Template:Did you know nominations/Pitfall!

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 02:53, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Pitfall!

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• ... that Pitfall! was one of the top-selling video games for the Atari 2600? Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/08/26/top-10-best-selling-atari-2600-games "This list details the top 10 Atari 2600 bestsellers, going by available market research from the early eighties [...] #2 Pitfall"
• ALT1: ... that you can play Pitfall! in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War? Source: https://venturebeat.com/games/infinite-warfares-zombies-in-spaceland-interview/ & https://www.pcgamer.com/i-cant-stop-playing-pitfall-in-call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/
• ALT2: ... that Pitfall Harry from Pitfall! was the first popular character originating from home video game consoles? (Montfort, Nick; Bogost, Ian (2009). Racing the Beam. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01257-7)
• ALT3: ...that gameplay elements from Pitfall! originated from the Heckle and Jeckle cartoons? (Montfort, Nick; Bogost, Ian (2009). Racing the Beam. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01257-7)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Michael Goldstein

Improved to Good Article status by Andrzejbanas (talk). Self-nominated at 05:16, 30 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Pitfall!; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• More of a comment than a review, but considering how much of a big deal Pitfall was back in the day, perhaps something else could be proposed other than it just being a top-selling game? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:46, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting: - See below

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Andrzejbanas: The plagiarism detector gives 46.5% similarity on the Edge sources because of lengthy quotes in the article. This is not a problem, though well worth noting here. Other than that, the article looks good, but I agree with Narutolovehinata5 that the hook is probably not the best you could get out of the article. For example, the 64-week top streak sounds more interesting, as does the hidden inclusion in some Call of Duty games. Consider proposing hooks around these instead. IceWelder [✉] 13:17, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

The revised ALTs look good to me. ALT1 would be my preferred promotion, though I will leave this up to the promoter. Regards, IceWelder [✉] 00:27, 13 November 2023 (UTC)