Template:Did you know nominations/Ejector Seat (game show)
- 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 Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:33, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
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Ejector Seat (game show)
edit... that the game show Ejector Seat features contestants being ejected from their seats?
- Comment: McKenzie wrote the infobox, lede and section headers; I simply filled them in.
5x expanded by Launchballer (talk), SolomanMcKenzie (talk). Nominated by Launchballer (talk) at 20:03, 28 April 2014 (UTC).
This is a great hook but a disappointing article. The "main" source is the website of the production company, hardly a secondary source. The bulk of the article contains descriptions from show episodes. More content is needed to make this DYK-worthy. It also needs a QPQ. BTW a Wikipedia search on Ejector seat sends you to Ejection seat. Yoninah (talk) 21:09, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
- I'm lost... the Endemol source is used for a single statement in the infobox, and the 'expanded' content is a description of gameplay backed up by individual episodes that I have watched. I have created a disambiguation page at Ejector seat.--Launchballer 19:34, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
- So the whole article is nothing but "plot". Do you have any other references that talk about the production or the reception of the program? Yoninah (talk) 19:54, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
- To tell you the truth, I expanded the article after watching an episode of it. I have not even looked for online references. I will shortly do so.--Launchballer 20:11, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
- There are now 1,500 characters of text other than plot.--Launchballer 21:27, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
- I'm lost... the Endemol source is used for a single statement in the infobox, and the 'expanded' content is a description of gameplay backed up by individual episodes that I have watched. I have created a disambiguation page at Ejector seat.--Launchballer 19:34, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
- I went to promote this—looking for a quirky hook—but realized I couldn't when I hit the phrase "accusing the chairs of being stolen" in the article: who would accuse chairs? The paraphrasing in this Critical reception section needs work. There is also a severe problem with the article as a whole: nowhere is it explained just what "being ejected" consists of. My expectation before I read the article was that this would be like actual ejector seats in planes or James Bond cars: the seat flies out somehow. Another possibility might be that the contestant is dumped from the seat. Given liability issues, these can't be what happens, but the article never makes it clear what does happen, and it must. I don't think the hook holds up, either, for similar ejection reasons. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:56, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
- I've performed some fixes, but before I run Reflinks; do the tweets I've used constitute a reliable source?--Launchballer 16:49, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
