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This page gives an overview of all the hooks currently in the queue for promotion to the front page. By showing the content of all the queue and preparation area pages in one place, the overview helps administrators see how full the queue is, and also makes it easier for users to check that their hook has been promoted. Hooks removed from the prep areas or queue for unresolved issues should have their nominations reopened and retranscluded at the nomination page.
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The next update will be produced from queue 3. After doing a manual update, please update the pointer to the next queue.
Current number of hooks on the nominations page
Note: After 120 or more approved nominations, we rotate to two sets a day and when we drop below 60, we rotate to one set a day.
Count of DYK Hooks | ||
Section | # of Hooks | # Verified |
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May 17 | 1 | |
May 23 | 1 | |
June 7 | 1 | |
June 9 | 1 | |
June 13 | 1 | |
June 21 | 1 | |
June 22 | 1 | |
June 28 | 1 | |
July 1 | 1 | |
July 2 | 1 | |
July 4 | 1 | |
July 6 | 1 | |
July 10 | 1 | |
July 11 | 3 | 1 |
July 12 | 2 | |
July 13 | 3 | |
July 14 | 2 | |
July 15 | 2 | |
July 16 | 2 | |
July 17 | 2 | |
July 18 | 1 | |
July 21 | 3 | |
July 22 | 2 | |
July 24 | 1 | |
July 26 | 2 | 1 |
July 27 | 2 | 1 |
July 28 | 1 | 1 |
July 29 | 4 | 3 |
July 30 | 9 | 4 |
July 31 | 3 | 2 |
August 1 | 6 | 3 |
August 2 | 4 | 2 |
August 3 | 7 | 4 |
August 4 | 14 | 11 |
August 5 | 8 | 6 |
August 6 | 12 | 8 |
August 7 | 12 | 4 |
August 8 | 15 | 9 |
August 9 | 10 | 6 |
August 10 | 6 | 5 |
August 11 | 8 | 6 |
August 12 | 11 | 7 |
August 13 | 14 | 10 |
August 14 | 7 | 4 |
August 15 | 6 | 1 |
August 16 | 2 | 1 |
Total | 199 | 100 |
Last updated 13:22, 16 August 2021 UTC Current time is 13:23, 16 August 2021 UTC [refresh] |
DYK time
Local update times
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Queue 3 | 16 August 17:00 |
16 August 20:00 |
17 August 00:00 |
17 August 01:00 |
17 August 05:30 |
17 August 09:00 |
17 August 10:00 |
Queue 4 | 17 August 05:00 |
17 August 08:00 |
17 August 12:00 |
17 August 13:00 |
17 August 17:30 |
17 August 21:00 |
17 August 22:00 |
Queue 5 | 17 August 17:00 |
17 August 20:00 |
18 August 00:00 |
18 August 01:00 |
18 August 05:30 |
18 August 09:00 |
18 August 10:00 |
Queue 6 Prep 6 |
18 August 05:00 |
18 August 08:00 |
18 August 12:00 |
18 August 13:00 |
18 August 17:30 |
18 August 21:00 |
18 August 22:00 |
Queue 7 Prep 7 |
18 August 17:00 |
18 August 20:00 |
19 August 00:00 |
19 August 01:00 |
19 August 05:30 |
19 August 09:00 |
19 August 10:00 |
Queue 1 Prep 1 |
19 August 05:00 |
19 August 08:00 |
19 August 12:00 |
19 August 13:00 |
19 August 17:30 |
19 August 21:00 |
19 August 22:00 |
Queue 2 Prep 2 |
19 August 17:00 |
19 August 20:00 |
20 August 00:00 |
20 August 01:00 |
20 August 05:30 |
20 August 09:00 |
20 August 10:00 |
Prep 3 | 20 August 05:00 |
20 August 08:00 |
20 August 12:00 |
20 August 13:00 |
20 August 17:30 |
20 August 21:00 |
20 August 22:00 |
Prep 4 | 20 August 17:00 |
20 August 20:00 |
21 August 00:00 |
21 August 01:00 |
21 August 05:30 |
21 August 09:00 |
21 August 10:00 |
Prep 5 | 21 August 05:00 |
21 August 08:00 |
21 August 12:00 |
21 August 13:00 |
21 August 17:30 |
21 August 21:00 |
21 August 22:00 |
Queues
Queue 3 []
- ... that to preserve the surrounding natural environment, Tsunoshima Bridge (pictured) curves to avoid an island?
- ... that New Zealand author Patricia Grace did not include a glossary for Māori terms in her book Potiki because she "didn't want the Māori language to be treated as a foreign language in its own country"?
- ... that the Greek Korakou culture had two-storey buildings with internal stairs more than 4,000 years ago?
- ... that part of Keith Foulger's job was to make sure the front and back ends of Britain's first nuclear submarine fitted together?
- ... that the WandaVision song "Agatha All Along" was inspired by the theme songs of The Munsters and The Addams Family?
- ... that seventy years after the death of his tea-planter grandfather, publisher Neville Armstrong remembered his piercing blue eyes and large white spade beard?
- ... that the BBC programme DynaMo was created after a survey revealed parents did not want to help children with homework?
- ... that Norm Michael did not know he was an NFL Draft selection until 55 years later?
Queue 4 []
- ... that on the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, the traditional venue for memorials in Hong Kong lay empty (blockade pictured) for the first time in thirty-two years?
- ... that mezzo-soprano Margarita Gritskova was José Carreras's partner for his farewell concert in Carnegie Hall?
- ... that the union of taxi drivers offered the residents of retirement homes free transport to the voting stations in the Slovenian Waters Act referendum?
- ... that Robert Goodsir, searching for his brother Harry, lost with the Franklin expedition in the Arctic, found the graves of three expedition members?
- ... that Battlefield Vegas employees during the 2017 Las Vegas shooting drove several armored personnel carriers to Mandalay Bay to shield police officers at the request of a LVMPD sergeant?
- ... that the Islamic website Askimam has been called more comprehensive, influential and wide-ranging than the web resources of al-Azhar and its sympathisers put together?
- ... that professor Bronwyn Law-Viljoen became editor-in-chief of a publishing company, co-founded her own independent publishing company, and founded her own bookstore in South Africa?
- ... that astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson called out Disney for an inaccurate Frozen II poster?
Queue 5 []
- ... that the Kokawa-dera Engi Emaki, a 12th-century Japanese painted handscroll (detail pictured), was partly burned in a fire, and also partly damaged at the edges?
- ... that newspaper columnist Kenneth John helped found the Democratic Freedom Movement in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
- ... that three verses from Psalm 86 became part of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah, including the opening "Lord, bow thine ear to our pray'r"?
- ... that Massekhet Amerika by Gerson Rosenzweig satirizes Jewish life in New York in the style of a Talmudic tractate?
- ... that during the 1991 Zaire unrest, 30 to 40% of all companies in Zaire were plundered, and around 70% of the country's retail businesses were destroyed?
- ... that as the acting President of Zambia in 2014, Guy Scott became the first white leader of an African country since the end of apartheid?
- ... that Kuinini Manumua is the first woman to represent Tonga in weightlifting at the Olympic Games?
- ... that ducks frequently carried more than two and a half tons during the Siegfried Line campaign?
Queue 6 []
Queue 7 []
Queue 1 []
Queue 2 []
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Prep areas
NOTE: The next prep set to move into the queue is prep 6 [].
Prep area 6 []
- ... that Flora Mae Hunter's (pictured) cooking was enjoyed so much by the Duchess of Windsor that she gained weight on her visits to the plantation where Hunter worked?
- ... that in Indonesian, a language featuring pronoun avoidance, a common polite way to address someone else is "father" or "mother", not "you"?
- ... that Gottfried Hornik, a baritone at the Vienna State Opera for 25 years, appeared in his signature role of Beckmesser from Aachen and Barcelona in 1976 to the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in 2001?
- ... that the Beaux-Arts Apartments never went into foreclosure despite being completed at the start of the Great Depression?
- ... that Charlie N. Holmberg's idea for The Fifth Doll began with a writing exercise to develop a system of magic for a household item?
- ... that the All Time Low song "PMA" features guest vocals from Heather Baron-Gracie of the British band Pale Waves?
- ... that Song Kok Hoo was the first Asian Deputy Commissioner of Police in Singapore?
- ... that Schloss Gripsholm was dedicated by author Kurt Tucholsky to a license plate number?
Prep area 7 []
- ... that the steel-framed Church Missions House (pictured) in New York City predates the city's first steel skyscraper?
- ... that Gunhild Bergh was the second woman in Sweden to be awarded a Ph.D. in literary history?
- ... that Tone Roads No. 1, a composition for chamber ensemble by Charles Ives, was originally titled "Tone Roads, rough ones—good ones, bad ones, fast ones, slow ones!"?
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- ... that William Earle referred to slave traders as "Bite Men"?
Prep area 1 []
- ... that with his victory in the 1996 presidential election, Bill Clinton (pictured) became the first Democrat to win two consecutive presidential elections since Franklin D. Roosevelt?
- ... that the scene from The 40-Year-Old Virgin where Steve Carell gets his chest waxed was done for real, which he insisted on, and recorded in a single take?
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- ... that no one knows how a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe ended up in the Payne Whitney House?
Prep area 2 []
- ... that because the hand in the Shrine of Saint Lachtin's Arm (pictured) is clenched rather than open, it is assumed to have functioned as battle standard or talisman?
- ... that when King Hugh III of Cyprus tried to force a marriage on his vassal Lady Isabella of Beirut, the Egyptian sultan Baibars declared himself her protector?
- ... that Queen of Peace Cemetery was previously a farm owned by the founder of Westbury, New York, "the Babe Ruth of American polo," and a suspected mobster?
- ... that architect Robert Marquis believed that architecture should meet "the users' spiritual and psychological needs" in addition to being functional?
- ... that the Qing dynasty erotic novel Shenlou zhi may have been the first novel to describe the opium trade in China?
- ... that Scott Lee Kimball killed three of his four known victims while he was working as an FBI informant?
- ... that Yoko Ono considered her 1971 song "Listen, the Snow Is Falling" to be the first pop song she ever wrote?
- ... that the Australian rugby sevens player Dietrich Roache kept the Australian national sprint champion out of the Australian Olympic team with his speed?
Prep area 3 []
- ... that reports of Julie Wera's (pictured) suicide were greatly exaggerated?
- ... that Kanye West recorded a music video for "RoboCop" that casts his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose as a robot?
- ... that American physician and marathon runner Joan Ullyot was one of the key figures in successfully lobbying for a women’s marathon in the Olympic Games?
- ... that in addition to running Bangkok's first power station, the Siam Electricity Company also operated half the city's tram lines and a fire brigade?
- ... that while Chief of General Staff of Afghanistan, Yasin Zia personally led government forces against the Taliban on the edge of Mihtarlam 120km from Kabul?
- ... that Kulgoa was the largest wooden ferry to serve on Sydney Harbour?
- ... that Louise Heims Beck co-founded the American Theatre Wing and was responsible for overseeing the organization of the 1st Tony Awards?
- ... that a Punch Bowl in Lancashire is haunted?
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