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Former featured article candidate2 Hours Doing Nothing is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.
Good article2 Hours Doing Nothing has been listed as one of the Media and drama good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
December 5, 2020Good article nomineeListed
December 31, 2020Peer reviewReviewed
January 2, 2021Featured article candidateNot promoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 12, 2020.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in a viral video of a man doing nothing for two hours, a viewer counted him blinking 362 times?
Current status: Former featured article candidate, current good article


Did you know nomination

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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 Yoninah (talk) 20:38, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Created by Gerald Waldo Luis (talk) and Jeromi Mikhael (talk). Nominated by Jeromi Mikhael (talk) at 03:00, 22 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Suggestion: I'd rather have it
ALT1: ... that a video of a man doing nothing for two hours went viral internationally? GeraldWL ✉ 03:17, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Gerald Waldo Luis: The shorter, the catchier, as long as it is a fact, is better. 🙂 Jeromi Mikhael (talk) 03:24, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I doubt that's gonna be the case here. Assume I don't know the video. Who is Didit? Why should I know that he did nothing for 2h? What should I know? GeraldWL ✉ 03:29, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
How about this as an April Fools' hook? SD0001 (talk) 09:12, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
ALT2: ... that an Indonesian man once did nothing for two hours?
SD0001, That could be okay considering "April fools," but when does it take place? April 1? GeraldWL ✉ 16:14, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
May I ask if this is formally reviewed? VincentLUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 10:45, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Vincent60030, what do you mean by "formally reviewed"? GeraldWL ✉ 10:51, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Gerald Waldo Luis, did you know nominations are supposed to be reviewed. VincentLUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 10:53, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Vincent60030, for start I thought you're talking about curation. Mind explaining for someone new to DYK? Tried understanding WP:DYK's words but I am unable to. GeraldWL ✉ 10:57, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'll go ahead with a review since these were initial comments. VincentLUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 11:09, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

May I ask what is this in the prose? "Didit stated that he is willing to go to the toilet badly, but stated that he feared his parents calling him more, that "If I don’t answer them, I’ll get into trouble."" This does not make any sense to me VincentLUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 11:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article is currently short of the prose size. I'll give the chance for Gerald Waldo Luis and Jeromi Mikhael to expand the article. It also needs a copyedit. ALT1 is the preferred hook. VincentLUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 11:51, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Vincent60030, resolved the confusion, and have added more info about its adaptation to a mobile game, as well as some more stuff. Did a brief count; it could probably be eligible for DYK now (as I remember DYKs are 1500 characters). GeraldWL ✉ 12:55, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I made a minor change, but this article still needs a heavy copyedit. VincentLUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 15:45, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Vincent60030 Is the article good now? Regards, Jeromi Mikhael (marhata) 09:57, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Made a thorough check on sources and the prose is much better now. However, I find an alternate hook about a man counting the number of blinks more interesting. Can you propose it please? @Jeromi Mikhael: @Gerald Waldo Luis: and I'm sorry but the hook is not really quirky for April 1. VincentLUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 10:24, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Vincent60030, it could be ALT3: ... that in a viral video of a man doing nothing for two hours, a viewer counted him blinking at a whopping 362 times?
What do you think? GeraldWL ✉ 10:37, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
minor grammatical errors (note for the promoter), but otherwise it’s all good to go with ALT3. VincentLUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 10:46, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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The external links have been archived at the Wayback Machine; I will put here in case the videos were deleted in the future.

The first link is also used as citation in this article; in case the video is deleted, make the URL status as dead. GeraldWL 08:42, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Articlehistory

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Gerald Waldo Luis, just pointing out that in this edit, you dropped the nomination page provided by the DYKbot, which I have readded, here. It is confusing because the DYKbot calls it nompage, while articlehistory calls it DYKnom. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:22, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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