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A fact from Actual play appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 September 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that actual play shows have helped to improve the representation of women, people of color, and LGBT people in tabletop gaming?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Actual play.

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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

How the first decade of actual play has defined the template (Polygon, September 2022)
Hollywood is going to come for D&D actual plays sooner or later — will they survive? (Polygon, October 2023)
Chalk, Alex. (2023). "Mapping an online production network: The field of ‘actual play’ media". Convergence, 29(2), 449-466. doi:10.1177/13548565221103987

Prior draft[edit]

Hi User:GorillaWarfare, thank you for starting this. In case it might contain anything useful, I'm just letting you know that the abandoned Draft:Actual Play was deleted last year. BOZ (talk) 20:28, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

For reference, it was started by User:A niche kale geek. BOZ (talk) 20:29, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh great, thank you for noticing and pointing that out! I've incorporated some of the content, and I'll histmerge so A niche kale geek's edits are properly attributed. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 00:04, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, User:GorillaWarfare. I came across that draft while compiling a massive list of deleted tabletop games articles. In case any of these come in handy, these are the ones I have found so far which pertain to podcasts, some of which may potentially be useful here or possibly even be rescuable as articles:

Authors & Dragons (abandoned draft) - Dungeons & Dragons podcast created by a group of fantasy authors
Casual RP (abandoned draft) - podcast about Dungeons & Dragons
Darker Days Radio (abandoned draft) - podcast about horror tabletop RPGs
DC Universe All Star Games (abandoned draft) - celebrities playing a DC Heroes campaign
Dum dum die (abandoned draft) - home-brew actual-play Dungeons & Dragons podcast
Fear the Boot (abandoned draft) - podcast about tabletop RPGs
GeeklyInc (abandoned draft) - podcast about tabletop games and more
Holly Conrad (abandoned draft) - Youtuber who does D&D playthroughs
On the shoulders of dwarves (PROD) - podcast about tabletop RPGs
Order 66 (podcast) AFD - podcast about Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition
RPGMP3 (CSD) - RPG podcast website
Reality GameMasters (CSD) - web series
Roll For Initiative (Podcast) (abandoned draft) - podcast about Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Spellburn Podcast (abandoned draft) - podcast about Dungeon Crawl Classics
Tabletop for the end of the world (abandoned draft) - narrative podcast about playing a post-apocalyptic RPG
The Dice Tower AFD (redirected) - audio podcast about board games and wargames
Thornvale (Podcast) (abandoned draft) - weekly story-driven actual play podcast using the Monster of the Week game
Zlurpcast (PROD) - podcast about Blood Bowl

BOZ (talk) 03:38, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 03:58, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that actual play shows have helped to improve representation of women, people of color, and LGBT people in tabletop gaming? Source: [1], [2]

Reviewed: Suzanna Hext

Moved to mainspace by A niche kale geek (talk) and GorillaWarfare (talk). Nominated by GorillaWarfare (talk) at 00:36, 2 September 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Note for the reviewer: I created this article from scratch on September 1, but was later told that there was work in a deleted (WP:G13) draft. I incorporated some of that work into the new article and histmerged them together so that A niche kale geek would be properly attributed. I wasn't sure whether to put "new", "mainspace", or "expanded" in the status field, since all three are basically true, but I'm sure it is eligible under one of those three. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 00:39, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
New (I appreciate the explanatory note), plenty long enough, and well written. (It could probably pass a GA review.) Hook is properly formatted and interesting. QPQ is done. Good to go! Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:47, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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