Template:Did you know nominations/Mercy (Overwatch)

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 23:50, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Mercy (Overwatch)

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Cosplay of Mercy's "Witch" skin

• ... that a pink skin for Mercy in the video game Overwatch helped raise over US$12 million for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation? Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/07/09/overwatch-raised-127-million-for-charity-thanks-to-pink-mercy
  • ALT1: ... that Mercy's "Witch" skin (cosplay pictured) was very popular with Overwatch players? some Mercy players liked her "Witch" skin (cosplay pictured) so much, they changed their computer wallpaper to feature her in it? Source: https://www.polygon.com/2016/10/12/13261364/overwatch-witch-mercy-wallpaper
  • ALT2: ... that Mercy has been called the "most terrifying character in Overwatch", because of her resurrection ability? Source: https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/mercy-terrifying-character-overwatch/
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Improved to Good Article status by Soulbust (talk). Self-nominated at 12:50, 12 September 2022 (UTC).

• Substantial article, meeting of GA criteria implicates DYK pass. Article was nominated within seven days of passing GAR. QPQ has been completed. Image is properly licensed, appears in article, and show ups well enough at small size. Earwigs is pinging copyvio because the text of the article has been copy+pasted onto some spam site, but article looks fine from a compliance standpoint. I think the proposed hooks need some tweaking; "pink skin" in ALT0 needs to be rephrased or further elaborated, as this is not a term that is known to a general audience. "This thing is popular" in ALT1 is non-specific and not especially interesting, while ALT2 feels like it just barely scrapes C6 as being fundamentally about the character's in-universe representation. If you're looking for additional hooks, one concerning a search for a Swiss-German actor resulting in the casting of a German-American actor might be interesting. Morgan695 (talk) 04:52, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

@Morgan695: for ALT0, would it be better to word it as "a pink skin, or in-game costume..."? Soulbust (talk) 03:42, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

@Soulbust: I think just linking to skin would be sufficient. Morgan695 (talk) 15:32, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

@Morgan695: Alrighty, I added the wikilink to skin on ALT0. I'll work on making ALT1 a little more interesting as I think the image would be nice to use on the DYK section. Soulbust (talk) 04:34, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Alrighty, I tweaked ALT1 now. Soulbust (talk) 05:02, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Approving for a slightly tweaked ALT0. ALT1 is still essentially just "people liked this thing", which isn't a compelling hook. Morgan695 (talk) 00:12, 20 September 2022 (UTC)