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Please use the following criteria when reviewing the nomination below.

 

Article

  1. New – within the past seven days, the article has
    • been created (sandbox → mainspace is eligible); or
    • had its prose portion expanded at least fivefold; or
    • been promoted to good article status
  2. Long enough – the prose portion is at least 1,500 characters
  3. Within policy – meets core policies and guidelines, and in particular:

Hook

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

Other

  1. QPQall nominators who have five or more DYK nominations must review another article.
  2. Image must
    • be free (no fair use)
    • be used in the article
    • show up well at small size