Talk:Miriam Usher Chrisman

A fact from Miriam Usher Chrisman appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 February 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in a 1982 book about the printing industry of 16th-century Strasbourg, historian Miriam Usher Chrisman demonstrated the scholarly potential of the digital analysis of large archival datasets?

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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) 23:40, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in a 1982 book about the 16th-century Strasbourg print industry, historian Miriam Usher Chrisman demonstrated the scholarly potential of the digital analysis of large archival datasets? Source: Richard A. Crofts: Chrisman's work "has both substantive and methodological importance in that it shows what can be learned about Strasbourg by means of computer analysis of extensive data."
- ALT1:... that Miriam Usher Chrisman, a historian and pioneer of digital humanities scholarship, married her husband after a whirlwind courtship abbreviated by World War II, writing to him succinctly: "I should like to get married when you finish at the city rather than waiting until the war is over"? Source: scholarship: Crofts as above; courtship letter (and context)

Comment: I have very mixed feelings about ALT1. It's a nice story, and I wouldn't mind highlighting that part of the article, but I'd much rather focus on the historical work of this extremely distinguished scholar. blameless 03:54, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: While I see where you're coming from, I have to note myself that ALT1 caught my eye while skimming, while I completely glossed over ALT0 and found it a relatively anodyne hook. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 12:26, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Created by Blameless (talk). Self-nominated at 03:54, 24 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough, and properly sourced. This appears to be only the third DYK for the nominator, so QPQ not needed. Earwig found only repeated names of books and institutions, no copyvio. ALT0 is within rules and properly sourced. I would strongly prefer ALT0 over ALT1 because focusing on the love life of a notable female scholar and completely ignoring her scholarly accomplishments comes across as deeply sexist. Also because to me ALT1 is boring: someone wrote to their future spouse that they would like to get married sooner than later; so what? Good to go with ALT0. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:03, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]