Template:Did you know nominations/Rockstar San Diego

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 05:51, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

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Rockstar San Diego

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• ... that the company Rockstar San Diego, under the name Angel Studios, was founded as a computer graphics studio before it shifted towards video game development? Source: SignOn San Diego
  • ALT1:... that the company Rockstar San Diego, then known as Angel Studios, created the first virtual sex scene for the film The Lawnmower Man? Source: The Washington Post
  • ALT2:... that Diego Angel, the founder of Rockstar San Diego, used to regularly share a bottle of tequila with his employees, an event that he named "Sippy Wippy"? Source: Polygon
  • ALT3:... that the company Rockstar San Diego, then known as Angel Studios, developed a port of the game Resident Evil 2 for the Nintendo 64 console, although the Nintendo 64's storage medium could only hold less than 10% of the original game's size? Source: Eurogamer
  • ALT4:... that the company Rockstar San Diego, then known as Angel Studios, created the music video for Peter Gabriel's somg "Kiss That Frog", which won the "Best Special Effects in a Video" award at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards? Source: Polygon / The Free Library
  • ALT5:... that the company Rockstar San Diego, then known as Angel Studios, was part of the "Dream Team", a group of second-party video game developers working exclusively on games for the Nintendo 64? Source: Polygon / The Free Library
  • ALT6:... that Rockstar San Diego, then known as Angel Studios, was one of the few San Diego-area multimedia companies to survive the burst of the dot-com bubble? Source: SignOn San Diego
  • ALT7:... that the video game developer Rockstar San Diego once worked on XGirl, an "interactive girlfriend" experience for the Xbox console? Source: Siliconera

• Reviewed: Hazeltine 2000
• Comment: Open to rewordings and different proposals, as there is a lot to say/know about this company. I like all presented hooks equally, so I leave the selection fully to the reviwer(s). Also note that the copyvio detector will most likely tag Polygon with some ~40% confidence. This is because a three-sentence quote was extracted from the website and is presented in a quotebox in the article, which the copyvio detector does not recognize as a quote.

Improved to Good Article status by IceWelder (talk). Self-nominated at 16:09, 7 November 2019 (UTC).

• 16px Article was promoted to GA status within seven days of the nomination, and meets DYK and GA requirements. The only close paraphrasing that was found was the aforementioned Polygon quote. While all hooks are cited inline and verified, ALT1 and ALT7 are probably the most eye-catchy for non-video game fans (ALT0 is not very interesting and perhaps commonplace; as an example, Squad of Kerbal Space Program fame was previously an advertising company before becoming a game developer. ALT2 is catchy and might be an acceptable choice, but not as interesting as ALT1 or ALT7; ALTs 3 to 6 are quite niche and don't really seem to be that appealing to those uninterested in video games). A QPQ has been done. This is actually good to go now, I'm just withholding giving this the tick while waiting a response from the nominator if which among ALT1, ALT2, or ALT7 would they prefer. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:57, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

  Template:U, thanks for the review. Out of the three you picked, ALT1 probably has the highest clickbait factor, so I'd use this hook for DYK. Regards, IceWelder [✉] 09:13, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Noted. Having taken a look at the sources though, ALT1 might need to be adjusted; the sources don't outright say that it was the first virtual sex scene, only that it was either the earliest known or that it is believed to be so. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 09:19, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

You're right. It could potentially be reworded to "one of the first" or "the earliest known", if this suffices. Regards, IceWelder [✉] 09:31, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. Would it be okay to propose a modified version of ALT1 that says "is believed to be the first virtual sex scene..."? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 03:33, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead. IceWelder [✉] 08:16, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. Proposing ALT1a below:

• ALT1a:... that the company Rockstar San Diego, then known as Angel Studios, created what is believed to be the first virtual sex scene for the film The Lawnmower Man?

16px Since I added a fact here (the "believed to be" part), I'm not sure if I'm allowed to approve ALT1a, so I'm requesting a second opinion to checks its validity. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 01:41, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

16px Good to go. It's such a small change I wouldn't say a second opinion is necessary, but here's a tick. --Paul_012 (talk) 20:49, 21 November 2019 (UTC)