Talk:Simon Groot

A fact from Simon Groot appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 November 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that agronomist Simon Groot was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize for giving hundreds of millions of people access to nutritious vegetables?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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) 19:05, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that agronomist Simon N. Groot is the top provider of vegetable seed cultivars? Source: A list of worldwide access to seeds, does that help us? - De Correspondent
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Penetration enhancers
- Comment: Article was moved from draftspace to mainspace in this edit

Created by Thriley (talk) and Silver seren (talk). Nominated by Silver seren (talk) at 03:51, 18 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Here is an alt in case the primary hook doesn’t work: ALT1 ...that agronomist Simon Groot was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize for giving hundreds of millions of people access to nutritious vegetables? Thriley (talk) 22:21, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Article is new enough, long enough, and neutral. Almost all sources are in Dutch, so I will AGF that there are no close paraphrasing concerns; I trust that the act of translation has transformed the text sufficiently. ALT1 is more interesting to me and is probably the safer hook due to being less superlative. While the article is not a hagiography it is mostly positive (though no fault of the research process—that's just how the sources pan out sometimes). DigitalIceAge (talk) 14:10, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Also I added an image of his bust to the career section. DigitalIceAge (talk) 14:13, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Silver seren, DigitalIceAge, I have struck the original hook as it would need rewriting, as explained on the article talk page. TSventon (talk) 10:56, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- I have moved the article to Simon Groot in line with the nl Wikipedia article. TSventon (talk) 11:07, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Top provider of seed cultivars[edit]

Silver seren, I have had a look at the article and think that the description "top provider of seed cultivars" needs more context, both in the article and the DYK nomination. De Correspondent says that "the Access to Seeds Index ... indicates the extent to which breeding companies contribute to access to high-quality seed for farmers in developing countries." (via Google translate)^[1] The article doesn't make it clear whether top means the best provider or the largest (it seems to mean the best) and doesn't mention developing countries. A reference to the 2016 index at http://www.accesstoseeds.org/downloads/index-report-2016.pdf could also be helpful. TSventon (talk) 06:36, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have rewritten the sentence in the article, but I think the DYK hook should also be clarified. TSventon (talk) 13:48, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Smouter, Karel (March 1, 2016). "Een lijst met de wereldwijde toegang tot zaden, schieten we daar iets mee op?" [A list of worldwide access to seeds, does that help us?]. De Correspondent (in Dutch). Retrieved November 15, 2022.

[1] Smouter, Karel (March 1, 2016). "Een lijst met de wereldwijde toegang tot zaden, schieten we daar iets mee op?" [A list of worldwide access to seeds, does that help us?]. De Correspondent (in Dutch). Retrieved November 15, 2022.

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