Template:Did you know nominations/Alan Duffy (astronomer)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:29, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Alan Duffy (astronomer) edit

  • ... that astronomer Alan Duffy is constructing a dark matter detector one kilometre underground in a gold mine? Source: "He has attempted to directly detect this dark matter as part of SABRE..., an international research consortium with teams in Italy, USA and Australia. SABRE is constructing the southern hemisphere's first dark matter detector one kilometre underground in a gold mine in Stawell, Victoria.
    • ALT1:... that astronomer Alan Duffy uses supercomputers to build and test models of the growth of galaxies? Source: "His supercomputer simulations have shown that in very early galaxies..."

Created by Gronk Oz (talk). Self-nominated at 09:59, 12 September 2017 (UTC).

  • Does not meet the 7 day requirement. The article was created on August 10 and has not been expanded 5 times in the past week. Sorry, Gronk Oz. Make sure you look at the eligility criteria before your next try. RockMagnetist (DCO visiting scholar) (talk) 13:46, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
    The trick is to create the article in the userspace, and move it to the mainspace when it is ready. However, given that (1) the article was created on 10 August, and that there are still older articles in the queue and (2) is of good quality, I am invoking WP:IAR and passing the article anyway. Article is long enough, fully referenced. Main hook is fine, supported by online reference. ALT1 also fine, supported by online reference, but main hook preferred. Good to go, unless someone objects. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:06, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Thanks for that. I guess I should have spelled out that the article was promoted to MainSpace on 9 September, not originally created then. This is the process described in option (d) of the "New" eligibility criteria at WP:DYKRULES. Sorry if this caused any confusion. Gronk Oz (talk) 02:27, 13 September 2017 (UTC)