Talk:Sandra Johnson

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Narutolovehinata5 talk 00:52, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that African-American electrical engineer Sandra Johnson was born in Japan? Source: https://eceweb.rice.edu/news/sandra-k-johnson-became-first-black-woman-earn-phd-electrical-engineering-rice
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Walter A. Groves and Template:Did you know nominations/Olga Hartman (double QPQ because I think the DYK review backlog is getting too long)

Created by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 19:59, 23 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Sandra Johnson; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Doing... ミラP@Miraclepine 02:24, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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 eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting: - Sorry, but "born in a large country" doesn't look hooky to me, especially since it's not uncommon for children of military personnel (like Johnson) to be born abroad wherever said personnel are stationed. Perhaps something related to defying William Shockley's racist beliefs, her firsts about Black women, or both?

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @David Eppstein: See my above note. Otherwise, article is solid, and special thanks for offering an extra hand on the backlog. ミラP@Miraclepine 02:44, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn. I thought that her birthplace would be seen as surprising, but apparently not. As far as I can tell everything else in the article is routine "engineer does engineering" or best-avoided-as-hooks "first person of specific subgroup to do something specific". I don't want to use Shockley because we only have one source for that anecdote and I worry that it might have distorted it somewhat in the telling. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:20, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]