Talk:Pepsi Number Fever

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A fact from Pepsi Number Fever appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 July 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Pepsi Number Fever draw in May 1992 was supposed to have just two 1-million-peso winners, but 486,170 people made claims for a winning bottle cap?

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It is really suspicious that the earliest reference I can find to deaths is https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/10/pepsis-number-fever/ from 2018, that most of the coverage of this is from the last week, and that contemporaneous sources like https://www.afr.com/politics/law-suits-and-riots-cap-pepsi-number-game-fizzer-19930729-k5hpw and https://www.csmonitor.com/1993/0818/18023.html talk about rallies and attacks (incl. a grenade attack) on trucks, but don't mention general riots (just 'outside Pepsi plants throughout the country') or deaths. Details which would definitely be newsworthy.

Not saying it's fake news, but I reckon it's a bunch of lazy journalists copying each other's work, who originally copied it from some guy's half remembered rendition.

https://www.philstar.com/cebu-news/2006/06/26/344000/sc-decides-finality-pepsi-349-case (used as a reference) in 2006 reported that "A Pepsi plant in Davao City was recently attacked by unidentified persons, who lobbed a grenade killing three persons". Not Manila, and not related to those events in the 1990s, yet it's used as a citation.

Reporting on this is indeed quite muddled (in particular, there's a WaPo article that conflates the two [1]), but the grenade attack in Manila on Feb 13, 1993 is contemporarily sourced to the Baltimore Sun [2]. The Davao attack also happened in 1993 [3] so I'm not sure why Philstar says "recently". I'll tweak the wording a bit, please flag if there's anything specific you think is improperly sourced. Jpatokal (talk) 08:17, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take that as a no, so removing the tag. Jpatokal (talk) 10:13, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:42, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Pepsi Number Fever draw on May 25, 1992 was supposed to have a single 1 million peso winner, but more than 486,170 people found a winning bottle cap? Source 1: Some 486,170 holders of the non-winning 349 crowns availed of this offer, costing PCPPI an aggregate amount of P240 million. Source 2: On May 25 last year, the nightly news announced that anyone holding a bottle cap marked 349 had won up to 1 million pesos, about $40,000, tax-free. ... Instead of a single 1-million-peso winner, up to 800,000 bottle caps marked 349 had been printed.

Reviewed: 1978 Somali coup d'état attempt

Created by Jpatokal (talk). Self-nominated at 14:02, 16 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]

I'm not usually a reviewer, but I'm not sure whether or not this meets the expansion criteria. Most of the changes on 13 June were citations and the addition of an infobox. Other than that potential issue, I don't see any problems.
5225_C (talk • contributions) 23:11, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is nominated as a New article, not expansion, because the article was created from scratch on June 12. Jpatokal (talk) 03:59, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My bad, I took seven days off the current date instead of the nomination date, so I only looked at edits after June 12. I should have been more careful when reading the nomination. There are no problems in that case and it's a very thorough article.
5225_C (talk • contributions) 05:01, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@5225C: please provide a review that explicitly confirms that the five main DYK criteria have been met. An optional Reviewer's Template is located above the edit window. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 11:21, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article meets all criteria for inclusion:
New: The article was created 12 June and nominated the same day.
Length: The article exceeds the 1500 character limit, it has about 2500.
Cited hook: The hook is cited in-line in the article, in the second paragraph in the section entitled "Number 349".
Policy: To the best of my knowledge, the article meets core policy such as notability and has no outstanding maintenance tags.
QPQ: Done.
5225_C (talk • contributions) 23:08, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New source[edit]

This Bloomberg story has a lot of additional detail that would be worth lookin at: [4] Jpatokal (talk) 07:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh number fever is the worst I heard the whole story fuck that shit 173.171.156.50 (talk) 22:44, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]