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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: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 14:53, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

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Akira the Hustler

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Created by Morgan695 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:24, 18 October 2019 (UTC).

  • New enough - hit mainspace today
  • Long enough (over 1,500 characters)
  • Within policy (appears neutral, all information is cited to what appear to be reliable sources and there are no issues with copyvios).
  • The hook is supported by a third party reliable source, is 'hooky' enough, and interesting.

- SchroCat (talk) 18:01, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

  • Is he still a sex worker - or a former sex worker? I think that would need to be resolved before this is promoted. Gatoclass (talk) 14:01, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
  • @Gatoclass: He uses past tense to describe his time in sex work in this 2007 interview cited in the article ("when I was a prostitute"). Amended the lede to reflect. Morgan695 (talk) 14:46, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
But the hook still states that he is currently a sex worker. Also, are the Biters still extant? I don't have time to re-check the article right now, but a lot of the references looked quite dated. Gatoclass (talk) 14:59, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
It's unclear in the sources I was able to find, so I've revised the tenses hook below. Morgan695 (talk) 15:35, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
ALT0a: ... that Akira the Hustler was a founding member of The Biters, a performance art group whose members were both artists and sex workers?
That looks better, but I don't have time to verify it now, I will try to get back to it tomorrow. Gatoclass (talk) 15:45, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
I was planning to do a little work on this one Yoninah, but on looking at it again I think it's fine as it is so you can promote it whenever you like. Gatoclass (talk) 15:14, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
  • Adding a tick for clarity. Gatoclass (talk) 15:16, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
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