Talk:Robert M. Blizzard

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A fact from Robert M. Blizzard appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 July 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Robert M. Blizzard, who pioneered growth hormone therapy in children, liked to joke that he had added 11 miles (18 km) to the height of the U.S. population?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robert M. Blizzard.

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 19:53, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Robert M. Blizzard, who pioneered growth hormone therapy in children, liked to joke that he had added 11 miles to the height of the U.S. population? Source: "The growth-hormone story is so important, and he was one of the pioneers" "(Blizzard) liked to say that he had helped add 11 miles of height to the United States population"
- Reviewed: Katja Husen

Created by 97198 (talk). Self-nominated at 12:08, 11 July 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Hi 97198, review follows: 5x expansion confirmed on 11 July; article is well written and cited inline to reliable sources; I didn't spot any overly close paraphrasing from the sources; hook is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to the NYT source; a QPQ review has been carried out. My only note on this one is that two of the awards listed aren't cited - Dumelow (talk) 12:28, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Dumelow: Thanks. In fact all of the awards are cited to the same source; I just included the reference in the last line of the list to avoid repetition. 97198 (talk) 12:31, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 97198. So there are. For some reason I couldn't find them in there when I looked first time! - Dumelow (talk) 12:36, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]