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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: promoted by Sven Manguard Wha? 05:32, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

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Dragon Fin Soup[edit]

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  • ALT1:... that in Dragon Fin Soup, an upcoming video game with randomly generated earthquakes, when a player dies they must start the game over from the beginning?
  • ALT2:... that when a player dies in Dragon Fin Soup, a video game with randomly generated earthquakes, they must start the game over from the beginning?
  • ALT3:... that dying in the upcoming video game Dragon Fin Soup means you have to start from the very beginning again?
  • ALT4:... that dying in Dragon Fin Soup, an upcoming video game with randomly generated earthquakes, means you have to start from the very beginning again?
  • ALT5: ... that the upcoming video game Dragon Fin Soup will have randomly generated weather and earthquakes?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Adolph Knopf
  • Comment: Source for Hook: "Most intriguing of the procedural elements is talk of randomised weather which will, presumably, have an impact on combat. The earthquakes might be troublesome even outside of combat." [1] and also "always facing the threat of character permadeath." [2]

Created by Odie5533 (talk). Self nominated at 17:45, 26 March 2014 (UTC).

  • The grammar in ALT1 is off (it should be "a player"), and ALT3 and ALT4 shouldn't use second-person. Other than that, it's fine. Tezero (talk) 01:31, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
  • I fixed ALT1. Thank you for catching it. Second-person isn't that common for DYK, but technically DYK itself is second-person ("Did you know..."). Still need a full review. --Odie5533 (talk) 02:16, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
  • New (25th), long enough, "within policy" (though the sources are kind of rehashes of each other), no copyvio found via spotcheck (no tool), QPQ done. The article mentions seismic activity, but not earthquakes as used in the source, so it needs clarification and immediate refs. Please ping me if I don't respond. czar ♔ 03:57, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
The hooks and the article don't really connect the bearing the earthquakes have on the permadeath. Are randomly generated earthquakes harder to survive? The hook implies as such but the article doesn't explain. Can you give it another look and perhaps strike a few of the excess ALTs? One hook should be good enough since they're not substantively different. And I'm not sure permadeath is interesting enough for a hook on its own, though perhaps randomly generated climates and therefore earthquakes can be. czar ♔ 04:24, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
The RPS source states, "Most intriguing of the procedural elements is talk of randomised weather which will, presumably, have an impact on combat. The earthquakes might be troublesome even outside of combat." If earthquakes have any affect on combat, then they'd also affect survival and thus permadeath. That's the best source on it I believe. I struck out all but ALT1, which does not make the connection necessarily related, and I added an ALT5 which may be more acceptable. --Odie5533 (talk) 04:35, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
I like ALT5 and it checks out: gtg. Struck ALT1. czar ♔ 02:05, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
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