Template:Did you know nominations/Arp 147

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The result was: promoted by Gatoclass (talk) 13:10, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Arp 147[edit]

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... that the galaxy pair Arp 147 (pictured) contains a ring of nine black holes?

Created by Coinmanj (talk). Self nominated at 05:51, 2 December 2013 (UTC).

I will review this. Chris857 (talk) 04:23, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Article is new (from Nov 30), 1730B

Cited inline

Hook is brief, definitely interesting (9?!), and verified

Photo in article, PD-Hubble

Suggestions/issues

For the sources (3 and 8 particularly) can we get some more publishing details (author, journal, date, etc)?

Link to Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies? (your discretion)

I'll check sources tomorrow. Chris857 (talk) 04:23, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

I've filled out the references. Coinmanj (talk) 00:08, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I'm back:

@Smaller galaxy: The source given doesn't seem to back up the claim, though http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/arp147/ does.

In terms of close paraphrasing, the only problematic phrases look to be "does not appear to be a part of any significant galaxy group" [1] and "The most intense period of star formation ended 15 million years ago" [2]. Any chance that more different wording exists? They are pretty mechanical phrases, and my tired mind can't immediately think of any better wording.

Chris857 (talk) 04:28, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

I switched out the references. I tend to think rather "clinically" so it's difficult for me to come up with different phrasing, especially since the wording expresses the point exactly. I don't know of any other way to convey "does not appear to be a part of any significant galaxy group" without imparting vagueries and since that's just a single line, by my understanding of policy, there's no real copy vio problem. I could simply remove the word "a" without losing any meaning (?). I've changed the other sentence in question. Coinmanj (talk) 06:00, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Well, my concerns are addressed, so this passes. Chris857 (talk) 15:16, 6 December 2013 (UTC)