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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 BorgQueen (talk22:21, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Converted from a redirect by Wasted Time R (talk). Self-nominated at 16:16, 18 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Capex Corporation; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

  • @Wasted Time R: @DigitalIceAge: New enough and long enough; QPQ present. Oh cool, a local company, and one I'd never heard of. I can't say I find the hook all that interesting, maybe because of the "was" phrasing (not common in hook); I will provide an ALT0a and ALT1 below. I do need a citation for the parenthetical (Computer Associates subsequently developed an additional product called CA-OPTIMIZER II for the OS/MVS operating system.) Weirdly, that parenthetical is flagging Earwig to some sort of presentation; can it be reworded, is it even germane? I also wonder if our long Business Journal quote "encountered the types of limitations that would encourage him and countless other engineers and technical people to venture off and start their own businesses" is warranted; we can surely say that in our own voice. Ping me when rectified. Sammi Brie (she/her • tc) 18:31, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Sammi Brie: Thanks very much for doing this review. I have added a cite for the CA Optimizer II parenthetical. That text dates to the old article, before it got redirected, which liked to point out what happened after the CA acquisition. I suspect that the Earwig hit you got was copying in the other direction, i.e. something that was taken from that old article, but just to be sure I have modified the wording somewhat. As for the long quote, I thought those authors said it better than I could in this instance. Wasted Time R (talk) 22:39, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1: ... that the Optimizer by Capex Corporation brought memory and runtime savings to COBOL programs running on IBM mainframes?
@Sammi Brie: I disagree re the synth, but won't argue; I have reworked the text and that sentence is gone. Re ALT1, that's fine with me. Wasted Time R (talk) 11:33, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think the new hook is good. Onegreatjoke (talk) 00:08, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]


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