Talk:James Kirkham Ramsbottom
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Bruxton in topic Did you know nomination
 | James Kirkham Ramsbottom is currently a Biology and medicine good article nominee. Nominated by Dumelow (talk) at 10:36, 3 December 2024 (UTC) Any editor who has not nominated or contributed significantly to this article may review it according to the good article criteria to decide whether or not to list it as a good article. To start the review process, click start review and save the page. (See here for the good article instructions.)
Short description: English botanist |
 | A fact from James Kirkham Ramsbottom appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 February 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- 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 Bruxton (talk) 00:47, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
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- ... that during the First World War James Kirkham Ramsbottom saved the British daffodil industry? Source: "James Kirkham Ramsbottom began his study of eelworm at Wisley in 1916 and within two years devised the hot-water cure - just in time to save the young industry from destruction" from: Tompsett, Andrew (2006). Golden Harvest: The Story of Daffodil Growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Alison Hodge Publishers. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-906720-46-2. "if not for the hot water treatment (HWT) developed by James Kirkham Ramsbottom the narcissus bulb industry would have collapsed altogether" from: Daffodils. Royal Horticultural Society. 1981. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-906603-19-2. and "James Kirkham Ramsbottom (1891-1925), an unsung hero, discovered that heat treatment was effective against narcissus eelworm, thereby saving the British daffodil industry from disaster" from: Biggs, Matthew (6 May 2019). RHS A Nation in Bloom: Celebrating the People, Plants and Places of the Royal Horticultural Society. White Lion Publishing. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-7112-3935-7.
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 19:35, 21 January 2023 (UTC).
- Starting review. Zeete (talk) 14:49, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
- Review: New (moved to main space January 21), long enough (6,960 per DYK check), cited, neutral, Earwig reported Violation Unlikely (34.6%, due to long quotations), QPQ done, hook interesting, length checked ok. Very interesting article. Consider using Template:sfn for the subsequent Tompsett refs. Consider adding a link and paragraph in Narcissus and Ditylenchus dipsaci.
Good to go. Thanks, Zeete (talk) 15:19, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
