Talk:The Witcher (Dark Horse Comics)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:20, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that a comic book series set in The Witcher universe has been published by Dark Horse Comics since 2014? Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-comics-ranked-from-worst-to-best/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sigismund III Vasa ‎
• Comment: A more interesting hook could be based on the reviews but at the same time it might be too promotional?

Created by Piotrus (talk). Self-nominated at 08:20, 4 August 2021 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is new enough, long enough, well-sourced, neutral and plagiarism-free. Hook is cited in article. However, I don't think it will appear very interesting to somebody who is not familiar with The Witcher. I don't think using a hook from the reviews would seem over-promotional-y. Also, the article seems a bit, if you don't mind me saying, messy. The reception section takes most of the prose (is there really nothing else that can be said about these comics?) and seems to be missing some punctuation. "The Witcher" is also mentioned several times, sometimes as "the Witcher" and sometimes "The Witcher". However, most of these instances are not in italics. I might recommend a request at WP:GOCER. QPQ has been done. Pamzeis (talk) I am not watching this page so please ping me if you want my attention. 02:19, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Pamzeis, Regarding a more interesting hook, I am open to suggestions. The ALT1 I can think of is below. Regarding the incompleteness, a) it is not required for DYKs and b) no, I really didn't find anything else in the reliable sources. Ditto for formatting issues such as The Witcher, I'll see about fixing what I see but again, this is generally not a DYK-level requirement (it's a GA-level, IMHO). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:25, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

ALT1: ...that the The Witcher comic book series has received generally positive reviews?

I still don't find ALT1 interesting. How about...

• ALT2: ... that although its publisher Dark Horse Comics is American, a significant proportion of artists involved with The Witcher comic book series have been Polish?

If you're OK with this hook, then, I'll gladly give it a tick. Pamzeis (talk) 02:33, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Pamzeis, The hook is correct, and you are right, it is more interesting than my original one (and less promotional than my ALT). I am happy to "adopt" it so you can "tick" it. Cheers, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:19, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

AGFing on the foreign language source. Pamzeis (talk) 05:14, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Pamzeis, For the record, Google Translate should give a quite solid Polish to English if you ever feel the need to check this kind of stuff. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:12, 9 August 2021 (UTC)