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A fact from Brian David Gilbert appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 October 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Brian David Gilbert released a series of monster-themed ABBA covers under the name AAAH!BBA?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brian David Gilbert.

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 16:49, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Brian David Gilbert's online content includes a musical version of Stranger Things, a series of Halloween-themed ABBA covers, and a guide to health insurance?

Source: [1] for Stranger Things; [2] for ABBA; [3] for health insurance

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Liebigs Annalen

Moved to mainspace by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 17 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 16:48, 19 September 2024 (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: The hook is really interesting, good to go! 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 08:04, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging for subsequent review given the topic ban of the first reviewer. Sorry! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:42, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The hooks is, in fact, interesting, good, and backed up by three reliable sources. You might consider posting to Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Halloween set (this has no impact at all on approval; I just don't know if you've seen the discussion there). I looked over the article for compliance with policies and noticed a couple of minor issue to resolve:

For "His popularity from Polygon enabled him to create his own content full-time."^{(24 September 2024)} the source supports the order of events but only speculates on causality. If there's not a more direct source, I'd suggest moving this to the beginning of the paragraph and writing chronologically as a topic sentence, something like, "After developing a fanbase on Polygon, Gilbert began to create his own content full-time."
For "invoked leftist themes",^{(24 September 2024)} is there a more clear verb to use here? (employed? included?)

@Vigilantcosmicpenguin: {{ping}} me and I'll mark this back as approved, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 04:04, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Rjjiii: Done. I made the change you suggested on the Polygon statement, and I changed "invoked" to "involved". — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 05:08, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, involved! Looks good, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 05:20, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I just want to pop in and ask that this be run on Halloween to go with the other hooks people are doing for that day. Di (they-them) (talk) 23:48, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Page quality

It seems like whoever wrote much of the biography starts the sentences with the same word "He" over and over. Have edited it, but to what standard is this page's quality actually being held? There are awkward grammar choices made all over this thing.

This issue mostly presented between the opening paragraph and early life, boldly edited these issues, but was more curious as to how it went so long looking this badly written. MaddWiki (talk) 10:47, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, it looks like you're new here, so welcome to Wikipedia! You did a good job making the lead read better, but I wanted to point you to Wikipedia's manual of style, specifically our guideline on words to watch. You began a sentence with "His most notable previous work..." which is considered editorializing by this guideline. Also, a statement like "He is currently the fact checker..." is proscribed because it'll become a dated statement in the near future. I know some of these rules might not seem obvious, and they're not intended to be exact rules, but they aim for a certain level of consistency in style. Thanks for helping to improve this article! — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 17:00, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]