Talk:Mobius I

A fact from Mobius I appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 March 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that naming every character "Bob" was common in the play-by-mail game Mobius I?

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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 Bruxton (talk) 20:39, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that naming every character "Bob" was common in the play-by-mail game Mobius-I? Source: Rich, Scott; Carver, Dan (April 1988). "So Your Setup Turn for Mobius-I Just Arrived". Flying Buffalo Quarterly. No. 60. p. 15.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/J. Nash McCrea
- Comment: ~~QPQ pending~~; Source is Dan Carver, one of the two game designers, who said: "Some players only name their overlord ... others give all of their characters the same name (Bob seems to be popular)."

Created by Airborne84 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:37, 7 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Mobius I (game); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Article meets DYK requirements, the hook is intriguing to non-specialists and is cited inline (AGF on the sourcing since the reference is a book), no close paraphrasing was found, and a QPQ has been provided. Just some minor issues:

Players have used various sources to name their characters, including phone books, friends, fictional characters, obituaries, and other. I think this sentence is missing a word or two here.
Speaking of that sentence, I think that was also quite interesting and could also make a good hook.

The nomination will be good to go once the issue is addressed and when an ALT1 based on my suggestion is proposed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 04:58, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Much appreciated Narutolovehinata5. I adjusted the sentence. Please let me know if that doesn't make sense. ALTs below.

ALT1: ... that players in the play-by-mail game Mobius-I named their characters using phone books, friends names, fictional characters, and obituaries?

ALT1a: ... that characters in the play-by-mail game Mobius-I were named using phone books, friends names, fictional characters, and obituaries?

Thank you. All hooks are approved; I will leave the choice of hook to the promoter. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:14, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]