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A fact from Talking to Strangers appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the audiobook Talking to Strangers has its own theme song, "Hell You Talmbout"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Talking to Strangers.

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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) 06:36, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... ~~that Talking to Strangers shows how humans "default to truth"?~~ Source: "One of those blind spots, Gladwell contends, is that human beings default to taking strangers at their word [...] This “default to truth” also was a factor in ..." LA Times, "The basis of the book is [...] the Truth-Default Theory." The National
- ALT1:... that the audiobook Talking to Strangers has its own theme song, "Hell You Talmbout"? Source: "Gladwell’s team even licensed “Hell You Talmbout,” Janelle Monáe’s 2015 protest song about police brutality and racial violence (which invokes Bland’s name, among many others), for use in the audiobook." Entertainment Weekly
- ALT2:... that the audiobook Talking to Strangers has its own theme song?

Reviewed: KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns

Converted from a redirect by DiplomatTesterMan (talk). Self-nominated at 13:25, 7 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. ALT0 is a little vague, but ALT1 is okay. The piped link in ALT2 is confusing; you would think it would direct to "theme song". If it wasn't linked, it would also be okay. I did a light edit of the article and tagged the word "unfocused" as being unclear; it is spoken in Wikipedia's voice, but seems to be someone's opinion. I also noted that the review section reads like crib notes. It's not enough to pull a few words out of a review; they should be explained better. QPQ has not been done. Yoninah (talk) 16:11, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

QPQ done, I will make the other changes soon. DTM (talk) 14:01, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fully revised the 'crib notes' :D. The critical reception section seems alright now I guess? Cutting ALT0. "Unfocused" removed, not really needed there. Piped link in ALT2 removed. DTM (talk) 14:18, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the expansion. I'm not sure we need to keep seeing the same names pop up in paragraph after paragraph in the review section, but everything is cited and there is no close paraphrasing in the new additions. QPQ done. ALT1 and ALT2 are verified and cited inline. Either is good to go. Yoninah (talk) 21:44, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please elaborate

@Broccoli and Coffee: I haven't understood why you put the 'unbalanced section' template. Please elaborate so that changes can be made accordingly. Thank you. DTM (talk) 09:37, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've expanded the section a bit[1] and removed the template. I don't quite see why it was originally added either, and after reading a bit and adding and expanding a few opinions, I think it's safe to remove. —siro χ o 08:37, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]