Template:Did you know nominations/Phyllis McAlpine
- 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 SL93 (talk) 02:05, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
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Phyllis McAlpine
- ... that when Phyllis McAlpine retired from the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee chairmanship, her considerable workload was divided between three people? Source: See references cited in article here and here
- ALT1:... that Canadian geneticist Phyllis McAlpine was among the first to promote a unified gene nomenclature system and helped found the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee? Source: Same as previous, see here and here
- Reviewed: John Neal bibliography
- Comment: Draft created in my userspace and published to mainspace April 13 2021
Created by Darfst (talk). Self-nominated at 14:42, 14 April 2021 (UTC).
| General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- birth year should be cited somewhere - Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
| Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation |
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| QPQ: Done. |
Overall: 
@Darfst: Looks good other than a minor citation needed as mentioned above. Both hooks are fine, will leave the selection up to the promoter. Nice work. DanCherek (talk) 04:34, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
- @DanCherek: Thanks for the feedback! One of the sources used in the article can be used to verify date of birth, I added a citation referring to it in the lead. Source: Phyllis J. McAlpine, Ph.D., 1941-98: In memoriam. Darfst (talk) 14:04, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
