Talk:MAD-1

A fact from MAD-1 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 March 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Mad Computers' MAD-1 ran Mad MS-DOS?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Cielquiparle (talk) 08:22, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Mad Computers' MAD-1 ran Mad MS-DOS? Source: "The Mad-1 comes with a version of MS-DOS called, appropriately enough, Mad MS-DOS".
- ALT1: ... that Mad Computers' MAD-1 had only one expansion slot, requiring users buy a separate expansion module if they wanted more? Source: "Another extra from Mad Computer is an expansion module with four slots for plug-in expansion boards".
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ritual family

Created by DigitalIceAge (talk). Self-nominated at 00:37, 28 January 2023 (UTC). Note: As of October 2022, all changes made to promoted hooks will be logged by a bot. The log for this nomination can be found at Template talk:Did you know nominations/MAD-1, so please watch a successfully closed nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

New enough, created January 21. Long enough, at 4937 characters. QPQ done.
Sources are mostly good. Refs 2,12, 17, `9, 21 send you to a Gale page. Could you either make them accessible or remove the links?
Both hooks are good, although I prefer ALT1 because the first hook seems obvious. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 22:54, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- I am not aware of a way to clip Gale articles for public access as you can do with Newspapers.com. I don't want to remove the links entirely (as someone with a subscription from, say, their college or the Wikipedia Library can feasibly access them and verify the contents) so I put {{subscription required}} templates next to the references instead. DigitalIceAge (talk) 23:27, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm okay with your explanation and your solution because access is important, although many readers don't have access to a university library. For some articles, it's okay if they don't have a link, especially if their sources are books. It's fine for this type of article to include the Gale links, so no problem. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 16:52, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm good to go with this nom, everything looks good. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 19:21, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Christine (Figureskatingfan), if you wish to actually approve this nomination, you need to indicate this with the appropriate icon—no review is complete without an icon (please see the area above the edit window for valid icons). Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:11, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, sorry about that. Here ya go:

Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 20:51, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]