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A fact from Switch Disco appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 January2024(check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Switch Disco's song "Everything" saw an 185-percent increase in its Spotify streams after it was used in the seventh series of Love Island?
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Latest comment: 2 years ago8 comments4 people in discussion
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.
Both articles meet the technical requirements for DYK. I didn't find any close paraphrasing for either article, and QPQs have been provided. Switch Disco meets the referencing requirement, but Bou's sampling and it charting needs to be referenced.
My main concern is the hook. I'm not sure if it would be interesting to people unfamiliar with any of the artists mentioned. I've taken a look at both articles and I think there's some potential here for separate hooks for both artists. Particularly in the case of Bou, and how his firing eventually lead to his music career.
If I may, can I propose separate hooks for both Bou and Switch Disco in the meantime?
ALT-A: ... that musician Bou went from being fired from an IT apprenticeship for producing beats during company time, to having songs rank on the UK Singles Chart?
ALT-B: ... that Switch Disco's song "Everything" saw an 185% increase in its Spotify streams after it was used in the seventh series of Love Island?
Both hooks are fine by me. Bou's sampling and charting were both sourced, though I've added an extra ref before (Dale Smith) just to make it obvious.--Launchballer05:51, 11 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Cool. Since I proposed new hooks another editor will need to sign this off. For now I've struck the original hook, but if the reviewer thinks the original hook is better than either solo hook they are free to unstrike it. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 09:40, 11 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Sorry for the long wait! I think ALT-A hook provided by Narutolovehinata5 would work, as it is more interesting, in my opinion. I do not think the original hook is interesting, however, so I am not going to unstrike it. ~ TailsWx23:25, 12 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 2 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
@Launchballer: (or anyone else with knowledge about this pair): I was looking for a free licensed image for the article and found Musicians Talk About Copyright on Vimeo this Creative Commons Attribution licensed video from 2013. It includes interviews with "DJ C and Hutch Edwards, Switch Disco". It looks like DJ C could well be Daniel John Creasy (minus 10 years); but Hutch Edwards is not Nikolaos Kalogerias, he is a different British DJ. Any chance Switch Disco was these two gentlemen back in 2013? --GRuban (talk) 16:39, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
I looked into this at the time but didn't find anything in reliable sources; "switch disco" "hutch edwards" brings up three results, of which one is a link to their Following list, which includes Edwards, and two are events listed on Fatsoma, a ticket seller of dubious reliability. I am unable to say for definite whether Creasy is DJ C, and I'd leave off adding that image until more information comes out.--Launchballer20:01, 8 January 2024 (UTC)Reply