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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 11:46, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that reading Hermann Weyl's Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik has been said to be like watching "a smiling figure on horseback" wielding "a swift bright sword"?

Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27854250

ALT1: ... that in his book Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik, Hermann Weyl worried about a "crisis in quantum physics" that the discovery of antimatter would resolve? Source: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/weyl/
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Created by XOR'easter (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

XOR'easter (talk) 00:23, 16 November 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Interesting textbook on fine sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I find the original hook more interesting nut can't find "watching" in the source. How about taking it as in the article, and adding the year, because the topic changed much since:

ALT2: ... that J. A. Wheeler wrote of learning from Weyl's 1928 book Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik: "His style is that of a smiling figure on horseback, cutting a clean way through ... with a swift bright sword"? (207 characters)

I'd like an infobox, because the prose offers a lot of German before we even know it's a book, written when. A picture of the cover would also help. Storye book, could you do such a thing also? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:14, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox done. I have just made a start on the infobox: you will need to change or add information in it. I have found an image; will add it shortly. Storye book (talk) 09:25, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No objection to ALT2. XOR'easter (talk) 20:36, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

as I worded ALT2 I can't review it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:44, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I went to review ALT2, but it has 207 characters, the limit being 200. If you cut "learning from" and "1928" you'll be inside the limit, and you'll still have that marvellous quotation, which is good enough to make it worth being close to the character limit. Storye book (talk) 18:20, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ALT2a: ... that J. A. Wheeler wrote of Weyl's 1928 book Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik: "His style is that of a smiling figure on horseback, cutting a clean way through ... with a swift bright sword"? (193 characters) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:44, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

for ALT2. That's a lovely quotation, and I don't want to see it cut. However, to be on the safe side, I should add that at 193 characters it is still near the 200-character limit, and there is currently a culture in prep (driven by the guidelines) of drastic trimming for drastic trimming's sake, which at times appears to be in danger of taking precedence over hook content, or the basic intention of the hook. @Gerda Arendt: If you are able to trim the hook further at all, here and now on this template, you will have more control over what appears on the main page. Just saying. Storye book (talk) 10:08, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]