Template:Did you know nominations/Toronto PET Users Group
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The result was: promoted by HalfGig talk 13:40, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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Toronto PET Users Group
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- ... that a flash mob by Commodore PET–wielding members of the Toronto PET Users Group (PET pictured) is the subject of a 2014 Starbucks documentary?
- Reviewed: Vox (website)
5x expanded by Psychonaut (talk). Self nominated at 14:58, 2 January 2015 (UTC).
Expanded 5X (from 665 bytes prose to 4852), well cited, per Coren search bot didn't show any copyvios, googling of four random phrases showed no copyvios, My concern is that the hook fact is cited to a blog and the group's own newsletters - is there a better sourced hook possible? Or something from Starbucks or the news? QPQ done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ealdgyth (talk • contribs) 14:48, 3 January 2015
Thanks for the review. The claims in the hook are actually sourced to the Starbucks film itself, to TPUG's own newsletter/website, and to an article in Lürzer's Archive, which is a major ad industry magazine. Even if the primary sources from TPUG are disregarded, surely the other two sources are sufficient to verify the existence and subject matter of the documentary video...? For the Starbucks cite I used the version on their official YouTube channel, though the video can also be found on the Starbucks website at http://meetme.starbucks.com/mobile?hl=en-US. Psychonaut (talk) 15:42, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- You are correct, I did miss that, but we still lack a third-party source stating that it's the flash mob action that was part of the documentary - the Lurzer source just states "One tells the story of a group called T.P.U.G. which meets regularly at the Starbucks to play games on their old school Commodore computers, always inviting laptop and smartphone users to join in. " Ealdgyth - Talk 15:50, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- Well, the fact that the meeting was unannounced to the public isn't particularly self-serving, so relying on TPUG itself for that one detail seems to meet all five criteria of the relevant verifiability policy at WP:ABOUTSELF. Psychonaut (talk) 16:06, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- You are correct, I did miss that, but we still lack a third-party source stating that it's the flash mob action that was part of the documentary - the Lurzer source just states "One tells the story of a group called T.P.U.G. which meets regularly at the Starbucks to play games on their old school Commodore computers, always inviting laptop and smartphone users to join in. " Ealdgyth - Talk 15:50, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Looks good after explanation. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:20, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
