Talk:Chikako Mese

A fact from Chikako Mese appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 December 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that before becoming a professional mathematician, Chikako Mese was a record-breaking high school softball player?

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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:43, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that before she became a professional mathematician, Chikako Mese was a record-breaking high school softball player? Source: this newspaper article mentions both of the records described on the Wikipedia article

Reviewed: Carissa Yip

Created by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 08:04, 4 November 2019 (UTC).[reply]

. Article is new enough, and just long enough (expansion wouldn't go amiss!). Ref checks out ("Chikako Mese set a national record..."). Hook is interesting. Good to go. MIDI (talk) 12:06, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]