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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: promoted by Vanamonde (talk) 16:57, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

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Improved to Good Article status by Jaguar (talk). Self-nominated at 16:31, 29 November 2016 (UTC).

  • Article was recently promoted to GA. Meets all content criteria. The first hook (which I prefer) is referenced to an off-line source, and is quite interesting. I would mention that the titular character was to be the mascot, not the game itself (see below). QPQ looks good. SounderBruce 06:54, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
      • Thanks! I've changed the hook to your suggestion. JAGUAR  15:17, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Pulled from Preps, nomination reopened. Discussed at WT:DYK#Bug!; it was not "going to be the mascot", it was one of three candidates. Fram (talk) 10:54, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

I've rephrased the hook to specify that it was one of three candidates to be a mascot, although that is only covered in IGN. Fram, I'm afraid I'm not that savvy with the DYK process so I'm not sure if I have to renominate this at the main DYK nominations page or ping someone to ask them to put it back in the prep queue? JAGUAR  14:19, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
  • A new reviewer will have to approve this, and then it can go back to the preps. But you shouldn't have changed the original hook but suggested a new one, now you are making the discussion hard to follow. Fram (talk) 14:28, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
  • I have restored the original hook, since it was promoted in that way and we need to keep the historical discussion straight. The revised hook is now ALT2, which I have listed immediately below, but with an added "a" so it makes grammatical sense (the "a" is used in the nominated article). BlueMoonset (talk) 16:12, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
  • ALT2: ... that the titular character from Bug! was one of three candidates to be the mascot for the Sega Saturn console, due to the lack of a Sonic the Hedgehog video game?
  • Thanks. Perfect, we can go with that hook. JAGUAR  17:25, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
  • @BlueMoonset: do you know how this will get promoted to the queue? Is it still visible on the DYK nominations page? JAGUAR  17:31, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
  • Jaguar, it's still visible on the nominations page, and is waiting for a new reviewer to check ALT2 (that's what the red icon above means: new reviewer needed). There's quite a backlog at DYK, so it may be a while before a reviewer comes by, and then for it to be promoted to a prepare area, and for there to a queue. Please be patient. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:46, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
  • The ALT2 hook is acceptable and has an inline citation to an off-line source. Other aspects of the review have been dealt with by SounderBruce. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:18, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
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