Talk:Gauss's Pythagorean right triangle proposal

Gauss's Pythagorean right triangle proposal was a Mathematics good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
June 30, 2013	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 26, 2012.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Carl Friedrich Gauss is credited with a proposal to signal aliens by drawing a massive representation of the Pythagorean theorem on the Siberian tundra using pine trees and fields of wheat?

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Citation 1

The first citation links to page 1 of the online article, but the statement it is meant for is only on page 4 (https://web.archive.org/web/20081203211455/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967915-4,00.html). Could someone overhaul the link? LWChris (talk) 01:20, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]