Template:Did you know nominations/Margaret Blackwood
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:57, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
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Margaret Blackwood
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that the botanist Dame Margaret Blackwood studied pine trees and maize, and gave her name to a species of fungus?
- ALT1: ... that the botanist Dame Margaret Blackwood studied pine trees and maize, and had a species of fungus named after her?
- Reviewed: Acidilobus saccharovorans
Created by 97198 (talk). Self-nominated at 13:56, 1 August 2016 (UTC).
The article is long enough at 3183 characters (532 words) "readable prose size". It was created on July 26 and nominated on August 1 so it is new enough. It is neutral in tone and cites reliable sources with inline citations. Earwig tool found copyvio unlikely and comparison found the only duplicated words were proper names. Spot checks found no close paraphrasing issues. The hook is short enough and properly formatted, supported by inline citations to reliable sources, interesting, and neutral in tone. It is accurate in that she studied the first two organisms and the fungus is named after her, but I think the wording should be clarified. As it stands it sounds as though she named the fungus herself, but actually she had died before it was described and named. Can you rephrase to remove this possible misunderstanding? Possibly something like "MB, who studied this and that, had another thing named after her"? QPQ has been done and there is no image. Very interesting woman, I'm glad to have learned something about her. HazelAB (talk) 18:37, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
