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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.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 18:51, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Wang Yening[edit]

Wang Yening in 1949
Wang Yening in 1949

Created by Zanhe (talk). Self-nominated at 01:15, 28 February 2019 (UTC).

  • Article is new and long enough, no obvious copyvios, hook is interesting and correctly sourced (have to AGF on non-English source). Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:39, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
  • Hi, I came by to promote this, and first rewrote the sentence on which ALT0 is based because shortening it made it less accurate. I also added links. I'm not crazy about expanding ALT0 based on the new wording because it's already too jargony. ALT1 is all right but the fact is that two other men worked on it with her. What do you think about a more straightforward and user-friendly fact like:
  • ALT2: ... that Chinese physicist Wang Yening (pictured) was one of the world's top 150 authors in high-temperature superconductivity in the 1990s? Yoninah (talk) 21:24, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
@Yoninah: I'm fine with ALT2, but being one of the top 150 may not sound too impressive to lay readers (who may not be aware that high-Tc superconductivity was one of the hottest research topics in the 1980s and 90s). And I don't see the problem with ALT1: yes she worked with two other scientists, which is why the hook says she "helped establish" the program, not simply "established". -Zanhe (talk) 00:01, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
  • OK. Restoring tick for ALT1. Yoninah (talk) 18:50, 7 March 2019 (UTC)