Template:Did you know nominations/Special Force (2003 video game)

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 Vaticidalprophet talk 00:56, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Special Force (2003 video game)

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• ... that the militant group Hezbollah released a video game in 2003? Source: "Hezbollah computer game takes propaganda war on Israel to virtual battlefield" (ref #1 in the article)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Alphington Paper Mill
  • Comment: Very unusual topic, so open for additional hook suggestions.

Improved to Good Article status by IceWelder (talk). Self-nominated at 10:25, 27 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Special Force (2003 video game); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Impressive work here. I do have a comment that's not really related. Is the original source from News Tribune? The hook's source I assume comes from this newspaper and the article doesn't give the best impression with references that look like spam. If you could clean that article up a bit, that would be great. Imcdc Contact 13:13, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

@Imcdc: That particular source is a wire story from The Associated Press, with the News Tribune being among its licensees. I am not aware of a public repository for AP articles, so this is the best we can do. Similarly there is a Reuters story via Wired because the original is no longer on Reuters' website. All of the sources given are reliable sources, though, and the article just passed GA with them. Could you clarify which of them "look like spam"? IceWelder [✉] 13:41, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

@IceWelder: I was referring more to this article. Can't really make out what the references are on that page. However as you stated, its a wire story from AP and News Tribune is its licensee. Plus it passed GA review. So there shouldn't be any issues with reliability from the original source. - Imcdc Contact 14:02, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Aha, thanks for the clarification. I see what you mean and it looked like vandalism to me, so I removed it. Regards, IceWelder [✉] 14:19, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Ok. I think we should be good then. - Imcdc Contact 14:24, 27 September 2023 (UTC)