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This page is to nominate fresh articles to appear in the "Did you know" section on the Main Page with a "hook" (an interesting fact). Nominations that have been approved are moved to a staging area and then promoted into the Queue. To update this page, purge it.

Count of DYK nominations
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November 3 1 1
November 4 1 1
November 7 1 1
November 9 1 1
November 11 1 1
November 12 1 2 3
November 13 1 1
November 14 3 3
November 15 2 2
November 16 1 1
November 17 2 2
November 18 1 1
November 19 1 3 4
November 20 1 1
November 21 3 3
November 22 1 1
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November 26 3 3 6
November 27 2 2
November 28 5 5
November 29 1 6 7
November 30 1 3 4
December 1 5 5
December 2 2 2
December 3 2 7 9
December 4 1 5 6
December 5 2 5 7
December 6 4 4 8
December 7 3 6 9
December 8 4 3 7
December 9 1 11 12
December 10 1 3 4
December 11 2 6 8
December 12 3 3 6
December 13 3 7 10
December 14 2 7 9
December 15 4 2 6
December 16 1 7 8
December 17 3 11 14
December 18 4 5 9
December 19 3 1 4
December 20 6 4 10
December 21 7 5 12
December 22 6 7 13
December 23 5 5 10
December 24 3 5 8
December 25 3 4 7
December 26 1 10 11
December 27 1 2 3
December 28 8 2 10
December 29 7 5 12
December 30 6 9 15
December 31 4 3 7
January 1 3 4 7
January 2 6 5 11
January 3 2 4 6
January 4 5 5 10
January 5 3 1 4
January 6
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Instructions for nominators

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Frequently asked questions

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How do I write an interesting hook?

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

When will my nomination be reviewed?

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

Where is my hook?

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

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


Instructions for reviewers

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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.
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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

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How to promote an accepted hook

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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Older nominations

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Articles created/expanded on November 3

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Anglin Court

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  • Source: Reference re Meaning of the Word "Persons" in s. 24 of the BNA Act, 1928 CanLII 55, [1928] SCR 276; ...a unanimous Court held that women were not "qualified persons" for the purpose of being appointed to the Senate of Canada. The Court maintained that it was for the legislature to make such a change (Snell & Vaughan 1985, p. 141.).
  • ALT1: ... that the Anglin Court was created because the alternative Chief Justice candidates did not want the job, were too old, or drunk? Source: Eugène Lafleur declined the appointment (Snell & Vaughan 1985, p. 123); John Idington, whose declining mental capacity led to his eventual removal in 1927 (Snell & Vaughan 1985, p. 122.) "Idington had been described by the prime minister as 'senile.'" (Snell & Vaughan 1985, p. 126.); Lyman Duff: "Second, and probably more important, Duff had a drinking problem, and perhaps had even become an alcoholic. All of the specific evidence of his heavy drinking comes from the early 1920s, and it may be that his resort to alcohol was a by-product of his nervous exhaustion at the end of the war." (Snell & Vaughan 1985, p. 122.)
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  • Comment: The Persons Case is likely the most notable decision of the early Supreme Court of Canada, and the SCC's decision was overturned by Lord Sankey at the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Created by Caddyshack01 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Caddyshack01 (talk) 11:42, 6 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Article is in good condition without evidenceo f copyvio - good work on writing on a relatively poorly covered field (Canadian judicial history) on here. The ALT0 hook seems to check out from the quoted source. No QPQ needed, so all is good to go. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 04:28, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Caddyshack01, Generalissima, and HurricaneZeta: I've pulled this hook following a discussion at errors. I think the best way forward is to develop a hook that verifies to the sources and resolve the {{Contradicts other}} tag I've placed on the article. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 15:01, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, I didn't notice the issues with the sourcing. HurricaneZetaC 17:22, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Generalissima, HurricaneZeta, Departure–, and Theleekycauldron: I can accept that hook 1 (... that the Anglin Court did not believe women were "persons"?") is not a complete statement. It can be changed to the language ... that the Anglin Court did not believe women were "persons" for appointment to the Senate?". Or another hook can be used. As noted in the articles, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that "qualified person" under s.24 of the BNA Act, 1867 (now Constitution Act, 1867), considering the qualifications under s.23, did not include women. The decision was unanimous amongst the justices, although at the time it was common for each justice to write their own individual opinion rather than agreeing with another. The quote from Snell and Vaughan is "The best example in this period can be found in the famous Persons case, in which on reference the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that women were not 'qualified persons' eligible for appointment to the Senate" (pg.141). It could be corrected to add "for appointment to the Senate of Canada."
The content in the Person's Case Misconceptions section is (legally, although not entirely sociologically) accurate, Anglin put significant effort into stating that women were human beings. However, his decision was to accept that they were not "persons" in an originalist interpretation of the statute in context of the question (appointment to the Senate) and instead felt it was Parliament's role to legislate to provide for their appointment. The head note in the case after "Per Anglin C.J.C. and Lamont and Smith JJ.—" (see Persons Case 1928 CanLII 55) summarizes the reasoning of Anglin in the decision.
The legacy of the person's case (at the SCC) is essentially that women were not equal in Canadian society which was an active question in this decade, women were first permitting to run as candidates for the House of Commons only 8 years earlier. The Senate of Canada itself states "In 1927, ...asked the Supreme Court of Canada whether the British North America Act’s (BNA) section 24 included women in its definition of "persons." Five weeks later, the Supreme Court reached a verdict in Edwards v Canada, the official name of the case. Its conclusion? Under Canadian law, women were not "persons." (Senate of Canada Why the Persons Case Matters). The Court's narrow thinking in this case literally led to the adoption of the living tree doctrine of constitutional interpretation. The final statement in Anglin's biography it notes "To the extent that Anglin is remembered at all, it is as a hard-working, competent, but unimaginative legal technician. His written opinion in the persons case is one of the most criticized and ridiculed decisions ever made by the Supreme Court. Regrettably, it has become his legacy." (Anglin, Francis, Dictionary of Canadian Biography). More about the decision can be read in Ian Bushnell's chapter on it (starting page 218 The captive court). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caddyshack01 (talk • contribs) 14:58, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Because the previous post was unsigned, the pings will not have gone through. Pinging Caddyshack01, who forgot to sign their post of two weeks ago, Generalissima, HurricaneZeta, Departure–, and theleekycauldron in the hopes that this nomination can get moving again. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:12, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I left my original ERRORS message because the article Edwards v Canada (AG), linked in the DYK blurb, contained this below:

A common misinterpretation of the case is that the Supreme Court held that women are not persons. For example, the website of Status of Women Canada, a federal government organization, states, "After five weeks of debate and argument the Supreme Court of Canada decided that the word 'person' did not include women."

The blurb on the table then, which was scheduled to run the next day, read:

"... that the Anglin Court did not believe that women were "persons"?"

To me, this was just a case of someone in the chain not doing their due diligence (note I don't mean this in an accusatory manner), either on fact checking or making sure articles don't contradict each other in such a blatant manner. For the record, the article still contains that quote. I haven't looked too far into it, though. If the new blurb doesn't obviously contradict the article linked, I don't have a problem with running it. Departure– (talk) 22:46, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Theleekycauldron and Departure–: This nomination turns two months old in a few days, has everything been addressed? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:11, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
no, they haven't been. fails to address the complaint, as pointed out in mainspace too, that the obvious implication of the ruling is that women are not "qualified persons" because they are held to not be qualified, not because they are held to not be persons (even though both are equally and obviously wrong). theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 03:59, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on November 4

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Mavuika

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  • Comment: Wasn't sure if the Game Base source was good enough for DYK on its own, so I added two more to be safe.
Improved to Good Article status by Gommeh (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Gommeh 📖   🎮 13:30, 5 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: No - Really sorry, but from my perspective I don't get the interesting part of this hook - what makes it so special that a character in a video game rides a bike in war?
  • Other problems: No - Hook contrasts WP:DYKFICTION If the subject of the hook is a creative work, the hook must be focused on a real-world fact. Try to focus the hook on the IRL processes of the character (during its creation and design process).
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Needs some work per above Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 04:05, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How about: ALT1: ... that Against the Current singer Chrissy Costanza (pictured) sang a promotional song for the Genshin Impact character Mavuika?

Gommeh 📖   🎮 04:56, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gommeh: I'm good with that. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 01:16, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeromi Mikhael: I'm thinking of adding this picture of Chrissy Costanza as an image, but I'm not sure how to add that now that I've already made the nomination. The hook would be the same as ALT1, just with "(pictured)" added after the singer's name. Would that be OK? Gommeh 📖   🎮 13:30, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gommeh: No problem! I think you could just amend ALT1 without having to add any new ALTs. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 13:08, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jeromi Mikhael: Changed my mind per WP:DYKDIVERT. Gommeh 📖   🎮 15:45, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Due to hook wording concerns and the fact that a Genshin character hook is scheduled to run on January 11 (this was originally scheduled to run on January 7), I've temporarily pulled the hook per WT:DYK#Mavuika. This will be repromoted once a suitable wording is proposed and enough time has passed between the two hooks. Technically this will turn two months old in two days, but given the circumstances we should probably waive DYKTIMEOUT here. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:26, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
It probably might since people might assume the hook was more about Costanza than Mavuika, but the main issue here is that we generally don't encourage image requests due to having too many requests compared to slots. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:40, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
In that case feel free to take the image out. I dont care about it too much. Gommeh 📖   🎮 04:44, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on November 11

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Carmen Moreno (singer)

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Moreno in Śpiewając Jazz in 2010
Moreno in Śpiewając Jazz in 2010
Created by Dr. Blofeld (talk) and Gerda Arendt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 2161 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:30, 18 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • QPQ is done. Article is new enough and long enough. No copyright violations or policy issues detected. Hook is verified to the cited sources. That said, this hook seems disconnected as if two different hooks are being scrunched into one hook. It's a bit of a kitchen sink approach and needs editing. I suggest cutting the second half of the hook entirely or cutting the name of the show and just state that she was still performing as late as 2009 (because that is what is interesting; not the name of the show). Too many details makes the hook awkward and unfocused (ie not hooky). Also she was in the Melomami group for a while and joined in 1951 (not only performing with them in 1951). The way its worded now makes it seem like she only sang with that group in that one specific year. This needs to be fixed. 4meter4 (talk) 16:41, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for the review.
ALT0a: ... that Carmen Moreno joined Melomani, the first jazz group in Poland, as a vocalist in 1951, and still performed in 2010 (pictured) ?
ALT0b: ... that Carmen Moreno joined Melomani, the first jazz group in Poland, as a vocalist in 1951, and still performed in a jazz show from 2009 (pictured) ?
I am not familiar enough with the topic to tell if readers would recognize the name of the show, sorry. I like precision. It was also her first CD which is quirky, and she appeared in it with her granddaughter, as YouTube tells me and could be added to the article if wanted for more interest. "Still performed" could mean many things including small things, but a show that was recorded and ran for at least a year seems quite an achievement at her age at the time. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:20, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This makes it seem like she was still singing with Melomani in 2009/2010. The sentence structure and word choice needs to be reworked. Also, I don't think "joined" is the right word. That implies membership. I don't think she was ever a member of this group, but was a recurring guest performer. It's an instrumental band, and she isn't listed as a member in any sources I can find.4meter4 (talk) 00:33, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Moreno (r.) with Anna Serafińska in 2010
Moreno (r.) with Anna Serafińska in 2010
ALT0c: ... that Carmen Moreno, who sang with the first jazz group in Poland from 1951, performed with her granddaughter in 2010 (pictured) ? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:03, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gerda Arendt: I like it. But we need a citation for this hook fact. I know the image is photographic evidence but do we have a text source? The performance should also be mentioned in the text of the article. If this doesn't check out to a print source, we may need to go in a different direction. The opening part of the hook works well, and the 2009 concert could be put back in the second half if needed.4meter4 (talk) 17:05, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand. The sentence in the article is: "She performed with her granddaughter, Anna Serafińska [de], at the Warsaw Jazz Jamboree in 2010.[1]". There were already three references to Serafińska being her granddaughter in the article, one in English. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:18, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know how I missed that earlier. Looks good. Approving ALT0c.4meter4 (talk) 04:20, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Pioneer" might fall under WP:WTA so we can't simply call her a pioneer in Wikivoice in a hook. Perhaps we could go with just "... that Carmen Moreno performed with her granddaughter in 2010 (pictured)?" Or if you want to emphasize her activity, we could go with "... that Carmen Moreno, who started her career in the 1940s, performed with her granddaughter in 2010 (pictured)?" Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:13, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, and second better, but no indication that she was great early, - many start young but not so prominently. RL all day for me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:27, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Back home: I miss "jazz" in both suggestions. Performed "what"?
ALT0d: ... that Carmen Moreno was a vocalist with an early Polish jazz group in 1951 and performed with her granddaughter in 2010 (pictured)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:15, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on November 12

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Bouchra

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  • Lang, Jamie (2025-09-05). "'Spit and Duct Tape and Dreams': How a Small Global Team Built the Queer CG Feature 'Bouchra,' Premiering in Toronto". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on 8 September 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • Mobarak, Jared (2025-09-05). "TIFF Review: Bouchra is an Aesthetically Bold, Personal Animation". The Film Stage. Archived from the original on 6 September 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • Neulichedl, Veronica (2025-10-19). "Il Processo Terapeutico dell'Animazione queer di 'Bouchra'". Taxidrivers (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • Ghelani, Sailesh; Sharan, Swati (2025-09-23). "TIFF 2025 Film Reviews". Minority Review. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
Moved to mainspace by Slgrandson (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 15:32, 16 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

That article could easily clip into many of the other hooks. I'd suggest something like ALT7: ... that a re-edit of an animated film produced for a 2024 Milan exhibition became popular among the furry community?. You'd need a second QPQ for it though.--Launchballer 18:52, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Slgrandson: Do you plan on providing a second QPQ or should I review Bouchra as a single?--Launchballer 17:50, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Launchballer: Bidding on a double tomorrow. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 22:38, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Regardless, I've committed to the extra QPQ amid a spell of reluctance and autopilot; see above. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 16:11, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I know the feeling. Will review both in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 16:19, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is going to be slow work I'm afraid as I'm not feeling great, but the articles are new enough and long enough and the QPQs are compliant (although I'm surprised WP:DYKAPRIL wasn't mooted for the Nobody hook).--Launchballer 15:33, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Articles look fine, haven't yet checked Earwig. My ALT7 won't work as the hook says 'furry community' and the article says 'furry userbase of the online film database Letterboxd', and I'm not sure this is the same thing.--Launchballer 09:49, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Slgrandson: Earwig picks up CLOP in the For My Best Family article with [2], which shows a different translation of the "force that takes the form" quote. Is there a reason they differ? Also, I'll need a new reviewer either way for ALT8: ... that a re-edit of an animated film produced for a 2024 Milan exhibition became popular among one site's furry userbase?--Launchballer 15:19, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Launchballer: I was working from the Finestre sull'Arte source on the film's article, which is why. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 02:37, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, new reviewer needed for my ALT.--Launchballer 09:13, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on November 13

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The Cenotaph, Bulawayo

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The Cenotaph in Bulawayo
The Cenotaph in Bulawayo
Created by Willthorpe (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Will Thorpe (talk) 11:19, 15 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@Willthorpe: Long enough, new enough, QPQ done, Earwig's clean. No reason why this might need a maintenance template. ALT1 and ALT2 vary from the article, which says that the Cenotaph was laid in 1921, unveiled in 1925, dedicated in 1970, and described as "a good place to relax" rather than is one. That leaves ALT0, which strikes me as a bogstandard thing for a war memorial to do. What else have you got?--Launchballer 11:22, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Launchballer I have amended ALT2 per your comments. Does it now suffice? Cheers, Will Thorpe (talk) 12:37, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies for dropping this - and for not saying earlier that what would need to be "have been described as "a good place to relax"" would be promotional.--Launchballer 18:56, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Launchballer, might you please rewrite that so I can be sure that I understand? Are you saying that the language I have used is promotional? Can it be amended so it is not? Cheers. Will Thorpe (talk) 09:37, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies for dropping this @Willthorpe:, I kept seeing a pile of stuff that needed my attention that kept overwhelming me, some of which went away on its own. To run a hook saying nothing other than "someone says X is a good place to relax" would indeed be promotional, yes.--Launchballer 09:15, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Launchballer, no worries at all! I hope that you are faring better now. I have added another hook – let me know what you think of it. Will Thorpe (talk) 10:33, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on November 14

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Żagiew

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5x expanded by Dreamcatcher25 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 575 past nominations.

Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:32, 14 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Piotrus: Article looks good. Nice work. Two things: (i) could you show me a quote from the offline source to verify the hook? & (ii) would it be better to describe it as a magazine in the hook, to reflect the article? BeanieFan11 (talk) 04:07, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • @BeanieFan11 and Piotrus: Sorry but I don't get what you guys mean by "verify the hook". Could you please specify as I am not familiar with the en.wiki jargon? :) Dreamcatcher25 (talk) 12:49, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Dreamcatcher25: What BF11 is asking is whether you can provide a direct quotation fom the book that would serve to verify the claim made in the hook. Also, your thoughts on which term is better - newspaper or magazine - would be welcome. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:50, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Ok, got it. Definition according to Komorowski (2014), p. 819:

    Żagiew, an underground magazine published in the Warsaw Ghetto since February 1942 (...) The magazine promoted the ideas of Polish patriotism and Jewish assimilation. Its publishers were isolated within the Jewish community. [...] From December 1942 to February 1943, the Żagiew Information Bulletin was published in the Warsaw Ghetto. [...] The ŻOB sentenced the bulletin’s publisher, Adam Szajn, who was shot on February 28, 1943. In postwar literature, Żagiew’s activities were gradually mythologized. The name of the organization was later considered to be a codename for the 'Jewish Freedom Guard.' Even the publishers of Żagiew from the spring of 1942 were accused of acting on orders from the German authorities. Eventually, all Jewish Gestapo agents operating in Warsaw from 1940 to 1944 — including Abraham Gancwajch and Group 13 — were subsumed under the label of the Żagiew organization.

This is my translation from Polish. As for the second issue, the above mentioned source use the term czasopismo ("magazine") or biuletyn ("bulletin").Dreamcatcher25 (talk) 17:57, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, this should be good now, though I'd prefer to call it a "magazine" in the hook. BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:45, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have pulled this from prep as the hook does not accurately reflect the article. The hook says the organization has been "misrepresented" as a Gestapo org, but the article is much more equivocal, with one scholar supporting the claim that it was a Gestapo organ, while another two "leave the question open". In these circumstances, you can't make the categorical statement that the claims are untrue. In short, the hook needs work. Pinging nominators Dreamcatcher25 and Piotrus. Gatoclass (talk) 11:05, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I can only partially agree with your assessment. While it is true that some scholars do not rule out the possibility that the magazine Żagiew had ties to the Gestapo, there is no doubt that Żagiew was not an extensive network of armed collaborators and informers. I would suggest rephrasing the hook to: "that the Jewish underground magazine from the Warsaw Ghetto, Żagiew, has been misrepresented as a Gestapo intelligence network."Dreamcatcher25 (talk) 11:26, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, that is not a sufficient change IMO. Gatoclass (talk) 01:39, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dreamcatcher25, are you planning to make a further, sufficient change? BlueMoonset (talk) 22:22, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, I don't, since I have no idea what "sufficient change" would be.Dreamcatcher25 (talk) 07:17, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Human-AI interaction

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  • Source: Freitas, Julian De; Oguz-Uguralp, Zeliha; Kaan-Uguralp, Ahmet (2025-10-07), Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions, arXiv, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2508.19258, arXiv:2508.19258, retrieved 2025-11-17
  • Reviewed:
Moved to mainspace by YuntaHa (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

YuntaHa (talk) 20:21, 17 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Interesting and lengthy new article created as part of a WikiEd project. New enough, definitely long enough, presentable. Copyvio Detector comes back clear. (Out of curiosity I ran a few passages through GPTZero and that also came back clear.) Solid, reliable sourcing and NPOV tone. Hook is interesting, appropriately sourced and in the article. Good work! Dclemens1971 (talk) 20:14, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • @YuntaHa and Dclemens1971: Per WP:ARXIV, I'm not sure we should be making such a sweeping claim about technology and psychology based on a non-peer-reviewed working paper? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 07:47, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • @Theleekycauldron: YuntaHa has not edited for over a month and since this was a WikiEd project I wouldn't expect them to return. There are other published sources in the article for the hook claim -- for example, Personalized responses from [conversational AI] may keep users glued to their devices for longer (Guitton, 2020), creating a strong attachment to technology that behaves in highly human-like ways.... [S]uch personalized gratifications may aggravate over-attachment to CAI, leading lonely people to find emotional support and companionship from their interactions with CAI (Brandtzaeg et al., 2022) and ultimately become more prone to [problematic use of] CAI. (Hu, Mao, Kim, Computers in Human Behavior.) Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:52, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
        • I wouldn't equate "personalized" and "highly human-like" with "psychologically manipulative". My responses are personalized and highly human-like, but I would hope they're not psychologically manipulative! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 19:26, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
          • I quoted a small selection from an article that wasn't the source for the hook used by the nominator, so the exact language may not align with the hook even if the overall assertions do. Perhaps ALT1: ... that some people build relationships with AI chatbots driven by loneliness because the bots' personalized responses keep users chatting on their devices? would work based on the source above. However, this is not my nom, I'm not an expert in this field, and I'm just trying to help since the nominator is unlikely to reappear. (That said, if there are editors who care about highlighting WikiEd work, this is one of the best articles I've seen come through that channel in my time as a new page reviewer.) Dclemens1971 (talk) 04:40, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

North Korean Postal Service

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North Korea Post's LOGO
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5x expanded by HCCB3947 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

HCCB3947 (talk) 13:43, 20 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Article is fine (date, size, etc.). I am midly concerned about the hooks, wbich are not very inspiring (I doubt the admins would want to use a red link, even ILL-style, on the main page, so the hook using it is dead - but if we replace the weird red China link with link to PRC like in other hooks, it would be fine). I'd instead suggest the following hooks as more interesting (IMHO):
  • ALT3: ...that during North Korea’s 1990s famine, some North Korean postal workers reportedly burned letters in their mail cars to keep warm? ref --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:26, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Would have been a brilliant item if it were not for "reportedly" - I would rather not have rumours posted in what should be a section for facts - but other proposals are not too exciting. I'm torn.
Do you have any other sources that could elaborate on mail burning? Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 01:53, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply: If you checked the history, you may find this sentence already exists before my expansion. I did not pay attention to find any related citations, at least in the cited passage, this statement relies on single anonymous source. As you mentioned, it may be only defined as "reportedly" according to existing information.
Again, as I replied to another person above, the reason for hook ALT2 being the last one is that it's the least recommended hook in my opinion. Regardless of the linking issue of hook ALT2, what is your opinion on the main hook? North Korea regards South Korea as the nearest enemy, that's why I regard their postal circulation fascinating. Do you have any suggestions on the hook, since no more sources can be found on your revision? HCCB3947 (talk) 14:54, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Szmenderowiecki are you willing to give the tick to ALT3? As Piotrus notes, the first three are a little dull. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:49, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@AirshipJungleman29, HCCB3947, 4425valentina, Guerreroast, and Piotrus: I opened a thread at DYK talk page to solicit outside input because I'm not sure if this hook is eligible or even desired. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 23:01, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ALT4 ... that information about North Korea's postal service is limited? (A bit of a "well, duh" hook, but maybe people would be surprised they have a postal service at all.)
ALT5 ... that it sometimes took North Korea's postal service to send a letter from the north to Pyongyang during the 1990s famine?
As an aside, I noticed that the article uses the term "Free World". Is it not considered a non-neutral or loaded term right now? I'm not sure if it would be allowed per NPOV (even if it is objectively true with respect to North Korea). Finally, while not a major DYK issue, I think the article might still need some copyediting. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:21, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Applying WP:POSA:
  • Alt4 is not going to be interesting. Snail mail has been around for quite some time, definitely existed at the time Korea split. If they abolished the postal service at some point (presumably the only one possible), that would be interesting.
  • Alt5 as written is screaming "holy shit, the post is doing its job!" I suspect you missed a few words, because otherwise it doesn't make any sense. I don't think I heard of the post service collapsing countrywide in the last century. If that were the case, that would be interesting.
So no.
Re: "Free World", NK is anything but free but that term is straight from Western propaganda manuals (and the source is literally the CIA, so yeah). So that should be changed, yes. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 03:53, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Szmenderowiecki: For ALT5 I was originally going to add the "few hundred kilometers away" aspect, but I wasn't sure how to do it without making the hook clunky. Regrettably I could not find anything else in the article that was either hooky or airtight. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:33, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on November 19

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Night ride to Kaifeng

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

-- Reconrabbit 14:57, 20 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article was recently created. Source verifies hook. No copyvio detected. Hook is interesting. QPQ done. Nice work! ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 15:51, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Hello, I recently edited the article and found sources in Chinese that I think support a higher number of cyclists, "over a hundred thousand" instead of "tens of thousands".

  • Radio Free Asia: "8日晚间传出，有超过20万人参与，骑行大军连绵数十公里。" [On the evening of the 8th, over 200,000 participated, forming a crowd stretching tens of kilometers.]
  • BBC: "上周五（11月8日）晚，逾十万大学生骑共享单车从郑州前往开封，致使两地交通堵塞，河南省及周边部分大学第二天实行了“封校”。" [Last Friday (November 8) evening, over a hundred thousand university students rode shared bikes from Zhengzhou to Kaifeng, causing traffic congestion, and the next day universities in Henan and some in surrounding provinces implemented "closed campuses".]

Meanwhile the English sources say thousands/tens of thousands[1][2][3], tens of thousands[4], and tens of thousands (100k in embedded video).[5] Out of all these sources, I think only RFA suggests where their estimate comes from. Later in the article, a notice about a meeting with the Henan Department of Education says that there were over "20万" [200,000], so that might be the government's estimate.

I'm not sure why there's a discrepancy based on language, but since none of these estimates contradict one another, and "over a hundred thousand" and "over 200,000" are more specific than tens of thousands, I think it's reasonable to say "over a hundred thousand".

(Sorry for any extra trouble, I'm still figuring out how Wikipedia works.) Wimwamble (talk) 10:48, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what would be better to state. I am going to ask someone who is more familiar with the topic area. -- Reconrabbit 17:36, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

mmm, it does seem like a bit of a misconstruction to say that the trend started because the students ate dumplings there; that wasn't on its own remotely sufficient to cause the trend, it seemed to mainly be because they vlogged themselves making the bike trip there. Maybe something like:

theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 09:13, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ALT0 makes sense to me because "after" doesn't have to mean a direct cause-effect relationship, though it could be misleading. For ALT1, I'm iffy about writing a length for the bike ride because there doesn't seem to be a definite starting point, and some sources say it's 40 or 60 km. (Zhengkai Avenue that the students were biking on is 39 km, however the road continues east and west with different names. The straight-line distance and biking distance between city centers is about 60 km.) I don't think I can properly judge whether ALT0 or ALT1a sounds better. Wimwamble (talk) 04:17, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Another idea:
Wimwamble (talk) 07:45, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

Articles created/expanded on November 22

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Jermyn Street showroom of Andrew Grima

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Created by No Swan So Fine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 132 past nominations.

No Swan So Fine (talk) 22:28, 26 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: No - see comments below
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Dwkaminski (talk) 13:48, 2 December 2025 (UTC) Review comments:[reply]

  • New enough - Created 11/22/25 and nominated 11/24/25
  • Long enough - article contains 2442 characters of prose
  • References:
    • The Design Journal reference does not support "circular, white, concrete structure" in the description of the office. Circular is in regard to the display cases and there is no mention of construction material. Also states that architects are G. and G. Grima but does not say that they are brothers of shop owner. This fact is also referenced by Daily Telegraph but I could not access it. Is it described there?
    • I've added an archived cite for brothers and amended the structure quote. No Swan So Fine (talk) 22:41, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • The National Heritage List of England reference - I don't see the support for "extraordinary" statement. I see Grade II for Wartski's
      • The NHLE article mentions "A precursor of Wartski's was the extraordinary Grima jewellers shop front in Jermyn Street (1962), composed of rough-hewn slate slabs and steel with very small windows, which does not survive." [7] No Swan So Fine (talk) 22:41, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • I can't access Brown ref but AGF
  • Earwig copyvio calculator shows 23.1% violation unlikely - it's all due to the Grima quote and is OK
  • hook other comments - I think the hook is interesting - however a couple comments. I'm not sure everyone knows James Bond - you may want to link to the List of James Bond villains page. Also not sure if you should have the quotation marks for just part of the quote. Consider keeping just James Bond without quotes or adding the whole quote (and also linking to Barbarella (film)
Thanks, I've done that and it looks much better now! No Swan So Fine (talk) 14:47, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on November 23

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Event perception

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  • ... that people sometimes experience short-term memory loss when they walk through doorways or switch tasks?
  • Source: Radvansky GA, Krawietz SA, Tamplin AK. Walking through doorways causes forgetting: Further explorations. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2011 Aug;64(8):1632-45. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2011.571267. Epub 2011 May 24. PMID: 21563019.
  • Reviewed:
Moved to mainspace by The Last Prototype (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

The Last Prototype (talk) 05:39, 25 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: None required.

Overall: AGF on the paywalled hook source. Just one issue that needs to be resolved. SounderBruce 18:59, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@SounderBruce: Thanks for your help! I've added the missing page information to the citation. Please let me know if any other changes are needed. The Last Prototype (talk) 20:12, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on November 24

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Sexual and gender-based violence against Israeli hostages during the Gaza war

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  • ... that Israeli hostages were sexually abused during their captivity in Gaza by Hamas?
Created by ShoBDin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

ShoBDin (talk) 16:38, 24 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@ShoBDin: Closed as no consensus; please resolve the {{unreliable sources}} tag.--Launchballer 02:52, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's been blocked. I don't see that we need to spend any more time on this.--Launchballer 19:17, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on November 25

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Dwarkesh Patel

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  • ... that in August 2025, tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel started a fundraiser that raised over $2 million for anti-factory farming charities?
    • Source: "Earlier this month, a fundraiser for nonprofits that fight to end factory farming went a little viral — at least in one corner of the internet...Dwarkesh Patel, the influential tech podcaster, announced on his show that if his listeners donated a collective $250,000 to FarmKind, an organization that distributes money to anti-factory farming charities, so would he. They did — and then some...So far, Patel and his listeners — including Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, professional poker player Liv Boeree, and popular Substack writer Noah Smith — have raised over $2 million. For the global anti-factory farming movement, which works on a shoestring budget to fix one of the most challenging and neglected social issues of our time, that’s a lot of money."Vox
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jessica Forrest, Template:Did you know nominations/John Holmes Jackson
    • Comment: Alt hooks welcome
Created by Thriley (talk), Veggiegalaxy (talk), Alenoach (talk), and GnocchiFan (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 197 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 19:29, 3 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Moved from AFC draft to mainspace on 25 November.[8] Nominated for DYK 3 December.[9] Based on the timestamps, this is 188.88 hours, or 7.87 days, almost 21 hours over the deadline; I assume this is within the grace period given that the "seven-day limit can be extended for a day or two upon request". I need a second opinion for this review as I made far too many edits cleaning this up, rewriting and adding content, and proposing new hooks up above. Viriditas (talk) 00:52, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Viriditas: Thank you for all the expansion. I'm going to offer up another hook. This particular one isn’t as interesting as it could be. Thriley (talk) 06:21, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • ALT2 that during an interview with tech podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, Leopold Aschenbrenner detailed a scenario where a country with a slight edge in AI research uses drones to destroy its enemies nuclear submarines?
Not a full review, but the intro can be expanded and the article requires a consistent date format; if it is Indian-based then WP:DMY, or MDY if US-based. M. Billoo 02:53, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hezbollah's drone smuggling network

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

ShoBDin (talk) 13:35, 25 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • The article relies heavily on Israeli and highly partisan sources such as Kataeb, Iran International. Le Figaro and other mainstream/reliable sources should be cited instead of intermediaries. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but the article treats the existence and structure of the network as established fact rather than allegations by prosecutors. --Երևանցի talk 10:53, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's been blocked. I don't see that we need to spend any more time on this.--Launchballer 19:18, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on November 26

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Kingdom of Kubala

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  • ... that the Kingdom of Kubala claims land in Scotland that they allege was stolen from them when Elizabeth I deported black Jacobites?
  • Reviewed:
Moved to mainspace by GoldenBootWizard276 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 21:32, 27 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • The article is new enough and long enough, and the hook is definitely interesting. However the page needs a look at for reliable sources. The DYK hook is directly referenced to the Daily Express. Per WP:DAILYEXPRESS this source is not recommended. The Newsflare source is "Uploaded by a Newsflare content partner", which doesn't seem very definitive. The hook is also cited to NDTV, but their description of the claimed history is a lot less. Unknown Temptation (talk) 15:27, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have just sent the notification to User:GoldenBootWizard276. I very rarely come to DYK and it was my false recollection that these reviews sent an automatic message to talk page. More time should be give to redress. Unknown Temptation (talk) 11:55, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Baker's Horse

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  • Source: "shortly after receiving news of the British defeat at Isandlwana, Baker telegraphed Lord Chelmsford offering to raise a new unit. Chelmsford gratefully accepted, an on 7 February the first batch of 50 men set sail for Durban from East London, with others following on 21 and 24 February." from p36 of Castle, Ian (2003). Zulu War: Volunteers, Irregulars & Auxiliaries. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 9781841764849.. Isandlwana was one 22 January so 7 February is just over 2 weeks afterwards.
Created by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 955 past nominations.

Dumelow (talk) 11:33, 26 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

I think I probably copied the wrong QPQ, it'll take me longer to work it out than it would to review a new QPQ. Will try to get one done tomorrow - Dumelow (talk) 23:48, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Here is an additional QPQ: Template:Did you know nominations/Stephen Linard - Dumelow (talk) 21:21, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2004 Alabama Amendment 2

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Created by Thefinals626472 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Thefinals626472 (talk) 21:02, 26 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Comment: link the article. Roast (talk) 01:02, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hey, Thefinals626472, thanks for the nom! Welcome to DYK, glad we have a new referendum writer on the project :) I hope you don't mind, I've done a bit of tweaking on the article. Article is new enough, long enough, sourced, neutral, and plagiarism free. Hook is cited (remember to copy the citation in the article to the sentence containing the hook fact) and interesting (ALT1 is a bit too long). No image provided, no QPQ required. The only thing that's missing is that there's only one independent source: Phillip Rawls, writing two different pieces for AP. In order to meet WP:GNG, there needs to be probably one more RS covering the referendum in depth- i don't know if there are other news sources out there, but there seems to be a great essay in the Alabama Law Review (Google Scholar is your friend!). Would you be willing to incorporate some info from there? theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 01:54, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Hello! I have added two more sources, though I was not able to use any info from the one page from your source. Regarding ALT 1: I agree that it's clunky; I felt ALT 0 would be enough to really grab people's attention and so I think that it would be the best overall fit. Also, in a newspaper article by the Mobile Register, I found a picture of Mobile County Probate Court employees conducting a recount following the amendment having such a close result. The Register shut down in 2023, and I was wondering what copyright laws would still apply in this situation. I understand it's almost certainly not public domain, but would it qualify for fair use? I really think it would be a nice addition to the article. Here is a link to the article with the picture: https://www.newspapers.com/image-view/1167466466/ Thefinals626472 (talk) 04:27, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • @Thefinals626472: We'll go with ALT0, then! I don't think that would qualify for fair use on enwiki, our criteria are incredibly narrow; we allow fair use images pretty much only when (1) there will never be a freely licensable way to illustrate the core concept (usually a deceased person or creative work) or (2) the image itself is what's being discussed. As far as the essay goes, if you email me, I can send you back the full ten pages :) for DYK purposes, though, good to go! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 19:18, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Per concerns raised at WT:DYK#2004 Alabama Amendment 2 (nom), I have pulled this from Prep. Issues remain regarding both article context and hook wording. Per the discussion there, I have struck ALT0 (the originally promoted hook) as well as ALT1 as being rejected in the review (and also for being too long). A new hook and the context concerns need to be addressed before this can be reapproved. Courtesy ping to Szmenderowiecki. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 15:05, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Thefinals626472: Please return to this nomination and propose a new hook. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 06:50, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Delcoan: Oops. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 06:52, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5: New proposed hook that cuts back on 80 or so characters:

...that a 2004 ballot measure repealing Jim Crow laws in Alabama failed after opponents claimed taxes would spike? Delcoan (talk) 01:30, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I think that works. @Szmenderowiecki: Is this good to go now? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:41, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    • If they say yes, obviously then its fine, but if they say no because they want me to add more info about the tax opposition claims to the article body, I'd like some help (from anyone) because I wasn't totally sure what else to add. Delcoan (talk) 01:44, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Delcoan I can help you out with that. The hook with the current state of the article is fine. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 05:35, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on November 29

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2014 Isla Vista killings

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

Shoot for the Stars (talk) 00:53, 1 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

While I'm not opposed to this running in principle - one of the WP:DYKAIMs is to showcase the range of our content and that includes topics like this one - presenting what are the deranged rantings of an incel on the main page is a bit much. I have struck the two hooks, and suggest that @Shoot for the Stars: propose something else; I suggest ALT2: ... that six 2014 killings committed by Elliot Rodger sparked discussion of broader issues of violence against women and misogyny? or perhaps something about California's first red flag law. You may also wish to see if either WP:GARC or WP:GARP would take Rodger's article so this can run as a double nom.--Launchballer 20:53, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • ALT3 ... that the 2014 Isla Vista killings led to California enacting a red-flag law, which allows family members to petition courts to remove weapons from persons deemed a threat?
TarnishedPathtalk 00:36, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: I doubt anyone will listen to me, but do not run this DYK. Reject it. There's some weird, incel, cult-like devotion to this topic, and in the past, I've read that perpetuating coverage of this topic can lead to an increase in stochastic violence. Like I said, I doubt many will agree with me, but that's my controversial take. Viriditas (talk) 00:09, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I question any coverage leading to increases in "stochastic violence" given that there has literally been a metric fucktonne of coverage on this already. Additionally WP:NOTCENSORED. TarnishedPathtalk 02:34, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Stochastic Gender-Based Violence: How Incels Justify and Encourage Sexualized Violence Against Women. (2025)Open access icon Viriditas (talk) 02:41, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Unless I'm missing something, that piece talks about an increase in stochastic violence resulting from incels communicating in their forums. Which is not hard to understand. I lurked for a bit in incel forums just after Minassian ran over a bunch of people in Canada and they are truly sick demented fucks, who egg each other on. I can easily imagine those sorts of forums being a contributing factor. However, I couldn't see anything in that article which states that news reporting leads to increases in stochastic violence. TarnishedPathtalk 06:54, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on November 30

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Es hat sich halt eröffnet

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Nativity from Lucas Cranachs workshop
Nativity from Lucas Cranachs workshop
  • ... that "Es hat sich halt eröffnet", a traditional 18th-century Christmas carol from Tyrol and Swabia, imagines many angels tumbling from the gate of Heaven that opened (pictured) ? Source: several
    • Reviewed: Shuanglong Bridge
    • Comment: For Christmas Eve, 24 December. The angels, boys and girls, in somersaults (or better - see below - rolling over, or what?) are mentioned in the first stanza, and the image comes close.
Created by Gerda Arendt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 2163 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:59, 6 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Not a review, but given that this is talking about the events of a song, wouldn't this violate WP:DYKFICTION? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:23, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It is fact about the song being that old and from where (and interesting that from two areas now in different countries, and even then disconnected). The rest is a translation of things from the first stanza, to say what someone not reading German could not know. It adds interest, - I don't know about any other song imagining the little angels doing somersaults (rolling over, see below), and it connects to the image (which isn't brilliant but has a similar idea). Sadly, it hasn't been translated into English, and is so much (cute) dialect that translation programs won't help. - Listen, it's fun ;) - Thanks to Michael Bednarek who brought that into our Lilypond. Other hook ideas welcome, of course. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:42, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) Our guidelines already state that saying that an article subject is a work of fiction does not count as meeting the real-world requirement for the purposes of WP:DYKFICTION. A new angle may be needed here. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:44, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What in "18th-century song from Tyrol and Swabia" is fiction? We better also say what it is about, especially if that is interesting: little angels tumbling through the gate of Heaven that opened. I found a site translating into German, and that fed to Deepls results in: "The heavenly gate has opened / The little angels tumble out in great numbers / The boys and girls do somersaults / First up and down, then back and forth / Then below again, then on top of each other, which makes them even happier." Listen and enjoy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:57, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
WP:DYKFICTION states simply acknowledging that a hook is about a creative work is not sufficient, nor is adding an unrelated real-world fact to a hook which is otherwise about a creative element. In this case, saying that the hook's subject is a real-world carol from a real-world place (such as saying that the carol came from Austria), but is still ultimately about "in-universe" or "in-plot" information (i.e. what is happening in the carol), would not count as a real-world connection. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:11, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I wish you a merry season. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:48, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ideas? Viriditas, perhaps? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:22, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Gerda, you've got some great potential hooks in that article. You don’t need my help. Viriditas (talk) 20:03, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • This appears to be at an impasse, so giving some hook suggestions here. One of the hooks is misleading, but it might work as an April Fools hook if you are willing to have this run on April Fools instead of Christmas. However, it might also work as a quirky.
Pinging Viriditas for thoughts on these proposals. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:15, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the offers. I am not interested in ALT2, because it is purely historical and offers no joy. I could live with ALT1 if nothing else gets accepted, but hope we will not have to do that. ALT3 is correct, but true for more than this song, and softly misleading regarding what "too secular" may mean. I thought of the following (before I saw the suggestions, - just had no time yet):
I would like the information about the two disconnect areas without saying "first" or "only", as unusual. I would like a hint at how old this is, - Mozart may have known it (published the year he was born, but probably older), imagine ;) - Have you listened? I would like to offer some of the fun in this song as a little Christmas present. Any suggestion to capture the little boys and girls angels enjoying their playing is welcome. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:52, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I take.--Launchballer 18:08, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gerda Arendt: Long enough, new enough. QPQ done and Earwig has no valid complaints. ALT1 would need a link to Karl Marx and I prefer not to remove non-bolded links unless necessary and ALT2 is a superlative and needs excellent sourcing. I see no problem with ALT3, although perhaps you'd like to explain why it's "softly misleading". There's the germ of a good hook in ALT4; I have never heard of Tyrol or Swabia and would suggest that "such as purzigagalan (somersaults)" wants trimming, although a song containing dialect words from two countries strikes me as unusual. The only place I can find the word 'dialect' is in the lead, where it is unsourced. Per WP:DYKHOOK, I must ask for a quote from any offline sources used for any hooks. Also, I'm just about to nominate XMAS (song) for DYK; please consider reviewing.--Launchballer 20:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for reviewing. I forgot that someone not knowing German of course can't see that the text is mostly dialect, compare this translation. I'd like to use it but it says Austrian/Bavarian while the other sources are more precise about Tyrol and Swabia. Tyrol is a state of Austria, as Texas is one of the U.S., with its own dialect. What can we do? My problem with ALT3 - as said - is that more than one hymn have been regarded as too secular. Several hymns began as love songs. It has nothing about what is special to this song: children at play, - I don't know any other carol with the idea of the angels enjoying somersaults (rolling over). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:44, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Launchballer: would ALT4a: ... that "Es hat sich halt eröffnet", a traditional 18th-century Christmas carol, uses German and Austrian dialect words? be more accurate? As for ALT1, the idea was to have the link if it doesn't run on April Fool's, to make it clear that it is not referring to that Karl Marx. Only if it was an AFD hook would the link be removed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:46, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that this needs a source that actually says they're dialect words, and I'd still need a quote from the source.--Launchballer 02:55, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Launchballer: If that's the case, then perhaps either ALT1 or ALT3 is usable then? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:10, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The Marx hook checks out, though is best saved for April Fools' day. I'd still need a quote from the source for ALT3.--Launchballer 03:18, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Since I asked, I slept. Now, there's real life. I will try to look at the sourcing, and hope it will be today. What I don't understand is: Why couldn't I use the translation from dialect to German, with its obvious differences, as a source? The German Wikipedia doesn't offer one, because its a default that a 1756 song from Tyrol will be in that dialect. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Or how is this, not fiction but only saying what the topic is:
ALT4b: ... that in "Es hat sich halt eröffnet", an 18th-century Christmas carol from both Tyrol and Swabia, the angels are imagined as boys and girls enjoying somersaults?
Or shorter, but missing the interesting detail "from different areas":
ALT4c: ... that in "Es hat sich halt eröffnet", a traditional 18th-century Christmas carol, the angels are imagined as boys and girls enjoying somersaults?
Or any other ideas of saying what makes this song different from all others? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:18, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ALT4d: ... that "Es hat sich halt eröffnet", an 18th-century Christmas carol from both Tyrol and Swabia, uses the word "purzigagalan"? I think that it would come across that this is a funny word in whatever language, and we are requested to not "say it all". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:59, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think that simply having an unusual-sounding foreign word in a hook counts as "funny" most of the time. We've tried similar angles in the past and they didn't work out. I actually like the idea behind ALT4b and ALT4c, but the issue is that I still feel that they are too close to WP:DYKFICTION for comfort. I'm not sure though if Launchballer thinks they count as fiction though, so maybe they will have a different opinion. If that ever happens, I'd be fine with either ALT4b or ALT4c, but not ALT4d (although I think the non-ALT4 angles are probably stronger). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:12, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That's a fair point. I also can't see "purzigagalan" or "somersaults" in the article. As Christmas Eve is in the next-but-one set to be promoted, I strongly advise that you give me a quote from the source for ALT3 so I can approve it.--Launchballer 01:15, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I can give you a hook that has nothing to do with fiction and that is
ALT5: ... that "Es hat sich halt eröffnet" is an 18th-century Christmas carol from both Tyrol and Swabia?
Only: that leaves out all the fun in the song.
I am sorry that I didn't have time yet to write more about the text, but began it now, which should support ALT4 and variants, the title being chosen for a collection of Tyrol Christmas songs, and the beginning quoted in three lines as an expression of childlike joy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:08, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am sorry also about the translation of the purzigagalan. In conversation with native speakers I found that, while Deepl gave me somersault as translation of Purzelbaum, the German word for purzigagalan, when I translate it back it's Salto in German, which is a specific and more acrobatic term. I was advised to try "roll over", help in the matter is appreciated, but we surely should not make it part of the hook if it will be misunderstood. Striking those ALTs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:00, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If the most interesting point here, as Launchballer suggests, is that the hymn uses dialect words from two different countries, why not just go with ALT4a? It makes the Austria/Germany connection explicit: a reader may not get that Tyrol and Swabia are in different countries without clicking the links. If the main reason is to introduce those places, we could go with something like:
However, it does lose the connection to the dialects. Another possible wording could be:
However, that could make the hook more complicated. Personally I would probably go with ALT3 as it is straight to the point and more likely to get readership, whereas these attempts to workshop ALT4/ALT5 are just resulting in unnecessarily complex hooks. I know that ALT3 isn't unique to the carol, as you said, but it's still an unusual piece of information that most people probably don't know. ALT1 is a possibility if you are fine with the hook running on a day other than Christmas. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:09, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for trying to help! Besides my objection to the ALTs missing all the joy and fun this song offers, they might end up at ERRORS because when created there was no Austria nor Germany in the modern sense, and as we are talking about the time of creation, it would be historically wrong. Also: it seems unusual enough that one song comes from two different regions, - without the complication of countries that don't really matter. Therefore I'd prefer ALT5 over its ALTs. But it's missing all the childlike joy and dialect fun of this song, - boys offering cheese to the baby ;) - I'd prefer it over no DYK at all, though. Viriditas, what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:35, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: The solution to that is ALT5c: ... that the 18th century Christmas carol "Es hat sich halt eröffnet" is from the now-Austrian region Tyrol and the now-German region Swabia?. I see this is sourced to one offline source and two online sources, both of which imply Tyrol and Swabia are part of Austria and Germany but don't outright say it.--Launchballer 02:45, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I know Gerda really wants to go with this angle, but isn't this wording just making the hook too clunky? The alternative would be to use just ALT5, but then it would lose the Germany/Austria context, so it's not ideal either. In any other circumstance I would be fine with this angle, but given how much has to be done to this angle to make it "work", I'm not sure why we don't just go with another angle altogether since they don't have the same accuracy or clunkiness issues. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:32, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have a wish for Christmas to Narutolovehinata5: please don't begin a sentence with "I know Gerda" ;) - or more seriously: only 2 comments for all participants in any discussion. What I wanted to tell (per: "Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it") is the story of ALT0, and ALT5c is lawyering in my book, - Of the questions what? where? when? - it has a focus on "where", and "what" is missing. - ALT4d would be my choice among the open ones, - let readers find out where Tyrol is and what purzigagalan are. Listen and enjoy, - thanks to Michael the lilypond in the article is fun! I have no more time for this. In dulci jubilo, now sing and be glad! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:41, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Launchballer: I've been thinking about this, and I wonder if ALT5a/ALT5b could be revisited. It seems like a good compromise between Gerda's desire to highlight the regions, and your desire to highlight the countries, while avoiding the clunkiness of ALT5c. The issue is that "Tyrol" also includes a part in Italy, so saying "Tyrol, Austria" would be at best misleading (there is no such issue for Swabia, which as far as I can tell is entirely in present-day Germany). If the song originated from present-day Austria, then perhaps we can come up with a solution, but that is not clear in the sources. The safest option could be to just go with ALT5, if you prefer that angle, but it does mean it makes less obvious the "different countries" aspect you wanted to highlight.
There is also still the option of going with ALT3, which avoids the issue entirely (I do not see the "it's not unique" concern as an issue since it is still not something the average reader would know); ALT1 is also now an option since the hook missed running on Christmas. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:49, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • How about using "Austrian Tyrol" and "German Swabia"? Dahn (talk) 17:50, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't remember if the conversation had already that when the song was texted there was neither today's Germany nor today's Austria. Also: all the territory things say nothing about the topic. We sang it today with several people who didn't know it and we had a lot of fun that is missing in talking about locations only. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:11, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Gerda, this is your comment from almost a month ago, on this very page: "and interesting that from two areas now in different countries, and even then disconnected". Dahn (talk) 07:40, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    At the time, I wanted Christmas Eve, and was willing to almost anything. We missed the chance. More interesting because more unique than any locations is the funny imagination (roll over backwards and forwards from heaven, offer cheese asking the baby). We seem to have guidelines that go for locations rather than fantasy, but is that a good thing? Can we have a bit of both, perhaps? Would we say about Beethoven's Fifth Symphony only where it was written? At this point, how about ALT3. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:16, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Billy Gallagher (businessman)

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  • ... that Billy Gallagher's Times Square cabaret was open from sundown to dawn, with a mix of "reputable people" and those "who had practical reasons for circulating after dark"?
  • Source: "BILLY GALLAGHER, CAFE OWNER, DIES", "For the last fifteen years he could be found in his underground cabaret at 711 Seventh Avenue, near Forty-seventh Street, which did not open until after sundown. As other entertainment places, restaurants and speakeasies closed after midnight, business picked up at Billy Gallagher's cabaret, until at dawn it was astir with reputable people still celebrating, and others who had practical reasons for circulating after dark."
Created by Mike Christie (talk) and Alansohn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 61 past nominations.

Alansohn (talk) 09:42, 7 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • New, long enough, sourced, no apparent copyvios. The hook largely checks out, and is interesting. Mike Christie and Alansohn, there are two slight issues. First, I'm a bit confused by his establishments. The hook says he had a Times Square cabaret, but the article speaks of (a) "a restaurant named Broadway Gardens at 711 Seventh Avenue", (b) "a restaurant in Times Square near 47th Street", and a "cabaret ... that opened after the sun set and ... remain[ed] open until dawn". Are these each different things? Second, the article could benefit from a bit of attention paid to its formatting. Although the length requirement for DYK is not onerous, having a single-sentence lead followed but a single section titled "Life" is less than ideal. Could a few subsections be added? Overall, though, an interesting article. It's fun to see an article like this, pulling up old sources about someone who seems to have been largely lost to the past. --Usernameunique (talk) 06:53, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Usernameunique, thanks for the review and the recommendations. It's always hard to dig up further details for someone who lived and died so long ago, but I will do my best. Let me make sure that the location details cited are accurate. Thanks again! Alansohn (talk) 07:26, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander Binder (photographer)

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  • ... that photographer Alexander Binder created thousands of portrait photographs, but is not himself featured in any surviving portrait?
    • Reviewed: This is my first nomination, no QPQ needed.
Created by Weltalf (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Weltalf (talk) 09:28, 5 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Not a review, but two paragraphs are unsourced (with a third ending in unsourced claims despite having sources), and the not himself featured in any surviving portrait part isn't even mentioned in the article. Nominated articles generally should not have unsourced claims and the hook should be in the article itself; please see the DYK rules at WP:DYKG. Welcome to DYK though. ミラP@Miraclepine 22:08, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a review:

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: The article is new enough, having been created 3 December, and nominated on the 5th. It is also long enough, and Earwig reports no copyvio concerns (although as most the sources are offline ones, there is a certain amount of AGF here). see below) Also noting as Miraclepine has above that there are unsourced paragraphs and facts in the article, which needs fixing. I find the hook fact interesting, but it isn't cited in the article. If the hook is sourced to an offline source, you will need to provide a quote so that I can verify it.

What is a "signet"? I have not come across the term used like this before (only in signet ring) and am not convinced this is standard usage for how photographers sign their work.

Besides fixing the hook and sourcing issues, I would also encourage you to put a couple of other facts from the article in the lead, so it is a better summary of the article.

These are all fixable issues, Weltalf, please don't be discouraged, have a go and ping me when you're ready for me to look at it again. DrThneed (talk) 22:46, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alright I did a check on the one online source, which is in German, and realised a couple of sentences are straight translations of copyrighted material: "In the late 1920s and 1930s, up to 1937, the Binder studio was considered the largest photographic studio in Europe." and "In 1948/49, the Binder studio was taken over by the company Hasse and Wiese.". I believe this is a copyright violation and these should be rephrased. DrThneed (talk) 23:07, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]


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1910s in air cargo

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World's first air cargo freight flight arriving at Columbus Driving Park on November 7, 1910
World's first air cargo freight flight arriving at Columbus Driving Park on November 7, 1910
  • ... that on November 7, 1910, the world's first commercial air cargo flight took place (pictured), in the United States between Dayton, Ohio, and Columbus, Ohio, flown by Wright Brothers' pilot Philip Parmalee in a Wright Model B airplane, carrying a consignment of 200 pounds (about 88 kilograms) consisting of two parcels of silk for department store owner Max Moorehouse?
    • Reviewed:
    • Comment: Nomination suggested by reviewer "Commandant Quacks-a-lot" ; article published from draft last 4 december.
Created by Rolands00004413 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Roland's (talk) 14:03, 9 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Hello, and welcome to DYK. However, the current hook cannot be used as it is above DYK's 200-character limit. I would suggest a much shorter hook, something like:
The main issue is that, right now, the article only has 650 characters of prose, which is far below the 1,500 character requirement for DYK. In addition, as the article will need copyediting, that number might decrease further. One possible solution to this could be to convert the "Summary for the decade" section into prose, which should result in over 1,500 characters of prose. Regardless, the article currently needs work. Normally, I'd quickfail this, but as this is the nominator's first DYK nomination and the issues are not insurmountable, I could give the nominator up to a week to address the concerns.
Related to this, I have another question: did the article use AI-generated or LLM-generated content? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:35, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK good point, I suggest then:

@Rolands00004413: Please either fill in or remove the empty sections and address Narutolovehinata5's question regarding LLM usage.--Launchballer 03:57, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Murder of Matthew Rairdon

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  • Reviewed: Snow Angel (manga)
  • Comment: While I am aware that two of three organizations (especially Family Crisis Services) is local to Maine, I decided to go for "U.S." in hook due to the article from NCAVP. Feel free to disagree.
Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

CoryGlee 01:47, 7 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Dolina effect

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

Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 05:26, 5 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

This review was written in the context of an academic project by User:Assas CHEUNG .

The length of this article does respect DYK criteria because it is far longer than 1,500 characters of prose. Its multiple sections allow it to cover the whole topic, by not only explaining the precise case of the Russian singer Larisa Dolina, but also the scheme tactic on the Russian housing market as a whole. The article keeps a neutral tone by simply presenting the facts and explaining the impacts it had (such as proposed laws) which are interesting. However, while there are a lot of sources and inline citations, most of the sources are in Russian which does mean that we can’t really fact check whether they are reliable or not (except if you speak Russian which I don’t). So I would advice to reference more English sources than the only one there is now (Vanity Fair : reliable but can also be a bit altered for storytelling purposes). Finally, the DYK hooks do manage to captivate attention even if they are quite long (I would say that the alt2 is the least catchy one). Overall, the article in itself is good but the sourcing is what needs to be worked on to be able to be good to go on the main page. -- 3678Agathe (talk) 10:45, 12 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Non-English sources are as a general matter allowed and only should be replaced by English-language sources if available and of equal or superior quality. Just because sources are in Russian doesn't mean they are bad or are impossible to verify. It's just hard to do so if you don't know Russian. Which is why I specifically asked for a person who speaks it so that we don't have the language barrier issue.
Also, I can't help the lack of English-language sources. This is partially a translation from Russian and is a topic that only concerns Russia, so naturally almost all sources will be in Russian. I have a gut feeling that the scam has been tried in many other countries as well, but even if it was, the "perfect storm" only happened in Russia AFAIK. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 17:09, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
An actual review required by a non-Assas.--Launchballer 18:48, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Szmenderowiecki and Launchballer: I was about to review this and still may (see below). I'm an experienced DYK reviewer and perfectly fluent in Russian. However, the comment I can't help the lack of English-language sources rubbed me the wrong way. Non-English language sources can be used if English language sources can't be found, but in this case there are plenty of English language sources. I did a very brief web search, and found:

So, I'm pinging Szmenderowiecki because there are plenty of English language sources, please use them; and Launchballer because this article has been nominated for DYK for a while, and he tends to disqualify such articles after some time. Launchballer, how long can I give Szmenderowiecki to fix this and re-review before you remove the DYK nom? If I have to, I'll review the article with Russian only sources because I can, and because I am not sure "creator insists there aren't English language sources, even though there are" is technically a DYK fail criterion, but I would really, really rather he fix this. --GRuban (talk) 23:14, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I copy this information, will return shortly. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 02:16, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
GRuban I will explain why I used the original Russian versions.
Izvestiya does not translate English articles in-house; instead, as you may note at the very bottom, it says that they use Yandex machine translation and presumably copypaste the output. Which is less than ideal, so I stuck with the original.
All other articles appeared way after I first wrote this article. The Vanity Fair piece was the only one I was aware of and it came out on the day I started translating the article.
I incorporated relevant English-language references where of equal or superior quality. Unfortunately, most of English-language sources that I saw did not really describe the case in detail, so I had to leave most of the sections untouched and at most supplemented the existing Russian-language sources with English ones. If there are any good sources I missed, let me know. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 01:16, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that. I guess I have to do the real review now, don't I? Can you at least link the translations to the Izvestia articles you used? I suggest in the ref itself, something like "[ref](cite Izvestia article lang=ru). Translated as (cite translated Izvestia article lang=en).[/ref]" Yes, they may be less than ideal, but they are the translations that the source itself provides, and for the 99% of our users that do not read Russian, much better than no translation at all. Perfect is the enemy of good --GRuban (talk) 17:39, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
And done so. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 06:36, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
 Doing... --GRuban (talk) 17:39, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Alexa Collins

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  • ... that Alexa Collins dropped out of university after three years in order to pursue her social media career?
Created by JuniperChill (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 18 past nominations.

JuniperChill (talk) 20:28, 13 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • I may not be able to fully address the concerns today. I have decided to add a citation to the end of the sentence for the hook per WP:DYKHFC (which may have been the reason why you tagged it). I have removed info about "not showering every day" (because some sources advise against doing that), but I do think the info regarding the fact she eats healthy should remain because I think that's what kept her body fit and healthy. This was my 2nd bio article btw. JuniperChill (talk) 17:28, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Actually, that cancelled honeymoon you mentioned was actually where her wedding was originally going to be. And not every sentence needs a citation. Also keep in mind that my editing activity has significantly dropped since Saturday due to the xmas holiday season. I should be back to normal editing from 5 Jan. JuniperChill (talk) 22:21, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for the response - we can pause this and come back to it in January. Even as a wedding venue, I still don't think its encyclopaedic content. Nor is the fact she bought a house. You mentioned earlier you're relatively knew to writing biographies, when I started writing them I also included material like this, but it was an important lesson for me that not everything needs to be included. Lajmmoore (talk) 09:51, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Coming back after a couple of weeks, I'm very busy IRL as I not only had to deal with the holiday season, but I also now have (real life) work to do. In the meantime, I removed content you suggested wasn't encyclopedic and its currently just under 1500 words. JuniperChill (talk) 19:03, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Chama (album)

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  • ... that for Chama, Soulfly returned to its roots in tribal-influenced metal?
  • ALT1: ... that physical copies of Chama come with a short story about the premise of the album? Source: Igor Cavalera, Chama CD booklet, Nuclear Blast Records, 2025
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  • Comment: I believe the first one is the stronger hook, as I can't any link online to directly cite the booklet in the album.
Converted from a redirect by Jax 0677 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Hurstbergn (talk) 20:21, 9 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

History of Iloilo City

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  • ... that Iloilo City used to be the second most important city in the Philippines, next to Manila, and was widely known as the "Queen City of the South," a nickname now mostly associated with Cebu City?
  • Source: Funtecha, Henry Florida (1992), "Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society", The Making of a "Queen City": The Case of Iloilo 1890s-1930s, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan, pp. 107–132
  • Reviewed:
Created by Merd123 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Merd123 (talk) 11:15, 7 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • @Merd123: New enough (mainspace Dec 5), long enough (34 KB), no apparent copyvio (Earwig flags mostly proper nouns). However, the hook fact is not acceptable as neither the article nor the source mention the fact about Cebu City. A new hook is needed. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 02:20, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thank you for the review. I understand the concern so I have revised the hook to the following, which is fully supported by the article and source:
      ALT1: ... that Iloilo City used to be the second most important city in the Philippines, next to Manila, and was widely known as the "Queen City of the South" during its economic peak from the 1890s to the 1930s? Merd123 (talk) 06:39, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Battle of Al-Asaba'a

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  • ... that just 2,000 defenders at Al‑Asaba'a faced 5,000-7,000 Italian troops, and their defeat marked the collapse of Libyan resistance against Italy’s colonial expansion?
  • Reviewed: Not required
Created by Hollowww (talk) and nominated by Agent VII (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Agent 007 (talk) 18:05, 6 December 2025 (UTC). [reply]

No review done, new needed. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:07, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Huang brothers

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Finnfrog99 (talk) 23:00, 7 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Emily Sutton

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  • ... that Emily Sutton illustrated a book where a boy wishes on a shooting star to be "un-alone" causing four Christmas ornaments to come to life?
  • Source: "Left alone by his preoccupied parents on Christmas Eve, Theo discovers four worn ornaments at the bottom of the decoration box: a tin soldier, an angel, a rocking horse, and a robin. Then a shooting star blazes by. “I wish to be un-alone,” Theo says aloud. Instantly, the decorations come to life. The rocking horse eats everything in sight (“pine needles, electrical cables, and the bottoms of curtains”), the robin yearns to sing, the angel to fly, and the tin soldier to find his love. Rundell (The Explorer) spins her tale with British civility (“Sorry,” Theo apologizes as the Christmas ornaments lay waste to his piano teacher’s sitting room, “Sorry!”), and the group’s exchanges provide smiles (“I have a feeling you’re supposed to brush your hair if you’re hoping to fall in love,” the soldier worries). With delicately brushed lines, detailed ink-and-watercolor vignettes by Sutton (A First Book of the Sea) supply just the right snow-covered, holly-sprigged atmosphere for a series of magical transformations—and some very real love." Publisher's Weekly
Created by Thriley (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 198 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 19:50, 9 December 2025 (UTC). [reply]

I'm sorry, but unless there is an image (which probably wouldn't work due to copyright concerns), I do not see how ALT1 as currently written is interesting. I imagine most of our international readers do not know what Castle Howard is or its significance, or why her designing a Christmas show there is a big deal. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:22, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it's not a good hook. Just trying to see what I can try to do for Christmas. Perhaps ALT2: that The Times named a book illustrated by Emily Sutton, in which a boy's wish causes four Christmas ornaments to come alive, as one of the best children's books of 2017? Thriley (talk) 19:46, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Thriley: We already have a surplus of Christmas-related DYK hooks, so there is a possibility this won't run on time. Is a non-Christmas related hook possible? If not, I could accept a variant of ALT2. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:51, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Narutolovehinata5: I see two open spots in the Christmas set, if there are other hooks to fill those, I’ll make a new hook that isn’t Christmas related. Thriley (talk) 05:08, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Thriley: I think those are already being reserved for other, more explicitly Christmas-related hooks, so again, no guarantee. I think it would be better to just propose a new hook to be on the safe side. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:22, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Norsa Torrazzo synagogue

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  • ... that the Norsa Torrazzo synagogue was manually reconstructed piece-by-piece in a different part of its town more than 2 centuries after its construction?
Created by EytanMelech (talk)

EytanMelech (talk) 21:17, 7 December 2025 (UTC) [reply]


General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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Overall: Sourcing needs work. In the History section, 2 and 2 halves sentences are unsources. In the Description section, there are no RSs (a travel booking planning site does not work). The article may also fall afoul of MOS:LINK with some particularly surprising Easter eggs. In particular, what are the links to German and Italian? Chorchapu (talk | edits) 04:19, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@EytanMelech: ping in case you didn't see this. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 22:04, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Tudor Arghezi

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Arghezi in 1960
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  • ... that Tudor Arghezi (pictured), "perhaps the strongest personality in all of 20th-century Romanian literature", claimed he could identify cancerous people by their "smell"?
  • Source: Eugen Simion, "Arghezi, Tudor", in Dicționarul general al literaturii române. A/B, p. 369. Bucharest: Museum of Romanian Literature, 2016. ISBN 978-973-167-381-3: El este, probabil, personalitatea cea mai puternică din literatura română a secolului al XX-lea. ("He is perhaps the strongest personality in all of 20th-century Romanian literature."). Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu, Amintiri deghizate, p. 26. Bucharest: Editura Nemira, 1994. ISBN 973-9144-49-7: "Tot învîrtindu-mă printre canceroși, am început să-i recunosc după miros, domnule Crohmălniceanu", mă asigură Arghezi. [...] "Profesorul Bagdasar susținea că trebuie să am un cancer. Eu îl miroseam la el, de cum intrasem în cabinet. A și murit peste puțin timp de asta. ("'I spent so much time around cancer patients that I came to recognize them by their smell, Mr Crohmălniceanu', Arghezi would assure me. [...] 'Professor Bagdasar was of the opinion that I myself must have gotten cancer. I, on the other hand, smelled cancer on him, as soon as I walked into his practice. And he up and died a short while after.'")
5x expanded by Dahn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 120 past nominations.

Dahn (talk) 09:33, 12 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: So, first, this is an amazing work, and I was surprised that it is being nominated as a 5x expansion and not a Wikipedia:Good Article. I would recommend going for that if not FA. The issues below are many, but each is small, I think you can fix most of them and I'll approve.

A few parts of the article are hard to understand (not technically a DYK failure) and possibly POV (this is a DYK failure). Other parts of the article use quoted statements, which need either unquoting or specific attribution. Examples:

  • "...his teachers included historian Alexandru Odobescu, who was "one of the most beautiful things I ever gazed upon"." What is this trying to say? That Arghezi was romantically attracted to Odobescu? That wold be very controversial, possibly POV. That A admired O's teaching, emulated his style, what? Odobescu is never mentioned again in the article, after such a powerful yet mystifying quote.
  • An only slightly less mystifying quote: "Wherever Arghezi decides to be, bankruptcy soon follows." What is this referring to? I would expect either the preceding or the surrounding paragraphs to describe some bankruptcies Arghezi was involved in, but I don't see any.
  • Finally appearing in May 1927, the volume received "unusual praise from a majority of the critics",[113] marking his "reception as a great poet".[114] - these read like scare quotes. Either we are taking responsibility for these opinion statements, in which case we can remove the quotes, or we are possibly disagreeing with them, in which case we need to say who says so. Notice that we don't use quotes for similar other opinion statements like this throughout, starting with the very first sentence, "widely considered one of his country's greatest poets".
  • Similarly "After pronged hesitation", "launched modern journalism in our country", "rather sullen"
    • Presumably the first is meant to be "After prolonged hesitation"? Or is the intention to convey that Lovinescu was hesitating due to being gored by an impala?
  • "("The Prince") is most certainly one of Arghezi's first monarchist political poems" - Not quite scare quotes, but why "most certainly"? Whom are we arguing against? If we need to argue against someone, we should be specific whom.
  • "Also then, he relaunched Bilete, specifically to mount the counterattack. In one of its issues, he provided a belated response to Crainic, casually revealed as a sycophant." - what? Crainic is last mentioned many, many paragraphs and 7 years above; is that really what Arghezi was responding to, and what does "casually revealed as a sycophant" even mean? Casually how? Sycophant of whom, in what way? Was Bilete really launched to respond to 7 year old attacks?
  • "It was embarrassingly dedicated to an industrialist, Nicolae Malaxa," Embarrassingly? We are saying in Wikipedia's voice that someone should be embarrassed? Who, Arghezi, Malaxa, the reader? More importantly, this doesn't seem a proper use of Wikipedia's voice.
  • "He also believed that his lingering disease was only by a secret injection from a newcomer, Dumitru Grigoriu-Argeș," - he believed his disease was caused by an injection?
  • "an inflammatory piece called Voinicul ("Big Fella") resulted in his detainment for a 24-hour period.[187] Baroane ("Thou Baron"), carried by Informația Zilei of 30 September 1943, was Arghezi's thinly veiled attack on the German ambassador, Manfred von Killinger, and said to have been received with "immense satisfaction" by the general public" - in what way inflammatory? in what way an attack? I mean, I understand just from reading this far that Arghezi attacked everyone and anyone, but in what way? Was he anti-German in general now, after having been pro-German for most of his life, or didn't like something about Killinger specifically? In what way were these two pieces attacks?
  • "according to Bogdan, all Arghezis were fully supportive of the "Anglo-Americans"" - what does "all Arghezis" mean? Other family members? Their politics haven't been mentioned in the article before this point, it's a surprise that they were even active in politics. If they were, we should say that, and how. Or does this refer to all pieces written by our Arghezi?
  • "rejected by its still-conservative majority, who viewed him as a pornographer" - er - what? I don't see anything above this in the article that says he wrote about sex. Did he? Is this a mistranslation or some new use of "pornographer"?
  • had "broken out of what we believed was his path in life" - what does this mean?
  • "the process of recovering links with the interwar literary tradition",[257] evidencing de-Stalinization, or "the fizzling out of [communism's] fundamentalist stage". More scare quotes. If we believe that most experts would agree with this, we should rephrase and use Wikipedia'svoice. If we are in doubt we should say who says this, and possibly who disagrees and why.

Unrelated issues to POV or quotes still needing fixing:

  • "Nae was annoyed when he caught glimpse of Ion at a Symbolist coffeehouse, " the last mention of "Ion" was "influential dramatist Ion Luca Caragiale," and yet I think this Ion refers to Arghezi?
  • Similarly, "As "Iosif", young Theodorescu ingratiated himself " the same paragraph starts by referring to him as Arghezi. We should make up our minds. I recommend going through the article for Theodorescu and changing what we call him to Arghezi throughout.
  • Similarly I see a few "Arghezi Sr"s, but never any "Arghezi Jr"s, I think just "Arghezi" is going to be unambiguous in most if not all of these
  • "tuition funds from his Nae Theodorescu" - either "his father" or "Nae Theodorescu", not "his Nae Theodorescu"
  • "Eliazar had left the family home, breaking of almost all contact" - should be "breaking off"
  • poet Octavian Goga, who was leader of the led the National Agrarian Party - Department of Redundancy Department
  • "he would continuously write on anti-communist texts " - remove "on"
  • "chocked-up" - change to choked-up GRuban (talk) 21:35, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you for the review. Fuller reply pending, but please let me note three things for now: 1) the article had (probably still has) a number of obvious typos, which can be fixed directly -- feel free to intervene in the actual text, which is surely easier than bringing them up here, one by one; 2) what you deem "scare-quotes" are often direct quotes from Arghezi or other period witnesses, with specified or implied attribution, which provide their exact statements, sometimes (if not always) stronger than a summary -- there is no intent of "fighting" with other sources, no implicit wink that Arghezi had this and that in mind when he said this and that -- just plain rendition of what was actually said; the other quotes are from critics and literary historians, summarizing authoritative opinions that either claim to reflect a larger consensus or interpretations that are themselves noteworthy, in a manner that is always stronger (and more advised by wikipedia) than me saying "Arghezi really was great at writing" or "Arghezi's novels were not really novels"; 3) much of the above strikes me as nitpicking, though constructive even as such. I will return with a reply and will incorporate suggestions later today. Dahn (talk) 08:51, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • @GRuban: I am numbering the replies for easier reading.
  • 1) Your reading of the Arghezi-Odobescu quote hinges on the aforementioned assumption about quotes being "scare quotes" -- please note that very few quotes in general are "scare quotes", and none in this article; perhaps I can convince you not to work with that assumption. As for the quote itself: the source includes this as Arghezi's direct recollection of school (one of the few times he actually spoke about it), and may indicate an early literary influence; I generally provide such detail simply because it seems noteworthy, rather than the bland "he was probably Odobescu's student". I don't assume that it refers to any kind of physical attraction (not least of all, because Arghezi was not just straight, but repulsed by the homosexuals he met in prison), but simply to deep admiration. I do not see a problem in how that portion of the text is written, though I could see it being construed as a problematic text if (and only if) the quote is read as a "scare quote".
  • 2) That is a clearly attributed opinion, which follows an observation about Arghezi getting in too deep with his love of the Central Powers. I don't imagine it is unclear what kind of bankruptcy came with that sort of commitment, but anyone mystified by this can read on, and will come across Arghezi's time at Văcărești. Pandrea builds a general observation, amounting to: it was not just incidental that Arghezi would be this imprudent in choosing sides. (Similar observations were made by others, quoted at various points in the article.)
  • 3) Same as 1). These are direct quotes from critics and experts, and quoting them does not imply disagreeing with them (nor necessarily agreeing), but rather giving the reader the verbatim verdicts that claim to summarize a larger body of opinion. The attribution can be picked up in the footnote, and it would burden the text to add "according to X and Y" for such obvious context.
  • 4) Typo, as I'm sure you had figured out. (I revamped the whole text, and in the process misspelled some words. I think I deserve some slack. Though the effect is indeed funny, as is the image of Arghezi being "chocked-up" by Count Chockula.)
  • 5) "Most certainly" is used because the opinion of the source used (again: attribution in the footnote) clearly identifies this piece as the start of Arghezi's monarchism. Such claims cannot be fully verified, but they're the closest we get to a chronology.
  • 6) Rephrased, though I think it was clear that this was about a counterattack by Iorga and other right-wingers; he also answered to Crainic while he was at it.
  • 7) Two sources refer to it being a ridiculous aspect of his career. But fine -- rephrased.
  • 8) Missing word -- this refers to it being cured. Fixed, thanks for noticing.
  • 9) Added more detail on why he challenged Killinger -- you're right, it should have been mentioned. However: the paragraphs before that mention Arghezi's mounting conflicts with the Antonescu regime; the paragraphs after mention that some members of Antonescu's regime probably instructed him to attack Killinger. So it is incorrect to suggest that we provide no context -- though I can see how reading through the lengthy account can become taxing, and I thank you for your great patience. (Also note: Arghezi's politics are detailed in the section on "ideology", where you can see more about how his ideas evolved, including when it came to Germany and Nazism. Baroane's text is also mentioned again in the "Arghezian prose" subsection of "Literary work". The readers can pick up more from there.) I could not locate exact detail on what Voinicul was about, but yes, it was clearly something that riled up the Antonescus.
  • 10) Rephrased to a clearer indication that it was about his Romanian children (i. e. not Eli Lotar). This is not about their political activity, but about their opinions as citizens; there is no earlier record of these, since they were teenagers. However, the son went to prison shortly after because of a political activity.
  • 11) The fact of his works being regarded as obscene, not just annoying, by the cultural conservatives, is in fact mentioned at length, over and over again. The exact claim that they were "pornographic" was made by Sfarmă-Piatră, which you can read in the section titled "Carlist protegé". This technically contradicts your claim: "I don't see anything above this in the article that says he wrote about sex". (The "Literary work" section, which is located below in the text, clarifies exactly what aspects were regarded as obscene or pornographic, though not in fact erotic.)
  • 12) It is a verbatim rendition, but I have paraphrased it to clarify what Beniuc meant by that.
  • 13) As previous: it is always best to render such wide-ranging assessments with direct quotes. They're also fun: the wording they use is much less drab than wikivoice, and offers some lexical variety while capturing the same nuance. Dahn (talk) 19:20, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • The unrelated issues:
  • 14) Fixed.
  • 15) This is not about "making up our minds", it as about making the text less monotonous. I disagree that we should change all such mentions to "Arghezi", as the text would be maddening to read through with such repetition. It is precisely why I chose to alternate.
  • 16) By that point in the text, we are introduced to the two Arghezi Jrs, who are generally referred to by their given names. In fact, "Arghezi Sr" is always used immediately after one of the other two Arghezis is mentioned. It clearly reduces confusion in that context.
  • 17) Fixed.
  • 18) Fixed.
  • 19) Fixed.
  • 20) Fixed. Dahn (talk) 00:19, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the response and the places you did fix, but I think I can now identify what troubles me about the places you did not fix. The article reads like we are not only trying to write about a poet, but are trying to emulate one, between the putting in elegant variation of the subject's name to the "fun" quotes that do not carry their weight in actually conveying meaning. That is not WP:NPOV, and being NPOV is a DYK requirement. If you can write entertaining text without obscuring meaning, great, do so. But here, you are obscuring. I am not claiming literary mastery but I do know how to read as well as the next person; if I find something difficult to read, I am not the exception. The quote about his instructor being beautiful is not clear; admiring someone's teaching style is not the most common usage of calling someone beautiful. The quote about bankruptcy is not clear; being sent to prison is not the most common meaning of bankruptcy. The quote about him being a pornographer is similarly not clear. The fact that he associated with poets and politicians does not mean we need to describe him in poetry and hyperbole by quoting them directly. I sympathize with you about having a dry encyclopedic voice sometimes being boring, but, it turns out, we are, in fact, an encyclopedia. In addition, in this case, however, there is no need to over-egg the pudding the way you do here, the man had a dramatic life, between being a great poet, to continuous quarrels with other poets and literary figures, to politics and multiple prison sentences. Describing just the facts of his life without embellishment will not be boring, trust me. And even if you do not so trust me, it is a requirement. --GRuban (talk) 14:20, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Let me do chapter and verse. WP:NPOV: WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV "Biased statements of opinion can be presented only with in-text attribution." That goes to what I referred to as the "scare quotes", throughout (if you want to question them being called "scare quotes", I'll accept that, and will accept them being whatever you like, perhaps "quotes without obvious in-text attribution"). It is not sufficient to write "one of the most beautiful love poems of the interwar", and the attribution can be picked up in the footnote, the attribution needs to be in-text. We need to write 'Dr. Heimlich Fahrvergnügen called it "one of the most beautiful love poems of the interwar"[ref]'. I agree that it would burden the text to add "according to X and Y" so I recommend reducing the use of such quotes to only those that are strictly necessary, but that will be your choice as writer. Not attributing in-text, however, is not an option, per WP:NPOV. --GRuban (talk) 16:05, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Don't get the part about why "most certainly" is used. Because that's clearly the opinion of the source? Well, yeah, I should hope so, I hope we're accurately stating the opinions of all the sources we're using for every sentence in the article, that doesn't mean we add "most certainly" to every other sentence either. Or is this a quote of the source without the quotation marks? --GRuban (talk) 16:41, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
The "elegant variation" isn't an NPOV violation as such though the line in our article elegant variation says "gratuitous synonyms" are called "povs", an acronym of "popular orange vegetables"—a phrase that was removed from the draft of an article about carrots , it's just confusing writing, and DYK isn't required to have good writing. However I would hope you would want the reader not to be confused? For demonstrating that it is confusing, I can quote this paragraph: After World War II had broken out in 1939, Arghezi was somewhat critical of the FRN. In a discussion with Cristian Sârbu and other young poets of the Adonis circle, he claimed to have mocked the series of army mobilizations by a still-neutral Romania, since he viewed the military commanders as expanding their opportunity for graft. This resulted in his being visited by a general, who demanded that he present proof of his claims; Arghezi obliged him by printing a fake classified ad for an overpriced villa, and receiving offers to buy from a long list of sub-officers.[22] In 1940, which also witnessed Baruțu's own beginnings as a typographer[22] and writer,[135] Arghezi Sr was a prominent participant in Carol's personality cult, with encomia that spoke of his having descended from the skies to rescue his people.[136] That year, his entire activity as a journalist only covered three articles, all of which were about Carol.[108] The FRN regime crumbled soon after it had enraged Romanians, Arghezi included, by agreeing to withdraw its administration from Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, which were then annexed by the Soviet Union.[137] Is it really obvious that the "Arghezi Sr" in sentence 4 is the same person as the "Arghezi" in three other places in the paragraph? I'd argue it is not. Yes, technically "Barutu" in that sentence is "Barutu Arghezi", but he isn't referred to as "Barutu Arghezi" anywhere earlier in the whole article, and since Arghezi wasn't even Arghezi's legal name until 1956, the reader should be forgiven for not realizing Barutu (born 1925) also assumed that name. In fact, now that I think about it I would strongly recommend stating somewhere that Barutu assumed that name (in honor of his father, perhaps?) and when. --GRuban (talk) 16:55, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
As patently absurd, myopic, time-consuming and indifferent to how countless articles have been written, I will add in-text attribution to every such statement in my next edits, no matter how much it would burden the text. I will indeed take suggestions on what quotes are needed, but only from someone who makes a good-faith effort to familiarize themselves with the literature that I had to go over before making choices on what quotes summarize which position. Dahn (talk) 17:02, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Please do not send me on wild goose chases for who assumed what name and when. Learn to accept that referring to Arghezi as Arghezi Sr in those paragraphs is just as good a choice as your suggestion -- and thank you for at least noticing why it was used. (As a side note: the sources casually refer to all of them as Arghezis long before the 1956 legalization.) Dahn (talk) 17:06, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Whoah. Did I mention how much I was impressed by your article? I think I started the review with that. I can understand you are unhappy with even the smallest criticism, but please realize these are small criticisms, compared to the impressive work you have already done, and please don't think I'm attacking either it or you. --GRuban (talk) 17:10, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I think I have incorporated much of what has been suggested, including things that are not DYK requirements, in my edits, so I don't see where you would assume I do not take well to criticism. I would however like you to differentiate between stylistic preferences (including the notions you found confusing, which is not an objective standard), and stuff that is actually required by DYK. Dahn (talk) 17:15, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't think I am attacking you. That is not the intent. I am not stating you do not take well to criticism, I am, instead saying that your unhappiness is understandable. I am very impressed by your work, and I am glad to have you as a fellow Wikipedian. --GRuban (talk) 17:25, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
From what I can read of the article, Arghezi was a great writer, but also a prickly and generally unpleasant human. Hopefully I can succeed to emulate only one of those two qualities. --GRuban (talk) 17:28, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Poecilia koperi, Poecilia wandae

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  • ... that the molly species Poecilia koperi and P. wandae are not completely genetically separate, probably because they sometimes interbreed where their ranges overlap?
  • Source: "We found evidence for incomplete lineage sorting of alleles of the slightly older P. koperi and P. wandae. On the other hand, contemporary hybridization-mediated gene introgression between P. koperi and P. wandae along the contact zone around Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, may also be resulting in us recovering these taxa as paraphyletic."
Created by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 268 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 01:11, 9 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@Surtsicna: Long enough, new enough. Both QPQs are done and Earwig is nice and quiet. Big dislike on the single-sentence lead paragraphs but that's not a DYK issue. The problem you have is that I don't see how any of the hooks meet WP:DYKINT.--Launchballer 02:55, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I find each of them vastly more interesting than what we eventually landed on at Template:Did you know nominations/Baltimore classification, Launchballer. Surtsicna (talk) 09:36, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The problem you have is that these hooks rely on knowing what a molly species is or that it's unusual for genetic lines to blur. I certainly didn't.--Launchballer 18:45, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Surtsicna and Launchballer: The hooks as currently written are rather specialist in nature and thus may not be easily understandable to a layperson (I can understand the hooks, but I can imagine most readers may not). There might still be some promise in the idea behind the hook, the issue is how to word it. Looking at the articles, the best idea I can think of might be a hook about their paraphyletic relationship; however, I'm not sure how to word that idea using layperson-friendly terms. If that angle doesn't work out, regrettably I would recommend marking this for closure as neither article has other hooky material. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:31, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ALT3: that past hybridization between the small fish Poecilia koperi and P. wandae may have left their evolutionary histories intertwined?
This is as far as I can simplify paraphyly without ensuring a ping at WP:ERRORS, @Narutolovehinata5 and Launchballer:. Surtsicna (talk) 14:12, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lozi Kingdom

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  • Source: TWL link, source doesn't use the term "non-sovereign monarchy", lmk if that's a problem
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Created by Kowal2701 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

I'm pretty sure Lozi secessionism has technically been expanded by 5 times? Kowal2701 (talk) 23:00, 8 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Launchballer, you're right, sorry I'd forgotten how much I removed. I'll remove Lozi secessionism from this and de-bold it Kowal2701 (talk) 23:25, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mass graves associated with the Sri Lankan Civil War

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

ShoBDin (talk) 14:55, 8 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • This is my first review, so a second opinion would be appreciated, thanks.
General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: None required.

Overall: Earwig gives 10% (which is good), I spot-checked references 5, 17, and 8 (one instance each) on this revision. 5 does not support Throughout the conflicts, there were many reports of killings, secret detention centers, and military-controlled zones where civilians were last seen. Many of these places eventually later suspected of being site of mass grave. 17 says there were 335 individuals' remains found, not 346. 8 doesn't mention Rajapaska or the IPKF. Unless I'm being stupid, it's concerning that none of the ones I spot-checked supported the whole text. I'm not sure whether this ought to be a quickfail, but I'm willing to give you a chance to go through the article and tighten up the sourcing. Regarding the hook, I like the original one, though I'd change the wording to ...that up to the present-day archaeologists... Kowal2701 (talk) 22:48, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's been blocked. I don't see that we need to spend any more time on this.--Launchballer 19:18, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on December 9

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Andradjati

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  • ... that Andradjati spent most of his time in the Changi Airport during his tenure as Indonesia's deputy ambassador to Singapore? Source: "Menghabiskan Waktu Di Bandara Changi" [Spending Time at Changi Airport]. Tabloid Diplomasi. June 22, 2011. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2025. Diplomat yang selalu berupaya menyediakan waktu untuk jogging dan aerobic ini juga mempunyai pengalaman unik ketika penempatan di Singapura, dimana sebagian besar waktunya dihabiskan di bandara Changi. "The diplomat, who always tries to make time for jogging and aerobics, also had a unique experience during his deployment in Singapore, where most of his time was spent at Changi Airport."
Created by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 113 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 04:13, 10 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]


Articles created/expanded on December 10

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Video about production of Mykhailo Dobkin's campaign ad

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Created by Szmenderowiecki (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 02:27, 10 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

"Video about the production of [etc]" would be a good option. Dahn (talk) 14:48, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Moved as suggested. DYK rules advise not to move the template page. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 21:43, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on December 11

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Robert J. Van de Graaff

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  • Source: [The Van de Graaff brothers] went to UA, where all the boys would play football. Adrian and Hargrove earned a position on the Alabama Crimson Tide’s varsity football team in 1910 and William joined them in 1912. Sports articles celebrated their achievements, making the Van de Graaff name famous throughout the South...

...In the fall of 1917, during his senior year, while playing quarterback, [Robert Van de Graaff's] femur was broken and his back severely injured (see Fig. 1). The rest of his senior year he was laid up in the mansion recuperating and reading about engines to pass the time. He never graduated from high school.

...However, Robert enrolled at the University of Alabama in the fall of 1918, remaining on crutches for much of his freshman year and lamenting to his physics professor that he really wished to excel at football. Soon, Adrian and Hargrove returned from the war unharmed and highly decorated. They assisted in coaching UA’s football team, “the Scrubs,” known today as the “B” team. Robert played for the Scrubs as left end on a limited game schedule that included Georgia Tech and Mississippi A&M. After his season as a Scrub player, Robert came to the realization he was not destined to become a football star. One day a young woman asked him how football was going. He replied, “It’s not my game.” She gave him a cynical look and asked, “Well, Robert, what IS your game?” He couldn’t answer and later recalled this to be a very depressing moment.

His increased interest in engineering dates from about that time. In February of 1921, Robert petitioned with 11 other students to become charter members of the UA engineering fraternity Theta Tau. During the coming year, Robert became very studious and made the honor roll for the first time. All the brothers had nicknames, and Robert’s, “Tee,” which stayed with him for all his life, derived from his habit of drinking tea to stay alert while studying all night before exam.

Graham, M. Talmage; Young, James (November 2004). "Robert Jemison "Tee" Van de Graaff: From Football Fields to Electric Fields". The Physics Teacher. 42 (8): 463–467. doi:10.1119/1.1814319.
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    • Comment: My largest expansion is a few days past the 7-day rule. I've been working on further sections of the Van de Graaff article over the past week and didn't want to nominate before giving his career a full treatment
5x expanded by Nickknack00 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Nickknack00 (talk) 16:20, 19 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

United States seizure of the oil tanker Skipper

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Created by PizzaKing13 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 28 past nominations.

PizzaKing13 (¡Hablame!) 🍕👑 08:21, 11 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Article is new enough and the claim is backed up by an RS. Normally I would approve ALT0, but given that this is an WP:AMPOL topic, I'd rather make sure it doesn't run afoul of any relevant guidelines before giving it the go-ahead. I'm asking for someone with experience in this to provide input before a decision is made. Gommeh 📖   🎮 12:59, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on December 12

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Meiō incident

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  • Source: [12] 赤松・大內所存ハ、葉室殿事近日一向每事申沙汰以外次第也、此躰事可訴訟申旨細川申間、同心旨申了、奉背公方剩新君於可定申事、姿々不及覺悟旨申云々、就其和與事及其沙汰歟 (The intentions of Akamatsu [Masanori] and Ōuchi [Yoshioki], which were in recent days dependent on the affairs of Hamuro residence, aimed to bring the matter to Hosokawa [Masamoto], having the same thoughts, of the possibility of resolving the betrayal [of the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshitane] by leaving the kubō [in power] with a new lord [Ashikaga Yoshizumi]; but as these goals were unrealized, it is doubtful that any reconciliation of this [affair] will happen.)
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  • Comment: I linked the source to commons because that's the only place I can actually find the text online. The translation is rough, but I'm pretty sure it's right. Still, probably should be double-checked.
Moved to mainspace by TheInevitables (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Ships & Space(Edits) 01:54, 17 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • This isn't a review, but while I think there's a core of a good hook here, as currently written it's hard to follow or understand for readers who are unfamiliar with Japanese history. Could you try rewriting the hook to make it more accessible? For example, maybe something like:
ALT0a ... that it was suggested that the shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane should adopt his usurper to resolve the Meiō incident?
Another possibility could be a different hook fact entirely. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:35, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Only just realized that I didn't specify that Yoshitane was shogun, nor explain anything about the Meiō incident itself. Thanks for pointing that out. So:
ALT1a ... that, after Ashikaga Yoshitane was deposed in the Meiō incident, it was suggested that he adopt his usurper Ashikaga Yoshizumi?
would probably work a lot better. Alternatively, the character limit is quite undershot, so:
ALT1b ... that, after Ashikaga Yoshitane was deposed in the Meiō incident, Ōuchi Yoshioki suggested that he adopt his usurper Ashikaga Yoshizumi?
should also work (according to my count, at least) if the mention of Ōuchi Yoshioki is to be kept. The only thing to note is that Yoshioki's English-language article is pretty bad, only citing Wikipedia in Japanese – translation of Ōuchi Yoshioki「大内義興」page with elements from related links at the end, and while I do hope to go through it and add references (or perhaps more accurately, translate it again but also include the references), I don't really know when I'll start nor how long I'll take, so it might get deleted before I'm finished. Ships & Space(Edits) 01:47, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Dilution policies of the British Ministry of Munitions (1915–1918)

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  • ... that the British Ministry of Munitions used wartime "dilution" schemes to replace skilled male engineers with women and unskilled men in munitions factories during the First World War?
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Created by 3678Agathe (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

3678Agathe (talk) 11:02, 12 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Articles created/expanded on December 13

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Lionel Messi's 2025 India Tour

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

❯❯❯ Raydann(Talk) 12:13, 15 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Article is new enough, long enough, and QPQ is done. Earwig reports copyvio unlikely. Hook is interesting and sourced (prefer original hook here, ALT1's extra detail isn't that relevant). No images so no image problems.
  • However, the "orphan" cleanup tag needs to be resolved to be presentable. This could well be done with just a single article linking (Lionel Messi himself? Something else?). Also, more subjectively... both this article and the spin-off 2025 Kolkata Messi 'GOAT' event incident article (which I'm not sure should even be a separate article at all - maybe merge it?) are bizarrely vague about what exactly the incident was. The lead says "crowd unrest and organizational issues" which... could mean anything. Can we be more specific about the incident and why it was bad? Because crowds are unruly all the time, and "organization" can mean anything from funding sources being bad to the lavatories not having supplies. These two concerns should hopefully be pretty easy to fix, though. Nice work. SnowFire (talk) 04:58, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How To Survive from Nine To Five, Between the Covers (book)

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Created by Lajmmoore (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 158 past nominations.

Lajmmoore (talk) 13:09, 14 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@Lajmmoore:Long enough, new enough. QPQs are both done and Earwig has no valid complaints. No reason why either might deserve a maintenance template. "Pathological jealousy" is unattributed in the hook, but I would suggest swapping it out for something else; my suggestion is strip clubs.--Launchballer 13:39, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1... that author Jilly Cooper drew on her experience of 27 office jobs to write How To Survive from Nine To Five, and her visit to a strip club in Between the Covers?
Thanks Launchballer Lajmmoore (talk) 14:42, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Lajmmoore: Just wondering: I thought that, per previous discussions, these Jilly Cooper multinom hooks were going to avoid mentioning her by name unless absolutely necessary? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:59, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Can do! How about:
ALT2... that a British writer drew on her experience of 27 office jobs to write How To Survive from Nine To Five, and her visit to a strip club in Between the Covers? Lajmmoore (talk) 23:21, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
How about ALT2a: ... that the writer of How To Survive from Nine To Five and Between the Covers was respectively inspired by her 27 office jobs and her visit to a strip club?--Launchballer 02:32, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Lajmmoore. The Jolly Super nomination also falls under this concern. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:45, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Narutolovehinata5 I've altered that one too. I did just submit a nomination now her biography is GA which does mention her by name Lajmmoore (talk) 19:49, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Manuel Antonio Ruíz de la Rosa

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  • Source: "In a second incident, San Juan Bautista School in Santiago banned Brewster from its property. Officials posted at least three signs outside the school which read, “The entrance of the US Ambassador of the United States is not permitted in this institute.” They have since been defaced by LGBT activists and were then removed for Holy Week. The school’s director, Fr. Manuel Ruiz, defended the signs,reported Dominican Today. Ruiz told a radio interviewer he had the right to put up signs on private property and that “[Brewster’s] presence and of his partner in a school isn’t innocent."

https://www.newwaysministry.org/2016/03/30/gay-ambassador-faces-harsh-letter-from-bishopcardinal-and-ban-from-catholic-school/

"Pope Leon XIV named Manuel Antonio Ruiz de la Rosa as the first bishop for the diocese."

https://dr1.com/news/2025/11/13/major-changes-happening-in-the-dominican-roman-catholic-church/
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Created by Nmarshall25 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Nmarshall25 (talk) 20:19, 13 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • New, long enough, no QPQ required; no copyvios either. Two concerns: 1) the source does not say that he protested, but rather that he endorsed the protest; 2) New Ways Ministry is an advocacy group, so I have to wonder if they can be used for reporting facts and statements by those their agenda conflicts with. Dahn (talk) 19:41, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on December 14

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Cyclone Hudhud

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

HurricaneZetaC 02:58, 14 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

ALT4: ... that Cyclone Hudhud destroyed 70% of the trees in Visakhapatnam? Source: Dileep, P. S. (14 October 2014). "Cyclone Hudhud: Visakhapatnam Stripped of 70 Percent of Green Cover". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
ALT5: ... that Cyclone Hudhud caused a 60% decrease in the population of birds in Visakhapatnam? Source: Gilai, Harish (26 April 2015). "60 Per Cent Decline in Bird Species in Vizag Post-Hudhud". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
[13] might also be of interest, but it also seems trivial enough to not include in the article. Additionally, [14] is mostly a prediction of what will happen, and I found but haven't looked into [15]. HurricaneZetaC 00:57, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Suit & Tie

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Improved to Good Article status by RedShellMomentum (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 355 past nominations.

Launchballer 23:20, 14 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

We can do. I didn't do that initially because I prefer not to give any more information than I have to; I'm even considering getting rid of the year. (We ran 627 hooks in January 2013 including "... that the release of "Suit & Tie", Justin Timberlake's first solo single in six years, was used to tie in with the re-launch of Myspace?", and that wasn't one of the 73 that broke 5,000 views.) My suggestion is ALT0c: ... that a comeback single by Justin Timberlake was promoted by relaunching what used to be the world's biggest social media network?--Launchballer 14:10, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Titan Fleischmann

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Created by JTtheOG (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

JTtheOG (talk) 19:34, 20 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • @JTtheOG: New enough and long enough. QPQ present. Hook fact is in article and checks out. I think the wording of the hook is okay, personally. I'm not 100% comfortable with "offensive line that allowed just three sacks" from the article as being a direct rip, but I also don't know if there's another good way to say it and convey to the reader that three sacks in a season is not a lot. I want to hear from you first before I approve. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 03:58, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mykhailo Starytsky

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  • ... that Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Starytsky financed his own theatre with proceedings from the sale of a rusk factory?
  • Source: У 1883 році Михайло Старицький продав власний маєток на Поділлі та сухарний завод, будинок і всі кошти – 60 тисяч вклав у створення власного театру, основою якого стала трупа Ашкаренка. [In 1883 Mykhailo Starytsky sold his own manor in Podilla and the rusk factory, as well as his house, and invested all money - 60 thousand [rubles] into the creation of his own theatre on the base of Ashkarenko's troupe] https://tyzhden.ua/mykhajlo-starytskyj-za-lashtunkamy-teatralnoi-spravy/
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5x expanded by Skoropadsky (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Skoropadsky (talk) 12:11, 19 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Review as follows: Article is well written, with some awkward sentences that could be attributed to linguistic differences during the translation process (e.g. first sentence within the second paragraph of the "Biography" section, "cousine" in the Personal life section). Still presentable for me but needs some copywriting. Also I didn't found the substance of the hook being mentioned in the article, as the only mention that I found on the rusk factory: During the Russo-Turkish War Starytsky acquired a rusk factory and profited from supplying Russian troops, but failed to achieve much success in that business. didn't imply either explicitly or implicitly the notion that the rusk factory was being used to finance the theater. Kindly clarify these issues please, thank you! Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 02:39, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

City Stadium (Green Bay)

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Improved to Good Article status by Gonzo fan2007 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 74 past nominations.

« Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:37, 16 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article promoted to GA on December 15 and nominated shortly thereafter, so newness is satisfied. Article meets length requirements and is sourced throughout. Earwig indicates a 9.1% similarity, though most of the flags seem to be in reference to proper nouns. The hook is properly cited and QPQ has been satisfied. My only concern is that the hook itself does not seem to be about the subject at hand and feels like it would be more suitable as a DYK hook about either the Milwaukee venue or the team itself. Citing the DYK guidelines: "The boldlinked article should generally be the main or at least a major factor in the hook; avoid hooks that are primarily about an incident to which the subject is only tangentially related." Can you offer an ALT-hook that is more topic-specific? Please feel free to ping me. Regards, JJonahJackalope (talk) 22:46, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1: ... that although City Stadium was originally built for high school football, it also served as the home field of the Green Bay Packers from 1925 to 1956? JJonahJackalope. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 22:34, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gonzo fan2007:, I have some issues with this hook as well. For starters, the article says the following regarding the creation of the stadium: "The stadium was developed for use by Green East High School and Green Bay West High School, but in reality the stadium was built to support the Packers." This seems to contradict what you're saying here, which is that it was "originally" built for high school. Additionally, neither your alt hook here nor the sentence I just cited appear to have a proper reference. If I can make a suggestion, you could say something about how the Packers shared a stadium with a high school team, with a proper citation attached to it. Regards, JJonahJackalope (talk) 01:59, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
JJonahJackalope ALT2: ... that from 1925 to 1956 the Green Bay Packers shared City Stadium with a local high school football team? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 16:09, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gonzo fan2007:, this hook is more interesting, but there is again the issue of citing. I see no citations in the article to corroborate that 1925 was the Packers' first season at the stadium, nor that 1956 was their last season. The only place in the article where these dates are mentioned is in the lead, which lacks any references. -JJonahJackalope (talk) 18:25, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
JJonahJackalope my bad, I have added those to the body, supported by this source. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 19:08, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gonzo fan2007: I just checked the source you posted here and while it does confirm that the stadium was used by the Packers from 1925 to 1956, it doesn't mention that they shared the stadium with a high school team. Towards the end, the source says that the stadium was "Located behind East High School" and that "EHS football team still uses downsized facility". Do you have a source that explicitly states that the high school team utilized the field at the same time that the Packers did? -JJonahJackalope (talk) 00:16, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
JJonahJackalope, Packers Heritage Trail: The Town, The Team, The Fans From Lambeau to Lombardi talks about this (the source for the statement that the field was built for high school use). I'm in the office today, so I don't have access to my book, but this evening or tomorrow I can find the exact quote for you. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:15, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
JJonahJackalope, my apologies for the delay. The quote from the book says Technically, the school board built the stadium for the East and West high school teams, and the Packers were merely given permission to use it on Sundays. In reality, Green Bay Mayor Wenzel Weisner used his political clout to build is as a favor to the Packers. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:55, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dawn Hope

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Improved to Good Article status by DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 40 past nominations.

DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 04:43, 16 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5: How about:

@DaniloDaysOfOurLives: I'm afraid that doesn't work either, not just because it is a Hollyoaks namedrop hook (I see you're a big fan of that series), but also because it seems to violate WP:DYKMAJOR in that it's more about that specific Hollyoaks episode, or even Hollyoaks itself, than herself. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:00, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Whilst I am a fan of the series, the reasons most of the hooks include the show is because that has the most interesting information regarding it. Can't ALT5 just remove "Hollyoaks"?DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:02, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DaniloDaysOfOurLives: The more pressing issue with ALT5 ALT6 is that it seems to be more about the episode itself and not about Hope herself. While I did mention it being a Hollyoaks episode, it wasn't the main concern. Even if we were to go with ALT5 ALT6, I'm not sure how a work around that angle would work without namedropping the show. Having said that, I am open to a variant of ALT5 ALT6 if there is really nothing else that's suitable, as I do think the hook fact is interesting. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:05, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I think we have our wires crossed - I meant ALT5, not 6. But I am happy with either.DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:10, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@DaniloDaysOfOurLives: Sorry about that! Yes, I was indeed referring to ALT6 (I have adjusted my response accordingly). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:14, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on December 16

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Better in Denim

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  • ... that Katseye's Gap ad received more views in its first three days of release than all four previous Gap ads combined?
  • ALT1: ... that Katseye's Gap ad is considered by Gap's CEO to be "one of the brand's most successful campaigns to date"?
Created by Phibeatrice (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Phibeatrice (talk) 14:07, 21 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: No - ?
  • Other problems: No - ?
QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Phibeatrice: Overall the article appears fine and well-sourced. Nominated 5 days after creation. IBT and Business Insider appear potential non-RS, however, they support the fact(s) inside the article so citing them is ok. Image 1 is licensed, image 2 is a self-work, however, could not verify the image 3. Few minor problems; some of the citation templates require complete furnishing (date, authors' firsg and last names, etc.). As for the hooks above, these appear purely subjective by the brand's CEO which may violate the WP:V. Can you please come up with something given by the secondary sources? Thank you! M. Billoo 14:00, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Phibeatrice: A friendly ping for reminder. M. Billoo 13:59, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@M.Billoo2000:Thanks for the friendly reminder and the thorough review! I cleaned up the sources. As for the images, I didn't add those, so I'm not sure what there is to be done about them or whether there's anything about them that is invalidating. With regard to the hooks, here's some alts.
ALT2: ... that Katseye's Gap ad was seen as a response to Sydney Sweeney's jeans commercial from a few weeks beforehand?
ALT3: ... that despite coincidental timing, Katseye's Gap ad was not intended as a response to Sydney Sweeney's jeans commercial?
Source: "But the timing prompted viewers and internet users to speculate that the viral campaign and seemingly pointed lyric “d*mn right it’s better than yours,” is a clever response to American Eagle’s denim campaign that launched in the last week of July. Titled “Sydney Sweeney has Great Jeans,” the ad was labeled “tone-deaf” by online viewers for its perceived association with eugenics. Gap and Invisible Dynamics have said that the campaign and its artistic choices were not a response to American Eagle’s campaign." https://www.inc.com/victoria-salves/what-the-internet-got-wrong-about-that-viral-gap-katseye-ad/91232401 Phibeatrice (talk) 20:51, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Communist Party of Transcarpathian Ukraine

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Moved to mainspace by Soman (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 444 past nominations.

Soman (talk) 20:36, 20 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

@Soman: How does this sound to you?
ALT0a ... that members of the Communist Party of Transcarpathian Ukraine had to undergo review following its merger with the Soviet Communist Party in 1945?
Another option could be an entirely different angle. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:14, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Narutolovehinata5. I would ok with ALT0a, thanks. --Soman (talk) 10:59, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Angola

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  • Source: Marcum, John A.. The Angolan Revolution: Exile politics and guerrilla warfare (1962-1976). M.I.T. Press. pp. 81-87, 92-99, 103, 122, 124, 146, 169, 357, 381
Moved to mainspace by Soman (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 443 past nominations.

Soman (talk) 20:25, 20 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: While it's less than 200 characters, maybe remove "in 1963" if the hook still feels long. But otherwise it's a neat little tidbit that hopefully draws readers to click on the link to see why it had the opposite effect.  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls? 00:15, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hotmangaradja Pandjaitan

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  • ... that Hotmangaradja Pandjaitan's military career was influenced by a lot draw? Source: this hook is a summary of the second paragraph of the Early Life, with citation from Hadimadja, Ramadhan Karta; Sriwibawa, Sugiarta (1997). D.I. Pandjaitan Pahlawan Revolusi Gugur Dalam Seragam Kebesaran [D.I. Pandjaitan, Revolutionary Hero, Died in Full Uniform]. Jakarta: Pustaka Sinar Harapan. pp. 188–189. Dua orang putera kami, Salomo dan Oce, setelah remaja sama-sama ingin melanjutkan perjuangan ayahandanya sebagai prajurit. Keduanya ingin memasuki AMN (Akademi Militer Nasional) di Magelang... Saya pikir kemudian, satu orang putera sajalah yang menjadi prajurit. Pendapat saya dipatuhi oleh Salomo yang baru lulus dari SMA dan Oce yang masih duduk di bangku SMA. Maka keduanya pun melakukan sut, dan ... Oce yang menang. Menjelang lulus dari SMA, kepada guru pembimbingnya Oce mengatakan hendak masuk AKABRI. Guru itu tercengang, bahkan marah, karena Oce sudah diarahkan ke ITB. Namun akhirnya cita-cita Oce itu dapat dimengerti. [Our two sons, Solomon and Oce, both wanted to continue their father's legacy as soldiers when they reached adolescence. They both wanted to enter the AMN (National Military Academy) in Magelang... I thought then, only one son should become a soldier. My opinion was followed by Solomon, who had just graduated from high school, and Oce, who was still in high school. So the two of them held a lawsuit, and... Oce won. Before graduating from high school, Oce told his guidance counselor that he wanted to enter the Indonesian Military Academy (AKABRI). The teacher was surprised, even angry, because Oce had been directed to ITB. But in the end, Oce's aspirations were understood.]
Moved to mainspace by Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 115 past nominations.

Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 05:28, 20 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • @Jeromi Mikhael: Article was nominated on December 20 and seems to have been moved to mainspace on December 17, so new enough. It is also long enough. Copyvio seems fine. I do have a few small issues:
    • What is the argument that this is a reliable source? It seems to be an anecdotal story told by his mother, unless I'm mistaken. Are there any other independent sources that corroborate or contradict this story?
    • If we accept the source as fact, we can say that the lot draw influenced Hotmangaradja's decision to pursue a military career, but saying that it "influenced his career" implies that it affected him while he was in the military, which does not seem to be the case.
Hook is otherwise short and interesting enough, and QPQ is satisfied, so those are my main issues. Let me know what you think. Spookyaki (talk) 23:54, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on December 18

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Thomas Johannes Mayer

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  • ... that Thomas Johannes Mayer portrayed Wotan and Wozzeck, with a voice filling large opera houses but flexible enough for the finest nuances? Source: [27]
    • Reviewed: Michael Menzinger
    • Comment: Due to Christmas, I'm some hours late. Both roles are pinnacles, not "doing his job". Wozzeck just turned 100 (OTD). The voice is described per the source (which calls him "an ideal Wotan" for that quality, but other critics said similar things. Other ideas welcome.
Created by Thief-River-Faller (talk) and Gerda Arendt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 2166 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:06, 25 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Amazon-class sloop

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HMS Vestal, one of six Amazon-class sloops
HMS Vestal, one of six Amazon-class sloops
  • ... that the American Civil War was inspiration for the British Amazon-class sloops (example pictured)?
  • Source: "An Amazon class corvette. This class was built to specifically counter the Confederate Alabama" - page 75 of British Cruisers of the Victorian Era by Norman Friedman
Improved to Good Article status by GGOTCC (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.

GGOTCC 04:28, 25 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Melkart Abou Jaoude

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

TarheelBornBred (talk) 18:25, 18 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Would changing "Division I" to "college football" (with a pipe) solve the issue? I imagine most non-American readers would not get what Division I refers to. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:08, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That wouldn’t be factually accurate, as he had received offers from Division II and III schools, which do offer college football. TarheelBornBred (talk) 20:49, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Then "Division I college football" then? Or maybe mention Delaware by name instead. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:17, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Division I college football" seems like the better option. --Soman (talk) 10:59, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Division I college football" works for me. TarheelBornBred (talk) 15:59, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oli Herbert

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  • ... that Oli Herbert would spend up to three hours locked in a room working on a single guitar lick?
    • Reviewed:
    • Comment: Sorry if I messed up the template, I just created this article and the person that reviewed it suggested that I should nominate a fact so here it is.
Created by Lolcow33 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Lolcow33 (talk) 07:57, 18 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]


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Panipuri

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Panipuri
Panipuri
  • ... that gender norms have been suggested to influence the consumption of panipuri (pictured)?
5x expanded by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 59 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 02:20, 29 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Dorothy Robinson Homer

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  • ... that Dorothy Homer became the first Black librarian to head NYPL's 135th Street Branch in 1942 at the community's request?
Created by Shensationalshen (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Shensationalshen (talk) 17:49, 20 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Le Roseau d'Or

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Under the Sun of Satan by Georges Bernanos was originally published in Le Roseau d'Or.
Under the Sun of Satan by Georges Bernanos was originally published in Le Roseau d'Or.
  • Source: Schloesser, Stephen (2016). Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 181. ISBN 9780802087188.
"Already in March 1925, even he was just beginning his cure, Cocteau had collaborated in the foundation of Maritain's new publishing venture, the Roseau d'Or. Eventually, the directorship would number three - Maritain, Massis, and Lefevre - and a secretary, Stanislas Fumet. Like the Revue universelle, Maritain consciously intended his new venture to challenge Gide's N.R.F. as the centre of elite intellectual life. But the Roseau d'Or, a series that included monographs and novels as well as occasional collections or Chroniques, would be more overtly literary in its union of 'Thomistic thought' with the intellectual and cultural mainstreams."
Created by M.A.Spinn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

M.A.Spinn (talk) 16:14, 20 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Date, length ok. For the hook, I would suggest linking Thomism (and perhaps also Avant-garde). All facts of the hook need a sentence with reference in the article, but the fact about Maritain and Cocteau being the founders doesn't have a direct reference. I'm also wondering whether the image is really public domain? --Soman (talk) 20:04, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • I have added the relevant quote in the above to the article and reorganized it a little bit to get everything referenced in that note attached to it. I found the image on WikiMedia Commons and I don't see why it wouldn't be public domain; in addition to being published 99 years ago the author died in 1948 which meant by the French copyright law of the time it would have expired in 1998. Furthermore in the 93 years between the magazine folding and today I have seen nothing to suggest there has been any attempt to retain the copyright of the magazine. M.A.Spinn (talk) 21:37, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Allan Ludwig

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Gravestone of Michael Wigglesworth, Bell Rock Cemetery, Malden, Massachusetts
Gravestone of Michael Wigglesworth, Bell Rock Cemetery, Malden, Massachusetts
  • Source: "Allan Ludwig, ‘Founding Father’ of Gravestone Studies, Dies at 92

His Pulitzer-nominated book “Graven Images” inspired a reassessment of Puritan art, challenging the belief that imagery carved on headstones was meaningless.

Allan Ludwig in the mid-1950s, setting up a camera to take one of the gravestone photographs he collected and analyzed in “Graven Images.”via Ludwig Family

In 1955, Allan Ludwig, an art historian and photographer, made a wrong turn while driving to a pig roast in rural Connecticut.

As evening approached, he told The New York Times years later, he and his wife, Janine, “saw this beautiful graveyard on the top of a hill.” The couple explored the Colonial-era burial site as the light struck at an angle that amplified the carvings on the gravestones.

That wrong turn became a fortunate misstep, leading to the publication in 1966 of “Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650-1815.” Mr. Ludwig’s book, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, contained scholarly analysis and 256 black-and-white plates of gravestone images he photographed, inspiring a reassessment of Puritan funerary art and contesting the widely held notion that the imagery was meaningless.

“The more I discovered, the more I became convinced that here was the early religious art of New England,” he wrote."

NY Times
Created by Thriley (talk), Netherzone (talk), and Ceoil (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 201 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 19:28, 27 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Clarification needed...it is unclear if the image of the gravestone was shot by Ludwig or by the Commons uploader User:Tpyxldl (or was Tpyxldl Ludwig's user name when he was alive if he happened to be a WP editor? It seems to imply it's one of Ludwig's photos but it does not have the same image quality that he was known for. If it isn't his photo, it might be best not to have a photo. Netherzone (talk) 01:55, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I included the image to show an example of New England gravestone Art. It’s not a photograph by Ludwig. Thriley (talk) 16:51, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Then the caption should that it is not Ludwig's work. I don't think I'm the only reader who will make the assumption that it is. Are fair use images not permitted on DYK (of him or his actual work)? If not, I don't think it needs an image, most people know what a gravestone looks like.Netherzone (talk) 18:06, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Since the hook doesn’t mention that he’s an accomplished photographer, a reader may not think that the image is by him. 17th - early 19th century gravestones are quite striking. Not everyone, particularly non-American readers may be familiar with them. Any images in the hook must be in the article, which is not the case right now. The current image is a good example but really can be replaced by any high quality image of a grave from the time period Ludwig focused on. Thriley (talk) 05:24, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • There are two issues here. Apart from the above confusion regarding if the subject took the picture, one could argue that the picture actually violates DYKDIVERT and thus would not work. The second is that the hook could be simplified: perhaps it could be shortened to "... that photographer Allan Ludwig wrote a book on New England gravestones?" Maybe it's just me but I think writing a book about gravestones is already an unusual fact in itself. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:39, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    The original hook is much more interesting than the newly proposed hook. There are numerous books on gravestones, and that is not something Ludwig originated (I'm thinking here of Mark C. Taylor (philosopher) and Dietrich Christian Lammerts (photographer) book titled Grave Matters; and others.) However, few people know that the discipline Gravestone Studies even exists and he was key in its foundation and development. The wording of the original hook has some flair, and makes one want to click on the links for him and for Gravestone Studies. I also think that the second hook is (dare I say) bland; it's simply stating that a photographer wrote a book. It's not interesting. Netherzone (talk) 03:33, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Well, given that this will likely run without an image due to DYKDIVERT issues as well as the above concerns, maybe it could be simplified as " ... that Allan Ludwig is known as a "Founding Father" of Gravestone Studies?" instead? That was actually the idea I had in mind at first, but it did not seem like it was what he actually specialized in. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:31, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
That's better but it doesn't capture that he's an important photographer. Here's my suggestion for a hook:
DYK... that the photographer Allan Ludwig is known as a "Founding Father" of Gravestone Studies? Netherzone (talk) 01:50, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Yes that works, although one could argue that not mentioning that he is actually a photographer actually adds to the mystery and thus the hookiness. I will leave it to the reviewer to judge. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:33, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Lynching of Dipu Chandra Das

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  • ... that the religiously motivated lynching of Dipu Chandra Das was celebrated by many in Bangladesh, including a prospective parliamentary candidate?
  • Reviewed:
Created by TryKid (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

TryKid [dubious – discuss] 13:03, 26 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Comment: I definitely second this hook, althought the article fo-shizzle needs a second pair of eyes. Edit: @TryKid: Re your edit summary the claim isn't that they were directly linked, but that provides the background for the febrile atmosphere in the country. See talk. this is a personal view and I don't inherently disagree with this but as we know on Wikipedia anyone is well within their rights to remove unsubstantiated/unverified assertions. And re the talk discussion, there's no consensus. Unless & until there's a consensus that the distinct incident of the Hadi assassination serves as a backdrop and 'febrile atmosphere' (no reliable media corroborated this, however), and therefore it is justified to be mentioned on the article, please do not revert it further. Good luck with the nom! X (talk) 19:33, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Youth League of Transcarpathian Ukraine

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  • Source: Валентина Владимировна Марьина. Закарпатская Украина (Подкарпатская Русь) в политике Бенеша и Сталина: 1939-1945 гг. : документальный очерк. Новый хронограф, 2003
Moved to mainspace by Soman (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 446 past nominations.

Soman (talk) 11:17, 24 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc.

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  • ... that Antonin Scalia did not agree that "Everybody has got a right to the use of the English language and has got a right to assume that nobody is going to take that English language away from him"?
  • ALT1: ... that Antonin Scalia did not endorse "Everybody has got a right to the use of the English language and has got a right to assume that nobody is going to take that English language away from him"? Source: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/543/111/#T5
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  • Comment: Scalia did not join Footnote 5, which really just contains this phrase. I think it's funny. It pushes towards 200 characters no matter how you say it due to the quotation, but I thought these were the most neutral phrasings.
Created by Lethargilistic (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

lethargilistic (talk) 19:55, 21 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Length, date ok. QPQ not needed. But I have some issues with the hook. Antonin Scalia was not a worldwide celebrity, and for a global audience he would need to be introduced in the hook as SCOTUS Justice. I get that the nominator finds the non-endorsement of the the sentence on English, but I don't really get how this links to the case or the controversy. And moreover, the article appears to have some potential close paraphrase issue, some quite long, non-quote passages are identical between the article and supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/543/111 --Soman (talk) 00:47, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The opinion is in the public domain, and the copying is disclosed. The article has over 1000 characters of non-public-domain text, so that is not an issue for DYK.
I don't have a problem with putting a title on Scalia, and of course I tried that at first. The trouble is that putting one on would put the hook over 200 characters no matter because of the quote. One fix that I did not consider before is quoting only the first half of the sentence. So, perhaps: "... that United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia did not agree that "Everybody has got a right to the use of the English language..."?" Or something like that? The justices' title is obnoxiously long. And, tbh, I think cutting out "take English away from them" basically cuts out the joke, tbh.
As for "I don't get how this links to the case or the controversy": the case is the event where he refused to agree with the sentence. The footnote dispute within the opinion is a small matter in the first place, so it is not desirable to rewrite either the hook to be about trademark law or the article to make the footnote more prominent. DYK is not an Article III court, y'know? lethargilistic (talk) 03:09, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, noted on the public domain issue. I'd propose, based on your comment above ALT1 "... that United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia did not agree that "[e]verybody has got a right to the use of the English language"?" --Soman (talk) 13:02, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Soman: Sorry for the delay. This fell off my list. I would be fine with that compromise. lethargilistic (talk) 00:47, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Vasyl Khaynas

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  • ... that Ukrainian historian Vasyl Khaynas had been active in an underground movement against Hungarian rule of Transcarpathia during his high school years?
  • Source: Навічно в пам'яті історії: біографічний довідник делегатів першого з'їзду народних комітетів Закарпатської України. Госпрозрахунковий редакційно-видавничий відділ управління справах преси та інформації, 2004. pp. 314-315
Moved to mainspace by Soman (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 445 past nominations.

Soman (talk) 20:41, 20 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Good work on this. Obviously no copyvio issues since all sources are in Ukrainian or Russian. Offline, non-English source accepted AGF. QPQ completed. ThaesOfereode (talk) 16:37, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also think this is good. I would just suggest saying "was active" instead of "had been active". He's dead, so this is no longer happening. lethargilistic (talk) 23:10, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Riders (novel)

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5x expanded by Lajmmoore (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 161 past nominations.

Lajmmoore (talk) 10:25, 20 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

I think this is unverifiable as it's unlikely Pelling's read every single book in history. Suggest you attribute this as something like: ALT1: ... that Riders has been described as the first work to describe semen running down thighs after sex as a "snail trail"?--Launchballer 18:41, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have a suggestion that I think is worded slightly better:

ALT1a: ... that the novel Riders coined the usage of the phrase "snail trail" to describe semen trickling down the inner thigh after sex? ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 23:16, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks all! maybe (taking Lb's concern) ALT1b... that the novel Riders likely coined the usage of the phrase "snail trail" to describe semen trickling down an inner thigh after sex? Lajmmoore (talk) 10:41, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Oceanic Steamship Company, List of ships of the Oceanic Steamship Company

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Ad showing its transpacifc route
Ad showing its transpacifc route
Created by Viriditas (talk) and Mjroots (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 49 past nominations.

Viriditas (talk) 23:18, 27 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Three Schoolfellows

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The Three Schoolfellows in Omar the Tentmaker
The Three Schoolfellows in Omar the Tentmaker
  • Source: Wasserman, James (14 September 2020). Hasan-i-Sabah: Assassin Master. Nicolas-Hays, Inc. p. 168-169. ISBN 978-0-89254-687-9. One modern Ismaili scholar and author , Ali Mohammad Rajput , accepts the story as likely true ... Harold Bowen wrote that it was possible the story of the Three Schoolfellows may have actually been derived from the relationship between Nizam and two other contemporaries
  • Reviewed:
Created by ZxxZxxZ (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

Z 17:05, 21 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.

QPQ: No - Not done
Overall: Hello ZxxZxxZ, happy to review this nomination. The article was created yesterday. It has a readable prose size of 2476 characters. Every paragraph in the body of the article has a reference. The text uses neutral language. WP:EARWIG shows no copyvios. The hook is cited and interesting. The picture is free, used in the article, and clear. QPQ has not yet been done.

The text has various language problems:

  • bbrought
  • FitzGerald"s
  • Wasaya of Nizam al-Mulk,: end sentence with period
  • at Nishapur.: "in Nishapur" sounds more natural.
  • consider the story as a fable, : remove "as"
  • and they residing in different location towns: I suggest replacing it with "and because they resided in different towns"
  • Jawad al-Muscati consider the story a fabrication: replace "consider" with "considers"
  • two times, the text refers to Hasan-i as Hassan

If we use a picture, the hook needs to include the expression (pictured). I think the hook is longer than it needs to be, what about condensing it to

As I understand it, the picture is from the movie Omar the Tentmaker. Is this movie specifically intended as an adaptation of the story Three Schoolfellows? Phlsph7 (talk) 13:53, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I do wonder if the hook could be further rewritten or shortened as the current version is quite long and hard to read. Regrettably this may involve deleting the mentions of the names. @ZxxZxxZ: Also, per WP:QPQ, you need to provide a QPQ as soon as possible; the nomination could be closed if one is not provided. I will give 24 hours for the QPQ to be provided, this will be closed if the deadline is not met. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 07:10, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For QPQ, I am working on it: Template:Did you know nominations/Sulphur molly
For shortening the hook, I suggest:
ALT2: ... that the medieval Persian tale of a pact between three schoolfellows to share future power led to a deadly betrayal between a ruler and a revolutionary?
ALT3 (my preference): ... that according to a medieval tale, the most famous assassination by the Assassins was the result of a success-sharing pact between "Three Schoolfellows" going wrong?
Z 18:40, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The movie is not specifically based on this story, but a distinct, fictional story. So I don't know if that scene actually depicts the pact. --Z 18:42, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
QPQ checks out. If the movie does not directly depict the tale, then it's probably better to not use the image. ALT2 seems to imply that the tale itself had real-life consequences. Is that certain? In ALT3, the term "the Assassins" has a specific meaning in this context but the reader does not know this, so it sounds like an awkward redundancy. Phlsph7 (talk) 10:51, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Statewide Treaty

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

Poketama (talk) 05:56, 21 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Hi Poketama, this article is new enough and long enough. You are QPQ-exempt. I have added the article link to this hook. However, it needs substantial remediation before I can properly consider it for a review. Many passages are unreferenced. Outside of the lead section, an article at DYK must have everything cited inline to a source. Using the user script User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages will show you all of the areas requiring attention. Separately, given that this is likely not to run in December 2025, we need a less time-sensitive hook fact, of which I think there are a few in here, and preferably a hook that is not about a "first" claim. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 06:30, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

David Munyua

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Moved to mainspace by Viva Moldova (talk) and Ser! (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Viva Moldova (talk) 09:19, 21 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

I am afraid that I cannot accept the article as sufficiently long, Viva Moldova, because the character count without the lead is only 1108. The lead repeats information and thus inflates character count. Surtsicna (talk) 01:42, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ma Aung Phyu

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Created by Hteiktinhein (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

Hteiktinhein (talk) 18:05, 26 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Maung Me Khaung

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Created by Hteiktinhein (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

Hteiktinhein (talk) 17:58, 26 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Thone Myo Shin

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  • ... that gamblers in Myanmar worship the spirit Thone Myo Shin to ensure victory in cockfights? Source: Kan Min, U (August 1949). ၃၇ မင်းနှင့် နတ်မျိုးစုံ [37 Nats and various nats] (PDF). Khit Lu Publishing. p. 56. ကြက်သမားများ အနေဖြင့် ကြက်တိုက်ရာတွင် ယင်း ကြက်သမားနတ်ကို တင်မြှောက် ပသက နိုင်သည်ဟု ယူဆ ယုံကြည်ကြသည်။ [Cockfighting enthusiasts believe that, during cockfighting, they can ensure victory by paying homage to the cockfighting spirit.]
    • ALT1: ... that Thone Myo Shin was killed by his own henchman after he kicked the man in the face for making them late to a cockfight? Source: Kan Min, U (August 1949). ၃၇ မင်းနှင့် နတ်မျိုးစုံ [37 Nats and various nats] (PDF). Khit Lu Publishing. p. 56. သုံးမြို့ ရှင် ဘုရင်က မောင်မဲခေါင်အား "နင် ဆင်ကောက် နောက်ကျနေ၍ ငါ အရှက်ရသည်" ဟု ဆိုကာ မောင်မဲခေါင်၏ မျက်နှာကို ခြေနှင့် ကန်ကျောက်လိုက်ရာ မောင်မဲခေါင်ကလည်း ရန်ငြိုးထားကာ ပြန်လည် ပုန်ကန်ခဲ့သည်။ [Thone Myo Shin said to Maung Mae Khaung, "You are late with the elephant hook, and I am ashamed," and kicked him in the face. Maung Mae Khaung then bore a grudge and rebelled.]
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cipero Tramway
Created by Hteiktinhein (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Hteiktinhein (talk) 18:17, 26 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Articles created/expanded on December 22

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Uns ist ein Kind geboren (Telemann)

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Telemann c. 1725
Telemann c. 1725
Created by Gerda Arendt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 2167 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:25, 29 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • A few issues, all fixable. For starters, the first paragraph of the history section lacks a citation. There's also a substantial amount of that section that is currently hidden text. With that portion hidden, the article is sourced exclusively to Hofmann 2008 and does not sufficiently establish notability for the subject. There's also some unfortunately close paraphrasing to the Hofmann source:
    • "This cantata has survived in two sources: a set of parts made during the 1720s, preserved at the Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main, and a contemporary copied score, in the archive of the Berlin SingAkademie" versus "The cantata is extant in two forms, a set of parts from the 1720s and held by the Frankfurt University Library, and a copied score from the period, held by the Berlin Singakademie."
The article says "While Telemann often used folk music in his compositions, it was rare in church music" based on Hofmann's "Telemann frequently drew on reminiscences of this kind in his instrumental music, but rarerly [sic] in his church works". ALT1 gets this right, saying that the folk music was rare in Telemann's church compositions, rather than all church compositions. The sentence "It is the preferable source as coming from the Frankfurt Telemann tradition" is Hofmann's subjective opinion written in wikivoice without any explanation (again, reflecting a bit too close of a paraphrasing). I recommend swinging back, doing a quick rewrite of the noted portions, adding a source or two to demonstrate notability, and pinging me when ready. I like ALT1 as the lead hook as it strikes me as more interesting. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 20:56, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the thorough review. The nomination is the (not so rare) case of having to nominate before the article is ready. I'll have time on Monday, hopefully. Sadly four articles about people who recently died have to come first, and there's RL. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:06, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Understood! Take your time–I have a lot of free time over the next week and a half, so just ping me when you get back to this. I offer prayers of comfort for the departed and their loved ones and harbor hope in your efforts to thoroughly cover them for the project. Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 22:19, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Nigel Bluck

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

Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 06:05, 29 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Roshni (album)

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Created by M.Billoo2000 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

M. Billoo 19:37, 28 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Ebenezer Harcourt

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

it's lio! | talk | work 12:13, 23 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

An error occurred when I made this nomination using DYK-wizard, causing it to not be transcluded at Talk:Ebenezer Harcourt. Can someone help fix this and check if anything else is amiss? Thanks, it's lio! | talk | work 12:19, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: None required.

Overall: I support moving forward once citation issues have been addressed, as well as some pruning of promotional tone. I prefer ALT1 for conciseness. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 17:40, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

None of the quotes are uncited, the refs are at the end of the paragraphs. I have addressed all your tags. Happy holidays, it's lio! | talk | work 18:06, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
HKLionel: All quotes need to be immediately cited within the sentence (see MOS:QUOTE). Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 21:19, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, it's lio! | talk | work 05:49, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Done, it's lio! | talk | work 05:53, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for adding those citations! However, when I searched some of the cited articles for the stated quote, I did not find it. I have tagged those quotes as failing verification. Please address this. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 18:34, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oops, didn't see this. I paraphrased "fearless and commanding" in the ESPN source to "courageous and imposing", would you rather I use the original wording with quotation marks instead? "General" is in the Infonews source. The rest of the sentence is an amalgamation of all three sources, not just the Football In Nigeria source. Tell me if you still can't verify the sentence from the three sources. Sorry for the confusion, I'll keep in mind to make ref placements clearer in the future. Thanks, it's lio! | talk | work 13:32, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sulphur molly

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Sulfur molly caught by a kingfisher
Sulfur molly caught by a kingfisher
  • ... that sulfur mollies create rhythmic waves to avoid ending up in birds' beaks (pictured)?
  • Source: "Here we present a field study that investigated the anti-predator benefits of waves produced by fish at the water surface when diving down collectively in response to attacks of avian predators. Fish engaged in surface waves that were highly conspicuous, repetitive, and rhythmic involving many thousands of individuals for up to 2 min ..." [35]
5x expanded by Surtsicna (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 272 past nominations.

Surtsicna (talk) 22:53, 22 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • New enough (expanded), long enough, sourced with no copyvio detected, QPQ ongoing, hook is cited. The photo is not exactly what one expect to see, ideally it should be an image of the waves (in fact, I thought the DYK is about a bird). In this case, maybe the hook could be adjusted accordingly: create rhythmic waves to repel predators?. --Z 18:03, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure about "repel", Z, because the mechanism is not yet well understood, but in any case that does not affect the image. The hook already mentions the predators. Surtsicna (talk) 09:55, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that the image is odd, given the hook. That is, it's a bit off-putting to have a hook about how the species avoids being eaten, then have a photo of it being eaten, which seems to indicate the rhythmic waves aren't very successful. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 17:14, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It seems like a pretty fitting depiction of what happens when you don't make a big enough wave. If the promoter does not like it, they do not have to use it. The DYK requirement is just that it be "freely licensed, clear at a diminished size, and used in the article". Surtsicna (talk) 19:41, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Christian to Crescent Trail Connector bridge

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The Christian to Crescent Trail Connector bridge carrying the Schuylkill River Trail opened on May 17, 2025.
The Christian to Crescent Trail Connector bridge carrying the Schuylkill River Trail opened on May 17, 2025.
  • Source: "Barile said the unique design was necessary, as the trail is bound by a rail line on one side and the river on the other, so there wasn't enough space to build it entirely on land.... The segment connects the Grays Ferry Crescent, an existing 1/2 mile path, to the Schuylkill River Trail, which starts in Schuylkill County and ends in Philadelphia." [36]
Created by ManOfTheArk (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

ManOfTheArk (talk) 18:41, 22 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]


Articles created/expanded on December 23

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Cyprus-Greece-Israel trilateral alliance

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

TonyFerro (talk) 14:17, 29 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Foreign Legion (album)

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

KmartEmployeeTor (talk) 07:35, 29 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Hook is interesting, expansion occurred within 7 days, article is long enough. However, the cited source doesn't exactly say that it was the American release that sold poorly. Could you provide a source for that claim? Ruby2010 (talk) 16:06, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Bixie jishi

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  • Source: One abridged version of the work, entitled Pi-hsieh shih-lu (A true record to ward off heterodoxy), was considered important enough by a group of Shantung missionaries to be translated under the title Death Blow to Corrupt Doctrines. [...] Moreover, the work was so explosive in content that it was banned by the Chinese authorities in at least three provinces.
Cohen, Paul A. (1963). China and Christianity : The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674283626. Page 45
Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 134 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 05:56, 24 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Unknown
  • Other problems: No - The reader is going to be disappointed if they click the article and find out it doesn't explain why missionaries did that. I wonder if this source has more info.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: (t · c) buIdhe 19:18, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Doña Clotilde

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  • Source: 1. This states: Usuarios de las redes sociales buscan cancelar la participación de doña Cleotilde, La Bruja del 71, en El Chavo del Ocho, por acosar a Don Ramón. (Milenio)
  • 2. This states: La polémica se encendió esta semana a partir de la circulación de un posteo en Instagram, Facebook y Twitter, en la que se cuestiona por qué no se hablaba de que la conducta de “La Bruja del 71” también “promovía el acoso sexual”. (Infobae)

1. Translated: Social media users are seeking to cancel the participation of Doña Cleotilde, La Bruja del 71, in El Chavo del Ocho, for harassing Don Ramón.

2. Translated: The controversy ignited this week following the circulation of a post on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, which questioned why it wasn't mentioned that the behavior of "The Witch of 71" also "promoted sexual harassment."
Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

CoryGlee 21:33, 23 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Episode 8002 (Neighbours)

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Moved to mainspace by JuneGloom07 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 95 past nominations.

JuneGloom07 Talk 16:31, 23 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

I'd be okay with some variation of ALT5, but maybe it could be reworded to give less emphasis on the "first Christmas episode" aspect? Especially now that Christmas has passed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 10:43, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on December 24

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An Ordinary Youth

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  • Source: The Guardian - Tellingly, the word “Auschwitz” appears only once. When Walter is visiting his grandfather, a Hitler supporter, he reads in the newspaper’s Miscellaneous section about a “bloody marital drama” that played out on the street “in Auschwitz, at Kattowitz”.
  • ALT1: ... that An Ordinary Youth's original German title is a pun based on a cigar brand? Source: ProQuest 3051059628 (available through The Wikipedia Library) - copied from a piece of Kempowski family argot derived from the German word (tadellos) for impeccable and the name (Loeser & Wolff) of Karl's favorite brand of cigar.
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: First nomination, please let me know if there's any issues.
Created by ScalarFactor (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

ScalarFactor (talk) 17:01, 28 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Trade Union Council of Transcarpathian Ukraine

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  • Source: S. D. Ivanov (ed.). Zdobutky braterstva. Karpaty, 1967. pp. 79-80
Moved to mainspace by Soman (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 447 past nominations.

Soman (talk) 12:45, 25 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: No - Not surprising as the Soviet regime used the fight against fascism as a way to bolster legitimacy
QPQ: Done.

Overall: (t · c) buIdhe 21:30, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I find the hookinterest commentary misdirected. First of all, Transcarpathian Ukraine was not in the Soviet Union at the time. Secondly, how is it not notable that 47 delegates attending a labour conference had been, just a handful of months prior, involved in armed struggle? --Soman (talk) 23:16, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Considering the historical context, it does not seem that surprising that those involved participated in the war as fighters. The hook as written might also be just a bit specialist. Could you propose a different angle here? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:37, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Federated States of Micronesia–Russia relations

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  • ... that the Federated States of Micronesia cut ties with Russia following the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

Source: (Island Times)

    • ALT3 ... that Russia's embassy in the Philippines was in charge of relations with the Federated States of Micronesia, before the latter cut ties with Russia over its war in Ukraine?
    • Reviewed: TKO (Justin Timberlake song)
Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

CoryGlee 05:20, 25 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article looks good. Nice work. Regarding the hooks, the first probably is too bland per Buidhe. I think the second is kinda interesting (the "unfriendly countries list"? Hadn't heard of that before.) I don't see the quote from ALT2, "Micronesian values", in either the article or the source? I think the second, if worded right, could be made interesting enough. Perhaps something like "... that Russia considers the Federated States of Micronesia an "unfriendly country"? What do you think? @CoryGlee: BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:54, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi BeanieFan11, thanks for the review. Yes, I have no problem in rewording. In fact, I have an ASD problem when it comes to summing up, LOL. As for ALT2, the Island Times source says “It is often described that the preference of any Pacific Island Country, to include the FSM, is that we be friends to all, and enemies to none,” Panuelo said.
“This indeed and truly remains the cornerstone of our nation’s foreign policy. But values and convictions must matter more than not at all, and as this paradise in our backyards is founded on our Micronesian ideals of peace, unity, and liberty, so too do we advocate for these ideals to be shared and spread.
But feel free to choose whatever. CoryGlee 00:21, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Buidhe: Do you think my suggested hook is sufficiently interesting? BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:02, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
My own opinion is no—Russia has unfriendly relations with a lot of countries. (t · c) buIdhe 20:14, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I know, but (to me) it feels unusual that they would specifically deem the Federated States of Micronesia, an obscure set of Pacific islands, as an "unfriendly country". Personally, if I saw that hook on the main page I would probably have clicked on it just to find out why the FSM are viewed by them as "unfriendly". Thoughts? BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:36, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Buidhe: and @BeanieFan11:, may I have your view on ALT3? I just added it. CoryGlee 20:37, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
BeanieFan11, I agree with you ... the FSM being "unfriendly" to Russia is not "common" as pointed by Buidhe... Yes, I understand that many are unfriendly to Russia, but the FSM is a particular case. CoryGlee 20:39, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on December 25

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Chicago State Cougars football

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

TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:49, 1 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

  • Comment. Most of this article is not actually about Chicago State Cougars football, but rather about other colleges that have played or currently play football in Chicago. That may be understandable because Chicago State has not yet begun its first football season, which is about eight months away, but the proportion of Chicago State Cougars football content to the length of the article seems rather low. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 08:35, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Caden Dowler

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

JTtheOG (talk) 07:47, 31 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Genocide

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Improved to Good Article status by Buidhe (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 271 past nominations.

(t · c) buIdhe 21:32, 25 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Articles created/expanded on December 26

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Sandra Caron

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Created by In Vitrio (talk) and Launchballer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 360 past nominations.

Launchballer 11:29, 26 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

No idea why I didn't get a ping for this, but yes, TVTropes is a backwards copy. (I created an account to check the page's history and it turns out there's less than two hours in it.) UKGameshows.com is a group blog with an editor used for non-contentious information from the program itself, I think this is reliable enough for the information. I need longer to decide what to do about the hook.--Launchballer 12:27, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm. If I had access to the Picturegoer source I'd suggest something along the lines of "that Sandra Caron changed her name to avoid associations with a woman once described as "the most highly paid woman in British show business in the 1950s and 1960s"", perhaps @In Vitrio: would like to provide a quote from the source (or better yet, say where they got it in case there's a trove about). I'm personally of the view that legal action is not necessarily unduly negative, and (in my non-legal expert opinion) Caron filing over a show that doesn't mention her is a case where it isn't.--Launchballer 04:01, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Picturegoer is on British Newspaper Archive. Exact quote is that "I don't want people to think I'm exploiting Alma's fame and popularity. That's why I changed my name to Sandra Caron. There are far too many examples in show business - films especially - of younger sisters using their elder sister's star value as a means for jumping on the gravy train themselves. I don't want to do that. You see, I want to become a star. I want to see my name in lights. I want to act, make people laugh, make people cry. I want to get to the top. BUT ON MY OWN ABILITY AND TALENT." (caps in original) The punchline in the article is a journalist thought she was Leslie Caron's sister... In Vitrio (talk) 08:06, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Theleekycauldron: What else do I need to do here?--Launchballer 06:48, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on December 27

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There's a Hole in the City

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

SouthernNights (talk) 14:27, 3 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Articles created/expanded on December 28

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Harley Davidson (song)

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Created by Moscow Connection (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 44 past nominations.

Moscow Connection (talk) 23:59, 4 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Pyapon Taung Shinma

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Created by Hteiktinhein (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

Hteiktinhein (talk) 17:27, 3 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

A Taxonomy of Office Chairs

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Centripetal Spring office chair, c. 1849
Centripetal Spring office chair, c. 1849
Moved to mainspace by Cl3phact0 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

Cl3phact0 (talk) 12:36, 3 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Bird of Pray

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Improved to Good Article status by TheNuggeteer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 35 past nominations.

🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 (My "blotter") 02:30, 2 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

La Dame Bleue

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Moved to mainspace by Premeditated Chaos (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 70 past nominations.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:09, 1 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Inugami Korone

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Converted from a redirect by 1brianm7 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

1brianm7 (talk) 23:21, 29 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

I really struggled on how to phrase it (my goal with DYK is to get the most clicks on the encyclopedic article). I don’t think it should include VTuber since consensus seems to be it needs to be linked, and anyone who knows what a VTuber is would almost certainly immediately recognize Korone, and anyone who doesn’t know wouldn’t have it be more interesting with its inclusion. I think "Doog Eternal" is something that draws the eye and linking Easter egg isn’t ideal, but eh, this is the first time I’ve done a DYK and gone “oh boy… that is a good hook”. (Sorry if this response is a bit extraneous, I’ve given a surprising amount of thought on this) 1brianm7 (talk) 16:52, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Monument to Enrico Martínez

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  • ... that after a Mexico City monument was relocated, the lake indicators on its pedestal lost their original geographic alignment?
  • Source: *La Crónica: " ya que al haberlo trasladado de una esquina a otra del atrio de la catedral, se confundieron las indicaciones y las marcas que señalaban los niveles de las aguas de los cuatro lagos de México
5x expanded by Tbhotch (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 63 past nominations.

Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 18:59, 28 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Wing Sun Fong

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Created by A.Classical-Futurist (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

A.Classical-Futurist (talk) 07:00, 28 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]


Articles created/expanded on December 29

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Emigration of Christians from Israel and Palestine

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  • Source: Kårtveit 2014, p. 209: “The dispute over who is to blame for Christian emigration is part of an Israeli–Palestinian battle for international sympathy, one that also challenges Israel's traditional support among Christian communities in the West.”
Created by Onceinawhile (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 87 past nominations.

Onceinawhile (talk) 04:01, 5 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Siege of Milan (538–539)

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  • ... that the devastation inflicted by the Ostrogoths after the Siege of Milan (538–539) is considered to have surpassed even the worst atrocities committed by Attila in his campaigns?
  • Source: JB Bury History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian. Vol. 2 Dover Publications 1958 p 204 All the adult males, who according to Procopius numbered 300,000, were massacred; all the women were as slaves to the presented Burgundians. The city itself was razed to the ground. [...] In the long series of deliberate inhumanities recorded in the annals of mankind, the colossal massacre of Milan is one of the most flagrant. Historians have passed it over somewhat lightly. But the career of Attila offers no act of war so savage as this vengeance, carried out by the orders of the nephew of the Gothic king.
  • ALT1: ... that the relief efforts in the Siege of Milan (538–539) failed to reach in time because the Byzantine leadership was divided on whether it was "in the interest of state"? Source: JB Bury History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian. Vol. 2 Dover Publications 1958 pp 200-201 [Belisarius] proposed that a portion of the army should be sent to Liguria, to the rescue of Milan, which was in great peril [...] Narses replied. He contended that it was that all the forces inexpedient Imperial should be concentrated on the two objects of Auximum and Milan. [...] Belisarius was opposed to any which involved a dissipation of forces, and plan he decided to assert his authority. He produced a letter which the Emperor recently had addressed to the commanders of the troops in Italy. [...] In the last phrase there was a possible ambiguity of which Narses at once took advantage, interpreting it as a reservation, limiting the duty of obedience. The plan of Belisarius, he said, is not in the interest of the State, and therefore we are not bound to obey him. [...] Yet we cannot consider it impossible that the insertion of the words "in the interest of the state" was as a check on the designed authority of the commander-in-chief.
  • ALT2: ... that Milan before the Siege of Milan (538–539) may have rivaled 1958 Milan in size, if Procopius is to be believed that 300,000 men were executed by the Ostrogoths after its fall? Source: JB Bury History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian. Vol. 2 Dover Publications 1958 p 204 All the adult males, who according to Procopius numbered 300,000, were massacred; all the women were as slaves to the presented Burgundians. [...] The population of modem Milan is between 600,000 and 700,000 (that of Rome is over 500,000). Procopius describes it (B.G. ii.7.38) as the most populous Italian city next to Rome. It seems probable that he has immensely exaggerated the number of the slain.
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: This is my third DYK nomination.
Created by A.Cython (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

A.Cython(talk) 04:06, 4 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Populus Denver

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The "cheese grater" facade
The "cheese grater" facade
  • ... that Denver's Populus hotel became a subject of online and media discussion after some observers compared its facade (pictured) to a "cheese grater"?
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: First submission - appreciate the feedback!
Created by Pdubs.94 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Pdubs.94 (talk) 18:24, 31 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Comment: @Pdubs.94: Hi, and welcome to DYK. Not a full review, but your article is good. Just a few suggestions; you can consider copying some info from the WP:LEAD into the article body, and move the references. It would be better if the lead reflects the cited material in the body, instead of using citations in the lead. You can also complete some of the citation furnishing, like putting dates and author's first and last name in the references. Do not worry, the article has got no major problems. Thank you and all the best! M. Billoo 03:10, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Frozen salad

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Salad, freezing
Salad, freezing
  • ... that in 1930s America, you could buy a quart of frozen salad (pictured) for a dollar?
  • Source: Quinizo, Jeri (2009). Of Sugar and Snow: A History of Ice Cream Making, p. 185, 235

"If a housewife did not want to make her own salad, she could buy it at a soda fountain, either as an individual serving to enjoy there or by the quart to take home to serve. According to the Ice Cream Trade Journal, "The frozen salad is sliced and served on a lettuce leaf with sandwiches or crackers. A topping of mayonnaise is desirable. This frozen dessert is very popular as a serving at bridge parties because of its extreme palatability and food value. The product usually sells for about $1.00 a quart."

"15. P. H. Tracy, "Questions and Answers,” Ice Cream Trade Journal (November 1937): 33."
Created by Rollinginhisgrave (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Rollinginhisgrave (talk | edits) 08:10, 30 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Prison Mathematics Project

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  • Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210617031039/https://doc.wa.gov/news/2017/03172017.htm "Havens recently shared his story during MCC's first-ever inmate-led "Pi Day" Celebration. [...] The event included a pi-digit memorization contest, a pi trivia contest, speeches by inmates, and presentations by mathematics professors from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, Lafayette College, and University of Washington."
Moved to mainspace by Apocheir (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.

Apocheir (talk) 03:18, 30 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Unsanctioned (Magic: The Gathering)

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

LivelyRatification (talk) 00:07, 30 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Al-Rashid Street (Gaza)

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Created by Thepharoah17 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

Thepharoah17 (talk) 00:04, 30 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • @Thepharoah17: thanks for writing this much-needed article on a street that has been in the news, and the bearer of such tragedy, for so long.
Some suggestions:
    • This map from Salah al-Din Road shows that Al-Rashid road has different names further south (Coastal Road, Yasser Arafat). This should be explained – the article would benefit from a map anyway.
    • The details of the Course section are not fully supported by the BBC citation – can you add other sources?
    • The hook (and the respective section in the article) says the it was "was known as" the street that never sleeps. As far as I can see the MEE source doesn’t say that – it calls it that, but doesn’t say that other people call it that.
Onceinawhile (talk) 04:21, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I amended the article in response to the points above and changed the hook from "known as" to "called" Thepharoah17 (talk) 14:49, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Current nominations

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Articles created/expanded on December 30

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Dorothy Spotswood

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  • Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360623166/go-out-and-build-generous-couple-fund-wellington-charity-hospital "But it’s not just donations, the pair muck in and work, too. Even for the Children’s Hospital: one night Dunajtschik fetched Spotswood from the airport around midnight, and took her straight to the hospital building site instead of going home. "They had just poured the first lot of concrete, so he picked me up and said ‘we’ve got to go up and make sure the concrete’s been watered’,” Spotswood laughed. “And it hadn’t been. So I had to get off my high heels and put on a pair of gumboots while we watered all the concrete for the base of the hospital."
Created by DrThneed (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 27 past nominations.

DrThneed (talk) 23:51, 31 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Wiley Griffon

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Moved to mainspace by TechnoSquirrel69 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

—TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 05:44, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: No - Could be made more interesting with "outlawed there" replaced by "outlawed in the state" (including the link), given how exceptional Oregon's situation was.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Promoted to GA two days ago, prose 4443 B. Made some minor fixes. Prefer ALT1 since first hooks are historically problematic. @TechnoSquirrel69: what are your thoughts on my hook idea? ミラP@Miraclepine 22:13, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Bethke brothers

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  • Source: Einer nach dem anderen flohen die Gebrüder Bethke in den Westen. Der erste per Luftmatratze, der zweite per Seilwinde - und den dritten holten sie mit dem Leichtbauflieger aus Ostberlin ab. ("One after the other, the Bethke brothers fled to the West. The first on an air mattress, the second by winch – and the third was picked up from East Berlin in a light aircraft.") Der Spiegel Seilwinde ("Winch") here refers to a system of pulleys across a zip wire, see [40].
Created by Asamboi (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

Asamboi (talk) 02:47, 31 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Very interesting story. All that is needed is a citation at the end of Ingo landed in Treptower Park, East Berlin to pick up the waiting Egbert, while Holger patrolled overhead. The planes successfully returned to West Berlin and landed in front of the Reichstag, which was not used at the time. and it can be approved. @Asamboi: BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:53, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have reworded the hook to make it clear that the escapes were each brother's separate escape ... they certainly did not, and indeed could not have, returned to East Germany as a group to try a different method two different times after first succeeding. Daniel Case (talk) 18:40, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@BeanieFan11: Thanks for the fast review! I have added sources for the final lines of Egbert's escape. Asamboi (talk) 23:35, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Viktor Pylypenko (military)

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  • ... that openly gay Ukrainian soldier Viktor Pylypenko has been the subject of several attacks for being gay, including an assault by neo-Nazi militant Denis Kapustin?
Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

CoryGlee 15:49, 30 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Waiting for the Messiah (album)

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  • Source: Translating the source text here, but it is from this retrospective about the album: "25th anniversary of 'Waiting for the Messiah': Something definitely happened." on Haaretz. The source says: "In this atmosphere of budget cuts, Ante turned to Yehoshua Ben Yehoshua, the owner of 'Syntron,' a studio that was then located in the stock exchange area of ​​Ramat Gan. 'Syntron' was not yet fully built, and the recording sessions for 'Waiting for the Messiah' were done in a room nearby while renovations were still underway on the studio."
  • ALT1: ... that Waiting for the Messiah was one of the first Israeli albums to use samples? Source: Similar to Hook One, it is from another retrospective on the album: "40th Anniversary of 'Waiting for the Messiah': The hit that was never meant to be." Translating the source text: "One of the innovative techniques that Hanoch and Levi used when working on the songs was to introduce samples into the album's production, something that was relatively new in Israel at the time."
  • Reviewed:
  • Comment: This is my very first DYK nomination, I'm sorry if I got the process wrong but I'm very curious about how this works. These two facts were the first ones that came to my mind. Feel free to comment and help. Also if I messed up everything, then you can close this and tell me how I messed up. If this isn't good enough, then let me know. Thanks in advance! I'm very nervous yet excited about this.
Moved to mainspace by SignedInteger (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

S.G. (They/Them) (Talk) (Contributions) 15:01, 30 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]


Articles created/expanded on December 31

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Hooshmand Dehghan

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A historical manuscript page with dense handwritten Arabic calligraphy in black ink.
A manuscript of Āthár al-Quddúsiyya (1887)
  • Source: Inline citations 22, 23, and 24 in the article
  • ALT1: ... that according to Hooshmand Dehghan, the image long identified as the only known photograph of Quddús is actually a portrait of someone else? Source: Inline citations 35 and 36 in the article
  • ALT2: ... that by conducting a codicological analysis of 19th-century manuscripts (pictured), scholar Hooshmand Dehghan discovered that Edward Granville Browne had misrecorded the title of a collection as Abḥár al-Quddúsiyya instead of Āthár al-Quddúsiyya?

Source: References 19, 22, 23, 24 and 25 in the article. (Ref 19 available online here)

    • Reviewed: None required (Exempt)
    • Comment: The article was created on 24 November 2025, but it has undergone a 5x expansion that was finalized on 31 December 2025. It is also currently a Good Article (GA) nominee. No QPQ is required as I have fewer than 5 DYK credits.
5x expanded by Mojgoon (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Mojgoon (talk) 12:12, 2 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]


Response: How is this article supposed to be promoted to GA when you, after failing the article in its second review (GA2), intentionally moved the new GA3 nomination back to the GA2 address? This was done deliberately to sabotage the third nomination process. The evidence is clearly visible in the page history of Talk:Hooshmand Dehghan on December 29 and January 1, as well as in the deletion logs of the GA3 page.

Furthermore, why did you come to evaluate and fail this DYK nomination at the exact moment I was trying to fix the technical mess you created? Regardless of your technical arguments, was this a form of retaliation? Retaliation for what? Why did you return to the Talk page of Hooshmand Dehghan on January 1st, three days after you had already quick-failed it? Please explain! I engaged with you very politely on your talk page and even thanked you (which you have now archived), and this is the treatment I receive in return. I request the relevant Administrators of Wikipedia to investigate this deliberate sabotage. Thank you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hooshmand_Dehghan/GA3 Mojgoon (talk) 23:24, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Mojgoon Please calm down. I have removed the template so it will appear in the queue for a new review, but I believe I'm not involved with this nomination since I did not pass the GA and this does not meet the DYK criteria. You originally created /GA2 in error, as you were the nominator. I requested the G6 deletion of this page after I had done the review on /GA3, since I had noticed the counter was wrong. I then moved /GA3 to /GA2 without a redirect and then fixed the links, here and here so when you click "start review" it starts it on /GA3 instead of /GA4 and the link in the past nominations template goes to /GA2. This is evidenced by the fact that you were able to create Talk:Hooshmand Dehghan/GA3.

I originally found the nomination when I was going through WP:GAN and noticed I had closed the RM and properly closed the first GA nomination (it had been failed already, but was still appearing as unclosed back then). I saw it was up for GAN again and noticed the issues with NPOV, leading to my quick fail and subsequent feedback of which you took action on (I think it looks much better on that front now). I didn't intend to sabotage your nomination but just to fix the counter so it doesn't appear like it is on its fourth nomination when it's on its third. As for how I found this DYK, I had the page watchlisted from my original review, and noticed the nomination's transclusion. This was all in good faith just to fix the errors in the counter and not intended to sabotage anything - I have no such intentions and would in fact love to see your content be recognized by getting to GA status. HurricaneZetaC 23:45, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Response: "Calm down? While you unfairly quick-failed my valuable article over a few minor issues. And later, despite my polite and respectful efforts to address the points you raised, you went ahead and made those messes on my page. You even admitted in our conversation that the Hooshmand Dehghan page 'looks much better now'

Regarding your claim of being "involved" (as documented in your talk page Archive 10) to decline my request for a GA3 re-evaluation: if you are indeed too "involved" to provide a constructive review for GA, then by that same logic and according to WP:INVOLVED, you are also too "involved" to act as a neutral judge here and fail this DYK nomination. You cannot selectively use your "involved" status to avoid helping the article while simultaneously rushing here to summarily fail it. This is why I am requesting a neutral second opinion.

So please, do not strike a pose of good faith. Right now, I am facing technical issues with my GA3 nomination that you caused. (Tell me, why is there a red link in the middle of Dehghan's talk page: Talk:Hooshmand Dehghan/GA3? This is the direct result of your tampering on January 1st.) Mojgoon (talk) 07:10, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]


Request for second opinion/Review:

I would like to clarify that I misunderstood the 5x expansion rule; I honestly believed the calculation was based on the total growth from the article's creation to the time of nomination, as I stated in my initial comment. Now that I am aware of the 7-day window requirement, I have a request:

Since this article is currently a Good Article (GA) nominee, I request that this DYK nomination be placed on hold instead of being failed. According to DYK procedures, an article becomes eligible again once it is promoted to GA status. Given the recent improvements to the article (which the reviewer himself acknowledged) and the ongoing GA process, keeping this nomination open until the GA review is finalized would be the most constructive path forward. I ask for a neutral administrator or reviewer to oversee this, as there has been significant friction and technical interference regarding the GA subpages which makes a neutral perspective necessary. Thank you. Mojgoon (talk) 08:34, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Please note that the reviewer, HurricaneZeta, significantly edited their initial comments and removed the failure template after my response. I invite future reviewers to check the page history to see the original context of the nomination's summary rejection.

Alphasida zapaterii

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A drawing of Alphasida zapaterii
A drawing of Alphasida zapaterii
  • ... that an Iberian beetle (drawing shown) is undergoing substantial evolution that makes it hard to distinguish from its nearby relatives?
Created by Pbritti (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 87 past nominations.

Pbritti (talk) 21:07, 1 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Cipero Tramway

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  • Source: "The first railway to be established in Trinidad was the Cipero Tramroad, a planters' line which plied between what is now Princes Town and the wharf in San Fernando." Anthony, Michael. 2004. First in Trinidad [41]
Created by Guettarda (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 38 past nominations.

Guettarda (talk) 17:36, 1 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article was previously not long enough, but it has now been expanded by approximately 5x. All content in the body of the article is properly sourced, but I am not sure whether http://www.tramz.com/tt/tt.html [6] is reliable, as I thought it was a personal blog. The article is clean, with no copyright violations or plagiarism. The hook looks fine to me; if the question above is addressed, this should be good to go. Hteiktinhein (talk) 05:08, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thanks Hteiktinhein. I meant to find better sources to replace tramz.com, but it ended up slipping my mind. Anthony works for passenger transport (though he doesn't give an actual date) and I found another article from the Trinidad Guardian (which I suspect may be written by Glen Beadon, author of ref 7) which supports the steam addition.[42] Guettarda (talk) 21:45, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Rhapsody in August

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

Plifal (talk) 07:33, 31 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]


Articles created/expanded on January 1

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Allen French

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

ミラP@Miraclepine 01:40, 4 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Anahit Ananyan

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Created by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 121 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 19:16, 3 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Murder of Hamed Sabouri

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  • ... that the murder of a gay man in Afghanistan forced his brother to flee to Turkey and his boyfriend to go into hiding due to harassment from the Taliban?
Created by CoryGlee (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 17 past nominations.

CoryGlee 17:12, 1 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Articles created/expanded on January 2

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Laufental change of canton

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

DraconicDark (talk) 21:35, 4 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

The Historical Geography of the Holy Land

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Map. No. 34
Map. No. 34
  • Source: Kirchhoff 2005, pp. 149–160
Created by Onceinawhile (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 86 past nominations.

Onceinawhile (talk) 05:04, 3 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Servaea incana

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  • ... that Servaea incana is a species of jumping spider with numerous visual displays, including a "zigzag dance", in which a male moves in ever-narrowing arcs towards a female?
  • Source: "While facing a female, a male stepped to one side in an arc ... Each arc usually brought the male closer to the female ... Arcs became narrower as males approached females." McGinley, Rowan; Mendez, Vivian; Taylor, Phillip (December 2015). "Natural history and display behaviour of Servaea incana, a common and widespread Australian jumping spider (Araneae : Salticidae)". Australian Journal of Zoology. 63 (5): 307. doi:10.1071/ZO15032.
  • Reviewed:
Created by Sevenstxrsquid (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Sevenstxrsquid 🌊 00:30, 3 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Gdańsk Castle

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The ruins of Gdańsk Castle
The ruins of Gdańsk Castle
Created by Luxtaythe2nd (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Luxtaythe2nd (Talk to me...) 21:57, 2 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Controller Operated Battle Ready Armament

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M113 APC General Luis Malinis with the mounted COBRA fired during live drills in Camp O' Donnell.
M113 APC General Luis Malinis with the mounted COBRA fired during live drills in Camp O' Donnell.
Created by Ominae (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 23 past nominations.

Ominae (talk) 05:14, 2 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Dawn McMillan

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  • ... that a video of a Scottish grandmother in Australia reading one of New Zealander Dawn McMillan's books went viral?
  • ALT1: ... that one of New Zealander Dawn McMillan's books became famous after being read by a Scottish grandmother in Australia?
  • ALT2: ... that an American teacher was fired for reading one of New Zealander Dawn McMillan's books to his second-grade class?
Created by DrThneed (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 28 past nominations.

DrThneed (talk) 03:03, 2 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]


Articles created/expanded on January 3

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Calvin Duncan (legal advocate)

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Calvin Duncan in 2025
Calvin Duncan in 2025
  • ... that in 2025 Calvin Duncan (pictured) was elected clerk of the same criminal court that had wrongfully convicted him of murder and sentenced him to life in prison in 1985?
Moved to mainspace by GRuban (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 52 past nominations.

GRuban (talk) 00:17, 4 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: No - The part of the hook about the location of his trial needs to be stated in the article
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is newly moved to mainspace and is long enough. QPQ has been completed. I couldn't see any issues with sourcing or neutrality. The hook is certainly interesting and is supported by the sources, although I can't see the fact that his trial was held in the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court currently stated explicitly in the article. The image is compatibly licensed, clear, and appears in the article. My only concern is about close paraphrasing — Earwig is showing some sentences that seem to me to be unnecessarily close to the source. To give some non-exhaustive examples (overlap with the source bolded):

  • On August 7, 1981, 23-year-old David Yeager was shot to death during a nighttime robbery in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans
  • Duncan was neither light-skinned nor stocky
  • he hired an investigator, who took his money without performing the proper work
  • In 2021, Louisiana enacted a law allowing persons who had pled guilty to challenge their convictions if they had evidence of innocence.

There are other phrases flagged by Earwig that certainly fall under WP:LIMITED, but I think some sentences are a bit closer than they need to be. Once that's addressed this should be good to go. MCE89 (talk) 08:20, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@MCE89:  Done! --GRuban (talk) 13:49, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Grete Hermann

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

Revolving Doormat (talk) 00:00, 4 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

  • The hook is interesting. It was brought to GA status January 2026 and thus is eligible. Earwig shows no concerns and the article is long enough. None of the sources appear to be unreliable. QPQ is not needed for this one. However, I cannot find "Sozialistische Warte" or "Peter Ramme" mentions in the source provided. Could you please fix this? :) DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 14:27, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@DaniloDaysOfOurLives: My apologies. When I updated the hook, I forgot to add the other source. Page 11 of this book:[43] Revolving Doormat (talk) 14:40, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]


Articles created/expanded on January 4

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Hurricane Hone

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

FrizzBTalk 17:52, 5 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

O'Donnell-Luria–Rodan syndrome

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  • ... that people with O'Donnell-Luria–Rodan syndrome typically have a larger than average head size, unless they have a more severe form of the condition in which case it might be smaller than average?
  • Reviewed:
Improved to Good Article status by Strange Orange (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

— Strange Orange 20:24, 4 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Am-progressive

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  • Source: Every source on the page, but 1 and 2 are the most useful sources for easy verification.
  • Reviewed: [[]]
Created by JacobTheRox (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

JacobTheRox(talk | contributions) 20:23, 4 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: No - see above
QPQ: None required.

Overall: (t · c) buIdhe 18:28, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

House of the Pelplin Abbots

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The "House of the Pelplin Abbots"
The "House of the Pelplin Abbots"
  • ... that the voivode of a Polish region bought a townhouse (pictured) to give to his abbot brother, who made it an inn? Source: Mallek, Anna. "Dom Opatów Pelplińskich". gdansk.gedanopedia.pl. Retrieved 4 January 2026. 5 IX 1686 kupiona [...] przez wojewodę pomorskiego Władysława Łosia od Petera Soreta i Martina Martensa za 15 000 florenów polskich dla opata zakonu cystersów w Pelplinie, Ludwiga Aleksandra Łosia (brata wojewody), przekształcona w zajazd [...].
Created by Luxtaythe2nd (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

Luxtaythe2nd (Talk to me...) 12:37, 4 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

The Witcher: The Adventure Card Game

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Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 578 past nominations.

Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:54, 4 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: No - Routine release information
QPQ: Done.

Overall: (t · c) buIdhe 14:49, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created/expanded on January 5

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Ardfry House

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  • ... that Ardfry House was built on the site of a medieval castle?
Moved to mainspace by JuneGloom07 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 96 past nominations.

JuneGloom07 Talk 02:02, 6 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Nazi concentration camps

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Prisoners at Mauthausen
Prisoners at Mauthausen
Improved to Good Article status by Buidhe (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 273 past nominations.

(t · c) buIdhe 14:51, 5 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

  • I believe the community will agree when I say that this is one of our most important articles. Thank you for investing your time and energy into bringing it to GA, Buidhe. It cannot have been a small undertaking. I am also happy to see that it has gone through a thorough review by an experienced editor. Obviously, the article is sufficiently long. I see no copyright or neutrality issues. The sources are of the highest quality. I would like us to dedicate a bit more time to working out what the best hook would be. In my opinion, ALT0 is rather duh; people are very likely to already know this. ALT1 is likely to get us bad press–we are already being hounded in certain outlets as antisemites for our Gaza genocide and Zionism coverage. ALT2 strikes me as bland. ALT3 seems promising, but a bit unclear (and not in a way that invites the reader to find out more). Would you mind proposing some more, Buidhe? Surtsicna (talk) 23:16, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Avtar Singh Sohal, Surjeet Singh Panesar

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5x expanded by AmateurHi$torian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. Nominator has 36 past nominations.

AmateurHi$torian (talk) 13:23, 5 January 2026 (UTC).[reply]

Articles created/expanded on January 6

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Special occasion holding area

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See also: WP:SOHA

The holding area is near the top of the Approved page. Please only place approved templates there; do not place them below.

Do not nominate articles in this section—nominate all articles in the nominations section above, under the date on which the article was created or moved to mainspace, or the expansion began; indicate in the nomination any request for a specially timed appearance on the main page.
Note: Articles intended to be held for special occasion dates should be nominated within seven days of creation from the start of expansion, or promotion to Good Article status. The nomination should be made at least one week prior to the occasion date, to allow time for reviews and promotions through the prep and queue sets, but not more than two months in advance. The proposed occasion must be deemed sufficiently special by reviewers. The timeline limitations, including the two month maximum, may be waived by consensus, if a request is made at WT:DYK, but requests are not always successful. Discussion clarifying the hold criteria can be found here: Hold criteria; discussion setting the two month limit can be found here: two month limit.
April Fools' Day hooks are exempted from the timeline limit; see Wikipedia:April Fool's Main Page/Did You Know.
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