- 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) 22:54, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
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Clyde Foster
Clyde Foster
- ... that Clyde Foster (pictured), an African-American mathematician with NASA, got former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to support a Computer Science program at historically black Alabama A&M University? Source: [1]
Created by Drmies (talk). Self-nominated at 02:26, 15 July 2019 (UTC).
Interesting life on good sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. Fine hook! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:50, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
- I added a pic to the nom. Gerda, would you please retick? MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 02:25, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you, Mandarax! The image is licensed, and welcome, and I ask David for cropping magic ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:43, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Drmies: could you use a more encyclopedic word than "got"? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 19:14, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
- Yoninah, if you feel the need to change it to "managed to convince" or something like that, I guess you can do that, but like Lady Montagu I abhor prolixity. And I disagree with you. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:45, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Drmies: ooh, a new word! Thanks. In the article you wrote "persuaded". I wonder if we could use that? Also, the hook is over 200 characters, and since I want to use it in the image slot, we don't need to say he's African-American. I suggest writing it this way:
- ALT1: ... that Clyde Foster (pictured), a mathematician with NASA, persuaded former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to support a Computer Science program at historically black Alabama A&M University? Yoninah (talk) 10:39, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
- I added a pic to the nom. Gerda, would you please retick? MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 02:25, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
- Yoninah, Gerda Arendt thought it was a fine hook, and so did I. I still don't see the problem, but whatever. I guess Gerda needs to tick it again--Gerda, do you mind? Of course, if it gets run without image, "African-American" needs to be reinstated: that is what this is all about. Drmies (talk) 14:33, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
- I don't mind, and I hope for pictured. If the four-syllable "persuaded" for a plain "got" is the prize, it's worth it, I guess, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:38, 29 July 2019 (UTC)