Template:Did you know nominations/Death Race 2 (2nd nomination)

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 23:27, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Death Race 2

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... that the 2008 action film Death Race is followed by a prequel entitled Death Race 2?

Source: "If Death Race 2 proves anything, it’s that director Roel Reiné is not the one who shits on the sidewalk. And how did he do that, you ask? By delivering a prequel to Paul Anderson’s prequel to the Roger Corman classic Death Race 2000 that’s far more competent a prequel than the original prequel ever could be."

ALT1: ... that a judge in DVD Verdict found Death Race 2 guilty of "running on empty"? Source: "The Charge: Running on empty; The Verdict: Guilty. Off to the scrap-yard." - Reviewed by Judge David Johnson (DVD Verdict)
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Chromebook challenge
Comment: I withdrew the first nomination for not meeting the five-fold criterion at the time

Improved to Good Article status by Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 13:51, 12 May 2025 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - Copyvios: Earwig only complains about nothingburgers. Spotchecks as of Special:Permalink/1291748480: Ref 2b doesn't check out; nothing supports that Cohen played September Jones, and I'd use a different word than "precursor". Ref 5b is clear. Ref 9 is clear. Ref 82 is clear. For ref 90, I'd put "entertaining and intense" in quotes.

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I wouldn't call ALT0 WP:DYKINT, but ALT1 works. Some issues, but nothing insurmountable. House Blaster (talk • he/they) 16:35, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

@HouseBlaster: Issues have been fixed. Thanks for taking this review, Nineteen Ninety-Four guy (talk) 06:03, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
@Nineteen Ninety-Four guy: Always happy to help, and thank you so much for your work on this article! Approved ALT1. Best, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 20:20, 9 June 2025 (UTC)