- 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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 16:10, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
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- ... that 1 is its own square, square root, and factorial?
- Source: *Colman, Samuel (1912). Coan, C. Arthur (ed.). Nature's Harmonic Unity: A Treatise on Its Relation to Proportional Form. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 9–10.
- Reviewed:
Improved to Good Article status by Polyamorph (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.
Polyamorph (talk) 12:36, 29 September 2024 (UTC).
Congratulations on the Good Article status! This article is newly promoted to Good Article, and is sufficiently long and well cited. The Copyvio pulls up a flag to an obscure pdf, which must be an example of the reverse (pdf using text from wikipedia). The hook is excellent, terse and to the point but a tease that draw the readers in; if only to marvel at how you can write an encyclopedia entry on '1'. Hook source checks out. QPQ not required for the nominator. Approved! Chaiten1 (talk) 13:07, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Polyamorph and Chaiten1: What is your opinion of the hook ALT1: ... that many older typewriters do not have a dedicated key for the numeral 1?--Launchballer 14:56, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- I prefer my proposed hook as its a fundamental property of the number itself. Polyamorph (talk) 15:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- No worries then.--Launchballer 15:06, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- Polyamorph and Launchballer, sorry for disrupting. But apparently, is it possible we add some wiklinks about those three? To me, readers may not understand about mathematical terms. Dedhert.Jr (talk) 23:35, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- Factorial maybe, although square and square root are surely common terms.--Launchballer 23:40, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- I did consider wikilinks, the issue is that the wikilink 1 is small, even when bolded. I wanted to make sure that users focus was on the link to 1 and not some other non-GA article. But I would support a wikilink to factorial (which is a GA), and indeed square (algebra) and square root if these would be helpful. Polyamorph (talk) 05:44, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- Factorial maybe, although square and square root are surely common terms.--Launchballer 23:40, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- Polyamorph and Launchballer, sorry for disrupting. But apparently, is it possible we add some wiklinks about those three? To me, readers may not understand about mathematical terms. Dedhert.Jr (talk) 23:35, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- No worries then.--Launchballer 15:06, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- I prefer my proposed hook as its a fundamental property of the number itself. Polyamorph (talk) 15:02, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Polyamorph and Chaiten1: What is your opinion of the hook ALT1: ... that many older typewriters do not have a dedicated key for the numeral 1?--Launchballer 14:56, 29 September 2024 (UTC)