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This page transcludes a subset of the nominations found on the page of all the approved nominations for the "Did you know" section of the Main Page. It only transcludes the nominations filed under dates of the fourth-most recent week. The page is intended to allow editors to easily review recent nominations that may not be displaying correctly on the complete page of approved nominations if that page's contents are causing the page to hit the post-expand include size limit.

Cort Theatre (San Francisco)

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Interior of Cort Theatre
Interior of Cort Theatre
Exterior of Capitol Theatre
Exterior of Capitol Theatre
  • Source: "San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Wins Big Triumph: Hadley's Players Please Great Audience At the Cort". San Francisco Chronicle. December 9, 1911. p. 18.
  • ALT1: ... the multiple dancers were arrested at the Capitol Theatre (pictured) in San Francisco for allegedly not wearing bras during strip tease numbers?
Source:"Optical Illusion Dancer in Court: Strip Teaser Denies Act Was Indecent Show". The San Francisco Examiner. January 13, 1939. p. 19.
Created by 4meter4 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 109 past nominations.

4meter4 (talk) 16:55, 15 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • OK, it's long enough, it's new enough, it's well-written and well-verified. The ALT hook is fine and more general and of broader interest than the first one, and so we should go with the exterior image. I don't see any plagiarism (and neither does Earwig). I don't really like all the bold names in the lead, but they make sense. Well done, 4meter4. Drmies (talk) 22:06, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sasradilaga rebellion

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Moved to mainspace by Juxlos (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 240 past nominations.

Juxlos (talk) 04:03, 18 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Review:
General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: No - See above RE bojonegorokab.go.id.
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: RE plagiarism, I'm assuming good faith RE the Dutch and Indonesian texts. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:10, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Voorts: Related to the Saleh Djamhari 2002 source: the author was a lecturer of history at the University of Indonesia; and the source is his PhD dissertation. He later developed it into a reference book although I did not have access to it, hence using the thesis. Carey (2015) cites the source here and there especially as a source for the later phases of the war. On the Bojonegoro source - that's the municipal government's website. Anyways, looking it up some more; I found a Dutch-language journal talking about the name change, so used that instead. Juxlos (talk) 04:00, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go. AGF on the new Dutch source. voorts (talk/contributions) 12:24, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2024 Men's T20 World Cup

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Improved to Good Article status by Vestrian24Bio (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Vestrian24Bio 04:26, 17 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Vestrian24Bio A QPQ is not needed. I see the hook in the lead, but that is unreferenced. It might be cited somewhere in the article, but I can't find it. SL93 (talk) 01:34, 2 April 2025 (UTC) @SL93:[reply]

added now. Vestrian24Bio 15:17, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. SL93 (talk) 20:07, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wampanoag-class frigate

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Lead of her class, USS Wampanoag c. 1869
Lead of her class, USS Wampanoag c. 1869
  • Source: "By by 1863...[the] U.S. Navy looked to commerce raiding as the best means for neutralizing potential British involvement. Congress authorized the construction of a fleet of large, fast steam cruisers—the Wampanoag and her seven siblings."
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2016/april/historic-ships-wampanoag-germ-idea-battlecruiser
Source: "In February 1868, the USS Wampanoag sped across rough water at a record-breaking speed of 17 knots. That feat made her the fastest steam screw-driven warship afloat...The active life of the Wampanoag, however, was measured in months..."

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2002/august/wampanoag-goes-trial

Source: "By the time Wampanoag steamed into Hampton Roads on 17 February, she was the fastest ship in the world." https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2016/april/historic-ships-wampanoag-germ-idea-battlecruiser
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Created by GGOTCC (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

GGOTCC (talk) 23:31, 16 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: @GGOTCC: The article looks good, it is properly sourced, it is neutral, it is new, and there seems to be no instances of plagiarism. The image is properly licensed, it is clear, and is used in the article. Congratulations! The article is ready for further DYK development! 🐝 B33net 🐝

Computer Mah-jong Yakuman

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Created by RickyCourtney (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

RickyCourtney (talk) 06:00, 24 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina)

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Gubaidulina in 1981
Gubaidulina in 1981
Created by Gerda Arendt (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 2137 past nominations.

Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:01, 24 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • This article, created on 17 March, is new enough, long enough, well-sourced, and presentable. Hook interesting and in article, with a citation that checks out. QPQ done. Image is nice, but probably can't run per WP:DYKDIVERT. Tenpop421 (talk) 15:55, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for the review. I like the image and believe that no image is closer related to the subject than the face of its creator. A bit of sheet music would not have the same emotional impact. Also, when she died, a blurb - likely with this image - was suggested but not done. DYK could do better ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:32, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Saint Hripsime Church

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St. Hripsime Church
St. Hripsime Church
  • ... that the architecture of St. Hripsime Church has been replicated in Armenian churches in Manhattan and Texas?
  • ALT1: ... that St. Hripsime Church, standing for 1,400 years, has many earthquake-resistant devices? Source: Armen, Garbis (Summer 1983). "Structural Innovations to Combat Earthquake Movement in Ancient and Medieval Armenia". The Armenian Review. 36 (2): 91–96 "One such building remarkable for its time, location, and architectural and quake-proofing innovations is the church of St. Hripsime. Built by the Catholicos Komitas in 618 in Echmiadzin ... it marked an assertive return to truly Armenian forms and significantly extended the vocabulary of quake-resisting devices as follows..."
    Kouymjian, Dickran. "Saint Hrp'sime". Index of Armenian Art: Armenian Architecture. California State University, Fresno. "St. Hrip`sime has survived many earthquakes thanks to the quake-resistant devices."
  • ALT2: ... that St. Hripsime Church contains the second earliest Armenian inscription? Source: Stone, Michael E. (2006). "Armenian Inscriptions of the Fifth Century from Nazareth". Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Armenian Studies: Collected Papers. Volume II. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. p. 772. ISBN 9789042916449. The Armenian script, traditionally invented in 404 C.E. [...] The oldest dated Armenian inscription surviving is the Tekor inscription of the end of the fifth century. The next one is the dedication of S. Hripsime Church of 618 C.E.
  • Reviewed: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party
Improved to Good Article status by Yerevantsi (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 75 past nominations.

--Երևանցի talk 16:20, 17 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Brought to GA recently enough. Thorough, well-written, image copyright checks out. All the hooks check out to sources, but my favorite is ALT1. ALT0 could be improved with a mention that it's an Armenian church. Great work! Ping me when the QPQ is done and I'll accept. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 18:14, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Zanahary: QPQ done. I've also reworded ALT0 a bit. --Երևանցի talk 18:07, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1 is the winner. Nice work!꧁Zanahary꧂ 18:34, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Church of Saint John of Kronstadt (Hamburg)

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Exterior view
Exterior view
  • ALT1: ... that from 2004-2007, a Russian Orthodox congregation transformed a Lutheran church into the Church of St. John of Kronstadt (pictured), in part by adding an iconostasis and five small onion domes? Source: [3]
  • Reviewed:
Created by Rufus the Unqualified (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Rufus the Unqualified (talk) 02:37, 22 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Carroll E. Stansbury

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Moved to mainspace by Queen of Hearts (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 18 past nominations.

charlotte 👸♥ 01:48, 24 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

  • Nice work, looks good. New enough, long enough. I don't have access to Baltimore County Police, 1874–1999 but will AGF you didn't plagiarize from it and that it supports the hook. QPQ is good.
  • The main concern is hook interestingness. This isn't a fact about Stansbury, this is a fact about Some Other Guy, and it's not even directly tied to Stansbury (e.g. the article doesn't say Stansbury undermined Meyer and drove him out or the like). Temporary successors are very common. I would suggest that a hook on assigning officers to combat chicken theft, or him smoking a pipe called "Sherlock Holmes" to solve crimes (not in the article, but it's in the obituary), might be random-reader friendlier facts. Happy to draw up some suggested hooks if you'd like, or can wait on other hook suggestions. SnowFire (talk) 17:22, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hello SnowFire; thank you for the review and sorry for the delay. I've added the pipe bit to the article and propose these alts:
  • ALT1: ... that Baltimore County Police Department leader Carroll E. Stansbury assigned officers to combat chicken theft?
  • Source: Ibid, p. 26.
charlotte 👸♥ 04:31, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
SnowFire fix ping
SnowFire fix my fixing of the ping (why can't I remember my signature today?) charlotte 👸♥ 04:33, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Great. ALT1 and ALT2 are approved, although if ALT2 goes through, please repeat the reference after that sentence per WP:DYKCITE (or just do it now as a temporary measure, can always revert it later) due to the sourcing-the-hook rule. Quirky slot suggested. SnowFire (talk) 05:19, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    • Vladimir Herța

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    Side view of the Herța villa
    Side view of the Herța villa
    • Source: Iurie Colesnic, "Istoria noastră. Vladimir Hertza, adept al Unirii și primar de Chișinău", in Funcționarul Public, Issue 20/2014, p. 9: După ce s-a căsătorit, fără învoirea tatălui său, tânărul a dus în Italia o viaţă de cântăreţ ambulant. ("After he got married, without his father's approval, the young man [Herța] established himself in Italy as a street musician.") And "Casa Hertza, victimă a nepăsării autorităților", in Adevărul Moldova, 13 January 2012: Vila de vară a lui Vladimir Hertza, fost primar de Chişinău, era la începutul secolului trecut locul de întâlnire al nobililor. Aici se puneau la cale afaceri şi se consumau scene romantice dintre cuconaşi şi cuconiţe, în timpul balurilor organizate de proprietar. ("The summer villa of Vladimir Hertza, former mayor of Chișinău, was at the beginning of the last century a meeting place of the nobility. It was here that business transactions were carried out, and that romantic scenes could be consumed between young gentlemen and ladies, during balls organized by the owner.")
    • ALT1: ... that Vladimir Herța's Chișinău villa (pictured) was also where, in 1917, he formed a coalition against Bessarabia's annexation by Ukraine? Source: George Tofan, "Cum s-a alcătuit Sfatul Țării", in Transilvania, Issues 3–4/2008, p. 5: prin luna lui iulie, când, aşa din senin, a venit la Zemstva gubernială a Basarabiei o telegramă de la Rada ucraineană din Kiev, în care se cerea comisarului gubernial al Basarabiei să ia parte la sfatul comisarilor ucraineni - ceea ce însemna că Rada socoteşte Basarabia ca o parte a Ucrainei, mai mulţi fruntaşi din Partidul Naţional, precum şi din alte organizaţii din Chişinău, au simţit că a sosit vremea ca ţara să-şi spună pe faţă dorinţele şi să purceadă la înfăptuirea lor. Ideea Sfatului Ţării atunci s-a pus într-o formă mai concretă. S-au ţinut în casa dlui Vladimir Herţa câteva consfătuiri la care au luat parte reprezentanţii tuturor naţionalităţilor şi s-a hotărât alcătuirea Sfatului Ţării, având să fie reprezentată în el fiecare naţionalitate în proporţia procentului ei de locuitori (moldovenii 70%). ("around July [1917], when a telegram from the Ukrainian Rada in Kiev was suddenly received by Bessarabia's gubernial zemstvo, with demands that that the gubernial commissar of Bessarabia should take part in the council of Ukrainian commissars - meaning that the Rada saw Bessarabia as a part of the Ukraine - several leaders of the National Party, as well as of other organizations in Chișinău, felt that the time had arrived for that land to make its wishes clear, and then that it should proceed to materialize them. Several meetings were held in Mr Vladimir Herța's home, joined by representatives of all nationalities, and a decision was made to establish Sfatul Țării, in which all nationalities would be represented in proportion to their share of the population (with Moldavians at 70%).")
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Seraglio of Baabda
    • Comment: I realize that it is a tad frowned upon to combine sources for the same hook, but it is by no means unprecedented.
    5x expanded by Dahn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 113 past nominations.

    Dahn (talk) 10:49, 20 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

    Hook eligibility:

    • Cited: Yes
    • Interesting: Yes
    • Other problems: No - Minor quibble: the hook calls the city "Chișinău", but the text near the hook context calls it "Kishinev". I don't have a strong opinion on which one it should be but they should probably be consistent.
    Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: Assuming good faith on non-English and/or offline sources. Personally I'm happy with the sourcing, if there's some DYK convention to avoid multi-source hooks I'm unaware of it. I like ALT0 personally. Rusalkii (talk) 20:55, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    • Thank you kindly, Rusalkii! Concerning the quibble: the reason why the article doesn't use a consistent spelling is because the city changed names while VH was alive, which creates a bit of an anomaly. I preferred C rather than K in the hook only because this is the current name of the city, and the villa is still there -- granted, the K version would have had its own merits, since the high-society mentioned in ALT0 was Russian, but I figured not having the antiquated Russian version linked on the mainpage would have spared all of us some geopolitical controversy. That said, I do not hold strongly to any version. Dahn (talk) 04:36, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Shlomo Levinger

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    Shlomo Levinger
    • ... that magician Shlomo Levinger has performed for both Ben Shapiro and the Los Angeles Dodgers?
    • ALT1: ... that Shlomo Levinger's career took off after performing card tricks in the Angel Stadium parking lot for Mike Trout and other baseball players? Source: VIN News MLB.com
    • ALT2: ... that a magician's career took off after baseball player Mike Trout followed him on Instagram? Source: VIN News MLB.com
    • ALT3: ... that a yeshiva student turned magician went from practicing card tricks in his free time to performing for major league baseball teams? Source: VIN News
    • Reviewed:
    • Comment: Anyone is welcome to suggest a better hook or mix any of them. The image is awaiting confirmation from VRTS, there are also other images which may be used listed on the talk page.
    Created by Yeshivish613 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

    Yeshivish613 (talk) 21:36, 22 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: Looks good. All hooks are interesting besides ALT 0. Gonna leave the descision up to promoter. Also AGF on the VRTS ticket wrt to the image (since I cannot see it). Sohom (talk) 14:10, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Oval Office Swedish ivy

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    Barack Obama with the Oval Office Swedish ivy
    Barack Obama with the Oval Office Swedish ivy
    Moved to mainspace by Wasianpower (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

    🌸⁠wasianpower⁠🌸 (talk • contribs) 02:39, 20 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: Moved to mainspace as new same day as nomination. Long enough, sourced, neutral, and plagiarism-free. Hooks are cited and interesting. Image is freely licensed and clear for viewing. QPQ complete. My only "complaint", if you could call it that, is some of the most important information about the plant is missing from the "Plant" section. In other words, in addition to being a mystery as to how it got into the White House in the first place, it's also a mystery how the plant itself came to be known as Swedish ivy, as it's neither Swedish (it's native to South Africa) nor ivy (it's related to mint and sage).[3] Andersen's original 1984 piece for Time also goes into more detail that could be used in the plant section: it's low maintenance (it needs little care); it loves to be close to the light (the window facing the Rose Garden is to the left of it); it gets watered every day in the morning and gets fertilizer (20-20-20) once a month and is misted every six weeks; no insecticide is needed; it gets pruned back on top occasionally to preserve the visual sight of the Charles Wilson Peale painting of Washington hanging above it (is the painting still there?) Despite all of this, the plant is not the only one, and is rotated with another, but both are eventually replaced after some time (five years? It's unclear).[4] No real preference on the hooks, but I like ALT0 and ALT2. Viriditas (talk) 21:57, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks for the thorough review @Viriditas! I'll do a pass tonight to incorporate these suggestions. 🌸⁠wasianpower⁠🌸 (talk • contribs) 23:05, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Robert Maxfield

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    Created by ERcheck (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

    — ERcheck (talk) 00:56, 21 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    General: Article is new enough and long enough

    Policy compliance:

    Hook eligibility:

    • Cited: Yes
    • Interesting: Yes
    • Other problems: No - While I really like the content of ALT1, I think that it should be rephrased due to a WP:SEAOFBLUE issue present in the hook. See overall comment for more.
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: @ERcheck: New enough (created March 19), article is long enough, NPOV and QPQ is done. Earwig shows 37.1% similarity, but it mostly cites the author's works. While the article is well-researched overall, I noticed that the first paragraph in the "Biography" section is unsourced, along with some paragraphs in the "New professional and intellectual pursuits" section. Everything else appears to be sourced. I prefer ALT1, but original hook has a WP:SEAOFBLUE issue due to the consecutive links to Silicon Valley, start-up, and ROLM. To improve readability, I suggest removing the unnecessary links and simplifying the phrasing slightly (perhaps something along the lines of ALT1A: "... that while ROLM's first product was a military computer, co-founder Robert Maxfield was the only one of its four founders with any computer experience?). Cattos💭 22:30, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Paul Shorten

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    5x expanded by WikiOriginal-9 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

    ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 00:55, 20 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: —Bagumba (talk) 09:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    1966 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware

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    5x expanded by OlifanofmrTennant (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 34 past nominations.

    Questions? four Olliefant (she/her) 08:54, 19 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Let's do this, been a while for me! Article was expanded fivefold in the last week; it's long enough, well-sourced (U.S. Congress biodict is technically non-independent but the statements aren't controversial), and neutral; an Earwig check comes up clean and a QPQ's been done. ALT0 doesn't really check out, there's something off with the wording; she wasn't the last Democrat in that seat, since there's been two since (Carper and Rochester). ALT1 does check out, but I'll suggest a bit of a rewording:
    Should be good to go with either ALT1 or ALT1a – nice job, OlifanofmrTennant! Fun read, good hook :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:07, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Theleekycauldron: I had intended to write that McDowell would be the last democrat until Tom Carper, but for some reason I just didn’t. That’s the what the synth comment was in relation to. I have alter the hook now. Questions? four Olliefant (she/her) 20:10, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Hope you don't mind, I've moved that to ALT0a so the original's there for posterity :) ALT0a checks out factually – I honestly don't think it's too unusual, seats change partisan polarity all the time, but if the promoter wants it I don't mind. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 20:16, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Luis Corvalán

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    Corvalán (pictured, foreground) with Erich Honecker in 1977
    Corvalán (pictured, foreground) with Erich Honecker in 1977
    • ... that the anti-Pinochet dissident Luis Corvalán (pictured) had his appearance surgically altered by Soviet doctors before returning to Chile?
    ALT1:... that, in 1975, the KGB planned an attack on Chile's Dawson Island to rescue the anti-Pinochet dissident Luis Corvalán (pictured)?
    ALT2:... that, when KGB officers presented a plan for a Soviet invasion of Chile to rescue Luis Corvalán (pictured), Kremlin leadership looked at them as if they were crazy?
    • Source: "The Soviets also assisted top PC leaders in returning to Chile, providing Corvalán (a well-known public figure) with plastic surgery, and helping in the development of documentation and in the logistics of their return." [8]
    "Shmelev’s story is also surrounded by speculation: he’s been called the USSR’s “secret plastic surgeon”, suspected of working for the country’s secret services, and his unexplained death in 1986 (from blunt force trauma to the head) was rumoured to have been connected to the plastic surgeries which Shmelev had carried out for the KGB. Several journalistic investigations have also claimed that it was Shmelev who carried out the rumoured plastic surgeries on prominent Chilean communist Luis Corvalan when the latter found refuge in USSR after being freed from the jails of Augusto Pinochet." [9]
    "Corvalan lived in Moscow with his wife and daughters until 1988 when Russian secret service agents helped him get back to Chile clandestinely via Argentina, after plastic surgery and with a false name and CV. The restoration of democracy the following year allowed him to come out in the open." [10]
    Source for Dawson Island: [11]
    5x expanded by Chetsford (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 161 past nominations.

    Chetsford (talk) 01:57, 21 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Article is long enough. The hook is interesting and cited in the text but there are several citation needed tags throughout the prose that need to be addressed. Additionally, this article is too old to fall under the "new enough" criteria. It could meet the "expanded fivefold" criteria, but isn't quite there yet. The article was at 5,149 bytes at the beginning of expansion and would need to be at 25,745. It is currently at 24,735 bytes, so it's not far off; maybe an expansion on the early life section? Krisgabwoosh (talk) 06:19, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Bill Chisholm (businessman)

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    • ... that Bill Chisholm's announced $6.1 billion purchase of the Boston Celtics is the largest amount ever paid for a North American sports team?
    Created by BeanieFan11 (talk) and Weloveresearch (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 323 past nominations.

    BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:00, 27 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Article is new enough, long enough, and cited to reliable sources throughout. No copyright violation detected. QPQ is done. Hook fact is interesting and verified to the cited source. One minor suggestion would be to include the date of the announcement, March 2025, at the beginning of the hook sentence, but this is optional as the original hook works well. I will leave it to BeanieFan11 to decide whether or not to modify the hook above. This hook can be promoted.4meter4 (talk) 21:52, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Saint Gregory Seminary

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    The Institutum Divi Thomae taught graduate-level science to both religious sisters and lay people at St. Gregory.
    The Institutum Divi Thomae taught graduate-level science to both religious sisters and lay people at St. Gregory.
    Created by Maximilian775 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 13 past nominations.

    Maximilian775 (talk) 12:31, 21 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    General: Article is new enough and long enough
    Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
    Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
    Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
    QPQ: Done.

    Overall: Recently created, well-written, no paraphrasing issues, and ALT1 is a very interesting hook. GTG. Makeandtoss (talk) 12:00, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Rita (chimpanzee)

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    Rita and her mate holding rifles
    Rita and her mate holding rifles
    Rita dressed as a soldier
    Rita dressed as a soldier
    • ... that the Japan used a chimpanzee (pictured) for propaganda during wartime?
    • Source: As the war cast a dark shadow, Rita became a propaganda icon, presented in military garb with a rifle to lift the public's spiritsKurihara, Mayuko. "Japan's Tennoji Zoo celebrates 110 years with 'animal first' upgrades". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
    • ALT1: ... that Japan's celebrity chimpanzee Rita (pictured), who dressed as a geisha and smoked cigarettes, became a wartime "propaganda icon"?
    Rita became a national celebrity.[...]Rita was made to walk around on her hind legs in an upright position, wearing a kimono and a heavy wig, looking like a geisha girl. She was even made to pose, smoking a cigarette.Itoh, Mayumi (2010), Japanese Wartime Zoo Policy: The Silent Victims of World War II, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, doi:10.1057/9780230117440_9, ISBN 978-1-349-29183-0, OCLC 615338421, retrieved 2025-02-22, page 59.
    Created by GreenLipstickLesbian (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

    GreenLipstickLesbian💌🦋 08:54, 20 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

    • Article is new and long enough. Article is well-sourced and neutrally written. No pings for copyvio on Earwigs. Hooks are cited, interesting, and short enough for DYK; AGF on paywalled sources. QPQ has been completed. Image is properly licensed, per nominator rationale. I quite like the image and would recommend whoever promotes this using it, but I think File:リタ１９３８年.png might reproduce better at thumbnail size. I also think ALT1 is the stronger hook of the two options. Morgan695 (talk) 22:07, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    1. ^ "Geschichte". St. Pauli Kirche (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-15.
    2. ^ "Kirche des Hl. Johannes von Kronstadt zu Hamburg » Blog Archive » 100 Jahre Gnadenkirche. Die Rede von Erzbischof Feofan". Православная церковь в Гамбурге (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-17.
    3. ^ "Kirche im Wandel". bauhandwerk (in German). 2021-07-01. Retrieved 2025-03-09.
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