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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

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... that Sega approved a a social media manager's idea to murder their mascot?

Source: https://kotaku.com/murder-of-sonic-the-hedgehog-mystery-game-free-steam-1850344140

- ALT1: ... that two characters were excluded from The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog as they were considered too young to participate in a murder mystery game? Source: https://kotaku.com/murder-of-sonic-the-hedgehog-mystery-game-free-steam-1850344140
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Improved to Good Article status by IngeniousPachyderm (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

IngeniousPachyderm (talk) 14:18, 2 June 2026 (UTC).

ALT0 won't work because Sonic is a fictional character and can always be brought back. There is one exception to that and that's WP:DYKAPRIL, for which I suggest ALT2: ... that the murder of Sonic the Hedgehog was received positively by fans of his series?--Laun chba ller 14:26, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
- @Laun I am good with ALT2 or ALT1, but it may need to be reworded, otherwise it may look odd that "the murder" isn't capitalized as it is in the game title. Perhaps ALT3: ... that the death of Sonic the Hedgehog was received positively by fans of his series? IngeniousPachyderm (talk) 21:22, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

DYKAPRIL explicitly gets us out of having to capitalise it. See the bottom of Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2026/April.--Laun chba ller 23:55, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer Just took a look and you're right, I see that is the case with multiple DYK submissions there. I am good to go with ALT2. Thank you. IngeniousPachyderm (talk) 01:09, 3 June 2026 (UTC)