User:Maile66/DYK/How to promote a hook to prep

Promoters should not promote their own nomination or their own review Note for special dates: After 120 or more approved nominations, we rotate to two sets a day


 * Check list for nomination review completeness
 * 1) Select a hook from the approved nominations page that has one of these ticks at the bottom post: [[Image:Symbol confirmed.svg|16px]] [[Image:Symbol voting keep.svg|16px]].
 * 2) Check to make sure basic review requirements were completed.
 * a. Any outstanding issue following [[Image:Symbol confirmed.svg|16px]] [[Image:Symbol voting keep.svg|16px]] needs to be addressed before promoting.
 * 3) Check the article history for any substantive changes since it was nominated or reviewed.
 * 4) Images 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.
 * 5) Hook must be stated in both the article and source (which must be cited at the end of the article sentence where stated).
 * 6) Hook should make sense grammatically.
 * 7) Try to vary subject matters within each prep area.
 * 8) Try to select a funny, quirky or otherwise upbeat hook for the last or bottom hook in the set.

Open the Prep area where you intend to add the hook.
 * Steps to add a nomination to prep
 * 1) For hooks held for specific dates, refer to "Local update times" section on  DYK Queue.
 * a. Completed Prep area number sets will be promoted by an administrator to corresponding Queue number.
 * 2) Copy and paste the hook into a chosen slot.
 * a. The hook should always have a space between "..." and "that", and should end in a "?" question mark.
 * b. The hook should have a bold link to the article.
 * 3) If it's the lead (first) hook, paste the image where indicated at the top of the template.
 * 4) Copy and paste ALL the credit information (the and  templates) at the bottom
 * 5) Check your work in the prep's Preview mode.
 * a. 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.
 * 6) Save the Prep page.


 * Closing the DYK nomination template for archiving
 * 1) In the upper left hand side, replace the line "" with "" (no quotation marks)
 * 2) In the upper left hand side, replace "passed" with "yes" (no quotation marks)
 * 3) Check in Preview mode - if it was done correctly, everything will be against a pale blue background. There should be no stray characters (like }} ) at the top or bottom, and no text outside the blue background.
 * 4) Save.

For additional information, please see T:TDYK