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What do you mean? I added "suspected" and that's the way it appeared on the main page; see [[WP:DYKA]] for June 14. I agree the hook wasn't the best, but what's done is done. [[User:Yoninah|Yoninah]] ([[User talk:Yoninah|talk]]) 17:34, 19 June 2019 (UTC) |
What do you mean? I added "suspected" and that's the way it appeared on the main page; see [[WP:DYKA]] for June 14. I agree the hook wasn't the best, but what's done is done. [[User:Yoninah|Yoninah]] ([[User talk:Yoninah|talk]]) 17:34, 19 June 2019 (UTC) |
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:Yeah, we shouldn't be endorsing this sort of attribution. I don't really see how it's an interesting hook even if it were definite. Best Wishes, '''[[User:Lee Vilenski|<span style="color:green">Lee Vilenski</span>]] <sup>([[User talk:Lee Vilenski|talk]] • [[Special:Contribs/Lee Vilenski|contribs]])</sup>''' 18:39, 19 June 2019 (UTC) |
:Yeah, we shouldn't be endorsing this sort of attribution. I don't really see how it's an interesting hook even if it were definite. Best Wishes, '''[[User:Lee Vilenski|<span style="color:green">Lee Vilenski</span>]] <sup>([[User talk:Lee Vilenski|talk]] • [[Special:Contribs/Lee Vilenski|contribs]])</sup>''' 18:39, 19 June 2019 (UTC) |
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IAR? Question re planned event July 21 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing
Can an article never before featured on DYK and was recently promoted to FA qualify for DYK nomination? --- Coffeeandcrumbs 23:23, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
- I believe the rationale for their exclusion is that FAs get their turn in the sun via TFA. Espresso Addict (talk) 05:10, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
- I am not aware of any rule that expressly forbids featured articles from being run on DYK, but practically speaking, it would likely be too late to nominate an article for DYK after it was promoted to FA quality. feminist (talk) 07:54, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- @feminist, I believe what C&C is asking is whether something promoted direct to FA—i.e., skipping the intermediate GA stage—can still qualify under "newly promoted good article". I'd be inclined to say "no", but I don't believe there's ever been a formal policy written on the matter; it's not something likely to come up very often as few of the people writing at FA level have any interest in DYK. ‑ Iridescent 17:31, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- Here is what I am talking about: Template:Did you know nominations/Roger B. Chaffee. I have it penciled in
TFA is penciled infor February 15, 2020. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 17:40, 17 March 2019 (UTC) - Looking through the Main Page history and early history, it appears that Chaffee has never appeared in bold anywhere on the Main Page before. It has appeared twice at OTD on 2017 January 27 and 2014 January 27 but was not in bold.--- Coffeeandcrumbs 17:57, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- Here is what I am talking about: Template:Did you know nominations/Roger B. Chaffee. I have it penciled in
- @feminist, I believe what C&C is asking is whether something promoted direct to FA—i.e., skipping the intermediate GA stage—can still qualify under "newly promoted good article". I'd be inclined to say "no", but I don't believe there's ever been a formal policy written on the matter; it's not something likely to come up very often as few of the people writing at FA level have any interest in DYK. ‑ Iridescent 17:31, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- Coffeeandcrumbs The GA inclusion dates to Good Article RfC-July 2013. The push for this to happen, was because FA and DYK had their own main page section, but GA had been ignored in that regard. So, just getting something to pass FA, a formidable achievement in and of itself, is not a qualification for DYK. — Maile (talk) 17:58, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- To qualify this a little more, the intent of this is for a special occasion. WP:S2019 is a planned event (discussed a little on DYK last year) to fill the front page with space related articles for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing (July 21 2019). At one point I was going to try to run Apollo 11, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin all at TFA, but it seemed like giving them their own day at TFA was a better idea. My alternate plan is to have Armstrong run at TFA, Aldrin at TFP, Collins at DYK, and Apollo 11 at OTD. Unfortunately, I thought of this after Collins was promoted to GA (and A in MILHIST). He will be running through FAC shortly and should be promoted in time, so we are hoping for an exception for him so he will not be left off the main page when Aldrin and Armstrong are on it. THe other issue is shear number of DYKs; I have been working really hard to get eight Space Race firsts promoted to DYK before the anniversary, but we are trying to have a couple of backup contingency DYKs in case we do not finish in time. Chaffee is one of those. So the second thing I would ask for a concession on is for Chaffee to run at DYK on July 21, 2019, if I do not finish the other articles in time. If the other articles are finished in time, we just never run Chaffee at DYK and that is fine with me. To summarize, the two things I am hoping for:
- Concession for Collins to run at DYK on July 21, 2019
- Provisional concession for Chaffee to run at DYK on July 21, 2019, if we do not have the other articles ready
- Sorry if that is a bit rambly, I was about to head out of the house. Let me know what you all think. Kees08 (Talk) 18:16, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- To qualify this a little more, the intent of this is for a special occasion. WP:S2019 is a planned event (discussed a little on DYK last year) to fill the front page with space related articles for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing (July 21 2019). At one point I was going to try to run Apollo 11, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin all at TFA, but it seemed like giving them their own day at TFA was a better idea. My alternate plan is to have Armstrong run at TFA, Aldrin at TFP, Collins at DYK, and Apollo 11 at OTD. Unfortunately, I thought of this after Collins was promoted to GA (and A in MILHIST). He will be running through FAC shortly and should be promoted in time, so we are hoping for an exception for him so he will not be left off the main page when Aldrin and Armstrong are on it. THe other issue is shear number of DYKs; I have been working really hard to get eight Space Race firsts promoted to DYK before the anniversary, but we are trying to have a couple of backup contingency DYKs in case we do not finish in time. Chaffee is one of those. So the second thing I would ask for a concession on is for Chaffee to run at DYK on July 21, 2019, if I do not finish the other articles in time. If the other articles are finished in time, we just never run Chaffee at DYK and that is fine with me. To summarize, the two things I am hoping for:
- Coffeeandcrumbs The GA inclusion dates to Good Article RfC-July 2013. The push for this to happen, was because FA and DYK had their own main page section, but GA had been ignored in that regard. So, just getting something to pass FA, a formidable achievement in and of itself, is not a qualification for DYK. — Maile (talk) 17:58, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
- If that's the question, the answer is a clear "no",
WP:IAR notwithstanding.feminist (talk) 09:49, 18 March 2019 (UTC)- @Feminist: Why? It's a clear IAR. It's an important anniversary. I'm all for it. Yoninah (talk) 11:16, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry, brainfart. feminist (talk) 11:40, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not sure the collaborative esprit de corps is best fostered by addressing other editors as "brainfart". EEng 22:24, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- EEng: My interpretation of Feminist's comment (accompanied by a relevant strike-through) is "Sorry, [I experienced a] brainfart." —David Levy 02:08, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- David Levy, it's me -- remember? Think. THINK. Review my user page if necessary. EEng 02:15, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- EEng: My interpretation of Feminist's comment (accompanied by a relevant strike-through) is "Sorry, [I experienced a] brainfart." —David Levy 02:08, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not sure the collaborative esprit de corps is best fostered by addressing other editors as "brainfart". EEng 22:24, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry, brainfart. feminist (talk) 11:40, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Feminist: Why? It's a clear IAR. It's an important anniversary. I'm all for it. Yoninah (talk) 11:16, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- Coffeeandcrumbs and Kees08 why don't you all write this up as an RFC subsection here. Is this a basic request to IAR and make this the lead hook for July 21, 2019? Do you want other editors to aim for a full 8-hook Moon Landing set specifically on that date? Clarify what you want, then people can Support or Oppose, and otherwise offer comments. — Maile (talk) 01:35, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- I think a full set or full day dedicated to the landing, or maybe a series of one or two hooks per day following the progress of the eight-day mission at +50 years, would be great, and fully justified. EEng 02:19, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Coffeeandcrumbs: Would you be able to formulate the RfC? Rationale for Collins could also include that I got him to GA recently (ish), but thought he would be run at TFA so did not bother with DYK. EEng, the plan was for one day of hooks that had spaceflight firsts (first earthlings around the Moon, first payload to impact the Moon, etc (try to make it not all about America and diversify it, there is even a French article!)). If we could miraculously get even more DYKs ready in time, we could maybe do a couple a day during the eight-day mission. Kees08 (Talk) 03:03, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- I think a full set or full day dedicated to the landing, or maybe a series of one or two hooks per day following the progress of the eight-day mission at +50 years, would be great, and fully justified. EEng 02:19, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- I have never created an RfC unless you count the one or two move discussions have started. I would hate to inadvertently sabotage it. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 03:47, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
RFC Ignore All Rules for 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing
- The following discussion is an archived record of a request for comment. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
NOTE: The lunar module landed on the moon July 20, 1969 at 20:17 UTC. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first walked on the moon the next day, July 21 02:56:15 UTC.
Currently the DYK nominiation policy is: Within 7 days of nomination - newly created, or 5X expanded (2X for unsourced biographies), or achieves GA status
Proposed by Coffeeandcrumbs and Kees08: Ignore all rules policy in effect to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the July 21, 1969 Moon walk.
Second idea from EEng: A full set or full day dedicated to the landing, or maybe a series of one or two hooks per day following the progress of the eight-day mission at +50 years
New articles could be created. — Maile (talk) 13:03, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Here is a list of existing articles and their status:
- Apollo 1 - GA June 6, 2016 - the first crewed mission of the Apollo program for the moon landing. All died in the January 27, 1967 launch rehearsal
- Roger B. Chaffee - FA on March 9, 2019, currently a DYK nomination
- Gus Grissom - GA on June 1 2017
- Ed White (astronaut) - C-class article
- Apollo 11 - FA January 13, 2019, numerous main page appearances in OTD
- Neil Armstrong - FA - nominated for TFA by Hawkeye7
- Buzz Aldrin - FA
- Michael Collins (astronaut) -currently FAC Michael Collins (astronaut) needs reviewers
Support/Oppose/Comments
- Support - We have an opportunity for a once-in-our-lifetime commemoration of the event. Today's Feature Article, whatever they select, will be only one article. POTD (Picture of the Day) has scheduled Buzz Aldrin's bootprint. — Maile (talk) 12:50, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Maile66, TFA isn't necessary a single article; it's just that it's rarely appropriate for there to be a double or triple TFA as it means that there need to be two or more existing FAs on the the same topic, neither of which has already run. (Plus, when there are multiple articles on the same topic they're generally written by the same author, and most people aren't overjoyed at the prospect of monitoring multiple articles for the bombardment of stupid to which TFAs are generally subjected; it also has the potential to cause interminable arguments over the order in which the articles are mentioned.) See Nazi blockhouses in France, the Sedin twins, triangular constellations, the Northern and Southern Crowns, the 2008 US elections or pilots shot down on 7 September 1940 for other examples of multi-article TFAs. ‑ Iridescent 17:01, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Sure. feminist (talk) 14:06, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support, definitely, this sounds like a great idea.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 14:08, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support all hooks related to the spaceflight on July 21, 2019. In terms of the 8-day mission, I could see up to 2 hooks in each set, but not more. Yoninah (talk) 14:33, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- I'm willing to support a) relaxing the nomination time limit, allowing an article (or multiple) that has passed GA but wasn't nominated at the time to be nominated for DYK, and b) the construction of a special occasion set. It's a little unclear whether the list of proposed articles above includes things that have previously been featured in bold on the main page; I would not support running those at DYK, because that's a dangerous precedent. Vanamonde (Talk) 17:29, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support - sounds like a good plan, and will calm my nervousness about the fact that the POTD is set to be similar to the TFA. If DYK joins the party too then there's safety in numbers. Of course, the Americans will be celebrating this event on July 20, due to their inconsiderate decision to position themselves in the western hemisphere, in a negative timezone... But WP operates on UTC and the articles all quote figures thus so it seems a resasonable choice to do it on that day. — Amakuru (talk) 17:36, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Good point, actually, on the time zone issue. I've added the UTC figures above, from what is listed in the Apollo 11 article. Moon Landing was July 20, 1969 at 20:17 UTC. Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC, followed 19 minutes later by Buzz Aldrin. Yoninah has mentioned above a 2-hook set each day for 8 days of the mission, which might even be a better idea taking into consideration that Wikipedia is global. — Maile (talk) 19:44, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
- Comment I'm sympathetic to the proposal, but I have some concerns that this may lead to some kind of double standard: i.e. why do this only for Apollo 11 but not for other similar milestones? This would be a support if this proposal could leave open to the possibility of similar projects being done in the future instead of being a one-off. I also share Vanamonde's sentiment that the DYK stuff should probably be limited to GAs and not articles that don't meet the 5x expanded requirement. Another possibility of course could be a DYK drive for making more new space-related articles for that date, but I guess that's a topic for another time. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 01:08, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- (Summoned by bot) Conditional support Sure let's relax the rules upon occasion. It should only be done so in the way that Vanamonde proposes and only for events that are of substantial global historical importance. We should not do it for some countries centennial/bicentennial for instance. If this rule had been in effect some of the WWI anniversaries might have thus qualified. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 07:02, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support relaxed rules, but keep in mind hat there will probably only few pictured hooks, so if you want something pictured, consider an earlier request. Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:56, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support - the current proposed July 21 DYK list is: Michael Collins (lead article), Sputnik 1, Luna 2, Félicette, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, and Alexei Leonov (Maspalomas Station will replace one of them, TBD). I plan to have them all at the GA level at a minimum. If we decide to do 2/day for the other days of the mission, we can select from existing spaceflight articles that are GA and above, if not enough new GAs are generated. Kees08 (Talk) 16:32, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support being able to run occasional events like this, for exceptional historic events of indisputable global significance. I expect this topic will be well received by readers and draw positive attention. Alsee (talk) 12:58, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Partial support: This is big enough that I'm willing to bend the rules for July 21, though I agree with Vanamonde that articles that have previously been featured on the main page in a bold link should prevent them from running again at DYK. I do, however, oppose the idea that we should mine long-standing GAs if we decide to include hooks during the rest of the mission, as proposed by Kees08 just above: if we have the hooks available through regular processes, then we can include one or (at most) two on those days, but only those articles that are new, newly expanded, or new GAs between now and then. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:52, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
- To be clear, would you be opposed to Collins appearing in DYK on July 21 if he has not appeared in bold before (pretty sure he has not)? Kees08 (Talk) 01:58, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
- The Collins talk page has no listing of previous DYK, ITN, or OTD appearances, so I have no reason to oppose there; if someone were to find one, I'd still allow it because it wasn't recorded at the time. The exception being allowed here is that the article was not nominated back in October when it became a GA, so it will be a very late GA nomination. (Get it nominated and approved before it loses GA status and its DYK qualification, which happens if the current FAC succeeds...) BlueMoonset (talk) 15:53, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
- To be clear, would you be opposed to Collins appearing in DYK on July 21 if he has not appeared in bold before (pretty sure he has not)? Kees08 (Talk) 01:58, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
- There appears to be near unanimous support to invoke IAR (including myself) in this very special case. I don't see the need to rely on a technicality when the GA-basis would also require IAR to ignore the late nomination. I can nominate it today; I just did not want to preempt the conclusion of this RfC.--- Coffeeandcrumbs 01:57, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Just to clarify the "very special case", the next time we would possibly apply such an exception will be in 2025 (the 80th anniversary of end of WWII).--- Coffeeandcrumbs 03:42, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- @BlueMoonset:, @Hawkeye7:, @Coffeeandcrumbs: I want to make sure I understand your meaning above, BlueMoonset. Are you saying that if we nominate Michael Collins now, based on its Oct 2018 GA review, you feel we could IAR for the special occasion? But if we don't nominate it now, and it passes FAC, then the GA qualification is nullified and it would not be eligible for IAR? But if we do nominate it now and get the review passed before FA, the FA rating won't affect it? If all you are talking about is to hurry up and nominate it here, and get it approved, then we should run up a nomination template for it. Hawkeye7 or Coffeeamdcrumbs, if you will open the nomination template, I will review it. Or I would be willing to nominate it myself. A DYK hook is never a set-in-granite situation, and we could make changes later on the hook. Please advise. — Maile (talk) 16:06, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support - sounds good. Anarchyte (talk | work) 07:56, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support - this celebrates exciting milestones in the history of humankind. I like the discussion above about this being a "very special case." = paul2520 (talk) 13:44, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
- Support. Seems like a good ideaa, and I would not object in principle to further items of this type. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 16:53, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment – Just as an update, here is a mock up of how far we have gotten on this project. Wikipedia:WikiProject Space 2019/Main Page/July 21.--- Coffeeandcrumbs 08:11, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
prep 4 cont
I'm still fretting over this one. Piotrus The C of E Yoninah
... that Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd and others held that British Christian bakers can refuse to make a cake supporting gay marriage if they profoundly disagree with the message on it?
They aren't disagreeing with the message on it, they're disagreeing with the message they're being asked to put on it. It's an awkwardness I don't know how to fix without completely recasting the sentence. The hook is already 183 characters, so we can't add 'they'd been asked to put' to the hook, even if that didn't sound clunky too. --valereee (talk) 16:34, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- What about "disagree with the suggested message?" or similar word? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 16:37, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- Lee Vilenski, maybe 'disagree with the specified message' or 'requested message'? --valereee (talk) 17:01, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- Please see source below. This seems to be the ruling itself.
- "Lee (Respondent) v Ashers Baking Company Ltd and others (Appellants) (Northern Ireland) and two references by the AG for NI of devolution issues to the Supreme Court pursuant to paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 to the NI Act 1998" (PDF). Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
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(help) - "Profoundly" is only mentioned once in the entirety of its 29 pages. The ruling's 29 pages pretty much focus on the argument that the bakers were not discriminating against the lifestyle, but were against putting the message on the cake. That is stated in many places in the ruling, but I don't see that the ruling uses "profoundly" in its conclusion. We should reconsider whether the hook, infobox and article section of the judgement should include "profoundly". "Profoundly" is a very subjective term, and I don't see how it can be quantified as a ruling terminology. — Maile (talk) 17:08, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- The other problem with this hook is that although in the particular case Asher was refusing to do it because of his Christian beliefs, the ruling actually says that anyone, of any religious belief, cannot be compelled to promote any message (religion-related or not) that they disagree with. So whilst the hook is technically correct, it's misleading in that it suggests the ruling is only relevant to gay marriage or Christians. It isn't. Black Kite (talk) 17:47, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- Black Kite, that was discussed at the review here, the nom wanted to keep it focussed on Christians. --valereee (talk) 17:49, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, I noticed and was unsurprised. That doesn't make it any less misleading. Black Kite (talk) 17:53, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- The ALT1a suggested by Yoninah actually solves the problem: ... that a 2018 UK Supreme Court decision held that British Christian bakers cannot be forced to decorate a cake to read "Support Gay Marriage" if they profoundly disagree with the message?
- Not sure why nom didn't like that one. --valereee (talk) 18:01, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- It's still misleading. It suggests the ruling is only relevant to Christians and gay marriage, when it would equally apply to, say, a Muslim who didn't want to decorate a cake with an anti-immigration message. Or indeed a Manchester United fan who didn't want to make a cake saying that Liverpool were the best team ever. You really need something like ... that a 2018 UK Supreme Court decision held that British bakers cannot be forced to decorate a cake with a message that they profoundly disagree with? Black Kite (talk) 18:04, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- It certainly seems to apply to any baker/any message and perhaps to any creator of an item that carries a message. I'm not sure that makes it actually misleading? --valereee (talk) 18:13, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- I think it is - if I hadn't heard of the case, I would have assumed from the hook that the court had made a ruling solely on Christians and gay marriage cakes - wouldn't you? Black Kite (talk) 18:16, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- It certainly seems to apply to any baker/any message and perhaps to any creator of an item that carries a message. I'm not sure that makes it actually misleading? --valereee (talk) 18:13, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- It's still misleading. It suggests the ruling is only relevant to Christians and gay marriage, when it would equally apply to, say, a Muslim who didn't want to decorate a cake with an anti-immigration message. Or indeed a Manchester United fan who didn't want to make a cake saying that Liverpool were the best team ever. You really need something like ... that a 2018 UK Supreme Court decision held that British bakers cannot be forced to decorate a cake with a message that they profoundly disagree with? Black Kite (talk) 18:04, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
- Not sure why nom didn't like that one. --valereee (talk) 18:01, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
In the meantime, I've moved the hook to a later prep while the wording issues are being sorted out. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:11, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
- So to get this discussion moving: should we change the hook wording to Black Kite's suggestion, or go with ALT1a? @Piotrus, The C of E, Yoninah, Valereee, Maile66, and Lee Vilenski: Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 23:21, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- Black Kite's suggestion is good, but strike "profoundly". Yoninah (talk) 23:24, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- Definitely strike "profoundly", since it's not part of the wording of the court's conclusion. If the UK Supreme Court made "profoundly" part of its ruling, that would leave a legal loophole to any subsequent case where a business objected to the message, but did not prove to the satisfaction of the court that they "profoundly" objected. — Maile (talk) 23:33, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- I like Yoninah's ALT1a, fine without the profoundly in that one --valereee (talk) 23:48, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- As a compromise, and also to reflect the wording used in the article, I've changed the hook wording to Black Kite's suggestion. If The C of E or any other editor has any objections, please state so on this discussion. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 02:27, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- No, no, no. That one completely takes away all the hookyness by removing the references to Christians and gay marriage. I have amended it to remove the "profoundly" in it. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 05:16, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- As a compromise, and also to reflect the wording used in the article, I've changed the hook wording to Black Kite's suggestion. If The C of E or any other editor has any objections, please state so on this discussion. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 02:27, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- I like Yoninah's ALT1a, fine without the profoundly in that one --valereee (talk) 23:48, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- Definitely strike "profoundly", since it's not part of the wording of the court's conclusion. If the UK Supreme Court made "profoundly" part of its ruling, that would leave a legal loophole to any subsequent case where a business objected to the message, but did not prove to the satisfaction of the court that they "profoundly" objected. — Maile (talk) 23:33, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- Question - Does the ruling specifically say that they can only use this to be for gay marriage? If not, ALT1 seems super biased to me. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 09:23, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Lee Vilenski: The relevant quote in the article says this:
They held that no-one could be forced to promote a belief or opinion which they did not believe in or profoundly disagreed with.
Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 09:45, 13 June 2019 (UTC)- Ok, then we really shouldn't be bringing a particular religion, or else into this. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 10:26, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Lee Vilenski: The relevant quote in the article says this:
- Convenience link to nom and to prep
- I do understand where C of E is coming from in that the juxtaposition of gay marriage/Christian makes the hook more interesting. The ruling really is about no one being forced to produce a message with which they disagree. Christians/gay marriage is why this specific case got to the courts. This one feels wordy, but maybe as a place to start:
ALT2: … that in a case concerning Christian bakers asked to decorate a cake in support of gay marriage, British courts ruled that no one could be forced to produce a message with which they disagree?
- --valereee (talk) 17:23, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Yes - that's good. (I'd replace "produce" with "promote" though, as that's the wording in the article). Black Kite (talk) 16:18, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Black Kite, oh, good one! Done! --valereee (talk) 16:47, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Yes - that's good. (I'd replace "produce" with "promote" though, as that's the wording in the article). Black Kite (talk) 16:18, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- --valereee (talk) 17:23, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Question about multi-article nominations
When creating a DYK nom with multiple articles is it (ideally) necessary to transclude the nomination page on the talk pages of all involved articles? Or should it be done only for the first article in the nomination? SD0001 (talk) 06:26, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- SD0001 - It's not manditory to do regardless in my opinion as the instructions just say "consider adding". If you want to add to both, go ahead. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 07:40, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
Increase number of hooks?
Yoninah recently posed the question on my talk page of whether or not we should increase the number of hooks in each Prep set, due to hooks getting shorter and taking less space. Ergo, admins having to recycle old hooks to balance the main page. Looking over the hooks of 2019, I believe Yoninah is dead-on about the situation.
Main page balance is dependent upon contents of all the sections there, and that is impossible to predict. I recycled an old hook for today's main page balance. For tomorrow's main page, I have recycled two old hooks for balance. We currently have 352 nominations, 152 of which have been approved. 15 of the approved nominations are scheduled for special days.
Pinging BlueMoonset, Amakuru, David Levy, Casliber, Vanamonde93, Gatoclass, Mandarax, Cwmhiraeth, Narutolovehinata5, Valereee, The C of E. Not intending to leave anyone out, but pinging who has been doing the latest promotions, etc. All commenters welcome. - please feel free to share thoughts on this issue. — Maile (talk) 17:04, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- Maile66, I was actually wondering about that -- why is DYK always short and never long? I have never had a set come out too long, but I have worried many times whether a set was going to end up awkwardly short and ended up skipping over short hooks because of it. --valereee (talk) 17:12, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- I support the suggestion. Nine hooks will about stabilise the backlog and ten hooks would begin to reduce it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:19, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- Sounds good to me. More often than not DYK is ending up lower than OTD. I think the latter has started favouring loner hooks perhaps. Although oddly I had to put in one more OTD today because the DYK was clearly below it. Probably after the aforementioned addition of a new hook. Having nine regularly is fine though. — Amakuru (talk) 17:31, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- I support this proposal. If we have to recycle, we should be promoting more. There's a large-ish backlog, which really shouldn't be there if we had more hooks. Makes total sense. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 17:38, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- Support increasing number of hooks as well. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:39, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
As a starting point while we await comment from others, would someone do the honors to promote/move a 9th hook into Prep 4? We can deal with the other preps after more input here. — Maile (talk) 20:57, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
Done Yoninah (talk) 21:12, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- My question here is why increase the number of hooks instead of doing two sets per day, as we did in the past whenever there was a large backlog. Personally I would prefer the one or two more hooks as opposed to the two sets since the latter requires more effort and more vetting, it's more of a question of why this wasn't done earlier. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 22:59, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- The backlog is not the issue. The main page visual balance is the issue. There should not be several lines of blank space beneath any section with the section next to it being much longer, like there is right now under DYK and OTD. — Maile (talk) 23:07, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
- Indeed, a blurb is frequently removed from ITN (and more rarely from OTD) to balance the page. Nominators are getting better at writing shorter hooks at DYK. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 04:15, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- FYI, Queue 4 next in line. We promoted this with 9 hooks. And, yet, I had to add a 10th, recycled from May 31, 2018. Looking through 2018, short hooks were already becoming an issue then. So, at the very least, 9-hook sets might be the norm in the foreseeable future. — Maile (talk) 14:56, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Maile, I noticed that too. But I wonder how interesting are 9- and 10-hook sets filling the main page? Perhaps we really should go to twice-a-day 8-hook sets for a while. Yoninah (talk) 18:56, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- How quickly we humans forget. It was you. A definite example for keeping these things at WT:DYK. :) — Maile (talk) 21:44, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Maile I remember that note. It was in response to your adding more hooks to balance the set. I wasn't suggested anything, just asking if this was the new direction. Yoninah (talk) 22:06, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Well, ,either direction, as far as I'm concerned, the number of hooks per set should be up to the DYK regulars. If they think we should stay at 9 for a while, fine. If they think we should go back to 8, that's fine also. Whatever. — Maile (talk) 22:15, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you. It appears that consensus is for 9 hooks. Instead of increasing that to ten, maybe the administrator could find a few longer hooks to swap into the set from later prep sets, keeping to the bio/non-bio alternating format. Yoninah (talk) 22:17, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Clarification? Are you suggesting that when it comes time to promote to Queue, the admin should have the flexibility to shuffle hooks from within the Preps? Because I think some already do that, to a small degree. The thing is, nobody is really going to be able to assess the main page preview until its in the lead Queue. Again, we face the uncertainty of the other sections making last-minute changes to theirs.— Maile (talk) 23:19, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you. It appears that consensus is for 9 hooks. Instead of increasing that to ten, maybe the administrator could find a few longer hooks to swap into the set from later prep sets, keeping to the bio/non-bio alternating format. Yoninah (talk) 22:17, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
- Well, ,either direction, as far as I'm concerned, the number of hooks per set should be up to the DYK regulars. If they think we should stay at 9 for a while, fine. If they think we should go back to 8, that's fine also. Whatever. — Maile (talk) 22:15, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Nine hooks is too many IMO, per Yoninah's "wall of text" comment. It's acceptable to do it occasionally when the set is too short but I don't think it should become the norm. Also, if we routinely run nine hooks, won't that encourage the other projects to start running longer sets as well? There was a discussion at some point about adjusting the column widths from day to day to keep the page balanced - that would be a better longterm solution I think. Gatoclass (talk) 14:20, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- These are all good points. I just wish we would settle this once and for all, with nobody changing their mind. So we can quit diddling with the template. And somebody else besides me make the final adjustments of whatever is needed. I'm not making anymore adjustments on request. Gatoclass if you want to take it back to 8 hooks, please feel free to do so. Quite frankly, I really don't care if DYK looks shorter or longer than any other section on the main page. I doubt the casual reader even notices. — Maile (talk) 14:30, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Gatoclass this might be a good place to say we should decide once and for all how many hooks we have on the main page. Period. No changing back and forth when someone thinks otherwise. Are other MP sections altering their content based on what everybody else does? I don't think so. This back and forth on the number of hooks has been happening because some GF individuals like the aesthetics of everything looking neat and tidy. We can't control if the other sections run long or short, and we should not be concerned about bringing up the rear to make it all fit into a neat package on the main page. — Maile (talk) 14:57, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Maile, I'm in favour of retaining a degree of flexibility about these things, so I'd be reluctant to set any particular number in stone. But I agree we shouldn't fuss too much about a line or two of whitespace. You are not under any obligation to please any "GF individuals" who think otherwise, after all. Gatoclass (talk) 15:09, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Very well. I personally will not be again changing the number of hooks in a set; I leave it up to others. Yoninah you might be interested to know that Template:Did you know/Clear is what sets the number of hooks, and is not a protected template. You can edit it. — Maile (talk) 17:55, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- So what are we doing? The current set on the main page has 9 hooks and is still short. I'm all for going back to 8 hooks, which is much easier to assemble than 9, and keeping an eye out for balancing the set with fewer short hooks. @Gatoclass: could I reset the number of hooks to 8? Yoninah (talk) 18:32, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Very well. I personally will not be again changing the number of hooks in a set; I leave it up to others. Yoninah you might be interested to know that Template:Did you know/Clear is what sets the number of hooks, and is not a protected template. You can edit it. — Maile (talk) 17:55, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Queue 4 and 5
I think prep 4 and 5 are finished so we should promote queue 4 and 5 14.232.160.139 (talk) 08:43, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
The nominator, according to their talk page, has seven DYK credits, while the QPQ tool says they only have three. It appears that their last DYK credit was in 2012 and they are unfamiliar with the QPQ rule (it appears to not have been in place during their first DYK nominations). Considering the circumstances, can we do an WP:IAR here and treat the editor as a new nominator for the purposes of WP:DYK, thus exempting them from QPQ? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 23:18, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Queue 6 and 1
Should we promote Prep 6 and Prep 1? 14.232.160.139 (talk) 08:03, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- Preps are promoted on a regular schedule, there is usually no need to leave a message here requesting to do so, unless there are no preps that are currently up on queue. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 08:32, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
prep 1
mediation of crowd control
Template:Did you know/Preparation area 1 and Template:Did you know nominations/Crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir
... that in 2016 the Indian Army advocated mediation of crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir with pepper guns, sonic cannons, and chili grenades?
I don't know what "mediation of crowd control" means. The article and source say the government advocated replacing the use of guns with the use of less-lethal weapons. I don't think "mediation" is the word we're looking for. --valereee (talk) 13:03, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, I thought to change it in prep, and will do so now, to:
- ALT1: ... that in 2016 the Indian Army advised replacing pellet guns with non-lethal pepper guns, sonic cannons, and chili grenades for crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir? Yoninah (talk) 13:05, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- Way better, I think. It does necessarily put the article last. --valereee (talk) 13:09, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- I also re-piped the link, because "crowd control" is not the purpose of these weapons:
- ALT2: ... that in 2016 the Indian Army advised replacing pellet guns with non-lethal pepper guns, sonic cannons, and chili grenades to manage violent riots in Jammu and Kashmir?
- IMO the page name is also misleading and should be changed. Yoninah (talk) 13:11, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- I find the page name extremely confusing. I just assumed I wasn't familiar enough with the politics, but it does seem kind of strange. Maybe it's a translation issue? Like, that's a direct literal translation from Hindi or Urdu and it just doesn't feel idiomatic in English? --valereee (talk) 13:19, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- valereee I am the nom here from WikiProject India and have been struggling on the talk page to find common ground for all parties associated with this controversial article. I have gone through the discussion above and I strongly support ALT1. The title has been debated on the talk page.here is a quick summary. ALT2 may be unacceptable to some editors because they don't prefer being called rioters. The term they use for themselves is protestors. The neutral media uses the term violent clashes / violent protests. And a large number of sources on the topic does use "crowd control" which is a catch all term used by law enforcement agencies world wide that includes (in the context of Kashmir) Violent protests, peaceful protests, riots, violent clashes, etc. I personally am ok with ALT2 but i am sure this will lead to folks being unhappy when this goes to the main page. So ALT1 seems like a common ground. --DBigXrayᗙ 17:42, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- valereee, using "violent Protest
ors" will be clinging to a particular POV. The ALT2 states "violent riots" and not rioters, so this is not that offensive. These incidents are basically violent clashes also called violent riots. So if you insist then I would probably suggest using ALT2 here. ALT1 will still be my first preference, but I leave the final decision to you guys. cheers. --DBigXrayᗙ 08:14, 15 June 2019 (UTC)- DBigXray, not sure if you noticed but I actually said violent protests, not violent protestors -- that is, calling the incidents violent rather than calling the people violent -- wasn't sure if that makes any damn difference in this kind of POV issue. Trying to thread the needle, here. --valereee (talk) 10:11, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry my bad. I corrected my comment above. The people involved call it "protest" (without using the word violent, although they throw stones to kill), The government calls it "violent attack" on the scurity forces. I guess, we are good calling it "violent riots" as a middle path, which is what it is as per the actual definition of the word.--DBigXrayᗙ 10:24, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- valereee, using "violent Protest
- Way better, I think. It does necessarily put the article last. --valereee (talk) 13:09, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke
Another language issue, same set, image hook Template:Did you know nominations/Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke:
... *ALT3 ... that Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke saved the memory and the paintings of her first husband, August Macke, who portrayed her more than 200 times (example pictured)?
"saved the memory and the paintings" is strange. The source cited for the hook, which is in German, uses the word memory only twice, and neither in this context. It uses the word memoirs, but only to describe a book. I'm again wondering if it's a translation issue. Pinging nom Gerda Arendt for help. --valereee (talk) 13:39, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- The overly long passage I tried to summarize is "She began in 1915 to write about their love and marriage, episodes of family life, and travels and meetings with artists, mainly to allow their sons to know their father, or as she put it, to preserve an image of their father ("ein Bild ihres Vaters zu bewahren")." If that's too hard to summarize - probably "preserved" would be better than "saved" for the episodes from life - we can cut it. That hook will "sell" per the image. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:37, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt, Valereee
- *ALT4 ... that after the death of her husband August Macke, writer Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke chronicled their life together, and preserved his paintings that included 200 of her (example pictured), as a legacy for their children? — Maile (talk) 16:56, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda, yes, I see why that was a challenge. That's a lot to fit into a one-sentence 200-characters hook already, and then we add to it that she was painted by him 200 times. Could we divide this into two different hooks? One about the paitings, which would ideally then be an image hook, and one about a mother preserving the legacy of their dead father for her children, which wouldn't necessarily be an image hook? --valereee (talk) 17:11, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- I wrote ALT4. It would be easy to divide the hook and come up with two separate hooks. But I know Gerda Arendt may have a different vision for this, so I'll let her come up with the ALTs. — Maile (talk) 17:38, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- I more or less suggested to focus on the image topic, saying the hook will sell by the image, which I think is a must, - for how he saw her. It's also tough to combine the two things, because the writing began in World War 1, and the saving from bombing in World War II. I would not call her a writer, - it wasn't professional writing, just born from the urgency to give her children an image of their father.
- ALT5: that during World War II, Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke saved the paintings of her first husband, August Macke, who portrayed her more than 200 times (example pictured)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:37, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt, that works for me. I tried to make the article consistent with this and the source. I don't see in the source that she "moved" the paintings, although obviously she must have moved them to safety or she couldn't have saved them. Do you happen to know of a source that specifies that? --valereee (talk) 21:53, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- The sentence in German is "Elisabeth lagerte das Werk Mackes aus ihrem Berliner Haus aus und rettete es so vor der Zerstörung." (moved them from the Berlin house) - Sigh, no source, - there will be one, but we don't know. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:08, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt, oh, no, that actually is exactly what I was looking for! It says she moved them. Was she saving them from something, or just saving them as in keeping them rather than leaving them behind or selling them or whatever? Saving can mean so many things in English! :D --valereee (talk) 10:17, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- I found something, pp 116–118, will add to the article. She moved the paintings from the Berlin house that was afterwards bombed. If that can be worded better fine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:13, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt, that's great! Thank you for the extra work. I think then ALT5 . --valereee (talk) valereee (talk) 13:05, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- I'm replacing the hook in prep with ALT5, substituting "safeguarded" for "saved" so it makes sense:
- ALT5a: ... that during World War II, Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke safeguarded the paintings of her first husband, August Macke, who portrayed her more than 200 times (example pictured)? Yoninah (talk) 17:08, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt, that's great! Thank you for the extra work. I think then ALT5 . --valereee (talk) valereee (talk) 13:05, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- I found something, pp 116–118, will add to the article. She moved the paintings from the Berlin house that was afterwards bombed. If that can be worded better fine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:13, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt, oh, no, that actually is exactly what I was looking for! It says she moved them. Was she saving them from something, or just saving them as in keeping them rather than leaving them behind or selling them or whatever? Saving can mean so many things in English! :D --valereee (talk) 10:17, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- The sentence in German is "Elisabeth lagerte das Werk Mackes aus ihrem Berliner Haus aus und rettete es so vor der Zerstörung." (moved them from the Berlin house) - Sigh, no source, - there will be one, but we don't know. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:08, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt, that works for me. I tried to make the article consistent with this and the source. I don't see in the source that she "moved" the paintings, although obviously she must have moved them to safety or she couldn't have saved them. Do you happen to know of a source that specifies that? --valereee (talk) 21:53, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- ALT5: that during World War II, Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke saved the paintings of her first husband, August Macke, who portrayed her more than 200 times (example pictured)? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:37, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
- I more or less suggested to focus on the image topic, saying the hook will sell by the image, which I think is a must, - for how he saw her. It's also tough to combine the two things, because the writing began in World War 1, and the saving from bombing in World War II. I would not call her a writer, - it wasn't professional writing, just born from the urgency to give her children an image of their father.
Tech question re DYKUpdateBot/Errors
DYKUpdateBot/Errors kicked off this error three minutes before it should have moved the hooks to the main page:
Ten minutes later the bot posted that all errors had been cleared, and moved the hooks to the main page. In checking Talk:Siege of Calais (1346–1347), the bot did not add the usual DYK template of the nomination appearing on the main page. I added it manually.
Can someone please advise what the bot saw as an error, so that we can avoid/correct the issue in advance next time? — Maile (talk) 13:53, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Pinging Shubinator, who wrote the bot, and is likely to know what would cause that error to be generated. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:37, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Prep 4:Crab in Macau
Template:Did you know/Preparation area 4 and Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Nanhaipotamon
... that researchers discovered a new species of freshwater crab, genus Nanhaipotamon, in Macau, one of the most densely-populated regions on Earth?
Not clear from hook how Macau being densely populated has any relation to discovery of a new species? I see it mentioned also in the article and abstract of the source, but no indication why it's relevant. It feels like random information. --valereee (talk) 19:12, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- I agree. I think it means that the crabs were mostly populated in Macau, but finding something where it most lives seems quite normal to me Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 19:32, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- The point is that in a densely populated area you do not expect to find a species which has not previously been described and is therefore new to science. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:07, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Do you think there's a way to pull that in? Like, "...that researchers were surprised to discover a new species of freshwater crab, genus Nanhalpotamon, in one of the world's most densely populated areas?" or something like that? --valereee (talk) 21:45, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- As far as I can tell, much of the appeal of the hook was that it was discovered in Macau, so while sometimes vagueness adds to the hookiness of hooks, this doesn't appear to be such a case. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:31, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- We might be able to shoehorn Macau in...
- ALT2 ...that researchers were surprised to discover a new species of freshwater crab, genus Nanhaipotamon, in one of the world's most densely-populated areas, Macau?
- ALT3 ...that researchers were surprised to discover a new species of freshwater crab in one of the world's most densely-populated areas, Macau?
- --valereee (talk) 14:09, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Let's go with:
- ALT3a: ...that researchers were surprised to discover a new species of freshwater crab in Macau, one of the world's most densely-populated areas? Yoninah (talk) 17:05, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Wait a minute. Why are we saying "surprised"? It's not in the article. Yoninah (talk) 21:30, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Good point. There's no evidence that anyone was surprised about it. Also, given the article is about a genus, having a link referring to a "species" seems a bit WP:EASTEREGG maybe. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 21:35, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- The hook is now in Prep 5. If nothing is done about it in the next 24 hours, I'll return it to the noms page for further work. Pinging nominator @Bubbleleg96:. Yoninah (talk) 21:38, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Valereee, Yoninah, Amakuru, Lee Vilenski, Cwmhiraeth, and Narutolovehinata5: This most likely will have to be reconciled without the nominator/article creator. This article has been their only contribution since one edit in 2018, and several edits in Nov-Dec 2017. — Maile (talk) 22:08, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Valereee, Yoninah, Amakuru, Lee Vilenski, Cwmhiraeth, Narutolovehinata5, and Maile66: Macau is a tourist destination and very small and densly-populated place. So even in places where you would never expect it, researchers still discover new species, and, apparently, at the same time not many people seem to care for their close-by environment. That is the whole point of the hook and the article. I am not entirely sure how to change it without removing its appeal... Bubbleleg96 06:21, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Valereee, Yoninah, Amakuru, Lee Vilenski, Cwmhiraeth, and Narutolovehinata5: This most likely will have to be reconciled without the nominator/article creator. This article has been their only contribution since one edit in 2018, and several edits in Nov-Dec 2017. — Maile (talk) 22:08, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- The hook is now in Prep 5. If nothing is done about it in the next 24 hours, I'll return it to the noms page for further work. Pinging nominator @Bubbleleg96:. Yoninah (talk) 21:38, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Good point. There's no evidence that anyone was surprised about it. Also, given the article is about a genus, having a link referring to a "species" seems a bit WP:EASTEREGG maybe. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 21:35, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Wait a minute. Why are we saying "surprised"? It's not in the article. Yoninah (talk) 21:30, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- As far as I can tell, much of the appeal of the hook was that it was discovered in Macau, so while sometimes vagueness adds to the hookiness of hooks, this doesn't appear to be such a case. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:31, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Do you think there's a way to pull that in? Like, "...that researchers were surprised to discover a new species of freshwater crab, genus Nanhalpotamon, in one of the world's most densely populated areas?" or something like that? --valereee (talk) 21:45, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- The point is that in a densely populated area you do not expect to find a species which has not previously been described and is therefore new to science. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:07, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Considering the issues with the new proposals, how about:
- ALT0a ... that researchers discovered a new species of freshwater crab in Macau, one of the world's most densely-populated areas?
- ALT0b ... that researchers discovered a new species of freshwater crab in the genus Nanhaipotamon in Macau, one of the world's most densely-populated areas?
- ALT0c ... that in 2018, researchers discovered a new species of freshwater crab in Macau?
Seems to better reflect the article, and I personally think the mention of Macau itself is hooky enough even without the mention of densest places, though I suppose others may disagree. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 23:39, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- So none of these sources make any references to it being somehow unexpected to find new species in places like Macau? Is it SYNTHy for us to develop a hook around that? We're putting the two points into one sentence, so implying there's a connection and that it's relevant information. No one else is connecting the new species vs. the dense population? Maybe it's just that all these sources are scientific publications and it's just understood? I agree it's fascinating, but shouldn't someone be pointing it out? --valereee (talk) 10:19, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- ETA: the source that supports the hook hereis a paper about the freshwater crabs in Macau. The introduction starts with a short paragraph describing Macau, mentioning it's a gambling capital and densely populated. The next paragraph starts with The freshwater crabs of Macau have not been scientifically documented to the best of our knowledge. So it's probably not unexpected that a new species has been found, even in a densely populated area. --valereee (talk) 10:44, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Its not unusual to find new species in densely populated areas. It just takes someone with the required knowledge to identify them making an effort to look for them. Although its normally insects (you would be surprised what you can find even in the average city yard/garden), its unsurprising that a city on the banks of a huge estuary has found crabs. Only in death does duty end (talk) 14:05, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Based on the numerous opinions here pointing out problems with the premise of the hook, I've returned it to WP:DYKN for a new hook. Yoninah (talk) 20:43, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Valereee, Yoninah, and Only in death: It is just my opinion, but even if the freshwater crab fauna of a certain place has not been studied to the best of our knowledge, would you always expect new species everywhere? That is to say, in Zhuhai and adjacent areas, Nanhaipotamon guangdongense is pretty common and widespread and even occurs on Qi'ao island, which is farther away from the mainland than Macau. So I'd have expected N. guangdongense to occur in Macau, not a new species. This new species is indeed endemic, only known from Macau, although extensive survey efforts in the surrounding areas have been made. @Only in death: I agree that new insect species are constantly discovered even in big, densely-populated cities, but these crabs are pretty big (up to 4 cm carapace width) and abundant where they live (although mostly nocturnal, they come out at day after heavy rainfalls). So as a comparative example, wouldn´t you be surprised to find a new species of 4 cm long stag beetle, which is endemic to a small area, which also happens to be full of people? What´s more, Nanhaipotamon crabs are collected for the pet trade and have been known as a food source in some places, so there is even a certain economic value to them. Of course, I can talk about this all day and it is up to you to believe me, because most of this information has not been officially reported in scientific publications yet. Nanhaipotamon crabs and freshwater crabs in general are an incredibly understudied group. I may be biased since I am really interested in these crabs, but just as a comparison, when a new species of micro-mangrove crab was described from mangroves in Hong Kong, this was featured in a similar fashion, as beeing unexpected during a routine survey of mangroves [1]
- Bubbleleg96 (talk) 00:23, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- The discussion has moved back to Template:Did you know nominations/Nanhaipotamon. Please add further comments there. Thank you, Yoninah (talk) 00:25, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- Based on the numerous opinions here pointing out problems with the premise of the hook, I've returned it to WP:DYKN for a new hook. Yoninah (talk) 20:43, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Its not unusual to find new species in densely populated areas. It just takes someone with the required knowledge to identify them making an effort to look for them. Although its normally insects (you would be surprised what you can find even in the average city yard/garden), its unsurprising that a city on the banks of a huge estuary has found crabs. Only in death does duty end (talk) 14:05, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- ETA: the source that supports the hook hereis a paper about the freshwater crabs in Macau. The introduction starts with a short paragraph describing Macau, mentioning it's a gambling capital and densely populated. The next paragraph starts with The freshwater crabs of Macau have not been scientifically documented to the best of our knowledge. So it's probably not unexpected that a new species has been found, even in a densely populated area. --valereee (talk) 10:44, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- So none of these sources make any references to it being somehow unexpected to find new species in places like Macau? Is it SYNTHy for us to develop a hook around that? We're putting the two points into one sentence, so implying there's a connection and that it's relevant information. No one else is connecting the new species vs. the dense population? Maybe it's just that all these sources are scientific publications and it's just understood? I agree it's fascinating, but shouldn't someone be pointing it out? --valereee (talk) 10:19, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
DYK is almost overdue
In less than two hours Did you know will need to be updated, however the next queue either has no hooks or has not been approved by an administrator. It would be much appreciated if an administrator would take the time to ensure that DYK is updated on time by following these instructions:
- Check the prep areas; if there are between 6 and 10 hooks on the page then it is probably good to go. If not move approved hooks from the suggestions page and add them and the credits as required.
- Once completed edit queue #6 and replace the page with the entire content from the next update
- Add {{DYKbotdo|~~~}} to the top of the queue and save the page
Then, when the time is right I will be able to update the template. Thanks and have a good day, DYKUpdateBot (talk) 22:08, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Is nothing safe from DYK?
Template:Trains portal/Did you know uses SNCF BB 13000, which is a couple of years old. I thought that once articles had been around for a while, they were safe from this? Andy Dingley (talk) 15:49, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Safe from what? You have linked a portal template: Template:Trains portal/Did you know. Are you concerned someone might try to nominate an old article to DYK? @Slambo:, who is an admin, created that Portal. Maybe they can explain. — Maile (talk) 16:15, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- I'm concerned when any article gets nominated for the DYK treatment. I'm particularly concerned that it still has this bizarrely secretive process, where the last thing that anyone familiar with the article knows is when it's tagged as "Today a randomly picked and almost always misunderstood factoid has been plucked from this article, whatever its insignificance, and plastered somewhere prominent". At least it's not on anywhere anyone reads. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:55, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- I'm a little inexperienced with portals,but isn't this completely separate to the official DYK process? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 17:15, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Those are Portal:Trains DYKs, which have absolutely nothing to do with Main Page DYKs. I'd say that most people here were probably completely unaware of them until now (I certainly was). See their rules at Portal:Trains/Did you know. You should probably take your concerns to Portal talk:Trains. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 19:19, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- I'm a little inexperienced with portals,but isn't this completely separate to the official DYK process? Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 17:15, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- I'm concerned when any article gets nominated for the DYK treatment. I'm particularly concerned that it still has this bizarrely secretive process, where the last thing that anyone familiar with the article knows is when it's tagged as "Today a randomly picked and almost always misunderstood factoid has been plucked from this article, whatever its insignificance, and plastered somewhere prominent". At least it's not on anywhere anyone reads. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:55, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- What a bizarre thread this is. In my experience "DYK" style templates are used all over the Wiki, particularly in places like WikiProjects and Portals, as a means of showcasing a selection of articles. I even had one transcluded on my own user page many years ago. As noted above, such entities are unconnected with the main page DYK process, and are not km any way governed by its rules of recently expanded or recently promoted good articles. Furthermore, I'm not sure why any of this matters. If you spot something inaccurate in an article or portal then fix it. Otherwise, just let people present the information on that topic in any way they choose. — Amakuru (talk) 21:19, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
If you spot something inaccurate in an article or portal then fix it.
- What a bizarre thread this is. In my experience "DYK" style templates are used all over the Wiki, particularly in places like WikiProjects and Portals, as a means of showcasing a selection of articles. I even had one transcluded on my own user page many years ago. As noted above, such entities are unconnected with the main page DYK process, and are not km any way governed by its rules of recently expanded or recently promoted good articles. Furthermore, I'm not sure why any of this matters. If you spot something inaccurate in an article or portal then fix it. Otherwise, just let people present the information on that topic in any way they choose. — Amakuru (talk) 21:19, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- How does one "fix" a DYK which has already gone live? How does one know that a DYK is inappropriate beforehand, when their selection is kept secret from those who worked on, or who are watching, the articles concerned? Andy Dingley (talk) 02:02, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- What are you talking about? Nothing about DYK is kept secret. Every single nomination is listed at Template talk:Did you know, which is directly linked from the main page. -Zanhe (talk) 02:08, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Nominations, or potential nominations, are not notified on the articles, or to those involved in their authoring. Despite this having been repeatedly put forward over several years. You might also note that SNCF BB 13000 is not linked from Template talk:Did you know. Andy Dingley (talk) 02:16, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Please read how things work over at WP:DYK. Note that the majority of DYK nominations are put forward by the article authors or contributors themselves, so while it happens, it's relatively uncommon for article authors to know that their article has been nominated for DYK, because usually they themselves are the ones that launch the proceedings. In fact, as a courtesy, if the weren't the nominator, they tend to be pinged or notified otherwise of discussions. As for "fixing" DYKs, there are two venues: this page and WP:ERRORS. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 02:56, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Nominations, or potential nominations, are not notified on the articles, or to those involved in their authoring. Despite this having been repeatedly put forward over several years. You might also note that SNCF BB 13000 is not linked from Template talk:Did you know. Andy Dingley (talk) 02:16, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- What are you talking about? Nothing about DYK is kept secret. Every single nomination is listed at Template talk:Did you know, which is directly linked from the main page. -Zanhe (talk) 02:08, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- How does one "fix" a DYK which has already gone live? How does one know that a DYK is inappropriate beforehand, when their selection is kept secret from those who worked on, or who are watching, the articles concerned? Andy Dingley (talk) 02:02, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- WP:OWN comes to mind about your frustration. Nobody on Wikipedia is required to notify anybody about anything they choose to edit or nominate. DYK can't make rules requiring something that would suggest ownership. Other than that: (1) Under your user Preferences/Notifications/Notify me about these events/Page link. Check it, and that should take care of any links for something you created. Any DYK nominations have the article linked in the nomination. Your issue is not with DYK but with what you perceive as a lack of system to notify you or interested parties on the article itself. That's something that needs to be developed by programmers. You may discuss that at WP:VPT. — Maile (talk) 03:04, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- It's not OWN, it's the WP:COMPETENCE of those at DYK. For years it has been suggested, seriously, that DYK should be closed because of the poor quality of the hooks it produces. A factor in doing that is the deliberate exclusion of editors involved with, and thus at least somewhat knowledgeable about, the topic at hand. Automated processes to give better notifications are certainly possible for DYK (we do this for AfD and have done for years), but equally a manual process would suffice (with a bit more typing effort) and is what we do at ANI. Why does DYK now simply have a policy that candidate articles are templated on their talk: page? That would be trivially easy and could be set up in moments. Why is the DYK clique so opposed to this.
- I already have all the potential link warnings etc. for this article turned on. Thus I was notified yesterday that it was already live on a DYK box (fortunately just for a portal). There were no other preparatory links made (at least none which I saw, or can see now) until the "live" link. Now if this is because portal DYKs simply don't follow the "new article" filter rule that the main DYK does, then why couldn't you have simply said that from the outset? Andy Dingley (talk) 09:36, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Andy Dingley, so your argument seems to be that DYK needs to go away because those working at DYK are incompetent. Do you think the problem is that only incompetent people are attracted to working at DYK, or that somehow working at DYK turns competent people into incompetent people? Because I'd argue that in fact it's a challenging job that gets very high levels of scrutiny. --valereee (talk) 12:27, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Why is it too hard for people working on DYK (any DYK location) to tag the pages being considered for use? One simple template, that's all it would take. Much like ANI.
- As it is, the hooks generated are poor and frequently their paraphrasing leads to inaccuracy (the claimed links between the South Devon Railway and the Talyllyn would raise a few eyebrows amongst older steam preservationists in the UK). For the BB 13000 it seems to have randomly picked one of the least important and uninteresting points about it, just because it was the last para in the article. Why not instead use something important about these locos, from the last para of electrification or the first of Design?
- DYK seems to go out of its way to exclude the involvement of those writing the articles. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:04, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Andy Dingley, the point about posting a notification to the article talk page is a good one; I believe I've actually done that on every DYK I've nom'd, and I'd support that as being required. But you're still missing 99% of the point we've been making to you: The project you are referring to is NOT part of this project and is completely unconnected to it. --14:18, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Andy Dingley - Hey man, let's talk on the appropriate talk page about this. I've posted below about how I select the items for inclusion on Portal:Trains; we both want to improve the process and the outcomes. Let's talk! Slambo (Speak) 23:49, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- I have begun a lengthy section on the portal DYK talk page for this discussion. I suggest that it be closed here and further comments directed there. Thanks! Slambo (Speak) 00:40, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- Andy Dingley, so your argument seems to be that DYK needs to go away because those working at DYK are incompetent. Do you think the problem is that only incompetent people are attracted to working at DYK, or that somehow working at DYK turns competent people into incompetent people? Because I'd argue that in fact it's a challenging job that gets very high levels of scrutiny. --valereee (talk) 12:27, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- WP:OWN comes to mind about your frustration. Nobody on Wikipedia is required to notify anybody about anything they choose to edit or nominate. DYK can't make rules requiring something that would suggest ownership. Other than that: (1) Under your user Preferences/Notifications/Notify me about these events/Page link. Check it, and that should take care of any links for something you created. Any DYK nominations have the article linked in the nomination. Your issue is not with DYK but with what you perceive as a lack of system to notify you or interested parties on the article itself. That's something that needs to be developed by programmers. You may discuss that at WP:VPT. — Maile (talk) 03:04, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- SNCF BB 13000 is not linked from Template talk:Did you know because it's never been nominated for DYK. Slambo is the person who added it to Template:Trains portal/Did you know, but that page has absolutely nothing to do with DYK. That page seems to be entirely maintained by that single editor for the past 14 years! -Zanhe (talk) 04:06, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- This conversation is so silly. We're talking about Template:Trains portal/Did you know, which, despite the name, is completely different to this. It doesn't effect this, and has no bearing. The rules are different, and seems like a one-person creation that isn't related. We should ignore. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 09:43, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Andy Dingley,Did you know ... that Did You Know ... is a phrase that is used everywhere, and has been for centuries? A random search on Google news brings up 68,800,000 results of the term, and that's just current stuff. Newspapers.com brings up 99,003,222 matches. The DYK in question here has nothing to do with our project. Clarification below from the editor of Portal Trains. So please stop arguing about our project over something that had nothing to do with this project. — Maile (talk) 13:35, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- I am the main editor on Portal:Trains. This portal's purpose is to highlight articles that are within the scope of WP:Trains and to give an overview of material about trains. As noted above, the portal has no connection to the Main Page processes other than to use them as a procedural model. I choose the items that are listed in the portal's DYK section and I have done so daily since the portal's inception in May 2005. I have also tried to encourage other editors to suggest candidates for portal content since May 2005. The DYK suggestion page, specifically, is at Portal:Trains/Did you know candidates, which is reached directly from the Candidates link within the DYK box on the portal. When nobody suggests articles to show in this section, which is the case that I see almost every day, including today, I have to pick something. My current process is to look at Category:C-Class rail transport articles; I am currently looking at articles whose titles begin with S. The article mentioned at the beginning of this discussion happened to be the next in the list that I saw on the morning that it was included that was sufficiently complete, had an interesting fact, had an appropriate photograph, was reasonably verifiable and had not appeared in the DYK section in the last 10 years.
- If there is an article or image that you want to see highlighted on Portal:Trains, please click on the associated candidates link and let me know. I am happy to include other editors' suggestions as they are given.
- Slambo (Speak) 10:56, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- The text of the specific DYK item in concern for this discussion was copied almost exactly from the last paragraph of the article's Design section. So if there is something that should not be included in DYK because it is false, it should be corrected on the article where it is mentioned so it is not included in the first place. I have been corrected on the accuracy of items in the DYK before, and every time it is the article from which the DYK item is derived that requires an update. If needed, I have and will update the DYK item as it shows on the portal, and I copy that correction to the portal's DYK archive.
- If you have a better way to select and curate the portal's DYK content, I would be happy to discuss it; a better place for that discussion would be the portal's DYK candidates talk page.
- Slambo (Speak) 11:16, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Quick Question
Hello all, I just wanted to ask a quick question about a requirement for DYK articles. My article I've recently nominated - Bank of England £100,000,000 note (Template:Did you know nominations/Bank of England £100,000,000 note) - was first created by me on 28 April 2019 and so therefore is not considered new in terms of creation as it is clearly older than 7 days. However in terms of the minimum 5x expansion, does the expansion have to be in terms of total number of characters (including spaces, infoboxes, notes and refs, links, symbols like [ { etc...) or is it only in terms of actual content like pure, hearty writing. I'm asking this because, before expansion, the article (a stub) contained simply a 1 sentence lede for all the content and a barely filled out infobox, however it was around 2400+ characters big due to things like random external links and a massive unfilled infobox and, therefore, in terms of characters I've only expanded it by, say, 3x (if it was in terms of content it would be expanded by around 15x-20x). TheBestEditorInEngland (talk) 00:05, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- @TheBestEditorInEngland: For the 5x requirement, you only need to make sure that the prose content (i.e. just text, not tables/infoboxes/references/etc.) was 5x longer than what was in the article when you started expanding it. There's the DYK check tool which can make checking this a lot easier; I recommend you use it even when writing articles since it helps you keep track of length and other requirements. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:25, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- ... and, according to DYKcheck, 5x expansion began on 10 June. You nominated it on 11 June, so your timing was perfectly acceptable. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 01:17, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Indeed, highly recommend DYKcheck, as it's how most of us review the articles in the first place. BTW, the idea of a 100 million pound note even existing is exactly the sort of thing DYK is designed for. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 09:45, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks everyone for clearing that up for me! TheBestEditorInEngland (talk) 15:34, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Indeed, highly recommend DYKcheck, as it's how most of us review the articles in the first place. BTW, the idea of a 100 million pound note even existing is exactly the sort of thing DYK is designed for. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 09:45, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- ... and, according to DYKcheck, 5x expansion began on 10 June. You nominated it on 11 June, so your timing was perfectly acceptable. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 01:17, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Nomination for July 1 (Canada Day)
I've nominated a time-sensitive six-article DYK hook and wanted to alert volunteers before there's even more of a time crunch. The last GA passed June 16, and the articles and hook are ready for DYK review at Template:Did you know nominations/1st Canadian Comedy Awards. It's meant to be a fun Canadian thing for Canada Day. I believe that the expansions are long enough, but if some do not qualify I'd still like it to run (with any failed articles non-bolded). Three of the articles (including two GAs) are fairly long. – Reidgreg (talk) 12:18, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Reidgreg I've reviewed the two food articles; maybe someone else could take a look at the remaining ones? --valereee (talk) 16:10, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
New script for making DYK nominations
Those who regularly create DYK nominations may want to use this new script - User:SD0001/DYK-helper, featuring a live character counter to make sure your hooks stay within the 200-char limit. It also displays the prose size, and automatically transcludes the nomination to T:DYKT and article talk pages. Any cool new feature suggestions or bug reports or other feedback is most welcome. SD0001 (talk) 15:53, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- SD0001, way cool! Is it possible for others besides the nom to use portions of the script? That is, if I start reviewing an article and discover the nom hasn't been transcluded to the article talk, will that be obvious to me and will this (or can this be tweaked to) allow me to just push a button and make that happen? Sorry for my ignorance of how scripts run. --valereee (talk) 16:14, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- SD0001, Valereee - Unless we see a special request on this talk page, the nomination would have to be transcluded for reviewers to even know it's there. So at this point, I guess it falls on the nominator to make sure it transcluded to the correct page. If not, they could add it manually, or ask someone here to transclude it for them. Since a lot of nominators are new to the process, I'm also guessing we also retain the current method for those who won't have the script loaded. — Maile (talk) 18:53, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Has there been historical objection to asking noms to add the transclusion to the article talk page, as the OP in the above convo says? No matter how wrongheaded he is about the trains thing, it does seem like having folks who've got an article on their watchlist see it's been nom'd at DYK would be productive to ensuring hooks and articles are in the best possible shape, and their scrutiny of hooks would almost have to be helpful. But maybe I'm missing something there. --valereee (talk) 19:20, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- SD0001, Valereee - Unless we see a special request on this talk page, the nomination would have to be transcluded for reviewers to even know it's there. So at this point, I guess it falls on the nominator to make sure it transcluded to the correct page. If not, they could add it manually, or ask someone here to transclude it for them. Since a lot of nominators are new to the process, I'm also guessing we also retain the current method for those who won't have the script loaded. — Maile (talk) 18:53, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- SD0001 she said "T:DYKT and article talk pages" in her comment. Right now, each nominator has to manually transclude their nomination to T:DYKT. — Maile (talk) 19:35, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Maile66, Going by the quoted text, you're probably mistaking what I wrote in the original post with what she said. While I understand transclusion to T:DYKT is compulsory, transclusion to article talk page as well is recommended at Template:T:TDYK/editintro. The script automates all these steps, so that the nominator doesn't have to do them manually. The script is only there to make life easier, it doesn't replace any existing process, or indeed cause any visible changes to the DYK process. SD0001 (talk) 19:50, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- SD0001 she said "T:DYKT and article talk pages" in her comment. Right now, each nominator has to manually transclude their nomination to T:DYKT. — Maile (talk) 19:35, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- This is a fantastic adition. Well done Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 19:54, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- The hook character counting algorithm is incorrect. It apparently doesn't count any italicized text. While "(pictured)" doesn't count, other italicized text does. In the example on the script page, "Golem" should be counted, and the total should be 85 rather than 80. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:09, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
July 12 and 31 birthday requests
I have submitted Template:Did you know nominations/Isao Kataoka for a July 12 birthday anniversary, and Template:Did you know nominations/Kent Angus for a July 31 birthday. I hope this is sufficient notice, and thank you for considering the nominations. Flibirigit (talk) 16:00, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Done Template:Did you know nominations/Isao Kataoka reviewed and placed in special occasions holding area for July 12. Yoninah (talk) 21:58, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
Prep 2 - Nikolai Yegipko
@Amakuru, Yoninah, Valereee, and Cwmhiraeth: I don't know who is around right now, and it's about 3 hours to promotion. Could we shuffle another hook in place of Nikolai Yegipko, and put this Hero of the Soviet Union in a lead hook somewhere? I don't mean moving Al Hoceima National Park. Leave Yegipko's hook as written, but make it a lead hook somewhere? Take a good look at his image. It's excellent quality, and an interesting article (AGF on Russian sourcing). And this would make a great lead hook. Would anybody be willing to do a swap? — Maile (talk) 20:47, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, that sounds a good plan. I'll look at it now. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 20:54, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks Amakuru. — Maile (talk) 21:30, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- No worries. I've also moved prep 3 up to queue 3 and moved the Nikolai hook out to prep 3, to avoid the issue mentioned by Valereee above. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 21:40, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Maile, why do you say the image is "excellent quality"? It's awfully dark at thumbnail size, and being a little blurry doesn't help. Can one of our image experts fix this up somehow?
- I'm also wondering why the new prep sets are appearing with nine hook slots when I inputted eight slots at Template:Did you know/Clear? Also, the new sets have a question mark after each hook ... strange. Yoninah (talk) 00:22, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- Perhaps Amakuru is using an old 9-hook template copy? — Maile (talk) 00:42, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- I was told my Maile on my talk page to be resetting it to nine hook versions for now, and it looks like there was consensus from the discussion above to do that, given the daily problems with balance. @Yoninah: why did you change it back to eight? There should be a fresh discussion if we want to reverse the earlier one. — Amakuru (talk) 05:43, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- Perhaps Amakuru is using an old 9-hook template copy? — Maile (talk) 00:42, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- No worries. I've also moved prep 3 up to queue 3 and moved the Nikolai hook out to prep 3, to avoid the issue mentioned by Valereee above. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 21:40, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks Amakuru. — Maile (talk) 21:30, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
- Amakuru you have to go back up and read the rest of the thread on WT:DYK#Increase_number_of_hooks?. This whole issue gives me a headache. Start where it says "FYI, Queue 4 next in line ... ". I've thrown in the towel on that issue. — Maile (talk) 10:52, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Maile66: Ah, I see. So one person objected after we'd come to a consensus to make the change, with several editors in support, and suddenly it's reversed again without anyone being notified? We should stick with the decisions we've made, otherwise there is not much point in people participating in the discussions. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 11:08, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- You're right, Amakuru, but Gatoclass was also right. As soon as we switched to 9-hook sets, Maile added a tenth hook to further lengthen the set, and at that point I realized things were getting out of hand. We could easily have added an eleventh hook to fill up that little space at the bottom. So I acted boldly and went back to 8-hook sets. Yoninah (talk) 12:03, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Maile66: Ah, I see. So one person objected after we'd come to a consensus to make the change, with several editors in support, and suddenly it's reversed again without anyone being notified? We should stick with the decisions we've made, otherwise there is not much point in people participating in the discussions. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 11:08, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- Amakuru you have to go back up and read the rest of the thread on WT:DYK#Increase_number_of_hooks?. This whole issue gives me a headache. Start where it says "FYI, Queue 4 next in line ... ". I've thrown in the towel on that issue. — Maile (talk) 10:52, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
That really wasn't much of a discussion Amakuru, the move to nine hooks was made without much consideration at all - just "oh good, it will eliminate the whitespace and stabilize the backlog". But as I tried to point out above, there are other considerations. Firstly, the "wall of text" issue that Yoninah mentioned, an objection with which I fully concur. Secondly, the increased difficulty in creating balanced sets - we generally have a large number of hooks on recurring themes - sports, building and structures, species hooks etc - the difficulty in creating a balanced set increases exponentially with every hook added. It's more work both for set builders and set verifiers. In addition to the problem of variety, there is also the issue of overall hook interest - two good hooks are enough for an 8-hook set, but for a 9-hook set you really need three. Also, as I said above, running routinely longer sets is only likely to encourage the other projects to do the same.
Ultimately, the two sides of the main page are never going to line up perfectly anyway, unless one adjusts the border width on a daily basis (I'm not sure what happened to that discussion). And I really don't think a little bit of whitespace is much of an issue anyhow - there is one particular user who agitates about it constantly, but other than that, we have never had complaints about it. Above all, it's the readership that matters - and cramming the page with as many hooks as will fit is doing a disservice to the reader in my view, per the "wall of text" argument above. So I think we should stick to 8 as the standard. If you want to add an occasional hook to correct a glaring gap, that's fine with me, but I don't think we should be running nine routinely. Gatoclass (talk) 12:51, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- And just my perspective about this, and recent events of pulled hooks and whatnot. It seems to me that for the good of the project, all discussions about changes to the process, or problems with any nominated hook or set, should happen either on this talk page, or on the nomination template. It facilitates the process and the end user to only have to look to one of two places - here, or their own nomination template - to find information on changes. — Maile (talk) 14:27, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- Sure. My general approach is that when an issue is reported at WP:ERRORS (or, indeed, at the controversial WP:ERRORS2) I raise it here if it seems like the fix will be controversial, otherwise I go ahead and do it. When the main page is clearly unbalanced, either top or bottom, I add or remove bits from whichever sections make most sense (today I took away an OTD hook). That said, though, the change to nine hooks did seem like a good one to me - and just because I didn't pen a whole essay on the topic in the section above doesn't mean I hadn't thought about it. Ultimately it's up to you guys and I'm not that bothered about the number we use, but given that most days we are likely to end up with nine hooks anyway once it becomes clear that the page is unbalanced, I would have thought it's still better to have them generated through the normal process, which ensures balance, rather than on-the-fly by an admin. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 14:43, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Amakuru, Yoninah, Valereee, Cwmhiraeth, and Gatoclass: just so you all know, my recent comment above was not about any of you all, or any one or group of users. More of a comment of my recent experiences of the last month or so. Beginning with the unsourced hook I pulled back in May, where the end user assumed I had done so at the insistence of some off-project comment. And everything else since. This is beginning to seem to me like a Through the Looking-Glass experience, in regards to the confusion generated because threads to any given action are found hither and yon. We could do better by concentrating where the end user finds relevant conversations. Either here, or the nomination template itself. — Maile (talk) 15:04, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- I am not too bothered about whether there are eight hooks per set or nine, but if at any time an extra hook is to be added for balance, I suggest you take one from a prep set rather than reusing one that previously ran. We currently have 164 approved hooks, so it is not difficult to make balanced sets. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:32, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- I agree with Cwmhiraeth. Yoninah (talk) 18:05, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- I am not too bothered about whether there are eight hooks per set or nine, but if at any time an extra hook is to be added for balance, I suggest you take one from a prep set rather than reusing one that previously ran. We currently have 164 approved hooks, so it is not difficult to make balanced sets. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:32, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Amakuru, Yoninah, Valereee, Cwmhiraeth, and Gatoclass: just so you all know, my recent comment above was not about any of you all, or any one or group of users. More of a comment of my recent experiences of the last month or so. Beginning with the unsourced hook I pulled back in May, where the end user assumed I had done so at the insistence of some off-project comment. And everything else since. This is beginning to seem to me like a Through the Looking-Glass experience, in regards to the confusion generated because threads to any given action are found hither and yon. We could do better by concentrating where the end user finds relevant conversations. Either here, or the nomination template itself. — Maile (talk) 15:04, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Jedermann
Ellen Schwiers is in the next queue, playing the role of the Buhlschaft in a play and a film. A translation of Buhlschaft, Paramour, has been added, but I am not too happy. Paramour is not mentioned in the play, nor in the film. When we say that a singer plays Carmen, we leave the role name without translating it to "Song" although that is what it means. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:12, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: the problem was that you wrote in the hook, "the Buhlschaft", which made me wonder what a Buhlschaft was. Usually you just write the role piped to the play: [[Jedermann (play)|Buhlschaft]], without the definite article. Yoninah (talk) 16:26, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- OK, my mistake. In German, you would say "die Buhlschaft" and "die Carmen", - still too much in German. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:28, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- OK, we'll delete the "the". But the hook is in the queue. @Maile66: @Amakuru: could you change the hook to:
- ... that Ellen Schwiers, who starred as Buhlschaft at the Salzburg Festival and in a film in 1961, founded a touring theatre company with her husband and daughter?
- Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 16:43, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- Re-pinging Maile. Yoninah (talk) 16:43, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Done — Maile (talk) 18:20, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Maile66: please delete "the" before the role. It should read:
who starred as Buhlschaft at the Salzburg Festival
. Yoninah (talk) 18:41, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Maile66: please delete "the" before the role. It should read:
- Re-pinging Maile. Yoninah (talk) 16:43, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- OK, we'll delete the "the". But the hook is in the queue. @Maile66: @Amakuru: could you change the hook to:
- OK, my mistake. In German, you would say "die Buhlschaft" and "die Carmen", - still too much in German. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:28, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
a script
I have created a script which adds Did You Know link to the top toolbar. Can you check it out User:CAPTAIN MEDUSA/DYK___CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 20:51, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Oldest DYK nominations needing reviewers
I am relisting older nominations which need a reviewer to help out.
- Over 3 months old
- February 26: Template:Did you know nominations/1 the Road
- March 12: Template:Did you know nominations/Media coverage of 2019 India–Pakistan standoff (waiting for over two months)
- Over 2 months old
March 19: Template:Did you know nominations/Ehud Arye Laniado- April 9: Template:Did you know nominations/Bohumil Herlischka
- April 12: Template:Did you know nominations/George Ali Murad Khan
- April 14: Template:Did you know nominations/Opon Ifá (waiting one month)
- 7 to 8 weeks old
- April 21: Template:Did you know nominations/Birjis Qadr
- April 23: Template:Did you know nominations/Mambo (Vodou)
- April 26: Template:Did you know nominations/Hemothorax (never reviewed)
April 30: Template:Did you know nominations/Bladimir Lugo (never reviewed)
- Over 1 month old
- May 3: Template:Did you know nominations/Operation Crossfire Hurricane
- May 3: Template:Did you know nominations/Hallo Ü-Wagen
May 5: Template:Did you know nominations/Saadat Ali Khan I (never reviewed)- May 9: Template:Did you know nominations/Ernst Christoph Dressler
- May 12: Template:Did you know nominations/Ravindra Dave (never reviewed)
- May 13: Template:Did you know nominations/Ali Eisami (never reviewed)
- May 16: Template:Did you know nominations/Mario Pouliot (never reviewed)
- May 18: Template:Did you know nominations/Leslie Leve (never reviewed)
- May 18: Template:Did you know nominations/Kine Beate Bjørnås (second opinion)
- May 18: Template:Did you know nominations/Tarzan of Manisa (never reviewed)
- May 19: Template:Did you know nominations/Heb Ik Ooit Gezegd (never reviewed)
- May 19: Template:Did you know nominations/The California Field Atlas (two articles) (never reviewed)
- Other nominations from May
- May 20: Template:Did you know nominations/Elongatoolithus and Nanhsiungoolithus (two articles) (never reviewed)
- May 20: Template:Did you know nominations/Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean (never reviewed)
- May 21: Template:Did you know nominations/Eddie Gallagher (soldier) (never reviewed)
- May 21: Template:Did you know nominations/Rolando López Salinas (second opinion)
- May 21: Template:Did you know nominations/Karen Saywitz (never reviewed)
- May 22: Template:Did you know nominations/Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (never reviewed)
- May 22: Template:Did you know nominations/Die wundersame Schustersfrau (never reviewed)
- May 22: Template:Did you know nominations/Paula R. Pietromanco (never reviewed)
- May 22: Template:Did you know nominations/Karin Takahashi (voice actress) (second opinion)
- May 22: Template:Did you know nominations/Luys i Luso (never reviewed)
- May 23: Template:Did you know nominations/Alfred Vökt (never reviewed)
- May 23: Template:Did you know nominations/Bramble Cay Melomys (never reviewed)
Thanks for helping out. Flibirigit (talk) 02:18, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
BLP violation Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Golden_State_Killer
My friends, how did a hook slip through stating that an unconvicted suspect is one of the most notorious serial killers in history --
- ... that the "Golden State Killer" was actually born in New York?
-- not to mention that there are a dozen far more interesting facts in the article that could have been used (the suspect is a former policeman, he was identified using an extraordinary new technique, etc etc)? EEng 15:07, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
- I guess the quotation marks are shorthand for "alleged"? You see that in tabloids all the time. Hardly appropriate for an encyclopedia though.-- Pawnkingthree (talk) 15:17, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
What do you mean? I added "suspected" and that's the way it appeared on the main page; see WP:DYKA for June 14. I agree the hook wasn't the best, but what's done is done. Yoninah (talk) 17:34, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
- Yeah, we shouldn't be endorsing this sort of attribution. I don't really see how it's an interesting hook even if it were definite. Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 18:39, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
DYK is almost overdue
In less than two hours Did you know will need to be updated, however the next queue either has no hooks or has not been approved by an administrator. It would be much appreciated if an administrator would take the time to ensure that DYK is updated on time by following these instructions:
- Check the prep areas; if there are between 6 and 10 hooks on the page then it is probably good to go. If not move approved hooks from the suggestions page and add them and the credits as required.
- Once completed edit queue #4 and replace the page with the entire content from the next update
- Add {{DYKbotdo|~~~}} to the top of the queue and save the page
Then, when the time is right I will be able to update the template. Thanks and have a good day, DYKUpdateBot (talk) 22:07, 19 June 2019 (UTC)