Template:Did you know nominations/Alice Bowman

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:32, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Alice Bowman

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... ~~that Alice Bowman, the Ops manager of the New Horizons Pluto exploration mission prefers, as the Mission Operations Manager, to be referred to as the 'MOM'?~~
- ALT1:... that Alice Bowman has been Mission Operations Manager of the New Horizons Pluto exploration mission since 2002?
- ALT2:... that Alice Bowman, the Mission Operations Manager of the New Horizons Pluto exploration mission, is also a bassist and clarinetist?

Moved to mainspace by Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (talk). Self-nominated at 17:34, 5 March 2017 (UTC).

- Length, Date, Cite, QPQ Exempt (user has 5 DYK credits but some are from others nominating their articles), and Earwigs check. ALTS 1 & 2 approved, the original is interesting though I am not sure how to phrase it while being accurate to the sources and not being overly clunky as they only imply that she prefers to be referred to as such but none directly state it. Mifter (talk) 20:10, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

Agree. Frankly the first one seemed totally sexist: "in charge of a multi-billion dollar project, but hey, call me mom!" could be giving a wrong impression. Interestingly, I think word length would probably allow the combination of the two alts? Something like

- ALT3:... that Alice Bowman Mission Operations Manager of the New Horizons Pluto exploration mission since 2002, is also a bassist and clarinetist?

perhaps? — O Fortuna!^{Imperatrix mundi.} 09:57, 6 March 2017 (UTC)