Talk:My Neighbour Totoro (play)

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The result was: promoted by RoySmith (talk) 22:04, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that Totoro will give you sore cheeks? Source: "First, a warning: you will leave the Royal Shakespeare Company's stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro with sore cheeks." The Week on Stage: From My Neighbour Totoro to Marvellous
  • ALT1: ... that Totoro has become more relevant due to COVID-19 and climate change? Source: "'Because of global warming, it's more important for future children' ... those concerns are very pressing for audiences watching in 2022 ...'Totoro has got more pertinent since the lockdown. It's so of our time.'" Totoro, the Catbus and the fight to save the natural world
  • ALT2: ... that Totoro had a week of rehearsals without the script? Source: "'The script didn't even get brought into the room until the second week'." Turning anime classic My Neighbour Totoro into theatre: 'It's got to be its own thing on stage'
  • ALT3: ... that Totoro uses new wind spirits? Source: "In the end, the puppeteers are not mechanical, but nor are they traditional Japanese Bunraku puppet performances either – McDermott and his crew have created their own style of puppetry, which they have called 'wind spirits'." My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican: how the RSC turned a cult cartoon into autumn's must-see theatre show
  • ALT4: ... that Totoro has a human field of corn? Source: "The puppeteers are a kind of murmuration too: they become a human field of corn, swaying as one, then invisible forces from another realm, weaving among these humans." My Neighbour Totoro review – dazzling staging of the Studio Ghibli classic
  • Reviewed: Skyrush

5x expanded by Sdrqaz (talk). Self-nominated at 22:26, 19 November 2022 (UTC).

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

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

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• Interesting:
• Other problems:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: only ALT2 is clear and interesting as is, others are perhaps too cryptic (e.g what does the colloquialism "sore cheeks" mean? "human field of corn" and "new wind spirits", need explanation ...) created in September, expanded recently, but c. 3-fold past 7 days, and 5-fold in c. 30 days which is more than the required 7.Unfortunately fails on the newness criteria, (as far as I can tell). -Bogger (talk) 18:31, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

@Bogger: I used DYKcheck to check and it's telling me that 5x expansion began on November 13, which is within seven days of November 19. Maybe one or the other check is inaccurate here? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:41, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

@Sdrqaz: ok I had compared the raw files, but comparison should have been done on the prose. My bad. -Bogger (talk) 14:05, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

The hooks still need attention. Even with ALT2, maybe new plays often work without a script in early stages (Workshop production), so it's not interesting enough? something like...

ALT5:... that Totoro's production team makes extensive use of puppets, so that audience will want to "fall asleep on his belly"? https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/my-neighbour-totoro-barbican-royal-shakespeare-company-b1032199.html (AGF)-Bogger (talk) 14:05, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

I can't say I agree on the hooks. The point of a hook at DYK is to draw the reader in to want to read the article. The "cryptic" nature of ALTs 0, 3, and 4 are not bugs, they're features. ALT0's "sore cheeks" is not a colloquialism: if cheeks are sore, they hurt ... Sdrqaz (talk) 17:11, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Approved, (recommending ALT1) -Bogger (talk) 23:11, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Sdrqaz (talk) 06:04, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

While I understand the sentiment behind that, it's more of a case-by-case thing rather than being actively encouraged. Sometimes hooks are just too cryptic that they actually hurt readership rather than help, and I can see those cases being examples of that. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:57, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps – DYK hookiness is a little unpredictable. I personally prefer ALT0 and the other "quirky" ones because they feel a lot more interesting (how does it give you sore cheeks?), but it's up to the promoter. Sdrqaz (talk) 06:04, 3 December 2022 (UTC)