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Count of DYK nominations
Section	Unapproved	Approved	Total
February 20	1		1
February 27	1		1
February 28		1	1
March 2	1	1	2
March 5	1		1
March 7	1		1
March 8	2		2
March 9	1	1	2
March 12		1	1
March 14	2		2
March 15	1	1	2
March 17	1	1	2
March 18	1		1
March 19	2	3	5
March 20		1	1
March 21	2		2
March 22		1	1
March 23	1		1
March 25	2	3	5
March 26	1		1
March 27	1		1
March 28	4	3	7
March 29	1	1	2
March 30	1	1	2
March 31	2	4	6
April 1	1	1	2
April 2	1	1	2
April 3	6	4	10
April 4	1	3	4
April 5		4	4
April 6	3	6	9
April 7	1	4	5
April 8	1		1
April 9	1	5	6
April 10	3	1	4
April 11	4	2	6
April 12	2	3	5
April 13	4	2	6
April 14	2	6	8
April 15	2	2	4
April 16	7	5	12
April 17	2	4	6
April 18	7	2	9
April 19	4	8	12
April 20	4	2	6
April 21	8	1	9
April 22	4	5	9
April 23	2	2	4
April 24	5	2	7
April 25	7	6	13
April 26	5	6	11
April 27	3	7	10
April 28	3	4	7
April 29	7	2	9
April 30	2	2	4
May 1	13	5	18
May 2	1		1
Total	146	130	276
Last updated 12:43, 2 May 2026 UTC Current time is 13:41, 2 May 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.

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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:

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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 February 20

Breakfast with Girls

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• ... that despite receiving negative reviews from critics upon release, fans would later call Self's Breakfast with Girls a "masterpiece"?

• Source:

• ALT1: ... that Self based their album Breakfast with Girls on a novel? Source:
• ALT2: ... that Matt Mahaffey's bio encouraged fans to listen to Breakfast with Girls whilst on acid? Source:
• ALT3: ... that Self recorded their third studio album Breakfast with Girls simultaneously with their fourth? Source:
• Reviewed:

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

KmartEmployeeTor (talk) 21:02, 26 February 2026 (UTC).

• Taking this up, along with the other nom of the fifth album. Will be commenting shortly. M. Billoo 12:35, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

@KmartEmployeeTor: Hi. Thank you for this well-written, well-sourced, long enough, and a new GA; no QPQ required yet. Image 1 non-free cover art, 2 is a self-work, and 3 is a text-based image. But again, a few visible WP:DUPLINKs, and some confusions with WP:INLINE:

• The reference #8 is used eight times, but I cannot see some of them supporting the prose. Can you please confirm?
  • ...wishing to contain toy songs to Gizmodgery.
  • ...so he wrote the song in a failed attempt to quit.
  • ...encouraging fans to listen to the album whilst on acid.
• For reference #10, it says "a mix of - um, everything" instead of "a little bit of everything," see WP:".
• Geffen Records, who absorbed DreamWorks... This could be a real-world fact but I still cannot see it in the INLINE reference #13.
• Official website used as reference #26, but I cannot see any mention of the 1958 novella here.
• Reference #38 shows error, I think the correct one should be [1]... Right?
• Reference #41 indeed shows the nomination, but it is neither visible on Awards website nor on Awards Wikipedia.

Other than that, I see no major problems in the article. For the original hook, the journalist pointed fans instead of himself calling it a masterpiece. ALT3 is sourced, but does not seem interesting or unusual. Thank you! M. Billoo 21:58, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

• @M.Billoo2000: Sorry about not being able to respond, as I was busy with work. I will fix these as soon as I can. Reference #8 is a multi-part interview. It was not cited by me but by a different user, I assume they only link the first part of the interview as to not confuse readers. KmartEmployeeTor 10:38, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

@KmartEmployeeTor: Hi, thank you for your contributions! I see that the issues have been Fixed. Just one concern, my search engine redirects Nashville Awards back to Country Awards, and I am still unable to check its WP:N. Is it worth mentioning? M. Billoo 20:59, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@KmartEmployeeTor: I see no other issues so I am marking it good to go. I will prefer ALT2 with slight rewording "listen" into something else as WP:QUIRKY, though I have no problem with the original hook as well. I am not sure if other hooks can qualify being subjective, except the one with "masterpiece". However, the Awards issue needs an eye. Thank you! M. Billoo 12:23, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

@KmartEmployeeTor and M.Billoo2000: As noted at WT:DYK, there is a source-text integrity to be fixed before the article can appear on the main page. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:25, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

@AirshipJungleman29 and Dclemens1971: Does this mean this statement from WP:DYKHOOK: "The wording of the article, hook, and source should all agree with each other with respect to who is providing the information"? Also discussed here, where I said that if someone clicks the hook, he may Ctrl+F / search the matching keyword within the article and its INLINE. Am I right? While reviewing, I noticed that this article is majorly written in own wordings and it was hard to search the keywords, because many of them were rephrased, unless someone reads the whole and extracts the summary again. Or, is there any other meaning of source-text integrity which I am lacking? M. Billoo 17:09, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

• Adding some ALT hooks, please check. All hooks are subjective and primary, but reported by the secondary references under WP:IV. I still think this may qualify because the album title is interesting and we may not spoil the hook by talking about music. I may also ping the original nominator KmartEmployeeTor and the GAN reviewer RedShellMomentum if they can come up with more interesting hooks. Thank you! M. Billoo 13:07, 4 April 2026 (UTC)
  • ALT2a: ... that Matt Mahaffey wanted Breakfast with Girls on acid? [2]
  • ALT3a: ... that Breakfast with Girls was under process before moving to "a toy instrument album" on weekend? [3]
  • ALT4: ... that Self had Brunch after two months because Breakfast with Girls took two years and was still "chopped"? [4]
  • ALT5: ... that Breakfast with Girls was described as "a constant battle between good & evil"? [5]
  • ALT6 ... that Brunch was considered a consolation for delays to those who preordered Breakfast with Girls? [6]

Regarding the new edit of the "acid" line that had been the source-text integrity issue holding up the nomination, the new wording, with Mahaffey's bio wanting to listen to the album whilst on acid is unfortunately problematic: a bio can't want anything. I'd like to suggest, given the problematic nature of this entire claim—it seems pretty clear from the source being used that Mahaffey was unaware of his "bio" advocating that listeners take acid to listen to the album (and we only have the interviewer's statement that this is the case)—that this acid factoid be dropped from the article entirely. I've struck both ALT2 and ALT2a because they remain problematic. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:02, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

I wouldn’t be so fast @BlueMoonset:, it seems that I was actually WRONG! You see, while there exists no archive of Breakfast’s bio/press kit, we DO have an archive of Self’s previous album bio/press kit for The Half-Baked Serenade. (See:https://web.archive.org/web/19970524072853/http://www.mtsu.edu/~m_c_015d/pressrel.htm) As seen on the bio/press kit, not only did Mahaffey NOT write this, it was actually an employee from his label (as is common for most press releases). It is clear that when PiG Publications was interviewing Mahaffey about "your" (referring to the album's) bio/press kit, he wouldn’t have known it had recommended listening to the album whilst on acid as he hadn’t written it, but instead somebody from DreamWorks had. It should also be noted that while no archive of the Breakfast bio/press kit exists, we know there are atleast two separate versions. (See:https://www.flickr.com/photos/202800406@N04/55190826315/in/datetaken-public/) Because of this, I suggest the following:

• • ALT2b: "... that a bio for Breakfast with Girls recommended listening to it whilst on acid?"
  • ALT2c: "... that Matt Mahaffey was unaware a bio suggested listening to Breakfast with Girls whilst on acid?" KmartEmployeeTor (talk) 07:11, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@KmartEmployeeTor: Sorry, I just removed the claim from the article before seeing your reply. @BlueMoonset: Any comments on such rephrasing and putting the claim back in article, or any other hook? M. Billoo 07:27, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

M.Billoo, I stand by what I said: this is a claim by an interviewer that it was mentioned in your bio that people should listen to Breakfast With Girls on acid without even specifying whether this was Self's bio, Mahaffey's bio, or what. That bios written for other album releases have been found, and there is a photo of promotional materials from the album, are none of them adequate sourcing; for a claim like this, you need the actual bio, and nothing readable in that photo mentions "on acid". KmartEmployeeTor, I don't see that this is adequate sourcing to support an "acid"-based hook even if a better-written version of the material was restored to article, and I doubt it would survive at WP:ERRORS if someone were to approve such a hook. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:30, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: Do you have any comments on other ALT hooks, please? M. Billoo 06:33, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

• New reviewer needed for remaining ALT hooks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:25, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

@AirshipJungleman29 and Dclemens1971: Any update since this was pulled and then new hooks were suggested soon; ALT3a, ALT4, ALT5, ALT6? M. Billoo 15:58, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

ALT3 and ALT4 I don't understand at all; ALT5 has a "so what" factor to it; ALT6 requires specialised knowledge to understand. I wouldn't approve any of these hooks. Unless new and better hooks are proposed I expect this nom is headed for DYKTIMEOUT. Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:49, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: Thank you for responding, but please ping as well. Also pinging KmartEmployeeTor.

• ALT3 and 3a are saying that the Self band was recording this album on weekdays, while another album on weekends.
• ALT4 is saying that originally eighteen tracks were recorded for the album, but it was "chopped" and some tracks later featured on the extended play released months later, as also reflected in ALT6.
• Can you please elaborate "so what" factor, I did not understand the concern?
• My concern was to make this hook QUIRKY, so a new reader takes it not as a music hook in first glance.

Thank you. M. Billoo 00:47, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

@M.Billoo2000: "So what" is another way of saying "this is uninteresting to me", sorry for not using clearer language. This is not a nomination where I'm well-placed to find a hook interesting or to provide an effective review; I am only involved in that I found a source-text integrity issue when this was in prep. Since it wasn't cleared up in time, AJ29 pulled it from the prep. To that end, I don't intend to comment further here. Other editors are welcome to offer reviews of the hooks that have been suggested. I was offering my suggestion that new hooks were needed only because you pinged me. Thanks. Dclemens1971 (talk) 02:31, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

• ... that while Breakfast with Girls initially received negative reviews, due its power pop style, it is retrospectively regarded as a masterpiece?

TarnishedPath^talk 10:52, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

@KmartEmployeeTor, M.Billoo2000, AirshipJungleman29, BlueMoonset, and Dclemens1971:. TarnishedPath^talk 10:55, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Source: "most sElf fans consider it a masterpiece." Attribution needed in hook and article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:20, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

• @AirshipJungleman29, KmartEmployeeTor, and TarnishedPath: ALT0b: ... that a critic noted Breakfast with Girls is called "a masterpiece" by fans despite receiving negative reviews from critics initially? M. Billoo 12:13, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

We could have ALT0c ... that while Breakfast with Girls initially received negative reviews, due its power pop style, Self fans regard it as a masterpiece?

But that is very much getting into so what territory. Of course fans of a band would like their albums. TarnishedPath^talk 12:24, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Not fans in general, fans of the band. And this isn't "a critic", this is a student writer for a university culture magazine. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:25, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

References

Articles created/expanded on February 27

Joe Baggs

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• ... that Joe Baggs once watched a dating show with massive full-frontal nudity for another TV show?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Thea Ehre

Moved to mainspace by Launchballer (talk) and Georgeykiwi (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 373 past nominations.

Launchballer 21:40, 27 February 2026 (UTC).

An AFD has been opened. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:54, 6 March 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: Giving this a proper review while waiting for the AFD. Article is new enough and long enough. Hook fact is... something. Might get pushback for DYK:GRAT reasons. QPQ is done (double hook). Copyvio tool finds no issues. So basically, looks like we are waiting on the AFD, though I'd like to see some alts if possible.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 20:18, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that Joe Baggs was filmed watching TV for three series? springs to mind.--Launchballer 07:31, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

• Thanks. That looks good; once the AFD is closed, we can finalize the review.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:59, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

@Crisco 1492: The AFD was closed as no consensus, so this can now move forward. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:14, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

• Thanks for the ping. Signing off. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:40, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

Promoter query: @Launchballer, Narutolovehinata5, and Crisco 1492: I prefer ALT1 but it doesn't quite read correctly to me. Filmed watching TV for three series of what? I'm assuming Gogglebox, so we could just say that, but I wanted to ask if you'd prefer to reword to make it a bit more 'mysterious' as I think adding Gogglebox makes it less interesting and enticing. SnowyRiver28 (talk) 10:45, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

• I personally would leave Gogglebox out of it, for the sake of simplicity. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:46, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Completely forgot I proposed ALT1, but I think that both the name of the programme and the medium on which it was broadcast would be eligible for trimming.--Launchballer 14:28, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

What would that look like in a hook? Are my concerns regarding the current ALT1 not quite making sense understandable? SnowyRiver28 (talk) 07:09, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

You're saying "three series of what". I'm saying the "what" is extraneous.--Launchballer 10:30, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Just going to note here, in case it helps, that the British "series" here is equivalent to the American "season".  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:02, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't mean adding the what as a part of the hook, I meant it's unclear to me what 'filmed for three series' means; it doesn't quite make sense at first glance. SnowyRiver28 (talk) 03:45, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

"Filmed" as in "recorded", as in you might film animals for a nature documentary. ALT0 remains approved.--Launchballer 23:28, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

I know what filmed means, what I’m trying to say is that the phrasing of the second half of the hook seems incomplete and doesn’t make sense. Perhaps some other editors can weigh in here and we’ll see if it’s just my reading of it that’s causing me confusion. SnowyRiver28 (talk) 02:04, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

I understand that "series" is the common terminology in British English, but "series" can be ambiguous for most of the world. Even though we tend to prefer local English whenever possible, this could be an IAR case where the American term is preferred since the American sense is well-known enough in Britain anyway. Having said that, even if the hook was changed to something like "... that Joe Baggs was filmed watching TV for three seasons of the show Gogglebox", I'm not sure if that works either. I'm hesitant about ALT0 due to DYKGRAT issues. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:04, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

ALT1a: ... that Joe Baggs was filmed watching TV for three seasons of a TV show?--Launchballer 02:23, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

I've been thinking about ALT0 and ALT1a, and I'm starting to think that both angles are unworkable due to being confusing. Both ultimately mean "he watched TV for TV", but in what capacity? Were the shows he filmed (the family ones) primarily about them watching TV for TV purposes? It's explained in the article, but as written, neither hook expresses that point well. The elephant in the room with ALT0 is also the gratuitousness, but even without that the confusion issue remains. Given this is past time out, I would recommend this being marked for closure unless a completely different angle can be proposed here. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:34, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

The only other hooks I can think of would be to do with him launching a drag queen persona or that he made his first TV appearances with his family. I maintain that the "in what capacity" is excessive detail for the hook.--Launchballer 16:06, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Sometimes, hook facts are simply too complex to be adequately explained in a hook, especially if no matter how it's worded, it reads awkwardly. I wonder if this just has to be let go unfortunately. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:10, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

It's a shame CelebMix is questionable since I could have tacked it on to Max Balegde (since he was part of that). The only other suggestion I can think of is ALT1b: ... that a TV series broadcast several seasons of Joe Baggs and others watching TV?, so unless @Georgeykiwi: has any suggestions, this might be another 'bring-it-back-through-GA' jobby.--Launchballer 19:00, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Could we possibly link the TV to their podcast and do something along the lines of ALT1c: ... that due to the success of their TV appearances, Joe Baggs and family started a podcast? George (talk) 19:23, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

That a minor TV personality started a podcast is quite possibly one of the least unusual or intriguing facts imaginable. Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:20, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

I asked at WP:RSN re CelebMix.--Launchballer 19:34, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Given concerns about sourcing and how this is already past DYKTIMEOUT, I am timing this out, without prejudice against renominating once it is brought to GA. Bringing to GA should also address any outstanding concerns and may even lead to new hooks. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:45, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

There have never been any concerns regarding this article's sourcing because CelebMix has never been in this article. If RSN clears that source, would you object to me adding this to Max Balegde?--Launchballer 04:12, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Even without the sourcing issues (since that appears to be a different nomination), the other issue is the hooks. ALT1c was objected to, and even ALT1b is weak though usable. I think that bringing this to GA, even if it means a later run, would be a better option, since such an expansion would also likely mean more hook options. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:18, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

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POLR3-related leukodystrophy

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• ... that POLR3-related leukodystrophy, due its rarity, patients have to go through diagnostic odyssey to receive official diagnosis?

• Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0887899425000529

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

NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 22:53, 2 March 2026 (UTC).

• {not a review) Could this hook be reworded please? It doesn't really read well, when I remove the 'due to its rarity' part. Also, the words 'odyssey' and 'official' don't appear in the article. JuniperChill (talk) 22:30, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
• Ok, here are alternatives:

ALT1: ... that patients with POLR1C mutations can experience POLR3-related leukodystrophy with Treacher-Collins syndrome Source: https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/NXG.0000000000000369

ALT2: ... that there are 321 cases of POLR3-related leukodystrophy reported. Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12391809/ NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 09:52, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

I think ALT1 most likely isn't interesting (ie, fails WP:DYKINT) as I have no idea what POLR1C and Treacher-Collins syndrome are. I would note that this isn't my area of expertise (which is why I only commented about rewriting the original hook, not you providing new hooks), so I'll get someone else to review this article and ALT2. JuniperChill (talk) 19:06, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Actually, I have a feeling ALT0 is also not interesting as idk what a 'diagnostic odyssey' is until now. And this is a pretty obscure topic nonetheless and that the article uses so much brackets even when skim reading that it would slow readers down so I'm not sure how this could proceed. JuniperChill (talk) 19:56, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

By “diagnostic odyssey” I mean that patients with this disease have to go to a lot of doctors to get diagnosed, it’s mentioned in the source. NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 20:27, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Then I think there's the potential for a reworded version of ALT0 as I feel as though that's interesting (hence why I've struck the 1st part of my previous comment). ALT0a: that as POLR3-related leukodystrophy is a rare hereditary disorder, patients have to through diagnostic odyssey to receive official diagnosis? But as I said earlier, I'll let another user review the other two hooks. JuniperChill (talk) 21:47, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 21:51, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

No opinion on the article itself, but I imagine readers might be turned off by seeing the overly medical name, so I would suggest referring to the disease under a more layperson-targeted name, or at least use a pipelink. So instead of saying "POLR3-related leukodystrophy", you could instead go with "a [type] condition" or something similar. JuniperChill Do you have one in mind? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:46, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

This is an official name for this disorder, but “4H syndrome” is a synonym of it. Should it be changed to “4H syndrome”? NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 06:12, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

I take, will review in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 06:30, 11 April 2026 (UTC) @NotCarlJohnson1992: Long enough, new enough. No QPQ necessary and Earwig picks up only WP:LIMITED phrases. As written, this deserves {{technical}}, which technically isn't a blocker. However, all of the hooks are either also technical or bogstandard facets of a disease, and I can't see anything in the article likely to be perceived as unusual or intriguing by readers with no special knowledge or interest in the topic either. (I reject the idea that a technical name can be a blocker, by the way; the most viewed hook of the last two years was Histamine N-methyltransferase.)--Launchballer 16:19, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

I think I will try to adress issues with hook.NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 17:03, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

ALT3:... that first patients with POLR3-related leukodystrophy were described in 2003?

Source: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.10019

ALT4: ... that gene that causes POLR3-related leukodystrophy were discovered in 2011? Source: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.07.014

Same problem. It's always going to have been discovered/first described at some point.--Launchballer 11:34, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Then can this be a good hook? because not all hereditary disorders are heterogeneous ALT5:... that POLR3-related leukodystrophy can be caused by many genes and complicating diagnosis by that?NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 12:44, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Source: https://www.pedneur.com/article/S0887-8994(25)00052-9/fulltext

It's slightly better, but you need to know that's unusual.--Launchballer 13:11, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

ALT5a:... that POLR3-related leukodystrophy isn't just caused by mutation in one gene but rather in many, which is not typical for hereditary disorders? NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 13:18, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Source: https://www.pedneur.com/article/S0887-8994(25)00052-9/fulltext

ALT5b:... that typically you get a hereditary disease from one gene, but Leukodystrophy that is POLR3-related isn't typical?

ALT6:... that people who can recount odysseys include Homer and those diagnosed with POLR3-related leukodystrophy?

Driveby offerings Victuallers (talk) 08:27, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Article does not contain the word 'odyssey'. The hook should be built on facts, not on the wording of the Wikipedia article at any given time. DS (talk) 20:57, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

So what about ALT5a?NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 21:33, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

I mean, there are a lot of polygenic disorders. That's why the word exists. DS (talk) 00:58, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

I don’t think that’s the case of polygenic disorder, but it’s a heterogenous disorder which means that disorder can be caused by a mutation in one of the genes. I think i’m going to make a new hook. NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 07:15, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

ALT7:... that POLR3-related leukodystrophy previously had 5 names which later were united under one name after finding cause? Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK99167/#:~:text=Hypomyelination%2C%20hypodontia%2C%20hypogonadotropic%20hypogonadism%20(,the%20corpus%20callosum%20(HCAHC).NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 09:11, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Okay, that's a lot closer to right. Maybe ALT7a... that five different disorders have been identified as forms of POLR3-related leukodystrophy? DS (talk) 14:30, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Okay, then, here’s another version: ALT7b:...that five different disorders have been identified as forms of POLR3-related leukodystrophy after finding molecular basis of it?

Source:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK99167/#:~:text=Hypomyelination%2C%20hypodontia%2C%20hypogonadotropic%20hypogonadism%20(,the%20corpus%20callosum%20(HCAHC).NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 14:49, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

"after finding molecular basis of it" is not grammatically functional and should not be in the hook. Furthermore, although I understand what you were trying to say, that detail would be superfluous to the hook. The interesting part is that five different disorders became one. (I renamed your 7a to 7b, because I realized I forgot to tag my own suggestion as 7a). Any objections to my 7a? DS (talk) 23:06, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

No objections to 7a.NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 04:48, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

• Pinging original reviewer Launchballer to see whether they approve of ALT7a, and whether anything else needs to be done for this nomination. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:31, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, where is 7a in the article? The only list of five I can see is "POLR3-Related Leukodystrophy is caused by a biallelic mutations in RNA polymerase III subunits, such as: POLR3A, POLR3B, POLR3D, POLR3K, POLR1C", and "such as" is not the same as "and these are". I don't know if subunits are the same as disorders.--Launchballer 15:19, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Basically, this disorder had 5 names (please see “Other names” in infobox and citation after these previous names), later they were unified under one disorder. P.S . I have added information about 5 previous names in history section. NotCarlJohnson1992 (talk) 16:21, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

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Sparidentex hasta

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A sobaity seabream caught near Karachi, Pakistan.

• ... that the sobaity seabream (pictured) is often farmed for food in the Persian Gulf region, where it is reserved for special occasions?

• Source: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/170174/1287447

• ALT1: ... that the sobaity seabream (pictured) appears to have arrived in Western Australia in the ballast tanks of large ships? Source: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/170174/1287447
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Created by Ryan shell (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

Ryan shell (talk) 16:12, 8 March 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:

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: AGF on hook citations. I tried checking the original source for one but it was a huge PDF that had text search disabled. Otherwise good to go once a QPQ is done. I think ALT1 is better, but either work. I do wish there were some etymology in the article. What does sobaity mean? awkwafaba (📥) 20:45, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

@Ryan shell: Please note that QPQs must be provided before or at the time of the nomination, and nominations that lack a QPQ within 24 hours of pinging may be marked for closure as incomplete. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:27, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

QPQ finished; thanks for the heads up Ryan shell (talk) 23:57, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

I have no further concerns. Pass. Thank you for looking after a species. awkwafaba (📥) 01:26, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

• ,@Ryan shell and Awkwafaba: I've scrolled past this many times and I'm sorry but I don't find the proposed hooks interesting. Is there anything else? TarnishedPath^talk 12:58, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

I think there's potential in ALT1 from an interestingness perspective. What's wrong with it? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:37, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

I will try to look for more facts in the coming days, or perhaps rewrite the original hook sound a bit better (IUCN says "This fish is prized in the Persian Gulf, and has been considered a table delicacy and a symbol of celebration for special traditional events for more than a century," but finding English sources for the fish as a food item has been challenging and I didn't want to use only the IUCN RedList source for this claim. That said, I also agree with User:Narutolovehinata5- why not just use the ALT? it seems like ALT1 is well-liked by the majority of people associated with this discussion. Is this really so boring as to stall the nomination? Moving forward, I see four options: 1) run with it as is 2) run with ALT1, 3) Rewrite the hook if the IUCN claim sounds more interesting, 4) find a new hook. What do you all think? Ryan shell (talk) 20:59, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

@Ryan shell: Honestly both hooks could work. I propose additionally ALT0a: ... that the sobaity seabream (pictured) is reserved for special occasions in the Persian Gulf region? or something similar. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 15:25, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

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Freddie Moore

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• ... that despite having a career spanning over 70 years, starting in the 1910s, only in 1981 did Freddie Moore record his first and only album as leader?

• Source: 1. Welburn, Ron (April 1983). "Freddie Moore oral history interview". Rutgers University. Brooklyn, New York. Retrieved March 7, 2026.

2. Yanow, Scott. "Freddie Moore Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved March 7, 2026.

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

𝕶𝖎𝖓𝖌𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚗 ^💬🖋️ 00:20, 8 March 2026 (UTC).

• Review: New and long enough. Content is sourced, neutral, and copyvio free (see below). Hook is sourced to a description of a Rutgers oral interview of the subject, which is slightly strange because the oral interview says nothing about the album, but is probably okay. AllMusic biography cited to Scott Yanow is considered reliable by the music projects. Hook is good but slightly awkward because it refers to numbers three times (70, 1910s, 1981), a format you generally want to minimize by eliminating numbers in a hook whenever possible. Given that the discography section was tagged and I removed the tag and expanded it somewhat, I will bow out of this review and hand it over to someone else. For what it's worth, the Freddie Moore oral history interview linked above contains most of the missing recordings that should be added to the discography. Extensive review notes below:
  • @KingGreenbean: Get yourself an internet archive account (they are free) and check out Voices of the Jazz Age (1992), pp. 174-187. It's a great overview of the subject and will lead you into all sorts of directions.
  • I did a little bit of cleanup and removed close paraphrasing, bringing the Earwig percentage down about 4%.
  • I corrected some grammar and dates and the title of the LP. All we know for sure is that The Great Freddie Moore was recorded in 1981.[7] The release date of 1985 looks like an error to me, so I removed it.
  • I removed the expansion tag and changed the section to selected discography. Also, if you read the footnotes to Voices of the Jazz Age, it says that many of the recordings are not available, although since that was written in 1992, things may have changed. Using expansion tags is generally not helpful, as they just sit in the article for years on end. I'm happy to help with the discography.
  • My only complaint right now is that this article doesn't touch on the main points, importance, and significance of who Moore was and what he accomplished. You could do that in just a few sentences in the lead or the body or both. One way to approach this is to briefly describe his style that you write about in the lead as well. The author of Voices of the Jazz Age explains why this is notable. Moore had a drumming style that he used that had mostly died out between 1910 and 1920. That's very unusual as he preserved a kind of musicianship, almost a living museum if you think about it. He also came from a time when entertainment and music were generally one and the same, which for the most part, is no longer true of jazz. To quote Chip Deffaa from his book, Moore "is a holdover from an almost-vanished style of performing...Moore is a survivor from an era that's now almost completely gone."
  • In general, your hook is good, but there are so many incredible hooks to choose from in Deffaa's book that it might make your head spin. The anecdote about Moore, Art Hodes, and their encounter with racism is a really good one and would make a fine hook, for example. The anecdote about Moore playing in King Oliver's band and Oliver threatening the band to come to rehearsal on time with a gun is another good one. The anecdote about him working in a carnival is very sad, but could also work. However, given your excellent lead image, you may want to write a new hook that emphasizes his musicianship as entertainment and a lost art of performance, as well as his drumming style. This is so that the hook matches the image.
  • This is very interesting: Moore's appearance on Wilbur De Paris And His Rampart Street Ramblers New Orleans Jazz album (Atlantic, 1952), was an early experiment with binaural recording on vinyl. This could be a most fascinating hook if more could be found about it.
  • The lead image is iconic. Is there a reason you don't want to use it in your hook so that it will appear on the main page?
• Viriditas (talk) 09:41, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Not clear what "leader" means in this context, incidentally? DS (talk) 18:27, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

@DragonflySixtyseven: Don't know what happened to the nom, but I think this is an important article and would love to see a hook succeed. "Leader" in this specific context refers to bandleader and all the rights and responsibilities that involves in the context of jazz. Moore spent most of his life playing for other musicians in their bands, in some respects as a sideman. The book Voices of the Jazz Age explains what this means for Moore: "...Eddy Davis, a great admirer of Moore's work...[believed] that Moore could have been a star with proper management...[he] got him to record The Great Freddie Moore...a first-rate sampler of Moore's work and uses...well-known sidemen..."[8] In other words, this effort was Moore's only recording as leader. Viriditas (talk) 21:50, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Cleaner, then - how about ALT0a: "...that drummer Freddie Moore began performing at 12, but only had his first album when he was 81?" DS (talk) 22:59, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

@DragonflySixtyseven: Love it. Viriditas (talk) 23:10, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

@DragonflySixtyseven: I'm trying to anticipate any issues. It occurs to me that there is still some confusion about when the album was recorded and when it was released. Those dates may be entirely different. I tried to look into this a while back and could not resolve it. So when you write "only had his first album", that could be ambiguous. We should at least be able to nail down a recording or release date. With that said, Voices of the Jazz Age claims that he recorded the album in 1981, so we should go with that for now. It isn't clear to me why other sites say 1985, but that might be a typo. Viriditas (talk) 23:54, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

ALT0b: "...that drummer Freddie Moore began performing at 12, but only recorded his first album when he was 81?" DS (talk) 15:11, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Would saying "in his 80s" instead of specifying 81 also work? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:37, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

@Narutolovehinata5: I think so. That's my preference. Viriditas (talk) 20:36, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

@KingGreenbean: Given the dispute about the release date, would you be okay with ALT0b as a compromise? It sidesteps the exact age entirely. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:46, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

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The Ancestor's Tale

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• ... that human chromosome 2 formed the fusion of two ape chromosomes?
• ALT1: ... that howler monkeys have trichromatic color vision?
• ALT2: ... that the hippo's closest living relative is the whale?
• ALT3: ... that Charles Darwin explained the formation of coral reefs?

• Source: The Ancestor's Tale?

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Improved to Good Article status by Charlie Faust (talk).

• Source: The Ancestor's Tale

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

Charlie Faust (talk) 16:18, 9 March 2026 (UTC).

• @Charlie Faust: Hello and welcome to DYK. Please consider studying WP:HOOK before nomination, because none of the hook may qualify due to no mention of the article you wrote. Please do not mind, thank you! M. Billoo 03:48, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Further, is the book about a widely accepted fact, or just a theory, or only a work of fiction? M. Billoo 03:51, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Theory/fact is a false dichotomy, as theories (Einstein's relativity, the germ theory of disease, plate tectonics, quantum theory) are used to explain facts. Darwin's theory of natural selection explains the observable fact of evolution. As such, it is a theory and a fact. Per Wikipedia: "A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of such facts. The facts of evolution come from observational evidence of current processes, from imperfections in organisms recording historical common descent, and from transitions in the fossil record. Theories of evolution provide a provisional explanation for these facts."[1]

And yes, it is well-observed. See Peter and Rosemary Grant's study of Darwin's finches, Richard Lenski's E. coli long-term evolution experiment, the evolution of nylon-eating bacteria... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlie Faust (talk • contribs) 13:59, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

@Charlie Faust: (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) Ok, your concept may qualify. But not as the current wordings. You need to rephrase it, and mention your page title in bold link within your hook. So that the readers may know which article you want them to come and see. Again, I must say, please study WP:HOOK. Thank you! M. Billoo 19:40, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

ALT4: ... that The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life retraces the history of life using a format based on The Canterbury Tales? Thriley (talk) 01:02, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

• Anyone can review DYK nom for ALT4, marking for review. M. Billoo 07:23, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

  Hi, just to note that I have raised a query about the article's GA status at WT:GAN#The Ancestor's Tale. If anyone watching this page has thoughts on that, or if I'm barking up the wrong tree, please do contribute there.  — Amakuru (talk) 22:53, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Amakuru: I think your objections were addressed and the article is still a GA, correct? If so, I will do the review. Doing... --GRuban (talk) 16:58, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

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

Policy compliance:

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

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

QPQ: None required.

Overall: This is a beautiful, if flawed, article, much like the book it is writing about. I would very much like it to succeed. Unfortunately the sourcing is flawed, perhaps fatally so; and I am afraid in its current state the article should not be a GA. The Wikipedia:ORES rating is C, and I'm afraid that seems closer; maybe a B.

• The Contents section is half of the article and is completely unblemished by citation tags. Yes, I know, that's because it's "cited" to the book itself; still, that means that half the article is dependent on this single source. Is that allowed for GAs? Should half a "good article" about a book be a summary of the book? And a third of it be direct quotes from reviewers? If so, I can easily write a lot of Good Articles!
• Then there is the lead. MOS:LEAD says it should be a summary of the most important parts of article body. "First published in 2004" I don't see that in the body. "Dawkins dedicated the book to John Maynard Smith." I don't see that in the body - and even it was there, is it really one of the most important parts? That's not a DYK blocker as such, but it should be a GA blocker, and the article is only eligible for DYK due to becoming a GA.
• Then there is the Background section. The first paragraph has one citation, to the New York Times, which would be great, except that citation does not back most of the first paragraph. I don't see "concestors" in the NYT article. I don't see it say that the authors emphasize that no extant species is ancestral to any other, or anything about molecular clocks. It's debatable whether or not this is a DYK blocker, but I think it should be.
• The second paragraph has no citation. Easy enough to find Twain's quote, I guess, maybe, but what does "The authors contend that this is true of evolution." mean? That needs to be explained, and have a source. Likely DYK blocker.
• The third paragraph that says what replaces what in the reprinting. That is useful information, but needs a source. DYK blocker.
• The fourth paragraph has no source. Or is it also supposed to be sourced to the book itself again? Does each Tale say "this is what this Tale is about"? If not, then it needs a source, and is a DYK blocker.
• I fixed some punctuation in the Contents section - again, I'd love for this article to succeed - but it's a GA, surely this should have been done already?
• The first paragraph/sentence in the Contents section: "Dawkins begins with humans and moves outwards through successively larger groups: primates, placental mammals, marsupials, monotremes," I'm not a biologist, but I'm pretty sure marsupials and monotremes are not larger groups than placental mammals in any sense of the word "larger". Not a DYK blocker, but ...
• Then there is the Reception section. This is the only cited section of the article, great - but the section is mostly quotes, that often are picked to sound dramatic, but can be hard to understand. What does "The success of this book comes from having one truly Chaucerian character: the author himself." mean? What is a "Chaucerian character"? The rest of our article does not explain; I guess an English major might know off hand, but I was not one, and I don't think it is fair to assume all our readers will be. Jody Hey's quote points out that the book strays into political commentary - great, that's interesting, but what political commentary? Our article does not explain. Steve Jones's quote asks "One mystery remains: what did the star-nosed mole say to the duck-billed platypus?" - what does that mean? Is it really something that explains something important about the book to the reader of our article, or is it just a cool quote? This is the part that I worry might impinge on the neutrality bit above - it seems to be trying to point out "cool" details from the book, rather than summarize or explain the actual reception to the book.
• Then there is the Translations section; a table, again without citation links. Yes, I guess they're kind of cited to the translations themselves, in most cases we get the year and the translator ... but we don't get the publishing house, or the ISBN, and in the Chinese and Persian cases we don't get anything but the title, so finding the specific books that their own existence is kind of cited to will be difficult. Give us a convenience link to the publisher, or a Template:ISBN link, or both. The table is broken, by the way, many of the years are in the Translator column. Having the table be broken isn't a DYK blocker, but being cited is.
• Then there is the See also section, which seems very large, and what is in there and what isn't is not clear. Yes, I get that this is about the evolutionary history of life, but we've got lots of Wikipedia articles on that, and lots of books on that, surely more than three-four of each? Not a DYK blocker, but ugly.

This might be fixable, but will be hard. I hope you do it, because this could be good. But right now, it isn't. Sorry. GRuban (talk) 17:59, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

• • Courtesy ping @Charlie Faust: please take note of GRuban's review. Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:22, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
    • @Charlie Faust: Please return to the nomination as soon as possible, as it may be marked for closure without a response. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:47, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

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Éric Bernard (actor)

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Bernard in 2014

* ... that French actor Éric Bernard (pictured) alleged that homophobia in France's cinema played a part in the decline of his career after a main role in the film Sauvage?

• Source: This note of 20 minutes (France) states this throughout the interview

• ALT1: ... that French actor Éric Bernard (pictured) refused a suggestion by one of his friends to capitalise on his Tunisian background to pursue a successful acting career? Source: This very old note of Le Parisien of November 2006 tells this detail
• ALT2: ... that an agent of French actor Éric Bernard (pictured) asked him not to hold hands with his husband in the Cannes Film Festival to avoid damaging possible roles as a straight man? Source:I guess you saw it per your statement, let me know if not
• Reviewed: Huachicol fiscal and Amy Hart (TV personality)

Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 29 past nominations.

CoryGlee 00:52, 9 March 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this, though I may not be able to get to this until I come home. ミラP@Miraclepine 14:44, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral: - The personal life section seems a bit undue due to its size relative to career; some parts may have to be moved to the career section or trimmed outright, and the career section may have to be expanded (for example with reception about his role in Sauvage. Everything else is fine BTW.
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: - Regarding ALT0, ref 5 doesn’t say in toto that he alleged that homophobia played a role in his career’s decline (unlike with that he alleged encountering homophobia in the industry), but rather that a journalist writing ref 5 analyzed that it was part of homophobia in the French industry. ALT1 is fine, though I’m include to suggest a hook about how his agent told him not to hold hands with his husband at Cannes.
• Interesting:

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Created two days ago, size 4273 B, not much issues worth noting. @CoryGlee: address the issues and you’re good to go. ミラP@Miraclepine 21:27, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

• • Sure! I'll address the issues raised in the coming hours. Thanks ミラクペネ！(is that correct?) Lol CoryGlee 23:19, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
    • I prefer the latter part of my signature. ミラP@Miraclepine 00:15, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

• Done, Miraclepine. CoryGlee 04:23, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

@CoryGlee: All good from the article side of things! I prefer ALT2, but it's a little too clunky:

ALT2b: ... that actor Éric Bernard was advised not to hold hands with his husband in the Cannes Film Festival to avoid damaging possible roles as a straight man? Source: Same as ALT2b

I think they'll get the idea that it was an agent/manager/employer. What do you think? BTW, I almost forgot to note that I marked the image at Commons for possible copyvio. ミラP@Miraclepine 13:33, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks so much, Miraclepine! Yes, of course, that's more concise and simple. By the way, about the photo, I did not upload that, so I cannot tell you about its CC status; I will look for another photo or otherwise that's not a requirement :-) Thanks. CoryGlee 13:38, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

I never said you uploaded it, just that it happened to be there. Also, if you don't have any luck in finding a photo, it's not necessary. You can just remove it. ミラP@Miraclepine 13:53, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

I know you never said that, I was just stating it for the record. Cool. Thanks. CoryGlee 15:52, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 9

Star Reach (video game)

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• ... that the 1994 video game Star Reach was a hybrid action-strategy mixing elements of games like Master of Orion and Star Control? Source: https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_129/page/n115/mode/2up
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/March for Australia
  • Comment: 2nd QPQ at Template:Did you know nominations/Jade Jones (taekwondo) (2nd nomination).

5x expanded by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 591 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:08, 11 March 2026 (UTC).

• Article is new and long enough, hook is very interesting and eyecatching for me, though I'm not sure about its factuality. The statement you made originated from the opinion of James Jeff, who reviews for the Computer Gaming World, in the Gameplay section and is presented as a given fact as if the game's creator intended it as such. Could you clarify on this issue? That's the only problem from my side, if it's resolved then it's good to go. Thank you. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 18:19, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Hi Piotrus, could you respond to these concerns? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:44, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
    • @Jeromi Mikhael and Crisco 1492: Sorry for the late reply. My watchlist is unusable and I did not receive the best practice talk page mesage or any other ping, so I missed this. The criticism is valid, here is a revised ALT1 that uses more than one reviewer comparision (side note: WAS or IS in the hook? I can never decide what is better...): --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:48, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
• ... that the 1994 video game Star Reach was a hybrid action-strategy that reviewers saw as mixing elements of games like Master of Orion, Outpost, Reunion and Star Control?
  • Additional sources: games mentioned as similar in reviews at https://archive.org/details/gry-komputerowe-1995-04/page/n29/mode/2up amd PC Gamer (offline review I got access to). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:48, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
    • @Piotrus: I propose a shortened version of the hook as ALT0c: ... that reviewers saw the 1994 video game Star Reach as mixing elements of games like Master of Orion, Outpost, Reunion and Star Control? 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 02:51, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
      • @Kepler-1229b: Thank you, it's fine with me. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:43, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 14

Hồ Vĩnh Khoa

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• ... that Vietnamese actor Hồ Vĩnh Khoa quit his acting career and moved to the United States with his husband, where they regularly uploaded videos to their OnlyFans account?

• Source: VGT tells everything about the end of his career and decision to take up private life, as well as other details beyond their work for adult films on OnlyFans.

ALT0a ... that Vietnamese actor Hồ Vĩnh Khoa said that Buddhism and Buddhist rituals heavily influenced his lifestyle?

• Source: Phunu Online: "Faced with life's obstacles, the actor chose to recite Buddhist scriptures and mantras to seek spiritual guidance. "People still judge me by my appearance, by my social media, as someone uneducated and lacking depth. But in reality, I'm different. I'm a vegetarian, I recite Buddhist prayers. I'm a family man, I rarely go out so I can spend time with my family," Ho Vinh Khoa shared about his lifestyle, which is heavily influenced by and based on his belief in Buddhism." (from Vietnamese)

ALT1 ... that Vietnamese actor Hồ Vĩnh Khoa came to dislike the label of "hot boy" and said he was looking for his true self as a "charistmatic and edgy guy"?

• Source: ZNews: Ho Vinh Khoa admits he's no longer too young to be called a "hot boy." He also doesn't want to continue pretending to be younger to please his teenage fans. "I'm trying to break free from the 'hot boy' image and become a charismatic, edgy guy. That's my true self," he said.

• Reviewed: Lana (singer) and Kenneth Chen Koon Lap

Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 30 past nominations.

CoryGlee 16:24, 14 March 2026 (UTC).

• The article is new enough and long enough, it is adequately sourced, and is free from close paraphrasing. The two necessary QPQs have been done (I am acknowledging that the Lana review was a quickfail and was a second review, but it should suffice since the first review was not a full review). The hook is not interesting to a broad audience: simply becoming an OnlyFans creator by itself is not unusual or intriguing, even for a former actor. Please propose a different angle. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:21, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Hi, Narutolovehinata5, thanks for the review. I added two ALTs. CoryGlee 04:00, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
    • Vietnam is historically Buddhist so ALT0a as currently written is not interesting or surprising. I'm not super sure about ALT1, so I'd like to see some more suggestions first. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:53, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
      • @Narutolovehinata5: I add an ALT here so not to clog above.
      • ALT1a ... that Vietnamese actor Hồ Vĩnh Khoa said that, despite social taboos on homosexuality in Vietnam, he received many messages from people who appreciated his role in Lost in Paradise? LeiTravel CoryGlee 13:11, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

The hook is a bit on the long side, and I'm not sure if it would be understandable to those unfamiliar with the film. To be honest, I'm also drawing a blank on other possible hook suggestions, so maybe you can try asking someone like Launchballer for help? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:25, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Sure, Narutolovehinata5, so, for the record, your input is not valid here and you can't use this for a QPQ. That said, another reviewer, whoever that is, may take a look at these hooks.

ALT2 ... that Vietnamese actor Hồ Vĩnh Khoa began his modelling career by featuring in numerous advertisements of youth products? Source: here. CoryGlee 02:46, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

Actually, that is not the case. The "credit" for the QPQ goes to whoever does a full review first, not whoever approves the nomination, see WP:DYKRR. But sure, I can ask for a second reviewer if you like, they just can't claim this as their QPQ. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:49, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

You know my thoughts on OnlyFans hooks. I'd suggest ALT3: ... that Hồ Vĩnh Khoa uploads his porn to Twitter?, but I don't see where that is in the source?--Launchballer 13:48, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

Not really unusual or out-of-the-ordinary. Thinking about this, I think the best option for now may be some variant of ALT1a, but as written it's pretty long. Maybe it can be made more concise? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:27, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 61 kg

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• ... that both Papua New Guinea and Kiribati had their best Olympic results in the men's 61 kg weightlifting competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics?

• Source: [9][10][11]

• ALT1: ... that weightlifter Eko Yuli Irawan was touted to win his fifth-straight Olympic medal in the men's 61 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics? Source: [12]
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Helene Pons

5x expanded by Arconning (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 70 past nominations.

Arconning (talk) 04:51, 21 March 2026 (UTC).

• New enough and large enough expansion. QPQ present. It looks like the results were better than the blurbs on Olympedia which predate Paris 2024? so that checks out. Fixed a link error on the Kiribati overview here and in the article. I strongly prefer ALT0 over ALT1. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 18:45, 22 March 2026 (UTC)
  • @Sammi Brie: Hi Sammi! I found some time and would you be able to accept this hook instead? Doing a five article joint article with this hook:
    • ALT2: ... that the men's weightlifting competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics included the 61 kg, 73 kg, 89 kg, 102 kg, and +102 kg events? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arconning (talk • contribs) 13:33, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
    • Additional QPQs: Template:Did you know nominations/T. S. Denison, Template:Did you know nominations/Manuscript Society of New York, Template:Did you know nominations/Gil Mains, Template:Did you know nominations/Blø for drakta
    • @Sammi Brie Previous comment was unsigned, pinging again HurricaneZeta^C 02:06, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
      • x4 The additions are new enough and long enough, and QPQ was supplied for the extra four pages. The volume of articles should help with the interestingness factor that was lacking in ALT1 and even ALT0. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 02:13, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
        • @Sammi Brie and Arconning: I do not believe ALT2 is sufficiently unusual or striking (WP:DYKINT) and will insist that a better one be come up with before promoting this. Uninformed readers do not know the meaning of these mass values. In particular, "+102 kg" won't appeal to readers who are not familiar with that notation.--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:57, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
          • @Jasper Deng: Would this be more appealing? Arconning (talk) 12:45, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
            • ALT3: ... that Sports Illustrated correctly predicted the winners for the men's featherweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, heavyweight, and super-heavyweight weightlifting events at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
            • This would be, if you can provide a specific source for it.--Jasper Deng (talk) 19:12, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
              • @Jasper Deng: Would these suffice? [13][14] Arconning (talk) 02:42, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
                • If it wouldn't, here'd be another hook: ALT3: ... that the men's featherweight and super-heavyweight weightlifting events at the 2024 Summer Olympics were won by their defending champions, while the middleweight, light-heavyweight, and heavyweight events were not?
                  • ALT3 is fine with me, if you can provide an appropriate hook citation.--Jasper Deng (talk) 19:05, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
• , I thought we had resolution in the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know/Archive_214#2024_Olympic_weightlifting_hook, but apparently not. I've pulled this due to ungoing and as yet unresolved discussion. Curtesy pings to @AirshipJungleman29, @Arconning, @Bagumba, @Cl3phact0, @Crisco 1492, @Dclemens1971, @Epicgenius, @Launchballer, @Sammi Brie and @HurricaneZeta. TarnishedPath^talk 00:29, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

I'm posting the alternatives which have been proposed in the other discussion to hopefully aid discussion here:

• ALT 5: ... that fifteen possible medals were awarded to thirteen different countries across the men's featherweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, heavyweight, and super-heavyweight weightlifting events at the 2024 Summer Olympics?"
• ALT 5.1: ... that fifteen possible medals were awarded to thirteen different teams across the men's featherweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, heavyweight, and super-heavyweight weightlifting events at the 2024 Summer Olympics" (based on the Individual Neutral Athlete bronze medal win)
• ALT 6: ... that Sports Illustrated correctly predicted the winners for the men's featherweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, heavyweight, and super-heavyweight weightlifting events at the 2024 Summer Olympics?
• ALT 7A: ... that the 15 medalists in the the men's featherweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, heavyweight, and super-heavyweight weightlifting events at the 2024 Summer Olympics, only four were from the same country as another medalist?
• ALT 7B: ... that of the 15 medals distributed in the the men's featherweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, heavyweight, and super-heavyweight weightlifting events at the 2024 Summer Olympics, each country took no more than two?
• ALT8A: ... that the men's featherweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, and super-heavyweight weightlifting events at the 2024 Summer Olympics all had twelve athletes, but the men's heavyweight had thirteen due to an invitation sent by the International Olympic Committee?
• ALT8B: ... that the men's featherweight, middleweight, light-heavyweight, heavyweight, and super-heavyweight weightlifting events at the 2024 Summer Olympics each had at least twelve spots open for athletes, though only one ended having more than twelve?

TarnishedPath^talk 03:54, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

I'd say I'm more inclined to either of the ALT8s as the other hooks were brought up to be somewhat "trivial" by the other editors. Arconning (talk) 06:44, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

I'd go with ALT8A, but I note that the absence of a host entry is also mentioned in that article. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 08:01, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

My concern remains on whether reliable, independent sources mention these claims about the aggregated events, or is this WP:OR, going beyond 1+1=2 basic WP:CALCs?—Bagumba (talk) 17:02, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 15

Alan J. Southward

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• ... that a world expert on barnacle taxonomy was deaf?

• Source: The Guardian

• ALT1: ... that marine ecologist Alan J. Southward almost never got sea-sick—because he was deaf? Source: The Times
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Downtown Line

Created by Cremastra (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

Suggestions on alternate hooks are always welcome. Cremastra (talk · contribs) 18:28, 15 March 2026 (UTC).

• This is a lovely new article of sufficient length. Sources are cited and check out. Cremastra forgot to cite the source, but I was able to verify the hook fact. I see no copyright or neutrality issues. QPQ is done. I find the original hook somewhat bland, but love ALT1. The subject's wife is also notable and I hope to see an article about her too. Would you be interested in proposing a double hook featuring both spouses? Surtsicna (talk) 20:39, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Dr. Southward has a bit less coverage than her husband, unfortunately, but I should be able to throw together an article on her. Good idea for the double hook. And apologies, what part of the hook did I forget to cite? Cremastra (talk · contribs) 20:48, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

You only forgot to cite it in the DYK nomination template. I do not think that is required anyway, but it does help reviewers verify. Please let me know when/if you write an article about her and the double hook! Surtsicna (talk) 22:39, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

I've been taking a wikibreak for the past week, but will get started on this this weekend. :) Cremastra (talk · contribs) 16:17, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

@Cremastra: Hello! Just asking for an update on this. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:54, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry, I've been taking a fairly extended wikibreak. I'm planning to get back into editing at normal levels this week. I'm starting the Eve Southward article now. Cremastra (talk · contribs) 16:10, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

I've been trying to figure out what makes a good hook. The first suggestion is not good. ALT1 is very good. DS (talk) 18:31, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 17

Room in Brooklyn

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• ... that Edward Hopper painted flowers only once, believing they left no room for the artist?
  • Source: Source: O'Doherty, Brian (1973) [1963]. "Hopper's Voice". American Masters: The Voice and the Myth. New York: Random House. p. 41. ISBN 9780394464237. OCLC 1080825254.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pipiet Senja

Created by Viriditas (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 54 past nominations.

Viriditas (talk) 10:38, 24 March 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:

Image eligibility:

• Freely licensed: - na
• Used in article: - NA
• Clear at 100px: - NA

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I think this hook is great.

1. The article is new and was created on March 13, with the nomination on March 24.
2. The article is more than 5x longer than it was on March 13.
3. The hook is sourced with a reliable citation.
4. The hook is interesting because it is about the painter's art style.
5. It is under 200 characters.
6. The hook has a NPOV.
7. A QPQ is also done.

I think this should be on the main page in a few days. –The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 02:14, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

• @The Twists and Turns: Apologies, but I do not understand your review.

Viriditas (talk) 02:30, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

• @Viriditas: What do you not understand? –The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 02:31, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
• @Viriditas: I think it's a great hook. I was just saying that I couldn't find the information in the hook in the article and except for that I think the hook should be on the main page.
  • Like I said, I don't understand your review. The QPQ is linked above, and the hook is in the "Flowers" section. Viriditas (talk) 02:41, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
    • @Viriditas: Oh okay, thanks. Corrected. –The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 02:47, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
      • @Viriditas: The review has been corrected. –The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 02:57, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
        • Viriditas Can I remove the new reviewer request? –The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 03:06, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
          • I would leave it. It's often a good idea to get multiple opinions for a problematic review. You will still get credit for your original review if you can show that you performed a full review if you are questioned about it. Viriditas (talk) 03:10, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
            • @Viriditas: I'm new to reviewing DYKs, though I think I did a full review. I did put detailed comments on each element of the hook, and I just added more and fixed it. –The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 03:17, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Request new reviewer. Viriditas (talk) 02:30, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

• I'm going to review this nomination later today. NeoGaze (talk) 09:53, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

@NeoGaze: Pinging for an update. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:25, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Apologies, here's my review.

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - no, several statements are not properly referenced
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - Hook's statement isn't supported by the source

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article was created on March 17, being nominated for DYK on March 24, which is in the seven-day period. It is long enough with 15097 characters (2457 words) of readable prose size. Article is neutral in tone and no copyright violations, plagiarism or close paraphrases have been found. The QPQ has been fulfilled. Below I mention the issues I found with this nomination

The first and most important is sourcing: several statements in the article are not properly supported by their references. I added failed verification tags to mark these cases. Sourcing itself is also rather convoluted, with multiple pages on single references for multiple claims, multiple references inside each other among other things. This made veriyfing the info substantially more difficult and time-consuming that what I initially expected. The use of the shortened footnote template would fix problem.

The second issue that I found, and no less important, is that the reference of the hook doesn't fully support its content. The reference states the following: "He didn't paint flowers because 'the so-called beauty is all there. You can't add anything of your own—yourself.'" I think the meaning of this statement and what the hook conveys are quite different. The original hook should be modified or/and new hooks should be presented. I will leave it to the discretion of the nominee. NeoGaze (talk) 23:48, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

@NeoGaze: I deleted my little temper tantrum from earlier. It felt good at the time, but when I got home and read it, it felt like I had temporarily gone insane. Now that I'm calm, I want you know that I wasn't mad at you, I was mad that I didn't have time to deal with this, but tried to deal with it anyway. But, that's how life is, it hits you from every direction at once to see if you are paying attention. Anyway, I did want you to know I appreciate your second review and the time you invested in it. I completely failed to see that at the time, but now I do. I'm not at all opposed to anyone else offering a new hook, but I probably won't be able to do that until I take care of a few things, which might be 24 hours or so. Viriditas (talk) 09:53, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Source verification

• "In 1931 alone, Hopper sold 30 paintings." ("In 1931, Hopper sold thirty works..." p. 241.)
• "Hopper also minimized the importance of his commercial work during his lifetime, believing it diminished the importance of his fine art." ("Although he was famously unapologetic about keeping to realism while all about him were turning to abstraction, Edward Hopper appears to have been sensitive to the possibility that the "illustrational" dimension of his work would cause him to be underestimated and undervalued. One symptom of that concern was his consistent downplaying of the significance of his years of work as a commercial magazine and book illustrator." p. 21) wrong source cited, fixed
• "Hopper started painting Room in Brooklyn at the beginning of 1932. It was improvised and spontaneous, although the story behind the work is disputed." (p. 135.) fixed page number, removed spontaneous, as that refers to a different source
• "In the same year, he painted watercolors with Jo in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with the two becoming romantically involved that summer." (pp. 167-171)
• "Hopper had studied the German language, made use of German motifs in his early work, and displayed knowledge of the German art tradition." (pp. 11 studied German, 30 used German motifs in his early work, 58 familiarity with German symbols, 120 "demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of the traditions of poster art in Germany...", 123-124 Du Bois' acknowledgement that Hopper reads "a lot of German", 154 eats frequently at a German bakery, 266 enjoys quoting Goethe in German, 394 "Hopper loved to recite ["Wanderers Nachtlied"] in German.")
• "Hopper avoided political positions in his own work." (many sources including Hobbs 1997, pp. 35-36, 48; and Levin 1995 pp. 93, 138, 195, 287.) I should note that a close reading of Hobbs here can lead to much confusion. Hobbs places some of the style of Hopper's work into the Progressive era, but only indirectly and by way of symbols. The reality, as Levin (and Troyen below) lays out, is that Hopper was opposed to the Progressive era and was a staunch conservative. Happy to address this in more detail or to tighten the sourcing. I admit that the discrepancy between Hopper's admiration for progressive artists on the one hand (probably going back to his time in France) and his defense of conservatism is confusing, but people are complicated. This kind of confusion is common, however. It is said, for example, that the origins of much of modern right-wing activism that began with the Powell memo in the early 1970s and made its way through donor networks, the Tea Party, and eventually the alt right, was admittedly (according to members of that movement) based on left wing tactics, organizing, and even philosophical manifestos on the left. This kind of cross-pollination is common, but it still doesn't make Hopper political as he didn't overtly use political themes in his art.
• "Troyen also speculates that one major reason Hopper strenuously objected to being labeled as an American Scene painter was because many of those artists were supported by New Deal government art programs." (pp. 166-167)
• "Hopper traveled to Europe twice. In his first trip, he spent ten months in Europe from the fall of 1906 until the summer of 1907. He visited Paris, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Brussels." (pp. 39, 240.) error corrected. visited Europe thrice, not twice. pages added.
• "The row houses in Room in Brooklyn resemble urban architecture in Hopper's other New York works produced in the five years before the painting, including The City (1927), From Williamsburg Bridge (1928), and Early Sunday Morning (1930), the latter loosely depicting structures once found on Seventh Avenue." (pp. 135-136)
• "Du Bois sang Hopper's praises in the literature, commending both Hopper and his colleague Charles E. Burchfield for their contributions to a new form of modern American art." I thought my paraphrase of this was enough, but apparently it does not satisfy you, so I will trim it back to the essentials and add Levin on top. I think my original formulation is sound, but without Levin, I cannot defend it.
  • Changed to "Du Bois sang Hopper's praises in the literature, commending both Hopper and his colleague Charles E. Burchfield, who were often compared by critics. Hopper had himself previously interviewed Burchfield and published an article about his work." (pp. 216, 234-235)

@Viriditas I'm glad you removed your initial reaction, because honestly I was quite upset and discouraged when I read it, to the point of seriously considering taking a long rest from contributing in Wikipedia. I spent most of that day's afternoon making the review and checking every source I could access and veryfing the info, including the archive.org ones. At no point I intended to be disrespectful and every bit of feedback was done in good faith.

I added the veryfication tags to signal the info I couldn't verify in the provided reference pages. Some have passed me by, that's on me (errare humanum est) and I appreciate you provided quotes correcting those. Let me make a second check up on the article and if I see any other issue I will mention it in the article's talk page.

Now, on the hook itself I can see your interpretation, although I think the "they left no room for the artist" part is quite vague and subject of multiple interpretations. Also it doesn't appear in the article itself. My original reply comes from my experience when I nominated the articles I created for DYK, as a couple of times I had to discard hooks that weren't close enough to what the source says or the hooks themselves didn't appear on the article. If you want we can request another opinion on this matter. Do not worry about time, we have a month and four days left. NeoGaze (talk) 14:56, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

I think the "they left no room for the artist" part is quite vague and subject of multiple interpretations. I asked earlier, what other interpretations are there? I don't think there are any. All of the sources say the same thing. Happy to write a new hook, but I think I got it right the first time around. You say the hook doesn't appear in the article, but I don't agree. "Yourself" refers to the artist. Who is Hopper referring to here? "You can't add anything to them of your own—yourself." It is the artist. That's what he's talking about. He's explaining why he, as an artist, doesn't paint flowers. He also goes into this in greater detail in the longer quote about artists who do paint flowers successfully. "Yourself" only refers to the artist, nobody else. There is no other interpretation. Viriditas (talk) 22:47, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

@Viriditas Here's some further issues with sourcing that I found (hopefully I won't get them wrong) Since my time is limited right now, I will go section to section.

Flowers Section

• 1) Reference 17: the source leads to a review of "A Basic Grammar of Modern English" by Bruce L. Liles, instead of "Josephine Nivison Hopper: Some Newly Discovered Works". Here's a link to the proper source
• 2) I couldn't verify the source for the statement "Hopper delivered the painting to his art dealer, Frank K.M. Rehn, in February 1932."
• 3) Same with the source of the statement "before the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, bought the painting in early 1935 for $1,800". The painting isn't mentioned in the file I checked.
• 4) And same with "The purchase was supported by the Charles Henry Hayden Fund", the fund isn't mentioned in the source. NeoGaze (talk) 22:53, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

• @NeoGaze: These are all in the sources, but I have made them more explicit in a new draft I'm working on. It's only 30% finished. I hope to have it finished tomorrow. Viriditas (talk) 00:43, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

• @NeoGaze: I believe I have verified all of the sources and put them in your preferred sfn format. I am now composing a new hook since you don't like the current one. Viriditas (talk) 00:58, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

• For whatever reason, the bot isn't able to deal with two DYK checklist templates in a single review, so it's taking the result of the first rather than the second. Reiterating the second review's icon here in the hopes that the bot can properly deal with that; if not, I'll get in touch with the bot owner and note the issue. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:41, 21 April 2026 (UTC
• Viriditas, a reminder to bring the {{Edward Hopper}} navbox back to normal size, thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 00:05, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • It's being caused by a stray tag somewhere. I need to find it. Viriditas (talk) 00:07, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 18

William Bramwell Smith Jr.

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• ... that William Bramwell Smith Jr. was the co-creator of the United States Army Herald Trumpets who play "Hail to the Chief" for the arrival of the President of the United States?

• Source: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/ws/send_file/send?accession=osu1523981040589755&disposition=inline

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• Comment: I am trying to get a DYK on the mainpage for May 15, 2026 by 7 PM EDT. This date is the date of the performance for the U.S. Army Orchestra Young Artist Competition Performance where artists will perform alongside U.S. Army Band ("Pershing's Own"). William Bramwell Smith Jr. served as a cornetist in the U.S. Army Band, wrote music that is played by the US Army Band (his arrangement of the National Anthem was performed as recently as February 2026 by the U.S. Army Concert Band), and he of course set up the Herald Trumpets so I think it would be a nice time to have his DYK shown then.

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

Babyyodagottem (talk) 20:45, 20 March 2026 (UTC).

• Not a review (other than the hook perhaps being too long instead of being straight to the point), but for context, the nominator discussed the special occasion request with me on my talk page, and I advised them not to go with it as the date was not sufficiently special. I still believe it is not special enough given that the date is not even mentioned in the article and its relation to the subject is tangential at best, so I would oppose that date on those grounds. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:46, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Just to clarify so there is no confusion regarding that exchange, I did suggest the date and the reason for the date with Narutolovehinata5. He then stated "I don't think that would be considered sufficiently special for DYK purposes I'm afraid." and I responded "Ok. Well, I'll try my best and see what happens. Thank you for all your help!" Just did not want to exchange to seem more contentious than it was. I would love it if the DYK could happen on that date, but if it can't I understand. Babyyodagottem (talk) 13:54, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

I take, will review in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 13:09, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

@Babyyodagottem: Long enough, new enough. No QPQ needed. Earwig is picking up a lot of common terms, which I think are all WP:LIMITED, but may ask for another opinion on. (For your information, we don't put words in quote marks without crediting whose words they are.) I also removed some WP:COATRACK stuff and added a {{cn}} tag which needs resolving.--Launchballer 12:22, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Also, I removed the hook from the article as we can't use a 2018 source for something that happened in 2026, so you'll need a new one.--Launchballer 12:24, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing! I really appreciate it! I'll come up with a new hook and make further revisions. Sorry for the delay. I was unavailable due to issues in real life for a bit, but that should all be resolved now. Babyyodagottem (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Also here is a suggested revised DYK below. Babyyodagottem (talk) 21:28, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

alt1 Did you know that William Bramwell Smith wrote "Fanfare, Processional, and Recessional" for the 1960 Presidential Inauguration of John F. Kennedy?

If you're alright with the trimmed derivative ALT1a: ... that William Bramwell Smith Jr. wrote a track for the presidential inauguration of John F. Kennedy?, I'll assess it.--Launchballer 15:24, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

Yes. That works. Please assess. Babyyodagottem (talk) 21:27, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 19

Zebulon Devil Dogz

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• ... that the Zebulon Devil Dogz, a collegiate summer baseball team in the US, is to consist entirely of student athletes born in Australia? (Source)
• ALT1b ... that the Zebulon Devil Dogz, a collegiate baseball team in the United States, will consist entirely of athletes from Australia? (Source)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/May 1453 lunar eclipse

Created by Johnson524 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 33 past nominations.

Johnson524 15:39, 20 March 2026 (UTC).

• Will review this shortly. Not very familiar with US collegiate baseball, somewhat familiar with Australia. --LivelyRatification (talk) 06:12, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral: - See comments re: reception.
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: 3200 characters, created two days ago. Appropriately sourced from what I can see and largely compliant with NPOV, the only point I would make is that the contrast of the reception of the Devil Dogz vs the Warbirds is not supported by the source, and so should either be removed or another source added to support it. Did not sight any major copyright issues and, sans a 21.9% for the inclusion of an attributed quote, the highest Earwig score is 4.8%. Asidde from the issue of the Warbirds contrast, this is all pretty good to me. The only other thing I would say is that, while the hook is supported by the source and interesting, it could probably afford to be trimmed a little bit. Namely, the use of "student athletes" seems redundant when it is already stated the team is collegiate (which I think means college, but I might be mistaken here), and "born in Australia" might be better substituted with "from Australia". My alternative would be ALT1 ... that the Zebulon Devil Dogz, a college baseball team in the United States, will consist entirely of athletes from Australia?, but I'm happy to hear your suggestions and comments, I've no strong preference myself. --LivelyRatification (talk) 06:37, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

• • Am I right? this is a baseball team who have never played a game and they have an article destined for Wikipedia's main page? Whereas women who play for their national team in Africa are not considered notable. Odd. Victuallers (talk) 10:57, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
    • As odd as it might seem to you, I don't think there are any notability issues when it comes to this article. I agree that topics relating to areas outside of the global north can often have somewhat farcical requirements imposed on them, but DYK incentivises the featuring of articles like this -- nascent topics that may not yet have fully developed or are only in their first stage, due to the newness requirement. --LivelyRatification (talk) 11:19, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
      • Agreed. This is "OK... according to our rules". I'm just agreeing that we do have "somewhat farcical requirements" that allow a proposed college team to claim the limelight. It's not the team's fault, it's ours. Victuallers (talk) 12:44, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
        • @LivelyRatification: Thank you for catching that one line and for the review! I completely agree the current hook should be shortened, but if I take yours, I think a new reviewer will be needed. As a slight alternative, what do you think of ALT1b above? Cheers! Johnson524 06:00, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
          • @Johnson524: My understanding is that minor adjustments not introducing new facts are permitted per WP:DYKRI, but I'm happy to approve ALT1b now that the issues have all been sorted out! --LivelyRatification (talk) 06:09, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Tropical Storm Sibyl (1995)

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• ... that Tropical Storm Sibyl strengthened into a Category 2 typhoon while passing through the archipelago due to the contraction of the wind field?

• Source: https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/products/atcr/1995atcr.pdf

• ALT1: ... that Tropical Storm Sibyl caused mudflows up to 18 ft (5.5 m) high from the slopes of Mount Pinatubo in Cabalantian? Source: https://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/products/atcr/1995atcr.pdf
• ALT2: ... that Tropical Storm Sibyl made four landfalls in the Philippines? Source: "SIBYL 1995" Entry
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Created by Ampil (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

~🌀Ampil ^{「💬 / 📝」} 12:57, 20 March 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: The mudflow hook (ALT1) is the best of the three: it is specific, dramatic, and clearly sourced in the article. The four landfalls hook (ALT2) is solid but less striking. The contraction of the wind field hook is valid, but probably too technical. --Iurii.s (talk) 15:31, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

@Iurii.s: I chosen the mudflow hook (ALT1). ~🌀Ampil ^{「💬 / 📝」} 01:14, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

@Ampil, Iurii.s, and Jasper Deng: I have pulled this post-promotion due to a need for copyediting. The current version is not presentable for the main page. It includes sentence fragments such as Heavy rainfall 225–330 mm (8.9–13.0 in) across Mindoro, Samar, Panay and southern portions of Luzon. and Maximum wind speed recorded with 10-minute sustained winds of 120 km/h (70 mph) in Sangley Point on September 30.. Several sentences do not start with appropriate capitalization, such as one drowned in Palayan. three drowned in Panay. Several sentences begin with digits (5 injured in Bukidnon province.; 3,900 homes in four other barangays are buried into deposits about 9 m (30 ft) deep.; 29 provinces and 28 cities were placed under a state of calamity by Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos.. Also: the preferred hook (ALT1) is unclear as written. The source says the mudflows were 18 feet high (aka deep); as written, it could be taken to mean 18 feet in length, which is unimpressive. This should be clarified. Once these are done, a promoter is welcome to move this back into a prep. Dclemens1971 (talk) 02:33, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: Fixed.

• Heavy rainfall 225–330 mm (8.9–13.0 in) across Mindoro, Samar, Panay and southern portions of Luzon. > Heavy rainfall of 225–330 mm (8.9–13.0 in) across Mindoro, Samar, Panay and southern portions of Luzon.
• Maximum wind speed recorded with 10-minute sustained winds of 120 km/h (70 mph) in Sangley Point on September 30. > The maximum wind speed, with 10-minute sustained winds of 120 km/h (70 mph), was recorded in Sangley Point on September 30.
• one drowned in Palayan. three drowned in Panay. > One drowned in Palayan. Three drowned in Panay.
• 5 injured in Bukidnon province. > Five injured in Bukidnon province. 3,900 homes in four other barangays are buried into deposits about 9 m (30 ft) deep. > A total of 3,900 homes in four other barangays are buried into deposits about 9 m (30 ft) deep.
• 29 provinces and 28 cities were placed under a state of calamity by Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos. > Twenty-Nine provinces and Twenty-Eight were placed under a state of calamity by Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos. ~🌀Ampil ^{「💬 / 📝」} 05:24, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

I also rewrote ALT1 "... that Tropical Storm Sibyl caused mudflows up to 18 ft (5.5 m) high from the slopes of Mount Pinatubo in Cabalantian?" ~🌀Ampil ^{「💬 / 📝」} 05:24, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@Ampil: Nearly all your revisions still contain grammar errors. For example, the last one does not comply with MOS:CASE (if at the beginning of a sentence, only the first part of a compound number phrase is capitalized). Also, MOS:TENSE requires those past events to be described using the past tense (thus "are buried" is not appropriate). Your first one still lacks a verb and is thus still not a complete sentence. "Into" is also the wrong preposition to use after "buried"; "under" is the correct word. Also, 120 km/h and 70 mph do not convert to each other; please fix (do not round direct observations).--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:02, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@Ampil: More examples of blatant grammar errors from a cursory spot-check: "At 12:00 UTC on the same day, the JTWC reached peak intensity at 110 mph (180 km/h) and made fourth landfall Quezon province" – this is the wrong sentence subject, since winds are a property of the storm, not the JTWC, and additionally, "made fourth landfall Quezon province" is missing a preposition before "Quezon province" as well as an indefinite article or demonstrative pronoun ("its" for example) before "fourth"; "first monitored tropical disturbance" – missing indefinite article between "monitored" and "tropical". A less-serious but still outstanding issue is that metric units should go first, and 95 knots is 110 mph and 175 km/h, not 180. If these and all other grammar errors are not fixed, this article will not be eligible for DYK. Note WP:DYKTIMEOUT; don't let it take that long.--Jasper Deng (talk) 11:34, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@Ampil: I didn't offer comprehensive edits, just examples; there's quite a bit more that needs to be done to get this article presentable. Dclemens1971 (talk) 10:58, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971: Their further attempts to edit have only been introducing additional grammar and other errors. I'm now strongly leaning towards outright rejecting this DYKN even though it's not at the point of timeout, since I do not see this not becoming a huge waste of time for me or other promoters/reviewers. What do you suggest?--Jasper Deng (talk) 18:59, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@Jasper Deng: That's within discretion, although you can also leave it alone for improvements. You can also as the promoter, you are also not required to review/approve changes. I am pulling this from the "approved" list since it seems like more work remains to be done. @Ampil: please ping the original reviewer for this article when you've completed the necessary copyedits. Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:50, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@Jasper Deng, Dclemens1971, and Iurii.s: Copyedit diffs: [15] [16] [17] [18] ~🌀Ampil ^{「💬 / 📝」} 06:57, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Ampil: I'm sorry, but this is nowhere near thorough. There are numerous locations where you wrote that "Sibyl upgraded to a..." which is, again, the wrong sentence subject. Sibyl is the object of "upgrade" and the subject should be an agency (JTWC, PAGASA, JMA, or sometimes HKO). An indefinite article is still missing before "peak pressure", and in any case, "minimum pressure" is a better term. "The tropical disturbance moving westward" is also not a complete sentence due to the incorrect usage of "moving"; "was" is needed before. Again, this is not an exhaustive list. Please run this article's text through a spelling and grammar program (like Word or Google Docs) and do not ping again until you have thoroughly fixed it all. If you again ping without having done so, I will declare this nomination fully failed and a DYK will need to wait until someone else brings it up to GA standards. It is not the job of the rest of us or the DYK process to coach you on basic spelling and grammar, so you need to take responsibility for that. Alternatively, you can recruit the services of another editor at WT:WPTC, as it is okay to have multiple editors share credit for a DYKN, but we cannot continue to have to repeatedly ask you to fix spelling and grammar. --Jasper Deng (talk) 18:50, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Ampil and Iurii.s: This is indeed on me for not cross checking you. I'm disappointed. There's a reason why I find myself fighting a never-ending battle when it comes to the most basic composition mistakes in tropical cyclone articles. Please do not ever let a DYKN get to this point again with such glaring errors. I had checked only the sourcing of the hook and the hook itself. Please ping me again when you have fixed those and other mistakes.--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:40, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@Jasper Deng: The article has been extensively copyedited now. I could not spot any glaring mistakes afterward. It seems presentable now. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 15:38, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

@Kepler-1229b: I believe you should get credit for this DYKN too, since this was a massive cleanup. There still remain things to fix: for example, what's the meaning of "developing slowly on its progression"? I think the last three words are simply superfluous, and I'm not sure "scaffolding" is a countable noun (so I don't think the plural "scaffoldings" is correct). Fix those and any other issues remaining and it should be good to go with you added as an additional credit.--Jasper Deng (talk) 21:16, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

@Jasper Deng: I'll get on it when I can. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 21:48, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

I've cleaned the article up a bit more now. I can't seem to spot any more issues; if you do I would appreciate it greatly if you notified me. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 21:54, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

@Kepler-1229b: It is now essentially presentable, though the "winds of 110 mph" statement needs qualification since there are three types of winds it could be: 1-minute sustained, 10-minute sustained, or gust (it's the first of the three in this case; please specify that).

Turning attention to the hook, ALT1 is the only one of the three that meets WP:DYKINT, but it needs rephrasing, since "18 m high" is ambiguous–maximum depth (which is what is meant), elevation drop, river stage? It and the article should be rephrased as a maximum depth. --Jasper Deng (talk) 19:53, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

I added "1-minute sustained" [19], since the JTWC uses 1-minute sustained winds. 18 m is not mentioned in the JTWC source as meters it shows "... 18-foot high lahars (mudflows) from the slopes of Mount Pinatubo ..." @Kepler-1229b: there's a remaining issue, Jasper said should be rephrased as a maximum depth. I'll suggest three other hooks:

ALT1a: ... that Tropical Storm Sibyl caused mudflows with a maximum depth of up to 18 ft (5.5 m) deep from the slopes of Mount Pinatubo in Cabalantian?

ALT1b: ... that Tropical Storm Sibyl caused mudflows with a maximum depth of up to 18 ft (5.5 m) high from the slopes of Mount Pinatubo in Cabalantian?

ALT1c: ... that Tropical Storm Sibyl caused mudflows with a maximum depth of up to 18 ft (5.5 m) deep on the slopes of Mount Pinatubo in Cabalantian?

~🌀Ampil ^{「💬 / 📝」} 04:45, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 21

Moergito

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• ... that Moergito banned the production of machetes shortly after orders for tens of thousand of it were made? Source: "Parang-Parang Gelap?" [Dark Machetes?]. Tempo. 13 February 1982. Retrieved 24 May 2024. ...Moergito menerima laporan dari bawahannya... puluhan pandai besi...tengah membuat 20 ribu parang pesanan Departemen Agama...Sejumlah pandai besi dikabarkan tengah menyelesaikan 25 ribu parang pesanan Departemen Tenaga Kerja dan Transmigrasi (Depnakertrans)...Sejak 27 Januari, atas instruksi Pandam Mayjen Moergito kegiatan pandai besi di desa itu dihentikan. "...Moergito received a report from his subordinates... dozens of blacksmiths... were making 20 thousand machetes ordered by the Department of Religion... A number of blacksmiths were reportedly completing 25 thousand machetes ordered by the Department of Manpower and Transmigration (Depnakertrans)... Since January 27, on the instructions of Commander Major General Moergito, blacksmith activities in the village have been stopped."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Asjraq

Moved to mainspace by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 121 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 17:17, 22 March 2026 (UTC).

• I take, will review in the next 24 hours. In the meantime, @Jeromi Mikhael: please add some subheadings to Military career as I am finding that section very hard to read.--Launchballer 17:47, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

• @Launchballer: I've added several second level subheadings to the massive military career section. Much apologies for the inconvenience. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 23:24, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

Didn't need that many, but at least I could read it, so thanks. This is long enough and new enough. QPQ done and Earwig is clean. I added a {{cn}} tag - possibly an artefact from where a paragraph was split? Please remedy.--Launchballer 12:00, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Hi, I've attached a reference in place of the tag you've put in the article. Much thanks for noticing the details! Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 13:45, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

The grammar in your first hook is tricky to follow. How about ALT0a: "...that Indonesian military leader Moergito banned the production of machetes in East Java shortly after the government had ordered twenty thousand of them?" Or ALT1: "... that Indonesian military leader Moergito banned machetes and tattoos?" DS (talk) 18:43, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

@DragonflySixtyseven: Much apologies, I'm not that good in grammar since English is not my first language. Personally I think ALT0a is much more concise compared to ALT1 which I feel is more generic and won't be too interesting for DYK. Thank you Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 00:37, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

It's fine — your English is much better than my Bahasa. (I'm guessing Bahasa, anyway) DS (talk) 01:10, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

@DragonflySixtyseven: Referring Indonesian as Bahasa is equivalent to referring English as "Language". "Do you speak Language? No, I don't speak Language. I only speak Bahasa." It doesn't make sense to native speakers :) Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 05:04, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

The World Is to Dig

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• ... that the album cover for The World Is to Dig is of Yosemite Valley?

• Source: "Ep538: John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants Returns!". The Vinyl Guide podcast

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• Comment: I created this article and would like this to be in the Did You Know. The source that I put is also in The World Is to Dig's article. The date I put is the date that I requested for this to be in the Did You Know.

Created by The Twists and Turns (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations. The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 02:49, 22 March 2026 (UTC).

• Thank you for creating this article. Unfortunately, it is not eligible for DYK because it was not expanded five-fold within the week prior to the nomination. According to the DYK Check tool, the article's five-fold expansion began 11 days prior to its nomination on 11 March. Within the week before the nomination (going back to 14 March), it was expanded 4.77x. While WP:DYKNEW permits wiggle room of "a day or two upon request", it does not authorize reviewers to grant a four-day grace period. The Twists and Turns, I recommend bringing this article to Good Article status and renominating it after that time (paying attention to the seven-day window of eligibility). I also recommend submitting an alternative hook at that time, as this one is not hooky and merely recites a fact that would be obvious to most people who view the cover and unlikely to be interesting. Dclemens1971 (talk) 05:32, 22 March 2026 (UTC)
• Reopening this nomination per discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Should_The_World_Is_to_Dig_be_reopened?, where (I will note for promoter's and queuer's reference) consensus was to grant an exception to the lack of a full 5x expansion within the 7 days prior to nomination. Discussion there continues as to the hook itself, which I will leave for a new reviewer. Dclemens1971 (talk) 20:15, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
  • ALT1 ... that the album cover of The World Is to Dig, which depicts Yosemite Valley, was almost of a sinkhole? (Source: "Ep538: John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants Returns!". The Vinyl Guide podcast; Interviews for Record Collectors & Music Fans. March 16, 2026.) The Twists and Turns (talk) 20:47, 24 March 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: CharlesMichael2002 (talk) 00:45, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

• Per further discussion at DYKT, the nominator's personal solicitation of a review and the first-time reviewer's acknowledgement that I have no idea what I'm doing, I am requesting a fresh review of ALT1 against the DYK criteria from an uninvolved reviewer. Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:30, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

ALT2 ... that The World Is to Dig is a mix of multiple genres, and even its lead single "Wu-Tang" is in a completely different genre and style from the hip-hop collective it's about? (Source: Stickler, Jon. "They Might Be Giants Announce New Album 'The World Is To Dig' With Lead Single Wu-Tang - Stereoboard".) –The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 19:32, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

• Suggesting a new hook that is better because it is not about an un-notable album cover that was never used. Instead, it is about both the album and lead single. –The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 19:32, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
• ALT3: ... that the title of The World Is to Dig, an album by They Might Be Giants, was inspired by a 1952 children's book? Gatoclass (talk) 22:31, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
  • @Gatoclass: Thanks for this new hook. I suggest a slightly different version of the hook.
    ALT3a: ... that the title of The World Is to Dig, an album by They Might Be Giants, was inspired by a 1952 children's book? –The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 22:37, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Fine with me. Gatoclass (talk) 22:49, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

@Gatoclass: I just changed the hook a bit. –The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 00:11, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Not an improvement. Hooks should not contain references to specific items that don't have their own articles, it's just frustrating to the reader. Apart from which, it lengthens the hook unnecessarily and weakens the curiosity factor. Gatoclass (talk) 13:25, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

@Gatoclass Oh okay. I'll remove that part of the hook. –The Twists and Turns talk|my edits 16:42, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 23

Bolero, Rumphi

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Festival in Bolero, 2025

• ... that the 2025 celebration of Tumbuka culture (pictured) marked their first chief's grave at Bolero in northern Malawi?

• Source: Chilinda said: “What makes this occasion unique is the identification of the burial site of the first Tumbuka chief. We will use the festival to erect his tombstone.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Annuzza, a Girl of Romania
• Comment: thanks to @Tumbuka Arch: for the image. Feel free to correct errors or add an alt. On 12 March I experimented with the translator and then deleted the result. I started on this article in earnest on 24 March.

Created by Victuallers (talk) and Tumbuka Arch (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 449 past nominations.

Victuallers (talk) 08:40, 25 March 2026 (UTC).

• @Victuallers: I've reviewed your article. This is my first DYK review, so I might request a second opinion.

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

Policy compliance:

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

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - see below

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Overall the article looks fine. I have done some copyedits to polish the article and bring it up to standard. I have two main concerns, however. There is a lot of detail about the Gonapamuhanya festival in the paragraph The highlight of the 2025 festival was to the unveiling of a tombstone to Chikulamayembe I who founded the dynasty. The festival, however, was noted for fighting between those who supported Gondwe and those who thought that Mtima Gondwe, the son of the previous king, was the rightful chief. One group argued that they supported the rightful heir to be King. Tear gas was used to control the crowd., which has its own article, and so does not seem to be particularly relevant to the article about the location the festival is hosted at. There is also a sentence cited to Facebook, which is typically unreliable. I don't have access to Facebook right now, though, so could you ensure the reliability of that source or replace it with another one? The same goes for AfricaBrief. The hook could also be slightly reworded for clarity. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 16:21, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 25

The Park (Klimt)

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The Park (1909–1910)

• ... that The Park (pictured) by Gustav Klimt is, to all intents and purposes, an abstract composition despite depicting a natural landscape? Source: Klimt (1990) Frank Whitford ISBN 9780500202463 p.188 "It is to all intents and purposes an abstract composition..."
  • ALT1: ... that The Park (pictured) by Gustav Klimt has been described as, to all intents and purposes, an abstract composition despite depicting a natural landscape? Source: Same as previous
  • Reviewed:

Moved to mainspace by Golem08 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Golem08 (talk) 00:25, 30 March 2026 (UTC).

• The nomination is new enough, and the article had been long enough when it was nominated. It is also well-sourced and well-organized with the subject being interesting for the readers. The offered hooks are interesting and long enough but I could not verify the hook, as a whole, in the text. The OP need to demosntrate if the contrast created by "despite" is supported by a reliable source used in the article. --Mhhossein ^talk 04:47, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Taiwan.md

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• ... that Taiwan.md aimed to build an open knowledge base about Taiwan?

• Source: 從台積電到早餐店阿姨　Taiwan.md知識庫AI時代下說台灣故事 (新媒體藝術家吳哲宇為此打造台灣知識庫Taiwan.md), 怎麼向外國人介紹台灣？人人都能在 Taiwan.md 把「日常的不可思議」寫給世界看(Taiwan.md 的核心定位是一個由社群共同書寫的台灣知識庫。), Taiwan.md知識庫讓世界認識台灣 從半導體產業到早餐店阿姨都收錄(根據Taiwan.md網站介紹，這座知識庫定位為台灣的數位人類學博物館，是文化的活化石，也是正在發生的歷史紀錄。)

• ALT1: ... that Taiwan.md was built within 24 hours by AI agents? Source: 策展島嶼的深度敘事 (接下來的二十四小時，是我今年最瘋狂的一次衝刺。我和 AI Agent 團隊並肩作戰)
• ALT2: ... that Taiwan.md tried to answer "What is Taiwan"? Source: 怎麼向外國人介紹台灣？人人都能在 Taiwan.md 把「日常的不可思議」寫給世界看 (它的目標不只是回答人類的提問，更是在未來由 AI 回答「台灣是什麼」時，提供一個來自在地社群的版本。), 把台灣開源！新媒體藝術家推taiwan.md　讓世界讀懂台灣, 把台灣開源！taiwan.md：AI 回答的時代，讓國家用 README 的方式介紹自己
• ALT3: ... that Taiwan.md was described as "README of Taiwan"? Source: 把台灣開源！taiwan.md：AI 回答的時代，讓國家用 README 的方式介紹自己 (如果 README.md 是每個專案的入口，那麼 taiwan.md 想做的，或許就是讓台灣第一次擁有一份真正像樣、而且可以持續更新的 README。這不只是技術梗，也不只是創意命名，而是一種屬於這個時代的國家自我介紹方式。)
• ALT4: ... that you can really learn about Taiwan from Taiwan.md? Source: 策展島嶼的深度敘事 -- 上報 (2024 年春天，威尼斯雙年展的開幕酒會上，一位義大利策展人端著紅酒走過來，問了我一個簡單的問題：「Where can I learn about Taiwan? Like, really learn?」), 怎麼向外國人介紹台灣？人人都能在 Taiwan.md 把「日常的不可思議」寫給世界看 (Taiwan.md 由新媒體藝術家、Monoame 創辦人吳哲宇發起，他回憶，2024 年春天在威尼斯雙年展開幕酒會上，一位義大利策展人曾問他：「Where can I learn about Taiwan? Like, really learn?」這個問題讓他當場語塞。即便能口述夜市文化、健保制度或地理環境等各種故事，卻始終無法提供一個完整、可供他人自行理解台灣的入口。)
• ALT5: ... that Taiwan.md was inspired by a question of, "Where can I learn about Taiwan? Like, really learn"? Source: 策展島嶼的深度敘事 -- 上報, 怎麼向外國人介紹台灣？人人都能在 Taiwan.md 把「日常的不可思議」寫給世界看
• Reviewed:
• Comment: Honestly, I am bad at DYK hooks, so I have sent lots of DYK hooks, but I still have no confidence that there's any hook that can ever be considered interesting.

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

Saimmx (talk) 09:17, 25 March 2026 (UTC).

• agree,but please include the English title of the source. 菜國人 (talk) 03:21, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Hello, @菜國人: Good to see you here, but for your reference, enwiki uses a very different way to promote DYK compared to zhwiki - editors do not vote the article here. Instead, they will review the whole article to see if the article, the image, and the hook pass certain criteria. If you want to review Taiwan.md, follow Wikipedia:Did you know/Reviewer instructions here and use Template:DYK checklist to review the article, and leave your comment in the DYK page. Saimmx (talk) 07:35, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

I take, will review in the next 24 hours. I'm not a fan of any of the hooks for various reasons, but a combination of the first two hooks - ALT6: ... that a Taiwanese open knowledge base was built in 24 hours by AI agents? - would work.--Launchballer 03:23, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 26

Fruit Love Island

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[[File:|140px|Still from Fruit Love Island]]

Still from Fruit Love Island

• ... that a Love Island derivative (still pictured) has been described as "the perfect example of AI slop"?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eric Tolt
  • Comment: Driveby nom. As the series does not attract copyright, perhaps we may wish to feature an episode.

Created by Seventh Ward Dragon (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 385 past nominations.

Launchballer 17:10, 29 March 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this :D Finnfrog99 (talk) 20:32, 3 April 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:

Image eligibility:

• Freely licensed:
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: I think the article is nearly ready for DYK but I think some things should be changed. "Additionally, countless critics of the series allege a significant environmental impact.[1][15][16][18][19]" I think this has too many citations, some of these should be removed imo. "Amaya Espinal, winner of season 7 and nicknamed “Amaya Papaya”" I think the part about her nickname being amaya papaya should be removed for being unrelated. For the image, is there any clearer one that could be used? this one is quite blurry. Finnfrog99 (talk) 20:42, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

I trimmed the environmental thing, it's specific to AI not this. I also removed Papaya and instructed video2commons to upload the first episode.--Launchballer 11:43, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

happy to pass it then! :D (btw, only responding now because I wasnt pinged)

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

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

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Finnfrog99 (talk) 20:42, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

Episode 1 of Fruit Love Island

@Finnfrog99: I added the episode to the nom, by the way.--Launchballer 01:21, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

• Pulled per sourcing and image concerns raised at WT:DYK#Fruit Love Island. Courtesy ping to Theleekycauldron, who raised the concerns, and JuniperChill who raised the image concerns. It appears that the latter has been resolved, but I am mentioning it here in the interest of context, which leaves the sourcing issues. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:35, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

@Theleekycauldron: I have removed the Tribune, The Times of India, three of the five Yahoo sources, Dexerto, Forbes, and The Tab; the two remaining Yahoo sources comprise a CBC mirror and an actual Yahoo piece, about which I may post at WP:RSN. What else?--Launchballer 17:32, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

I'm iffy on the Yahoo piece, but not enough to keep holding this up, I think. The RSN would probably be a good idea. Thanks! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 17:37, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 27

Košice gold treasure

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The treasure in the East Slovak Museum

• ... that 2,920 gold coins were found by a construction worker during renovation works?

• Source: [20]

• ALT1: ... that 2,920 gold coins, a gold chain from the Renaissance period, three gold medals, and an engraved copper casket were found by a construction worker? Source: [21]
• ALT2: ... that the largest gold hoard in Slovakia was first discovered by a construction worker during renovation works in 1935? Source: [22][23]
• Reviewed:

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

Fcstmani (talk) 11:44, 27 March 2026 (UTC).

• Thanks for nominating. Probably the age of the construction worker is not very relevant — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:03, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
• @MSGJ: Looking at it now, I agree that his age probably doesn’t have to be there. We can just remove them. Fcstmani (talk) 12:07, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
• Edit: I have removed the “34-year-old” bit from the hooks. Fcstmani (talk) 18:38, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 28

List of Six Flags Great America attractions

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• ... that the attractions at Six Flags Great America include the world's first inverted roller coaster and a double-decker carousel?

• Source: Theme Park Insider, American Coaster Enthusiasts, Chicago Tribune

• Reviewed:

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

Feather Better (talk) 01:44, 2 April 2026 (UTC).

Geth (Mass Effect)

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• ... that the architectural design of the geth-controlled quarian home world in Mass Effect 3 was inspired by London's Lloyd's building?

• Source: The Art of the Mass Effect Trilogy: Expanded edition. ISBN: 9781506721637 p.184

• ALT1: ... that some geth spacecraft in the Mass Effect universe feature protruding arms designed to mimic a fly rubbing its legs together? Source: The Art of the Mass Effect Trilogy: Expanded edition. ISBN: 9781506721637 p.56
• ALT2: ... that the fictional robotic species geth from Mass Effect function as a network of programs that become more intelligent as more units are linked together? Source: de Groot, Dries (July 28, 2016). "The Robot, the Alien and the Woman: The Representation of "Otherness" in the Mass Effect Trilogy" https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/server/api/core/bitstreams/6ae03683-ec76-48dc-8815-0a3de87010f9/content
• ALT3: ... that the name of the fictional robotic species geth from Mass Effect literally means "servant of the people" in the language of their creators? Source: de Groot, Dries (July 28, 2016). "The Robot, the Alien and the Woman: The Representation of "Otherness" in the Mass Effect Trilogy" https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/server/api/core/bitstreams/6ae03683-ec76-48dc-8815-0a3de87010f9/content — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oreun (talk • contribs) 14:34, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
• Reviewed:
• Comment: If the first hook is chosen, it may also be a good idea to nominate the quarian article as well, as the fact is discussed there too.

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

Oreun ^💬Talk 14:04, 31 March 2026 (UTC).

• Another alt: ALT4...that the geth nearly went unused after the first Mass Effect, only being kept due to their positive reception? Source: Hillier, Brenna (April 10, 2013). "Mass Effect's continued Geth storyline the "trade off" for missing Rachni plot" https://www.vg247.com/mass-effects-continued-geth-storyline-the-trade-off-for-missing-rachni-plotOreun ^💬Talk 17:04, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
• Not a review, but new hooks may be needed here. ALT4 may not be interesting or understandable to non-fans of Mass Effect. ALTs 1-3 might violate WP:DYKFICTION. That leaves ALT0 as the best option, but it may need a rephrase to be more accessible to non-fans of the franchise. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:19, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the feedback! This was my first time nominating, sorry for my mistakes. How does this read: "ALT0: ... that Mass Effect 3's art team drew inspiration from London's Lloyd's building when designing the architecture of the planet of the robotic geth?" I've also written a hook based on the reception and analysis section that I consider interesting: "ALT5: ... that an uprising by the robotic geth against their creators in the Mass Effect universe has been compared to concerns about mechanized labor expressed in The Communist Manifesto?" Source:De Groot, Dries The Robot, the Alien and the Woman: The Representation of “Otherness” in the Mass Effect Trilogy https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/server/api/core/bitstreams/6ae03683-ec76-48dc-8815-0a3de87010f9/content Oreun ^💬Talk 15:06, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Tray Wellington

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• ... that Tray Wellington's music infuses hip-hop with traditional bluegrass banjo?

• Source: https://www.billboard.com/music/country/tray-wellington-bluegrass-detour-to-the-moon-1235725267/

• ALT1: ... that Tray Wellington's music infuses hip-hop with traditional country music? Source: https://www.billboard.com/music/country/tray-wellington-bluegrass-detour-to-the-moon-1235725267/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Angry Birds Go!
• Comment: ALT1, is probably more accessible to a broader audience

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

Sohom (talk) 00:29, 30 March 2026 (UTC).

• Not a review, but this article misses the length mark by one prose byte. @Sohom Datta: Please expand this further to prevent a potential fail; for advice I'd suggest expanding the career or expanding on the review sources to discuss his music's themes. ミラP@Miraclepine 14:29, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

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

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• Cited:
• Interesting: - no

QPQ: Done.

Overall: This hook is great in almost all ways. The article is very new (It was created on March 28 and has been expanded 5x). The article's length is also good, being more than 1,500 bytes. The hook is sourced with a reliable source. The only issue with the hook is that it is not interesting. Instead of the hook being something about the musician, it is just about his genre, which is not interesting. Another hook such as "Did you know ... that Tray Wellington was a part of the black reclamation of banjo music?" would be better.— Preceding unsigned comment added by The Twists and Turns (talk • contribs) -- Sohom (talk) 02:09, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

@The Twists and Turns: We don't use {{dykno}} just because the hook is uninteresting. I also don't find your ALT particularly intriguing (something must have), but suggest something along the lines of "black reclamation".--Launchballer 17:09, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

• Okay, yes, I now understand. What about this ALT: Did you know ... that Tray Wellington was a part of the black reclamation of banjo music? or something like that. Also, I modified and corrected my review.— Preceding unsigned comment added by The Twists and Turns (talk • contribs) -- Sohom (talk) 02:09, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

• @Launchballer and The Twists and Turns:, I'm okay with both hooks. Sorry, music isn't my regular area, so I'm less than sure of what would have been considered interesting in the area. -- Sohom (talk) 02:09, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

• A suggestion from a classical music nerd who found all the ALTs exciting: ... that Tray Wellington emphasises the banjo's African roots, infusing traditional bluegrass with hip-hop, jazz and blues elements?  ?? ⁓☆⁓⁓ PaulasBunt (talk) 14:56, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

That works for me as well! -- Sohom (talk) 21:02, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

@Sohom Datta: Do you know why things aren't progressing here? I think the article is wonderful. ⁓☆⁓⁓ PaulasBunt (talk) 21:08, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Mosaic defence strategy

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• ... that the purpose of Iran's mosaic defence strategy is to bleed the economy of an attacking country with superior conventional military power by turning the conflict into an asymmetric war of attrition?

• Source: https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2026-march-9a/

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/3/10/the-fourth-successor-how-iran-planned-to-fight-a-long-war-with-the-us-and-israel

• • Reviewed:

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

Giulio 14:07, 28 March 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on March 29

The Pittsburgh Cycle

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• ... that August Wilson completed his 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle only months before his death?

• Source: ""Radio Golf," the last of the 10 plays that constitute Mr. Wilson's majestic theatrical cycle, opened at the Yale Repertory Theater last spring and has subsequently been produced in Los Angeles. It was the concluding chapter in a spellbinding story that began more than two decades ago, when Mr. Wilson's play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" had its debut at the same theater, in 1984, and announced the arrival of a major talent, fully matured." [24]

• ALT1: ... that the August Wilson's 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle has been compared to the work of William Shakespeare? Source: "Sam Pollard directed the film and in this interview, he said he thinks even though there are many famous American playwrights — Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams — Wilson is the American Shakespeare. “His body of work really covers the whole 20th century of American history,” he said. “There is no other American playwright who did that body of work over a period of time.”"
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• ALT2: ... that August Wilson called a 349-year-old woman "the most significant persona" of his 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle? Source: "Aunt Ester has emerged for me as the most significant persona of the cycle. The characters, after all, are her children. The wisdom and tradition she embodies are valuable tools for the reconstruction of their personality and for dealing with a society in which the contradictions, over the decades, have grown more fierce, and for exposing all the places it is lacking in virtue."
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• ALT3: ... that nine of the ten plays of The Pittsburgh Cycle take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania? Source: "August Wilson’s seminal cycle of 10 plays covers African-American history in the 20th century, with all but one set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, where Wilson grew up."
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• Comment: I accidentally put this as created for today April 1, but it was created/moved to mainspace on 3/29. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dizzycheekchewer (talk • contribs) 18:54, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

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

Dizzycheekchewer (talk) 18:49, 1 April 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on March 30

University of Otago Faculty of Dentistry

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University of Otago Faculty of Dentistry

• ... that New Zealand's only dental school was built in Dunedin rather than Auckland because the climate was more conducive to study?

• Source: "When a deputation of local dentists waited on Seddon in September [1904] he is reputed to have asked them to give him one good reason why the school should be sited in Dunedin. When the deputation replied that Dunedin's cooler climate was more suited to academic endeavour than the milder climates of the north, Seddon gave his assent." T. W. H. Brooking (1980), A history of dentistry in New Zealand, Dunedin: New Zealand Dental Association, p. 51, OCLC 8865649, Wikidata Q136301474

• ALT1: ... that the University of Otago Faculty of Dentistry's third building was opened by the Minister of Education, himself a dentist? Source: "After five years of construction the building was opened by the Minister of Education, the Hon. W.B. Tennant" https://www.heritage.org.nz/list-details/7618/Listing and "Tennent graduated BDS from the University of Otago in 1922. In January that year he set up in practice as a dentist in Palmerston North" https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5t13/tennent-william-blair
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Terry Ball's snail farms
• Comment: Note that the QPQ Terry Ball's snail farms was a three article review - this claim is for the review of the article Tommy Ball (retailer)

Moved to mainspace by DrThneed (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 31 past nominations.

DrThneed (talk) 20:43, 5 April 2026 (UTC).

• History note: there was a prior article at this title which I history merged with DrThneed's draft, so this should be seen as a 5x expansion on top of Special:PermaLink/1309233569 (which it appears to be), not a new from-scratch article. And ignore the fact that the script will report the expansion as having started more than 7 days ago; it was in draft space until March 30 so qualifies as a 5x expansion as of then. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:10, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

@Pppery: thank you SO much for the history merge! The move out of draft space happened so fast after I submitted it and I was a bit worried about having lost the page history - I had thought if the draft was approved the new text would be pasted into the page rather replacing it. I hadn't figured out how to go about asking to get it fixed up though! DrThneed (talk) 23:49, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on March 31

Neptunium(IV) oxalate

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• ... that the production of neptunium(IV) oxalate, a compound used in nuclear power applications, involves ascorbic acid, a.k.a. vitamin C?

• Source: "The Savannah River Plant recovers neptunium-237 by precipitation as neptunium(IV) oxalate. It is then calcined to neptunium

oxide, mixed with powdered aluminum, and pressed into billets for fabrication into reactor targets. The targets are irradiated to produce plutonium-238 for use as heat sources in radioisotopic generators." and "Ascorbic acid was added to the neptunium feed before precipitation

to reduce any neptunium(V) to neptunium(IV)." [28].

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UnbihexiumFan (talk | contribs) 16:22, 4 April 2026 (UTC).

• I believe that one of the facts of the hook appears neither in the article nor in the cited source. This hook includes three facts: (1) neptunium(IV) oxalate is a compound used in nuclear power applications, (2) the production of neptunium(IV) oxalate involves ascorbic acid, and (3) ascorbic acid happens to be a nutrient, known as vitamin C in the context of nutrition. The first two facts do appear in the article and the source, but there's no hint of the third fact in the article, and more importantly, in the source. Technically the hook doesn't state the third fact either, but given that ascorbic acid is typically only called "vitamin C" in the context of nutrition, I feel like the hook clearly implies it, which is synthesis. This hook is very intriguing, so it'd be awesome if you can find a source that makes an explicit connection between neptunium(IV) oxalate and vitamin C. Without such a source, I think you'll need a different hook. Streded (talk) 20:44, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
  • In that case, it would probably have to be rephrased as to not imply that neptunium(IV) oxalate production involves vitamin C, since I can't find a source that explicitly states there's a connection between vitamin C nutritionally and ascorbic acid used in nuclear power. As for sourcing, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advnut.2023.100155 states that ascorbic acid is one of two forms of vitamin C. UnbihexiumFan (talk | contribs) 21:46, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
• ALT1: ...that the production of neptunium(IV) oxalate, a compound used in nuclear power applications, involves ascorbic acid (also found in nutrition as one of two forms of vitamin C)? UnbihexiumFan (talk | contribs) 21:46, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
• I have also recently nominated Plutonium(III) oxalate for GA status, it is currently under review, and its production also uses ascorbic acid, so I have been considering doing a double hook in the case that the review passes. Would have to find sources, though. UnbihexiumFan (talk | contribs) 21:46, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
• Plutonium(III) oxalate has passed the GA nomination! As stated, I am the nominator. To commemorate this, I propose a double hook:
  • ALT2: ...that the production of plutonium(III) oxalate and neptunium(IV) oxalate, compounds used in nuclear power applications, involves ascorbic acid (also found in nutrition as one of two forms of vitamin C)?
    • Source that plutonium(III) oxalate production uses ascorbic acid: [29]
    • Source that plutonium(III) oxalate is used in nuclear power: [30]

UnbihexiumFan (talk | contribs) 21:44, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Paul E. Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence

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• ... that two brothers on YouTube sold their socks to pay for a maternity hospital in Sierra Leone?

• Source: Brennan, Ryan. (2026, February 17) Hank and John Green Help Open First NICU In Sierra Leone. Miami Herald. Quote from article: Hank and John Green raised about $50 million connected to their efforts for the hospital. That funding flowed through multiple channels: their businesses, including the Good Store and the Awesome Socks Club; direct donations; and their annual Project for Awesome charity livestream.

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

Public Thing (talk) 18:50, 31 March 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this one Finnfrog99 (talk) 22:00, 1 April 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: Hook could definitely worded better, I thought they sold their own socks, like the ones on their feet, remove "their" and the article is good for DYK, not a big issue tho, so I'll just pass. Amazing article by the way! very interesting! Finnfrog99 (talk)

@Public Thing, Finnfrog99, and Zzz plant: Pulling this post-promotion; I found multiple instances of close paraphrasing. Compare: Source: Maternal mortality rate in Sierra Leone is one of the highest in the world, with 1,360 mothers dying in every 100,000 live births, according to a Unicef report. Article: In 2016, UNICEF reported that Sierra Leone had the world's highest maternal mortality rate, with 1,360 mothers dying in every 100,000 live births. Same source: It is being built through a partnership between the Government of Sierra Leone and the global health nonprofit Partners In Health (PIH), which has been operating in the country since 2014. Article: Funding for the construction and staffing of the MCOE was provided through a partnership between the Sierra Leonean government and Partners in Health, an international healthcare non-profit that had been operating in the country since 2014.. Source: the birthing center is in its own cluster because it’s a highly technical space that includes operating rooms and the first neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Sierra Leone. Article: The birthing center contains operating rooms and the first dedicated neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) opened in Sierra Leone. This article needs a careful scrub for this and any additional close paraphrasing before being re-promoted. Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:05, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

• I checked the article with earwig, but didnt think to also check for close paraphrasing. However, I think the third example you showed is fine, not many ways you can word that. Finnfrog99 (talk) 11:04, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
• @Dclemens1971, Finnfrog99, and Public Thing: hiya, saw this in the pile of approved hooks and decided to chime in about the copyright issue. The first example linked is WP:LIMITED, the other two examples can be rewritten successfully. Example: The birthing center, separated into a separate cluster, operates the first neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the country and contains multiple operating rooms. This article does need a closer look and is still not in a state to be run as the close paraphrasing is still present. I typically handle much older and more pervasive close paraphrasing issues (therefore warranting stubbing or deletion) so I don't think I'm the right person to try rewriting it here, even if I am good at identifying close paraphrasing. Finnfrog99, just as a note for the future, WP:NOTEARWIG is worth a read to understand the pitfalls of the tool more. Sennecaster (Chat) 19:08, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Procedurally placing this icon per Sennecaster's note so the hook is not inadvertently promoted. Public Thing, please ping when CLOP sections have been rewritten and this can be re-approved. Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:14, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 1

Alda Risma

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• ... that teenaged vocalist Alda Risma won Best Woman Soloist at the Indonesian Music Awards for her debut album?

• Source: Nugraheni, Naomy A. (13 December 2022). "16 Tahun Kematian Tragis Penyanyi Alda Risma, Tewas di Tangan Kekasihnya" [16 Years After the Tragic Death of Singer Alda Risma, Killed by Her Lover]. Tempo (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 1 April 2026. Retrieved 1 April 2026.

• ALT1: ... that, after singer Alda Risma died by overdose, her boyfriend was tried for her murder? Source: Nugraheni, Naomy A. (13 December 2022). "16 Tahun Kematian Tragis Penyanyi Alda Risma, Tewas di Tangan Kekasihnya" [16 Years After the Tragic Death of Singer Alda Risma, Killed by Her Lover]. Tempo (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 1 April 2026. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lenox Lyceum
• Comment: Personally, I prefer ALT0, but the death and murder created a media frenzy in 2006.

Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 779 past nominations.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:38, 1 April 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on April 2

Dem Rădulescu

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Rădulescu on a 1974 calendar

• ... that Romanian comedian Dem Rădulescu (pictured) confronted spectators who mocked his serious rendition of Hamlet, grabbing one of them by the collar?

• Source: Cunoscutul actor Dem Rădulescu în calitate de cadru didactic la Institutul de artă teatrală și cinematografică din București a montat cu studenții anului IV, Actorie (clasa pe care o conduce) un fragment al piesei Hamlet de W. Shakespeare. [...] „Studiul“ se joacă în continuare, deși spectatorii rîd și ei (tot în continuare). In seara zilei de 16 ianuarie 1977, dintr-o sală care se amuza la Hamlet (studiu), Dem Rădulescu a prins un spectator de guler și l-a dat afară. Un asemenea mod de a face educație este de natura surprizelor la un cadru didactic (ca și limbajul de altfel). -- Spectator, "Strapontina. Paznicul de sală", in Viața Studențească, Issue 4/1977, p. 8.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/La Estrella (Mosqueruela)

5x expanded by Dahn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 122 past nominations.

Dahn (talk) 11:28, 4 April 2026 (UTC).

• I think the hook image with the flower is somewhat more intriguing than various usable alternatives. If the digits in the image are off-putting, perhaps we can temporary crop it on mainpage, or use the main portrait. Dahn (talk) 12:01, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

• ALT 1: ... that Romanian actor Dem Rădulescu (pictured) realized he was destined for comedy when 2,600 spectators laughed off his recitation of a serious poem?
• Source: am fost invitat la un festival „George Coșbuc" la Sala Palatului, intr-o dimineață, la ora 11. 2600 de spectatori, toată floarea Teatrului Național care urma să recite, in fața bustului imens al lui Coșbuc, poezii de Coșbuc [...] Marietta Sadova, care făcea spectacolul, m-a pus sa spun și eu o poezie... Vedeți, rîdeți! Păi sigur că rideți! Eu m-am împotrivit, ea a insistat ca nu și nu, de ce să învăț eu publicul așa. [Mi-a dat] să spun „Maica și haiducul". A împărțit poezia în două, partea maicii i-a dat-o Mitzurei Arghezi și eu eram haiducul. Mi-a pus un suman pe mine, o căciulă țuguiată pe cap, trecuse cam aproape o oră de recitări, totul era superb, dimineața, Sala Palatului, lume multă, o frumusețe, în culise toți actorii la arlechin, a intrat Mitzura și a spus partea maicii, mi-a venit rîndul mie, și, în clipa în care am pus piciorul în scenă și am spus: „maică!"... nu vă pot spune ce s-a întîmplat. La un meci de fotbal e o copilărie. Toata lumea aia, 2600 de oameni, a început sa urle. Mă gîndeam la toate nenorocirile care mi s-au întîmplat în viața sau mi se pot întîmpla, recitam foarte serios, dar dupa fiecare vers erau urale, hohote, un vacarm. Cînd am terminat și am ieșit din scena toți colegii mei din culise s-au uitat la mine ca la ultimul om, le prăpădisem festivalul. [...] M-am schimbat și am plecat ca un vinovat. A doua zi, m-am întîlnit cu Sadova la teatru: „Mă, ai avut dreptate!..." zice. Ce vreau să spun eu cu povestea asta? [...] că un actor care iese în fața oamenilor își poartă pecetea. Spectatorul știe la ce a venit. Odată cu biletul, el plătește și convenția. — Eva Sîrbu, Dem Rădulescu, "Comedia este un lucru foarte serios", in Almanah Cinema, 1987, pp. 100–101. Dahn (talk) 17:35, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 3

Tele7ABC

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• ... that Romania's Tele7ABC went from being the preferred TV channel of "a dissident intelligentsia" in 1995 to showcasing belly dances in 1996, and to coverage of witchcraft in 1999?

• Source: 1. Mioara Caragea, "Lux & calm, dar fără voluptate", in Litere, Arte, Idei. Supliment de Cultură al Ziarului Cotidianul, Vol. V, Issue 28, July 1995, p. 2: Tele 7abc [este] va să zică rezervația intelighenției opozante, zoo-spațiul hărăzit întru derulare spiritelor pufos răzvrătite, egocentrice și europenizante, aflate în căutarea dilematică a unei alternative.
  2. Gabriela Hurezean, "Tevemania. Rendez-vous din ombilic", in Tineretul Liber, 26 November 1996, p. 7: între toate emisiunile Tele 7 abc-ului (făcute cu profesionalism și imaginație) una face notă discordantă: 'Rendez-vous la Tele 7'. O urmăresc de câtăva vreme (mai mult din masochism decât din curiozitate!) și pot spune fără mustrări de conștiință că ediția de sâmbăta trecută a fost ceea ce în limbaj popular se cheamă bomboana pe colivă. Show-ul a fost gândit pe principiul serbărilor de bâlci. [...] Sâmbăta trecută, 'vedeta' programului a fost o dansatoare din buric care poate face carieră în Turcia, Cipru sau pe la nunți țigănești, dar nu are ce căuta sâmbătă seara pe unul din posturile de mare audiență
  3. Adrian Cioroianu, "Povești suprapuse. Nopți de Sînziene, cu ghicitoare și parapsihologi", in Dilema, Vol. VIII, Issue 385, June–July 2000, p. 5: Unul dintre iluștrii media-parapsihologi ai națiunii spunea într-o emisiune tv, că, după toate aparențele, Ceaușescu în persoană a avut la curtea sa o vrăjitoare țigancă pînă prin anii ’80. Conducătorul o cunoscuse în ilegalitate, cînd stătuse ascuns într-o șatră (!), și după 1944 o luase pe lîngă el, astfel că ghicitoarea a ajuns să locuiască în Primăverii (Ion Țugui în dialog cu Aristide Buhoiu, Tele7 abc, 9 nov. 1999). Nu trebuie să vă surprindă că dl Buhoiu, gazda respectivei emisiuni, a rămas bouche bée de emoție.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Akilagpa Sawyerr (lawyer)

5x expanded by Dahn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 123 past nominations.

Dahn (talk) 16:31, 10 April 2026 (UTC).

• ALT 1: ... that, in 2000, nighttime programming on Romania's Tele7ABC consisted of the overweight poet Adrian Păunescu and a "crumpled blue curtain"?
  Source: A. R., "Tele-comando. Tele7abc: Cu vădită satisfacție", in România Literară, Issue 26/2000, p. 18: Senzaţia e ca la orice oră din noapte ai comuta (fie şi din greşeală) pe Tele 7, dai peste Adrian Pâunescu — aşezat la o măsuţă prea mica pentru un gabarit atît de mare —, pe un fundal ieftin, de perdea albastră încreţită, dirijînd, cu vădită satisfacţie un delir verbal de cele mai multe ori retrograd şi revanşard.
  Dahn (talk) 20:59, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

@Dahn: I think the first hook is interesting, but could be made a bit shorter. I propose ALT0a: ... that Romania's Tele7ABC went from being the preferred TV channel of "a dissident intelligentsia" in 1995 to showcasing belly dances in 1996? 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 16:35, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

No objections from me. Dahn (talk) 16:40, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

2026 Lamerd sports hall attack

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• ... that the sports hall in Lamerd, Iran, was used by a female Volleyball team when it was deadly attacked by US using a PrSM missile killing 21 people, including 4 children, and injuring 100 people?

• Source: NYT and BBC.

• ALT1: ... that the PrSM missile was reportedly used by the US for the first time to attack a sports hall in Lamerd, Iran, when it was used by a female Volleyball team killing 21 people, including 4 children? Source: NYT and BBC.
• Reviewed: The Park (Klimt)

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

Mhhossein ^talk 07:45, 10 April 2026 (UTC).

Siege of Mandalore

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• ... that the 2020 series finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars brought back the actor that had played Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace in 1999 to perform a fight scene?

• Source: [31] "Ray Park, who played Maul in The Phantom Menace and Solo, did motion capture for the Ahsoka-Maul duel"

• ALT1: ... that the series finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars had been written over seven years prior to its release? Source: [32] "I laid out for Sam and Ashley how that episode arc actually went. It was easy because we had actually written the episodes, so I know how they go."
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• Comment: It would be cool if this could run on May 4.

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

Ladtrack (talk) 06:18, 10 April 2026 (UTC).

The Boat Race 2026

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Cambridge leading Oxford near the end of the men's race

• ... that, after the BBC was replaced as the official broadcaster of the Boat Race (pictured), the new announcers repeatedly apologised for swearing?

• Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rowing/2026/04/04/channel-4-apologise-boat-race-swearing/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eve (platypus)

Created by Whizz40 (talk) and Andrew Davidson (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 133 past nominations.

Andrew🐉(talk) 11:11, 9 April 2026 (UTC).

• Comment shouldn't "the boat race" be capitalized, given the article title is "The Boat Race 2026"? Roast (talk) 20:20, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

• I've checked the OED which confirms that it's "Frequently with capital initials" in this context and so have amended the hook accordingly. Andrew🐉(talk) 20:52, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Vol. II (Angine de Poitrine album)

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• ... that a reviewer said of Angine de Poitrine's album Vol. II that "never before has technical mastery sounded so fun"?

• Source: Epstein-Gross, Casey (2026-04-03). "Angine de Poitrine thrash wildly throughout space and time". Paste. Retrieved 2026-04-06.

• ALT1: ... that a critic gave Angine de Poitrine's album Vol. II a perfect 10 score despite calling it "pretentious and performative"?

• Source: "Of course it's pretentious and performative, but it also lacks cynicism and hopelessness, and that's something we can all use a bit more of." Djurdjić, Marko (2026-04-02). "Angine de Poitrine's Vol. II is Spot On". Exclaim!. ("10" score at beginning of article prose)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ainsworth Rand Spofford
• Comment: I'm open to other hook suggestions or constructions.

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

DrOrinScrivello (talk) 23:49, 8 April 2026 (UTC).

See the Old Lady Decently

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• ... that B. S. Johnson never completed The Matrix trilogy?

• Source: Coe, Jonathan (4 June 2004). Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B S Johnson. Picador (imprint). p. 29-32.

• ALT1: ... that novelist B. S. Johnson planned to write a trilogy whose titles would read as: "See the old lady decently buried although amongst those left are you"? Source: [Source 1: https://www.ndbooks.com/author/b.-s.-johnson/]. Source 2: Coe, Jonathan (4 June 2004). Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B S Johnson. Picador (imprint). p. 29-32.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Airplane film
• Comment: First hook might be considered for April Fools?

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

ISD (talk) 08:00, 3 April 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on April 4

Sabra Field

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• ... that printmaker Sabra Field has been described as the "Grant Wood of Vermont"?

• Source: "“Over the course of her career she has received any number of accolades, and has been variously described as ‘the Grant Wood of Vermont,’ ‘the artist laureate of Vermont’ and as someone who ‘has touched more lives than any Vermont artist in history,’ ” said Richard Saunders, a Middlebury College professor and director of its Museum of Art." Valley News

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Odes 1.4

Created by Thriley (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 210 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 20:24, 11 April 2026 (UTC).

• Comment: Please eliminate the WP:PROSELINE in the career section. The proposed hook is somewhat inside baseball and may not be interesting to a general audience. I can see further potential hooks about the success of the stamps or new ones being drawn from the documentary. Viriditas (talk) 00:55, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

ALT1 ... that a 1991 US postage stamp based on artwork by Sabra Field sold over 60 million copies?

@Viriditas and Thriley: Like that? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:01, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the alt. I would prefer a hook that gives insight into her style. I'll propose one shortly. Thriley (talk) 04:04, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

@Thriley: Just following up on the new ALT. Note that right now, the article doesn't seem to discuss her style, so that may need to be added to the article. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 11:14, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

• ALT2 ... that printmaker Sabra Field, described as the "Grant Wood of Vermont", moved to the state to "live and work at home in a quiet hamlet that was good for kids and without pretense"? Thriley (talk) 21:26, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

@Thriley: The "Grant Wood of Vermont" mention was questioned above on "inside baseball" grounds, so it may be for the best to delete that. As for the quote itself, I'm not sure, it doesn't really sound that interesting to a broad audience either. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:16, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

• The article was nominated seven days after it was moved to mainspace. It also meets the length and sourcing requirements. I did not find any close paraphrasing, and the only copying I found were the cited quotes. A QPQ has been done and it was a full review. The article has PROSELINE issues that remain unresolved, so please address them. In addition, I agree with Viriditas that the mention of Grant Wood does not work due to being "inside baseball", so it needs to be removed. ALT0 is rejected on those grounds. ALT2 is a rather weak hook even if the mention of Wood is removed: quote hooks don't always work, and the information she said doesn't exactly stand out. Can you perhaps provide alternative angles? We could also go with ALT1, or one of Viriditas's suggestions, though if we do go with ALT1 we will need a new reviewer to sign it off. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:25, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
• ALT3 ...that printmaker Sabra Field moved to Vermont to "live and work at home in a quiet hamlet that was good for kids and without pretense"? Thriley (talk) 06:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

I like this quote very much. It captures some of the spirit of her art. Thriley (talk) 06:05, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Can you please address the proseline? I'm not a fan of quotes in hooks, so I will leave that issue for others to determine. Viriditas (talk) 20:38, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

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Muscle mommy

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Fitness influencer LeanBeefPatty in 2024

• ... that muscle mommy (example pictured) became a popular social media trend in the 2020s, describing muscular women who are seen as physically attractive?

• Source: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/wheyfu-muscle-mommy-tiktok

• ALT1: ... that Google searches for muscle mommy jumped in 2025, leading one Business Insider writer to call the increase a sign that the "strength-first mindset is no longer niche"? Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/women-muscle-mommies-seeking-gains-driving-demand-protein-snack-craze-2025-12
• ALT2: ... that the term "muscle mommy" has been adopted by the sapphic community? Source: https://www.intomore.com/culture/sydney-sweeneys-new-muscle-mommy-look-has-sapphics-screaming/
• ALT3: ... that a "muscle mommy" mod for the video game Helldivers 2 "really brings out the dumpy thicc proportions" of the female-coded in-game models? Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/attention-helldivers-people-are-making-lewd-mods-for-helldivers-2/
• Reviewed: Punisher skull symbol Soulbust (talk) 03:59, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
• Comment: Sorry, I was busy yesterday (and earlier this week, aside from a couple days I used to make a totally new/unrelated article), so I know this nom is technically 8 days after I moved the draft into the mainspace... but I think this is an exceptionally quirky/eye-catching topic, particularly in the context of DYK, where there's a lot of hooks that could work for the section. Would be willing to do a 2-for-1 QPQ if an exception can be made to let the nom coming more than a week after the article's move into the mainspace slide. Thanks Soulbust (talk) 01:13, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Moved to mainspace by Soulbust (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 47 past nominations.

Soulbust (talk) 01:13, 15 April 2026 (UTC).

• @Soulbust: WP:DYKNEW says the 7-day limit can be extended by a couple of days on request; however, this needs a QPQ within the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 01:18, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
  • @Launchballer: Gotcha. Gonna be doing the QPQs now that I'm back online. Soulbust (talk) 03:12, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
    • @Launchballer: One QPQ is now complete (err, I suppose, pending nominator's addressing of issues raised over on that review). Let me know if you'd still like me to do a second one. Soulbust (talk) 03:59, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

You do only need one. Full review needed.--Launchballer 04:34, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Just finished reviewing that nomination. Thanks Soulbust (talk) 01:57, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

This is a fresh and comprehensive article with plenty of citations. I see no copyright or neutrality issues. The article looks very good, though some of the cited sources gave me pause. The topic is fun, and I do not think that the proposed hooks do it justice. Could we try something that is not a mere definitin of the term or a quote? Surtsicna (talk) 19:30, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

@Surtsicna: Hey, I definitely agree the topic is fun and lends itself to fun hooks as a result, I think ALT0 for sure is just a definition but ALT3 feels more in the vein of doing something fun or quirky. ALT2 I think also mentioning the sapphic community's adoption of the phrase feels fun to me, but I am definitely open to more suggestions here. I also would like to know which of the sources give you pause. Maybe I could find some better sourcing for those. Soulbust (talk) 01:58, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Hound of Music

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• ... that the 1986 musical Hound of Music satirised the conservative Queensland State Government led by Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen?

• Source: McGovern, Kerry (December 26, 1986). "Hound of Music a roaring hit". Time Off.

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

Annepatriciajones (talk) 02:05, 8 April 2026 (UTC).

• Comment: This is similar to productions by the San Francisco Mime Troupe. They tend to spoof older works while satirizing local politics. I don't think the regional politics of Queensland will be all that interesting to a global audience unless it ties the satire back to the film homage and spoofs. I could write hooks about the San Francisco Mime Troupe that are funny to me based on my knowledge about local politics, but I don't think anyone outside of California would find them interesting. As a reader I find it very interesting that The Hound of Music uses works like The Sound of Music, combined with horror film tropes like Frankenstein to employ Austro-goth comedy that satirizes local politics. Viriditas (talk) 01:19, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Curtesy ping Annepatriciajones, please see Viriditas's comment above. You may wish to have a read of WP:DYKINT. TarnishedPath^talk

@TarnishedPath: The nom hasn't been around for a few weeks. I can probably try to salvage this with a few new hooks later tonight. Viriditas (talk) 00:27, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

@Viriditas:, no worries. Ping me if you want a review if/when you do add some hooks. TarnishedPath^talk 01:01, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

@TarnishedPath: I have finished taking a look. This is a tough one because my heart is with the artists, but my mind is focused on what we can verify. This article is part of a series that Anne Jones is writing about the hyperlocal history of the comedic arts in Brisbane. The problem is that I can't verify any of it because either the sources are offline and inaccessible or because they aren't covered in larger sources. For example, Time Off, a former music street press publication in Australia, is no longer online. Some of the links were preserved on Internet Archive, but if the archival articles are still there, it's going to take some work to find them. My point is that I can't write any hooks unless I can verify the material with my own eyes, and in this case, I can't verify a single word. Unless we can get access to some sources, I would unfortunately move to reject. Perhaps this can go through the GAN process and get a second chance. Viriditas (talk) 21:01, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Update: I was able to find confirmation for part of my original hook proposal up above in a book about a film, possibly a filmed staged production. It appears in Australia on the Small Screen, 1970-1995 (Oxford University Press, 1996). Quote: "The stories of Frankenstein and The Sound of Music are mixed with contemporary social and political comment, humour and music."[33] It looks like it was produced as a made-for-TV movie and was broadcast in Australia. I also found another mention in an article by Jones in The Sydney Morning Herald.[34] There are additional books and magazines that mention it on GBooks but don't provide full access to the articles. Something interesting that might make a good hook because it is so unusual: according to the Australian film magazine Cinema Papers (March 1987), the made-for-TV-movie of Hound of Music involved "labor [that] was voluntary and production facilities [that] were donated" (p. 64). This is significant given the people involved (p. 76).[35] That takes the cake for interesting and unusual. Now, it's just a matter of figuring out how to add all of this to the article. I still don't have the deets. Was it simply a film of the larger performance at the Princess Theatre? Or was it an adaptation? The current version of the article doesn't even mention it. Viriditas (talk) 22:06, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

@Viriditas: this was only nominated for DYK on 8 April, so there is a bit of time. TarnishedPath^talk 00:04, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

George F. Durand

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George F. Durand

• ... that George F. Durand (pictured) and his boss were dismissed from a project in part because they were Canadian?

• Source: *Tausky, Nancy Z.; Distefano, Lynne D. (2018). Victorian Architecture in London and Southwestern Ontario: Symbols of Aspiration. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-4875-8257-9. Durand was hired, apparently as clerk of works, by Thomas Fuller, ... Fuller, who was chiefly responsible for supervising the Albany building, had to deal with numerous criticisms from the project's inception. Objections were raised to the fact that such an important government project was in the hands of a 'foreign architect'; even closer than patriotism to the hearts of Fuller's critics was the issue of money. ... Despite his deserts, however, Durand's fate in relation to the Capitol was tied to his master's, an inevitability that apparently added to Fuller's sorrows: 'It was a matter of deep regret to me,' he confided, 'that I was not able to retain Mr Durand's services.'

• ALT1: ... that George F. Durand (pictured) designed a National Historic Site of Canada? Source: "Victoria Hall". Canada's Historic Places. Parks Canada. Archived from the original on April 6, 2026. Retrieved April 6, 2026.
• ALT2: ... that the architecture firm of George F. Durand (pictured) was taken over by a man who had sued him? Source: *Tausky, Nancy Z.; Distefano, Lynne D. (2018). Victorian Architecture in London and Southwestern Ontario: Symbols of Aspiration. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 230–232. ISBN 978-1-4875-8257-9. The dispute came to a head in April 1888, when Moore finally did leave Durand's office and sued Durand for what Moore believed was his share of the firm's income. ... Fred Henry spent two years on his own, completing the projects Durand left unfinished at the time of his death, and then joined forces with John M. Moore. Thus Moore, still fighting for proper compensation when Durand died, was in effect to inherit Durand's firm.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Makmur Widodo
• Comment: If I get around to writing Victoria Hall, I'll try and make this a double nom. Petrolia's a bit far of a drive for fresh pictures though.

Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 783 past nominations.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:42, 7 April 2026 (UTC).

• @Crisco 1492: Just a reminder to provide a QPQ. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:05, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Thanks Narutolovehinata5. I must have forgotten to copy it here.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:10, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 7

Operation Urja Suraksha

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• ... that during the 2026 Iran war, India evacuated the largest number of ships from the conflict zone during Operation Urja Suraksha?

• Source: https://www.timesnownews.com/india/india-rescues-8-lpg-vessels-from-hormuz-tops-global-evacuations-supply-safe-for-11-days-article-154034089
• https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/igom-reviews-preparedness-amid-west-asia-developments-ensures-energy-food-security/article70839614.ece

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• Comment: Hello, this is my first article that I am nominating for DYK. I am not entirely familiar with the whole process, but this article was converted from a redirect and expanded about ten-fold during the preceding week, so i am applying it for DYK nomination. I think i may be two days late for submission though. Please do consider it. Thank you

5x expanded by 4-RAZOR 01 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

4-RΔ𝚉🌑R-01𝕏 (talk) 15:57, 16 April 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on April 8

INS Arisudan

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• ... that INS Arisudan will be the fourth and largest SSBN to be operated by the Indian Navy?

• Source: "The S4* (which may be named Arisudan) is currently undergoing sea trials."
• https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indias-new-nuclear-powered-submarine-ins-aridhaman-commissioned/article70819744.ece#:~:text=The%20second%20indigenously%20built%20SSBN,be%20commissioned%20by%202036%E2%80%9339.
• follow-on S4*, expected to be named INS Arisudan, are larger, following a design modification that inserted an additional hull section of roughly 10 meters, increasing surfaced displacement to approximately 7,000 tonnes
• https://www.tendernews.com/newsdetails.aspx?s=7867&t=India-to-commission-final-Arihant-class-nuclear-powered-submarine-INS-Arisudan-by-2027.#

• ALT1: ... that S4* was the initial codename for INS Arisudan?

• Source: "The S4* (which may be named Arisudan) is currently undergoing sea trials."
• https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indias-new-nuclear-powered-submarine-ins-aridhaman-commissioned/article70819744.ece#:~:text=The%20second%20indigenously%20built%20SSBN,be%20commissioned%20by%202036%E2%80%9339.
• follow-on S4*, expected to be named INS Arisudan, are larger, following a design modification that inserted an additional hull section of roughly 10 meters, increasing surfaced displacement to approximately 7,000 tonnes
• https://www.tendernews.com/newsdetails.aspx?s=7867&t=India-to-commission-final-Arihant-class-nuclear-powered-submarine-INS-Arisudan-by-2027.#

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• Comment: Submitting for review

Converted from a redirect by 4-RAZOR 01 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

4-RΔ𝚉🌑R-01𝕏 (talk) 16:08, 16 April 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on April 9

OneBlood

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A Big Red Bus in Tifton, Georgia

• ... that one blood bank serves about 90% of Florida's blood donation needs?

• Source: https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/healthcare/2015/07/31/blood-bank-merger-will-save-costs-and-improve-services/15673859007/

• ALT1: ... that OneBlood serves about 90% of Florida's blood donation needs? Source: https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/healthcare/2015/07/31/blood-bank-merger-will-save-costs-and-improve-services/15673859007/
• ALT2: ... that Big Red Buses (example pictured) help with OneBlood donations in the Southeastern United States? Source: https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/healthcare/2015/07/31/blood-bank-merger-will-save-costs-and-improve-services/15673859007/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bad Piggies / Template:Did you know nominations/Hannah Green (golfer)
• Comment: QPQ to be done soon. Nomination is being flagged as "Possibly ineligible as date is not within the past week", and while technically a few hours past the 7 days, it is still the 16th in my time zone, 7 days after I created this article on the 9th, so hoping for a kind extension here. Thanks. Soulbust (talk) 02:10, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Created by Soulbust (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 48 past nominations.

Soulbust (talk) 02:10, 17 April 2026 (UTC).

• @Soulbust: I will close this if I don't see a QPQ in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 21:36, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
  • @Launchballer: It's in progress right now. Soulbust (talk) 01:38, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Alright, full review needed.--Launchballer 01:58, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: I'll still participate in the aforementioned Bad Piggies DYK nom, but for the purposes of getting this one moved along in the process, I completed another QPQ here. Soulbust (talk) 15:48, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 10

Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story

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• ... that Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story is the fourth biography of the late Queen by Robert Hardman?

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• ALT1: ... that Robert Hardman's Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story reports that Prince Andrew once physically attacked a palace aide? Source:
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kurtöp language

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

MSincccc (talk) 15:46, 16 April 2026 (UTC).

• Article is new enough, long enough, and within policy. No copyright violations detected. QPQ is done. Hooks are reasonably interesting and verified to the cited sources. However, the article itself has not properly tackled its subject. There is no discussion of the overall scope of the book, or the primary lens through which the author is tackling his subject. Given the author's prior work in this area, one would expect some discussion of how this book relates to the earlier publications. In reading through the cited sources, some of this is addressed there but oddly not included in this wikipedia article. Ultimately I don't think a summary of the book has been formulated, and the most salient content in the cited materials hasn't been plucked out and put into the wikipedia page. What we have is a bunch of cherry picked random facts rather than a genuine discussion of the author's overall approach within the biography and what the book is about. As such, this fails WP:DYKCOMPLETE. More writing needs to be done with more attention to presenting a big picture summary of the biography and the way this historian has approached the subject. Best.4meter4 (talk) 21:42, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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All My Heroes Are Cornballs

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• ... that JPEGMafia once released a flash drive containing All My Heroes Are Cornballs that resembles a PlayStation 2 memory card?

• Source:

• ALT1: ... that JPEGMafia promoted All My Heroes Are Cornballs by labeling it as a "disappointment"? Source:
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Improved to Good Article status by RTSthestardust (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

RTSthestardust (talk) 04:56, 15 April 2026 (UTC).

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The Assembly (British TV series)

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• ... that The Assembly premiered during Autism Acceptance Week?

• Source: "this special, which airs during Autism Acceptance Week" [36]

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• Comment: The week appears to be at the same time as World Autism Awareness Day, which could be linked.

Created by Moondragon21 (talk) and Max263 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Max263 (talk • contribs) 17:23, 11 April 2026 (UTC).

• Very entertaining series this. Suggest adding ALT1: ... that one interview on The Assembly began with the question "You tried to kill yourself a couple of times, are you happy to be alive now?"? or ALT2: ... that an interviewer on The Assembly once asked a guest if they were a top or a bottom? from Seale (2026). (And if WP:DYK200 wasn't a thing, the long list of things Fry did for money ([37]) would make an excellent hook...)--Launchballer 18:46, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
  • These ALTS would need to be placed into the article and cited, according to WP:DYKCRIT. Max263 (talk • contribs)

Yes, that's what I meant by "Suggest adding". I've added them myself.--Launchballer 18:04, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Perfect, thank you. Max263 (talk • contribs) 19:00, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 11

Margaret Barker (actress)

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Margaret Barker (left) rehearses with Katharine Hepburn (right) at Bryn Mawr

• ... that actress Margaret Barker performed in a play with her friend Katharine Hepburn (pictured) while they were students at Bryn Mawr College?

• Source: *"Hartford Girl in Bryn Mawr Play". Hartford Courant. April 24, 1927. p. 83. (performance)
• Samelson, Judy (July 6, 2009). "Katharine Hepburn On Stage". Playbill. (friendship)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Shivaji IV

Created by 4meter4 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 151 past nominations.

4meter4 (talk) 17:03, 13 April 2026 (UTC).

Copenhagen Tunnel

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The tunnel in c. 1978.

• ... that the bodies were dumped from on top of the Copenhagen Tunnel (pictured)?

• Source: [38] – her house was by the copenhagen tunnel; [39] – they dumped the bodies from the tunnel by her house

• ALT1: ... that locals came in the evening to watch the construction of the Copenhagen Tunnel (pictured)? Source: Bartlett, Simon J. (March 2010). A Brief History of Griffin's Blue Lias Lime and Cement Works – Stockton, Warwickshire (PDF). p. 24.
• ALT2: ... that Mrs Wilberforce's house backed onto the Copenhagen Tunnel (pictured)? Source: [40]
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Taiga Takano
• Comment: Will do QPQ now

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

JacobTheRox^{(talk | contributions)} 08:58, 12 April 2026 (UTC).

Capen Hill Nature Sanctuary

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• ... that Capen Hill Nature Sanctuary in Massachusetts operates a free visitor's center that allows guests to meet rescue animals, including a variety of birds, reptiles, rabbits, and an axolotl?

• Source: Barnacle, Sarah (2026-04-06). "Giant 40-foot troll could soon call Charlton home. How you can help". Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Archived from the original on 2026-04-06. Retrieved 2026-04-06. The 86-acre sanctuary is free of charge and offers a plethora of trails for the public to enjoy. Inside the small visitor's center, a former 1950's residence, live about 40 animals including doves, bearded dragons, axolotls and a domesticated rat named George.; Richman, Olivia (2017-03-03). "Capen Hill gearing up for year of celebration" (PDF). Charlton Villager. Vol. X, no. 9. Stonebridge Press. p. 9. Retrieved 2026-04-10. Then up in the sanctuary we have rabbits and reptiles, guinea pigs and chinchillas. We also have a cockatiel who loves to dance.

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

PeterCooperJr (talk) 18:24, 11 April 2026 (UTC).

Tao Siliang

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Tao Siliang

• ... that Tao Siliang (pictured) wrote a personal essay about her father that drew widespread public attention and later won a national literature award?

• Source: 一位《人民日报》记者眼中的陶铸"

• ALT1: ... that Tao Siliang (pictured) led efforts to promote iodized salt in China, influencing national policy on iodine deficiency prevention? Source: 大爱无声处，热血自难凉——陶斯亮的慈善公益长歌
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Inauguration of Volodymyr Zelenskyy
• Comment: The article was orginally nominated on 26 January 2026. However, it was deleted, while it was nominated for DYK, after my account got banned regarding the actions of my previous account. However, after I resolved the issue with admins, this article was restored and I am re-nominating it again for DYK.

Created by Toadboy123 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 74 past nominations.

Toadboy123 (talk) 14:35, 11 April 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on April 12

Daylit Gallery

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Daylit Gallery

• ... that the Daylit Gallery (pictured) was once an outdoor utility area?

• Source: V&A Museum

• ALT1: ... that an outdoor utility area in the V&A Museum was transformed into a popular gallery (pictured)? Source: V&A Museum
• ALT2: ... that the Daylit Gallery (pictured) was the V&A’s first new-build addition in over 100 years? Source: Architect's Journal
• ALT3: ... that first new-build addition to the V&A Museum in over 100 years (pictured) was once a utility area? Source: Architect's Journal; V&A Museum
• ALT4: ... that a popular museum gallery (pictured) was once a liminal utility area? Source: V&A Museum
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jolly Super
• Comment: If Jolly Super isn't good enough for a QPQ for some reason, I also did Template:Did you know nominations/Monuments (exhibition). Cheers,

Moved to mainspace by Cl3phact0 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Cl3phact0 (talk) 17:50, 18 April 2026 (UTC).

• @Cl3phact0: For your information, Jolly Super is not a full review. Monuments is.--Launchballer 17:55, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Got it, thanks! I had a hunch that might be the case. Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 17:58, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

U (Underscores album)

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• ... that Underscores recorded U while touring various cities with Porter Robinson?

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• ALT1: ... that Underscores described U as "music for my iPhone spy movie"? Source:
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Improved to Good Article status by RTSthestardust (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

RTSthestardust (talk) 05:01, 15 April 2026 (UTC).

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Gaynor Legall

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• ... that the first black councillor for a city within Wales, Gaynor Legall, had relatives who helped hide guns during the 1919 South Wales race riots?

• Source: “They told me about barricading the front door each night and taking stones and bricks onto the landing. I asked why? They told me that in case the rioters got over the bridge and broke into the house, they could throw stones down on them. They told me about sewing pockets inside the men’s coats so they could hide knives or guns. They said the men had to protect themselves and their families from the gangs.”

https://uboatproject.wales/2019/06/20/cardiff-race-riots-reparative-histories-by-gaynor-legall/

“I am constantly referred to as the first black woman councillor and every time I correct it, even, even today. I added first black city councillor. Um. Nobody catches onto that.” 54:44 https://www.llafur.org/recordings/stop-the-springboks-wales-and-opposition-to-apartheid/

Gaynor was the first black female councillor in Wales and has spent much of her life working for race equality and women's rights.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79edpj39r2o

• • ALT1: ... that an audit lead by Gaynor Legall found that Wales had over 200 commemorations for people linked to the slave trade? Source: https://media.service.gov.wales/news/over-200-welsh-statues-streets-and-buildings-connected-to-the-slave-trade-listed-in-nationwide-audit
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Created by Sleepytimecat (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Sleepytimecat (talk) 17:45, 14 April 2026 (UTC).

It Makes No Difference Now

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• ... that the writer of "It Makes No Difference Now" sold the song for $300 before it became a hit that was covered by Ray Charles, the Supremes, and Merle Haggard?

• Source: here (sold for $300)
• Sources supporting the covers are in the "Other versions" section

• alt1 * ... that the writer of "It Makes No Difference Now" sold the song for $300 before it became a hit that was covered by more than 20 artists?

• • Reviewed: Joe Haering

Created by Cbl62 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 390 past nominations.

Cbl62 (talk) 17:34, 14 April 2026 (UTC).

Olive (fashion magazine)

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• ... that Olive was first published alongside Popeye?

• Source: https://www.timeout.jp/tokyo/ja/things-to-do/soukangou-3

• ALT1: ... that French culture inspired the "Olive Girl" style in Japan? Source: https://www.cinra.net/article/review-20150316-ginza
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• Comment: First hook referring to Olive Oyl and Popeye from the comic strip, which both magazines were named after.

Created by 21stcenturycoelacanth (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

21stcenturycoelacanth (talk) 18:43, 13 April 2026 (UTC).

Yuichi Kitamura

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Kitamura in 2025

• ... that a Japanese jockey (pictured) is nicknamed "desk" for knocking down one?

• Source: https://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2025/11/08/articles/20251108s00041000199000c.html

https://news.netkeiba.com/?pid=column_view&cid=36564

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  • Comment: Pretty well known incident in the Japanese horse racing community. I'm not sure if it goes against Wikipedia:DYKHOOKBLP though as it does concern a jockey's suspension; even if it is something that Kitamura himself admitted as an old shame.

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

Jnglmpera (talk) 10:46, 13 April 2026 (UTC).

• I am proficient in Japanese, and I have verified that the sources back up the claims regarding the desk incident. I added a small clarification in the article about the suspension in terms of number of calendar days vs. race days. Someone quickly glancing over [this] source might be confused since it says a 4 day suspension. This is clarified in [another] source to be 4 race days (開催日).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral: - I am not an expert on WP:DYKHOOKBLP, but it seems like this hook should be reworded
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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

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

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Perhaps the hook could be reworded so that it doesn't focus on him knocking down a desk. Something like '... was nicknamed "desk" by fans because his first name and last name were already taken?' It doesn't answer why the fans chose desk over any other nickname, but maybe that's a good thing for piquing readers' interest. AdJHu 胡 21:57, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

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2025 Indian Premier League final

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Krunal Pandya in 2017

• ... that Krunal Pandya (pictured) became the first player to win the player of the match award in two Indian Premier League finals in 2025? Source: https://www.news18.com/cricket/krunal-pandya-creates-history-becomes-1st-player-in-the-world-to-ws-l-9367009.html
  • ALT1: ... that Krunal Pandya (pictured) became the first player to win the player of the match award in two Indian Premier League finals with 2017 and 2025? Source: https://www.news18.com/cricket/krunal-pandya-creates-history-becomes-1st-player-in-the-world-to-ws-l-9367009.html
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Animal Crackers (1930 film)

Improved to Good Article status by Vestrian24Bio (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

Vestrian24Bio 07:41, 14 April 2026 (UTC).

Tennessee State Route 155

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• ... that construction of Tennessee State Route 155 in Nashville, Tennessee, facilitated the development of an entertainment district anchored by the relocated Grand Ole Opry in the 1970s? Source:
  • ALT1: ... that Tennessee State Route 155 replaced two ferries on the Cumberland River that had operated since the later 19th century? Source:
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ninomae Ina'nis

Improved to Good Article status by Bneu2013 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

Bneu2013 (talk) 06:32, 14 April 2026 (UTC).

• GA, in time, long enough, no apparent copyvios. Bneu2013, while you commented in the review for Ninomae Ina'nis, you didn't actually provide a full review, such that the QPQ is still needed (the good news is that you can fulfill it by providing a full review of that nomination). Also, can you please provide the quotations from the sources that support each hook? Thanks, --Usernameunique (talk) 02:04, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

  My full review of the QPQ nomination is still in progress. As for the quotations, I'm going to have to find my copies of these books, which will have to wait until tomorrow. Bneu2013 (talk) 03:24, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

  Update - Usernameunique, I've provided an online source instead. I know there is an essay out there somewhere that discusses this more in depth, but I've lost track of it. Hopefully this will do. With regards to the QPQ, it should be good to go once the nominator responds to one more comment. Bneu2013 (talk) 02:42, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

  Bneu2013, where do the sources about the entertainment district or the ferries mention Tennessee State Route 155? As for the QPQ, it's not an issue of getting the DYK nomination to approval, but an issue of you reviewing the nomination for all requirements. In the review, you have queried whether one source is reliable. But you haven't carried out the other requirements of a review, such as checking whether the article is new enough, long enough, or has any copyvios. --Usernameunique (talk) 03:04, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

  Usernameunique - the Grand Ole Opry house, Opryland USA, and Opry Mills referenced in this article are all part of the entertainment district. It is actually called Music Valley, but this isn't mentioned in the article. As for the ferry sources, "Briley Parkway" and the bridges at Pennington Bend and Cockrill Bend that are mentioned in the sources are part of SR 155. The highway is rarely referred to by its state route number, and usually by the named segments. With regards to the QPQ, I have thoroughly reviewed it; I guess I just forgot to state this. I'm still waiting on the nominator to address one more issue. Bneu2013 (talk) 03:25, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

  Bneu2013, I get that the Grand Ole Opry is part of the entertainment district. My question is where the sources about the entertainment district mention the road? Given your note about the name (Briley Parkway), I now see that the source says The property was adjacent to a four-lane divided highway then under construction that was later christened Briley Parkway. But is there something that affirmatively says that the road facilitated the district? As for the ferries, I now see Briley Parkway mentioned in each. The 1989 article says that a 117-year-old ferry was shutting down, which works. The 1998 article says that a ferry shut down in 1965, but I don't see anything about how long the ferry had operated; the latter part is needed to substantiate the ALT1 statement that both ferries had operated since the later 19th century. --Usernameunique (talk) 03:53, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

  Working - The second source says the Williamson Ferry started operating "some time before 1885", and closed in 1965, the same year the nearby bridge opened. As for how Briley Parkway facilitated the development of the district, this is discussed more in-depth in the article that I'm having trouble finding, but will keep working at. There are multiple sources that attest to how this area was largely farmland and difficult to access before SR 155, which clearly implies that the Opry would not have relocated here if it weren't for SR 155. Bneu2013 (talk) 04:04, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

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Alec Radford

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• ... that Alec Radford, who was the lead author on OpenAI's 2018 seminal research paper on generative pre-trained transformers, was described as "a genius at the level of Einstein" by Sam Altman?

• Source: "Radford had gained legendary status for being the lead author on the company’s seminal research paper on generative pretrained models, GPT, a type of AI that now powers ChatGPT. He worked on future versions of GPT, a speech recognition model called Whisper, and the company’s image-generating model, Dall-E." The Information

"Maybe it’s why Sam Altman referred to Radford as “a genius at the level of einstein.”"Le Random

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Fantod Pack

5x expanded by Thriley (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 212 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 21:11, 23 April 2026 (UTC).

• I created the initial hook as a placeholder. I'll be adding a new one shortly. Thriley (talk) 04:44, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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Maria Kalinina crowned Moscow Beauty 1988

• ... that after Maria Kalinina (pictured) won the first official beauty contest in the capital of the Soviet Union, falling flowers knocked her crown off?

• Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-14-mn-4058-story.html "The final night of the three-day event went smoothly until the glittering crown was placed on Kalinina’s head. At that moment, long-stemmed red roses began to rain from the ceiling, knocking off the crown and causing the beauty queen to duck and dodge, although she never lost her smile."

• ALT1: ... that beauty queen Maria Kalinina (pictured) denied affairs with a president of the Soviet Union and a president of the United States? Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-17-me-1809-story.html "Nyet, Nyet : Soviet Beauty Queen Denies Allegations of Affair With Gorbachev" ; https://web.archive.org/web/20240527062334/https://www.kp.ru/daily/27607.5/4933812/ "Судьбы победительниц советских конкурсов красоты: Маша Калинина отказалась быть любовницей Трампа..." translated: "The Fates of Soviet Beauty Pageant Winners: Masha Kalinina Refused to Be Trump’s Mistress..." (article titles, but the article substance in each case confirms in more detail)
• ALT2: ... that Maria Kalinina (pictured) was so revulsed by playing the villain in a horror movie that she become a vegetarian and a yoga instructor? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20220625103800/https://aif.by/timefree/history/pervaya_krasavica_sssr_kak_slozhilas_sudba_mashi_kalininoy "У меня возникло полное отторжение той роли, которую я сыграла. После экранных пыток, убийств, насилия я сразу пошла в йогу, начала чистить свой организм: перешла на вегетарианское питание, чуть ли не на сыроядение." trans: "I felt a complete revulsion toward the role I had played. After the on-screen torture, murders, and violence, I immediately turned to yoga and began cleansing my body—switching to a vegetarian diet, and practically to raw foodism."
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Operación Estrella Polar III
• Comment: ALT1 is clearly the spiciest, but I can also imagine it being rejected for that same reason, so offering three to choose from.

Moved to mainspace by GRuban (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 55 past nominations.

GRuban (talk) 13:13, 15 April 2026 (UTC).

• Comment ALT1 is certainly spicy, but I can't quite see how a person denying rumors complies with WP:DYKBLP. And ALT0 either makes the claim that no beauty contest occurred in Moscow before 1988, or that no beauty contest occurred in Moscow from 1918 to 1988. That superlative seems... unlikely to stand up to scrutiny. 1brianm7 (talk) 01:04, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

For ALT1, yes, that is what I feared. But ALT0 is exactly that: no beauty contest occurred in Moscow from 1918 to this one in 1988, and I would not be surprised if none occurred there before 1918 either. Multiple reliable sources say exactly that, not least the LA Times I linked above. I'm guessing you are not familiar with the Soviet Union? "In the East, before Gorbachev came to office in 1985, Soviet ideological thinking had condemned the idea of the beauty contest as degrading to women and symptomatic of capitalist exploitation." University of Gloucestershire, Routledge. --GRuban (talk) 14:35, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

In fact, most of the Russian sources I cite in the article, and there are many of them, over many years, say she was the first beauty queen in the whole of the Soviet Union, but the U. of Glou. paper I link above point out four earlier ones (1987 and earlier in 1988). She is certainly the first one in Soviet Moscow, though. That is very much her main claim to fame. If you can find a reliable source saying otherwise, please, please, please point to it, because it would make a big difference in the article. --GRuban (talk) 14:40, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

@1brianm7: So, um, Brian. I see you're editing. No offense, but are you going to provide reliable sources for your statement, or are you going to withdraw it? I wouldn't make such a big deal of it, but this is basically the main point of the article, this is like questioning that Yuri Gagarin was the first in space... and numerous articles about her make that exact parallel.--GRuban (talk) 14:12, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

The sources definitely support the claim, and a beauty contest champion was definitely unusual and unprecedented in the USSR. If you're confident in them I'll withdraw. The sources seem to go on "first official beauty contest", which is something that seems much more verifiable. My point was that, regardless of what sources say, as written this would be disproved by finding any instance of a competition judging people by their beauty in Moscow. 1brianm7 (talk) 15:06, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

OK, added "official". --GRuban (talk) 15:27, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

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Tremate, empi, tremate

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• ... that Beethoven composed his song "Tremate, empi, tremate" in 1802, but it wasn't premiered until 1814, at a concert in which Beethoven's 8th symphony also premiered?

• Source: Wallace p. 41 footnote 3: "The trio “Tremate, empi, tremate” was written and probably completed in 1802–03, but was not performed until 27 February 1814, at a concert in the Grand Redoutensaal that also included Wellington’s Victory, Op. 91; the 7th symphony, Op. 92; and the premiere of the 8th symphony, Op. 93 (see 91.4)." ; Wallace p. 43 footnote 1: "The trio “Tremate, empi, tremate” was written in 1802–03." ; Beethoven-Haus Bonn "Composition: First months of 1802 to late 1802 or early 1803" and "The première of the trio finally occurred several years later during a concert on 27"

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hise Austin

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

Rlendog (talk) 22:01, 21 April 2026 (UTC).

Little Sir Echo

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• ... that the camp song "Little Sir Echo" has been recorded in big-band, punk, country, and French versions, and performances by Jerry Lewis and the Wiggles?

• Source: Sources for the versions include Jerry Lewis, Wiggles, country, punk, jazz, French. Its early role as a camp song is confirmed in here ("A Camp Favorite"), here (included in 4-H club sing-alongs), and in this 1939 article: "A whimsical revival of a chorus for children, prompted by a swing harpist's memories of her Girl Scout days, bloomed into one of the year's top ballroom and radio hits, 'Little Sir Echo'."

• Reviewed: Jay Som

Created by Cbl62 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 391 past nominations.

Cbl62 (talk) 01:46, 21 April 2026 (UTC).

Gelu Voican Voiculescu

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• ... that Gelu Voican Voiculescu, who took pride in securing a death sentence for Romania's last communist leader, and personally buried him, is also an aristocrat and published esotericist?

• Source: 1. Florin Constantiniu, "Adevărul despre execuția Ceaușeștilor, o anchetă pe cont propriu. Ultimul proces stalinist din Europa de Est", in Dosarele Istoriei, Vol. III, Issue 4, 1998, p. 56: Dintre cei cu care am discutat nu voi nominaliza decît pe unul singur și foarte bine cunoscut pentru a mai avea nevoie de recomandare: dl Gelu Voican-Voiculescu. Mărturisesc deschis, aveam o prejudecată defavorabilă față de domnia sa. Ea s-a risipit în cursul dialogului nostru. Dl Gelu Voican-Voiculescu este un personaj insolit, aproape ireal, liber de orice inhibiții. El își asumă dezinvolt, ca și cum ar vorbi de cel mai obișnuit fapt, inițiativa execuției cuplului Ceaușescu. De cum a aflat — oarecum întîmplător —, dintr-o conversație cu g-ralul Victor A. Stănculescu, că cei doi Ceaușescu erau în cazarma de la Tîrgoviște, a îndemnat la suprimarea lor și a stăruit pînă cînd dl Ion Iliescu, care ar fi avut mari rezerve în privința acestei soluții expeditive (spune dl Voican-Voiculescu), a sfîrșit prin a se lăsa convins.
  2. Dorin Tudoran, "Contur. Deplorabilia (II). Sectorul românesc al raiului", in România Literară, Issue 43/1990, p. 18: Urmăresc o nouă versiune a peliculei ce a memorat „procesul“, „executarea“ și „înmormântarea“ cuplului Ceaușescu. Unul din cosciuge de-abia fusese coborît în groapă. Bărbatul în hanorac şi cu barbă de-acum albă se apleacă. Ia o mină de pamint şi o aruncă în groapă. Cineva spune, parcă : „N-a zis nimeni cum să-i fie tărîna...“ „Să-i fie tărîna uşoară“, murmură barba albă. [...] Cine crede că scriu aceste rînduri spre a mă amuza maliţios se înşeală : cîndva, poate destul de curînd, dl. Voican va avea nevoie de compasiunea noastră.
  3. Ferenc Fejtő, "Un ambasador ieșit din comun", in Revista 22, Vol. II, Issue 7, February 1991, p. 16: Urmează minunatul portret în cîteva cuvinte al bărbosului Gelu Voican, unul dintre autorii tristei parodii televizate a „procesului“ [Ceaușescu], care s-a autonumit vice-prim-ministru. Paleologu ne aduce la cunoștință că Voican descinde dintr-o familie aristocratică din partea mamei, că a făcut parte în tinerele dintr-un grup de scriitori „onirici“, că este un cititor pasionat al lui René Guénon (filosoful ezoteric francez care s-a convertit la religia Islamului) și mare admirator al lui Khomeini. Also: Gabriela Simon, "Patrimoniu. După 20 de ani, Cotrocenii au din nou biserică. Gelu Voican Voiculescu, un Cantacuzin izolat", in Cotidianul, 17 September 2004, p. 3: Au fost prezenți membri ai familiei Cantacuzino, răspândite acum în toate colțurile lumii. Cu surprindere am aflat că descendență cantacuzină, la a douăsprezecea spiță, ce-i drept, are și Gelu Voican Voiculescu (care este și Sturdza după mamă). Și mai mare a fost surprinderea când am sesizat că ambasadorul României în Maroc a fost cât se poate de retras, devenind - în mulțimea ce se afla în curtea Cotrocenilor - o enclavă umană.
  4. Silvia Chițimia, Jean-Pierre Laurant, "Mapamond. 'Întotdeauna vor exista pe lume suficienți oameni pentru a perpetua și a transmite, de la o generație la alta, luminile spiritului'", in Luceafărul, Issue 43/1997, p. 21: România este și prima țară din Est unde s-a publicat o introducere în viața și opera lui Rene Guenon (Gelu Voican, Rene Guenon, editura Georgiana, București, 1994).

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nathan Farb

5x expanded by Dahn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 124 past nominations.

Dahn (talk) 16:33, 19 April 2026 (UTC).

Maggi Rubenstein

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• ... that Maggi Rubenstein has been called the Godmother of Sex Education?

• Source: https://www.commongroundmag.com/heroes-of-the-sexual-revolution/ https://www.ebar.com/story/335111

• ALT1: ... that when Maggi Rubenstein came out as bisexual, her mother said she wished Rubenstein "was a lesbian because all they do is hug"? Source: https://www.ebar.com/story/335111
• ALT2: ... that Maggi Rubenstein co-founded BiPOL, the first and oldest bisexual political organization? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20191022104318/http://www.binetusa.org/bihealth.html https://www.ilga-europe.org/sites/default/files/bisexual_health.pdf
• ALT3: ... that Maggi Rubenstein was known for yelling "and bisexuals!" when people discussed homosexuality in the 1970s? Source: https://sfbaytimes.com/sexologist-and-bisexual-activist-dr-maggi-rubenstein-1930-2024/
  • ALT4: ... that Maggi Rubenstein was famous in the San Francisco Bay Area LGB community for shouting "and bisexuals!"?
  • ALT4: ... that Maggi Rubenstein was famous in the San Francisco Bay Area for shouting "and bisexuals!"? removing the transphobic dogwhistle
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Monica Jacinto
  • @Significa liberdade, ALT4 is a bit too weird, but outside of these, the other ALTS are great. What I need to know is which one do you ultimately prefer before I pass this nomination. RTSthestardust (talk) 05:00, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
    • RTSthestardust: I have no preference. Do any stand out to you as more interesting than the others? Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 19:40, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
      • Significa liberdade I think ALT2 is the best one as it's clear and serves an interesting fact to Wikipedia, especially to minorities. - RTSthestardust (talk) 18:13, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

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

Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 01:10, 17 April 2026 (UTC).

Monica Jacinto

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• ... that Monica Jacinto, an American metallurgist who co-invented a nickel-based superalloy used in rocket engines, disappeared while hiking in the Angeles National Forest on June 22, 2025?

• Source: https://lamag.com/crimeinla/new-clues-in-monica-reza-case-surface-as-trump-launches-probe-into-missing-scientists/

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

RabidTuberculosis (talk) 00:48, 17 April 2026 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Multiple claims are sourced to the Daily Mail (WP:DAILYMAIL) and New York Post (WP:NYPOST), both of which are considered generally unreliable.
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - I'd say the fact that she co-invented the superalloy is interesting, and the mystery surrounding her going missing is interesting (i.e., that multiple people with high-level clearance have disappeared), but as stated, the fact that she went missing is not necessarily interesting (if that makes sense).
• Other problems: - The hook is a bit long and unfocused at the moment. I'd go with one fact, rather than something that could be the lead sentence.

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 02:03, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Pinging RabidTuberculosis. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 19:40, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Eiga.com

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• ... that Eiga.com made various parody teaser poster of the film The Martian featuring Sadako and Donald Trump?

• Source: Netorabo[今年公開のSF映画「オデッセイ」のティーザービジュアルを改変して… ホラー映画「リング」でおなじみの貞子なら「70億人が彼女の呪いを待っている。」など… しかし中にはウソというより批判や揶揄（やゆ）の色合いが強いビジュアルも。米大統領選の立候補者であるドナルド・トランプ氏に「70億人が彼の落選を願っている。」と当てたり][“ This unofficial meme is a parody of the teaser visual for the sci-fi movie "The Martian," released this year… Sadako, the character from the horror movie "Ring," the caption reads, "7 billion people are waiting for her curse." … However, some of the visuals are more critical or mocking than outright lies. For example, one accurately predicted that "7 billion people want Donald Trump, a candidate in the US presidential election, to lose."”

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cosmo Specialty Fibers
• Comment: I don’t know how to phrase the hook; also Odyssey is the Japanese name of The Martian. Also, WP:SOHA for May 27 (the website was registered) if possible.

Created by Miminity (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 48 past nominations.

Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 15:21, 16 April 2026 (UTC).

Bad Piggies

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• ... that you can hire a mechanic pig to build a vehicle in the game Bad Piggies? Source:"Alternatively, the player can press a "Hire a Mechanic" button to have a mechanic pig build a vehicle for them. [41]"
  • ALT1: ... that you can hire a pig mechanic to build a vehicle in the game Bad Piggies? Source:
  • Reviewed:

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

Dragonhawk12 (talk) (Guestbook) (Wikicats) 21:38, 16 April 2026 (UTC).

• Everything about the article clears the criteria very well, as it was just promoted to GA status today. However, as much as I do not like the WP:DYKFICTION criteria for hooks, I do think since both ALT0 and ALT1 refer to in-game canon/gameplay, this hook would fail that criteria. If another editor/reviewer wants to give that a second opinion, for sure feel free, but I think a new hook idea will probably have to be made here. Soulbust (talk) 02:16, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
  • I definitely agree with Soulbust that both hooks fail WP:DYKFICTION. Even without that, I think the hook isn't interesting as in video games, its often the case where you initially have do it yourself, but later gets easier/shorter or done automatically. JuniperChill (talk) 22:05, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Actually, WP:DYKFICTION excludes video game mechanics (as in gameplay itself), although in practice the line can be blurry between mechanics and plot points. However, given the objections raised above, maybe a new hook is needed either way. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:11, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
    • Ah my mistake, these particular hooks did feel like a blurry situation to me, since the pig mechanic being hired seem like a plot point as well. But if that criteria excludes gameplay mechanics, then the hooks should be fine, at least in my opinion but will wait to see on what alternative hooks can be made here. Soulbust (talk) 01:37, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
      • I forgot that it specifically excludes gameplay mechanics (per the last paragraph). I remember nominating (but not creating) Time Flies for DYK about the fact that it almost got pushed back regarding the mechanics of that game (although the fact that it can be beaten in <2 hours definitely got pushed back since I didn't think about speedruns). Perhaps the only other hook I could think of is that Bad Piggies got 100m downloads, but its not uncommon for mobile games back in the day (before 2020) to reach that or significantly go over that amount? Maybe we need a 3rd opinion on alt0/1. JuniperChill (talk) 18:28, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

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Boracay Bridge

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• ... that a contract for building the Boracay Bridge was awarded despite opposition from the local municipality, the Ati people, and the Archbishop of Capiz?

• Source: Municipality (of Malay): "local officials in Malay have reiterated their opposition, indicating that concerns over the Boracay Bridge Project are far from settled", Ati people: , Archbishop:

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Shikoku Shimbun

Created by Asamboi (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

Asamboi (talk) 11:23, 20 April 2026 (UTC).

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Siege of Salona (537)

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• ... that the capture of Salona by the Byzantines was part of a surprise multi-front attack against the Ostrogothic kingdom?

• Source: Syvänne, Ilkka (2021). Military History of Late Rome 518–565 p.120 Justinian’s plan consisted of three elements: Mundus, the Magister Militum per Illyricum, was ordered to conquer Salona in Dalmatia which was in Gothic hands at this time; Belisarius was dispatched to Sicily to take it with a surprise attack; the third element was the forming of an alliance with the Franks against the Ostrogoths. This was achieved by dispatching a letter and envoys to the Franks. The Franks answered in the affirmative and promised to dispatch an army to Italy.

• ALT1: ... that during the Byzantine attempt to capture Salona, general Mundus, after his son was killed on a reconnaissance mission, led a grief-driven attack that routed the Goths but died pursuing them? Source: Syvänne, Ilkka (2021). Military History of Late Rome 518–565 p.123 When this army reached the neighbourhood of Salona, Mundus dispatched his son Mauricius to reconnoitre. He encountered the Goths, killed their leading members, but the Romans lost almost all of their men including strategos Mauricius. Mundus was grief-stricken and furious at the same time. He led out his forces without delay or order and attacked the enemy head-on. The battle was hard fought and proved to be a Cadmean/Pyrrhic victory for the Romans. Most of the enemy fell on combat and they were decisively routed, but Mundus was killed during his furious pursuit of the fugitives.
• ALT2: ... that a naval sortie was enough for the Gothic Siege of Salona (537) to fail? Source: Syvänne, Ilkka (2021). Military History of Late Rome 518–565 p.132 The Goths then made a stockade around the circuit wall of Salona and used their ships to blockade the city. When this happened, the Roman fleet made an attack and defeated the Gothic fleet. Many of the Gothic ships were sunk or captured, but, according to Procopius, the Goths did not raise the siege. [...] Unfortunately Procopius does not tell us what happened next. Regardless, it is clear that Constantianus’s defence of Salona proved effective in the end and the besiegers were defeated. This may have been because it was impossible to blockade the city after the Goths had lost the naval battle, or it may have been from some other encounter not mentioned by Procopius. The Goths were so inept as besiegers that it is not surprising they were unable to recapture Salona. The siege ended in all probability during the summer of 537, and it was definitely over by 539 because the Gothic general Uligisalus was then stationed in Tudera. The successful conduct of these operations is also clear because Constantianus replaced Belisarius in Italy in 540.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Stanley Kimmel

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

A.Cython(talk) 03:44, 18 April 2026 (UTC).

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Christopher Morcom

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Christopher Morcom in 1927

• ... that Alan Turing had a childhood crush on Christopher Morcom (pictured)?

• Source: https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/the-spirit-of-alan-turing/ "Morcom was Turing’s first love"
• Hodges page 45: "this was first love, which Alan would himself come to regard as the first of many for others of his own sex."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bethan's Rock
• Comment: It has been 9 days since I published this article but as WP:DYKNEW states, "The seven-day limit can be extended for a day or two upon request." Turing is very famous and Morcom is reasonably so, so I think an extension would be a good idea.

Also, I don't know much about copyright so please be careful when reviewing the image. I did not upload it to Commons.

Moved to mainspace by Panamitsu (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 99 past nominations.

Panamitsu ✨ 06:53, 27 April 2026 (UTC).

Merger of Nexstar Media Group and Tegna Inc.

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• ... that one opponent of a recent merger of American television station operators derided it as "the most massive TV consolidation in history using a kangaroo process"? Source: https://barrettmedia.com/2026/03/28/nexstar-media-group-merger-with-tegna-halted-by-federal-judge/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Weightlifting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 61 kg (5 of 5)
  • Comment: Might be a little late but not overly so. For some personal reasons I was a bit hesitant to nominate.

Moved to mainspace by Sammi Brie (talk) and Nathan Obral (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 816 past nominations.

Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 22:54, 25 April 2026 (UTC).

Rock Me All Night Long

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• ... that the title phrase of the 1952 R&B song "Rock Me All Night Long" was a euphemism for sexual intercourse?

• Source: Stephen Calt (2009). Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary. University of Illinois Press: defining "rock" as "To have sexual intercourse with, a euphemism that makes for a punning reference in another blues ..." Also here ("At the time, “rock” and “roll” were slang for sexual intercourse.").

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Created by Cbl62 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 392 past nominations.

Cbl62 (talk) 20:36, 25 April 2026 (UTC).

• Hey Cbl62, this is new enough and long enough. Hook fact checks out to the alternate source and the provided quote. There is one paragraph that does not have any inline citation, but it is in reference to the song lyrics. I'll let you figure that out. QPQ is needed first. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 02:37, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you User:Sammi Brie. I think I've resolved those issues. Let me know if there's anything else. Cbl62 (talk) 03:41, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

@Cbl62: Almost there. Is there an alternative to WP:DISCOGS for the two refs that use it? Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 06:41, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

I know that some editors don't like Discogs as a source. Here, I'm really just using it for the image of the old 78 records. In other words, I'm not relying on any information on the Discogs cite, but rather on the information on the label of the old 78 record. So really the source here is the label of the record itself which is a reliable source for the record's core credits, I.e., the name of the record label, artist name, and songwriter. (While AllMusic.com is a good source for albums, I am not aware of a similar source for old 78s.) Cbl62 (talk) 17:16, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

@Sammi Brie: I modified the sources to reflect what I stated above. Cbl62 (talk) 10:49, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Cifelliodon

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• ... that Cifelliodon is estimated to have been as large as a hare at a time when most other mammaliaforms were shrew- and mouse-sized?

• Source: [42]: "Aside from its 3D preservation (Fig. 1), the skull is remarkable in other ways. It is about 7 centimetres long, indicating that Cifelliodon was about the size of a medium hare. This would have been unusual in an Early Cretaceous world dominated by shrew- and mouse-sized mammals."

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jordan Hadaway

Improved to Good Article status by An anonymous username, not my real name (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

— An anonymous username, not my real name 00:28, 20 April 2026 (UTC).

• @An anonymous username, not my real name: This is a well-written article, and the GA review by SlvrHwk reads as thorough - great work to both of you. This nomination is timely; the QPQ I had some doubts about but should be fine if the "believed to be" is amended as you suggest, since sources agree there. The one thing I would like clarified/addressed: I am cautious about using "mammaliaforms" in this hook, especially when you talk about "other mammals" in the body of this article. It would be a first for DYK to promote a hook using this name, but if necessary it's not disqualifying (we have had "crocodylomorphs" before after all). -- Reconrabbit 18:42, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Battle of Mucellium

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• ... that the death of a general's bodyguard led to a decisive Byzantines' defeat in the Battle of Mucellium even though they outnumbered Ostrogoths?

• Source: Syvänne, Ilkka (2021). Military History of Late Rome 518–565 p. 247 John and his men followed, charging impetuously up the hill all the while shouting loudly. When a javelin killed one of John’s bodyguards, the troops panicked because they believed their commander had been killed. The remainder of the army was deployed on the plain as a phalanx (presumably meaning two divisions), but failed to support the retreating troops because it was rumoured that John had been killed. Hearing this, the commanders joined in the headlong flight in the course of which Bessas was wounded by the pursuing enemy. The reason for the flight was simple. When the other commanders believed that the first line would not join the support line in the ensuing combat because it was leaderless (John survived but they did not know that), it was not wise to stay and fight. When the first line had been defeated, the success in cavalry battle depended upon the determination of the support forces to engage the pursuers.

• ALT1: ... that the Byzantine commanders resorted to fortune via a lot to choose who would the lead a surprise attack against the Ostrogoths in the Battle of Mucellium? Source: Hughes, Ian (2009). Belisarius: The Last Roman General p 206 In this way, it was hoped, the Goths would be surprised and, when they were fully engaged, the Byzantine main body would arrive and the battle would end. The commanders decided to draw lots to decide who would lead the advance party, and John the nephew of Vitalianus won the dubious prize of going ahead of the main force.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Canadian seat of government dispute

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

A.Cython(talk) 20:24, 19 April 2026 (UTC).

2024 Chilean census

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• ... that the 2024 Chilean census was delayed twice by nearly two years?

• Source: https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/chile/2022/05/24/gobierno-anuncia-segunda-postergacion-del-censo-se-realizara-entre-marzo-y-junio-de-2024.shtml

• ALT1: ... that data from the 2024 Chilean census showed that only one of the 16 regions of Chile had a reduction in its population? Source: https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2025/03/27/1161770/censo-primeros-resultados.html
• ALT2: ... that according to the 2024 Chilean census, only one of 16 regions in chile lost population? Source: https://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2025/03/27/1161770/censo-primeros-resultados.html
• ALT3: ... that the latest census in Chile was delayed twice by nearly two years? Source: https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/chile/2022/05/24/gobierno-anuncia-segunda-postergacion-del-censo-se-realizara-entre-marzo-y-junio-de-2024.shtml
• ALT4: ... that the latest census in Chile was carried out by nearly 25000 people? Source: https://www.emol.com/noticias/Economia/2024/02/15/1121845/25-mil-censistas-regiones.html
• ALT5: ... that the latest census in Chile used a "de jure" method, used once before in the 2012 census, where nearly 10% of the population was omitted? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20200305003603/https://www.latercera.com/pulso/noticia/gobierno-define-plan-para-censo-2022-sera-de-derecho-y-se-extendera-por-tres-meses/XZ45IGC2PBEMZP5BERLCKHYSQE/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sheep farming in Ukraine

Moved to mainspace by Robert Motecinos Holda (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

R. M. Holda - (talk) 19:30, 18 April 2026 (UTC).

Hingotanan Island

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Seaweed farming and drying on the coast of Hingotanan Island

• ... that locals on Hingotanan Island (pictured) shifted to seaweed farming because it was discovered to be a stabilizer for several products?

• Source: Bohol Climate Emergency Response Roadmap (PDF). Greenpeace Southeast Asia. 2023-11-13. Retrieved 2026-04-18.

• ALT1: ... that seaweed from seaweed farming on Hingotanan Island (pictured) had an unprecedented demand from industrial countries because the product was discovered to be a stabilizer for many products? Source: Same as above
• ALT2: ... that seaweed from seaweed farming on Hingotanan Island (pictured) had an unprecedented demand from industrial countries? Source: Same as above

I really like the first one as it keeps it shorter and more aligned in prose. I think you should use the first one. I don't know about the image if it can be voted as the picture of the day, but yeah they'll determine which is best. RTSthestardust (talk) 16:50, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

I added ALT2 which is shorter than ALT1. ALT2 only talks about the demand from industrial countries. ALT 1 combines the main one and ALT2. PPriyix (talk) 18:00, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

• I highly like ALT2. Done! RTSthestardust (talk) 18:15, 22 April 2026 (UTC)
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Created by PPriyix (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

PPriyix (talk) 15:48, 18 April 2026 (UTC).

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The Metland Egg

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a common guillemot egg

• ... that nobody knows where the Metland Egg is? Source: Birkhead & Montgomerie (2018 ) Rare red eggs of the Common Guillemot (Uria aalge): birds, biology and people at Bempton, Yorkshire, in the early 1900s. Archives of natural history 45.1 (2018): 69–79: Quote "The current whereabouts of the Metland eggs is unknown."
  • ALT1: ... that the mystery of where the Metland Egg is inspired a crime novel? Source: Birkhead & Montgomerie, with Belinda Bauer, The Impossible Thing acknowledgements, second edition (ebook): Quote "Tim Birkhead, author of The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg - whose radio interview was the spark for my story." (and supported by this interview if you can't access the ebook to check, although she doesn't name Birkhead there, https://crimereads.com/belinda-bauer-on-obsession-greed-and-the-dangerous-world-of-rare-egg-trafficking/)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Toronto circus riot

Moved to mainspace by DrThneed (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 33 past nominations.

DrThneed (talk) 23:30, 25 April 2026 (UTC).

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.

• 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).

Norah Davis

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• ... that Norah Davis reportedly based one of her novels on a bigamy trial? Source: The plot of "The Other Woman," a dual personality story by Norah Davis, is said to be based on a case which Miss Davis watched in a federal court ... She saw a man convicted of bigamy and sent to prison, though he was entirely innocent of any intent to do wrong.
• ALT1: ... that Norah Davis recommended hypnosis as a treatment for amnesia? The facts ... undoubtedly point to a case of ... amnesia ... Have the lad thrown into a deep hypnotic trance
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Chocolatiere
  • Comment: On review, I am inclined to recommend alt1 as opposed to the original hook because while digging through new sources ([43]) it appears that the statement, while it appears in one newspaper account, is not clearly right. She says in one place that it was based on a trial she attended while working as a stenographer, but also claims in another place that she personally knew the man. These could both be true but it seems a tad suspect. Also, the novel in question was also turned into a movie, but that fact is not very interesting I don't think.

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

AleatoryPonderings (talk) 01:34, 22 April 2026 (UTC).

Farmingdale Statue

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Farmingdale Statue, front view

• ... that one of fewer than a dozen wooden artefacts (pictured) known to have been collected from sub-Saharan Africa before 1650 was discovered in 1961 buried in a Long Island backyard?

• Source: Gramly, Richard Michael. "How a Long Island Relic Becomes a Zulu Artefact." Black Art: An International Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1980, pp. 33–48.

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Created by Mithlyif2t (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Mithlyif2t (talk) 12:51, 20 April 2026 (UTC).

• Article is currently at AFD and this nom is on hold till the AFD is closed; please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Farmingdale Statue. ミラP@Miraclepine 20:33, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

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Beijing E-Town Half-Marathon

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• ... that a Chinese robot beat the world record for a half-marathon?

• Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/china/humanoid-robots-race-humans-beijing-half-marathon-showing-rapid-advanc-rcna340842

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

Natg 19 (talk) 00:24, 24 April 2026 (UTC).

2017 Chilean census

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2017 Chilean census forms

• ... that 72,000 Chilean census forms (pictured) in the Atacama Region, amounting to 60% of the region's total population, were damaged by heavy rains?

• Source: https://www.eldinamo.cl/pais/2017/05/17/ine-analiza-repetir-censo-en-atacama-por-destruccion-de-informacion-por-aluviones-y-lluvias/ - And - https://www.vlnradio.cl/noticias/nacional/region-del-maule/curico/2017/05/17/estudian-repetir-censo-en-atacama-formularios-se-danaron-tras-aluvion/

• ALT1: ... that heavy rain in the Atacama Region of Chile damaged census forms (pictured) amounting to 60% of the region's population? Source: https://www.eldinamo.cl/pais/2017/05/17/ine-analiza-repetir-censo-en-atacama-por-destruccion-de-informacion-por-aluviones-y-lluvias/ - And - https://www.vlnradio.cl/noticias/nacional/region-del-maule/curico/2017/05/17/estudian-repetir-censo-en-atacama-formularios-se-danaron-tras-aluvion/
• ALT2: ... that the 2017 Chilean census questionnaire (pictured) was available in seven languages? Source: https://www.latercera.com/noticia/conoce-cuestionario-deberas-responder-censo/
• ALT3: ... that attacks against census workers in Temucuicui, Chile, prevented the community from undergoing the 2017 census? Source: https://www.t13.cl/noticia/nacional/censo-2017-temucuicui
• ALT4: ... that people who were not surveyed during the 2017 Chilean census could fill up the census questionnaire via a digital platform? Source: https://www.emol.com/noticias/Economia/2017/04/22/855263/Censo-2017-Lanzan-plataforma-web-para-viviendas-que-no-fueron-encuestadas-por-falta-de-moradores.html
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jeffrey Trail

Moved to mainspace by Robert Motecinos Holda (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

R. M. Holda - (talk) 21:53, 21 April 2026 (UTC).

Vasily Baranshchikov

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• ... that Vasily Baranshchikov learned Spanish, Italian and Turkish, but could not make headway in Danish?

• Source: from his travelogue, p. 17 for Danish and p. 76 for the rest

• ALT1: ... that Vasily Baranshchikov claimed to have entertained his enslaver with feats of gluttony? Source: from his travelogue, pp. 22–26, and summarized by Leskov, sections VIII and IX.
• ALT2: ... that Vasily Baranshchikov's travelogue was an 18th-century bestseller, despite being panned in a contemporary review for sloppy writing and an ungrateful, whiny tone? Source: e.g. Vigasin for report of success with four editions, currently uncited article in Nauka i Zhizn' magazine uses "bestseller" terminology if extra support is needed. The contemporary review is here, last two pages.
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Created by PlatypeanArchcow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

platypeanArchcow (talk) 17:06, 20 April 2026 (UTC).

Pathfinder Ryder

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• ... that Mass Effect: Andromeda's Pathfinder Ryder has been criticized for reinforcing a damsel-in-distress trope by keeping their twin sibling frozen in cryostasis for most of the game?

• Source: Schallegger, René Reinhold (2018). "Only Human After All? The Surprising (and Avoidable) Failure of Mass Effect: Andromeda" https://www.kanada-studien.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zks_2020_complete-issue-70.pdf

• ALT1: ... that Mass Effect: Andromeda's Pathfinder Ryder inherits their title from their father, who dies saving their life in the opening mission of the game? Source: Majkowski, Tomas Z.; Kozyra, Magdalena (February 20, 2021). "Lost worlds of Andromeda" https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2aef/7c7fab58744825a15af8b1926492365f0d32.pdf
• ALT2: ... that scholars have compared Mass Effect: Andromeda's Pathfinder Ryder to Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines and the hero of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales? Source: Mukherjee, Souvik (May 30, 2023). "Pathfinding Affect: Reading Maps, Bodies and the Affective in Colonial Videogames" https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2023.2184948 // Majkowski, Tomas Z.; Kozyra, Magdalena (February 20, 2021). "Lost worlds of Andromeda" https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2aef/7c7fab58744825a15af8b1926492365f0d32.pdf
• ALT3: ... that one academic argued Mass Effect: Andromeda's Pathfinder Ryder's freely customizable appearance turns them into what they described as a "mutant" within the game's own narrative? Source: Farnsworth, Stephanie (January 2025). "A Mass Effect case study of morphed humanity, from individuals to populations in a biotechnological futurist society" https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2aef/7c7fab58744825a15af8b1926492365f0d32.pdf
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Moved to mainspace by Oreun (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Oreun ^💬Talk 16:46, 20 April 2026 (UTC).

• Another alt: ALT4: ... that a gameplay trailer featuring Mass Effect: Andromeda's Sara Ryder drew such criticism over her facial animations that BioWare issued a public apology before the game even launched? Source: Chalk, Andy (January 3, 2017) "BioWare boss says Ryder is "awesome," promises animations will be improved" PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/bioware-boss-says-ryder-is-awesome-promises-animations-will-be-improved/ Oreun ^💬Talk 22:02, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
• Comment I think ALT4 is the most immediately humorous and interesting one, so that would personally be my vote. ALT1 is kind of a spoiler, and despite Wikipedia not being censored so it technically being fine, it's would be a bit impolite to throw out major story spoilers on the main page in my opinion. 2 would be my 2nd choice since it will probably interest people enough to click through to all those characters. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 23:26, 25 April 2026 (UTC)

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Mark Cooney

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• ... that although Mark Cooney was a defensive end, center, and defensive tackle in college, he was told to try a position he had never played before upon joining the NFL?

• Source: defensive end, center, defensive tackle, never played

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Academy of Music (Cleveland)
• Comment: To do QPQ within 24 hours.

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 460 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:36, 30 April 2026 (UTC).

Pisces VII

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Pisces VII/Triangulum III, taken by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Survey (LSI); due to its high magnitude, it is barely visible

• ... that a dwarf satellite galaxy Pisces VII (pictured), also known as Triangulum III, is the first galaxy within the Local Group to have been discovered by an amateur astronomer, Giuseppe Donatiello?

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• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1935 Free City of Danzig parliamentary election

Moved to mainspace by JeBonSer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 25 past nominations.

JeBonSer (talk) 11:55, 27 April 2026 (UTC).

• The article doesn't follow WP:LEAD - the lead contains information that are not in the body, such as the description of the discovered as "amateur astronomer" and the date of the discovery of the object. I'd ask the author to ensure that all claims from the lead are mentioned in the body, at which point we could also remove the references in the lead, which are not required for mundane information (no red flags or suprising claims there, I think). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:40, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Renovating Action Party

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Flag of the Renovating Action Party

• ... that a Salvadoran bishop threatened to excommunicate Catholics who campaigned for the Renovating Action Party (flag pictured)?

• Source: Wells, Henry, ed. (1967). El Salvador Election Factbook, March 5, 1967. Institute for the Comparative Study of Political Systems. p. 17.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Steve Potter (American football)

Created by PizzaKing13 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 36 past nominations.

PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 16:15, 24 April 2026 (UTC).

Jean Varraud

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• ... that Zinedine Zidane described football scout Jean Varraud as a "second father" to him?

• Source: Gala.fr - «Ça été quelqu'un qui a beaucoup compté pour moi. J'avais ma famille, mais il était pour moi comme un deuxième papa parce qu'il me parlait comme à son fils»." ["He was someone who meant a lot to me. I had my family, but he was like a second father to me because he spoke to me like he spoke to his son."]

• ALT1: ... that Zinedine Zidane credits football scout Jean Varraud as the person who most influenced his development? Source: Marca - Zinedine, que entonces era Yazid, lo considera la persona que más influyó en su desarrollo futbolístico [Zinedine, who was then Yazid, considers him the person who most influenced his football development]
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Created by ShadowBallX (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

ShadowBallX (talk) 19:51, 22 April 2026 (UTC).

• There was a suggestion by Crisco 1492 in the discord server for an alt hook (thanks for that btw): ALT2: "...that Jean Varraud helped two of his former teammates by taking them in after they returned from captivity during World War II?" ShadowBallX (talk) 04:55, 24 April 2026 (UTC) Source: Anciensverts - Il offrira son hospitalité à Ignace Tax et Ferenc Odry à leur retour de captivité lors de la seconde guerre mondiale. [He offered his hospitality to Ignace Tax and Ferenc Odry upon their return from captivity during the Second World War.] and asse-live profile on Ignace Tax - Il ne sera libéré qu’en 1942-43 et sera accueilli comme Ferenc Odry par Jean Varraud. [He was not released until 1942-43 and, like Ferenc Odry, was welcomed by Jean Varraud.]

Green Goblin Reborn!

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• ... that the comic book "Green Goblin Reborn!" was written after the Department of Health, Education and Welfare asked Marvel Comics to make a story about how drugs can be dangerous? Source: Mills, Anthony (2013). American Theology, Superhero Comics, and Cinema: The Marvel of Stan Lee and the Revolution of a Genre. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-01437-7.
  • ALT1: ... that the comic book "Green Goblin Reborn!" was still published even though it was not approved by the Comics Magazine Association of America because it depicted drug use? Source: Arndt, Richard J. (2011). "Tales from the Code". Alter Ego. Vol. 3, no. 105. TwoMorrows Publishing. pp. 3–54.
  • ALT2: ... that the comic book "Green Goblin Reborn!" caused the Comics Magazine Association of America to make its guidelines less strict? Source: Duncan, Randy; Smith, Matthew J. (2009). The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-2935-3. (p. 60)
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Created by Dragonhawk12 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Dragonhawk12 (talk) (Guestbook) (Wikicats) 05:13, 22 April 2026 (UTC).

• Let's see if we can merge those. ALT3: ... that after the US government asked Marvel Comics to make a comic about how drugs are dangerous, the Comics Code Authority refused to approve it because it was about drugs? DS (talk) 00:36, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Denison Trough

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• ... that scientists don't know why the natural gas found in the Denison Trough often has a high concentration of carbon dioxide? Source: A number of gas accumulations in the Denison Trough contain unusually high concentrations of carbon dioxide...The source of the carbon dioxide in the Denison Trough has not been firmly established. However, the lack of significant quantities of carbon dioxide in gases from the Early Permian Reids Dome beds suggests that the carbon dioxide is not a product of high levels of thermal maturation. Paten and others (1979) have suggested that the carbon dioxide is a result of biodegradation and groundwater solution of calcareous facies in the Peawaddy Formation , Aldebaran Sandstone and Cattle Creek Formation", page 58
  • ALT1: ... that the concentration of carbon dioxide in some natural gas found in the Denison Trough is high enough to that processing it requires anti-corrosive facilities? Source: "Due to the high CO2 contents in the gas produced from the southern fields, infield dehydration facilities are installed to protect the gathering system and the gas plant from carbonic acid corrosion", page 96
  • ALT2: ... that the geological formations of Australia's inland Denison Trough record evidence of when the area was a shallow sea? Source: Many places, such as "Shallow marine conditions returned to the Denison Trough in the early Late Permian. The shales, siltstones, limestones and lithic sandstones of the Peawaddy Formation were deposited widely over the Denison Trough at this time. At the top of this unit, a distinctive coquinitic marker, the Mantuan Formation (formerly known as the Mantuan Productus Beds) occurs", page 12
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Drab stinkbug
  • Comment: No personal preference among alts, and open to other suggestions.

Created by Chipmunkdavis (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 71 past nominations.

CMD (talk) 05:00, 22 April 2026 (UTC).

Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area

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• ... that the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area in North Korea was built to host 20,000 visitors but stopped accepting foreign tourists just weeks after opening?

• Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/north-korea-bans-foreign-tourists-to-newly-opened-wonsan-kalma-beach-resort/article69826959.ece

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Improved to Good Article status by TheGreatEditor024 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

TheGreatEditor024 (talk) 03:33, 22 April 2026 (UTC).

• Improved to GA, long enough. No QPQ needed.
  Earwig brings up a page that seems to have copied this one. However, there are some areas that need rewording. These include "The KCNA later released photographs..." and "According to the Kalma tourism guide map...". This latter sentence also seems redundant to the later subsection?
  The sentence/section "The resort forms part of a broader effort by the North Korean government to develop Wonsan into a major tourism hub on the country's east coast" does not seem supported by the source, which talks about coastal areas in general rather than just Wonsan.
  Hook is interesting and checks out, so article just needs the small fixes mentioned above. CMD (talk) 05:59, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I have re-wrote and added a source to the statement "The resort forms part of a broader effort by the North Korean government to develop Wonsan into a major tourism hub on the country's east coast". About the The KCNA later released photographs..." and "According to the Kalma tourism guide map statement, I don't find what's wrong in it. I'd appreicate if you explained it. Did you mean to remove the "According to the Kalma tourism guide map statement.I have removed it. TheGreatEditor024 (talk) 06:35, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

The sentences are WP:Close paraphrasing of their sources. "The KCNA later released photographs showing Kim Jong Un inspecting the resort’s facilities with his daughter Kim Ju Ae ahead of its planned opening"/"State media has released a series of photos showing the country's supreme leader Kim Jong Un inspecting the facilities with his daughter Kim Ju Ae". "There are six large hotels, 37 motels (also known as ryeogwan), and ten large unnamed buildings which serves as accommodation facilities"/"there are six large hotels, 37 motels (Ryeogwan), and ten large unnamed buildings serving as accommodation facilities". CMD (talk) 07:42, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

 Done, I have corrected the issue. TheGreatEditor024 (talk) 08:03, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Changing one or two words doesn't fix the issue. I recommend breaking the basic facts down into brief bullets, and writing a new sentence from scratch. Please also check the new coastal sentence. CMD (talk) 09:14, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes

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• ... that according to The Sydney Morning Herald, Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes "offers an important corrective – hero worship must not be blind"? Source: https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/hero-worship-must-never-be-blind-the-lesson-from-chris-masters-20230731-p5dsnu.html
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Australian Church

Moved to mainspace by TarnishedPath (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 23 past nominations.

TarnishedPath^talk 10:29, 21 April 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on April 22

Zac Alcorn

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• ... that in college, Zac Alcorn played football at a stadium with a capacity of 4,200, while in the NFL, he played at one with a capacity of 70,000?

• Source: Capital Times (2)

• ALT1: ... that Zac Alcorn is the only person from Black Hills State University to play in the NFL? Source: PFR
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ghafur Akbar Dharmaputra
• Comment: To do QPQ within 24 hours.

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 461 past nominations.

BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:40, 30 April 2026 (UTC).

• The article was improved to GA status on April 27, or three days before the nomination. It is long enough and adequately sourced. I did not find any close paraphrasing. A QPQ was provided and it is a complete review. Both hooks have issues: ALT1 is outright not interesting to a broad audience as the university is probably not even well-known in the US, let alone outside it. It's not clear how significant that him being the only NFL player from there is. ALT0 is marginally better, but I feel that it might require sports knowledge or at least background to fully appreciate. Are there other more broadly-interesting or appealing options? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:49, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Tom Scutt

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• ... that Tom Scutt has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, whose productions he attended as a child?

• Source: "a portfolio that includes work at the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company..." and "His own understanding of design was shaped by frequent trips to the RSC with his father"

• ALT1: ... that Tom Scutt's set design for Into the Woods was described as "exquisitely conceived"? Source: "the exquisitely conceived set design by Tom Scutt"
• ALT2: ... that Tom Scutt won the Olivier Award for Best Set Design for a production in an open-air theatre? Source:
• ALT3: ... that Tom Scutt judged an award only eight years after winning it? Source: "he’s judging the Linbury Prize only eight years after winning it"
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• Comment: He worked with the RSC on a 2011 production of The Merchant of Venice.

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

Max263 (talk • contribs) 19:01, 24 April 2026 (UTC).

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Shey Amar Choto Bon

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• ... that Manna Dey, the singer of "Shey Amar Choto Bon", cried several times while singing the song?

• Source: [44][45]

• ALT1: ... that the composer of the song "Shey Amar Choto Bon" was given to work on it after his associate met the singer on a flight? Source: [46]
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Created by Babin Mew (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Babin Mew (talk) 05:18, 23 April 2026 (UTC).

Grayson McCall

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• ... that Grayson McCall pisses teal?

• Source: Why Grayson McCall returned to Coastal Carolina and turned down transfer interest

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Yaxté totem pole
• Comment: Open to any comments, questions, tweaks, or concerns. Cheers :)

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

kline / talk / contribs 22:50, 22 April 2026 (UTC).

• No he doesn't, he once wore a shirt that claims he did. New hook needed.--Launchballer 03:51, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

• @Launchballer, what about ALT1: ...that Grayson McCall wore a shirt that claims he "pisses teal"? kline / talk / contribs 12:37, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

I'll let a reviewer adjudicate.--Launchballer 12:45, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 23

Robert S. Cooper

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Cooper in 1976

• ... that Robert S. Cooper (pictured) directed the development of GPS while at the Pentagon?

• Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/NASA_Activities/DyzuLDKwOCwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Robert+S.+Cooper+nasa&pg=RA5-PA22&printsec=frontcover

• ALT1: ... that Robert S. Cooper (pictured) helped develop the Reagan administration's "Star Wars" program? Source: https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/1d462e2b-c898-4077-a4c0-6a6a904ff738/content
• ALT2: ... that Robert S. Cooper (pictured) supported the United States's early investment in supercomputers as head of DARPA in the 1980s? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/23/science/small-agency-quietly-plays-powerful-role-in-developing-exotic-research.html
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Created by RabidTuberculosis (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

RabidTuberculosis (talk) 20:02, 27 April 2026 (UTC).

Elisabeth Park

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Elisabeth Park and Basilica of the Sacred Heart

• ... that the layout of Elisabeth Park (pictured) forms a royal monogram?

• Source: "Son tracé longitudinal forme le LII du Monogramme Royal de Léopold II." ["Its longitudinal layout forms the LII of the Royal Monogram of Leopold II."] from: Hannequart, Jean-Pierre; Schamp, Eric; Pulings, Marie-Claude (1996). Découvrir Bruxelles par ses Espaces Verts. Brussels: Institut bruxellois pour la Gestion de l'Environnement, Commission communautaire française (p. 7, in French)

• ALT0a: ... that the layout of Elisabeth Park (pictured) forms the royal monogram of Leopold II of Belgium? Source: Same as above.
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5x expanded by Jason Lagos (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Jason Lagos (talk) 20:04, 23 April 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on April 24

1955 Spain v France football match

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• ... that prior to France beating Spain 2–1 in 1955, a French journalist claimed that a goal for France would be an achievement, a draw would be a miracle, and a win was impossible?

• Source: Chroniques bleues - « Une défaite par quatre buts serait normale ; un but, un exploit ; le match nul un miracle ; et une victoire n’est pas possible ». C’est par ces mots que Gabriel Hanot annonce aux lecteurs de L’Équipe les enjeux de la rencontre Espagne-France au matin du 17 mars 1955. [“A four-goal defeat would be normal; one goal, an achievement; a draw a miracle; and a victory is impossible.” With these words, Gabriel Hanot announced to the readers of L’Équipe the stakes of the Spain-France match on the morning of 17 March 1955.]

• ALT1: ... that after France beat Spain 2–1 in 1955, a British journalist nicknamed Raymond Kopa "the Napoleon of football"? Source: FFF - Après cette rencontre, la presse britannique, éblouie par Kopa, le surnomme "le Napoléon du football". [After this match, the British press, dazzled by Kopa, nicknamed him "the Napoleon of football".] + 3 others sources linked in article
• ALT2: ... that Raymond Kopa called France beating Spain 2–1 in 1955 the best match of his career? Source: Le Télégramme interview - «C'est la première fois que l'équipe de France s'imposait en Espagne (2 à 1, le 17mars 1955) et je pense que ça a été le meilleur match de ma carrière.» ["It was the first time the French national team had won in Spain (2 to 1, 17 March 1955), and I think it was the best match of my career"] + 2 other sources linked in article
• ALT3: ... that when France beat Spain 2–1 in 1955, it was only the second time they had ever beaten them, and the first time ever away from home? Source: Chroniques bleues - C’est la première fois que l’équipe de France s’impose en terre espagnole. [This was the first time the French team had won on Spanish soil.]
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Amanda Coulson
• Comment: First time I've ever needed a QPQ to do one of these.

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

ShadowBallX (talk) 20:25, 24 April 2026 (UTC).

Julien Nuijten

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• ... that four years after Julien Nuijten won the largest award ever earned at a Magic: The Gathering tournament, he won four times as much playing poker?

• Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20081009153307/https://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/events.aspx?x=mtgevent/worlds04/welcome "Julien Nuijten is the 2004 Magic: the Gathering World Champion! ... The $52,366 that Julien was awarded is the largest amount of money any player has ever earned at a Collectible Card Game tournament." https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/4119-julien-nuijten-wins-latin-american-poker-tour-rio "May 06, 2008 ... When it was all over, Nuijten had the chips and the nearly $223,000 first-place prize."

• ALT1: ... that Julien Nuijten was a Magic: The Gathering world champion, and a renowned poker player, which he gave up to become a cook? Source: https://www.pokernews.com/news/2014/02/life-after-poker-julien-nuijten-17469.htm "Julien Nuijten started playing Magic: The Gathering when he was 12-year old, and only three years later he became World Champion ... Nuijten found himself becoming one of the most familiar faces on the Dutch poker scene and getting his poker skills recognized also far beyond his tiny European country. ... he decided to move on and started working as a cook at a restaurant in Amsterdam."
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Ancestor's Tale
• Comment: In theory, there's an image, File:Julien Nuijten playing.jpg, but I think it's not DYK-image-slot-worthy.

Moved to mainspace by GRuban (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 56 past nominations.

GRuban (talk) 20:01, 24 April 2026 (UTC).

Harry Leons

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• ... that American football player Harry Leons had "no chance" of ever becoming his team's starting quarterback?

• Source: [47]

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Waverly (London, Ontario)

Created by WikiOriginal-9 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 40 past nominations.

~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 17:34, 24 April 2026 (UTC).

Sundae Girl

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• ... that Cathy Cassidy was praised for the way she dealt with sensitive issues in Sundae Girl?

• Source: [48][49]

• ALT1: ... that Sundae Girl was included in Judy Finnigan and Richard Madeley's bookclub? Source: [50]
• ALT2: ... that Sundae Girl is a children's novel that deals with dementia and alcoholism? Source: [51]
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mecki

Improved to Good Article status by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 52 past nominations.

DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 17:34, 24 April 2026 (UTC).

Nathan Webb (priest)

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• ... that at the time of his ordination, Nathan Webb was Australia's youngest Catholic priest? Source: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/storystream/youngest-priest/14010442
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Isabel Fidler
  • Comment: Drive by DYK nomination. Will add QPQ when I'm at home (I've already done it, I just need to access my list).

Moved to mainspace by Owen C. J. Webb (talk) and Owen Webb (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 25 past nominations.

TarnishedPath^talk 06:01, 24 April 2026 (UTC).

• @TarnishedPath: @Owen C. J. Webb: New reviewer here.

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

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

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article moved to mainspace a day before nomination and is not a stub. Hook is sufficiently interesting and cited. It has no issues I could detect in terms of prose. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 23:44, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

• @TarnishedPath and Kepler-1229b: Are we sure this is a notable subject? It looks like a WP:BLP1E to me. The sources are official Catholic diocesan publications and thus not independent ([52], [53], [54], [55], [56]), another official Catholic Church source, primary sources ([57], [58]), articles about Nathan Webb's sister ([59], [60], [61]), and a trivial mention ([62]). The only WP:GNG-qualifying source is the ABC radio profile, and even if being the "youngest priest in Australia for a moment in time" is a marker of notability, it would the only one and thus a case of WP:BLP1E. (There will always be a youngest priest, and indeed, the page creator has made another bio about another priest who held this status later.) Finally, a quick question @Owen Webb and Owen C. J. Webb: do you have any relationship to Fr. Webb? Dclemens1971 (talk) 17:51, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971:, to be honest I relied somewhat on it being moved from draft to mainspace as part of the WP:AFC process by PhilDaBirdMan (talk · contribs). I'll do a search for sources when I get home from work tonight. TarnishedPath^talk 00:08, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971::

• Young and old reflect on life as Catholic priests in 2022 ABC News Australia - Referenced by name 11 times .
• ‘Church for nerds’ builds community without a building United Methodist News - Referenced by name 13 times.
• Diocese welcomes two new priests This from The Chronicle and is in the article already, however ProQuest is giving me grief and I can't get at the article. I would presume that given Webb is one of the two priests referred to in the headline that there is going to be a bit about them.
• Teen's plans for priesthood delight parish This is another from The Chronicle. Again ProQuest is giving me grief. However, Webb is the primary subject of this. This presumably has sigcov.

The four articles I've given you above span 2016 to 2022. I think that would allay any BPL1E concerns? Are we good with me removing the notability tag from the article? TarnishedPath^talk 11:00, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

The UM News article is about an American Methodist pastor named Nathan Webb. I also can't view the Chronicle stories; they appear to have been indexed without full text in ProQuest and the paywall is extremely hard. For notability assessment purposes, the two ABC stories would be grouped together and count as one source. That leaves the Chronicle, which is Toowoomba's local paper. My guess is the "Diocese welcomes two new priests" story is the kind of press-release-based routine local coverage that wouldn't count for notability, although the "Teen's plans for priesthood delight parish" might. If it did, though, both sources are about his pursuit of the ordained ministry, which I would consider a single event for assessing notability. So I'm not convinced this isn't a BLP1E. Finally, I do object to moving this forward until we hear from the page creator about their relationship with Nathan Webb. Two sources in the article identify an "Owen Webb" as one of Nathan Webb's siblings ([63], [64]). I will WP:AGF that an unrelated Owen Webb might have coincidentally written this article, but I think it's reasonable to ask, and if there is a relationship, the article talk page needs appropriate disclosures added. Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:18, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

I have a different interpretation of the word "event" as it appears in our BLP policy. I take it to be an occurrence that happened at a point in time. Not a general pursuit of a subject's life (correct me if I'm wrong in how I'm interpretating you). If we meant it as a general pursuit of the subject's life, I think we would have a lot of articles which by community consensus pass GNG, which wouldn't.

On the subject of the article's creator, I too would like a response from them, given that I have left a message on their talk asking the same question; however, as you would see I conducted a bit of editing since it's been moved to mainspace and even if we do have COI issues I don't think that is consideration for how the article is currently written. It's not the best written article, but I do think it is a lot more coherent that it was when it was published to mainspace.

Ps, I'm glad it's not just me that was having issues trying to get at that article through ProQuest. I was starting to think something was wrong with my access to the Wikipedia Library. TarnishedPath^talk 14:06, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971:, I've made a procedural nomination of the article at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nathan Webb (priest) to get community input. TarnishedPath^talk 10:42, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

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Articles created/expanded on April 25

James Baker as Secretary of State

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• ... that when he was Secretary of State, James Baker banned Benjamin Netanyahu from the department?

• Source: As head of the State Department under president George H.W. Bush in 1990, Baker said that Netanyahu, then deputy foreign minister, was barred from the building after saying American foreign policy in the Middle East was “based on lies and distortions.” “I barred him,” Baker said. “That may not be widely known.” The Republican administration’s snub of Netanyahu was reported at the time, but Baker’s comments provide an institutional perspective on the US-Israel relationship as reports surface of unprecedented tensions between the two governments.

• ALT1: ... that James Baker, as Secretary of State, became the first major American official to visit Albania? Source: "It was the first visit ever by a senior American official to this tiny Balkan country, which in March became the last in Eastern Europe to begin instituting democratic reforms." https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/23/world/300000-albanians-pour-into-streets-to-welcome-baker.html
• ALT2: ... that Mikhail Gorbachev defended James Baker's tenure as Secretary of State from criticisms by Vladimir Putin? Source: "President Vladimir V. Putin and other Russian officials have asserted that Mr. Baker ruled out NATO expansion into Eastern Europe when he served as President George H.W. Bush’s top diplomat. The West’s failure to live up to that agreement, in this argument, is the real cause of the crisis now gripping Europe [...}The issue was foreign troops in eastern Germany. “Baker’s statement” about not one inch “was made in that context,” Mr. Gorbachev said. “Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.”" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/us/politics/russia-ukraine-james-baker.html
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Claudia Aster inscription

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

Dizzycheekchewer (talk) 18:54, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady

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• ... that a narrative element in The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady was described as "explicitly [...] about class conflict"? Source: Anime Feminist, reliable per WP:A&M/ORS "...Anis’ pursuit of “magicology” is explicitly a narrative about class conflict..."
  • ALT1: ... that The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady started as a self-published web novel? Source: Crunchyroll "The original The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady story was published by Piero Karasu on the Shosetsuka ni Naro web novel service before being picked up by Fujimi Shobo for publication..."
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Improved to Good Article status by Crestfalling (talk) and Kamakou (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Crestfalling (talk/contribs) 05:09, 30 April 2026 (UTC).

Nikolai Chernyshev

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Captured V-2 rocket

• ... that Nikolai Chernyshev's name was classified until the end of the Cold War?

• Source: Maurer, Eva; Richers, Julia; Rüthers, Monica; Scheide, Carmen (2011). Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-230-27435-8. Retrieved April 25, 2026.

• ALT1: ... that Nikolai Chernyshev designed the Soviet Union's first sub-orbital spaceflight rocket? Source: Chertok, B. E.; Siddiqi, Asif (2005). Rockets and People, Volume IV: The Moon Race (PDF). Washington, D.C: NASA. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-16-089559-3. Retrieved April 25, 2026.
• ALT2: ... that Nikolai Chernyshev led the capture of Nazi Germany's V-2 rockets? Source: Kantemirov, B. N. (1998). "Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshev". Земля и вселенная (The Earth and the Universe) (4). Retrieved April 25, 2026.
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Created by RabidTuberculosis (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

RabidTuberculosis (talk) 17:49, 28 April 2026 (UTC).

1967 Salvadoran presidential election

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• ... that compulsory voting laws were not enforced during the 1967 Salvadoran presidential election?

• Source: Wells, Henry, ed. (1967). El Salvador Election Factbook, March 5, 1967. p. 35.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Alejandro Moral Antón

Improved to Good Article status by PizzaKing13 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 37 past nominations.

PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 00:17, 27 April 2026 (UTC).

Battle of Treviso

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• ... that Ildibad, the king of the Ostrogoths and soon after his victory in the Battle of Treviso, murdered the nephew of Vitiges, over a personal insult exchanged between their wives?

• Source: Bury (1958) History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian p. 228 Ildibad did not live long enough to profit by the prestige which his victory procured him. His death was indirectly due to a quarrel with Uraias, to whose influence he had owed his crown. The wife of Uraias was beautiful and wealthy, and one day when she went to the public baths, in rich apparel and attended by a long train of servants, she met the queen, who was clad in a plain dress (for the royal purse was ill-furnished), and treated her with Ildibad disrespect. The queen implored to avenge her outraged dignity, and soon afterwards Uraias was treacherously put to death.

• ALT1: ... that Ildibad, the king of the Ostrogoths and soon after his victory in the Battle of Treviso, lost his head by one of his bodyguards for arranging a wedding? Source: Syvänne (2021). Military History of Late Rome 518–565 p. 245 According to Procopius, Ildibadus was then murdered for another reason, namely that Ildibadus married to another man a woman who Velas the Gepid desired to be his wife. Velas, who was one of the bodyguards of the king, killed Ildibadus during one dinner by cutting off his head.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Fidel Sánchez Hernández

Improved to Good Article status by A.Cython (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

A.Cython(talk) 20:00, 25 April 2026 (UTC).

• Perhaps worth shortening to "... that King Ildibad of the Ostrogoths murdered the nephew of Vitiges over an insult between their wives after the Battle of Treviso?" RabidTuberculosis (talk) 18:00, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
  • @RabidTuberculosis: Thank you for the suggestion. Sounds good to me. Per your suggestion:
    • ALT0b "... that King Ildibad of the Ostrogoths murdered the nephew of Vitiges over an insult between their wives after the Battle of Treviso?" A.Cython(talk) 20:13, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Something Worth Waiting For

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• ... that the song "Hot Air Balloon" from Friko's Something Worth Waiting For was inspired by the colorful balloons of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta?

• Source: "Out April 24 on ATO Records, the transient-natured album is carried by songs like the indie mad dash of “Choo Choo,” the pensive charmer “Dear Bicycle” and the soft hum of “Hot Air Balloon,” the latter of which was inspired by the band waking up one morning in an Albuquerque Cracker Barrel parking lot to see the colorful orbs of the city’s International Balloon Fiesta filling the sky."

https://www.wbez.org/music/2026/04/20/chicago-band-friko-new-album-something-worth-waiting-for

• • ALT1: ... that Friko's Something Worth Waiting For features a "train song", "bicycle song" and even a "hot air balloon song"? Source: "Friko's new album has a train song. It has a bicycle song. It even has a hot air balloon song. When the young Chicago combo said transit was a major theme of new album Something Worth Waiting For, they weren't kidding." https://stereogum.com/2494966/friko-are-emphatically-getting-there/interviews/qa
  • ALT2: ... that the main theme of Friko's Something Worth Waiting For is transit and it therefore features songs about trains, bicycles and even hot air balloons? Source: "Friko's new album has a train song. It has a bicycle song. It even has a hot air balloon song. When the young Chicago combo said transit was a major theme of new album Something Worth Waiting For, they weren't kidding." https://stereogum.com/2494966/friko-are-emphatically-getting-there/interviews/qa
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Moved to mainspace by MonarchOfTerror (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Scientia potentia est, MonarchOfTerror 17:03, 25 April 2026 (UTC).

Yundi

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• ... that Yundi is both the youngest first‑prize winner and the youngest judge in the history of the International Chopin Piano Competition?

• Source: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2014-12/03/content_19017886.htm

• ALT1: ... that Yundi achieved a unique double at the International Chopin Piano Competition: youngest first‑prize winner, and later the youngest person ever to serve on its jury? Source: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2014-12/03/content_19017886.htm
• ALT2: ... that Yundi holds two age‑related records at the International Chopin Piano Competition – youngest first‑prize winner and, years later, youngest judge? Source: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2014-12/03/content_19017886.htm
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Improved to Good Article status by EleniXDD (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

EleniXDD※Talk 13:37, 25 April 2026 (UTC).

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Bunka Apartments

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• ... that the Bunka Apartments were intended to introduce the American middle-class lifestyle to Japan, but were so expensive that the average salaryman would have to spend his entire monthly wage on rent alone?

• Source: Hisai, Eisuke (2003). "「中流階級」をめぐる森本厚吉の思想と実践" [Kokichi Morimoto's Thought and Practice Concerning the 'Middle Class': A Re-examination of Its Logical Structure and Social Context]. 日本社会教育学会紀要 (in Japanese). 39: 58. doi:10.34530/bjssace.39.0_53.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John Mackenzie Moore

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

Yours, &c. RGloucester — ☎ 12:44, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

Wylly Folk St. John

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• ... that novelist Wylly Folk St. John based most of the characters in her books off of her relatives?

• Source: Mallard, Mrs. Leo (4 February 1971). "Mrs. St. John Speaks for CAR, McKenzie Home". Covington News. p. 8. Retrieved 25 April 2026.

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

Cynthia Muldoon (talk) 23:14, 28 April 2026 (UTC).

John Naish (writer)

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• ... that the novels of John Naish have been used to study the labour practices of post-war sugarcane farms in north Queensland?

• Source: Balanzategui, Bianka Vidonja (2023a). "A Beaut of a Cut Near Cairns: The Butty Gang System in the Cane Fields in John Naish's The Cruel Field". Labour History. 124 (1): 31–61. doi:10.3828/labourhistory.2023.3.

• ALT1: ... that the author and sugarcane cutter John Naish was critical of the sugar industry's role in the oppression of Indigenous Australians? Source: Balanzategui, Bianka Vidonja (2025). "Lost in the Syrup and the Ashes: Reclaiming John Naish, sugar country author and playwright". Australian Journal of Biography and History. 10: 7–34. doi:10.22459/AJBH.10.2025.01. Naish explicitly acknowledged that the sugar industry was complicit in the disruption of Aboriginal traditional ways of life, and wrote with insight, sensitivity and sympathy of the institutionalised and casual racism he observed in rural north Queensland in the 1950s
• ALT2: ... that the writer John Naish wrote novels and plays about his experiences working as a sugarcane cutter in north Queensland? Source: Balanzategui, Bianka Vidonja (2023b). "Naish, John (Jack) (1923 - 1963), author and playwright". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 5 March 2026.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mitchell's Causeway

Moved to mainspace by MCE89 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 27 past nominations.

MCE89 (talk) 15:16, 26 April 2026 (UTC).

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).

Meng Qingshu

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Meng Qingshu

• ... that before moving to Moscow and becoming a part of the 28 Bolsheviks, Meng Qingshu (pictured) worked as a nurse?

• Source: https://www.163.com/dy/article/HV3PQK6105438YHE.html

• ALT1: ... that Meng Qingshu (pictured) married Wang Ming only one day after being released from prision? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20130120205413/http://www.sxgov.cn/shgc/rw/jd/504979_2.shtml - and - https://www.shouxianinfo.com/News/show/30578.html
• ALT2: ... that after graduating early from the Whanpoa military academy, Meng Qingshu (pictured) worked as a nurse? Source: https://www.163.com/dy/article/HV3PQK6105438YHE.html
• ALT3: ... that Meng Qingshu (pictured) compiled her husband's memoirs and published his poems after his death? Source: https://epaper.gmw.cn/wzb/html/2011-11/29/nw.D110000wzb_20111129_8-06.htm - and - https://web.archive.org/web/20130128004515/http://www.sxgov.cn/shgc/rw/jd/504979_3.shtml
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bart Houston

Moved to mainspace by Robert Motecinos Holda (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

R. M. Holda - (talk) 04:55, 26 April 2026 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, hooks are interesting, particularly the first two, and I can't see any COPYVIO or TSI issues based on machine translations of sources (perhaps that some say 28 and a half Bolsheviks. Image is freely licensed, clear, and used. QPQ is done. I would like to hear a bit about why the sources should be considered reliable; the 163.com source in particular seems effusive, which goes to neutrality. Whonting (talk) 10:39, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
  • @Whonting: The sources do seem to be effusive, but mostly when talking about her love life/romantical relation to Wang Ming. Some sources, from what i investigated, are mixed in reliability; i would not use them for controversial topics but aside from those they seem ok, especially since i cross-checked them and aside from dates they mostly check out (so reliability would have to be in a case by case basis). One of the sources is the news agency from her hometown (Shouxian info), but it does not seem they exagerated any aspects of her life (it seems merely biographical). Another is the government from her hometown (sxgov.cn), which seems to overly romantizise her relation to Wang but aside from that it seems good. And with the 163, my opinion is that in this case the facts (aside from the obviously romantisized relation to wang) seem to be correct. Neutrality-wise, they do not seem to exagerate any feats or things from her life (aside from, again, the romance, which i tried to ommitt in the article unless it cross-referenced with other sources). So i would say that the sources are reliable and at the least halfway neutral (take it with a grain of salt since Meng was the wife of a major political figure, and that is why the romance was exagerated in some parts).
  • I can provide a second source to the claim of working as a nurse (The military academy se attended alumni page / http://www.huangpu.org.cn/hpzz/hpzz201901/201901/t20190125_12135758.html, a quote would be: "In July 1927, he was assigned to work as a nurse in the Military Medical Department of the General Headquarters of the Second Front Army of the National Revolutionary Army") and the marriage/release dates seem to check out in a cross-reference. Hope this helps, R. M. Holda - (talk) 16:08, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
    • I'll push you a bit more on why we should consider 163 reliable: what informs your perspective that the facts "seem to be correct"? My only concern with source neutrality here is that given they all are to some extent interested in romanticizing, whether there's anything being omitted (controversies etc) and whether we are reproducing a biased narrative on the front page. Bit difficult to address those concerns, but I would like this to pass so I'm interested in whatever you can offer. Whonting (talk) 02:33, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
      • @Whonting: What informs my perspective is the cross-examination with other sources, which yield the same or similar information. Now, to be honest, i do see how neutrality can be a problem; from my little understanding of Mainland Chinese media, media there does seem to be at least slightly biased towards a more positive view of people like Meng. In this case, i personally feel that possibly the biggest problem with neutrality could be the omission of certain facts (like controversies). I do not however feel that the article is changing the existing details (again, from cross-examination) or that is too heavily biased. Again, although i would not trust 163 with major controversies or with information about the current Chinese government, i do feel that at least in this specific article the source is at least reliable enough. I do not know Chinese, nor do i know a lot about Chinese media or history, therefore, i cannot confidently state that the source is reliable, but i personally feel that in this case it is. If it makes you more comfortable, you can delete/cross out the hooks with the 163 source. R. M. Holda - (talk) 01:25, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 27

Unlimited Intimacy

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• ... that queer theory professor Tim Dean's book Unlimited Intimacy investigates the sexual subculture of barebacking among gay men?

• Source: (Literally any of them, really, but let's go with) Reviewed Work: Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking Tim Dean - Cultural Critique

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sulyoadikusumo
• Comment: If you have any ALT hook suggestions that you think would work better, I'm all ears. I couldn't think of one other than a straightforward one like the above, since the subject matter itself is inherently interesting.

Created by Silver seren (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 137 past nominations.

Silverseren^C 00:47, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

Yamato Kochi

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• ... that Japanese actor Yamato Kochi portrayed his role from a Japanese film in a walking tour in the New York City Subway to promote the movie before its debut in North American theatres?

• Source: Exit 8 Star Recreates Anomaly in New York Subways on Wednesday – by Anime News Network; there are sources in Japanese too.

• Reviewed: Vitellaria paradoxa subsp. nilotica

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

CoryGlee 23:55, 28 April 2026 (UTC).

The Bewitched Bourgeois, Seven Floors

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• ... that a short story in The Bewitched Bourgeois has previously been adapted into a radio program, a film, and a stage play by Albert Camus?

• Source: Curtin, Adrian (May 2017). "The Absurdity of Denial: Staging the American Way of Death". New Theatre Quarterly. 33 (2): 125-142. doi:10.1017/S0266464X17000045. ISSN 0266-464X. ProQuest 1886874321. "Based on his 1937 short story ‘Sette Piani’ (‘Seven Floors’)... Albert Camus adapted it as Un Cas intéressant (An Interesting Case) for a production at the Théâtre la Bruyère in Paris... Martin Esslin produced a radio version of it in 1961 for the BBC Third Programme." and cinematografo "Tratto da: RACCONTO "SETTE PIANI" DI DINO BUZZATI"

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Canal of Zubaidah, Template:Did you know nominations/Grand Central Tower
• Comment: Normally would like to provide an ALT but this is all I could think of that involved both articles.

Moved to mainspace by ScalarFactor (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

ScalarFactor (talk) 17:14, 28 April 2026 (UTC).

• Will review in the next couple of days.--Launchballer 22:27, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

@ScalarFactor: Long enough, new enough. QPQs are done and Earwig is clean. No reason why either might deserve a maintenance template. Adaptation into a radio programme and/or film and/or stage play aren't especially unusual aspects of stories, so I must ask for another hook. (Also, fuck WP:DYKFICTION with a cactus, because that story sounds fascinating.)--Launchballer 22:16, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Thanks for the review. The DYKINT angle for ALT0 to me was the Camus stage play in particular - the other two adaptations are more typical and just provide a bit of buildup.

For something based on critical commentary, how about:

• ALT1: ... that a short story in The Bewitched Bourgeois was described by critics as both a "comedy of errors" and a parable about the inevitability of death?
• Source: ProQuest 2738610462 - "It is difficult to imagine a simpler story than this, a parable about death that takes hold of man through a progression of minimal signs. [...] Giuseppe Corte begins his descent to death from the seventh floor [...] It is already decided for your life, dear Giuseppe, when you took the first step, to enter in this hospital with seven floors that reminds the several false hopes of life in daily existence" and NY Sun "What follows is a comedy of errors in which our hero’s fate is less a matter of personal health than bureaucratic necessity."

Thanks, ScalarFactor (talk) 22:33, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 28

Smack You

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• ... that Dr. Dre dissuaded Eminem from releasing a diss track aimed at Suge Knight?

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• ALT1: ... that a 2003 Eminem diss track aimed at Suge Knight and Ja Rule was leaked more than two decades later by an audio engineer? Source:
• ALT2: ... that Eminem's diss track, "Smack You", samples a phrase a Tupac Shakur song interpreted as saying "Suge shot me"? Source:
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Improved to Good Article status by RTSthestardust (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

RTSthestardust (talk) 22:01, 30 April 2026 (UTC).

References

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

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

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

Buckeye (candy)

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• ... that the original recipe for the buckeye candy was stolen by a friend who sent it into the OSU Alumni Magazine without permission or credit?

• Source: https://guylucas.com/2012/06/10/the-origin-of-buckeye-balls/

https://www.mashed.com/1626395/origin-story-buckeyes-candy-ohio/

• ALT1: ... that over 6 million pieces of buckeye candies are produced and sold each year?

• Source: Swiers, Autumn (2025-01-11). "How Buckeyes Became A Staple Dessert For Ohio Natives". Tasting Table. Retrieved 2026-04-15.

"What should Ohio's official candy be? 'It's gotta be the buckeye,' one lawmaker says". 10tv.com. 2025-08-27. Retrieved 2026-04-15.

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

DogEaredBooks (talk) 14:18, 28 April 2026 (UTC).

• @DogEaredBooks: Hi, welcome to the DYK. I will be reviewing this nomination shortly. Before you took over, the article was 900 B, and it is now 5178 B, which apparently complies 5x expansion, although it took around 12 days. But given that you are a new editor, I suppose this should not be a problem for now (as per the Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 214#Bold addition to WP:DYKG re: flexibility on 5x expansions). Thank you. M. Billoo 22:53, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Articles created/expanded on April 29

Aaron Mahnke

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• ... that Lore podcaster Aaron Mahnke thought to make the show after his history and folklore PDFs made for fans of his thriller novels became too large to maintain?

• Source: Are you listening? Aaron Mahnke on why 'Lore' almost didn't happen - Asbury Park Press

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Christ Church (London, Ontario)

Created by Silver seren (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 138 past nominations.

Silverseren^C 00:53, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

Dominic Martinelli

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• ... that the 2020 Glenbrook South/Northwestern Dominic Martinelli from the Illinois record books is not the 2020s Glenbrook South/Northwestern Nick Martinelli in the Big Ten Record books?

• Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/1/30/21116079/glenbrook-south-evanston-high-school-basketball-dominic-martinelli

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Vivinos
• Comment: 1st of 5 QPQs

Created by TonyTheTiger (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 391 past nominations.

TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:42, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

• I will get this to 1500 characters within 7 days.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:46, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Sylvain Bromberger

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• ... that the philosoher Sylvain Bromberger dedicated a book to the Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes?

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• ALT1: ... that Sylvain Bromberger described a state in which all actual answers to a question are known to be false, even though the question has a correct answer? Source:
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Moved to mainspace by EmergentAnarchy (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

EmergentAnarchy (talk) 12:43, 30 April 2026 (UTC).

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Taste (Haechan album)

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• ... that singer Haechan wanted to showcase his musical taste with his album Taste?

• Source: https://sports.donga.com/ent/article/all/20250818/132202001/1

• ALT1: ... that recording sessions for his album Taste left singer Haechan temporarily voiceless? Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrqgQuIE0oQ around 1:07:30
• ALT2: ... that a trailer for singer Haechan's album Taste shows him merging with his "inner god"? Source: https://www.starnewskorea.com/music/2025/08/29/2025082922473365532
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• Comment: I would appreciate suggestions for any other possible hooks. I also wanted to note that the second source is considered reliable because Kim Young-dae was a popular and established music critic.

Created by Poirot09 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Poirot09 (talk) 08:23, 30 April 2026 (UTC).

Battle of Faventia

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• ... that Procopius deemed Artabazes the only sensible commander among the Byzantines, yet he died after defeating in single combat the Gothic champion during the Battle of Faventia?

• Source: Syvänne (2021) pp. 246-247 When the Romans learned of his approach, they held a council. According to Procopius, Artabazes wisely recommended letting half of the Gothic army across the river before attacking them. However, the opportunity was lost as the commanders disagreed amongst themselves. ... When both armies had advanced close to each other, the Goths played for time by challenging the Romans to a single combat. Artabazes killed Valaris the champion of the Goths with his long spear, but was mortally wounded in the process because he pushed forward with his horse against the upright spear. The medics carried him to the rear to tend his wounds in vain; he died three days later. This was a serious blow to the Romans because they lost an able commander.

• ALT1: ... that in Battle of Faventia the Byzantines missed the opportunity to attack the Gothic army while crossing a river due to disagreements between their commanders? Source: Syvänne (2021) p. 246 When the Romans learned of his approach, they held a council. According to Procopius, Artabazes wisely recommended letting half of the Gothic army across the river before attacking them. However, the opportunity was lost as the commanders disagreed amongst themselves.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Poison of Polygamy

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

A.Cython(talk) 05:01, 30 April 2026 (UTC).

EarthBound Halloween Hack

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• ... that Toby Fox described the development of his 2008 ROM hack as excavating ancient ruins made of crumbly graham crackers while your hands are made of atom bombs?

• Source: http://radiation.fobby.net/halloween/

• ALT1: ... that the only way to access the second half of Toby Fox's 2008 ROM hack is to do as the title says and Press the B Button? Source: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/17-years-after-it-was-released-im-tracing-undertale-and-deltarunes-origins-back-to-toby-foxs-spooky-earthbound-mod/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Solon Barnett

Improved to Good Article status by 1timeuse75 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

1timeuse75 (talk) 17:17, 29 April 2026 (UTC).

• 1timeuse75 I really how the first one is structured. Would you prefer ALT or ALT1 if you had to choose one? - RTSthestardust (talk) 21:52, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

• RTSthestardust I think you missed a word. Personally, I'm leaning on ALT0.
  • 1timeuse75 Okay, I'll fully agree on ALT0. - RTSthestardust (talk) 14:02, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

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).

Articles created/expanded on April 30

Seaweed roofs on Læsø

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Seaweed roof on Læsø, Denmark

• ... that the seaweed roofs (example pictured) of houses on the Danish island Læsø were traditionally constructed by women? Source: Tentative List of World Heritage Sites nomination: "Women collected the ‘seaweed’ on the shores after winter storms. It was also women who developed the roofing and thatching technique and, in groups of forty to fifty, who constructed the roofs, which can last three hundred years or more."
  • ALT1: ... that the seaweed roofs (example pictured) of houses on the Danish island Læsø are on the Tentative List of World Heritage Sites since 2023? Source: Tentative List of World Heritage Sites nomination
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Plateau vole

Created by Yakikaki (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 166 past nominations.

Yakikaki (talk) 19:48, 30 April 2026 (UTC).

Gropius House

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Gropius House

• ... that when Walter Gropius and his wife arrived in the United States, the place where they ate their first meal influenced their Massachusetts house? Source: Jones, Janet (April 21, 1940). "Mrs. Gropius Finds Housekeeping Easy in Their Ultra-Modern House". The Boston Globe. p. C3. "She credits the Grand Central Station oyster bar with having shown her a modern table top that keeps clean and shiny with just one flip of a damp towel. 'We had just landed in this country in 1937,' she explained, 'when we went to the oyster bar for something to eat before we took the train to Boston. My husband and I both were struck with the nice looking black bar.'"
  • ALT1: ... that a train station restaurant in New York City influenced a Massachusetts house's countertops? Source: Jones, Janet (April 21, 1940). "Mrs. Gropius Finds Housekeeping Easy in Their Ultra-Modern House". The Boston Globe. p. C3. "She credits the Grand Central Station oyster bar with having shown her a modern table top that keeps clean and shiny with just one flip of a damp towel. 'We had just landed in this country in 1937,' she explained, 'when we went to the oyster bar for something to eat before we took the train to Boston. My husband and I both were struck with the nice looking black bar.'"
  • ALT2: ... that while designing the Gropius House, Walter Gropius said his wife and daughter were "the toughest customers" he had ever had? Source: Jones, Janet (April 21, 1940). "Mrs. Gropius Finds Housekeeping Easy in Their Ultra-Modern House". The Boston Globe. p. C3.
  • ALT3: ... that Ati Gropius Johansen wanted a room with a glass ceiling and a sand floor in her family's house, but got an outdoor deck and spiral staircase instead? Source: O'Neill, Robert (October 18, 2003). "A modernist Mecca has made itself at home Walden". The Recorder. Associated Press. p. 34.
  • ALT4: ... that Walter Gropius's Massachusetts house, the only modernist house in its region when built, was made almost exclusively of readily-available materials? Source: "Trustees of Reputations". Building Design. No. 485. February 29, 1980. p. 15. "The Gropius House achieved considerable renown in 1938 as the only modern design built within a hundred miles of Boston."; Hall, Helen (April 21, 1977). "New England Gives the Lead: The Preservation of Modern Architecture". Country Life. Vol. 161, no. 4164. pp. 1053–1054. "The construction materials were those already in use in New England, and fittings, such as windows, came from standard builders' catalogues and industrial suppliers."
  • ALT5: ... that Walter Gropius's Massachusetts house was likened to a chicken coop by a disapproving neighbor? Source: Buck, Susan L. (1997). "A Material Evaluation of the Gropius House: Planning to Preserve a Modern Masterpiece". APT Bulletin. Vol. 28, no. 4. p. 29.
  • ALT6: ... that Walter Gropius's Massachusetts house, likened to a chicken coop by a disapproving neighbor, was later depicted on a postage stamp? Source: Buck, Susan L. (1997). "A Material Evaluation of the Gropius House: Planning to Preserve a Modern Masterpiece". APT Bulletin. Vol. 28, no. 4. p. 29. Tower, Samuel A. (September 26, 1982). "Stamps; Honoring Four Great American Architects". The New York Times.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eagle Creek Park
  • Comment: I can come up with more hooks later.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 790 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 15:37, 30 April 2026 (UTC).

Articles created/expanded on May 1

Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story

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• ... that sports biopic Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story was considered an unusual production choice for the Hallmark Channel?

• Source: 1. David Hinckley "Hallmark's know-Howe on thin ice" New York Daily News ProQuest 13.48275726 quote: "A HOCKEY biography might seem like an unusual digression for Hallmark, whose movies almost all revolve around family love stories." 2. "Hallmarks Mr. Hockey darts all over the ice" The Commercial Appeal ProQuest 2594508546 quote: "Hockey on the Hallmark Channel? Cable dramas and cable networks often adhere so strictly to formula that any deviation is welcome. But Im still scratching my head over Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story. In stark contrast to Hallmarks regular slate of romances, Mr. Hockey focuses on a brutal sport, one that is not necessarily the favorite of female viewers."

• ALT1: ... that for the title role in Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story, Michael Shanks wore custom dentures to mimic Howe's lisp? Source: 1. Jason Hewlett "Kamloops actor plays hockey great" Kamloops Daily News ProQuest 1346064697 quote: "Howe had his four front teeth knocked out at a young age and wore dentures, which caused him to talk with a lisp out of the side of his mouth. So Shanks had a set of teeth made that helped him mimic Howe's speech pattern." 2. The Canadian Press "Mrs. Hockey integral to famed family story" Trail Times ProQuest 1346421780 quote: "Shanks said he pored over interviews and videos of Howe to get to down his mannerisms. He even had his dentist make up a set of fake teeth for him to wear onscreen so as to replicate the way Howe's dentures affected his speech."
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/David W. Music
• Comment: ProQuest accessible through the Wikipedia Library. Would appreciate if this could run in May or June, while the 2026 National Hockey League playoffs are ongoing.

5x expanded by Reidgreg (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 31 past nominations.

Reidgreg (talk) 03:28, 2 May 2026 (UTC).

• The synopsis is misleading. National Hockey League sponsorship of junior ice hockey teams ended in 1967. Please see NHL entry draft for details. When the Howes played for the Toronto Marlboros, it was not a farm team for the Maple Leafs, rather it had only common ownership. Please repsond, and I will be glad to do a full review on Monday. Flibirigit (talk) 12:11, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Élisabeth Le Bas

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Élisabeth Le Bas

• ... that French revolutionary Élisabeth Le Bas (pictured) declared that she would never accept a pension from her husband's assassins and signed her statement in blood?

• Source: In English: "When the government... sent her the papers that would grant her a pension, she was furious. In the man's office, she dramatically rejected all official assistance: 'There, with a pin and a quill, I pierced my skin and wrote with my blood... that if a claim had been made for what was due to my husband, I was not asking for help from his assassins. I signed: "The Widow Le Bas." ' "
• Source: In French (from Élisabeth Le Bas's memoirs): "je fus la rage dans le cœur au Comité des inspecteurs ... je pris une plume et un morceau de papier que je trouvai sur le bureau. Là, avec une épingle et la plume, je me fis une large piqûre et j'écrivis avec mon sang au président Rovert que si l'on avait réclamé ce qui était dû à mon mari, je ne demandais pas des secours de ses assassins ; je signai: « Veuve Le Bas ».

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  • Comment: The English source Blood Sisters is not available online as far as I know, but I have a physical copy & can provide that context, if needed. As for her memoir in French, that is readable online via Gallica.

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

Chao Garden 🌱 (hi) 01:46, 2 May 2026 (UTC).

Kobe Shimbun

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• ... that the building of the former headquarters of the Kobe Shimbun was considered to be a symbol of a district in Kobe?

• Source: NHK ["神戸・三宮のシンボルとして親しまれ、阪神・淡路大震災で全壊した旧神戸新聞会館の懐かしい写真などを集めた展示会が、神戸市で開かれています。An exhibition featuring nostalgic photographs of the former Kobe Shimbun Kaikan, a beloved symbol of Kobe's Sannomiya district that was completely destroyed in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, is being held in Kobe City.]

• ALT1: ... that the building of the former headquarters of the Kobe Shimbun was considered to be a symbol of post-war reconstruction in Kobe? Source: Kobe Shimbun ["The former Kobe Shimbun Kaikan was completed in 1956 (Showa 31) as the headquarters of the Kobe Shimbun newspaper. It was a symbol of postwar reconstruction and a bustling "cultural hall," and was also beloved for the painting of Mount Fuji on its north wall.]
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Izumi Kobayashi (musician)
• Comment: Article before I expand it 219 characters (32 words). Permalink of when I started expanding.

5x expanded by Miminity (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 50 past nominations.

Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 17:25, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

Mavety Media Group

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• ... that Mavety Media Group, an adult-oriented publishing company, once published a teen magazine?

• Source: Mavety even published a bona fide teenybopper magazine, my creation Popstar!, from 1998 until it was sold to Robert Earl of Planet Hollywood in 2000.

• ALT1: ... that Mavety Media Group published both hetero and gay pornographic magazines? Source: Mavety, who was straight and also published hetero titles like Juggs and Leg Show.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Malcolm in the Middle season 1

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

Damian Vo (talk) 15:44, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

Mordecai Bauman

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• ... that classical singer Mordecai Bauman used his music to support far-left American politics during the 1930s?

• Source: "Mordecai Bauman papers: 1930-1952". The New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Retrieved 2021-12-10.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jaxson Davis

5x expanded by 4meter4 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 159 past nominations.

4meter4 (talk) 15:00, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

• Newness requirement satisfied by massive and high-quality expansion on May 1. Article is plenty long enough, neutrally and well written and sourced. The hook is interesting and short enough. The source provided above (NYPL finding aid for Bauman's papers) does not fully support the hook, but the hook is further supported by, among others, sources 49 to 52, so I'm satisfied that the hook is supported. Confidence factor enhanced by reputation of expander. The only thing that I don't see is a anything in the article calling Bauman a "clasical" singer. Maybe that's obvious, but a statement in the article and source calling him that would be nice. QPQ satisfied. Once the "classical" singer piece is resolved, this will be good to go. Cbl62 (talk) 02:08, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

@Cbl62: I chose classical over "opera" as he primarily performed and recorded concert works by composers like Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Thomas Arne etc, and never sang with a major opera company (although he did record operas). He was a classically trained baritone from the Juilliard School and a professor of voice at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Those types of jobs only go to classical singers, and that's what you study if you are a voice major at a conservatory. It's also what is taught at a conservatory (particularly in that era where pop music was taboo at conservatories), and he wouldn't hold a voice faculty post if that wasn't the type of music he was performing and teaching. I think this falls under we don't need a citation for "the sky is blue". Just look at type of music he was singing and who composed it. It's all classical music. One isn't going to sing and record Mozart, Handel, Pergolessi, etc. if one isn't a classical singer. Best.4meter4 (talk) 05:37, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

René Barbera

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• ... that tenor René Barbera sang a leading role in his first opera when he was eleven years old?

• Source: Hastings, Stephen (February 2019). "René Barbera". Opera. pp. 132–137.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Arturo Gramajo
• Comment: moved article space on May 1

5x expanded by 4meter4 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 158 past nominations.

4meter4 (talk) 14:21, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

Mariska Aldrich

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Aldrich and her dog Fels

• ... that opera singer Mariska Aldrich (pictured) is the namesake of one of the largest sound libraries in the United States?

• Source: Stettler, Jeremiah (April 20, 2000). "Music artifacts hijacked?". The Herald Journal.

• ALT1: ... that opera singer Mariska Aldrich had a prize winning German shepherd (pictured) who excelled in police dog competition? Source: *"Star of Opera Owns Champ Police Dog". The San Francisco Call Bulletin. June 17, 1919. p. 11.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eugenia metro station
• Comment: moved to article space on May 1

5x expanded by 4meter4 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 157 past nominations.

4meter4 (talk) 13:53, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

Healing Heart totem pole

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• ... that many of the people who carved the Healing Heart totem pole had no previous carving experience?

• Source: Although many who contributed efforts were first-time carvers, the product is an' impressive, professionallooking totem pole, incorporating traditional Native clan crests[65]

• ALT1: ... that the Healing Heart totem pole was carved together by Alaska Natives and non-Natives? Source: Jonaitis, Aldona (2010). The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History. University of Washington Press and Douglas & McIntyre. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-295-98962-4. town of Craig, Alaska, on Prince of Wales Island. When Marsden, a Tsimshian, tragically lost his son to cocaine, he decided to invite the entire community, both Natives and non-Natives, to help him carve the Healing Heart Totem Pole (see chapter epigraph).
  Dauenhauer, Richard; Dauenhauer, Nora (2004). "Evolving concepts of Tlingit identity and clan". In Mauzé, Marie; Harkin, Michael Eugene; Kan, Sergei (eds.). Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions. Lincoln: UNP - Nebraska. pp. 270–271. ISBN 978-0-8032-0432-4. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.. The project slowly grew to involve his family, then the community, Native (Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian) and non-Native, in the carving and raising of the pole.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tish Weinstock
• Comment: Obligatory COI disclosure: I don't believe I have one under current PAGs, but I used to live on Prince of Wales as a kid. None of the names here are familiar, but there's no way I'm more than a handshake or two away from anybody involved.

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

GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 08:55, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

Todung Sutan Gunung Mulia

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• ... that Todung Sutan Gunung Mulia founded a printing house after President Sukarno banned the importation of Indonesian-language Bibles? Source: [66]
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Monument to Pope John Paul II
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Moved to mainspace by Juxlos (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 301 past nominations.

Juxlos (talk) 05:41, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

Arnold Korff

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Arnold Korff

• ... that before becoming an actor, Arnold Korff (pictured) worked as a mechanical engineer and a cowboy?

• Source: *"Arnold Korff Dies; Actor, Director, 73. Nazi Ambassador in Current 'Searching Wind'. Began on the Stage Here in 1892". The New York Times. June 4, 1944. p. 41. At the age of 18 he made his first trip to this country and for several years lived in Kansas, Colorado and along the Mexican border as a cowpuncher and mechanical engineer.
• "Cowboy Turns Actor". The Wichita Beacon. March 22, 1916. p. 5.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/2026 Ōtsuchi wildfires

5x expanded by 4meter4 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 156 past nominations.

4meter4 (talk) 04:08, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

White Bronco chase

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White Ford Bronco

• ... that Domino's reported what at the time was its biggest day of sales during O. J. Simpson's White Bronco chase?

• Source: https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/oj-simpson-car-chase-dominos-32567904

• ALT1: ... that O. J. Simpson's White Bronco chase inspired a scene in Shrek 2? Source: https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/oj-simpson-shrek-2-ford-bronco-b2527881.html
• ALT2: ... that the white Ford Bronco (example pictured) used in the O. J. Simspon chase spent seventeen years inside a pornographer's garage? Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/oj-simpson-white-ford-bronco-1235872779/
• ALT3: ... that after initially discontinuing their Bronco line (example pictured) following the O. J. Simspon chase, Ford planned to reveal a new line of it on his birthday? Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/us/ford-bronco-oj-simpson-birthday-trnd
• ALT4: ... that during a 9-1-1 call amid the O. J. Simpson White Bronco chase, Al Cowlings yelled "you know who I am goddammit!" at the transponder? Source: https://larrybrownsports.com/everything-else/al-cowlings-my-name-is-ac-you-know-who-i-am-goddammit/308549
• ALT5: ... that O. J. Simpson's White Bronco chase ruined TV? Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/o-j-20-years-later/o-j-simpsons-bronco-chase-theater-absurd-n129071
• ALT6: ... that O. J. Simpson once attempted to sell a car similar to the one he rode in his White Bronco chase with his autograph around a bullet hole in it? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20161009083943/http://www.vogue.com/13393604/remembering-oj-simpsons-bizarre-prank-tv-show/
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Russia 200
• Comment: Would recommend using File:Cowlings call.ogg for alt 4.

Created by Knightoftheswords281 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

— Knightoftheswords 03:40, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

Jaxson Davis

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• ... that Jaxson Davis was cradled by Kobe Bryant when he was an infant?

• Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/high-school-basketball/2026/02/27/jaxson-davis-warren-chicago-sun-times-player-of-the-year

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Oceanic Steamship Company

Moved to mainspace by TonyTheTiger (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 390 past nominations.

TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:14, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

• Article is new enough, long enough, and contains no copyright violations. QPQ is done. No other policy issues detected. Hook fact is verifiable to the cited source. My only quibble is that the hook provides no context to who Jaxson is, and I think we do need to say that he is an "Illinois athlete" or a "basketball player" or something to provide some context to the reader about what sort of article they are about to click on. Please propose an alt below. This should be an easy quick fix. Best.4meter4 (talk) 14:56, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
• ALT1 ... that American basketball player Jaxson Davis was cradled by Kobe Bryant when he was an infant?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 18:34, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Burmese hare

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Lepus peguensis

• ... that populations of the Burmese hare (example pictured) may be increasing due to deforestation in Laos?

• Source: Johnston, C.H. & Smith, A.T. 2019. Lepus peguensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species "The Thai distribution would suggest that the species has spread with human-related forest loss in the northern highlands of Lao PDR, particularly one might surmise along the lowland valleys. [...] populations appear to be stable or even increasing due to conversion of primary forest to scrubbier habitat favorable to the species."

• ALT0a: ... that the range of the Burmese hare (example pictured) may be increasing in size due to deforestation in Laos?
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cifelliodon
• Comment: The original DYK nomination for Burmese hare occured in 2014.

Improved to Good Article status by Reconrabbit (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 17 past nominations.

-- Reconrabbit 18:58, 1 May 2026 (UTC).

• @Reconrabbit: Article promoted to GA on April 26, still within the time limit. Long enough with good citation as expected from a GA. Image is clear at the size, sourced from iNaturalist and the license is verified to be CC-BY-4.0 on the source site. On the hook, while interesting, I cannot seem to find any mention of deforestation in Laos in the article. The source is used several times already and it is verifiable, so can you add a mention of that in the prose?

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Sri Wahyuni, Ipong Muchlissoni

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• ... that husband and wife Ipong Muchlissoni and Sri Wahyuni along with their son all ran for seats in the House of Representatives in 2024, and all three lost? Source: [67]
  • Reviewed: Nining Suningsih Rochadiat and Haitian Communist Party
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Created by Juxlos (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 302 past nominations.

Juxlos (talk) 12:37, 2 May 2026 (UTC).

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