Talk:Great Western Trail (board game)

A fact from Great Western Trail (board game) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 December 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the second edition of the Wild West–themed board game Great Western Trail eliminated "the notion of Native Americans as the invisible enemy"?

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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) 01:49, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the second edition of the Wild West-themed board game Great Western Trail eliminated "the notion of Native Americans as the invisible enemy"? Source: "By far the best change in the art, however, is the elimination of the white men vs. Native American subtheme from the original. ... Representation matters, and even this tiny bit of visual diversity, combined with the elimination of the notion of Native Americans as the invisible enemy, is a welcome upgrade." Great Western Trail Second Edition reinvigorates a modern board game classic

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Earth 300; see my DYK tracker

Created by Mindmatrix (talk). Self-nominated at 15:16, 25 November 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Reviewing... Flibirigit (talk) 15:16, 4 December 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: Article created on November 18 and nominated within 7 days. Length and sourcing are adequate. Article is neutral in tone. No plagiarism issues detected, and the areas highlighted by the Earwig tool were proper nouns and direct quotes that are not a concern. Images used in the article are freely licensed on the Commons. QPQ reqirement is met. The hook is properly cited, verified and interesting. Nomination is good to go. Flibirigit (talk) 15:53, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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