Template talk:Did you know/Approved/week
This page transcludes a subset of the nominations found on the page of all the approved nominations for the "Did you know" section of the Main Page. It only transcludes the nominations filed under dates of the most recent week. The page is intended to allow editors to easily review recent nominations that may not be displaying correctly on the complete page of approved nominations if that page's contents are causing the page to hit the post-expand include size limit.
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Lie Kiat Teng[edit]
- ... that Lie Kiat Teng (pictured) appealed to doctors' "moral obligation" to address a healthcare crisis in South Sulawesi?
- Source: Murakami, Saki (2014). "Call for Doctors!: Uneven Medical Provision and the Modernization of State Health Care during the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1930s–1950s". In Freek Colombijn; Joost Coté (eds.). Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920–1960. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Vol. 295. Leiden. p. 56. ISBN 9789004280724.
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Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 660 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.— Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:53, 7 May 2024 (UTC).
- Length, date, qpq, hook, close paraphrase check ok, image free on commons. --Soman (talk) 11:17, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Terror Train[edit]
- ... that when producer Daniel Grodnik proposed the idea for Terror Train to his wife, she thought it sounded terrible?
- Source: Grove, David (2015). Jamie Lee Curtis: Scream Queen. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-608-2. OCLC 840902442. (no page numbers because google books lacks pagination, and it's not available anywhere else online)
- ALT1: ... that the killer in the slasher film Terror Train was played by a Canadian cross-dressing performer with little knowledge about films? Source: Grove, David (2015). Jamie Lee Curtis: Scream Queen. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-608-2. OCLC 840902442. (no page numbers because google books lacks pagination, and it's not available anywhere else online)
- ALT2: ... that the train set in Terror Train was a real Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive? Source: Rockoff, Adam (2016). Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978–1986. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-49192-6. Page 94
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel
- Comment: Image should be used for ALT 2. Nominated upon request of author
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 20 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 17:21, 7 May 2024 (UTC).
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Overall: I wouldn't go with the image, personally, as ALT2 is the weakest. I prefer ALT1. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Jeffrey Veregge[edit]
- ... that S'Klallam artist Jeffrey Veregge's "Salish Geek" style blended traditional formline art techniques with bright colors and pop culture references? Source: Flores, Agueda Pacheco (2020-05-12). "Seattle World's Fair meets 'Salish geek' in new (virtual) art show". Crosscut. Retrieved 2024-05-05.
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)Talk to Me! 11:42, 7 May 2024 (UTC).
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Overall: Always awesome to see more articles on Indigenous topics and personalities on Wikipedia! Everything seems to check out. It's new enough, long enough, sourced and neutral. Earwig detects no plagiarism. Hook is cited and interesting! QPQ has been completed! Cheers! Ornithoptera (talk) 21:14, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Kortnei Johnson[edit]
- ... that Kortnei Johnson (pictured) became a seven-time state sprinting champion for the University Interscholastic League, despite training on grass and cement since her hometown of Italy, Texas, lacked a running track? Source: In "No track, no problem for Class 2A Italy’s Kortnei Johnson, now at LSU", In fact, the medals she won at the Class 2A state high school championships at Myers — seven of them gold — hang from a wall in her apartment in Baton Rouge.
Original: ... that Kortnei Johnson (pictured) became a seven-time Texas UIL state sprinting champion despite training on grass and cement, as her home town of Italy, Texas, lacked a running track to train on?- ALT1: ... that Kortnei Johnson (pictured) became a seven-time state sprinting champion for the University Interscholastic League, despite training on grass and cement since her hometown of Italy, Texas, lacked a running track?
- Reviewed: No needed.
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.— Habst (talk) 20:25, 7 May 2024 (UTC).
Comment: I added an alternative hook since the American state is mentioned twice so it won't be classified as redundancy. Also, "home town" is combined since it's one word.
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Overall: Good nomination hook, added a comment about it (look above), and no-unlikely violation from Earwig. Good job. — JuanGLP (talk/contribs) 02:55, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- @JuanGLP, thank you, I prefer your hook so I have struck mine. Also, the reason for "unlikely" from Earwig is because the 22.5% similarity is coming from a quote in the "Career" section, properly enclosed in quotes and attributed via citation. Let me know if there's anything else I can do. Thanks, --Habst (talk) 17:40, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Jacob Christiaan Koningsberger[edit]
- ... that Jacob Christiaan Koningsberger, a biologist who catalogued the flora and fauna of Java, also served as the Minister of the Colonies of the Netherlands?
- Source: Catalogued flora and fauna: Goss, Andrew (2009). "Decent Colonialism? Pure Science and Colonial Ideology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1910-1929". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 40 (1): 201.
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 661 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.— Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:41, 7 May 2024 (UTC).
- New article that was moved to mainspace on 7 May 2024 is 6,909 characters and nominated on the same day. No copyvios detected (high confidence of violation due to publication titles; AGF sources which can't go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Hook is 156 characters long (under 200 character max.) and is interesting. Refs 2 and 4 (verifying the hook) are reliable sources. QPQ done. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 04:30, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Peggy Pond Church[edit]
- ... that poet Peggy Pond Church became a strong pacifist and Society of Friends member after the Manhattan Project used her home as a place to build nuclear weapons?
- Source: "Late in 1942 it was announced that the school would be closed in order that the Manhattan Project could be carried out there...What angered her chiefly was the research on the atomic bomb and its testing and use...Church became a pacifist, and in 1948 she and her husband joined the Society of Friends." - Southwestern Women Writers and the Vision of Goodness
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Laura Veale
- Comment: The article was moved from draftspace to mainspace in this edit.
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 117 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.SilverserenC 20:53, 7 May 2024 (UTC).
- New article that was moved to mainspace on 7 May 2024 is 7,830 characters and nominated on the same day. No copyvios detected (AGF sources which can't go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Hook is 161 characters long (under 200 character max.) and is interesting. AGF book for ref 1 (verifying the hook) which has no preview available but can still be searched (all three quotes check out). QPQ done. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 04:04, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Brad Banducci[edit]
- ... that Brad Banducci stepped down as CEO of the Woolworths Group after walking out of a TV interview, causing national headlines in Australia?
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.GMH Melbourne (talk) 07:03, 8 May 2024 (UTC).
- The article was moved to mainspace today, so is new enough. At just over 1800 characters, it is long enough. The article properly uses in-line citations and the copyvio detector finds nothing outside of groups and positions. The hook is interesting and cited inline. The QPQ has been done. The only thing I'll note is that there's certainly sources out there to beef up the article more, including recent contempt threats and just older general news articles about him. Anyways, looks good to go. SilverserenC 00:54, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
John Wilson (Arkansas politician)[edit]
- ... that John Wilson was expelled from the Arkansas House of Representatives for killing another representative in a knife fight?
- Source: [1]
- Reviewed:
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.QuicoleJR (talk) 23:51, 8 May 2024 (UTC).
Article seems in a good enough state all around. The hook checks out and is certainly good enough; I might mentioned that he was reelected to the house afterwards though! Left some comments on the talk on how this article might be improved or expanded. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 15:54, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
69 (number)[edit]
- ... that the number 69 is nice?
- Source: Intelligencer
- ALT1: ... that 69 is the only natural number whose square (4761) and cube (328509) use every digit (from 0–9) exactly once? Source: Power Play. Mathematical Association of America. p. 126. ISBN 9780883855232.
- ALT2: ... that 69 is the largest number whose factorial is less than a googol? Source: A First Course in Mathematical Analysis. Cambridge University Press. p. 303. ISBN 9781139458955
- ALT3: ... that 69 follows 68? Source: A priori
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/A Charge to Keep I Have
- Comment: ALT3 is totally the best one frfr
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.Template:LunaEatsTunaSig (talk), posted at 21:52, 8 May 2024 (UTC).
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Overall: A very nice GA and hook. Hopefully the approvers will accept ALT0. Skyshiftertalk 22:25, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- ALT0 would need quotes for "nice" (and if I had my way, the whole hook would be "that 69 is "nice"").--Launchballer 01:33, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Here We Go... Again[edit]
- ... that in the song "Here We Go... Again", The Weeknd claims that he can make his lover "scream like Neve Campbell"?
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𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭'𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘺, 22:46, 9 May 2024 (UTC).
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Overall: Great work on the article, AskeeaeWiki! I do love the hook, with The Weeknd claiming that he could make his lover scream like a horror genre actress? That's wild! Anyway, there's just one issue that I have – there's a Distractify source used in the article, which is considered unreliable; I feel like there could be a more reliable source out there that verifies the fact that he "repeatedly tells his partner that he is willing to marry if she signs a prenuptial agreement, to keep his assets if they separate". Other than that, I have no other concerns, and happy to approve afterward. Thanks! :) ~ Tails Wx (🐾, me!) 02:06, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Tails Wx Thank you! I have to thank PSA (GA reviewer) for really helping me tone down some unreliable sources and some of the wordiness. I decided to reuse the USA today source and shortened it. Hopefully that's better. Cheers! 𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭'𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘺, 09:45, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
German Mission House[edit]
- ... that over the course of several decades, the missionaries of German Mission House (pictured) failed to convert a single person?
- Source: King, Michael; Morrison, Robin (1990). A Land Apart: The Chatham Islands of New Zealand. Auckland: Random House New Zealand. (https://archive.org/details/landapartchatham0000king) pp. 59-62
Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 06:06, 9 May 2024 (UTC).
- Article was created on the same day as nomination. Article meets adequate quality standards and contains enough prose for DYK, my only suggestions are for "the western end of the building" to be potentially reworded just due to similarity in the source, and for the double space in the 'History' section to be fixed. Very interesting hook! I took a look at the source and I noticed that it had mentioned "Moriori, Maori, or Pakeha" (meaning the missionaries failed to convert Indigenous or European New Zealanders) and I'm wondering if this, or the fact that this took place in New Zealand, would be worth mentioning in the hook as well. Picture is relevant to the hook. QPQ done. Great work on the article! Please ping when concerns have been addressed. Thanks, B3251 (talk) 20:30, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- @B3251:
Ooh, good catch! Fixed this in the article. For the hook, I generally try to condense the hooks as much as I can, but. ALT1": ... that over the course of several decades, the missionaries of New Zealand's German Mission House (pictured) failed to convert a single person?" could work! Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 00:32, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Looks good. I just wanted to suggest any sort of inclusion of New Zealand in the hook so that there wouldn't be any confusion with the building having "German" in its name. Good to go now. :) B3251 (talk) 01:05, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Xenophon of Robeika[edit]
- ... that when his vita was lost, the life story of Xenophon of Robeika had to be rewritten?
--evrik (talk) 20:07, 10 May 2024 (UTC).
- Wow, I love this hook. Article is long enough and 5x expanded as of today, Earwig finds no copyvio, sourcing looks good and I'm AGFing on the languages I can't read (DeepL translation shows me it lines up). Hook is cited, again AGF because I can't be certain, given that I can't read Russian, and your QPQ is good. Zanahary (talk) 21:47, 10 May 2024 (UTC) -->
Tad's Steaks[edit]
- ... that Tad's Steaks offered "tasty food, low prices, service with a grunt"?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Southern Railway Building
- Comment: This was inspired by Sammi Brie's recent Ground Round submission. And, not really a COI, but I do have fond memories of my father taking me to lunch at the Union Square Tad's when I was a kid and he brought me to work with him.
RoySmith (talk) 16:27, 10 May 2024 (UTC).
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- Other problems: - Per WP:NYPOST, the NY Post is a generally unreliable source. Much as I don't agree with the decision, there was a consensus that the NYP isn't reliable. I suggest replacing it.
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Overall: @RoySmith: Nice work. There is only one issue with this nomination, which I've mentioned above. Epicgenius (talk) 17:17, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
OK, NY Post references removed, thanks for the review. RoySmith (talk) 17:34, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Good to go now. Epicgenius (talk) 20:40, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Epicgenius I hope you don't mind, but I've done a bit more work on this since your review. Please let me know if I've introduced any new issues. RoySmith (talk) 21:59, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
- @RoySmith: Thanks for the heads up. You cite this Forbes contributor blog (which is not really reliable per WP:FORBESCON), but it's used for commentary and not for factual info. I see no other issues. Epicgenius (talk) 00:28, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
- Epicgenius I hope you don't mind, but I've done a bit more work on this since your review. Please let me know if I've introduced any new issues. RoySmith (talk) 21:59, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Ola Labib[edit]
- ... that prior to becoming "the UK’s only Black, Muslim, Sudanese female comedian", Ola Labib had been a pharmacist who had never been inside a pub before her first gig? Source: https://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/o/34535/ola_labib/review for quote, https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/work-sucks-i-know-ola-labib for pharmacist, https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-68713194 for pub stuff
- ALT1: ... that Ola Labib played the UK's first socially distanced comedy show? Source: https://www.chortle.co.uk/features/2020/07/30/46601/its_good_to_be_back!_inside_the_uks_first_comedy_club_gig_for_four_months
- ALT2: ... that the opening line of the hijabi comedian Ola Labib's first stand-up set implied that she was the first hooded figure to be seen entering a pub since Frodo Baggins at the Prancing Pony? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/may/11/ola-labib-sudanese-comic
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Centurion C-RAM
Launchballer 18:34, 10 May 2024 (UTC).
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Overall: New enough, long enough. Earwig detects 51.6% match due to a cited passage in the article so that is not a problem. Quotes that result in a match are cited. The hooks are cited and are interesting. Preference for ALT0 and ALT2. QPQ has been completed! Great work, cheers! Ornithoptera (talk) 19:15, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Yangliujie Catholic Church[edit]
- ... that the Chinese Red Army housed its political directorate in a Catholic church (pictured) in 1935?
- Source: See Huang, Xian (2021-01-30). 遵义会议会址确认记 [Confirmation of the Site of the Zunyi Conference]. People's Daily Overseas Edition 人民日报海外版 (in Chinese). or Pan, Kaimao (2012). 遵义会议期间红军总政治部旧址简介 [Site of the Political Directorate of the Chinese Red Army during the Zunyi Conference]. Zhongguo Diming 中国地名. No. 05. p. 13..
Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 11:51, 10 May 2024 (UTC).
- New enough, long enough, presentable, well-sourced, no copyvio, hook cited and QPQ done. Uriel1022 (talk) 16:47, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Shirley Warde[edit]
- ... that actress Shirley Warde first began starring in play productions at the age of six?
- ALT1: ... that actress Shirley Warde not only starred in theater and movies, but also wrote scripts for plays and radio and short stories for magazines? Source: "Here's An Actress Who Writes Fiction" - Brooklyn Times Union and "A Stage Scarlet Lady Displays Other Tints" - Brooklyn Times Union
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Brad Banducci
- Comment: The article was moved from draftspace to mainspace with this edit.
SilverserenC 01:01, 10 May 2024 (UTC).
- Looks good to me, long enough, new enough, good sourcing and well written. I think ALT1 is more interesting as a hook. Luiysia (talk) 17:13, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Simon de Graaff[edit]
- ... that Simon de Graaff designed and implemented a plan to divide Java in three?
- Source: Fasseur, C. "Graaff, Simon de (1861-1948)" (in Dutch). Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Archived from the original on 31 October 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ALT1: ... that, as minister, Simon de Graaff would receive daily shipments of documents by bicycle? Source: Fasseur, C. "Graaff, Simon de (1861-1948)" (in Dutch). Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Archived from the original on 31 October 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Terror Train
— Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:19, 10 May 2024 (UTC).
- Date, length, hook, qpq, earwig close paraphrase check works out. I prefer the main hook over ALT1. --Soman (talk) 11:08, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
St. Anne's Church, Moxi[edit]
- ... that two European missionaries stationed in a Catholic church on Sichuan-Tibetan border (pictured) were beheaded by Chinese Red Army soldiers led by Mao Zedong in 1935?
- Source: Borao Mateo, José Eugenio (2017). Las miradas entre España y China: Un siglo de relaciones entre los dos países (1864–1973). p. 183; Investigan la muerte de un franciscano de Pego tras ser interrogado por Mao en China en 1935. Levante-EMV, 2006.
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Uriel1022 (talk) 05:45, 11 May 2024 (UTC).
- New enough, long enough, very well-sourced, copy-right compliant (Earwig 7.4%), very presentable. Hook is interesting. Images are properly licensed. No QPQ necessary. Foreign sources AGF. (I put some further comment on the talk page; they're not related to the DYK criteria, but may be helpful.) Cheers, --The Lonely Pather (talk) 19:35, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
Franz Liszt[edit]
- ... that Franz Liszt's female admirers would fight over his cigar stubs and coffee dregs as souvenirs?
- Source: "The behaviour of his audiences has been compared to the mass hysteria associated with revivalist meetings or 20th-century rock stars, and prompted Heine to identify the phenomenon as ‘Lisztomania’. Female admirers sought souvenirs in the form of hair clippings, cigar stubs and the dregs from his coffee cups." Eckhardt, Maria; Mueller, Rena Charnin; Walker, Alan (2001). "§8: The Glanzzeit, 1839–47". Liszt, Franz [Ferenc]. Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.48265. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
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Ligaturama (talk) 07:38, 12 May 2024 (UTC).
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Overall: Excellent work! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 11:49, 12 May 2024 (UTC)