Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Roach

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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:20, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Mary Roach

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... that in one of science writer Mary Roach's (pictured) articles, we learn that upon flushing, as many as 28,000 virus particles and 660,000 bacteria are jettisoned from the bowl?

Created/expanded by Misschrisparker (talk). Self nom at 05:53, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

I found this article, and the references, interesting and entertaining. Roach is quite a character and has written some interesting and humorous books and articles. The lighter side of science.

This article was expanded five times from its previous size (prose characters). It is new enough under that criterion, long enough, well written, well sourced, has quite a few inline citations, is neutral, and has no copyright violations or plagiarism that I could find. The hook is less than 200 characters, the fact is accurate, has an inline citation in the article, is neutral and does not deal with an aspect of a living person. Photo is on Wikimedia Commons, is used in the article and shows up well enough. (Hook would work just as well without it.) No QPQ needed since this is first DYK nomination.

I would suggest changing "learned" to "learn" in hook.

As an alternative, if the hook seems off-putting, something like this might work: ALT1: ... that popular science writer Mary Roach picks topics that "have a little science ... a little history, a little humor – and something gross?"

I will put this on the editor's talk page, but since I can recommend this as good to go, I would not hold this up for further comment by her. Donner60 (talk) 05:51, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Donner60. I changed "learned" to "learn." I liked the alternate hook. I almost did something like that; but I didn't so that I could get the attention of people who don't know who Mary Roach is. I'd assume there are more fun fact (especially bacteria stuff) lovers than Mary Roach loves, at this point. If anyone else likes the second hook I'm not opposed to swapping it out. Misschrisparker (talk) 19:44, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Update: Unless anyone has other suggestions later, I'd like to go with the original hook. Misschrisparker (talk) 06:26, 14 August 2012 (UTC)