- Check list for nomination review completeness
- Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post: .
- Check to make sure basic review requirements were completed.
- Any outstanding issue following needs to be addressed before promoting.
- Check the article history for any substantive changes since it was nominated or reviewed.
- Images for the lead slot must be freely licensed. Fair-use images are not permitted. Images loaded on Commons that appear on the Main Page are automatically protected by KrinkleBot.
- Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
- Hook should make sense grammatically.
- Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
- Try to select a funny, quirky or otherwise upbeat hook for the last or bottom hook in the set.
- Steps to add a hook to prep
- In one tab, open the nomination page of the hook you want to promote.
- In a second tab, open the prep set you intend to add the hook to.
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- For hooks held for specific dates, refer to "Local update times" section on DYK Queue.
- Completed Prep area number sets will be promoted by an administrator to corresponding Queue number.
- Copy and paste the hook into a chosen slot.
- Make sure there's a space between ... and that, and a ? at the end.
- Check that there's a bold link to the article.
- If it's the lead (first) hook, paste the image where indicated at the top of the template.
- Copy and paste ALL the credit information (the {{DYKmake}} and {{DYKnom}} templates) at the bottom
- Check your work in the prep's Preview mode.
- At the bottom under "Credits", to the right of each article should have the link "View nom subpage" ; if not, a subpage parameter will need to be added to the DYKmake.
- Save the Prep page.
- Closing the DYK nomination page
- At the upper left
- Change
{{DYKsubpage to {{subst:DYKsubpage
- Change
|passed= to |passed=yes
- At the bottom
- Just above the line containing
}}<!--Please do not write below this line or remove this line. Place comments above this line.-->
insert a new, separate line containing one of the following:
To [[T:DYK/P1|Prep 1]]
To [[T:DYK/P2|Prep 2]]
To [[T:DYK/P3|Prep 3]]
To [[T:DYK/P4|Prep 4]]
To [[T:DYK/P5|Prep 5]]
To [[T:DYK/P6|Prep 6]]
To [[T:DYK/P7|Prep 7]]
- Also paste the same thing into the edit summary.
- Check in Preview mode. Make sure everything is against a pale blue background (nothing outside) and there are no stray characters, like
}} , at the top or bottom.
- Save.
For more information, please see T:TDYK#How to promote an accepted hook.
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