Talk:J. Russell Smith

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Hawkeye7 in topic Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk22:40, 7 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

  • ... that geographer J. Russell Smith worked with the USDA to make 20 new varieties of Chinese chestnut in hopes of creating a blight-resistant tree? Source: "In 20 years of experimentation he developed about 20 varieties of blight resistant Chinese chestnut, collaborating in the 40-year effort of the Department of Agriculture to acclimate tree from the area where the blight originated." ("J. Russell Smith, Geographer, Dies", The New York Times, February 27, 1966)

Created by Thriley (talk) and Silver seren (talk). Nominated by Silver seren (talk) at 19:37, 27 February 2021 (UTC).Reply

  •   The article is new enough (created on February 22, 2021 and nominated on the same day) and long enough (5800 characters (959 words) "readable prose size" according to DYK check). Copyright Vio detector found only the usual trivial cases (names of organizations, titles of books). The article is neutral in tone and is adequately cited.

The hook which is properly formatted, interesting enough, and is stated in the article, and immediately followed by an inline citation to a reliable source. To be very picky, I noticed two minor contraventions of the Manual of style: decades should not have an apostophe (e.g. 1960s, not 1960's) and the list of books should be in chronological order - neither of these affects DYK approval. The article is currently tagged as a Stub, which would normally invalidate it from DYK, but I believe that is an error and that Stub tag should be removed. Once that is done, it should be approved. Gronk Oz (talk) 06:08, 28 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Gronk Oz: I've updated the talk page Wikiproject templates. Do I need to do something more than that to untag it as a stub? SilverserenC 06:18, 28 February 2021 (UTC)Reply
  No problems, ready for DYK. Gronk Oz (talk) 07:01, 28 February 2021 (UTC)Reply