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Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments3 people in discussion

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 Hey man im josh talk 14:33, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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... that a geographer determined the surface area of Carl Friedrich Gauss's brain?

Source: Schweizer, Renate; Wittmann, Axel; Frahm, Jens (2014). "A rare anatomical variation newly identifies the brains of C.F. Gauss and C.H. Fuchs in a collection at the University of Göttingen". Brain. 137 (4): e269. doi:10.1093/brain/awt296. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0014-C6F0-6. PMID 24163274.

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Improved to Good Article status by Dioskorides (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

Dioskorides (talk) 21:49, 10 July 2024 (UTC).Reply

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Fantastic work bringing this to GA status! Great choice for a hook! Reywas92^Talk 01:09, 15 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Anecdotes

Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments3 people in discussion

@Dioskorides, your work is much appreciated, but it's worth always keeping in mind, as you know, that the GAN process is one person ensuring rather permissive guidelines apply to an article—it's not at all the case that no removals can be made without prior permission. Remsense ‥ 论 20:17, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Ok, certainly, but I think that it should be explained if someone wants to delete such a great amount of text, a whole chapter. It would be useful to look for a consensus. --Dioskorides (talk) 22:18, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

This type of "chapter" is generally avoided, per WP:ANECDOTE. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:21, 9 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Two things need added

Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Since I'm not mathematician, I am not comfortable adding info to this article. Request someone else do it. Unless I missed it, which is certainly possible, two things should be added: 1) the term "degauss" - while magnetism is discussed, the article doesn't mention this term. There's an entire aricle on it here: Degaussing 2) Gaussian distribution - his key developments of the bell curve, there's an article on this too, see Normal distribution

BlueRockThrush (talk) 13:27, 23 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

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