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The result was: promoted by Bunnypranav talk 13:30, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the earliest black holes in fiction appeared decades before the term black hole was coined?

Source: See the sources in the "Early depictions" section.

ALT1: ... that the earliest depictions of black holes in fiction predate the term black hole? Source: See the sources in the "Early depictions" section.
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Personality neuroscience
Comment: ALT1 is a somewhat rephrased version of ALT0.

Improved to Good Article status by TompaDompa (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 29 past nominations.

TompaDompa (talk) 05:56, 7 January 2025 (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 eligibility:

Cited: - n
Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article was nominated for DYK within 7 days of reaching Good Article status. Article is over 1,500 words in prose, properly sourced, and written with a neutral tone. Earwig picked up an unlikely violation of 26.5%, which were mostly titles of short stories. Nominator has less than 5 nominations so a QPQ is not needed at this time. The hook is very interesting, but it'd be nice if you could directly list the sources used to support the hook instead of referring them to a section of the article. Other than that, it looks good and almost ready to go. lullabying (talk) 06:53, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. See the "Black Holes" entry in Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia at https://books.google.com/books?id=WETPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA159. TompaDompa (talk) 16:39, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Assume good faith on print sources. Good to go. lullabying (talk) 05:39, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]