Template:Did you know nominations/2B (Nier: Automata)
- 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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Theleekycauldron (talk) 02:36, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
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2B (Nier: Automata)
- ... that writer Yoko Taro requested that the design for the character 2B be enjoyable for cosplayers? Source: http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/068/1068126/ , https://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/146/1146564/
Improved to Good Article status by Zxcvbnm (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 18:50, 23 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/2B (Nier: Automata); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- Started reviewing this. Will update later today. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:23, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- Third paragraph under the Nier: Automata heading has no sources. You may know better than I do what's acceptable when summarizing in-world story/characters based just on the game itself. Further down, there is a quote "cleansed" that doesn't have a citation directly following the sentence. Ditto "droll". Best practice is for there to be a citation immediately following any quotation. In the reception section there are several direct quotes which have a citation at the end of the paragraph but not the sentence. Not a huge deal, but might as well fix. - Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
- Other problems: - Just something I noticed when running it through Earwig: there's a quote from one of the sources where "prevalence of" should be included in the quote that ends "blindfolds, collars and black materials".
Hook eligibility:
- Cited: - Could you clarify where in the source the claim is verified? I'm relying on Google Translate, but while I see several mentions of cosplay, none seem to verify the hook exactly.
- Interesting:
- Other problems: - The wording is a little awkward. Maybe "enjoyable to cosplay" or "enjoyable for fans to cosplay"?
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Overall: 
Just a few things to work out before promoting. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 17:06, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
- Pinging @Onegreatjoke to alert them of still pending issues with this nomination.
I did find an unofficial translation of one of the interviews, which would suggest that the quote of "enjoyable to cosplay" (seems to be in the answer 「私が吉田明彦さんに“コスプレ映えしそうな衣装を是非”と発注しました。太ももあたりがたぶん彼のこだわりの部分だと思いますよ。」) should in fact be attributed to producer Saito Yosuke. I was also otherwise unable to verify the hook. silvia (BlankpopsiclesilviaASHs4) (inquire within) 00:54, 10 April 2023 (UTC)- Upon examining the other source, I've noticed a few other passages in it mentioning cosplay (「コスプレ」) including one which also appears to be attributed to Saito: (「俺からは、ファンの方たちがコスプレしやすい衣装に仕上げてくれたらうれしいな、と。」）Which according to DeepL, says that he would like the character costumes to be easy to cosplay.
I still cannot find any such statement that appears attributed to Taro. Considering that this tracks with what both machine translation and the fan translation say concerning the quote from the other interview, then, assuming I'm not mistaken about this, I think the likely ideal choice would be to change the hook to attribute the statement to Saito, and update the article accordingly. silvia (BlankpopsiclesilviaASHs4) (inquire within) 05:19, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Honestly, I'm thinking about withdrawing this nomination considering I don't exactly know how I'm going to fix the problems at hand so this nomination might be over. Onegreatjoke (talk) 13:39, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
- Upon examining the other source, I've noticed a few other passages in it mentioning cosplay (「コスプレ」) including one which also appears to be attributed to Saito: (「俺からは、ファンの方たちがコスプレしやすい衣装に仕上げてくれたらうれしいな、と。」）Which according to DeepL, says that he would like the character costumes to be easy to cosplay.
