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Prep 2

FoodPharmer

• I reviewed this, and thus another pair of eyes is needed. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:22, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Not happy with the use of unattributed quotes, particularly for a stuff that very clearly isn't a health drink. I propose trimming everything after "pictured" to "once shamed Bournvita into reducing its sugar" or somesuch.--Launchballer 12:53, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

• Have rephrased.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:28, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Bournvita was marketed in India as a "children's health drink" at the time of the video, and was the very reason the video was made. I do have sources that can be added to back up the claim:

• https://www.deccanherald.com/business/companies/bournvita-is-no-longer-a-health-drink-all-you-need-to-know-about-centres-decision-2977615
• https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/food/bournvita-other-brands-to-lose-health-drink-status/articleshow/109276438.cms?from=mdr
• https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/government-directs-e-commerce-firms-to-remove-bournvita-and-other-drinks-from-health-drinks-category/article68062208.ece
• https://www.livemint.com/news/india/what-led-cadbury-bournvita-lose-its-health-drink-tag-all-you-need-to-know-mondelez-added-sugar-ncpcr-revant-himatsingka-11713015106902.html

—CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 16:24, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

FWIW, I've updated Bournvita's article with appropriate references. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 17:27, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

IMAX Melbourne

• I was part of the review - new eyes needed. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:22, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Second opinion needed

Hi, could we get a second opinion on Template:Did you know nominations/The Heart Knows its Own Bitterness (Talmud)? There's been some changes since my review, and I would like to move this forward with a yay or nay. Viriditas (talk) 20:35, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Took a look and left a few comments. Rjjiii left a few good comments as well. Andre🚐 01:12, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Older nominations needing DYK reviewers

The previous list was archived about twelve hours ago, so I've created a new list of all 24 nominations that need reviewing in the Older nominations section of the Nominations page, covering everything through December 15. We have a total of 310 nominations, of which 223 have been approved, a gap of 87 nominations that has increased by 11 over the past 7 days. Thanks to everyone who reviews these and any other nominations!

More than one month old

• November 1: Template:Did you know nominations/Tel al-Sultan attack
• November 4: Template:Did you know nominations/Clifton House School (two articles)
• November 4: Template:Did you know nominations/Pro-Fatimid conspiracy against Saladin
• November 5: Template:Did you know nominations/Gohobi
• November 7: Template:Did you know nominations/Organization of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• November 9: Template:Did you know nominations/The Heart Knows its Own Bitterness (Talmud) (second opinion requested)
• November 10: Template:Did you know nominations/Hold Your Hand (film)
• November 17: Template:Did you know nominations/Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab Al Faihani
• November 19: Template:Did you know nominations/2019 NFC Divisional Playoff game (Seattle–Green Bay)
• November 21: Template:Did you know nominations/Renildo José dos Santos
• November 22: Template:Did you know nominations/Sugya

Other nominations

• November 26: Template:Did you know nominations/Family Stress Model
• November 29: Template:Did you know nominations/Hefker
• December 3: Template:Did you know nominations/2024 attack on the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in India
• December 5: Template:Did you know nominations/Josie Brown Childs
• December 11: Template:Did you know nominations/Monica Smit (second opinion requested)
• December 12: Template:Did you know nominations/Mahra Al Maktoum
• December 13: Template:Did you know nominations/Adam Sapi Mkwawa
• December 13: Template:Did you know nominations/Corinne Rey-Bellet
• December 13: Template:Did you know nominations/Tarif-i Husain Shahi
• December 15: Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Les Purce
• December 15: Template:Did you know nominations/Waterloo Column
• December 15: Template:Did you know nominations/The Man in the Yellow Tie
• December 15: Template:Did you know nominations/Daniel Hermann (humanist)

Please remember to cross off entries, including the date, as you finish reviewing them (unless you're asking for further review), even if the review was not an approval. Please do not remove them entirely. Many thanks! BlueMoonset (talk) 02:46, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Queue 2

Planting a Rainbow

I reviewed this originally, so somebody else needs to look at it. RoySmith (talk) 20:45, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

• I looked at it. Didn't see any issues. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:08, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Alien: Romulus

@Nineteen Ninety-Four guy, Lankyant, and Ippantekina: The use of quotes in the hook ("resurrected") implies this is a direct quote from someplace, but that doesn't appear in the article. I note that MOS:SCAREQUOTES was featured in today's WP:ERRORS, and that applies equally well here. RoySmith (talk) 20:50, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Sigh. Fix ping. RoySmith (talk) 20:51, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

• Resurrect and cognates of it are used in headlines in sources. The means are well cited in #Cast. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:07, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

  If it shows up in WP:ERRORS when it runs, I will ping you to defend our honor :-) RoySmith (talk) 21:11, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Prep 4

Kwan Man-ching

• One of mine; need a second pair of eyes. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:22, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

• I promoted to queue and checked this article: no concerns. Z1720 (talk) 17:51, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Other

• I'm seeing three sport-related biographies. Anyone mind if we shuffle 'em a bit? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:22, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

• I flipped John Mascarenhas to prep 7 and Shalom Nagar to Prep 4. Z1720 (talk) 17:39, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Prep 5

Ceechynaa +1

• I reviewed, so another pair of eyes needed. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

I'll look at Bernard Gray when I've eaten. Looking at this now, I wonder if it's worth tightening the hook slightly, e.g. "that a reviewer identified an "audible contempt" for men in the songs of Ceechynaa, who entered the UK singles chart earlier this month with "Peggy"?--Launchballer 18:29, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

• I've updated it in queue.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:49, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Vitamin E

• Hook fact is not immediately followed by a source. Also, citing a first to a primary source seems iffy... should be a secondary source. Pinging David notMD, User:PixDeVl, and AirshipJungleman29. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

The hook fact, in the Lead and in the History section, is now followed by the Evans 1936 reference. The ref is also used after the next sentence in the History section, which attributes the suggestion to the name of a Greek scholar in a footnote on page 321. David notMD (talk) 20:47, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Care to explain this edit @Darth Stabro:?--Launchballer 21:18, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi, it must have been an accidental misclick of the rollback button. ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 21:21, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Puff-puff (onomatopoeia)

• Just going to note here that this was previously re-reviewed by Launchballer, and I am accepting that re-review as a second set of eyes. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Bernard Gray (Sunday Pictorial journalist)

• I reviewed, so another pair of eyes needed. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Looks good to me.--Launchballer 21:18, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Chernobyl Reactors 5 and 6

• I've tagged this with {{lead too short}}. Pinging Bollardant, Hawkeye7, and Hilst. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:33, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

  That is an cleanup template and not a dispute template, so it does not affect DYK. (WP:DYKCOMPLETE) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

  Hi Hawkeye7, as per the summary at the top of Wikipedia:Did you know/Guidelines, "maintenance templates" is a valid issue. It also falls afoul of the first sentence of DYK:COMPLETE: "There is a expectation that an article—even a short one—that is to appear on the front page should appear to be reasonably complete and not some sort of work in progress." — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:47, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

  The lead of any page is absolutely forbidden to have anything in it that is not covered in the body. So that sentence has its definition of "maintenance templates" in WP:DYKCOMPLETE. If there is disagreement, then I can remove it from the lead without further ado. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:19, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

  @Hawkeye7: is it forbidden for the lead to have anything in it that is not covered in the body? MOS:LEADCITE says the lead usually repeats information that is in the body. TSventon (talk) 11:35, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

  Not an issue for an article, because anything that is unreferenced can be removed. In this case we are not referring to an article, but a Template:Nutshell for an admin page, and this template presents a concise summary. If it is not a summary of what is in the body, then it is wrong, and must be removed from the nutshell forthwith. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:56, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Queue 6

Phoebe Plummer, Christopher Hehir, Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest

• ... that Phoebe Plummer was "unfortunate" to draw Christopher Hehir as judge when she stood trial over the Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest?

@Launchballer, Folkezoft, Crisco 1492, and AirshipJungleman29: The quote from the source is "Unfortunately for them, they got Judge Christopher Hehir." Some editors at ERRORS might have issue with the word change, so perhaps one of the below would be better:

• ALT1: ... that Phoebe Plummer "unfortunately" drew Christopher Hehir as judge when she stood trial over the Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest?

• ALT2: ... that, in describing Phoebe Plummer's trial for her actions in the Just Stop Oil Sunflowers protest, one reporter said she "unfortunately" drew Christopher Hehir as judge?

Thoughts? Z1720 (talk) 17:36, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

I've changed the spelling of "unfortunatly" to "unfortunately" in both ALT hooks, and fixed the apostrophe-s template in ALT2. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:21, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

I was under the impression that "unfortunately" --> "unfortunate" was covered by MOS:SIC, although now I don't see anything about adverbs in it. (I could have sworn the approved hook had the bold links in a different order?) In any event, all of the hooks are wrong; Plummer uses "they/them" pronouns.--Launchballer 04:38, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Michael O'Kane

• ... that Michael O'Kane never received approval to begin constructing a building for the College of the Holy Cross?

@Ergo Sum, Chaiten1, and Hilst:

While the article talks about how O'Kane was ordered to halt construction, I cannot find where it states that the building never received approval, including that it did not receive retroactive approval. Z1720 (talk) 17:42, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

I've added some more info about the approvals to the article. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 11:44, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

SpongeKnob SquareNuts

• ... that SpongeBob has an existential crisis in a porn parody?

@Di (they-them) @Tails Wx @Hilst Doesn't this hook as currently written not meet WP:DYKFICTION? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:23, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

I guess not. Maybe we could go with "... that SpongeKnob SquareNuts, a porn parody of SpongeBob SquarePants, has been described as 'like a train crash that you just can't look away from'?" or "... that the costume for the titular SpongeKnob SquareNuts character consisted of a box and a condom?". – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 11:22, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Both of these alternatives are fine with me. Di (they-them) (talk) 14:11, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

The idea I had was actually something like "... that SpongeBob has a porn parody?", but I guess we can have another reviewer decide. Not sure if the other proposals fail WP:DYKGRAT or not (maybe they don't and I'm just being too conscious or conservative), but I guess that's also up to the reviewer. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:44, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

That also works. Di (they-them) (talk) 14:48, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

I changed it to the "box and a condom" hook because I thought that was the most interesting. Others are welcome to suggest changes or advocate for another hook. Z1720 (talk) 17:52, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

I think that the use of the word "titular" feels odd in this sentence and it's not clear if the sentence is referring to the character or the film. Might I suggest tweaking the wording?

"... that a SpongeBob costume used in the film SpongeKnob SquareNuts consisted of a box and a condom?"

Di (they-them) (talk) 19:02, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

+1

I used titular because I had just woken up and my brain works very poorly in the morning :V – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 19:56, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

It's already in Queue, so a sysop will need to swap with the new wording. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:04, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 11:26, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Are we sure this is notable? I don't see any of the sources in the article making a particularly compelling case for a GNG pass... theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 09:43, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

I've started an AfD. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:13, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

It now needs pulling, if it hasn't already been done. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:48, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

I've pulled this per below.--Launchballer 16:48, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

12-hour sets?

WP:DYKNA currently has over 130 approved noms. Should we start doing 12-hour sets? – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 11:33, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

This was discussed at Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 202#Approaching 12-hour backlog mode? and Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 203#WP:DYKUBM and the consensus was that we start when there are seven filled queues.--Launchballer 13:08, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Alright, good to know. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 13:14, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

If two more preps are promoted in the next 20 hours—we have five queues filled and need seven—we will switch to 12-hour sets after midnight and continue for three days, after which we switch back. We actually have over 200 approved noms (202 to be precise): the 133 that are counted in the table, and another 69 that aren't transcluding on the Approved page and therefore aren't counted by the bot as being approved, because the bot can only count transcluded noms. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:56, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

If this does happen, then my #Ceechynaa +1 hook will need to move. I put in a request that it run on the 29th, her birthday.--Launchballer 04:43, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Queue 7

Diddy parties

@Crisco 1492, No Swan So Fine, and Darth Stabro: I'm concerned about the WP:BLP aspects of this. It also looks like the credit template got lost. RoySmith (talk) 02:58, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

• I've fixed the credit template. I think the move wreaked havoc on it. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:07, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

  I don't have issues with the hook itself, but do see a potential BLP issue with linking this from the main page. The article talks about "White Parties" (parties mainly at his home that were widely covered by the news as like big time cultural events) and "Freak-offs" (parties mainly at hotels that are being investigated for a range of criminal activity). It doesn't quite make a clear distinction between the two, but that accurately reflects the sources. The BBC talks about his neighbors complaining at the White Parties hosted in his home because women staggered into the streets, partially clothed, and looking disoriented/dazed. It says, "various lawsuits detail alleged sexual assaults at parties held at Mr Combs's properties". And so the article has these lists of all these famous living people that attended his "White Parties" like Al Sharpton, Martha Stewart, and Elton Brand with a kind of implication that they could have been involved in or known about the crimes currently under investigation. And where the article does directly address whether individuals had involvement or knowledge (Leonardo DiCaprio & Marlon Wayans) they are explicitly denying it and don't seem to have any charges right now. Also, the Marlon Wayans interview is prefaced with "White Chicks might have been inspired by real-life events" but the cited source seems to hedge much more saying that White Chicks "ha adquirido un nuevo significado [has taken on a new meaning]". I'll post a neutral link to WP:BLPN to get outside input and accept whatever the consensus is. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 15:52, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

De Worsten van Babel

@Hilst, Bogger, and Figureskatingfan: the article doesn't mention "espresso". RoySmith (talk) 03:09, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

fixed. - Bogger (talk) 08:24, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse

I nominated this for ITN and now I think it's been lost. I requested it be moved so there aren't two tornado-based blurbs, but the move wasn't done perfectly and it wasn't put into another queue. It was replaced in its original queue with Planting a Rainbow but that one's original queue wasn't updated, and when it went to Errors, was replaced by another blurb from somewhere else. Template:Did you know nominations/Belvidere Apollo Theatre collapse - promoted 12 days ago but not on any queue anymore. And whatever anyone does, please keep it away from Prep 5 and the 1991 Andover tornado so we don't have to go through this all over again. I'm not too concerned with getting this up in a timely manner, moreso with having it on DYK at all. Cheers. Departure– (talk) 15:05, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Replaced with #SpongeKnob SquareNuts above.--Launchballer 16:31, 26 December 2024 (UTC)