User:Shubinator/Sandbox/Template Did you know/Queue/3

''NOTE: Since on average about 50% of hooks on the suggestions page are U.S. related, it is usually appropriate to  have roughly half the hooks in any given update on U.S. topics. Thanks.''

Tips on assembling sets are at Did you know/Preparation areas.

Hooks

 * See how this template appears on both today's Main Page [ (Prep Area 1)] [ (Prep Area 2)] and tomorrow's  Main Page [ (Prep Area 1)] [ (Prep Area 2)].
 * To reset the contents of this page for the next update, copy the empty page from Template:Did you know/Clear.

Credits
This space is to credit the creators/nominators of the items in this Did you  know/Preparation page 1 (or 2) template that in fact appear on the Main  Page. If you replace or remove an item from the above template before it appears on the Main Page, make sure to re-add the hook to Template talk:Did you know at the correct date of creation/expansion (find it in the history) along with  credits, and preferably add a note explaining why you did so.

Credit templates
You can also give out credits using the following templates:
 * Article talk page: (dyktalk)      (check if small style  templates in use, if so add small=yes parm)
 * Article creator/expander's talk page: (UpdatedDYK)   29 July --~ 
 * Nominator's talk page: (UpdatedDYKNom)  29 July --~ '''
 * Notify contributor about addition to a Portal:  (can be modified for more than one portal) – (UpdatedDYKportal)  Article name --~ 


 * Note that portal notifications are only done if you have taken the trouble to add  the DYK hook to a relevant portal, which is entirely optional. The other  notifications must be done before the preparation area page can be  reset.

Images

 * Don't forget to add an   notice to the image description page  (or    plus  a copy of the author attribution and the licence tag if you have  uploaded a temporary copy from Commons).

Posting the new update

 * Note: This is the manual method. When using WP:DYKADMINBOT, the bot should automate all of  the following except steps 1, 7, and 10. Update: Bot is currently  working but not archiving, so step 6 also has to be done manually after  each bot update until further notice. In case of bot failure, a  troubleshooting guide and checklist can be found here.


 * 1) Make sure the  image/media for the hooks to be loaded is on English Wikipedia or  protected on Commons. If the image/file is on Commons and not protected,  upload it to En and tag it with c-uploaded.  You do not need to protect the picture; this is done automatically  because of the cascading protection of the Main Page. Alternatively,  if you are an admin at Commons you can protect the image/file at Commons  instead of uploading to En.
 * 2) Update T:DYK  from the current queue.
 * 3) [ Purge the cache of the Main Page]  to make sure the new entries appear.
 * 4) [ Reset] the DYK time.
 * 5) Increment the next queue  count.
 * 6) Copy the previous  set of hooks (not the new set just promoted to the  front page) to the archive. Be sure to copy the final  revision of the set (should be the last diff on the T:DYK  page before your update). Please include the picture/file.
 * 7) Check if the  previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display  on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
 * 8) If you have  time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits"  section above).
 * 9) Clear the queue you just promoted hooks  from with User:DYKadminBot/REMOVE THIS LINE.
 * 10) If you have  time, check if Preparation  area 1 or Preparation  area 2 are full. Check  the hooks for errors, and promote them to the next empty numbered queue  if they're good. Clear the queue you took hooks from to look like this. Tag the numbered queue with  once the queue is  loaded and ready.