Template:Did you know nominations/Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2

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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 Hawkeye7 (talk) 13:16, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2[edit]

  • ... that character names in Bad Dirt include Orion Horncrackle, Creel Zmundzinski, Plato Bucklew, Fiesta Punch and Gilbert Wolfscale?
  • ALT1:... that Bad Dirt is currently only 30 sentences long but includes 37 references from reliable sources?

Created by Shirt58 (talk). Self nominated at 12:59, 20 May 2014 (UTC).

  • Rule H11 of the DYK rules is that an article about a work of fiction must employ a hook which involves the real world in some manner. Please fashion a hook about the real world (and not the joking ALT1 hook.)
    The article has too much about the plot and too little about the real world, so that will also be a challenge. Binksternet (talk) 23:31, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

OK. How about ALT2: ... that while Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 was poorly received critically in comparison to Close Range: Wyoming Stories, one of the short stories in the collection won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction? --Shirt58 (talk) 11:54, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

That works! You could also replace Close Range: Wyoming Stories with "the author's previous work" to focus hits on the new article. Length and date check out, the article is suitably referenced. Online sources confirm the hook. No detected copyright violations or too-close paraphrasing. Binksternet (talk) 15:26, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
  • ALT2 is not mentioned or sourced in the article. Yoninah (talk) 23:08, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
  • Great, thanks. Both hook refs verified and cited inline. ALT2 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 18:02, 1 June 2014 (UTC)