Template:Did you know nominations/Ur-Quan
- 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 SL93 (talk) 19:25, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
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Ur-Quan
- ... that Star Control II's antagonist the Ur-Quan have been compared to the Reapers of Mass Effect, after BioWare creatives cited the Star Control as an inspiration?
Improved to Good Article status by Shooterwalker (talk). Self-nominated at 19:59, 25 November 2020 (UTC).
Article is long enough (9789 characters), is a GA, nominated in time (became GA on 24 November, nominated on 25 November), and article is within policy
WP:DYKHOOK says that "If the subject is a work of fiction or a fictional character, the hook must involve the real world in some way." This hooks is completely in-universe about Star Control and Mass Effect game universes, and the casual reader would have no idea what this hook is about. Please can you provide a hook that adheres to the above rule?- QPQ exempt as the user has 1 previous DYK nomination
Overall the article is good, but the hook needs to be changed. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:58, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
- Working on this a bit. I'm trying to fix the in-universe nature of it. Does it help to rewrite it like this?
- ALT1: ... that BioWare credited the game Star Control as an influence on Mass Effect, leading to design similarities between Star Control II's antagonist the Ur-Quan and the Reapers of Mass Effect?
- Shooterwalker (talk) 20:09, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
- Checking back in on this. (I received what appears to be a phantom talk page notice.) Shooterwalker (talk) 14:52, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- Oh sorry, this slipped my mind too. ALT1 is still confusing, because it's the same information as ALT0 but with the text in a different order. Most casual Wikipedia readers (myself included) wouldn't understand this or why it's interesting at all. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:21, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
- I can see how it's a little too specific. Let me try again:
- ALT2: ... that the Ur-Quan from the 1992 science fiction game Star Control II are ranked among the best game antagonists of all time, and have influenced character designs from modern games?
- Aiming for a more general audience. Shooterwalker (talk) 18:05, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
