Talk:Raymond Bushland

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 16:42, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

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Raymond C. Bushland and Edward F. Knipling (seated) in a USDA laboratory in the 1950s

• ... that Raymond Bushland and Edward F. Knipling (both pictured) won the 1992 World Food Prize for developing the sterile insect technique which eliminated parasitic screw-worms from the United States?Source: “ Dr. Raymond C. Bushland and Dr. Edward F. Knipling of the United States were honored for their contribution to sustaining vast sources of food, especially livestock and wildlife populations, and consequently ensuring human health. Drs. Bushland and Knipling developed the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), which was first used to eliminate screwworms, insects that prey on warm-blooded animals, especially cattle herds. With larvae that invade open wounds and eat into animal flesh, the flies were capable of killing cattle within 10 days of infection. In the 1950s, screwworms caused annual losses to American meat and dairy supplies that were projected at above $200 million. Screwworm maggots are also known to parasitize human flesh.” World Food Prize
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Isabelle Cals

Moved to mainspace by Thriley (talk). Self-nominated at 19:40, 17 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Raymond Bushland; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: Article is new enough, long enough, plagiarism-free, and sourced. Hook is cited, but for some reason you have it sourced in the lead to refs 2 & 3 when I think you probably mean refs 2 & 4 (ref 3 is a photo of them that doesn't mention the prize, whereas ref 4 is the Golden Goose citation but mentions the World Food prize). Besides fixing that, all good, just waiting for a QPQ. DrThneed (talk) 22:57, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your review. I'll correct the citation issues. I'd like to add an image to the nomination. Thriley (talk) 12:33, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Let me know when you have a QPQ and I'll check the image. DrThneed (talk) 23:08, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

@DrThneed: I have added a QPQ. Thriley (talk) 14:13, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

QPQ is good. Image is from USDA National Agricultural Library, c1950s, no known photographer but public domain in the US "because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties". Looks OK to me. DrThneed (talk) 23:16, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Thriley, came here to promote, but the article doesn't mention the screw-worm being eradicated in the entire US rather than in particular regions. Vaticidalprophet 08:16, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

@Vaticidalprophet: Thank you for catching that. I have now added that it was eradicated from the US in 1982. Thriley (talk) 04:45, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

@Thriley: Please fix reference 3. Bruxton (talk) 16:41, 3 December 2023 (UTC)