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A fact from Brick by Brick: How Lego Rewrote the Rules of Innovation appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 November 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 2013 book Brick by Brick, about how The Lego Group reinvented itself, became a popular business text?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brick by Brick: How Lego Rewrote the Rules of Innovation.

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See https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ACunard&oldid=1249670568 (note to self or others if they get around to expanding it before I do) _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:52, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 talk 23:24, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that a 2013 book about how the The Lego Group reinvented itself became a popular business text? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/04/how-lego-clicked-the-super-brand-that-reinvented-itself
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mathias Nkwenti

Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 528 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:22, 6 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough, and neutral if a tad quote-heavy. Sources are good although many are on the short side. The hook is sourced (if not the main focus of the piece... which is a bit sus researched in general, the Guardian article mention Mindstorms approvingly but that was one of the things Knudstorp cut as money-losing?!) I made some edits - feel free to adjust if you disagree, I don't think they were so major as to impede the ability to review. QPQ is done.
While this is DYKN not GAN, in the realm of more subjective issues, there are currently just three sentences on Content. Granted, the last time I nominated a book for DYK reviewers complained that there was too much content so maybe I'm not a median source here, but this seems a bit shallow, merely verifying this is a book on Lego's business turnaround. Do Breen & Robertson have anything deeper to say? Not asking for a huge expansion or anything, but even a small one might help.
(As side chatter, I got to see Knudstorp speak once, although inexplicably no one has taken a better photograph than my blurry 2010 one yet. Interesting fellow.)
Anyway, in querying, I think the hook may be a little too mysterious by only saying "a 2013 book". I'm personally a fan of not forcing hovers (which don't work on mobile) to find out where a link will go. Any thoughts on this alternative hook that spells out the name of the book?
- ALT1a: ... that the 2013 book Brick by Brick about how The Lego Group reinvented itself became a popular business text?
- ALT1b: ... that the 2013 book Brick by Brick about The Lego Group's financial turnaround in the 2000s became a popular business text?
SnowFire (talk) 05:57, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SnowFire: Sorry for belted reply - do WP:ECHO me in the future, if you can; my watchlist is too big to be useful. I am fine with your c/e and proposed ALT hooks, which I can 'adopt' so that you can approve them :) As for expansion of content, I am not sure what to add there - right now we have a summary of the key points. It could be expanded with some details (I added one I remembered from one of the reviews), but I don't recall anything particularly in depth. Although certainly for a GA I expect we should and could find a bit more (note there are some sources I added just as ELs, for editors who may want to expand it more in the future). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:36, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus: No problem, I just figured you were busy.

On content: I guess I was more wondering if the authors came to any particular conclusions / slants rather than writing a straight-up history book on what happened. As a side comment, this book was written in 2013, but for the record, there were many successful List of Lego video games released after 2013! (Not produced in-house or anything of course, but just in the sense of licensing the rights.)

Approved. For the promoter, I prefer ALT1a/1b but am of course mildly biased, but original hook is approved as well. SnowFire (talk) 14:20, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]