midnight UTC (eight hours from now), we'll keep running 12 hour updates for another three days. Otherwise we're back to 24. RoySmith (talk) 16:06, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Queue 2

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Melichrus procumbens

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@Gderrin, Kingoflettuce, and AirshipJungleman29: The hook doesn't quite line up with the article text. [A]re pollinated by ants is a bit more direct than suggesting pollination by ground-crawling insects such as ants. Do we definitely know that it is pollinated by ants, or is it just suggested that its pollinated by ground insects (which may or may not include ants)? – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 16:51, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • "This species is famous for its rich nectar. The Cribbs note that the flowers 'are hidden from sight on the underside of the branches, but they contain so much nectar they are worth searching for'.[1] The fact that the flowers are face downwards close to the ground suggests pollination by ground-crawling insects such as ants.[2]
  • "Flowers are creamy, 10 to 12mm across, rather open, with spreading lobes and a large amount of nectar. A feature of this species is that the flowers face the ground on the underside of the branches. This means that they are often overlooked by humans, but it makes them very attractive to ants which seem to be the main pollinating agent." [3] Gderrin (talk) 19:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Cribb, Alan Bridson; Cribb, Joan Winifred (1975). Wild plants in Australia. Sydney: Collins. p. 216.
  2. ^ Robinson, Les (1991). Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney. Kenthurst, N.S.W.: Kangaroo Press. p. 111.
  3. ^ Fairley, Alan; Moore, Philip (1989). Native Plants of the Sydney District. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press. p. 88.

Oasis (Minecraft clone)

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@Johnson524, Loytra, Zxcvbnm, and AirshipJungleman29: The stated quote is not mentioned in the article at all. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 16:51, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Hilst:  Done. I should note though that one editor requested this source be removed as they argued it was a 'how-to source' in the DYK review, but using this citation for only its commentary on the game, and not for any additions in content, should be alright, I believe, but please correct me if you disagree. Cheers! Johnson524 17:28, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Throwing out an idea I've had for a long time

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How would people feel about some version of A/B testing at DYK? We spend a lot of time talking about which hooks are interesting and which aren't, and while we have a lot of data on how our hooks ultimately perform on the Main Page, we have an apples-to-oranges comparison problem in that different hooks run on different days, sometimes at different times, different slots, etc., which makes it hard to really suss out why a hook performs well or doesn't.

So what if, instead of trying to decide between two hooks based on which one's more interesting, we run both at the same time, in the same slot? We would use {{random item}} or some other template to make sure both have an equal amount of airtime, and we could track the pageviews each hook gets by piping them through specially-made fully-protected redirects. My hope is that we'd get really good information, beyond the conventional wisdom, on what kinds of hooks viewers are more drawn to. For example, right now Template:Did you know nominations/Dune (Kenshi Yonezu song) is sitting at the top of DYKNA because the reviewers are trying to figure out whether this song hook should talk about the production or reception. If we ran both, we'd get some really valuable data on what readers tend to focus on. We could track whether we lose or gain pageviews by including non-bolded links, how much hook length makes a difference. Would people be open to some kind of trial run? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:39, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... and right as I say that, Airship promotes the Dune hook. nuts! 😄 theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:41, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
See Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 197#A/B testing RoySmith (talk) 18:44, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
At one point, there seemed to be a simpler culture of deferring to the nominator's preference when all things are otherwise equal. I sense less of that now. —Bagumba (talk) 18:50, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Simpler is always best. Complicating matters has deterred my participation on this project. Flibirigit (talk) 19:02, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If the nom is happy with it, you could try it. But if you want to know how significant any difference in pageviews is, you need to also run the experiment where both hooks are the same (except for the tracking redirect) a couple of times. And you need to make sure the archives are non-random and make sense. —Kusma (talk) 19:52, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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