Talk:Blacks & Whites

A fact from Blacks & Whites appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 October 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 1970 board game Blacks & Whites is "strategically designed to make a black win impossible"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Blacks & Whites.

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Did you know nomination

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) 07:06, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the 1970 board game Blacks & Whites "is strategically designed to make a black win impossible"? (Source: Rebecca Onion in Slate)

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sophie Drakeford-Lewis

Created by Kingoflettuce (talk). Self-nominated at 08:54, 27 September 2021 (UTC).[reply]

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: Great work on this new article, Kingoflettuce! I really enjoyed reading it and see no issues with its DYK nomination. Note that I've added a source link for the hook: "Rebecca Onion in Slate". I'm also accepting the Schild article in Simulation & Games in good faith, as I am unable to access it. Once again, great work! Michael Barera (talk) 03:17, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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