Template:Did you know nominations/Baidyanath Chakrabarty
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:54, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
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Baidyanath Chakrabarty
- ... that Indian gynaecologist and pioneer of reproductive medicine Baidyanath Chakrabarty, who performed over 4,000 IVF procedures, was a cricket fan who thought Virat Kohli and Ashwin were "such good boys"? Source: https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/father-of-4000-test-tube-babies/cid/1470914
Created by Ktin (talk). Self-nominated at 17:31, 16 April 2022 (UTC).
- New enough and long enough. Appeared at Recent Deaths. Hook fact checks out; I'm not big on cricket (I find reading about it utterly inscrutable), but it is kind of humorous in context. TIL India has a Salt Lake City! Writing tip for @Ktin: I removed an extraneous comma from the hook, while I had to shift some commas around (some were missing due to the balanced commas rule; others were unnecessary because one half was not a complete sentence). An example of the latter is this:
Chakrabarty performed over 4,000 IVF procedures, and was considered a pioneer of IVF and artificial insemination research and treatment in the country.
If you have a comma and "and", you should be able to split the two sentences, put a period in, and capitalize the second half. However,Was considered a pioneer of IVF...
is missing a subject. You can either remove the comma or add a subject, e.g., and he was considered...
. Hopefully this is helpful. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 07:06, 15 May 2022 (UTC)