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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: rejected by BorgQueen (talk) 23:16, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

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Looping State of Mind

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Improved to Good Article status by Lazman321 (talk). Self-nominated at 06:07, 23 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Looping State of Mind; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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

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QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Lazman321: Good article but, I don't really think that any of these hooks are interesting. Maybe I need an explanation as to why but I'm just not seeing. Maybe other hooks could be proposed? Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:32, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

  • Comment: Agreed that the hooks are not especially interesting. Suggestions based on the sources (some facts not currently in the article and would need to be added):
MusicRadar: The album was recorded with a beta version of the newly released Elektron Octatrack sampler? (too tech-heady?)
The Line of Best Fit: Something about the Field aiming "to blend acoustic and electronics in a way that you can’t really tell what’s what anymore" or the "repeating thoughts" quote? (too opinion-y?)
The Quietus: The album, which is about repetition, has the same cover art as his last records? (juxtaposition, but interesting enough?} Gnomingstuff (talk) 04:47, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
  • I apologize in advance for taking a while for me to respond; I've been busy with schoolwork and family life. So sorry Gnomingstuff, I'm not sure how the hooks you have proposed are any better than my hooks. The first one is too specialized—the only people that would be interested are those with special interests in synthesizers, the second one is too vague and flowery—much like a lot of music journalism honestly; and I don't see how exactly the third one is more interesting the hooks I've proposed. Onegreatjoke, if you don't have any good ideas for what would make for an interesting hook, you can fail the nomination. This being an underground work, there's not a lot of information available about it in regard to its production and other outside information, but I nonetheless tried my best to nominate hooks that I felt could have some level of broad interest, but it looks like it wasn't good enough. It's a shame because I really liked this record, but I am willing to accept a failed nomination. Lazman321 (talk) 17:07, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
  • No need to apologize. What I was going for were hooks that might be interesting to laypeople who have no idea who The Field are or why this band out of the millions of bands in the world should pique their interest. To me, ALT0 seems too generic -- lots of albums have live instrumentation. (Do you mean that this is rare in electronic music to be recorded live? If so, maybe spell that out?) ALT1 is the best of the three but kind of lacks oomph. ALT2 just means nothing to someone who hasn't heard of The Field, says nothing about why it's better, and is also pretty obvious -- given any two things, one is going to be better than the other.
My favorite of the ones I suggested is the third one -- I can imagine a complete newcomer thinking "huh, that's cool, they're really taking this repetition theme all the way" -- and also not all that common among musicians (although Googling it, it seems more like career-long visual branding than anything?) There's probably something better in some interview somewhere though -- you're definitely more familiar with them and me Gnomingstuff (talk) 18:33, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
  • Marking for closure as the nominator hasn't been very active over the last couple of months and no suitable hooks have been proposed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:41, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
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