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Free-to-play

 * ... that women spent over a hundred dollars a year on average in massively multiplayer online games that were free-to-play, 50% more than men?
 * Comment: First time submitting a DYK with this new format, someone tell me if I screwed up. I started editing the article on July 31 but the actual expansion clearly began on August 5. The relevant text for the hook begins at "On average, women spent $111 a year in MMOs" in the article.

Created by Gary King (talk). Self nom at 03:46, 6 August 2011 (UTC) Please add a comment and signature (or just a signature if endorsing) after each aspect you have reviewed:

Hook
 * Length, format, content rules – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Source – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Interest – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Image suitability, if applicable – None. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * ALT hooks, if proposed –

Article
 * Length – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Vintage – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Sourcing (V, RS, BLP) – Two citation needed tags already, other paragraphs entirely uncited. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Neutrality – Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Plagiarism/close paraphrasing – Looks fine. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * copyvio (files) – No images, so no problems. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Obvious faults in prose, structure, formatting –

Comments/discussion:
 * Symbol question.svg Just need to address the referencing issues. Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:18, 12 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I commented out the two "citation needed tags" since I do agree that those facts need to be sourced before including them (I did not write those sentences). For the two remaining unsourced paragraphs, they were already in the article before I started editing, as well, and yet they are crucial to better understanding the article's core concepts, so I'm in a bit of a bind here. I'd prefer leaving them there since they don't particularly mention anything that a reader would normally challenge, per WP:V, and since I plan on eventually bringing the article to Good Article status (all the content that I added myself to the article is already sourced, so it's only a matter of performing the research necessary to replace those unsourced paragraphs). Thoughts? Gary King  ( talk  ·  scripts )  05:34, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The current consensus is minimum one citation per paragraph, so... looks like you have a bit of research ahead you. Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:06, 12 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay fair enough, I'll get right on it. Gary King  ( talk  ·  scripts )  20:57, 13 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Looking at the article, I now see a reference on every paragraph, and the one reference that I checked looked fine. So if that was the only thing holding up final approval it should be gtg.  Sharktopus talk 18:24, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg You're right. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:42, 24 August 2011 (UTC)