Template:Did you know nominations/The Social Network

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The result was: promoted by Eddie891 (talk) 18:14, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

The Social Network

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• ... that The Social Network received eight nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards?
  • ALT1:... that Jesse Eisenberg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network?
  • ALT2:... that The Social Network received eight Academy Award nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards and won three?
  • ALT3:... that The Social Network was chosen as the best film of 2010 by the National Board of Review?
  • ALT4:... that Aaron Sorkin is interested in writing a sequel to the 2010 film The Social Network? [1]

Improved to Good Article status by Some Dude From North Carolina (talk). Self-nominated at 00:17, 28 December 2020 (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: Excellent article, no need for QPQ (only three previous DYKs), Earwig is ok (the top hit is a wiki mirror, the others pick up quotes only). Sensible fair use for lead picture. Onceinawhile (talk) 14:08, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

I eliminated the unnecessary redundancy in the remaining hook: "received eight Academy Award nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards". MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:12, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

• Why were all the hooks struck? What's left is the most unhooky of them all. Yoninah (talk) 21:36, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Yoninah: it was hooky to me, because I remember thinking the film was mediocre when I watched it, so receiving 8 nominations was a real surprise. ALT1 and ALT2 are just more detail, ALT3 is less notable I think, and ALT4 sounds like an advert. Onceinawhile (talk) 14:55, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

• @Onceinawhile: if you gave it some context and said it was mediocre, or that its nominations were a surprise, then it might work. But an awards tally could be said about so many other films. Yoninah (talk) 21:06, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

@Yoninah: fair enough. Rotten tomatoes rates it very highly, so I am clearly in the minority. @Some Dude From North Carolina: how about an ALT based on the Lefsetz quote along the lines of "...The Social Network fueled the perception that techies are rock stars”. Onceinawhile (talk) 22:10, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

• @Onceinawhile and Yoninah:

• ALT5:... that Bob Lefsetz said The Social Network helped fuel an emerging perception that "techies have become the new rock stars"? [2]
• ALT6:... that The Social Network has been referred to as the Citizen Kane of "the Internet age"? [3]
• ALT7:... that Quentin Tarantino called The Social Network the best film of the 2010s for its "active dialogist" script? [4] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Some Dude From North Carolina (talk • contribs)

• @Some Dude From North Carolina: You forgot to sign your comment above, so the ping to Onceinawhile and Yoninah likely did not work. Anyways, I think we can do way better for an interesting hook. How about:
  • ALT8:... that in the 2010 film The Social Network, the same actor—Armie Hammer—plays both of the Winklevoss twins?
  • ALT9:... that the first scene of the 2010 film The Social Network took 99 takes to finish?
• We'll need to recreate Winklevoss twins as a disambiguation page (it was recently AfDed) if we go for ALT8. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 20:40, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Only a comment but among the two new suggestions, ALT9 is probably the hookier one. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 02:45, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm approving ALT9 as the most interesting. SL93 (talk) 23:10, 29 January 2021 (UTC)