Template:Did you know nominations/Al-Mahani

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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 04:18, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Al-Mahani

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• ... that the ninth-century astronomer Al-Mahani said that he accurately predicted the start time of three lunar eclipses within half-hour margins? Source: "Al-Māhānī remarked, in connection with the lunar eclipses, that he calculated their beginnings with an astrolabe and that the beginnings of three consecutive eclipses were about half an hour later than calculated. Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography)

• Reviewed: Patnagarh bombing

5x expanded by HaEr48 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:02, 28 May 2018 (UTC).

review

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 eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - The phrase "within half an hour accuracy" doesn't sound right.

QPQ:
Overall: Andrew D. (talk) 22:06, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

@Andrew Davidson: Thanks for the review. I edited the hook a little bit - does that sound right? If not, I'm open to suggestion as well. I'll do QPQ soon.HaEr48 (talk) 23:04, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

@Andrew Davidson: QPQ added. HaEr48 (talk) 23:33, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

@Andrew Davidson:: Hey Andrew, waiting for your feedback here. HaEr48 (talk) 05:25, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

• New reviewer needed; previous reviewer has not responded after three weeks. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:01, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

• Picking up review ... The new hook looks okay, but I would phrase it this way:

ALT1 ... that the ninth-century astronomer Al-Mahani claimed he predicted the start times of three consecutive lunar eclipses within half an hour?

• Full review: 5x expansion verified. New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen in online sources. Offline hook ref AGF and cited inline. QPQ done. ALT1 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 22:51, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

• @Yoninah: Thanks for the review. One concern: isn't the phrase "within half an hour" ambiguous in this context? It could mean something like the eclipse happens at x:30 and he made the prediction at x:00 (not the intended meaning here. the intended meaning is that he predicted that an eclipse would happen at x:yz and the eclipse would occur within half-hour of that). But I'm not a native English speaker so I might be wrong about this. HaEr48 (talk) 00:41, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

• @HaEr48: yes, that worried me too. How about:
• ALT1a: ... that the ninth-century astronomer Al-Mahani claimed his estimates of the start times of three consecutive lunar eclipses were accurate to within half an hour? Yoninah (talk) 00:46, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

• @Yoninah: Sounds fine to me. HaEr48 (talk) 15:05, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks. Restoring tick for ALT1a. Yoninah (talk) 16:29, 24 June 2018 (UTC)