User:RyanCross/Sandbox5

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This page is a quick way how to review nominations at Template talk:DYK to appear in the "Did you know" section (reproduced on the right) on the Main Page. Eligible articles may only be up to 5 days old; for details see these rules.

Instructions
List new suggestions here, under the date the article was created or expanded ( not the date you submit it here), with the newest dates at the top. If a suitable image is available, place it immediately before the suggestion. Any user may nominate a DYK suggestion; self-nominations are permitted and encouraged.

Remember:
 * Proposed articles should:
 * not be marked as stubs;
 * contain more than 1,500 characters (around 1.5 kilobytes) in main body text (ignoring infoboxes, categories, references, lists, and tables). This is a mandatory minimum; in practice, articles longer than 1,500 characters may still be rejected as too short, at the discretion of the selecting administrators.
 * cite their sources (these sources should be properly labelled; that is, not under an "External links" header); and
 * be no more than five days old (former redirects, stubs, or other short articles that have been expanded fivefold or more within the last five days are acceptable).
 * Articles on living individuals must be carefully checked to ensure that no unsourced or poorly sourced negative material is included. Articles and hooks which focus on negative aspects of living individuals should be avoided.
 * Articles with good references and citations are preferred.
 * To count the number of characters in a piece of text, you will need to use a JavaScript extension like User:Dr pda/prosesize.js (instructions on the talk page), a free website like this, or an external software program that has a character-counting feature. For example, if you are using Microsoft Word, select the text from the article page (or, in the case of "Did you know" nominations, this Talk page) – not the edit page containing Wikitext – then copy and paste it into a blank document. Click "Tools" ("Review" in Office 2007), then "Word Count", and note the "Characters (with spaces)" figure. Other word processing programs may have a similar feature. (The character counts indicated on "Revision history" pages are not accurate for DYK purposes as they include categories, infoboxes and similar text in articles, and comments and signatures in hooks on this page.)
 * Suggested facts (the 'hook') should be:
 * interesting to draw in a variety of readers,
 * short and concise (fewer than about 200 characters, including spaces),
 * neutral,
 * definite facts that are mentioned in the article, and
 * preferably cited in the article with an inline citation.
 * Suggested pictures should be:
 * suitably and freely (PD, GFDL, CC etc) licensed (NOT fair use) because the main page can only have freely-licensed pictures;
 * attractive and interesting, even at a very small (100px-wide) resolution;
 * already in the article; and
 * relevant to the article.
 * formatted as [[Image: image name |right|100x100px| Description ]] and placed directly above the suggested fact.
 * Proposed lists should have two characteristics to be considered for DYK: (i) be a compilation of entries that are unlikely to have ever been compiled anywhere else (e.g. List of architectural vaults), and (ii) have 1,500+ character non-stub text that brings out interesting, relational, and referenced facts from the compiled list that may not otherwise be obvious but for the compilation.
 * Please sign the nomination, giving due credit to other editors if relevant. For example:
 * *... that (text)? -- new article by User; Nom by ~
 * *... that (text)? -- new article self-nom by ~
 * *... that (text)? -- new article by User and ~
 * *... that (text)? -- Article expanded fivefold by User; Nom by ~
 * *... that (text)? -- Article expanded fivefold and self-nom by ~
 * *... that (text)? -- Article expanded fivefold by User and ~
 * Please check back for comments on your nomination. Responding to reasonable objections will help ensure that your article is listed.
 * If you nominate someone else's article, you can use {{subst:DYKNom}} to notify them. Usage: Article name Thanks, ~
 * If you want to confirm that an article is ready to be placed on a later update, or that there is an issue with the article or hook, you may use the following symbols (optional) to point the issues out:
 * Use this to count characters of DYK nomination hooks