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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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by AirshipJungleman29 talk 09:00, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

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Suicide of Fat Cat

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The Shibanpo Yangtze River Bridge where Fat Cat jumped off.
The Shibanpo Yangtze River Bridge where Fat Cat jumped off.
  • ... that following the suicide of Fat Cat (location pictured), McDonald's Vietnam was the target of a boycott after launching a slogan: "If you don't like vegetables, eat chicken with BBQ cheese? Source: Hoang, Vu (7 May 2024). "McDonald's Vietnam apologizes for slogan mocking tragic death of Chinese man". VnExpress International. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
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Created by TheGreatPeng (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

TheGreatPeng (talk) 15:09, 10 May 2024 (UTC).

Comment: I would suggest having some alternatives. ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 15:30, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article, although not quite enough to violate my policy of doing my QPQs oldest first. I will say that this article is being edited a lot and is probably not stable. For now, I recommend ALT0a: ... that McDonald's Vietnam was boycotted after appropriating a slogan by a recently deceased Chinese gamer?--Launchballer 15:47, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
    • ALT1: ... that a Chinese gamer named Fat Cat tragically died by suicide after transferring a large sum of money to his girlfriend, who wished to end their relationship? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheGreatPeng (talk • contribs)
I'd lose 'tragically' for concision, but I'll let a reviewer make that choice. Full review needed.--Launchballer 18:38, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Hooks must not contain redirects or contractions, although to be fair that's probably not far off the hook I would have suggested. For concision, I suggest ALT2a: ... that when people ordered fast food take-out to commemorate Fat Cat's suicide, multiple restaurants delivered empty packages?--Launchballer 08:20, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
I recommend ALT0a with image. TheGreatPeng (talk) 08:45, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
  • Article is new enough, long enough, neutral, well sourced, and BDP-compliant; AGF on its verifiability against the Chinese sources as well as the accuracy of its translation, although I did make some copy edits here and there. Nominator is exempted from doing a QPQ, this being their third nomination in a total of four. Passing ALT0a for its concision and potential to entice audiences into reading the article. Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 16:17, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
    • Nineteen Ninety-Four guy, you don't mention the image in your review. Is it appropriate and adequately visible to be run with any of the hooks? Given that ALT0a doesn't mention Fat Cat by name, or his means of death, the image caption doesn't really go with the hook. (I just looked, and the image here is not currently in the article, having been swapped out for another one on 20 May, which makes it ineligible for DYK usage. I'll let you decide whether the new image is useful and should be included here instead as part of your updated review—I can't tell whether they're even pictures of the same bridge!) BlueMoonset (talk) 04:29, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
      • @BlueMoonset: I apologize about that, and thanks for striking through the rejected hooks. As a follow-up, the images on both this entry and the boldlinked article are freely-licensed, albeit swapped out; but neither one is used in the approved hook, thus hook image is clearly not going to end up in the main page. That being said, the alt hook is interesting enough that it can manage without either image caption; I just hope the DYK prepper places it at the bottom of the queue or nearby it at least. Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 05:37, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Just noting here that there is a move request in progress. WP:DYKTAG does not mention requested moves but this is something for promoters to be aware of.--Launchballer 10:24, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Unpromoted per discussion on WT:DYK RoySmith (talk) 14:37, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

I've just redone nearly the whole article to remove the real life names of nonpublic figures, un-sourced BLP content, and copyright violations imported from the Chinese-language Wikipedia article. To the extent that DYK encourages content creation, this is the kind of content that we should not encourage. Rjjiii (talk) 02:30, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

  • Withdrew - What a shame. This DYK was carelessly approved by Nineteen Ninety-Four, and now to hide his mistake, he’s creating drama. This is not my fault—this article was heavily edited by many editors during the current event time. I already tagged the earlier version as a direct translation of the Chinese Wikipedia and mentioned it on the talk page. After someone found the privacy and close paraphrasing issue, the one who approved the DYK is more responsible for the situation, not blame on me. Thank you. TheGreatPeng (talk) 08:54, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
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