A fact from 24 Hour Psycho appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 July 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that 24 Hour Psycho slows down Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho to two frames per second, stretching its duration to a full 24 hours?
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 pageorWikipedia 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.
Overall: Article expanded on 28 May; while the new version is more than five times longer than the previously existing one, a fair amount consists of verbatim quotes that by my understanding of the DYK rules do not count towards fivefold expansion, and discounting those it comes up just shy of the mark by my count. I see that this is also currently a WP:Good article nominee, so here's what I'll do: I will review the GAN—if it's successful, I'll request a new reviewer for the DYK nomination. If the GAN is not successful but the article is expanded further to such an extent that it meets the fivefold expansion mark within a week, I'll approve the DYK nomination (assuming everything else is okay, of course).
On with the DYK review: All sources are, as far as I can tell, reliable for the material they are cited for. There are no obvious neutrality issues. Earwig reveals no copyvio, but there is some WP:Close paraphrasing. The hook is both cited and interesting. QPQ has been done. Some comments about the content:
Noting both the frame rate of two per second and the frame duration of half a second is a tad redundant, I would think.
The second paragraph in the "Background" section is basically all verbatim quotes from the source or WP:Close paraphrasing thereof. I would just use a {{quote box}}.
Brown also claimed that as a substantial part of Douglas' work, 24 Hour Psycho has been "shown all over the world" – I would parse this use of "as" as "it has been shown all over the world, as has a significant proportion of Douglas' other creations", but what the source says is "The renown of 24 Hour Psycho has made it a substantial part of Douglas's biography [...]", in other words saying that it is "a substantial part" rather than has similarities with a substantial part.
two side-by-side projections of 24 Hour Psycho—one running forwards and the other backwards—until both films meet in the middle for an identical, one-second shot – I would say this is WP:Close paraphrasing of the source's "two side-by-side projections of 24 Hour Psycho, with one running forward and one running backward, until both films meet in the middle for an identical, one-second shot", but it's more like an unattributed quote.
Cleared GA on 10 June, after being posted, so I'm going to go with "inside time frame". Hook is interesting and directly cited, and the only close quoting is actual quotes. Long enough, well cited, GTG. Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:46, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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two side-by-side projections of 24 Hour Psycho—one running forwards and the other backwards—until both films meet in the middle for an identical, one-second shot – I would say this is WP:Close paraphrasing of the source's "two side-by-side projections of 24 Hour Psycho, with one running forward and one running backward, until both films meet in the middle for an identical, one-second shot", but it's more like an unattributed quote. This recurs in the body.
Noting both the frame rate of two per second and the frame duration of half a second is a tad redundant, I would think. I might rephrase it to put the frame duration in the same sentence as the duration of the film to make it seem less so.
causing reflection on both sides of the screen so that it may be viewed from either side is not quite the right way to put this. The source's "reflection" is in the figurative sense of "contemplation" or "meditation". Simply removing "causing reflection on both sides of the screen" would solve this.TompaDompa (talk) 16:02, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This, which Gordon calls an "act of curiosity", inspired him to create 24 Hour Psycho. – I'm guessing you misheard due to Gordon's Scottish accent. He says "active curiosity" (because, as he says, "idle curiosity" is a contradiction in terms).TompaDompa (talk) 16:02, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Brown also claimed that as a substantial part of Douglas' work, 24 Hour Psycho has been "shown all over the world" – I would parse this use of "as" as "it has been shown all over the world, as has a significant proportion of Douglas' other creations", but what the source says is "The renown of 24 Hour Psycho has made it a substantial part of Douglas's biography [...]", in other words saying that it is "a substantial part" rather than has similarities with a substantial part.
In 2010, Gordon created a second installation entitled 24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro – this source says 2008.
I'm missing the detail that the two screens showing 24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro are each other's reflections both in time and space.
I'm missing a (brief) mention of 5 Year Drive-By, which Gordon described as "something of a companion piece" to this film.
The point made by https://books.google.com/books?id=tXmoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT89 contrasting Hitchcock disallowing entering showing of Psycho partway through and the necessity of doing so for 24 Hour Psycho is, I think, an interesting one that should probably be included.
Earwig reveals no overt copyvio, but there is some WP:Close paraphrasing. After further editing, it seems to fall just barely on the right side of close paraphrasing to me.
See my comments above. Examining the sources cited in the article and conducting a cursory search for additional sources reveals that there is a fair amount that should be covered, but isn't. It is likely that there are even more aspects like this than the ones I've brought up above. After expansion, this issue has been resolved.
Honestly, I think this was nominated prematurely. I have serious concerns about missing aspects. After much further editing, the article is up to the WP:Good article standards.
@TompaDompa: It was definitely a premature nomination—so I thank you very much for your patience and taking the time to give me those sources. I believe I have addressed all of your concerns except for "24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro are each other's reflections both in time and space"; which source says this? ツLunaEatsTuna(💬)—01:19, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Gagosian Quarterly: two identical screens installed side by side, with Douglas's film playing in full on each: forward on one, backward on the other, with one flipped left to right such that—at exactly twelve hours in—they present the same images, mirrored, in a kind of exquisite, time-limited film version of a Rorschach inkblot test.TompaDompa (talk) 08:50, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not quite, but we're definitely getting there. I've updated some of my comments above and added strikethrough markup to resolved issues. I will have to take a look at the brand-new "Themes and analysis" section and survey the sources more closely to make sure its alright and doesn't omit any major aspects. TompaDompa (talk) 16:02, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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