Template:Did you know nominations/Road Rash (1994 video game)

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:37, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

• ... that a rented Ducati SuperSport that was scratched during the making of Road Rash was kept and displayed in the Electronic Arts lobby? Source: "Anyways this bike was accidentally layed down while filming some of the cut scenes and thus scratching the bodywork rendering the bike un-returnable, so now it sits on display in the lobby of the now video game giant EA Electronic Arts since the games release in 1994." [1]
  • ALT1:... that the yellow Yamaha FZR1000 seen in the full-motion videos of Road Rash was previously featured on the cover of Road Rash II? Source: ""I directed and rode some of the bikes in the video along with art director Jeff Smith and other local AFM club racers from the area," Randy adds. "This included my own yellow Yamaha FZR 1000, which was featured on an earlier Road Rash cover..."" [2]

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/104 (barge)

Improved to Good Article status by Cat's Tuxedo (talk). Self-nominated at 00:21, 2 March 2021 (UTC).

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - Earwig is unhappy, the major result appears to be a false positive but there is a near 40% similiarity to a different site.

Overall: The potential copyvio issue is the major obstacle here. Beyond that, if there is a possibility to find the EA story on the motorcycle linked in the blog post via the Wayback Machine, that would be preferable to the blog as blogs are generally considered unreliable due to their WP:UGC nature. If not, I AGF that the blog is telling the truth. I prefer the first hook. Etzedek24 ^{(I'll talk at ya) (Check my track record)} 17:52, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

• Looks like that site's text was bummed off an earlier version of Road Rash (1991 video game), so definitely a false positive. As for the source, the story unfortunately did not appear to be archived; the only results are redirects to the general EA site made last year. Cat's Tuxedo (talk) 21:16, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
  • Given the nominator's comments above, my issues are addressed as well as they can be. Good to go. Etzedek24 ^{(I'll talk at ya) (Check my track record)} 21:22, 2 March 2021 (UTC)