Talk:I Love You, Colonel Sanders!

A fact from I Love You, Colonel Sanders! appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 February 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the young, attractive, and date-able portrayal of Colonel Sanders in a parody dating sim is part of an effort by KFC to make the Colonel a "part of pop culture"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/I Love You Colonel Sanders!.

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~~... that players attempt to win the love of the young, attractive Colonel Sanders in I Love You Colonel Sanders!?~~ Source: "Things got even weirder when the game was revealed to be a dating simulator with Colonel Sanders as the prized companion." ("I played KFC's bizarre Colonel Sanders dating game so you don't have to")

Reviewed: Exempt, less than 5 DYKs in my life

Created/expanded by Akrabbim (talk). Self-nominated at 20:33, 4 February 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Unless I'm missing something, this was last edited on 15 December 2019, and submitted to DYK on 4 February 2020‎, so it fails the newness criteria of WP:DYKRULES. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:56, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, no, wait. I was reviewing the wrong article. I was looking at Colonel Sanders, not I Love You Colonel Sanders!. -- RoySmith (talk) 03:58, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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: None required.

Overall: There's a few hits on earwig for copied text, but it's mostly instances of "I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator", which is the formal name of the sim, so not a problem. -- RoySmith (talk) 04:12, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This hook falls short of Rule C6. It is all plot. Please provide a new hook. Yoninah (talk) 21:34, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I just looked over the article. While it is true that Colonel Sanders is a real-life person, the hook is written in a way that obscures that. A tweak of the hook wording would solve it. Alternately, the bolded link could be piped to say what it is (a dating sim). Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 21:37, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, how about this? —Aᴋʀᴀʙʙıᴍ ^talk 21:48, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1: ~~... that the young, attractive, and date-able portrayal of Colonel Sanders in I Love You Colonel Sanders! is part of an effort by KFC to make the Colonel a "part of pop-culture"?~~

OK, but what about removing the repetition?
ALT2: ... that the young, attractive, and date-able portrayal of Colonel Sanders in a parody dating sim is part of an effort by KFC to make the Colonel a "part of pop culture"? Yoninah (talk) 21:58, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You could also turn around the wording in ALT0:
ALT0a: ~~... that in a 2019 parody dating sim commissioned by KFC, players attempt to win the love of the young, attractive Colonel Sanders?~~ Yoninah (talk) 22:03, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how ALT2 is an improvement over ALT1, but I'm fine with it if you think it's better. I think it's hookier than ALT0 and 0a. —Aᴋʀᴀʙʙıᴍ ^talk 22:07, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, ALT1 has the word Colonel three times and Sanders twice. ALT2 has two Colonel and one Sanders :) Pinging @RoySmith: to review ALT2. Yoninah (talk) 22:20, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a newbie when it comes to DYK (and particularly DYK reviews). With that in mind, it seems kind of wordy to me. How about:
ALT2a: ... that the young, attractive, and date-able Colonel Sanders in a parody dating sim is part of an effort by KFC to make him a "part of pop culture"? -- RoySmith (talk) 23:38, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't make it that much shorter and I think it loses a little clarity, so I think I prefer ALT2 to 2a. —Aᴋʀᴀʙʙıᴍ ^talk 14:06, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, ALT2 is clearer. Yoninah (talk) 15:31, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]