Talk:Mikhail Ioffe

A fact from Mikhail Ioffe appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 September 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Soviet scientist Mikhail Ioffe was not allowed to collect the Atoms for Peace Award because he was seen to be too chummy with western scientists?

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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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 10:19, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Mikhail Ioffe was not allowed to collect the Atoms for Peace Award because he was seen to be too chummy with western scientists? Source: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.2806537
- ALT1:... that Mikhail Ioffe improved the magnetic mirror 35 times by adding six current-carrying bars that now bear his name? Source: https://books.google.ca/books?id=ECOvgg7b3MQC

Comment: Template:Did you know nominations/Now in Color

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Self-nominated at 18:59, 4 September 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

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 is long enough and sourced, ALT0 is cited and interesting, QPQ is done. In my opinion, ALT1 should not be used because it isn't interesting or hooky enough and probably won't interest a general audience. Note: This is my first review, second opinions are welcome. —Danre98^{(talk^contribs)} 20:55, 4 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Promoter's comment to @Danre98: Hi there! Nice job on your first review! Pretty much everything checks out, I agree with your assessment of the hooks. One small thing—for the sourcing requirement, it's generally better if direct quotes are sourced at the end of the sentence. I've copied those over. Thanks for your enthusiasm for DYK! Hope you stick around :)

ALT0 to T:DYK/P4