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Review: May 17, 2024. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Michael Kremer appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 January 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Michael Kremer's O-ring theory of economic development was inspired by his forgetting to purchase toilet paper for a training session?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Michael Kremer.

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Did you know nomination

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 17:49, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Michael Kremer's O-ring theory of economic development was inspired by the economist forgetting to purchase toilet paper for one of his educational non-profit's training sessions? Source: Monaghan, Peter (March 3, 2000). "Of Elephants and O-Rings: an Economist's Unusual Views on Ivory, Taxes, and Population". Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
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5x expanded by RegMonkey (talk). Self-nominated at 17:40, 20 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Michael Kremer; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General eligibility:
New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article has appeared in ITN before. I will try checking if it was a BOLD link or if it was non-BOLD link. If it was a BOLD link, I think unfortunately, this might not be eligible. Alright. Just checked. Unfortunately, this nomination might not be eligible for DYK because it was posted on ITN as a BOLD link. Relevant discussion can be seen here. I am going to keep this nomination open for sometime in case the nominator thinks I might have gotten this wrong. It is a shame because I liked the hook. Nice work on the article though. Good luck on the GA nomination. Ktin (talk) 19:32, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Marking no on this nomination. I will continue to watch this nomination in case someone wants to message me in regards to this nomination. Ktin (talk) 11:03, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ktin: WP:DYKNEW says, "It (an article) is also ineligible if it has, within the year prior to nomination or between nomination and appearance on the Main Page, appeared as a boldlink at In the news (ITN)" This article appeared at ITN in 2019, so I think this article is still eligible. Z1720 (talk) 15:07, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Z1720: - Wow. Thanks! Was this a recent change? Irrespective, this is good to go then. Unrelated, Earwig's check indicates a few high % matches, but these are largely publication names etc that are being tied back to Kremer's CV and a quote. I think this is good to go. Marking approved. Ktin (talk) 22:07, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

Passed. –Sincerely, A Lime 19:05, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Michael Kremer/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: RegMonkey (talk · contribs) 20:55, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Closed Limelike Curves (talk · contribs) 18:50, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Knocked it out of the park on this one. This is great, and I love the article! I think it would even make a great FA nominee. :)

1. Well written?:

Pass

2. Verifiable?:

Pass

3. Broad in coverage?:

Pass

4. Neutral point of view?:

Pass

5. Stable?:

Pass

6. Images?:

Pass

My only recommendation for improvement would be to try rewording it more simply in a couple parts. Politics and the English language and the Hemingway editor are great resources for this. That said, "imperfect wording" is whatever the opposite of "damning with faint praise" would be.–Sincerely, A Lime 18:50, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.