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The result was: promoted by
Theleekycauldron (
talk)
11:41, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Moved to mainspace by Bait30 ( talk). Self-nominated at 01:13, 26 January 2022 (UTC).
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems |
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Hook eligibility:
QPQ: Done. |
Overall:
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Bait30: Shorter than usual for a DYK, but on my calculations long enough to qualify. Also an interesting presentation of a quirky subject, with (just) enough separate reliable sources to confirm notability. My only issue is with the hooks. Maybe if I'd been a resident of the USA, I would already have heard of Dr. Rick and known that he's fictional. But I'm not a resident of the USA, have never heard of Dr. Rick, and therefore both of the hooks were confusing to me before I read the article. As to the first hook, how is it interesting that some corporation of which I have never heard has published 5,000 copies of a book by an author of whom I have never heard? In this case, the answer is that the putative author is a fictional character from a series of advertisements for the corporation, but the hook gives no indication, to someone not already familiar with the putative author and/or advertisements and/or corporation, that he is fictional. Perhaps the first hook should be amended by inserting "fictional" before "Dr. Rick", but even if it were amended in that way, I wouldn't be sure whether it's really interesting enough. As to the ALT1 hook, it refers to a potentially interesting concept of
introjection (of which I had similarly not previously heard), but when you click through to the article about that concept, that article includes a
Template:Confusing stating "This article may be confusing or unclear to readers." Were it not for that problem, I would be inclined to prefer the ALT1 hook.
Bahnfrend (
talk)
09:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Okay, ready for DYK with that hook.
Bahnfrend (
talk)
06:38, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
![]() | A fact from Dr. Rick appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 10 February 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
| ![]() |
![]() | This article has not yet been rated on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||
|
The result was: promoted by
Theleekycauldron (
talk)
11:41, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Moved to mainspace by Bait30 ( talk). Self-nominated at 01:13, 26 January 2022 (UTC).
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems |
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|
Hook eligibility:
QPQ: Done. |
Overall:
@
Bait30: Shorter than usual for a DYK, but on my calculations long enough to qualify. Also an interesting presentation of a quirky subject, with (just) enough separate reliable sources to confirm notability. My only issue is with the hooks. Maybe if I'd been a resident of the USA, I would already have heard of Dr. Rick and known that he's fictional. But I'm not a resident of the USA, have never heard of Dr. Rick, and therefore both of the hooks were confusing to me before I read the article. As to the first hook, how is it interesting that some corporation of which I have never heard has published 5,000 copies of a book by an author of whom I have never heard? In this case, the answer is that the putative author is a fictional character from a series of advertisements for the corporation, but the hook gives no indication, to someone not already familiar with the putative author and/or advertisements and/or corporation, that he is fictional. Perhaps the first hook should be amended by inserting "fictional" before "Dr. Rick", but even if it were amended in that way, I wouldn't be sure whether it's really interesting enough. As to the ALT1 hook, it refers to a potentially interesting concept of
introjection (of which I had similarly not previously heard), but when you click through to the article about that concept, that article includes a
Template:Confusing stating "This article may be confusing or unclear to readers." Were it not for that problem, I would be inclined to prefer the ALT1 hook.
Bahnfrend (
talk)
09:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Okay, ready for DYK with that hook.
Bahnfrend (
talk)
06:38, 1 February 2022 (UTC)