Template:Did you know nominations/Harry Potter (TV series)

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 14:41, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

Harry Potter (TV series)

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... that 32,000 children auditioned for the roles of Harry, Hermione and Ron in the HBO Harry Potter TV series?

Source: Deadline

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cliffhanger (novel)
Comment: I have had a prior discussion with other major page contributors about this DYK. @User:JacobTheRox asked me to ping him regarding "reserving dates" for DYKs to appear. If there's something there to deal with he will correspond about it.

Moved to mainspace by BarntToust (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

Barnt Toust 18:09, 14 July 2025 (UTC).

Hi BarntToust, review follows: article moved to mainspace on 14 July; article is of good length and well written; I am not an expert in movie articles but the sourcing used looks to be excellent compared to others I have seen; I didn't pick up any overly close paraphrasing in a spot check on the sources and Earwig looks not to have found anything concerning (its scoring is thrown by the casting lists and a couple of quotations); hook fact is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to source cited; a QPQ has been carried out. Looks fine to me. In terms of "reserving dates", was there a particular one desired? I couldn't see anything obvious for an upcoming connection in the article; note that there's also a general aversion to anything that looks too promotional for commercial products. Unless there's an obvious special occasion, promoted DYKs go into a pot that set builders select from and generally appear on the main page within 6 weeks or so of submission - Dumelow (talk) 06:53, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

I took Jacob's suggestion as a request to see if the folks at DYK would let the hook wait until 2027 when the series premieres so it would have the most 'oomph' when considering the idea of the subject being in the zeitgeist then. I think I told him (or maybe I only imagined mulling it over in my mind) that we'd have several seasons and maybe episodic articles that will be full of facts that also will be coming out into mainspace in a more aligned timeframe to when the series is out and continuing to be out, regardless if this DYK were to just proceed normally. If Jacob wants to further put forth his thought to request to put this one off until the series premieres (even then there is no solid date) he is welcome to. I only promised to ping him about this when the time came for DYK. Barnt Toust 07:25, 15 July 2025 (UTC)