Template:Did you know nominations/Islanders (video game)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:52, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Islanders (video game)

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... ~~that minimalist city-building game Islanders deliberately omits most features common to the genre?~~ PC Gamer: Islanders is the most relaxing strategy game ever, Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Wot I Think: Islanders

Comment: I didn't include an alternate hook because I think that is really the most interesting thing about the game - how pared-down it is compared to other city-builders, and I didn't want to do a "quoted-from-review" hook.
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Amr ibn Hind

Created by Premeditated Chaos (talk). Self-nominated at 10:45, 10 August 2019 (UTC).

@Premeditated Chaos: I'll take this on. AmericanAir88^(talk) 19:15, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

New: Hmm. You seemed to nominate this on August 10th, yet the article was created on August 2nd.
Long enough: At least 1500 characters
Within policy:

Has a neutral point of view.
Cites sources with inline citations. However, it has a bare url twitter citation.
Free of copy violations.

Hook format: Fewer than 200 characters.
Hook content:

The hook can be interesting, however it seems very vague with just "most features". I agree with you that this topic of minimalism is the way to go for the hook, but you may want to elaborate a little more. What do you think?
Hook fact is cited properly.
Neutral hook.

QPQ: Satisfied

AmericanAir88^(talk) 19:27, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the review. I've fixed the Twitter citation. I was only a couple hours over into August 10 going by my timezone, and I only finished writing the article on August 3 anyway, so IMO it's not that big a deal (and DYK is deliberately not strict about that).

ALT1: ... that minimalist city-building game Islanders deliberately omits most features common to the genre, such as resource accumulation and technology research?
ALT2: ... that minimalist city-building game Islanders deliberately omits features such as resource accumulation and technology research in order to focus on the core building placement mechanic?

Here's two possible alts with a little more detail. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:33, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

@Premeditated Chaos: I think that ALT2 works as the best hook. It is detailed and is interesting. What do you think? AmericanAir88^(talk) 19:54, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Works for me, I'll strike the others. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:45, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Nice work @Premeditated Chaos:. AmericanAir88^(talk) 03:30, 18 August 2019 (UTC)