Template:Did you know nominations/Wei Shoukun

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The result was: promoted by valereee (talk) 11:19, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Wei Shoukun

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• ... that Wei Shoukun, who died five years ago today at the age of 106, was the longest living among all academiciansacademician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences? Source: Sciencenet: "享年107岁，他是我国最年长的院士" - "He lived to 107, the longest of all academicians in China"

• Reviewed: Justin James (basketball)
• Comment: Source uses East Asian age reckoning, which is usually a year more than the Western age. I hope it will be reviewed in time for his death anniversary (June 30).

Created by Zanhe (talk). Self-nominated at 21:45, 23 June 2019 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen in English-language sources. Foreign-language hook ref AGF and cited inline. QPQ done. But I think it would be more interesting to highlight some of his impressive accomplishments, like:
• ALT1: ... that Wei Shoukun, the longest-living academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, taught four or five generations of Chinese metallurgists at ten universities? Yoninah (talk) 10:46, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

@Yoninah: Thanks for your timely review and suggestion. However, I'm a bit worried that the concept of "generation" is too nebulous for the hook, even though that's what the source says, and people may raise issues at ERRORS. How about this:

• ALT2: ... that Wei Shoukun, the longest-living academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, taught for eight decades at ten universities? -Zanhe (talk) 17:45, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

• @Zanhe: OK, but did he teach at all 10 universities for 80 years? Alternately, we could write:
• ALT2a: ... that Wei Shoukun, the longest-living academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, taught at 10 universities over his 80-year career? Yoninah (talk) 20:35, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

@Yoninah: Thanks, ALT2a looks great! -Zanhe (talk) 22:55, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you. We need another reviewer for ALT2a. Yoninah (talk) 09:28, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

• The previous review stands on its merits per the article generally: for the hook, passing—per AGF on foreign language / offline sources—ALT2a which is in the article and fully cited, within length and interesting to a general audience. ——SerialNumber54129 09:50, 25 June 2019 (UTC)