Template:Did you know nominations/Reinforcement (speciation)
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:40, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
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Reinforcement (speciation)
[edit]... that reinforcement is one of the few cases in which natural selection can influence speciation directly?- ALT1:
... that reinforcement can influence the speciation through the process of natural selection?
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Created/expanded by Azcolvin429 (talk). Self-nominated at 15:39, 5 October 2017 (UTC).
@Azcolvin429: Created on 20 September, placed in the 28 September section but the nomination was only made yesterday. I'm afraid this is outside the 7 day window for new articles and it hasn't been 5x expanded since then. So i'm afraid it isn't eligible for DYK. Sorry. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 09:54, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
Since this appears to be a first-time nominator who might not have realized our deadlines, and the article is quite long and extensively sourced, I was wondering whether, although it is eight days late per the rules, an exception might be given just this once for the nominator per WP:DYKSG#D9, since the backlog is quite low at 106 nominations including this one. Pinging a few DYK regulars—Cwmhiraeth, Yoninah, Cas Liber, and Maile—to get their thoughts. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:59, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
- Those were my exact thoughts when looking at this nomination, especially as it is such a comprehensive and worthwhile article. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:05, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
- Support IAR on this one. Perusing the new article, and based ond Yoninah's first glance review below, this nomination looks like Net Positive to appear on the main page. — Maile (talk) 11:45, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
- New review: IAR on nomination date for first-time nominator. Long enough, neutrally written, well referenced. As most sources are offline, unable to check for close paraphrasing. ALT0 is worded best; offline hook ref AGF and cited inline. However, I'm wondering if you could define speciation to make the hook more accessible for non-scientific readers. Something like: that reinforcement is one of the few cases in which natural selection can directly influence the evolutionary development of species? No QPQ needed. All images freely-licensed. Yoninah (talk) 10:51, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
- Maybe: ALT2: ... that reinforcement is one of the few cases in which natural selection can directly influence the origin of new species? Andrew Z. Colvin • Talk 04:19, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
