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A fact from Prison Mathematics Project appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 March2026(check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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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. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210617031039/https://doc.wa.gov/news/2017/03172017.htm "Havens recently shared his story during MCC's first-ever inmate-led "Pi Day" Celebration. [...] The event included a pi-digit memorization contest, a pi trivia contest, speeches by inmates, and presentations by mathematics professors from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, Lafayette College, and University of Washington."
ALT1: ... that the Prison Mathematics Project was co-founded by a convicted murderer and a teenager? Source: https://www.pointsoflight.org/awards/teen-volunteer-teams-up-with-prisoner-to-reduce-recidivism-using-math/ "Plano, Texas teenager Walker Blackwell says he grew up with a fondness for mathematics, so when he read a news article online about a convicted murderer named Christopher Havens who had solved an ancient math problem, he was inspired. [...] At the tender age of 15, Walker co-founded Prison Mathematics Project (PMP) with Christopher, a 42-year-old who is currently serving a 25-year sentence at the Monroe Correctional Complex in Monroe, Washington."
Overall: @Apocheir: The article has well-cited statements with no copyvios and plagiarism detected by Earwig. While the ALT1 hook is good, I am unsure about the main hook because it includes extra details (professor being from Italy, prison location near Seattle) that are not explicitly mentioned in the article—is that allowed? I am also unsure if this can be held all the way for March 14, so I'll defer that to someone else who can provide a second opinion on SOHA. Nrco0e(talk • contribs)01:25, 15 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Apocheir: The article has well-cited statements with no copyvios and plagiarism detected by Earwig. While the ALT1 hook is good, I am unsure about the main hook because it includes extra details (professor being from Italy, prison location near Seattle) that are not explicitly mentioned in the article—is that allowed? I am also unsure if this can be held all the way for March 14, so I'll defer that to someone else who can provide a second opinion on SOHA. Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 01:25, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
ALT0 is acceptable for SOHA now. Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 05:11, 1 February 2026 (UTC)