Template:DYK nomination header

__NONEWSECTIONLINK__ This page is to nominate fresh articles to appear in the "Did you know" section on the Main Page, by a "hook" (an interesting note). Nominations that have been approved are moved to a staging area, from which the articles are promoted into the Queue.
 *  (if it looks like updates to subsidiary templates aren't being reflected).

Instructions for nominators
Create a subpage for your new DYK suggestion and then list the page below under the date the article was created or the expansion began or it became a good article ( not the date you submit it here), with the newest dates at the bottom. Any registered user may nominate a DYK suggestion (if you are not a registered user, please leave a message at the bottom of the DYK project talk page with the details of the article you would like to nominate and the hook you would like to propose); self-nominations are permitted and encouraged. Thanks for participating and please remember to check back for comments on your nomination (consider watchlisting your nomination page).

If this is your first nomination, please read the DYK rules before continuing: Official DYK criteria: DYK rules and supplementary guidelines Unofficial guide: Learning DYK

How to review a nomination
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 a more detailed discussion of the DYK rules and review process see the supplementary guidelines and the IN:Did you know/Reviewing guide.

To post a comment or review on a DYK nomination, follow the steps outlined below:
 * Look through this page,, 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:"" If you are the first person to comment on the nomination, there will be a line   showing you where you should put the comment.
 * Save the page.

If there is any problem or concern about a nomination, please consider notifying the nominator by placing  Article  on the nominator's talk page.

Backlogged?
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 (so that those hooks don't grow stale), 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 above).

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

If the nominated hook is in none of those places, then the nomination has probably been rejected. Such a rejection usually only occurs if it was at least a couple of weeks old and had unresolved issues for which any discussion had gone stale. If you think your nomination was unfairly rejected, you can query this on the DYK discussion page, but as a general rule such nominations will only be restored in exceptional circumstances.

How to promote an accepted hook

 * See Ingenpedia:Did you know/Preparation areas for full instructions.
 * Hooks that have been approved are located on the approved nominations page.
 * In one window, open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to promote.
 * In another window, open the prep set you intend to add the hook to.
 * In the prep set...
 * Paste the hook into the hook area (be sure to not paste in that that)
 * Paste the credit information ( and/or ) into the credits area.
 * Add an edit summary, e.g. "Promoted Jane Fonda ", preview, and save
 * Back on DYK nomination page...
 * change to
 * change passed to yes
 * Add an edit summary, e.g. "Promoted to Prep 3", preview, and save

How to remove a rejected hook

 * Open the DYK nomination subpage of the hook you would like to remove. (It's best to wait several days after a reviewer has rejected the hook, just in case someone contests or the article undergoes a large change.)
 * In the window where the DYK nomination subpage is open, replace the line with, and replace passed with 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.

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.