Talk:Giovanni Prodi

A fact from Giovanni Prodi appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 February 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Italian mathematician Giovanni Prodi was initially drafted into the National Republican Army and trained as a telephonist during World War II?

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Did you know nomination

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.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:17, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that mathematician Giovanni Prodi was initially drafted into the National Republican Army and trained as a telephonist during World War II? Source: "Prodi was called up into the Repubblica Sociale Italiana army, an order he complied with through fear that his family would suffer retaliation if he refused, and he was sent to Germany to be trained in a camp with other Italian soldiers. Then, trained as a telephonist, ... " (MacTutor History of Mathematics archive)

Comment: This article is linked from WP:Six million articles.

Created by SD0001 (talk). Self-nominated at 08:28, 26 January 2020 (UTC).[reply]

@SD0001: New enough and long enough. You are QPQ-exempt, as you have no DYK credits. I've removed an extra "the" from the hook, which is fine and cited (I added a direct inline citation at the mentioning sentence). Three of the paragraphs in the Career section lack inline citations; as all paragraphs in a DYK article must end in an inline citation, sources are required. That is the last obstacle for this article. Raymie (t • c) 19:05, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Raymie: fixed. They were all sourced from MacTutor. I added an inline cite at the end of the paragraphs. SD0001 (talk) 01:33, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good then. Raymie (t • c) 02:15, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]