Template:Did you know nominations/Jackie Stedall

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:14, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Jackie Stedall

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• ... that mathematics historian Jackie Stedall appeared multiple times on BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time?
  • ALT1:... that mathematics historian Jackie Stedall wrote nine books?
  • ALT2:... that mathematics historian Jackie Stedall wrote the history of mathematics book in the Very Short Introductions series?
  • ALT3:... that Jackie Stedall wrote the history of mathematics book in the Very Short Introductions series?

• Reviewed: Ned Justeen Azemia

Created by Joseph2302 (talk). Self-nominated at 12:54, 23 October 2016 (UTC).

• Date, size, refs, hook, neutrality, copyvio check, all OK. GTG. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:52, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

• I'm sorry, I find all the hooks lacking color. ALT2 is quite repetitive about mathematics history as well. If there is not any more to write about her in the article, perhaps you could expand ALT0 with some of the subjects she aired on BBC Radio 4? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 20:09, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

I agree. Borerrrrrrr-ING! Is there nothing else? EEng 07:29, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

ALT4:... that Jackie Stedall won the 2013 Neumann Prize for best English history of mathematics book? Any better? Joseph2302 19:53, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Now we're getting somewhere -- a prize-winning book will get some people interested in clicking. I hope you won't mind my striking the ALTs 0, 1 and 3, which I think are vastly inferior. Feel free, of course, to unstrike if you disagree. EEng 20:04, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

• Fixing the grammar in the hook:
• ALT4a: ... that Jackie Stedall won the 2013 Neumann Prize for the best English-language book on the history of mathematics? Yoninah (talk) 22:39, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

• ALT4a verified and cited inline. Rest of review per Piotrus. ALT4a good to go. Yoninah (talk) 22:46, 2 November 2016 (UTC)