Talk:Tove Birkelund

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A fact from Tove Birkelund appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 November 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Danish geologist Tove Birkelund (pictured) received a gold medal for her early work on fossils of Scaphites in Greenland?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tove Birkelund.

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 22:59, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Birkelund in 1931

... that Tove Birkelund (pictured) wrote her doctoral thesis on ammonites from Greenland? Source: https://kvindebiografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Tove_Birkelund (in Danish, but the title of the thesis is in English)
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Created by Ipigott (talk). Nominated by LordPeterII (talk) at 20:09, 27 October 2022 (UTC).[reply]

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

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @LordPeterII and Ipigott: Good article! Going to have to approve in good faith since I don't understand Danish. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:21, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Ipigott: The hook isn't very exciting. Could you do something that talks about her winning a gold medal? That would be rather more interesting. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:39, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1: ...that the Danish geologist Tove Birkelund (pictured) received a gold medal for her early work on fossils of Scaphites in Greenland? Source: https://kvindebiografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Tove_Birkelund (in Danish, but the title of the thesis is in English)

Approving the creator's unsigned ALT1 suggestion. SL93 (talk) 16:22, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

RoySmith Hopefully that works for you too. SL93 (talk) 16:23, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I like ALT1. Leaving this for somebody else to promote. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:06, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

theleekycauldron Just seeing if you can promote ALT1 if everything looks good. I hope you don't mind the ping. SL93 (talk) 21:15, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@SL93: no worries :) gotta get off the bench at some point. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 22:58, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]