Template:Did you know nominations/Mega Man Powered Up
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The result was: rejected by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:53, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
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Mega Man Powered Up
[edit]- ... that the poor sales of Mega Man Powered Up, the remake to the 1987 original, caused plans for a Mega Man 2 remake to fall through?
Created by New Age Retro Hippie (talk), GamerPro64 (talk). Nominated by GamerPro64 (talk) at 03:08, 4 January 2014 (UTC).
Am I missing something? What you say is only featured in the lead of the article and no source is given. Secondly I'm a in a bit trouble here. The article isn't new. It existed then became a redirect page then it got recreated. So it is hard to separate the pre-existing article from the current one - it can't be said that it's null. If redirects could work as such then every DYK guideline could be hijacked by simply redirecting a long article for some time then recreate it and there you go it's a new article. As the Supplementary guidelines states:"Fivefold expansion is calculated from the previously existing article, no matter how bad it was (copyvios are an exception), no matter whether you kept any of it and no matter if it were up for deletion. This may be a bad surprise, but we don't have enough time and volunteers to reach consensus on the quality of each previous article.". So back to the point. The previous article on 27 August 2008 was 6443 characters long while the newest version has 10452. That's barely a fivefold expansion either. I am curious on others' take on the problem but I'd say no considering that sole issue. Lajbi Holla @ me • CP 10:30, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
- I can easily think of an alternative hook for this but if the article failed to meet with the guidelines I understand. GamerPro64 05:32, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
