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Hooks

From Wikipedia's newest articles: Painting by Congo the chimp سانچہ:*mp... that Congo was a chimpanzee who made over 400 paintings (example pictured), and would scream if a painting was taken away from him before he was finished? سانچہ:*mp... that American general Robert S. Beightler was the only World War II National Guard general to have commanded his division for the length of the war? سانچہ:*mp... that Australian pop/rock band 1927 tried for a year to get a recording contract, and their debut album ...ish sold multi-platinum? سانچہ:*mp... that Mark Rosenberg, described as "one of Hollywood's baby moguls", was only 35 years old when he succeeded Robert Shapiro as President of Worldwide Theatrical Production at Warner Bros.? سانچہ:*mp... that Ryszard Reiff was the only member of the Polish Council of State to vote against the implementation of martial law in Poland in 1981? سانچہ:*mp... that since the 1920s, the Whittier Hotel in Detroit, Michigan, has hosted Horace Dodge, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mae West, Frank Sinatra, and The Beatles? سانچہ:*mp... that communist politician K. Ramani became the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state Tamil Nadu in 1989?

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Credits

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Credit templates

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• Article talk page: ({{dyktalk}}) {{dyktalk|7 مئی|2025}} (check if small style templates in use, if so add small=yes parm)
• Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYK|7 مئی|2025|Article name}} --~~~~
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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}} --~~~~

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

• 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).