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DYK queue status

There are currently 3 filled queues. Please consider promoting a prep to queue if you have the time!
DYK is running 24-hour sets. There are currently 7 empty slots in the preps, not counting the bottom prep.

Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Current time: 21:51, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Update frequency: once every 24 hours

Last updated: 21 hours ago(

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Administrators: Please ensure that there is always at least one queue filled at all times, to prevent overdue updates to the Main Page.

This page gives an overview of all DYK hooks currently scheduled for promotion to the Main Page. By showing the content of all queues and prep areas in one place, the overview helps administrators see how full the queues are, and also makes it easier for users to check that their hook has been promoted or to find hooks for copy-editing. Hooks removed from queues or prep areas for unresolved issues should have their nominations reopened and retranscluded at the nomination page.

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The next update will be produced from Queue 6. After performing a manual update, please update the pointer to the next queue.

Local update times

	Los Angeles	New York	UTC	London	New Delhi	Tokyo	Sydney
Queue 6	23 October 17:00	23 October 20:00	24 October 00:00	24 October 01:00	24 October 05:30	24 October 09:00	24 October 11:00
Queue 7	24 October 17:00	24 October 20:00	25 October 00:00	25 October 01:00	25 October 05:30	25 October 09:00	25 October 11:00
Queue 1	25 October 17:00	25 October 20:00	26 October 00:00	26 October 01:00	26 October 05:30	26 October 09:00	26 October 11:00
Queue 2 Prep 2	26 October 17:00	26 October 20:00	27 October 00:00	27 October 01:00	27 October 05:30	27 October 09:00	27 October 11:00
Queue 3 Prep 3	27 October 17:00	27 October 20:00	28 October 00:00	28 October 01:00	28 October 05:30	28 October 09:00	28 October 11:00
Queue 4 Prep 4	28 October 17:00	28 October 20:00	29 October 00:00	29 October 01:00	29 October 05:30	29 October 09:00	29 October 11:00
Queue 5 Prep 5	29 October 17:00	29 October 20:00	30 October 00:00	30 October 01:00	30 October 05:30	30 October 09:00	30 October 11:00
Prep 6	30 October 17:00	30 October 20:00	31 October 00:00	31 October 01:00	31 October 05:30	31 October 09:00	31 October 11:00
Prep 7	31 October 17:00	31 October 20:00	1 November 00:00	1 November 01:00	1 November 05:30	1 November 09:00	1 November 11:00
Prep 1	1 November 17:00	1 November 20:00	2 November 00:00	2 November 01:00	2 November 05:30	2 November 09:00	2 November 11:00

Queues

Queue 6 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (HurricaneZeta^C) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Yves Netzhammer

... that Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer (pictured) co-designed a postage stamp that looked and smelled like chocolate?
... that, hours before the opening match of the 2026 Jaffna Kings season, the franchise's co-owner was arrested in Colombo over match-fixing allegations?
... that VTuber Yukihana Lamy personally brewed sake, winning three International Wine Challenge medals?
... that activists walk from Ripoll to Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste annually to honour Dolors Prat?
... that Swedish singer-songwriter Robyn wrote "Ever Again" after reconciling with her partner, only for them to break up again shortly before her subsequent tour?
... that the gender gap for the hardest difficulty grades in rock climbing has almost completely closed?
... that Fela Kuti played "Zombie" on his saxophone from the roof of his compound as 1,000 Nigerian soldiers surrounded it before attacking?
... that a call by Alfred William Frisby to withdraw "distinctly dangerous" pornographic magazines from sale in Singapore went unheeded by the government?
... that No. 10: Full Confidence, a game about surviving as British prime minister, overtook Minecraft on the UK App Store's paid games chart?

Queue 7 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (Dclemens1971 (talk)) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

A sea ball washed up on a beach

... that sea balls (pictured) are also known by a word for "wild goat fur" because they look like hairballs regurgitated by goats?
... that Swiss filmmaker Kurt Gloor's final film was about prison inmates and people with disabilities on a trekking tour?
... that parts of an ancient road were exposed following wildfires in Belgium in the summer of 2026?
... that Erika Yoshida once adapted a Vocaloid song into a light novel, a manga, and a film?
... that Kanye West recorded "Beauty and the Beast" in his Tokyo hotel room?
... that Jessie Waddell, who founded New York City's West Indian Day Parade, timed it to fall on the anniversary of her son's death?
... that a species of orchid was named for having a smaller lip than others in its genus?
... that Singaporean banker Chew Hock Leong sold a camera device patent to Kodak in 1930?
... that Wendy was known by Studio City residents for her deformed face, which was the result of an infected gunshot wound?

Queue 1 [edit]

The hooks below have been approved by a human (HurricaneZeta^C) and will be automatically added to the DYK template at the appropriate time.

Da Mao

... that the male panda Da Mao (pictured) replaced Er Shun's female companion after zoologists discovered that Er Shun was actually female?
... that the Somyev language, spoken by just two people in 2010, became endangered due in part to the importation of hoes?
... that How to DAD has made a video titled "How to get a baby to clean the house"?
... that Rossini in Wildbad is an annual festival of bel canto opera held at the spa in Bad Wildbad, where Gioachino Rossini stayed in 1856?
... that the first Afro-Cuban woman elected to the Congress of Cuba was both a communist and a pharmacist?
... that the Marquis de Lafayette stopped at the Rider Tavern during his 1824 US tour and reviewed the local militia?
... that Todoroki Hajime's viral song "Konkokonkonkonkonkonkon" derives from a noise that she made while playing a horror game?
... that Billie Joe Armstrong smashed eight guitars while filming Ordinary World?
... that the U.S. government can use the Invention Secrecy Act to make new inventions classified?

Queue 2 [edit]

Queue 3 [edit]

Queue 4 [edit]

Queue 5 [edit]

Instructions on how to promote a 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

Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post: .
Check to make sure basic review requirements were completed.
- Any outstanding issue following needs to be addressed before promoting.
Check the article history for any substantive changes since it was nominated or reviewed.
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.
Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
Hook should make sense grammatically.
Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
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 :)

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.
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.
If it's the lead (first) hook, paste the image where indicated at the top of the template.
Copy and paste ALL the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) at the bottom
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.
Save the Prep page.

Closing the DYK nomination page

At the upper left
- Change {{DYKsubpage to {{subst:DYKsubpage
- Change |passed= to |passed=yes
At the bottom
- Just above the line containing
  }}
  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.
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.
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]]

Prep areas

Note: The next prep set to move into the queue is Prep 2 [update count].

Prep area 2 [edit]

Construction of Englewood Methodist Church

... that crews assembled the structure of Englewood Methodist Church (pictured) in just four days by using Thomas Moore's design for precast concrete panels?
... that Otonose Kanade sang one song 100 times during a 6-hour 48-minute livestream?
... that Lázaro Peña was arrested multiple times for his labor activism, including in 1953 for alleged "subversive activity"?
... that the video game Old Skies was praised for its handling of a time traveler revisiting events surrounding the September 11 attacks?
... that Native Hawaiian George Healiʻi Kāhea Beckley enlisted in the British Army under his mother's English surname and received the Military Medal for helping save his battalion from annihilation?
... that rights to make a film adaptation based on the novel Submarine were arranged before it was published?
... that Ramon Borrego retired from professional baseball because he was too small?
... that the Neptune Theatre Restaurant had its own in-house dance troupe?
... that members of the furry fandom are overrepresented in the IT industry?

Prep area 3 [edit]

Spectrum and simulated view of WD J1330+6435

... that the white dwarf WD J1330+6435 (pictured) has been described as having a green hue?
... that Swiss filmmaker Louis Mercanton gave Ivor Novello his film debut after casting him from a photograph?
... that a general strike by the Uruguayan Regional Workers' Federation forced the Uruguayan government to establish an eight-hour working day?
... that Jean-Jacques Moll made plans for cities of 100,000 inhabitants that could be built anywhere on a relatively flat site?
... that there were special cinema screenings of All of Tokyo! on the birthdays of its main cast?
... that the knitter Lauren Aston was stunned to discover that her stockings were bought by the Beckhams?
... that Apple had to redesign their operating system to accommodate the iPhone Duo's form factor?
... that Phillip Butah won an award organised by Ed Sheeran's parents, and went on to illustrate the cover of the singer's debut album?
... that "putrid, stinking water" once ran beneath New Zealand's parliament?

Prep area 4 [edit]

Quaking pudding

... that quaking puddings (example pictured) were among the first puddings to be cooked in a bag? under discussion
... that Nepalese communist parliamentarian Ghanendra Basnet spent over sixteen years in prison?
... that Susie Day said that she had a "stupid amount of fun" writing about a family with same-sex parents in Pea's Book of Best Friends? under discussion
... that a 1982 anthology referred to the Romanian writer Tiberiu Iliescu as still "honing [his] craft"—four years after Iliescu had died, aged seventy-one?
... that Israel forfeited their sixth-round matches at the 46th Chess Olympiad due to the observance of Yom Kippur by their players? under discussion
... that Mexican botanist Miguel de Jesús Cházaro Basañez, who discovered 11 species of Agave, died while reading a book on plants? under discussion
... that Hideo Kojima decided to produce Physint due to fans constantly asking him about making a new Metal Gear game, while dealing with illness and surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that Adelio Paucara taught math at rural schools before joining the Red Ponchos, a radical Aymara force that confronted the Bolivian military?
... that a cookbook from Victorian Britain contained recipes for parrot pie and roast wallaby?

Prep area 5 [edit]

William Hartnell

... that despite claiming in interviews that he was the son of a soldier, stockbroker, or dairy farmer, William Hartnell (pictured) never knew his father?
... that despite popular belief, crud does not stand for "Chalk River unidentified deposits"?
... that an episode of Peppa Pig titled "Mister Skinnylegs" was banned in Australia in 2012 over safety concerns due to the episode involving spiders?
... that ...
... that after Denis Bowes Daly's death, the preserved body of his wife was found in a closet at Dalystown House, to which only he had access?
... that ...
... that the Shrira-Pesenson equation describes how a bent solitary wave can develop a shock wave running along its front?
... that pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts once removed her wig while preaching? under discussion
... that there is a lost gay Jesus porn movie?

Prep area 6 [edit]

Day of the Dead Parade

... that a fictional Day of the Dead parade in the 2015 film Spectre inspired Mexico City's annual Day of the Dead Parade (float pictured)?
... that recipes for pumpkin scones appear throughout Australian newspapers of the 1920s and 1930s?
... that a Haunting of Hill House episode made a journalist go to bed with the lights on for the first time in years?
... that when Razis threw his insides at enemy soldiers, it implied their defeat, despite resulting in his death?
... that every year in Kenova, West Virginia, around 1,500 volunteers help a local pharmacist cover his Victorian home with thousands of jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween?
... that earthquake lights are said to be associated with tectonic stress and seismic activity?
... that an Agatha Christie murder mystery was adapted into a manga series?
... that players of the survival horror game The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me navigate a modern-day replica of H. H. Holmes's "Murder Castle"?
... that the Great Pumpkin Mystery has never been solved?

Prep area 7 [edit]

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... that David Chalmers has argued against the idea that consciousness is an illusion by stating that people can obviously feel pain?
... that whilst taking a break from his Hollyoaks role, actor Oscar Curtis was bitten by a monkey?
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... that brookies were presented on Shark Tank?
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... that Albert Camus and Jean-Louis Barrault pretended to talk to an imaginary lover in order to settle on the title for The State of Siege?

Prep area 1 [edit]

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