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Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Current time: 20:42, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

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Hooks

Max Whitlock

... that Max Whitlock (pictured) is the most successful gymnast on the pommel horse at the Olympics, with two golds and a bronze?
... that ochrophyte algae have twice as many membranes around their chloroplasts as plants?
... that pianist and composer Josef Weiss created the first film score in the history of German cinema?
... that the 2023 election for sheriff in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, was rerun after an initial margin of one vote?
... that Marcelino Gutiérrez was the only surviving brother who led the Gutiérrez Brothers' rebellion against Manuel Pardo, the elected president of Peru?
... that the heiress Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo abandoned a brand-new mansion in New York City and refused to sell, rent, or maintain it?
... that even though he read the articles of sportswriter Bud Lea "religiously", Vince Lombardi often made his job difficult whenever he interviewed him?
... that the Comboio Presidencial, a train that carried the Portuguese head of state through the Linha do Douro from 1890, had the Pocinho railway station as its last stop?
... that Kully Thiarai made a theatre in Doncaster a "living room" for the town?

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Credits

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Max Whitlock – Riley1012 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Ochrophyte – Snoteleks (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Josef Weiss – 4meter4 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
2023–24 Caddo Parish sheriff election – Elli (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Marcelino Gutiérrez – AlejandroFC (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Marcelino Gutiérrez – 2x2leax (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House – Epicgenius (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Bud Lea – Gonzo fan2007 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Pocinho railway station – V.B.Speranza (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Kully Thiarai – Lajmmoore (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
Nom credit: Nominator (give)

Credit templates

You can also give out credits using the following templates:

Article talk page: (((DYK talk))) ((DYK talk|14 April|2024|entry= ... that ...?|nompage=Template:Did you know nominations/Article name)) (check if small style templates in use, if so add |small=yes parm)
Article creator/expander's talk page: (((UpdatedDYK))) ((subst:UpdatedDYK|14 April|2024|Article name))--~~~~
Nominator's talk page: (((UpdatedDYKNom))) ((subst:UpdatedDYKNom|14 April|2024|Article name))--~~~~

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).
Alternatively, consider crediting the image file page even if the file is from Commons: ((DYKfile|14 April|2024))

Manually posting the new update (if the bot is down)

Note: This is the manual method. When using DYKUpdateBot, the bot should automate all of the following except steps 1, 7, and 11.

Make sure the image/media for the hooks to be loaded is on English Wikipedia or protected on Commons. If the image/file is on Commons and not protected, upload it to En and tag it with ((c-uploaded)). You do not need to protect the picture; this is done automatically because of the cascading protection of the Main Page. Alternatively, if you are an admin at Commons you can protect the picture/file at Commons instead of uploading to En.
Update T:DYK from the current queue.
Purge the cache of the Main Page to make sure the new entries appear.
Reset the DYK time.
Increment the next queue pointer.
Copy the previous set of hooks (not the new set just promoted to the front page) to the archive. Be sure to copy the final revision of the set (it should be the last diff on the T:DYK page before your update), and place the timestamp of the DYK update you just made above it. Please include the picture/file.
Check if the previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
On the local description page of the picture/file for the previous set of hooks, add ((DYKfile|14 April|2024|type=image)) (occasionally replacing image with video where appropriate). Note that, like the archives, this will create a one-day misalignment between the date on the file page and the date it actually appeared in DYK.
If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).
Clear the queue you just promoted hooks from with ((User:DYKUpdateBot/REMOVE THIS LINE)).
If you have time, check if there are any full preparation areas. Check the hooks for errors, and promote them to the next empty numbered queue if they're good. Clear the prep you took hooks from to look like this. Tag the numbered queue with ((DYKbotdo|~~~)) once the queue is loaded and ready.