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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 (talk01:13, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Created by Genericusername57 (talk). Self-nominated at 20:49, 3 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]

  • For starters, I want to see a better hook. None of the content attributed to the book reviewers specifically mentioned "happenstance," and according to the text. Roberts himself used that term in relation to "pseudoserendipity". "Happenstance" is more neutral than "serendipity" - more of 'because of certain circumstances, but not planned,' versus 'a favorable outcome not sought for'. David notMD (talk) 22:11, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Given six book reviews cited in the body of the draft, no need to list an additionals six (Bamberger, Beilski, Burger, Dembart, Gratzer, Kauffman) under Sources. For the ALT1, copy the Sources statement from the first proposed hook to ALT1. Once that is done I believe I can complete the approval process. David notMD (talk) 17:36, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation

QPQ: No - not needed

Overall: New article, long enough, sourced, neutral, recent enough to qualify for DYK, QPQ not needed. David notMD (talk) 17:19, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]