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A fact from Etazhi appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 October 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the title and cover art for Molchat Doma's 2018 album Etazhi reference the Stalinist and socialist-realist architecture that inspired its lyrical themes?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Etazhi.

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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 Yoninah (talk) 12:32, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that an unofficially uploaded YouTube stream of Molchat Doma's 2018 album Etazhi garnered two million listens? Source: Pitchfork — "The punk discovery channel Harakiri Diat, which may have been the first to upload the trio’s music on YouTube, estimates that its video for Molchat Doma’s 2018 album Etazhi, on which “Sudno” appears, had at least two million views before being taken down this year."

ALT1: ... that an unofficially uploaded YouTube stream of Molchat Doma's 2018 album Etazhi garnered two million listens before eventually being taken down? Source: Same as above
ALT2: ... that Molchat Doma's 2018 album Etazhi features political lyrical themes throughout, such as oppression and life under communism in Belarus? Source: Emerging Europe — "Another potential giveaway of their true time period is the contents of their lyrics, which although not explicitly anti-Soviet paint a bleak picture of life under communism as well as contemporary life in Belarus, a country still trying to break free of the shackles of its communist past. ... On their second record Этажи ... these lyrical themes are hinted at by the album name, referencing the tall Stalinist apartment blocks that still dominate the landscapes of many former Soviet cities, as well as the album cover which depicts the Hotel Panorama in present-day Slovakia, often considered an icon of socialist-realist architecture."
Reviewed: Paul Elias Alexander

Created by Aria1561 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:56, 18 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Full review is to follow, but I was wondering if additional hook facts could be proposed here. I don't think unofficial uploads of songs gaining millions of views is that uncommon (in fact, I've anecdotally seen several such videos whose views were in the tens of millions, not just simply millions). Perhaps a hook about the album's themes (particularly the political stuff) or it going viral on TikTok would work better? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 11:39, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You mentioned "unofficial uploads of songs" while the DYK hook is regarding a full album stream. Just wanted to point that out in case you misunderstood the hook or if you just wrote "songs" by accident. Also, full album streams reaching the millions is certainly rare, especially when it's for an underground post-punk band from Belarus. Unofficial song streams reach the millions all the time, sure, but album streams don't always do so. I already did a hook about one of the songs going viral on TikTok as part of a DYK for the band article, so I added one about the political themes. Aria1561 (talk) 16:19, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the new hook, but it might be a good idea to mention Belarus in ALT2 as well. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 10:52, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

QPQ has been done. I still very much prefer the ALT0 and ALT1 hooks though. Aria1561 (talk) 17:15, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article was new enough at the time of the nomination, and is long enough and adequately sourced. No close paraphrasing was found, and a QPQ has been done. My preference remains ALT2, but the citation needs to be duplicated at the sentence that mentions it, not only at the end of the paragraph. However, I will approve ALT1 as an alternative if the promoter decides it is the better option (it also meets requirements). As a final possibility, a hook about the album being inspired by socialist architecture could also be proposed here. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 07:13, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ALT3: ... that the title and cover art for Molchat Doma's 2018 album Etazhi reference the Stalinist and socialist realist architecture that inspired its lyrical themes? Source: Same source and quoting as the first three ALT hooks.

Would that work? If it does, I prefer that hook. Aria1561 (talk) 15:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's good but it will need a slight rewording to avoid the repeated use of "album" in the hook. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:03, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5: How does it look now? Aria1561 (talk) 01:27, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, we should be good to go with ALT3. It meets requirements and is verified inline. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 09:47, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]