Template:Did you know nominations/Black Destroyer

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 Yoninah (talk) 23:13, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Black Destroyer

(

• Back to T:TDYK
• Article history

)

• ... that A.E. van Vogt's short story "Black Destroyer" was part of a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, as its plot was similar to the movie Alien?

• Reviewed: Verkeerder Kill

Created by Andrew Davidson (talk) and Maury Markowitz (talk). Nominated by Maury Markowitz (talk) at 16:30, 23 October 2016 (UTC).

• ALT1 ... that the Black Destroyer marked the start of science fiction's Golden Age and inspired other works including Alien?

• Some issues found.
  • ✓ This article is new and was created on 18:33, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
  • ✓ This article meets the DYK criteria at 5682 characters
  • ✗ Paragraphs [4] (The ... race.) in this article lack a citation.
  • ✓ This article has no outstanding maintenance tags
  • ✓ A copyright violation is unlikely according to automated metrics (5.7% confidence; confirm)
    • Note to reviewers: There is low confidence in this automated metric, please manually verify that there is no copyright infringement or close paraphrasing. Note that this number may be inflated due to cited quotes and titles which do not constitute a copyright violation.

• No overall issues detected
  • ✓ The hook ALT0 is an appropriate length at 138 characters
  • ✓ The hook ALT1 is an appropriate length at 111 characters
  • ✓ Maury Markowitz has more than 5 DYK credits. A QPQ review of Template:Did you know nominations/Verkeerder Kill was performed for this nomination.

Automatically reviewed by DYKReviewBot. This is not a substitute for a human review. Please report any issues with the bot. --DYKReviewBot (report bugs) 20:30, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

• age and size ok, most segments referenced, Earwigs copyvio negative, hook cited. Source unseen but material discussed elsewhere. good to go. I didn't look at ALT1 closely as I didn't find it interesting. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:24, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

• The second paragraph under "Publication" needs at least one cite per Rule D2. Yoninah (talk) 01:49, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

• I note that it has been added now. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:40, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you. Restoring tick per Casliber's review. Yoninah (talk) 23:12, 12 November 2016 (UTC)