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NOTE: Since on average about 50% of hooks on the suggestions page are U.S. related, it is usually appropriate to have roughly half the hooks in any given update on U.S. topics. Thanks.

Hooks

From Wikipedia's newest articles: Thaddeus Fairbanks سانچہ:*mp... that the first platform scale was built in 1830 by Thaddeus Fairbanks (pictured) to measure large loads accurately? سانچہ:*mp... in November 1864 Camp Nelson′s Union soldiers forced 400 ex-slaves outside its shelter, resulting in 102 exposure deaths? سانچہ:*mp... that American Joe Lutz became the first foreigner to manage a team in Japanese professional baseball when he was selected to manage the Hiroshima Carp in 1975? سانچہ:*mp... that David Morrissey gained 2 stone (13 kg) for his role as Gordon Brown in The Deal? سانچہ:*mp... Ernest Peixotto's 1916 work Our Hispanic Southwest was the first appearance of the ethnic slur "spic" in writing? سانچہ:*mp... that Miguel Ramón Izquierdo was the last Francoist mayor of Valencia, Spain and secured the transfer of the Turia River gardens from the Spanish crown to local administration? سانچہ:*mp... that Norwegian researchers published Gay Kids in November 2008 to educate children about homosexual love? سانچہ:*mp... that only nine goaltenders have scored a goal in a National Hockey League game?

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• To reset the contents of this page for the next update, copy the empty page from Template:Did you know/Next update/Clear.

Credits

This space is to credit the creators/nominators of the items in this Did you know/Next update template that in fact appear on the Main Page. If you replace or remove an item from the above template before it appears on the Main Page, make sure to re-add the hook to Template talk:Did you know at the correct date of creation/expansion (find it in the history) along with credits, and preferably add a note explaining why you did so.

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Credit templates

To be given out when hooks reach Main Page:

• Article talk page: ({{dyktalk}}) {{dyktalk|18 مارچ|2025}} (check if small style templates in use, if so add small=yes parm)
• Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYK|18 مارچ|2025|Article name}} --~~~~
• Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|18 مارچ|2025|Article name}} --~~~~
• Notify contributor about addition to a Portal: (can be modified for more than one portal) - ({{UpdatedDYKportal}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKportal|Article name|Portal:Portal name}} --~~~~

Note that portal notifications are only done if you have taken the trouble to add the DYK hook to a relevant portal, which is entirely optional. The other notifications must be done before the "Next update" page can be reset.

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).

After posting the new update

• After copying DYK entries to Template:Did you know, please do the following:

1. Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear;
2. Reset the DYK time;
3. Delete the previous image (if c-uploaded from commons) or unprotect and remove the tag (if m-protected);
4. Copy the previous set of hooks (not the new set just promoted to the front page) to Wikipedia:Recent additions. Be sure to copy the final revision of the set (should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update).
5. If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).