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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 Eddie891 (talk) 18:14, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

The Social Network

Improved to Good Article status by Some Dude From North Carolina (talk). Self-nominated at 00:17, 28 December 2020 (UTC).


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Excellent article, no need for QPQ (only three previous DYKs), Earwig is ok (the top hit is a wiki mirror, the others pick up quotes only). Sensible fair use for lead picture. Onceinawhile (talk) 14:08, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

I eliminated the unnecessary redundancy in the remaining hook: "received eight Academy Award nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards". MANdARAX  XAЯAbИAM 21:12, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
  • Why were all the hooks struck? What's left is the most unhooky of them all. Yoninah (talk) 21:36, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
@Yoninah: it was hooky to me, because I remember thinking the film was mediocre when I watched it, so receiving 8 nominations was a real surprise. ALT1 and ALT2 are just more detail, ALT3 is less notable I think, and ALT4 sounds like an advert. Onceinawhile (talk) 14:55, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
  • @Onceinawhile: if you gave it some context and said it was mediocre, or that its nominations were a surprise, then it might work. But an awards tally could be said about so many other films. Yoninah (talk) 21:06, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
@Yoninah: fair enough. Rotten tomatoes rates it very highly, so I am clearly in the minority. @Some Dude From North Carolina: how about an ALT based on the Lefsetz quote along the lines of "...The Social Network fueled the perception that techies are rock stars”. Onceinawhile (talk) 22:10, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Only a comment but among the two new suggestions, ALT9 is probably the hookier one. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 02:45, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
I'm approving ALT9 as the most interesting. SL93 (talk) 23:10, 29 January 2021 (UTC)