Some time in early 2010 I noticed that my new articles are not checked by anybody, and that obvious errors remain there for a long time. After some "detective work" I discovered the reason, someone had set the autopatrolled flag for me without letting me know. Because only one other editor is[update] roaming the same area as I, I considered requesting the removal of this permission to get at least one more pair of eyes to check my creations at New Page Patrol. At about the same time I discovered Did You Know and figured that it was the more efficient method to have someone check what I write.
Since then, I tried to get every new article to Start class and to DYK, sometimes somewhat by force. It was not always possible, though, as often there is just not more to say than what fits in four lines of text. When the DYK process became more work-intensive in late 2011 I cut down my DYK submissions a bit because the review of other submissions takes a lot of time and effort. I also nominate DYKs of other users, see below.
DYKs written[edit]
31 March 2010[edit]
... that the diamond mine in Pomona, German South-West Africa, was the richest of its time, generating over a million carats between 1912 and 1914?
27 April 2010[edit]
... that the Caprivi treason trial is the largest and longest trial in Namibian history?
15 May 2010[edit]
... that Hulda Shipanga, the first black Namibian nurse promoted to the rank of matron, attended to the wounded at the Old Location Uprising in 1959 when white doctors refused to treat them?
29 June 2010[edit]
... that the first missionary house in South-West Africa, today's Namibia, was erected in Warmbad in 1806?
4 July 2010[edit]
... that, after reaching Angola in the Dorsland Trek of the 1870s, many South African Boers turned back when the Portuguese tried to convert them to Catholicism and forbade their language in schools?
16 July 2010[edit]
... that Creole slaves under the leadership of Oude Ram Afrikaner were among the first to call themselves Africans, and that Afrikaans got its name from this appellation?
22 July 2010[edit]
... that the first diamonds in Namibia were found near the village of Berseba in 1898?
30 July 2010[edit]
... that during the Herero and Nama uprising of 1904/05 the settlement of Seeis in central Namibia was the location of two clashes between imperial Germany and the Herero?
15 August 2010[edit]
... that the rock engravings at Twyfelfontein ("Lion Plate" pictured) are Namibia's only World Heritage Site?
13 September 2010[edit]
... that the main campus of the Polytechnic of Namibia includes Elisabeth House (pictured), Windhoek's former obstetrics hospital?
3 October 2010[edit]
... that the Windhoek Show was first held in 1899, when South-West Africa was still a colony of Imperial Germany?
9 October 2010[edit]
... that even though Wesleyan missionaries described the fortified settlement of ǁKhauxaǃnas in the 1840s its ruins have only been rediscovered in 1986?
11 November 2010[edit]
... that while Peter Tshirumbu Tsheehama was chief of the Namibian intelligence agency, the agency was informally known as "Tshirumbu's people"?
6 December 2010 (triple hook)[edit]
... that Peter Shivute, Chief Justice in the Supreme Court of Namibia, spends his office hours on a fault?
23 December 2010[edit]
... that the busiest Namibian border post is the Angolan one at Oshikango in the town of Helao Nafidi?
29 December 2010[edit]
... that a decomposing rhino carcass and lack of water led to the establishment of Henties Bay?
31 December 2010[edit]
... that the administrative offices of the Caprivi Region were once located beneath a giant baobab in Katima Mulilo that today is known as the "Toilet Tree"?
17 January 2011[edit]
... that Hendrik Samuel Witbooi and Hosea Kutako could not present their 1947 UN petition for independence from South African occupation because they were not allowed to leave South-West Africa?
22 January 2011[edit]
... that Kaiǀkhauan Captain Andreas Lambert probably was the first traditional leader to be executed by the Germans in their South-West African colony?
14 February 2011 (double hook)[edit]
... that when Amraal Lambert, Captain of the Kaiǀkhauan in South-West Africa, moved from Leonardville to ǂKoabes, he could not pronounce the Nama name of the settlement and changed it to Gobabis?
28 February 2011 (triple hook)[edit]
... that Gross Barmen, the first Rhenish mission station to the Herero in South-West Africa, was established in 1844 by Carl Hugo Hahn and Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt?
4 March 2011[edit]
... that Namibian trade unionist Ponhele ya France was an outspoken critic of the "Willing buyer, willing seller" land reform principle?
9 April 2011[edit]
... that Reverend Heinrich Schmelen, a German missionary in South-West Africa, married an indigenous Nama woman in 1814, an action encouraged by the missionary societies of that time?
15 April 2011[edit]
... that Namibian Hans Daniel Namuhuja was the first author to publish poetry in Oshindonga, a dialect of Oshiwambo?
28 April 2011[edit]
... that Namibian entrepreneur Harold Pupkewitz (age 95) has managed his business conglomerate since 1937?
16 May 2011[edit]
... that before becoming Namibia's first ambassador to China, Peter Mweshihange worked as traditional healer, truck driver, miner, chef, guerrilla commander, and Minister of Defense?
22 May 2011[edit]
... that in the 1980s Gciriku king Sebastian Kamwanga allowed PLAN guerrilla fighters to use his farm as operational base in the Namibian War of Independence?
8 June 2011[edit]
... that the Basters under Hermanus van Wyk were ready to pay £2,750 for their land around Rehoboth, but got it for free after they signed a protection treaty with Imperial Germany?
4 July 2011[edit]
... that a pauper received a state burial in Namibia two days ago?
24 July 2011[edit]
... that Nama leader Simon Kooper received an annual allowance for not continuing his attacks on Imperial Germany's forces in German South-West Africa?
5 August 2011[edit]
... that after five previous attempts to evangelise the Kavango people in German South-West Africa, Joseph Gotthardt's journeys eventually led to the establishment of a mission station in 1910?
25 August 2011[edit]
... that disagreement about the expansion of the Namibian holiday settlement of Wlotzkasbaken went all the way to Supreme Court?
1 September 2011[edit]
... that professor emeritus Gerhard Tötemeyer dropped out of school because he spoke neither English nor Afrikaans, the official languages in South-West Africa?
10 September 2011[edit]
... that Spreetshoogte Pass is the steepest mountain pass in Namibia?
15 September 2011[edit]
... that by sponsoring the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference in Windhoek (1975–1977), the South African government attempted to quell armed resistance waged by the People's Liberation Army of Namibia?
15 November 2011[edit]
... that grapes from Aussenkehr, Namibia, can be harvested up to 5 weeks earlier than other locations in Southern Africa?
19 November 2011 (triple hook)[edit]
... that when Manasse ǃNoreseb, chief of the Red Nation in Namibia, was to be reburied at his home settlement of Hoachanas, the remains did not contain a skull?
1 December 2011[edit]
... that Sam Nujoma, first president of the Republic of Namibia, spoke at the funeral of Michael Hishikushitja?
24 December 2011[edit]
7 Feb 2012[edit]
29 Feb 2012[edit]
... that during trial proceedings of the Kareeboomvloer massacre, a prison official was requested to explain the meaning of life?
4 June 2012 (double hook)[edit]
... that the Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded missionary stations at Aminuis and Epukiro in rural eastern Namibia at the beginning of the 20th century?
26 Aug 2012[edit]
... that chief Iipumpu Ya Tshilongo is a National Hero of Namibia partly because of his uncooperative behaviour and his refusal to pay taxes?
31 Aug 2012[edit]
... that Constance Kgosiemang was the political leader of Tswanaland, a bantustan in South-West Africa?
11 January 2013 (Double hook)[edit]
... that SWAPO's partisan radio station Voice of Namibia employed a number of staff that today are high–ranking Namibian government officials, including Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Doreen Sioka?
17 November 2013[edit]
... that college dropout and impostor Leander Tomarkin became the personal physician of the King of Italy?
23 January 2014[edit]
... that Anglican priests established St Mary's Mission Station in Odibo, northern Namibia, in 1924?
30 April 2014 (double hook)[edit]
... that a deceptive 1883 land deal between Josef Frederiks II and Adolf Lüderitz established the colony of German South-West Africa?
3 October 2014[edit]
... that Vekuii Rukoro "had to fight back tears" when accepting his election as Paramount Chief of the OvaHerero people?
10 November 2014 (triple hook)[edit]
... that Dirk Mudge was minister before and after Namibian independence, following the 1978 elections, in the Transitional Government of National Unity, and in Namibia's first National Assembly?
17 February 2015[edit]
... that in the 1969 Lusaka Manifesto, black-ruled African states offered dialogue with apartheid South Africa?
27 February 2015[edit]
... that Kido Witbooi, first Kaptein of the ǀKhowesin, suggested the name for the Namibian village Gibeon?
28 October 2016[edit]
... that in 1985, Rosa Namises lost her job in a Namibian hospital after she was seen holding hands in public with a white doctor?
25 April 2017[edit]
... that Namibia is considering abolishing winter time?
DYKs nominated[edit]
20 December 2010[edit]
... that the action role-playing game Infinity Blade is the fastest grossing application on Apple's iOS, selling 271,424 copies in merely four days?
26 February 2011[edit]
... that future Australian conductor and record producer James Walker was lauded as a "child wonder" after his performance on piano, organ and violin at age seven?
27 February 2011[edit]
... that bass opera singer Richard Watson was given so many roles in the operas by Gilbert and Sullivan that his colleague Richard Walker left D'Oyly Carte Opera Company?
12 March 2011[edit]
... that although the Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse musical Leave It to Jane was written for the Princess Theatre, it premiered elsewhere because another musical by the same creators was already running there?
26 April 2011[edit]
... that after eight years singing in Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Thomas Lawlor went on to perform more than 60 roles for other opera companies?
14 June 2011[edit]
... that Patricia Preece persuaded artist Stanley Spencer to divorce his wife, marry her, and sign his house over to her, but never left her lesbian lover?
25 August 2011[edit]
... that George Graves was a leading comedian in operetta and Edwardian musical comedies although he could neither sing nor dance?
1 October 2011 (double hook)[edit]
... that American McCaull Comic Opera Company actress May Yohé (pictured), once the owner of the Hope Diamond, died poor?
11 November 2011[edit]
... that Hans Spialek, after studying music while a Russian prisoner of war during World War I, orchestrated 147 American musicals?
21 November 2011[edit]
... that teenage prodigy Conrad Tao starred on the TV series From the Top three times: as pianist, violinist, and composer?
11 February 2012[edit]
... that French actress-singer Alice Delysia made her career on the London stage, giving each English line "a sparkle seven times its own"?
18 May 2012[edit]
... that Richard Armstrong became director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 2008, bringing a curatorial background to the position?
4 June 2012[edit]
... that comedienne Connie Ediss, in a string of popular London musicals from 1896, became known for her "buxom bourgeoise" characters?
14 October 2012[edit]
... that Cordell Schachter oversaw the development of a web-based application that reduces the duration of New York City street construction inspections to one day?
26 December 2012[edit]
... that Jean Forbes-Robertson, a Shakespearean actress, frequently played Peter Pan?
5 January 2013[edit]
- ... that actress Jean Aylwin (pictured) inspired a new dress style "in crepe and lace"?
6 February 2013[edit]
... that Salvatore Dell'Isola conducted some of the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, winning a Tony Award for his work?
26 May 2013[edit]
... that Iva Withers once played the leading roles in both Carousel and Oklahoma! on Broadway on the same day?
3 July 2013[edit]
... that Elsie Spain was one of the last female leads of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company personally trained by W. S. Gilbert?
28 October 2013[edit]
... that after spending a decade on the vaudeville circuit, comics Willie and Eugene Howard became "a riot" in Broadway revues?
18 January 2014[edit]
... that journalist Judith Newman wrote a New York Times article asking Wikipedians to help craft an entry about her?
23 January 2014[edit]
... that Marie Jansen reportedly earned a half a million dollars in musical theatre, but after declaring bankruptcy was unable to pay her weekly seven dollar lodging bill while working as a seamstress?
24 April 2014[edit]
... that in 1957, painter Mary Potter swapped houses on the east coast of England with composer Benjamin Britten?
24 April 2014[edit]
... that Lyndsie Holland played the Gilbert and Sullivan contralto roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company?
28 November 2014[edit]
... that the character Miranda Sings, played by Colleen Ballinger (pictured), is ranked No. 7 among YouTube comedy channels?
20 February 2015 (double hook but only Manot 1 nominated by me)[edit]
... that Manot 1, a skull discovered in the Manot Cave in Israel, provides evidence that modern humans lived side-by-side with Neanderthals?
13 June 2015[edit]
... that actress Ruthie Ann Miles once played Adolfo Pirelli in Sweeney Todd?
8 August 2015[edit]
... that Michael Rayner worked in his family's motor car business before starring in Gilbert and Sullivan roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company?
6 December 2015[edit]
28 April 2016[edit]
... that Jessie Rose started her career playing a variety of soprano roles, but later became the principal mezzo-soprano of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company?
17 October 2016[edit]
... that the contralto Dorothy Gill was so popular during the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's visit to New York in 1934 that American fans petitioned for her return?
25 December 2016[edit]
... that Jackie Evancho's 2016 album Someday at Christmas peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart?
30 March 2017[edit]
... that Jackie Evancho is set to become the youngest performer ever at Café Carlyle when she performs songs from her new album Two Hearts in April?