Talk:Henry Crapo (mathematician)

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A fact from Henry Crapo (mathematician) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 December 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that mathematics professor Henry Crapo donated a bronze sculpture of a boar (pictured) to the University of Waterloo?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Henry Crapo (mathematician).

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Notability and sources[edit]

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Crapo appears to be notable under WP:NPROF C1. A GS search will show several papers and books that have been cited hundreds of times, in a low-citation field. This is further supported by the special issue of Adv. Appl. Math. in his honor, and by his frequent mention in the Wikipedia articles on the Tutte polynomial and matroids.
The Matroid Union source is a blog run by several prominent matroid theorists. The cited post is by James Oxley. While not as strong as a journal publication, I believe this to be a reasonably reliable source regarding the importance of his work.

Questions: is there a reliable source for his birthday? Is there a reliable source connecting him with the Henry Crapo who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1954 (referenced in old Michigan Daily articles)? Is there more information on his career arc and time at various institutions? – Russ Woodroofe (talk) 03:28, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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) 06:19, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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University of Waterloo Porcellino

~~... that mathematics professor Henry Crapo once donated a shoulder-height bronze sculpture of a boar to the University of Waterloo?~~ "The Boar in the News". Special Collections & Archives. University of Waterloo Library. Retrieved October 25, 2019.: "This shoulder-high bronze sculpture of a wild boar will one day make its home on the UW campus. ... Meanwhile, the bronze sits in central stores. It was donated to the math faculty's Descartes Foundation by former math professor Dr. Henry Crapo."

Moved to mainspace by Russ Woodroofe (talk). Self-nominated at 07:53, 1 November 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Article is new and long enough. No concerning pings on Earwigs. Nominator is QPQ exempt. Hook is cited and short enough for DYK. Looks good to go. Morgan695 (talk) 03:45, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. FWIW, I found someone at Waterloo to take a (freely licensed) picture of the boar, which I've added to the article. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 22:37, 6 November 2019‎ (UTC)[reply]

Great, thanks. I added the image to the nomination and am tweaking the hook as follows:
ALT1: ... that mathematics professor Henry Crapo once donated a bronze sculpture of a boar (pictured) to the University of Waterloo?
Image is freely licensed. Still good to go per Morgan695's review. Yoninah (talk) 00:32, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]