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 Aoidh (talk) 01:17, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
@Sparkl: Actually false information. The article states "The re-emergence of Yume Nikki has led to a confirmation from publisher Kadokawa Games that Kikiyama is, at least, alive, and involved in some capacity in the new developments in what has come to be called the Yume Nikki Project. But not much else is known." So, permission was gained to do the remake from Kadokawa Games, confirming the original creator is in fact alive. While it was speculated in the past, I don't think Wikipedia should spread demonstrably false rumors. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 01:03, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
Yes, that is correct. I didn't intend for my suggestion to imply that the developer actually died. I thought it was the most interesting part of the article, but I also didn't want to confuse viewers (so I added "has been speculated"). But I respect and acknowledge if this suggestion was a bit confusing and not neutral. Sparkltalk 01:10, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
What about something like this as an alternative? It makes it clear that it's a debunked rumor, so gets around any implication that he actually is dead. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:24, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
ALT2: ... that so little is known about the reclusive developer of Yume Nikki that publisher Kadokawa Games had to debunk rumors that he had died in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake?
A full review of this nomination is still needed. Flibirigit (talk) 12:32, 2 January 2023 (UTC)