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Hooks

From Wikipedia's newest articles: ... that Tirggel, traditional Christmas cookies from Switzerland, are said to have originated as pagan offertory cakes, cut in the shape of sacrificial animals? ... that ... that a plant pathologist conducted research on Christmas tree stands that showed just 6 of 22 had adequate water capacity for large Christmas trees? ... that ... ... that presenter Pat Kenny tore up two tickets for The Late Late Toy Show live on air in 2008? ... that ... ... that in the town of Santa Claus, Arizona, visitors could once purchase Dasher and Dancer omelettes and Santa burgers?

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Credits

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Credit templates

You can also give out credits using the following templates:

• Article talk page: ({{dyktalk}}) {{dyktalk|5 January|2025}} (check if small style templates in use, if so add small=yes parm)
• Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYK|5 January|2025|Article name}} --~~~~
• Nominator's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYKNom}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKNom|5 January|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

• 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).