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A fact from Catherine Cavagnaro appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 January 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that record-setting airplane spinner Catherine Cavagnaro is also a professional mathematician?
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.
Overall: Article meets eligibility criteria - newness and length. No issues with tone. Article is well sourced. Earwig shows a slightly high number ~25%, but, all of the hits are to proper nouns. e.g. college names, course names etc. So, I do not see any issues. Hook is cited and is interesting too. However, I would want to ask the nominator if they would want to rev this further to boost the interestingness. I see that Cavagnaro has a record for the maximum flat spins. However, if the nominator wants to hold on to the current one, I will cede to their desires. QPQ is done. Passing back to the nominator. Ktin (talk) 02:40, 2 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Paradise Chronicle: Eikes, did not mean to take away this one. I typically end up marking a 'start of review' comment to avoid overstepping. :) Yup, saw that part about the record being broken. There have been a few messages recently re: interestingness at WT:DYK hence I make it a point to ask once to ensure that nominators give this a thought. I almost always go with the nominators' preference. Cheers. Ktin (talk) 03:15, 2 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I proposed ALT0 more for its rhythm than for the specific choice of claims it uses, but if you prefer:
the ambiguity of wording with spinning a musical record is deliberate, as an attempt to make the hook a little confusing so that readers might click on it to unconfuse themselves. Don't know if that's a good strategy, though. It has the disadvantage that it doesn't really give readers any clue what the article is actually about. A hook preparer might prefer
I like this. Can we introduce math as well? e.g. Math prof CC spun a record 60 times that was not to stay? or Math prof CC spun a record 60 times but didn't last?Ktin (talk) 08:50, 2 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
If you don't mind something with more straightforward wording, we could say something like
ALT2 ... that record-setting airplane spinner Catherine Cavagnaro is also a professional mathematician?
Article meets eligibility criteria - newness and length. No issues with tone. Article is well sourced. Earwig shows a slightly high number ~25%, but, all of the hits are to proper nouns. e.g. college names, course names etc. So, I do not see any issues. Hook is cited and is interesting too. However, I would want to ask the nominator if they would want to rev this further to boost the interestingness. I see that Cavagnaro has a record for the maximum flat spins. However, if the nominator wants to hold on to the current one, I will cede to their desires. QPQ is done. Passing back to the nominator. Ktin (talk) 02:40, 2 January 2022 (UTC)