Talk:Margaret F. Butler

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A fact from Margaret F. Butler appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 December 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in 1908, American otorhinolaryngologist Margaret F. Butler became the first woman to preside over an international congress of physicians?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 06:11, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in 1908, American otorhinolaryngologist Margaret F. Butler became the first woman to preside over an international congress of physicians? Source: Scalpel: The 1911 Yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. 1911. p. 51. https://archive.org/details/scalpel11woma
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Created by Topshelver (talk). Self-nominated at 17:54, 28 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Long enough, new enough, hook is good and verified, found no plagiarism. Keep em coming. Drmies (talk) 04:05, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @Topshelver and Drmies: I'm not sure I trust the source for the claim it's making; it quotes a Dr. Sir Felix Semon, meaning they probably weren't able to independently verify. Furthermore, it's a Pennsylvania book, and might have printed quote because it makes a hometown hero look good. I don't think the book covers its bases in establishing reliability for the claim it makes. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 04:52, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - theleekycauldron, I don't understand the problem, sorry. "Hometown hero" is a bit far-fetched here, when we're talking about a publication with three MDs on the editorial board. In addition, the person cited is, apparently, Felix Semon, who wrote that factoid up in the Internationales Centralblatt für Laryngologie, a scientific journal first published in 1884. Drmies (talk) 23:58, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    - Drmies, thank you for finding that German-language source! I found the full text on HathiTrust and added the citation to the sentence in question. Also, this factoid is included in Notable Women of Pennsylvania, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1942. Topshelver (talk) 13:42, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    - Thanks, Drmies! Should be good to go now. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 21:29, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]