Talk:Time's Arrow (short story)

This article was nominated for deletion on 20 February 2021. The result of the discussion was speedy keep.

A fact from Time's Arrow (short story) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Time's Arrow" from 1950 predicted that paleontologists may learn about dinosaurs by analyzing their footprints before the method was implemented in real science?

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Did you know nomination

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:35, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Time's Arrow" from 1950 predicted that paleontologists may learn about dinosaurs by analyzing their footprints before the method was implemented in real science? Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=uKRBMJ0BNxoC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA53&dq=%22Time%27s+Arrow%22+Clarke&hl=en

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Straub v. BMT by Todd ‎

Created by ReaderofthePack (talk) and Piotrus (talk). Nominated by Piotrus (talk) at 06:21, 22 February 2021 (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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Note that this is a 5x expanded nomination, not a newly created one, but it easily meets the expansion threshold for DYK and so eligibility is not an issue. Note also that I could not view the Google Books preview for the source of the hook, so I am accepting it (along with a few other offline-only references) in good faith. There are a couple fairly lengthy quotations in this article, but I think that they are used sensibly and are quite useful. I would not object to trimming them down a little, but I don't think that that is necessary, either. Overall, nice work, ReaderofthePack and Piotrus! I really enjoyed reading this article and reviewing this nomination. Michael Barera (talk) 03:40, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Just in case anyone is curious beyond this, the sentence in question that backs up the hook is "This paleontological possibility, by the way, had not been found in life before Clarke's story, but has been since." 12:48, 1 March 2021 (UTC)