Talk:The Cock Destroyers

Did you know nomination

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: promoted by JuniperChill talk 09:58, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

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• The Cock Destroyers
• Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer

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Top: Sophie Anderson in July 2022. Bottom: Rebecca More in July 2021.

• ... that the first drag girl band to enter the UK top 40 took their name from a pair of porn stars (pictured separately) who went on to present Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer? Source: https://www.out.com/sex/2020/11/13/matthew-camp-cock-destroyers-host-slag-wars-tv-show#rebelltitem17 for Slag Wars in all hooks, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/drag-pop-album-frock-destroyers-b1769880.html for everything else
  • ALT1: ... that Matty Healy once described the Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer presenters The Cock Destroyers (pictured separately) as "terrifying"? Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwhy6Vyh1kM, at around 18:34 - we used to have an article about the episode
  • ALT2: ... that the future Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer hosts The Cock Destroyers (pictured separately) once released a "gloriously queer" sex education video for Netflix? Source: https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/03/12/cock-destroyers-lgbt-inclusive-sex-educaiton-netflix-rebecca-more-sophie-anderson/
  • ALT3: ... that the porn star duo The Cock Destroyers (pictured separately), who presented Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer in 2020, received coverage from the BBC after going viral? Source: https://theface.com/culture/cock-destroyer-how-rebecca-more-went-from-meme-to-the-uks-most-loved-adult-star
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sebastian Zouberbuhler (double nom)
  • Comment: Slag Wars 5x expanded on 11 September from this edit. I had no idea More was bringing it back.

Moved to mainspace by Launchballer (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 249 past nominations.

Launchballer 17:09, 31 August 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Both articles are new enough and long enough (Slag Wars doesn't register as 5x by the DYK tool, but comparing the pre-expansion version it is 7x). All of the hooks are cited and meet DYKINT, though my personal preference is ALT2 (ALT0 focuses on a third party, ALT1 relies on knowledge of Healy, and ALT3 is "people get famous, are featured on BBC"). Images both appear free, being extracted from free videos. No close paraphrasing found - Earwig flags one source at 53%, but that's because of the large block quote. Looks good to go!  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 21:51, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! The reason Slag Wars doesn't register as 5x is because DYKcheck picks up stuff from this version, which picks up around 563 false positive characters from an unformatted list.--Launchballer 22:00, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

• I figured it was something like that. I do like this approach to 5x... cleaning up an article only to find it was disqualified by things beyond your control used to suck.Crisco 1492 mobile (talk) 02:55, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

This is getting perilously close to timing out. What else do I have to do to get this promoted?--Launchballer 14:57, 29 October 2024 (UTC)