Talk:Ig Nobel Prize/GA1

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Nominator: GearsDatapacks (talk · contribs) 14:57, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: Canary757 (talk · contribs) 14:20, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi. Review to come for GARC83. Canary757 (talk) 14:20, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing! All the sources are online, except for the Alive magazine one, which you should be able to access through the Wikipedia Library. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 14:22, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi.

• Earwig gives one high of 27% from an attributed quote and facility names so no issue.
• Page is stable
• Article is well written
• As the article is relatively small and the sections aren't that long, I'd remove duplicate links such as MIT, COVID, Nobel physics, graphene and Geim to avoid a WP:SEAOFBLUE. In contrast, Stockholm and Master of Ceremonies can be linked.
• Lead-Maybe Zurich, Switzerland rather than Zurich, Switzerland to match the presentation in the article body.
• History-I think MIT should be named in full on first usage in this section.
• I think a quote like the "boring" one should be attributed to Abrahams.

Thanks. Canary757 (talk) 08:06, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

 Done. I tried to make the attribution of the quote to Abrahams flow naturally with the sentence, hopefully that's more or less what you had in mind – let me know if you think a different wording is better. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 09:01, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Source check:

• 3 Only confirms that he did the first one
• 6 Source says it moved in 1995
• 13 Does it mention Carberry or DeFanti being fictitious?
• 11, 15, 19, 20, 21, 24, 30, 32, 34, 36 all good
• 15 author is Gina Battaglia
• 35 url-access=subscription
• Sources appear to be of good quality

Canary757 (talk) 11:03, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks!

• Replaced source 3 with one that says he's always the master of ceremonies
• Fixed the year
• Removed sources 12 and 13 for one source that mentions all of them as being fictitious
• Fixed the author and url-access parameters

{{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 11:55, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Cool.

• Image check. I accept rationale for 1. Photo 2 has no obvious copyright tag so seems okay. 3&4 are fine
• Should Ignatius Nobel be mentioned as part of it's name origin?
• I'd specifically name Abraham as calling USA unsafe
• "cannot or should not be reproduced" - According to whom?

Thanks. Canary757 (talk) 12:50, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

For the "cannot or should not be reproduced", I'm not really sure what to add; pretty much every source just says the prizes are awards to research that "cannot or should not be reproduced, or something to that effect.

Do you know where you read about Ignatius Nobel? I remember reading it somewhere when I was researching the article, but for some reason I just cannot find the source now. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 14:21, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

It was in the Los Angeles newspaper that was source no.3 this morning so it may be needed again! Canary757 (talk) 14:35, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Ah thanks! Looks like the other two sources I removed also mentioned him, what bad luck! I've added that now. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 22:45, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Great, nearly there.

• Should Ignatius be mentioned in the lead?
• The ceremony takes place...before... I misinterpreted this as immediately before (like the Razzies) but it's a few weeks before so this could be clarified?
• I see your point on the could/should quote so no problem
• Page is focused and broad enough alongside List of Ig Nobel Prize winners

Thanks. Canary757 (talk) 07:35, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Done and done! {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 08:52, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Great. All GA criteria now met so I will pass for GA. I recommend a DYK nomination with several good options available. Congrats. Canary757 (talk) 12:01, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing so quickly! I absolutely will do a DYK nomination after this, as this article is basically built for DYK. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 12:03, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

I actually have an existing nomination for an Ig Nobel winner at Wombat feces. May be worth adding "and an award" to ALT1.--Launchballer 12:05, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Ah damn, I was going to do the 10 trillion dollar bit! That's fine, there's plenty of other wacky content on this article. I would also recommend wikilinking the word "dollar" to Zimbabwean dollar (1980–2009) for the sake of transparency, but I think the hook remains surprising.

I'll let you modify your nomination to add that, as I don't want to interfere and don't actually know the proper process. I'll pick another interesting fact for my nomination. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 12:15, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Wombat feces is scheduled for April Fools' Day, on which we run deliberately misleading hooks. My suggestion is to run the two articles in one hook but I'd suggest nominating as a single first.--Launchballer 12:38, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Ah I see! Yes okay, that makes sense. I've made a nomination here: Template:Did you know nominations/Ig Nobel Prize. I ended up mentioning the 10 trillion dollars in one of the alt hooks, because I couldn't resist! April fools day is a long way away so hopefully the duplicated fact won't matter too much. Your comment is appreciated in determining which hook is the most interesting. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 12:42, 28 April 2026 (UTC)