- The following discussion 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 Allen3 talk 20:36, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Adineta ricciae
edit- ... that the rotifer Adineta ricciae gave up sex about 80 million years ago?
- Reviewed: Nils Arntzen Ramm
Created/expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self nom at 14:10, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
-
- Article brand new, 3195 characters
- Cites sources inline, sources appear to be reliable
- Interesting, brief hook, confirmed in multiple sources
- Only image is properly licensed
- QPQ completed
- I will soon check source-article integrity and copyvio. Chris857 (talk) 21:09, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
- AGF on sources unavailable to me
- The sources seem to match the article pretty well broadly checking
- Paraphrase concern: "generating genetic diversity in the absence of sexual reproduction" is present in our article and the BBC article. Could we reword this?
- Changed to "becoming genetically diverse even though not exchanging genes through sexual reproduction" Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:22, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
- Chris857 (talk) 01:23, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
