Template:Did you know nominations/Charles Wilkins Short

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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 01:49, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Charles Wilkins Short[edit]

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... that Charles Wilkins Short owned one of the most valuable private herbariums in the world?
ALT 1: ... that Charles Wilkins Short owned the largest herbarium in the United States, west of the Alleghenies, with 15,000 plant samples?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Judith Pipher
Comment: The first hook is more concise, but the second one has more context.

Moved to mainspace by King jakob c 2 (talk). Self nominated at 15:01, 28 December 2013 (UTC).

Length, newness, main hook verified but ALT1 was not. Ref [3] states: His herbarium was one of the most extensive and complete in the country, not that it was the "largest in the country". Also it would help if page numbers were provided for these facts. I had to search for these terms in the Google book. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 00:42, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

@Dr.K.: Hook wording tweaked. The biographical sketch uses page numbers. --Jakob (talk) 01:15, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for adding the page numbers. It is much better now. I changed the sentence to reflect that it was "one of the most complete herbariums in the US", not "the most complete": [1]. In any case,
Good to go for main hook. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 01:44, 1 January 2014 (UTC)