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A fact from 2023 Bud Light boycott appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 June 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after trans woman Dylan Mulvaney was sponsored by Bud Light, American conservatives boycotted the brand and its parent company Anheuser-Busch?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2023 Anheuser-Busch boycott.

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On 16 June 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from 2023 Anheuser-Busch boycott to 2023 Bud Light boycott. The result of the discussion was moved.

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) 02:20, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that country singer Kid Rock filmed himself shooting several cases of Bud Light with an assault rifle after the brand did a partnership with Dylan Mulvaney? Source: https://variety.com/2023/music/news/bud-light-dylan-mulvaney-conservative-artists-1235575691/
- ALT1: ... that after Kid Rock filmed himself shooting cases of Bud Light in response to a collaboration the brand did with trans woman Dylan Mulvaney, a photo surfaced of him chugging a bottle of Bud Light with a drag queen? Source: https://www.newsweek.com/kid-rock-mocked-photo-drinking-bud-light-drag-queen-1793067
- ALT2: ... that in response to a collaboration Bud Light did with trans woman Dylan Mulvaney, people filmed themselves driving over Bud Light bottles? Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wingers-destroying-budweiser-beer-dylan-mulvaney-lgbtq-marketing-2023-4
- ALT3: ... that after a boycott of beer-conglomerate Anheuser-Busch over a partnership done with their Bud Light brand and Dylan Mulvaney, beer salesmen complained of not being able to feed their families? Source: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-anheuser-busch-ceo-resign-bud-light-fallout-1793729
- ALT4: ... that after trans woman Dylan Mulvaney was sponsored by Bud Light, American conservatives boycotted the brand and its parent company of Anheuser-Busch? Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2023/04/11/why-does-the-bud-light-backlash-feel-so-desperate/?sh=447818994433
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Created by Knightoftheswords281 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:15, 12 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/2023 Anheuser-Busch boycott; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Passerby comment (this is not a review, others should still feel free to grab this as a review). Given that there's plenty of sources on this topic and that it's pretty controversial, I'd suggest removing Newsweek as a reference from the article and from any proposed hooks without a truly powerful justification for why any specific Newsweek story is reliable. See WP:NEWSWEEK, that publication has gone downhill since 2013 or so and just makes stuff up these days, and is considered a suspicious-if-not-entirely-deprecated source. While here, I'd check the sources against WP:RSP in general - WP:FORBESCON suggests that using the hook referenced to a Forbes contributor is also not great and should be replaced if possible, unless there's an independent case to be made that the specific author is reliable. SnowFire (talk) 03:28, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
an active merge discussion and three maintenance tags are all disqualifying – it'll need to come off before a review. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 16:52, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Any updates? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:19, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - all tags on article have been removed @theleekycauldron. - Knightoftheswords281 (Talk · Contribs) 20:26, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- ready for a re-review, then :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 22:39, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note We need to avoid redirects from the Main Page as per WP:MPNOREDIRECT. [[Bud Light]] is a redirect and that needs fixing before this gets promoted (eventually). Schwede 66 04:28, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New enough, long enough. No neutrality problems found, no copyright problems found, no maintenance templates found. QPQ unnecessary. ALT0 is the only usable hook, as Newsweek, Forbes and BusinessInsider are all yellow on WP:RSP, ALT1 is additionally too long, and ALT1 and ALT3 are not in the article. Otherwise good to go.--Laun chba ller 08:02, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I feel like ALT0 gives attention to Kid Rock and also misidentifies the weapon he used. The press also often confuses assault weapons (which are aggressive looking military style semi-automatics) and machine guns. KR used an actual machine gun which has an auto sear. I confirmed that ALT4 is cited and in the article and I have removed the Bud Light redirect as @Schwede66: has suggested. The Newsweek reference about the boycott is not the only one in the article supporting the ALT4 hook - I checked. It seems the most accurate and sober choice. Bruxton (talk) 02:19, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 13 May 2024[edit]

It has been proposed in this section that 2023 Bud Light boycott be renamed and moved to Bud Light boycott.

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2023 Bud Light boycott → Bud Light boycott – Remove the date. There is no other notable Bud Light boycott in history, and the current one has continued into 2024.[1][2] TarkusAB^talk/contrib 17:33, 13 May 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 01:41, 21 May 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 10:40, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support: I still am seeing backlash against Bud Light to this day Sergei zavorotko (talk) 13:28, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: WikiProject Discrimination, WikiProject Business, WikiProject Politics, WikiProject Politics/American politics, WikiProject LGBT studies, WikiProject Sociology/Social movements task force, WikiProject Sociology, and WikiProject United States have been notified of this discussion. RodRabelo7 (talk) 19:32, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - that sounds too generic of a title for a specific point in time event. I think more commonly we would instead rename it to 2023-2024 Bud light Boycott. But before going there, are we really certain that as an event this is warranted? The stock recovered at the end of 2023 and beyond normal other economic fluctuations that beer companies are subject to, I think we’d need some stronger reason to even make that rename as I don’t think those two articles make a strong enough case to warrant it. Raladic (talk) 20:57, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - On the contrary, the page seems to indicate most activity took place in 2023. The proposed name is too generic IMO, the current fits and unless major activity takes place in the future "2023" should be fine. glman (talk) 13:20, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support: As the news articles indicated, this boycott is still on-going, and it may never end. This is the only Bud Light boycott to date that has any significant impact, therefore it does not needs to be given a specific date. Hzh (talk) 14:27, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No, the two news articles speculate on a multitude of reasons, while also acknowledging that other reasons like general sales across the market shifted, and we don’t use speculation and WP:CRYSTALBALLs on Wikipedia for editing. Raladic (talk) 19:00, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per the nomination; I don't think any other particularly meaningful boycott relating to Bud Light has happened. Neo Purgatorio (talk) 14:00, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]