Template:Did you know nominations/Islanders (video game)
- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:52, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
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Islanders (video game)
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that minimalist city-building game Islanders deliberately omits most features common to the genre?PC Gamer: Islanders is the most relaxing strategy game ever, Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Wot I Think: Islanders
- Comment: I didn't include an alternate hook because I think that is really the most interesting thing about the game - how pared-down it is compared to other city-builders, and I didn't want to do a "quoted-from-review" hook.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Amr ibn Hind
Created by Premeditated Chaos (talk). Self-nominated at 10:45, 10 August 2019 (UTC).
@Premeditated Chaos: I'll take this on. AmericanAir88(talk) 19:15, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
- New: Hmm. You seemed to nominate this on August 10th, yet the article was created on August 2nd.
- Long enough: At least 1500 characters
- Within policy:
- Hook format: Fewer than 200 characters.
- Hook content:
- QPQ: Satisfied
AmericanAir88(talk) 19:27, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the review. I've fixed the Twitter citation. I was only a couple hours over into August 10 going by my timezone, and I only finished writing the article on August 3 anyway, so IMO it's not that big a deal (and DYK is deliberately not strict about that).
ALT1: ... that minimalist city-building game Islanders deliberately omits most features common to the genre, such as resource accumulation and technology research?- ALT2: ... that minimalist city-building game Islanders deliberately omits features such as resource accumulation and technology research in order to focus on the core building placement mechanic?
- Here's two possible alts with a little more detail. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:33, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the review. I've fixed the Twitter citation. I was only a couple hours over into August 10 going by my timezone, and I only finished writing the article on August 3 anyway, so IMO it's not that big a deal (and DYK is deliberately not strict about that).
- @Premeditated Chaos: I think that ALT2 works as the best hook. It is detailed and is interesting. What do you think? AmericanAir88(talk) 19:54, 17 August 2019 (UTC)