Template:Did you know nominations/Patrick Mayrhofer

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:22, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Patrick Mayrhofer

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• ... that Paralympic silver-medal winning snowboarder Patrick Mayrhofer was the first person in the world to get a bionic prosthesis that is controlled by his neural signals? to his nerve impulses? Sources: MeinBezirk.at: "Mayrhofer erhielt daraufhin als erster Mensch weltweit eine bionische Handprothese. [As a result, Mayrhofer was the first person worldwide to receive a bionic hand prosthesis.]", Deutsche Welle: "Austrian scientists pioneer a bionic hand powered by neural signals. The first man to get one says...", BBC: "Last year, a 24-year-old Austrian named Patrick was the first patient in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, again by Professor Aszmann, and a bionic replacement fitted."
  • ALT1:... that silver-medal winning snowboarder Patrick Mayrhofer joined the Austrian Paralympic team after seeing their stall at a prosthetics trade show? Source: PyeongChang2018.com: "In 2012 he was at an exhibition about prosthetics where the Austrian Paralympic Committee had a booth. He talked to them and chose to pursue Para snowboard.", Ottobock: "Following rehabilitation, Mayrhofer visited a prosthetics trade show in 2012, where he came across a booth run by Austria’s para-sport team."
  • ALT2:... that Paralympic silver-medal winning snowboarder Patrick Mayrhofer joined the company Ottobock, who made his bionic prosthetics, helping other amputees learn to use their prostheses? Source: ETH Zurich

• Reviewed: QPQ pending T:DYKN/Alleged Libyan influence in the 2007 French elections (22:08, 23 April 2018 (UTC))

Created by OwenBlacker (talk). Self-nominated at 22:37, 20 March 2018 (UTC).

• Review:

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.

Invalid status "NA" - use one of "y", "?", "maybe", "no" or "again"

@OwenBlacker: - are you planning to complete this nomination? violet/riga _^[talk] 07:40, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

@violet/riga: Sorry about that; I'd completely forgotten that I still had the QPQ outstanding and hadn't spotted that you had replied. Thanks for having {{ping}}ed me to bring it to my attention — I'll take a look over the weekend and {{ping}} you back. Thanks again! — OwenBlacker (talk; please {{ping}} me in replies) 09:23, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
PS: I've never seen that use of <sub><sup> to make smaller middle-aligned text before. Nice effect! 😊

@violet/riga: I've tweaked the wording there — the change of "neural signals" to "nerve impulses" was me trying to simplify the wording of the hook. Is that better? (I'll go find one to QPQ now.) — OwenBlacker (talk; please {{ping}} me in replies) 20:34, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@OwenBlacker: Okay that works better. Delving into this a little further I'm not fully sure of the hook's claim. Examining the sources does not backup the claim "...first person in the world to get a bionic prosthesis that is controlled by his neural signals":

• Article: "first patient in the world to undergo elective amputation and receive a bionic prosthesis"
• MB: "first person worldwide to receive a bionic hand prosthesis"
• DW: "Europe's first bionic hand" & "...a bionic hand powered by neural signals. The first man to get one..."
• BBC: "Patrick was the first patient in the world to choose to have his hand amputated"

I therefore suggest the following ALT hooks:

• ALT0a: ... that Paralympic silver-medal winning snowboarder Patrick Mayrhofer was the first person in the world to get a bionic hand prosthesis that is controlled by his neural signals?
• ALT0b: ... that Paralympic silver-medal winning snowboarder Patrick Mayrhofer was the first person in the world to get a bionic hand prosthesis after an elective amputation?
• ALT0c: ... that Paralympic silver-medal winning snowboarder Patrick Mayrhofer was the first person in the world to undergo elective amputation and get a bionic prosthesis?

We're going to need a third party to look over these now - may as well get that started while you work on the QPQ. violet/riga _^[talk] 21:35, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@violet/riga: Oh, good spot; thank you. I definitely prefer ALT0a of those 3, as the neural signals part is just freaking cool. It could be worth adding a link to Neural engineering to ALT0a; ALT0b and ALT0c could link to Elective surgery and Amputation. I've completed the QPQ now, here. Thanks again! — OwenBlacker (talk; please {{ping}} me in replies) 22:08, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Updates made to review and ALT0s. violet/riga _^[talk] 07:20, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

• I agree with Violetriga that ALT0a is the most interesting. The hook is cited inline and verified in the source. Rest of the review per Violetriga, so this should be good to go. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 09:59, 26 April 2018 (UTC)