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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 SL93 (talk) 06:25, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

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Wordle

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A screenshot of a typical Wordle game
A screenshot of a typical Wordle game
  • ... that Josh Wardle, developer of Wordle (instance pictured), previously created Reddit's social experiments Place and The Button? Source: First sentence, and e.g. [1]
    • ALT1: ... that Wordle (instance pictured) was originally created just for the developer and his partner to play? Source: First sentence in second paragraph, and e.g. [2]
    • ALT2: ... that Wordle (instance pictured) was named as a pun on the developer's surname, Wardle? Source: First sentence in second paragraph, and e.g. [3]
    • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Factorial

Created by Eviolite (talk) and expanded by Masem (talk). Nominated by Eviolite at 04:59, 6 January 2022 (UTC).

  • Comment: Interesting article + image. I like first hook, sneaking more than one curious article into it. – SJ + 10:26, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
  • Comment: Heard of this on NBC News and went to see if it had an article, good job on these hooks! I prefer ALT2. wizzito | say hello! 18:00, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
  • Reviewer's comment: I have added Masem to this nomination because he helped expand the article and appears to now be the second-largest contributor of content. Epicgenius (talk) 00:41, 21 January 2022 (UTC)


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: No - ALT1 and ALT2 seem more interesting to me than ALT0, but both would have to mention what Wordle is. It may be worth mentioning how Shah selected 2,500 words from a dictionary of 12,000 or that the game only had 90 daily players as late as November, but that's outside the scope of this DYKN.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Eviolite: Nice work. As someone who also has heard of this game, I found the article interesting. I only had one query about the DYK hooks; otherwise this is good to go. Epicgenius (talk) 18:05, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Sure:
  • ALT1a: ... that the viral online word game Wordle (instance pictured) was originally created just for the developer and his partner to play? Source: First sentence in second paragraph, and e.g. [4]
  • ALT2a: ... that the viral online word game Wordle (instance pictured) was named as a pun on the developer's surname, Wardle? Source: Second sentence in second paragraph, and e.g. [5]
  • ALT3: ... that Wordle (instance pictured) was played by over 2 million people on the weekend of January 8, but had just 90 players on November 1? Source: Second sentence in third paragraph, and e.g. [6]
@Epicgenius: what do you think about these? eviolite (talk) 18:18, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. ALT1a, ALT2a, and ALT3 all look good to me. Epicgenius (talk) 18:41, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
@Epicgenius: I have actually modified ALT3 a bit because I realized it might be ambiguous (it didn't have 90 players for the entirety of November, just on one day), noting in case you have objections. eviolite (talk) 16:34, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
That's fine with me, I didn't even realize that mistake but it wouldn't have looked good on WP:ERRORS. I just changed the date format slightly per MOS:DATEFORMAT but everything else is still good to go. Epicgenius (talk) 18:41, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
@Epicgenius: Sorry to ping you again, but an higher player count was published today and added to the article by Masem, so have modified the hook again... hopefully this is the last time I will need to change it. eviolite (talk) 03:00, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
No worries. This subject is likely to get a bunch of coverage for a while - for example, there was a story today mentioning different algorithms people have come up with to crack the game. It may also be worth combining with the original ALT3: Epicgenius (talk) 03:12, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
  • ALT3A: ... that Wordle (instance pictured) was played by over 2 million people on the weekend of January 8, up from 300,000 the previous weekend and 90 on November 1? Source: Second sentence in third paragraph, and e.g. [7] Epicgenius (talk) 03:12, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
  • We're spoiled for choice here. All of the ALTs brought up so far are interesting. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 19:42, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
  • Note: I've modified the hooks and the {{DYKmake}} syntax to reflect that the article has since been moved to simply Wordle. eviolite (talk) 17:59, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
    • @Sdkb and Epicgenius: can y'all shoot me a ping when this is good to go? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 23:00, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
      I don't have anything else to add right now, I just stopped by to comment. I hope this can make it onto the Main Page soon, as there's no telling how long it'll remain topical. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 01:44, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
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