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Hooks

From Wikipedia's newest articles: Sculpture by Nikolay Zherikhov سانچہ:*mp... that architect Nikolay Zherikhov decorated one of his buildings with erotic sculptures (pictured) resembling Leo Tolstoy and Alexander Pushkin? سانچہ:*mp... that the word palengke, a type of public market in the Philippines, was actually derived from a Spanish word for barricades? سانچہ:*mp... that Major League Baseball player Barry Foote batted in eight runs, including a game-winning grand slam, in a single game against the St. Louis Cardinals? سانچہ:*mp... that riots that led to the 1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état began with the murder of an official by his deputy? سانچہ:*mp... that Rev. Frederick B. Williams at the Church of the Intercession in New York City created the first program of any religious community in the United States to respond to the AIDS epidemic? سانچہ:*mp... that the gokenin, Japanese feudal lords at the top of the power pyramid, were named after a semi-slave caste? سانچہ:*mp... that operatic soprano Maria Zamboni was the first person to record the title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut in its entirety? سانچہ:*mp... that Vanderbilt University's win in the 2008 Music City Bowl came 53 years to the day after the Commodores' last bowl game victory and gave them their first winning football season since 1982?

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Credits

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Credit templates

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• Article talk page: ({{dyktalk}}) {{dyktalk|5 مئی|2025}} (check if small style templates in use, if so add small=yes parm)
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• Notify contributor about addition to a Portal: (can be modified for more than one portal) - ({{UpdatedDYKportal}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKportal|Article name|Portal:Portal name}} --~~~~

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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

• Note: This is the old manual method. For updates copied to the bot queue, the bot currently automates all of the following except steps 3 and 5.

• 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).