Wikipedia:Did you know/review criteria

Please use the following criteria when reviewing the nomination below.

Article

 * 1) New – within the past seven days, the article has
 * 2) * been created (sandbox → mainspace is eligible); or
 * 3) * had its prose portion expanded at least fivefold; or
 * 4) * been promoted to good article status
 * 5) Long enough – the prose portion is at least 1,500 characters
 * 6) Within policy – meets core policies and guidelines, and in particular:
 * 7) * is neutral
 * 8) * cites sources with inline citations
 * 9) * is free of close paraphrasing issues, copyright violations and plagiarism

Hook

 * 1) Format – no more than 200 characters (shorter is better) and meets the formatting guidelines
 * 2) Content
 * 3) * interesting to a broad audience
 * 4) * hook fact is accurate and cited with an inline citation in the article
 * 5) * neutral and does not focus unduly on negative aspects of living people

Other

 * 1) QPQ – all nominators who have five or more DYK nominations must review another article.
 * 2) Image must
 * 3) * be free (no fair use)
 * 4) * be used in the article
 * 5) * show up well at small size