Template:Did you know nominations/Pentagramma mirificum


 * 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: rejected by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:20, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Nominator is currently inactive and has not responded to concerns.

Pentagramma mirificum

 * ... that pentagramma mirificum was studied by Carl Friedrich Gauss?

Created by MCiura (talk). Self-nominated at 08:43, 28 December 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Good work on the article! No WP:QPQ needed because this is MCiura's first DYK nomination. Verified that the article is long enough, that there are no plagiarism concerns through the Copyvios tool and spotchecking, and that the hook is sourced in the article. Cunard (talk) 10:18, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Hi, I came by to promote this, but there are no citations in the whole "Geometric properties" section or the first paragraph under "Gnomonic projection", per Rule D2. The hook is also vague rather than hooky. If this doesn't make an image slot, it won't be apparent what you're talking about. Even then, it's not clear what this is or who Gauss is. Yoninah (talk) 21:41, 29 January 2019 (UTC)


 * The nominator hasn't edited in almost a month, and has been unable to respond to your comment. I took a look at the article to see if I could suggest a new hook. The only suggestion I can think of would be a variation of the lede (something like "that the Pentagramma mirificum is a star polygon on a sphere, composed of five great circle arcs, whose all internal angles are right angles?"). Could that work as a hook? Because otherwise, there doesn't seem to be anything else that could be used here, meaning that the only other option would be to close this as unsuccessful. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 07:03, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg thank you for looking at this. But I don't think your alt will appeal to a wide audience. There's also the matter of all the unsourced paragraphs. In the absence of the nominator, I'm marking this for closure as unsuccessful. Yoninah (talk) 13:05, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * What about "...that the Pentagramma mirificum (pictured) is a star polygon on a sphere?" As someone who isn't very interested in mathematics, I kind of find the star polygon interesting (I knew the shape but I didn't know it was called a star polygon as it was always called as simply a star when I was in school). Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:13, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't know about that. But the main problem is the lack of citations, no? Yoninah (talk) 14:19, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I've tried asking for help from other editors, without much luck. Considering the problems and the nominator's absence, sadly closure may really be the only option. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:16, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Marking again for closure. Yoninah (talk) 16:25, 24 February 2019 (UTC)