Misschrisparker

DYK Nomination: Mary Roach

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia. Mary Roach is an interesting and well written article. I hope you will find time to write others. I placed the following review and comments on the DYK nomination page for Mary Roach. Since I make one minor suggestion and suggest an alternative if the hook might be found not to work, I suggest you go back to the nomination page and say you like the hook as proposed, or whatever is needed to give the appearance of absolute finality. Otherwise, the administrator who will approve it for movement into the prep area might decide there is an open question and delay moving it along. Notice that I do give it my unqualified approval but that does not necessarily mean he or she won't want a comment on the suggested possible alternative hook. Sorry about the possibility that I left an open question, just trying to be helpful; and it's easy enough to make sure there is no open question since I did not condition by review on any changes or further comments being required. Here is what I wrote on the nomination page:

• I found this article, and the references, interesting and entertaining. Roach is quite a character and has written some interesting and humorous books and articles. The lighter side of science.

This article was expanded five times from its previous size (prose characters). It is new enough under that criterion, long enough, well written, well sourced, has quite a few inline citations, is neutral, and has no copyright violations or plagiarism that I could find. The hook is less than 200 characters, the fact is accurate, has an inline citation in the article, is neutral and does not deal with an aspect of a living person. Photo is on Wikimedia Commons, is used in the article and shows up well enough. (Hook would work just as well without it.) No QPQ needed since this is first DYK nomination.

I would suggest changing "learned" to "learn" in hook.

As an alternative, if the hook seems off-putting, something like this might work: ...that popular science writer Mary Roach picks topics that "have a little science...a little history, a little humor - and something gross?"

I will put this on the editor's talk page, but since I can recommend this as good to go, I would not hold this up for further comment by her. Donner60 (talk) 06:03, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Hello! Thank you, this Mary Roach page was my first and I loved doing it, I will definitely be a regular here. Thanks for the information, I just replied that if someone else liked the alternate hook, I would be okay with changing it. Does that sound too open ended? It was definitely helpful though, thank you for that.Misschrisparker (talk) 19:48, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Keep an eye on it. Some of the administrators/final reviewers want to be sure everything is final and definite and all agreed upon. They might call for a further response: that being: which one do you want since you are the submitter. Others may take the one they like better or, more likely, just take the original because that is what you proposed and I accepted that one. I have only done a modest number of reviews but I have seen one in which the administrator called for another more definite answer (a definite choice) in this type of situation and another in which the administrator thought the hook was unclear and called for clarification. I did not want to cause any controversy but I thought there could be several different possibilities for this interesting character and put another one up as food for thought. In a few of the DYKs I have submitted, I have been barely able to come up with one item of possible interest from the article - which is not to say the subject was not notable, just that there were few apparent hooks. That's a lot of words just to say keep an eye on it - because that could be the only notification you get. Also, don't worry too much if nothing happens for some days. Promotion or further action sometimes depends upon the backlog of earlier proposals. There also have been many Olympic and Paralympic proposals to include recently and in the next few weeks. Donner60 (talk) 01:06, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Mary Roach

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 16:02, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Misschrisparker/Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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That page you want deleted

I moved it to User:Misschrisparker/Gulp, as that seems to be what you were trying to do. If you want that page to be deleted, you can put {{db-g7}} on it. Feel free to ask more questions at my talk page. Thanks! Ignatzmice•talk 01:04, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

• Same for User:Misschrisparker/Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, just so you know. Ignatzmice•talk 01:15, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Mary R. on C-SPAN

Hi - I just wanted to make sure that you are aware of this 3-hour C-SPAN interview with Mary Roach from last week. I particularly want to make sure that you know that at about the 2:05 mark, she talks about the experience she had with a Wikipedia editor (I am assuming it was yourself) when it came to getting linkable citations. Hope you enjoy the interview! KConWiki (talk) 00:27, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi! I had no idea, I'm very pleased to have seen this, it was me! Thanks! Misschrisparker (talk) 05:25, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

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