Talk:Elmo Aardvark

A fact from Elmo Aardvark appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that according to an elaborate 1990s joke, Elmo Aardvark was history's first animated cartoon character?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Elmo Aardvark.

Wikipedia

Animation Low‑importance

	Animation portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Animation, a collaborative effort to build an encyclopedic guide to animation on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, help out with the open tasks, or contribute to the discussion.AnimationWikipedia:WikiProject AnimationTemplate:WikiProject AnimationAnimation articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Fictional characters

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Fictional characters, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of fictional characters on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Fictional charactersWikipedia:WikiProject Fictional charactersTemplate:WikiProject Fictional charactersfictional character articles

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 MeegsC (talk) 17:37, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that according to an elaborate 1990s joke, Elmo Aardvark was history's first animated cartoon character? Source: "In 1993, [Gore] decided to run a series of satirical articles … Many readers and the industry believed that Elmo was the first animated cartoon character." (Chris Gore, The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, p. 74)

Reviewed: 93% Club

Created by Lemuellio (talk). Self-nominated at 21:03, 3 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New enough and long enough. QPQ present. The source provided checks out and is included in the article. It is also quite interesting! No textual issues: the closest Earwig matches are award and series titles. Good to go. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:00, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]