Talk:Phyllis McAlpine

A fact from Phyllis McAlpine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Canadian geneticist Phyllis McAlpine was among the first to promote a unified gene nomenclature system and helped found the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 02:05, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... 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).[reply]

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

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
Cited: Interesting:

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)[reply]

@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)[reply]
- Should be good to go! DanCherek (talk) 14:08, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]