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List new suggestions here, under the date the article was created or expanded (not the date you submit it here), with the newest dates at the top. If a suitable image is available, place it after the suggestion. Any user may nominate a DYK suggestion; self-nominations are permitted and encouraged.

Remember:

  • Proposed articles should:
    • not be marked as stubs;
    • contain more than 1,500 characters (around 1.5 kilobytes) in main body text (ignoring infoboxes, categories, references, lists, and tables);
    • cite their sources (these sources should be properly labelled; that is, not under an "External links" header); and
    • be no more than five days old (unless it had fewer than 1,500 characters, and has been expanded fivefold or more within the last five days).
  • Articles with good references and citations are preferred.
  • To count the number of characters in a piece of text, you will need to use a free website like [1], or an external software program that has a character-counting feature. For example, if you are using Microsoft Word, select the text from the article page (or, in the case of "Did you know" nominations, this Talk page) – not the edit page containing Wikitext – then copy and paste it into a blank document. Click "Tools", then "Word Count", and note the "Characters (with spaces)" figure. Other word processing programs may have a similar feature. (The character counts indicated on "Revision history" pages are not accurate for DYK purposes as they include categories, infoboxes and similar text in articles, and comments and signatures in hooks on this page.)
  • Suggested facts should be:
    • interesting to draw in a variety of readers around the world,
    • short and concise (under about 200 characters),
    • neutral, and
    • definite facts that are mentioned in the article.
  • Suggested pictures should be:
    • suitably and freely (PD, GFDL, CC etc) licensed (NOT fair use) because the main page can only have freely-licensed pictures;
    • attractive and interesting, even at a very small (100px-wide) resolution;
    • already in the article; and
    • relevant to the article.
  • Proposed lists should have two characteristics to be considered for DYK: (i) be a compilation of entries that are unlikely to have ever been compiled anywhere else (e.g. List of architectural vaults), and (ii) have non-stub text that brings out interesting and relational facts from the compiled list that may not otherwise be obvious but for the compilation.
  • Please check back for comments on your nomination. Responding to reasonable objections will help ensure that your article is listed.
  • If you nominate someone else's article, you can use {{subst:DYKNom}} to notify them. Usage: {{subst:DYKNom|Article name|May 19}} Thanks, ~~~~

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Candidate entries

Articles created on June 16

Articles created on June 15

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  • Incidentally, it's also been called "an otherworldly marital aid of inscrutable purpose for the brides of Satan", but I'm not sure how encyclopedic that is. Jpatokal 18:09, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • ...that the Hiiragi has been mentioned twice in the Kojiki, the first being its connection with the title of a kami named after the characteristic of the plant's rarely-blossoming flowers? (self-nom) ···巌流? · talk to ganryuu 17:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Had some trouble coming up with a hook, I wanted to include something about how Hudson and the Hubbard House influenced Hubbard's later writing but I couldn't figure out any good way to word it, any suggestions would be appreciated. IvoShandor 17:15, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Articles created on June 14

  • ...that a military coalition from 4 countries helped the British colonial government to quell the 1915 Singapore Mutiny? -- As identified by User:AlexNewArtBot, B-Class, 12 references cited. Self-nom, 17:24, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
  • ...that it was common for the Roman Emperor to be elected to one of two offices of the highest judicial magistrates known as duumviri, and the other position was left up to the emperor for the appointment of a praefectus? — (expanded from stub) BRIAN0918 • 2007-06-15 17:10Z
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Articles created on June 13

  • Suggested alternate wording: ...that Og Mandino, the author of The Greatest Salesman in the World, has sold over 50 million copies of his books - which had been translated into over twenty-five different languages - making him one of the best-selling contemporary inspirational writers?
  • OR: ...that author Og Mandino has sold more than 50 million copies of his books - which had been translated into over twenty-five different languages - making him one of the best-selling contemporary inspirational writers?
--Anchoress 06:24, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have copy-edited both entries extensively, but they still sound awkward. Suggest removing the language part. To make it: "...that author Og Mandino has sold more than 50 million copies of his books in twenty-five languages, making him one of the best-selling contemporary inspirational authors?"
Or, better yet, "...that author Og Mandino has sold more than 50 million copies of his books, making him one of the best-selling contemporary inspirational authors?" — Deckiller 17:00, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Those are both great - definitely superior to my offerings, which (as I realised when I read them after saving) are very awkward, but I was too tired to go back and edit them further. Anchoress 02:30, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
John S. Helmcken
John S. Helmcken
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A satellite image of Pingelap

Articles created on June 12

  • ...that rice plants infected with bakanae disease grow larger than healthy plants? (self nom, DS 03:19, 13 June 2007 (UTC))[reply]
    • Article is less than 800 characters. Any chance of expansion? howcheng {chat} 06:29, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sorry to any haters, but another Frank Lloyd Wright DYK to go with all the others on this page right now. : ( IvoShandor 07:56, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created on June 11

  • ...that Mogollon, New Mexico had a reputation as one of the wildest mining towns in the American West? - article by Freechild (talk · contribs), nom by Howcheng (talk · contribs) 19:51, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Technically this is only a sourced POV. A reputation is nothing more than a widely held view about something. I think it would be ok if we had a good source saying that this view really was widely held, but the reference for this fact is a website advertising various hiking trails. It states: "With the discovery of even richer veins of ore on Silver Creek in the late 1800s, just over the ridge south of Cooney Camp on Mineral Creek (see Mineral Creek Trail FT201 above) one of the West's wildest and richest mining towns was born." It doesn't even claim that this was the reputation of the town at the time.--Carabinieri 20:07, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Expired noms

Articles created on June 10

Articles created on June 9

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