Template talk:Did you know/Free-to-play

Free-to-play[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as 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 Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:59, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

... that women spent over a hundred dollars a year on average in massively multiplayer online games that were free-to-play, 50% more than men?

Comment: First time submitting a DYK with this new format, someone tell me if I screwed up. I started editing the article on July 31 but the actual expansion clearly began on August 5. The relevant text for the hook begins at "On average, women spent $111 a year in MMOs" in the article.

Created by Gary King (talk). Self nom at 03:46, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Please add a comment and signature (or just a signature if endorsing) after each aspect you have reviewed:

Hook

Length, format, content rules – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Source – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Interest – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Image suitability, if applicable – None. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
ALT hooks, if proposed –

Article

Length – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Vintage – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Sourcing (V, RS, BLP) – Two citation needed tags already, other paragraphs entirely uncited. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutrality – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Plagiarism/close paraphrasing – Looks fine. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
copyvio (files) – No images, so no problems. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Obvious faults in prose, structure, formatting –

Comments/discussion:

Just need to address the referencing issues. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I commented out the two "citation needed tags" since I do agree that those facts need to be sourced before including them (I did not write those sentences). For the two remaining unsourced paragraphs, they were already in the article before I started editing, as well, and yet they are crucial to better understanding the article's core concepts, so I'm in a bit of a bind here. I'd prefer leaving them there since they don't particularly mention anything that a reader would normally challenge, per WP:V, and since I plan on eventually bringing the article to Good Article status (all the content that I added myself to the article is already sourced, so it's only a matter of performing the research necessary to replace those unsourced paragraphs). Thoughts? Gary King (talk · scripts) 05:34, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The current consensus is minimum one citation per paragraph, so... looks like you have a bit of research ahead you. Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:06, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay fair enough, I'll get right on it. Gary King (talk · scripts) 20:57, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the article, I now see a reference on every paragraph, and the one reference that I checked looked fine. So if that was the only thing holding up final approval it should be gtg. Sharktopus ^talk 18:24, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:42, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]