Talk:Good Old Neon

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A fact from Good Old Neon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 September 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that "Good Old Neon" uses mathematical logic as a metaphor for what dying feels like? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Good Old Neon.

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 16:09, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• ... that in "Good Old Neon", David Foster Wallace uses mathematical logic as a metaphor for what dying feels like?

• Source: Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction, page 262: "In the short story this strategy suggests a performance of the failure of language, whether natural or symbolic, to faithfully represent the infinitely dense temporality of the moment of death." Oblivion, page 167: "The thing is that it turns out that logical symbolism really would be the best way to express it [dying]"

• ALT1: ... that in "Good Old Neon" by David Foster Wallace, a man becomes suicidal after hearing a joke from Cheers? Source: Mathematics in Postmodern American Fiction, page 261: "the narrator’s epiphanic moment is revealed to be his ‘happen[ing] on part of an old Cheers episode"
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• Comment: I have a personal preference for the original hook.

Created by ALittleClass (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

ALittleClass (talk) 17:22, 3 August 2025 (UTC).[reply]

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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article was newly-expanded at the time of nomination, and is 995 words (5,939 characters) long. It is fully sourced, with the acceptable exception of the plot summary. It is neutral, balancing the positive and negative reviews. It is free from plagiarism, with Earwig only flagging clearly attributed quotes. Both hooks are cited and interesting to the average reader. This is the nominator's first nomination, so no QPQ is required. My only issue with the article is that its lead is too short to provide an accessible overview of the subject, but this does not affect DYK criteria. Grnrchst (talk) 17:17, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]