Template:Did you know nominations/Galápagos ghostshark

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:56, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Galápagos ghostshark

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• ... that Hydrolagus mccoskeri was first discovered by John E. McCosker on his 50th birthday? Source: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/01/02/two-new-deep-sea-shark-species-surface/
  • ALT1:... that Hydrolagus mccoskeri was first discovered by John E. McCosker on his 50th birthday and was later scientifically named after him? Source: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2007/01/02/two-new-deep-sea-shark-species-surface/

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Created by SkyGazer 512 (talk). Self-nominated at 15:46, 11 February 2019 (UTC).

Interesting facts, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. - I am not happy with the hooks, thinking that ghostshark is such an interesting word that it should appear. Any Latin species name could be a fly, for the uninitiated. You could say it's named after him without the similarity in letters. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:01, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thank you for the review. I originally wanted to include the scientific name so that readers could see the specific name's similarity to "McCosker", but you are right that Hydrolagus mccoskeri means nothing to most of the audience, so thank you for pointing that out. We could try one of the following:

• ALT2:... that the Galápagos ghostshark was first discovered by John E. McCosker on his 50th birthday?
• ALT3:... that the Galápagos ghostshark was first discovered by John E. McCosker on his 50th birthday and was later scientifically named after him?

See what you think of those. Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 02:53, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Another idea may be to include both the scientific name and the common name; e.g. "that Hydrolagus mccoskeri, the Galápagos ghostshark, was first discovered... etc.".--SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 02:55, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, feel understood! - I don't think we really need the scientific name AND his, as I think we don't need first AND discovered. I think we need "the" but my be wrong. My version:

ALT3a:... that the Galápagos ghostshark was scientifically named after John E. McCosker who had discovered the species on his 50th birthday?

ALTs 2, 3 and 3a are approved. Please add the year to the scientist's article, - funny that we don't know which day is his birthday, - it would be the perfect day to run this ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: ALT3a looks very nice, thanks. I personally would prefer that over ALT2 or ALT3.--SkyGazer 512 ^{Oh no, what did I do this time?} 03:47, 13 February 2019 (UTC)