Template:Did you know nominations/CastleVille
- The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. 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 Schwede66 20:18, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
CastleVille
[edit]- ... that a month after its launch, the Facebook game CastleVille had amassed 26.6 million players?
- Reviewed: Grand Palace
Created/expanded by Miyagawa (talk). Self nom at 18:40, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hook: Interesting, short, reference does not support fact (it does not say explicitly that Castleville reached the number in 6 days).
- Article: New enough, long enough. Referencing is thorough and well formatted. Paraphrasing checks look fine (1, 2).
- Summary:
Can you find a direct citation for the 6 days claim? Crisco 1492 (talk) 17:11, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
- I'd interpreted the source to mean that the 5 million figure was claimed after six days as the other figures were all for six days. I've copyedited to say the date rather than six days directly for the five million players for CastleVille. Also added a direct cite to the lead for the fact in the hook. Miyagawa (talk) 19:17, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
I understand that, but having it explicitly stated would be the safest course of action. The new hook is just as good, though. Good to go! Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:35, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
