Talk:James Johnston Mason Brown

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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 SL93 (talk) 23:53, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that James J Mason Brown was the first paediatric surgeon to be president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh? Source: "He was the first specialist paediatric surgeon to hold this office." Surgeons' Lives pp123-124
- ALT1:... that James J Mason Brown jointly founded the Scottish Surgical Paediatric Society? Source: "...Mason Brown founded the Scottish Surgical Paediatric Society". Bisset

Reviewed: Paleohydrology

Created by Iainmacintyre (talk). Self-nominated at 17:02, 7 August 2019 (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:

Offline citations accepted AGF. All paras in the article are sourced. Those were early days for a paediatrician to be president of the Royal College of Surgeons, and founding the SSPS an important achievement , therefore I believe both hooks are equally valid and worthwhile. Thank you for this contribution to WP. Storye book (talk) 16:26, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A fact from James Johnston Mason Brown appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 August 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that James J. Mason Brown was the first paediatric surgeon to serve as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/James Johnston Mason Brown.

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