Template:Did you know nominations/Jane Gibson

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:08, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Jane Gibson

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~~... that in 1954 microbiologist Jane Gibson was the first to discover that the trace element selenium is essential for bacterial growth?~~ Source: "Her work was mostly on trace elements, and she was the first to discover a specific role for selenium in bacterial growth"

Reviewed: Macrotermitinae

Created/expanded by Nick Moyes (talk). Self-nominated at 14:04, 28 March 2017 (UTC).

Article is new, sufficiently long, QPQ done but close paraphrasing is found on a few sentences. She attended The Maynard School in Exeter, E.coli are evolutionarily related to purple photosynthetic bacteria, Jane Gibson served on the editorial board of The Journal of Bacteriology. Rephrasing them would help render the article clean. The hook is interesting but may require a slight tweak for clarity. suggest the below:

ALT1: ... that microbiologist Jane Gibson was the first to discover that selenium, a trace element, is essential for bacterial growth?
ALT2: ... that microbiologist Jane Gibson established through her 1954 discovery that selenium, a trace element, is essential for bacterial growth?

Please ping me once these issues are looked into. jojo@nthony (talk) 12:37, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

@Tachs: Tweaks now made to wording. Personally, I prefer the second of your two alternative suggestions, which I'd like to see go forward. Thanks for the feedback. Nick Moyes (talk) 18:27, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks @Nick Moyes:.

Per concurrence of the nominator, suggest promotion of the below hook.

ALT3: ... that microbiologist Jane Gibson established through her 1954 discovery that selenium, a trace element, is essential for bacterial growth?

jojo@nthony (talk) 18:37, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

I was going to promote this hook, but Gibson's discovery in 1954 was that the element selenium was essential for the growth of E. coli, but the phrase "for bacterial growth" in the hook implies that this is true for all bacteria, so the hook needs to be made more specific. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:30, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

@Cwmhiraeth and Nick Moyes: The cited source (page 11) says bacterial growth but her scientific paper as well as the article refer to coliform bacteria (paper) hence suggest a tweak as below:

ALT4: ... that microbiologist Jane Gibson established through her 1954 discovery that selenium, a trace element, is essential for coliform bacterial growth? jojo@nthony (talk) 11:40, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

There's a citation needed tag on one paragraph. Yoninah (talk) 22:49, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

@Yoninah and Nick Moyes: citation added, tag removed. jojo@nthony (talk) 06:31, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Everything's in order now. ALT4 hook ref verified and cited inline. Rest of review per Tachs. ALT4 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 10:36, 12 April 2017 (UTC)