Talk:Richard W. Conway

A fact from Richard W. Conway appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Richard W. Conway earned a varsity letter, a Ph.D., and an endowed chair, all from the same university?

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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) 00:37, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Richard W. Conway has made significant contributions in the fields of industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, and management science? Source: see fn 2 in article and various other cites as well
- ALT1: ... that Richard W. Conway earned a varsity letter, a Ph.D., and an endowed chair, all from the same university? Source: see fn 27 in article
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Karl R. Free

Created by Wasted Time R (talk). Self-nominated at 11:57, 15 October 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Reviewing... Howard the Duck (talk) 02:37, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Article:
  1. Newness: Y Created on October 8, nominated on October 15; within the 7-day limit.
  2. Length: Y 12788 characters, well more than the 1500 minimum.
  3. Within policy: Y Earwig says it is "Violation Unlikely". Possible "violations" were proper names so I'd give that a pass. This is neutral, has inline citations. AGF on ref #3, "An Experimental Investigation of Scheduling for Single-stage Production" as it seems to be unavailable offline? There also quite a few which are not linked, and are linked but are mostly abstracts but I'd AGF those.
- Hook:
  - Format: Y Both are less than 200 characters and meet the guidelines:
  - Content: Y I prefer ALT1 as more interesting and more specific than the generalities in ALT0.
- Other:
  - QPQ: Done
  - Image: Not applicable
- This is good to go, with personal preference on ALT1. Howard the Duck (talk) 00:36, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dick Conway passed away on Tuesday, March 19.

Dick Conway passed away on Tuesday, March 19. I fixed his birth-death stuff on the wikipedia change. Here is an article about his death: [1] How does Wikipedia go about fixing the page under such circumstances? I would love to get a picture of him on here, but I don't have one with the right license. DavidGries (talk) 14:14, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to hear about Prof. Conway's passing. I've done some additional updates to the article to reflect this and incorporate the piece you pointed to. As for getting a picture on, someone who actually took a photo would have to be willing to freely license it along the lines of Commons:OTRS or something similar. Wasted Time R (talk) 11:54, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]