A fact from Héctor D. Abruña appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 June 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Héctor D. Abruña's outreach efforts resulted in 15 out of 55 graduates of his Cornell University electrochemistry research group coming from Puerto Rico, like Abruña himself?
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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.
New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. No QPQ needed for nominator with less than 5 DYK credits. The hook, though, tells us nothing about his notability or accomplishments other than he was the "second". You have written quite a bit about him; could you suggest a different hook fact? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 15:36, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Yoninah, for your review and for encouraging me to come up with a better hook! I have suggested two new ones and am grateful about feedback for how to improve them. AthalGolwen (talk) 21:30, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@AthalGolwen: thank you for the alts. But a hook is just that – something that "hooks" the reader and makes him want to click on the article to read more. ALT1 is more like a story and tells me everything I need to know; forget about reading the article. ALT2 is okay but not exciting. Sometimes it just takes clever wording to make things "hooky". I'd like to look at this with a clear head tomorrow and suggest something. Best, Yoninah (talk) 21:34, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I looked at the article more closely, added cites and fixed some language that did not exactly express what the source was saying. What do you think about this tweak to your ALT1:
Thanks. But since I added more information to the hook, someone else will have to approve it. Requesting reviewer for ALT1a. Yoninah (talk) 20:30, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1b: ... that Héctor D. Abruña's outreach efforts, resulted in 15 out of 55 graduates of a Cornell University electrochemistry research group coming from Puerto Rico, like Abruña himself?