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Date	Process	Result
July 4, 2021	Good article nominee	Listed
September 19, 2021	Peer review	Reviewed
December 20, 2021	Featured article candidate	Promoted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 24, 2021. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Drew Goddard wrote the soundtrack for Bad Times at the El Royale into his screenplay so a studio would be forced to purchase the licenses for each piece of music?
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Is the actual release date October 5 or 12, 2018?

Some sources say this film releases on October 12. Others say it releases on October 5. Is it actually releasing on October 5 or October 12? 98.235.131.222 (talk) 02:46, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Released October 12 in Canada. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spin2Win (talk • contribs) 05:08, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

TIME SETTING

Felix doesn't appear in 1969. The main events of the film take place in 1969, made clear by the Nixon presser. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.16.210.222 (talk) 20:29, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Akrasia25 (talk · contribs) 19:48, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This looks like a very detailed article. I will commence this review shortly as part of the July 2021 backlog drive.--Akrasia25 (talk) 19:48, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article is clearly written and covers an interesting topic. Makes me want to watch the movie which was well reviewed but bombed at the boxoffice. It is stable, most authorship is one user, Some Dude From North Carolina. It is currently ranked a B class article.

The six good article criteria:

1. It is reasonable well written the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct

it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead, layout and word choice.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable It contains a reference section, presented in accordance with the layout style guideline;

All inline citations are from reliable sources;

It contains no original research;

It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism.

3. It is broad in its coverage

It addresses the main aspects of the topic;

It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail.

4. It has a neutral point of view

It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to different points of view.

5. It is stable

It does not change significantly from day to day because of any ongoing edit war or content dispute.

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

Images are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content;

Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.

Recommendations

-I would recommend that the author checks for duplicate wiki links in the future. I removed the duplicate links.

-Also, maybe you can fix the sizing of the first gallery of photos to better fit the page. Otherwise, the layout of the article is very attractive with the quote call-out box on the right-hand side.

Assessment

This article covers an important topic in an impartial way. It is of particular interest to the WikiProjects covering WikiProject Film.

Congratulations. This article meets the criteria to be a Good Article. Pass/Fail: Pass --Akrasia25 (talk) 20:34, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Akrasia, thanks for reviewing this article. The one issue is that it's not clear if all the steps at Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles#Assessing the article and providing a review were followed. In particular, the instructions state: "At a bare minimum, check that the sources used are reliable (for example, blogs are not usually reliable sources) and that those you can access support the content of the article (for example, inline citations lead to sources which agree with what the article says) and are not plagiarized". (t · c) buidhe 18:45, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I checked for plagiarism and I did not see any blogs in the refs. I also went through 5 of the references and found that they matched. Can you be more specific in your comments?--Akrasia25 (talk) 19:18, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Akrasia25, That's good, it's just that your review didn't state that you checked any of the sources. (t · c) buidhe 20:18, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:26, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Erivo in 2018

... that a five-minute continuous shot in Bad Times at the El Royale, featuring Cynthia Erivo (pictured) singing live on set, took twenty-seven takes to accomplish? [1]
- ALT1:... that some critics believe a fictional sex tape featured in Bad Times at the El Royale was of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe? [2]
- ALT2:... that an entirely symmetrical hotel was constructed in Vancouver for Bad Times at the El Royale? [3]
- ALT3:... that Drew Goddard wrote the soundtrack for Bad Times at the El Royale into his screenplay so a studio would be forced to purchase the licenses for each piece of music? [4]

Reviewed: 1964 European Nations' Cup Final

Improved to Good Article status by Some Dude From North Carolina (talk). Self-nominated at 01:23, 5 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

I like hook number 2 and 3 as a film buff. :* -->
Substantial article, meeting of GA criteria implicates DYK pass. QPQ has been completed. Only pings on Earwigs are for properly attributed quotes. I think ALT2 fails rule C6 in that the hook needs to be about the real world in some way; while JFK and Monroe are real people, the hook is specifically about a plot detail in the film. The other hooks are properly cited, interesting, and short enough for DYK; I think ALT0 is the most interesting. Morgan695 (talk) 06:59, 18 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]