Template:Did you know nominations/Beta Cephei variable


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The result was: promoted by Keilana&#124;Parlez ici 05:29, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Beta Cephei variable

 * ... that Beta Cephei variables are stars that change in brightness every few hours?


 * ALT1:... that some of the brightest stars in the sky are Beta Cephei variables?
 * ALT2:... that Beta Cephei variables are stars 7–20 times as massive as the Sun that change in brightness every few hours?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/I Can't Lose

5x expanded by Casliber (talk), Lithopsian (talk), and StringTheory11 (talk). Nominated by Casliber (talk) at 13:31, 3 August 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Expansion from 710 B to 3951 B (over 5x) and expansion date verified. The article is well written and well sourced. I found no evidence of close paraphrasing. All three hooks are of appropriate length and properly sourced, although if we use ALT2 we would want the source to be repeated on the exact sentence in the article that mentions the relation to Msol (and the discrepancy between our article's 7-20 Msol and the source's 10-20 Msol would need to be explained). My preference would be for hook ALT1, since it gives a possibly surprising fact about these that one wouldn't guess from the name alone. So this is nearly good to go. However, I note that there are several lines in the table of stars that have "citation needed" tags; I think these should be resolved before the nomination can be accepted. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:38, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok - happy to go with ALT1, which was my original preference...just slung up some others to see what folks thought. Will ping once tags dealt with. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:35, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
 * have done some tinkering. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 05:09, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Ok, the table is now cleaned up (except for some bare-bibcode citations that I don't think are a serious enough problem to hold up DYK). The changes don't seem to have affected the main text of the article at all. Since that was the only previous problem I found, I think we're now good to go with ALT1. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:15, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Those references should be expanded by some bot soon. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 05:27, 12 August 2015 (UTC)