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This page is for nominations to appear in the "Did you know" section (See right) on the Main Page. Eligible articles may only be up to 5 days old, or significantly expanded in the last 5 days.

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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|January 6}} Thanks, ~~~~

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Candidate entries

Articles created on June 22

Articles created on June 21

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  • Combined into one hook, if that is no good I will separate them and come up with individual hooks. As a note, the first article was stubbed on 22 January 2007: ([2]) and expanded today. I think it is long enough but will be adding more to it if it isn't. Either way just let me know. IvoShandor 10:21, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created on June 20

*...that Cherry Pie, a hit song for the glam metal band Warrant was requested at the last minute by the predisent of Columbia Records? - OR -

...that the album Cherry Pie by the band Warrant, originally meant to be called Quality You Can Taste, went through a late name change as the song Cherry Pie was written at the request of the president of Columbia Records? - self-nomination - Ben 01:12, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The first is ambiguous, the second too wordy. Try:
I'm not sure if the article is sufficiently referenced for front page inclusion, however. —Kevin Myers 02:37, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sourced it some more, kept your suggestion. Ben 13:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: "due to" is often considered poor grammar. The introductory phrase is not needed here anyways; I suggest leaving it off. —Kevin Myers 02:43, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
How about: ...at the urging of his client, a stone and architectural materials distributor, Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Frieda and Henry J. Neils House (pictured) as his only work with marble walls? --Elkman (Elkspeak) 14:37, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created on June 19

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Interesting article. I was considering nominating this article too! Royalbroil 12:21, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Great nomination;) It's a little confusing regarding the genre part, so I would suggest moving what NT modifies (also note linkage change):

Articles created on June 18

Mount Ventoux
Mount Ventoux
Wonderful article. This nom could use a bit more context (i.e. something about blackface minstrel dancing). Also, the wording vaguely suggests that Diamond had only won against white dancers, which isn't indicated in the article. I'd suggest something like:
Kevin Myers 00:05, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No objections to the revised wording. :) — Brian (talk) 11:32, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

or

Pope Nicholas V
Pope Nicholas V

Articles created on June 17

Expired noms

Articles created on June 16

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Articles created on June 15

Extreme POV problems with this article. There are BBC sources for the fact that these civilians were killed, but nothing that I've seen that supports the assertions flung throughout the article and implicit in its title that these civilians were targetted. Strongly advise that anyone wishing to add this article to the queue read it all the way through first. Savidan 06:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Articles created on June 14

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