Talk:Parallel Computers, Inc.

A fact from Parallel Computers, Inc. appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 June 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 1980s American manufacturer Parallel Computers, Inc., was part of a wave of new companies trying to make fault-tolerant systems?

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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. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:38, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the 1980s American manufacturer Parallel Computers, Inc. tried to sell to a small business market not technically sophisticated enough to recognize the value of its product?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/George Robinson (bookseller)

Created by Wasted Time R (talk). Self-nominated at 12:42, 9 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral: - See below
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting: - ?
Other problems: - The hook, and the article text supporting it, is presenting an opinion in Wikipedia voice, which is not allowed per WP:NPOV.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: b uidhe 04:20, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Buidhe: Thanks for the review. I have changed the wording in the article body to attribute the view expressed. But trying to incorporate that into the ALT0 hook seems too unwieldy. So I have also added some new material about the engineering difficulties the company faced, and here are two possible hooks based on that:

ALT1: ... that 1980s American manufacturer Parallel Computers, Inc. was one of a wave of new companies trying to make fault-tolerant systems?
ALT2: ... that 1980s American manufacturer Parallel Computers, Inc. found making fault-tolerant systems considerably more difficult than expected?

Let me know what you think. Wasted Time R (talk) 23:12, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Approve ALT1 only — engineering problems being more difficult than expected is, alas, a garden-variety problem. b uidhe 23:17, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]