Talk:The Random Years

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Date	Process	Result
September 7, 2022	Good article nominee	Listed
September 8, 2022	Peer review	Not reviewed
October 4, 2022	Peer review	Reviewed
October 23, 2022	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 24, 2022. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that The Random Years includes a version of strip poker played to Antiques Roadshow?
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Did you know nomination

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 RoySmith (talk) 21:21, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that critics frequently compared The Random Years to Friends and one of its characters to Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld? Source: multiple citations in the article
- ALT1: ... that The Random Years was based the creators' experiences living in New York City after graduating college? Source: Deseret News
- ALT2: ... that The Random Years includes a version of strip poker played to Antiques Roadshow? Source: Newsday
- ALT3: ... that before appearing on The Random Years, Will Friedle was scheduled to star in Off Centre before being replaced by Eddie Kaye Thomas at the last second? Source: Digital Spy
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Imperial Bedroom
- Comment: Apologies for the amount of hooks. I am not the best at finding something "hooky" and will be more than happy to take any suggestions if there are better options.

Improved to Good Article status by Aoba47 (talk). Self-nominated at 08:42, 7 September 2022 (UTC).[reply]

suggesting some hooks of my own :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 02:19, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- ALT4: ... that the first and only season of The Random Years was the lowest-rated original program on network television that season?
- ALT5: ... that The Random Years was panned as suffering from "a serious case of sitcomitis"?
  - Thank you for the edits to the article. Apologies for those very silly mistakes. Those two hooks look good. Thank you for the suggestions as those are always appreciated. As I said in my note, I am not the best at all about finding a good hook. Aoba47 (talk) 02:24, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Article recently taken to GA by the nominator. All the hooks (including the additions by theleekycauldron) are cited properly and interesting enough. No sign of copyvio. QPQ done. This should be good to go IMO. FrB.TG (talk) 17:30, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reviewing this. I would more than happy with any of the proposed hooks being used. I do not have a strong preference either way. Aoba47 (talk) 17:52, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]