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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 (
talk) 02:41, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
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- ... that
Arithmetic was the first mathematics text book written in the
Russian language? Source:
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Magnitsky/
- ALT1: ... that Mikhail Lomonosov referred to the mathematics textbook Arithmetic as the "gates of [his] own erudtion"? Source: The Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture by James Billington
Created by QatarStarsLeague ( talk). Self-nominated at 21:44, 20 February 2022 (UTC).
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Article is long enough, new, the hook is interesting and all the images in it are free of any copyright problems. I would suggest however putting in a reference for Mikhail Lomonosov's quote for the "gates of my own erudition" quote, and properly formatting the references in the article before promotion however.
ISD (
talk) 16:34, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- This is the Lomonosov reference. [1] Also, I have formatted the article refs. QatarStarsLeague ( talk) 03:24, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
References
- ^ Billington, James (2010), Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture, Random House LLC, pp. 289–290, ISBN 9780307765284.
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| A fact from Arithmetic (book) appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
Did you know column on 10 March 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 (
talk) 02:41, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
( )
- ... that
Arithmetic was the first mathematics text book written in the
Russian language? Source:
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Magnitsky/
- ALT1: ... that Mikhail Lomonosov referred to the mathematics textbook Arithmetic as the "gates of [his] own erudtion"? Source: The Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture by James Billington
Created by QatarStarsLeague ( talk). Self-nominated at 21:44, 20 February 2022 (UTC).
-
Article is long enough, new, the hook is interesting and all the images in it are free of any copyright problems. I would suggest however putting in a reference for Mikhail Lomonosov's quote for the "gates of my own erudition" quote, and properly formatting the references in the article before promotion however.
ISD (
talk) 16:34, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- This is the Lomonosov reference. [1] Also, I have formatted the article refs. QatarStarsLeague ( talk) 03:24, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
References
- ^ Billington, James (2010), Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture, Random House LLC, pp. 289–290, ISBN 9780307765284.