Talk:The Game (band)

A fact from The Game (band) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 June 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that following its withdrawal, copies of the Game's "The Addicted Man" were sold for as much as £1,000?

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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 Bruxton (talk) 12:59, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that following its withdrawal, copies of The Game's "The Addicted Man" sell for as much as £1,000?
- Reviewed:
- Comment: QPQ forthcoming - remind me. At time of writing, Refill is down, so the references are currently bare - remind me to fill these in.

Created by Launchballer (talk). Self-nominated at 13:33, 4 June 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/The Game (band); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[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: - Not done
Overall: can you please add an infobox to the article? it is also good to include the band active years too if you can. Waiting for a QPQ FuzzyMagma (talk) 12:26, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Started the infobox, will finish it later.--Laun chba ller 21:14, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

FuzzyMagma: Haven't been able to find for definite when they were active (AllMusic gives to 1963-1967/1968, but which is it, and they reunited in 1995 - were they still going 1997 when It's Shocking came out?), but I have added an infobox, and I've completed a QPQ: Template:Did you know nominations/2023 Canadian federal worker strike.--Laun chba ller 08:41, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Launchballer: thanks for adding the infobox and QPQ. I have tweaked the hook grammatically

ALT1: ... that following its withdrawal, copies of The Game's "The Addicted Man" were sold for as much as £1,000?

good to go FuzzyMagma (talk) 08:53, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Launchballer: What kind of band is it? As in what genre? Also we could use a {{short description|band?}} at the top of the artucle.. Bruxton (talk) 12:58, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article is confusing[edit]

If "The Addicted Man" is an anti-drug song, why did Parlophone withdraw it during an anti-drug moral panic?
Why did Juke Box Jury vilify the song? Did they think the song was part of the anti-drug moral panic?
Why did Juke Box Jury replace their vilification with a cartoon?
What does the Smoke's "My Friend Jack" have to do with any of this?
Why did Maurice Kinn attack the BBC for replacing the vilification of the "The Addicted Man" with a cartoon?

Nosferattus (talk) 04:12, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Launchballer: Maybe you know the answers. Nosferattus (talk) 04:12, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Song was misinterpreted as being pro-drugs, which influenced Juke Boy Jury's review.
The BBC started Juke Box Jury late, with a cartoon in its place.
My Friend Jack was another casualty, possibly worth noting for context.
Kinn believed it hypocritical to lay into that one record when so many of the songs of that era were also about drugs.--Laun chba ller 07:52, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Launchballer: Now I'm even more confused! If the Juke Box Jury review vilified the song for being pro-drugs, why did the BBC replace the review with a cartoon? Didn't the BBC agree with that stance (at least according to Maurice Kinn)? And how did Maurice Kinn know about the review even though it was replaced with a cartoon? And why wasn't Maurice Kinn happy that they replaced the review with a cartoon? The section as written doesn't make any sense. Thanks for trying to improve it by fillng in the missing details! Nosferattus (talk) 13:18, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]