User:Orlady/DYK review criteria

Quick reference list of criteria for reviewing DYK nominations -- see the rules for details

Article

 * 1) Long enough – the prose portion is at least 1500 characters
 * 2) Created (sandbox → mainspace is eligible) or prose portion expanded at least fivefold in the last 5 days (special situation: a 2x expansion qualifies if the article is a BLP that was completely unreferenced before expansion)
 * 3) Within policy – meets core policies and guidelines, in particular: neutral POV, adequately supported by inline citations, and is free of copyright violations and plagiarism

Hook

 * 1) Length less than 200 characters (shorter is better) and format meets the formatting guidelines
 * 2) Hook fact(s) included in the article, supported by inline citation(s) to reliable source(s), and verified by checking the sources (OK to assume good faith for offline or foreign-language sources)
 * 3) Interesting
 * 4) Neutral POV and no undue focus on negative aspects of living people

Other

 * 1) Quid pro quo (QPQ) review – if the nominator has more than five DYK credits and is nominating their own article, they must review another article.
 * 2) Image (if proposed for DYK use) must be free (no fair use), be used in the article, and show up well at the 100 × 100px size.