Template:Did you know nominations/AtariWriter
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Hot dang, good job on getting this to GA! Great article; it took me a second to find the other half of that calc was from the businessweek source, which i'm assuming good faith on as its correctly cited in the article. Generalissima (talk) 03:55, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
- 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 17:36, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
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AtariWriter
- ... that the AtariWriter word processor for the Atari 8-bit family sold over 800,000 copies, about one copy for every five machines sold? Source: compound hook, 800k from Furr, 4mm from roundup, applying CALC
- ALT1: ... that Consumer Reports rated AtariWriter a "best buy" in their roundup of word processor systems? Source: Noonan
- ALT2: ... that the AtariWriter word processor for the Atari 8-bit family sold over 800,000 copies, on par with WordStar's 650,000 sales by the fall of 1983? Source: furr and Bergin
- Reviewed: VMA-611
- Comment: recent GA
Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 17:55, 6 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/AtariWriter; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems |
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation |
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QPQ: Done. |
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