Template:Did you know/Queue/3
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Current time: 00:16, 7 August 2026 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 12 hours Last updated: 16 minutes ago() |
Hooks
Elizabeth Debicki
- ... that Elizabeth Debicki (pictured) realised that she probably would not be a ballerina after outgrowing her teachers at the age of 12?
- ... that the steel frame of a Manhattan skyscraper was completed in 22 workdays?
- ... that Gary Hoffman commuted by plane for cello lessons while a teenager?
- ... that 26 of the 45 episodes in Doctor Who's third season are missing?
- ... that the steam locomotive Rocket went through a window of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia?
- ... that New York City's 32nd Police Precinct Station was called a "wonderful Victorian relic" and was the area's most conspicuous building when constructed?
- ... that "Stupid Song" by Olivia Rodrigo was referred to with the code name "dumb tune" during the filming of its music video?
- ... that the 44 NASA astronauts educated at MIT include "Hubble's repairman" John Grunsfeld and moon walker Buzz Aldrin?
- ... that mislabeled fish caused more than 600 Hongkongers to suffer "oily orange diarrhea" in late 2006?
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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.
- Elizabeth Debicki – AdaCiccone (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Nom credit: Launchballer (give)
- 99 John Street – Epicgenius (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Gary Hoffman (cellist) – Gerda Arendt (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Gary Hoffman (cellist) – 4meter4 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Doctor Who season 3 – Rhain (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Rocket (Reading locomotive) – Niagara (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- 32nd Police Precinct Station – Epicgenius (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Stupid Song – MaranoFan (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- List of astronauts educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – RabidTuberculosis (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
- Keriorrhea – Launchballer (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Credit templates
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
- Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}})
{{DYK talk|7 August|2026|entry= ... that ...?|nompage=Template:Did you know nominations/Article name}}(check if small style templates in use, if so add|small=yesparm) - Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYK|7 August|2026|Article name}}--~~~~ - Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}})
{{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|7 August|2026|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|7 August|2026}}
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|7 August|2026|type=image}}(occasionally replacingimagewithvideowhere 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.