Talk:Milk Drop Coronet

A fact from Milk Drop Coronet appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 August 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Doc Edgerton created a stroboscope that he used to take high-speed photographs of bullets being shot, insects flying, and drops of liquid (pictured)?

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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 SL93 talk 23:24, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Milk Drop Coronet, taken by Doc Edgerton in 1957

... that Ian Stewart and Marty Golubitsky used the photograph Milk Drop Coronet (pictured) to illustrate symmetry breaking?

Source: Kastner, Ruth E. (April 28, 2022). The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: A Relativistic Treatment. Cambridge University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-108-90849-8.

ALT1: ... that Doc Edgerton created a stroboscope which he used to take high-speed photographs of bullets being shot, insects flying, and drops of liquid (pictured)? Source: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198662716.001.0001/acref-9780198662716-e-472
ALT2: ... that NYT art critic Ken Johnson called Milk Drop Coronet (pictured) an "uncannily beautiful image"? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/05/arts/art-in-review-dr-harold-edgerton.html
ALT3: ... that Milk Drop Coronet (pictured) "proved that photography could advance human understanding of the physical world"? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20161119052704/https://100photos.time.com/photos/harold-edgerton-milk-drop
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Comment: third nomination, here we go

Created by Howardcorn33 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

―Howard • 🌽³³ 13:38, 19 July 2024 (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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: I've italicized (pictured) in each hook per WP:DYKMOS. All looks good to me—an interesting read! Assuming good faith on ALT0, but I've verified all other hook sources. I prefer ALT1 and ALT2, but I'll leave all options open for the promoter. Nice article, and nice hooks! Bsoyka (t • c • g) 15:53, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]