Hooks
- ... that a 17th-century painting (pictured) depicts an Indian emperor shooting arrows at a personification of poverty?
- ... that people in the 1980s expressed interest in buying Chicago's James Charnley House just so that they could walk through it?
- ... that most sports fans are male, and class distinctions also influence which sports people follow?
- ... that a diamond named after Sienna Spiro sold for $3,400,000 in June 2021?
- ... that there was initially an attempt to cover up any casualties during the 2025 New Delhi railway station stampede?
- ... that Nachi Gordon was one of the youngest agents to sign an NBA player?
- ... that Jim Photoglo wrote the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Fishin' in the Dark" and joined the band – almost 30 years later?
- ... that scholar Axinte Frunză wanted Romania to join the Central Powers in 1916, espousing "a vision that was profoundly anti-statist (with hints of anarchism), populist, and virulently anti-Russian"?
- ... that an effort to ban one German political party revealed that it was so heavily infiltrated that the German government partially controlled it?
Hook lengths
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Credits
This space is to credit the creators/nominators of the items in this template that in fact appear on the Main Page. If you replace or remove an item before it appears on the Main Page, please revert the promotion of the hook so its template appears again at Template talk:Did you know and add a note to the nomination's template explaining why you removed it.
- Emperor Jahangir Triumphing over Poverty – AmateurHi$torian () () – View nom subpage
- James Charnley House – Epicgenius () () – View nom subpage
- Sports fandom – Piotrus () () – View nom subpage
- Nachi Gordon – Yeshivish613 () () – View nom subpage
- Sienna Spiro – Meena () () – View nom subpage
- Sienna Spiro – Launchballer () () – View nom subpage
- 2025 New Delhi railway station stampede – Johnson524 () () – View nom subpage
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – TenPoundHammer () () – View nom subpage
- Axinte Frunză – Dahn () () – View nom subpage
- Prohibited political parties in Germany – Chetsford () () – View nom subpage
Credit templates
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|13 March|2025|entry= ... that ...?|nompage=Template:Did you know nominations/Article name}}
(check if small style templates in use, if so add|small=yes
parm) - Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYK|13 March|2025|Article name}}--~~~~
- Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|13 March|2025|Article name}}--~~~~
Images
- Don't forget to add an {{mprotected}} notice to the image description page (or {{C-uploaded}} plus a copy of the author attribution and the licence tag if you have uploaded a temporary copy from Commons).
- Alternatively, consider crediting the image file page even if the file is from Commons:
{{DYKfile|13 March|2025}}
Manually posting the new update (if the bot is down)
- Note: This is the manual method. When using DYKUpdateBot, the bot should automate all of the following except steps 1, 7, and 11.
- Make sure the image/media for the hooks to be loaded is on English Wikipedia or protected on Commons. If the image/file is on Commons and not protected, upload it to En and tag it with {{c-uploaded}}. You do not need to protect the picture; this is done automatically because of the cascading protection of the Main Page. Alternatively, if you are an admin at Commons you can protect the picture/file at Commons instead of uploading to En.
- Update T:DYK from the current queue.
- Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear.
- Reset the DYK time.
- Increment the next queue pointer.
- Copy the previous set of hooks (not the new set just promoted to the front page) to the archive. Be sure to copy the final revision of the set (it should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update), and place the timestamp of the DYK update you just made above it. Please include the picture/file.
- Check if the previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
- On the local description page of the picture/file for the previous set of hooks, add
{{DYKfile|13 March|2025|type=image}}
(occasionally replacingimage
withvideo
where appropriate). Note that, like the archives, this will create a one-day misalignment between the date on the file page and the date it actually appeared in DYK. - If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).
- Clear the queue you just promoted hooks from with
{{User:DYKUpdateBot/REMOVE THIS LINE}}
. - If you have time, check if there are any full preparation areas. Check the hooks for errors, and promote them to the next empty numbered queue if they're good. Clear the prep you took hooks from to look like this. Tag the numbered queue with
{{DYKbotdo|~~~}}
once the queue is loaded and ready.
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