Template:Did you know nominations/BattleSphere

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 Vaticidalprophet talk 15:18, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

BattleSphere

• ... that aspects from first person shooters and flight simulators were incorporated into BattleSphere?

• • Reviewed:

Improved to Good Article status by KGRAMR (talk). Nominated by KGRAMR (talk) at 15:20, 31 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/BattleSphere; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Hi. I'll go ahead and review this. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 10:34, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - See comments below

Overall: Looks good. Earwig comes up clean, everything is sourced (there might be some citation overkill in the article, but that's not really a problem for DYK). QPQ not required (one of the first five nominations). The only problem IMO is the hook -- it's not so "hooky" IMO. Looking through the article, a couple things jump out. The first is the "one of the most desirable games of all time" quote and related information about value/rarity. The other isn't actually in the article, but appears to be in the sources -- that profits go to diabetes research. That's an unusual thing for a game, and could be added/made the hook. Either way. I also see that the nominator has been banned, but isn't the person who got the article to GA. KGRAMR do you want to take over as nominator? Basically just means suggesting another hook at this point. :) — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 10:47, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: @Grandmaster Huon and Rhododendrites: Here's an alternative hook:

  ALT1: ... that BattleSphere concealed JUGS? Source: [1]

It's a bit quirky, but I think it works. 〜 Festucalex • talk 11:07, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

• @Rhododendrites:OK so, here's more or less an alternative hook:

  ALT2: "... that all subsequent profits from sold copies of BattleSphere were invested into diabetes charity?" Sources: [2], [3], [4].

  I think it's a good hook, given that one of the members of 4Play is afflicted with diabetes so, they donated profits made from sold copies to charity. A noble and respectful act if you ask me... Roberth Martinez (talk) 00:20, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

  @KGRAMR: Oops. Ping didn't come through, sorry. So the only issues are (a) press releases aren't typically considered reliable sources -- but that's more of an article editing issue, since the interview source is probably good enough to verify this claim, and (b) these sources seem to be published at the time of release (or just before) so they can't really verify that the profits actually were invested. Easily fixed, though, by reframing the hook along the lines of e.g. "the developers pledged to donate all profits to diabetes research". — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 15:17, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

  @Rhododendrites: How about this hook:

  ALT3: "... that the developers of BattleSphere pledged to donate all profits from sales to diabetes research?" Source: [5] Roberth Martinez (talk) 23:29, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

  Some folks might prefer such a claim not come from an interview, but I think we're probably ok here. I wikilinked diabetes and changed the nominator to KGRAMR. Good to go, I think. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 15:09, 17 September 2023 (UTC)