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Pieter Nieuwland

 * ... that Pieter Nieuwland (pictured), an 18th-century child prodigy and polymath who died a year after becoming a professor, has been called the Dutch Isaac Newton?
 * Reviewed: Collegiate Church of San Gimignano

Created/expanded by Afasmit (talk), David Eppstein (talk). Nominated by David Eppstein (talk) at 06:12, 11 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Currently reviewing. Article was created within the past five days, and is long enough. The hook is fine (though I suggest de-linking Dutch as that link is not really needed), and the offline source for the hook statement in the article is accepted in good-faith (I may try and verify with other sources). QPQ is met. Image licensing is fine, the image is used in the article, and is suitable for thumbnail use (though a cropped version showing just his head may be better). Will check the article again tomorrow before deciding whether the nomination passes, but it all looks fine so far. Carcharoth (talk) 00:27, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree that a crop would work a bit better for a thumbnail, but my understanding is that DYK rules require that the thumbnail be used as an image in the actual article, and there we would want to use the full image. I also agree that Dutch doesn't need to be linked in the hook, and have edited it to remove the link. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:19, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * As long as it is the same image, I think cropping is OK. You may want to check that at WT:DYK. I was able to check the Dutch Isaac Newton bit in a Dutch book available on Google Books preview, and I looked at a couple of the sources and it all checks out. It's a nice article. The one caveat is that I wasn't able to fully check the Dutch sources (some of the language was impervious to online translation!), but baed on what I was able to check, I'm happy to pass the nomination. Symbol confirmed.svg. Carcharoth (talk) 22:55, 20 September 2012 (UTC)


 * To whomever promotes this: if the rules allow, please go ahead and use this cropped image in place of the original one from the article. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:52, 21 September 2012 (UTC)