Talk:Kenneth Creer

Did you know nomination

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 11:35, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that Kenneth Creer supported the expanding Earth theory, and suggested that the Earth's expansion rate was related to cosmology and analogous to the Hubble constant?

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  • Comment: Interesting fact snippet on a page I just made.

Created by Spiralwidget (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Spiralwidget (talk) 12:09, 20 October 2024 (UTC).

• Thank you for this new article and hook. The article is long enough and new enough (DYK nomination 2 days after creation), the article is free from copyvio problems, and the sources are sufficient and reliable. QPQ is not needed. The hook at the moment is hard to understand: it is not clear why it might be surprising thar Creer supported the expanding Earth hypothesis; and the second half of the hook probably doesn't mean much to someone who isn't familiar with the Hubble constant.

• A simpler hook might work better, perhaps along the lines that ' a geophysicist.. once supported the expanding Earth theory', and spelling out what this might mean (i.e. 0.6 mm / yr expansion, in Kragh's reference?. I can't access the 'Discovery' paper, but there is a Nature paper by Creer in 1965 where he explains how he might test the expanding Earth theory using perspex shells (https://www.nature.com/articles/205539a0) - perhaps there's an angle for a hook there? And there is a book review by Creer from 1976, where he says he found himself 'prepared to consider .. slow expansion of about 1% in radius since the Permian' https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9201(77)90099-1
• Perhaps consider creating one or two alternative hooks? One final point to clarify - in the nomination it suggests that the article was 'created by Helge Kragh'; I presume this is a typo - the source reference you cite is by Kragh? @Spiralwidget:Chaiten1 (talk) 23:03, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
• Hi Chaiten1! Yes, that was a typo-I was the one who created the article. Spiralwidget (talk) 00:28, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

@Spiralwidget: Do you have any ALT hooks to propose? Z1720 (talk) 15:01, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

@Z1720: How about: ALT1 ... that Kenneth Creer was a supporter of applying cosmology to geological problems? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 12:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

I like that one! Sorry for not responding when I was pinged earlier.Spiralwidget (talk) 16:22, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

All approved: ALT1 gets the votes. This hook is in the text and supported by the cited sources. Everything else is done - good to go, thank you! Chaiten1 (talk) 22:06, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

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