The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by SL93 ( talk)  00:59, 2 May 2022 (UTC) reply

• ... that Zippyshare, a file-sharing website launched in 2006, has outlasted many similar websites, such as RapidShare, Hotfile, and Megaupload, all of which are now defunct? Source: TorrentFreak
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carmaney Wong
  • Comment: It was hard for me to find a hook for this article, so please feel free to suggest a different one if you come up with something more interesting.

Also please note that the link in the hook to file-sharing website is intentional and doesn't need to be bypassed, as it could plausibly be turned into its own article, and currently targets a particular section of another article. Created by Elli ( talk). Self-nominated at 05:24, 30 March 2022 (UTC). reply

• If it's outlasted these other sites, by definition they are now defunct. Daniel Case ( talk) 02:54, 2 April 2022 (UTC) reply
  • @ Daniel Case: yeah, I knew the wording was a bit redundant but I wasn't sure of a better way to phrase it? Not the best at writing hooks. Elli ( talk | contribs) 02:10, 5 April 2022 (UTC) reply
• I took a look at the article and I'm not really sure if there's anything that can be used as a hook. The closest I can see are it being criticized for a lack of a paid ad-free version as well as it having no mechanism to prevent re-uploads of taken-down material, but both hooks seem technical. Narutolovehinata5 ( talk · contributions) 13:56, 8 April 2022 (UTC) reply
  • @ Narutolovehinata5: maybe it being listed as a notorious market could be used? Elli ( talk | contribs) 05:19, 9 April 2022 (UTC) reply
    • Given that virtually all filesharing sites are notorious for copyright infringement, it's neither unusual nor hooky. Narutolovehinata5 ( talk · contributions) 08:52, 9 April 2022 (UTC) reply
• Since this has been stuck for a while, I'll be doing a review. The article does meet requirements, the hook is cited inline, and a QPQ has been done. However, as noted earlier, I'm not a fan of the hook. Narutolovehinata5 ( talk · contributions) 10:54, 17 April 2022 (UTC) reply
• After giving this some thought I don't think there's really any suitable hook that can be used, whether the original or anything else from the article. As such I regret to conclude that there doesn't seem to be a path forward for this nomination at this time. Narutolovehinata5 ( talk · contributions) 16:22, 1 May 2022 (UTC) reply