Template:Did you know nominations/Nina Jablonski

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The result was: promoted by Orlady (talk) 17:44, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Nina Jablonski[edit]

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... that anthropologist Nina Jablonski was inspired to study science by a National Geographic program on palaeontologist Lewis Leakey?

Comment: moved to mainspace on 4 Feb

Created by Acb314 (talk). Self nominated at 22:49, 5 February 2014 (UTC).

New (mainspaced February 4), long enough, within policy, no copyvio found via spot check, DYK is user's first, so no QPQ necessary. I see two issues, one more relevant for this review than the other. The first is that the article doesn't cite sources to confer notability. This would be significant coverage in multiple reliable, independent sources (?), e.g., articles that cite her contribution to the field, books or chapters about her life. It'd be nice to add those things now, but notability it is slightly outside the scope of this review. Otherwise, the two unsourced paragraphs need references, and that's what we need to move on. Hook source mentions a special, not a documentary, so I rephrased (article should be rephrased too). Please ping me if I don't respond. czar ♔ 13:53, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Hello Czar, thanks for the review. Firstly on notability, before I started I reviewed WP:PROF and believe that the subject meets the guideline by satisfying criterion 5 (Distinguished Professor at major institution) and while I haven't brought this out in the article because I wasn't sure how, criterion 7 ( impact outside academia) by media appearances related to her field. I'll add something in on that, make sure the referencing is clear and tweak the hook, will ping you when done. Thanks acb314 (talk) 10:54, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi there Czar, article updated as suggested. acb314 (talk) 11:56, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Looks good (everything's sourced). I still think there's an issue with too much primary sourcing (or not enough secondary sourcing, e.g., reviews of her work or entries that aren't the likely self-submitted author bio), but that'd be for someone else to take up. Good work, and congrats on your first DYK! czar ♔ 13:25, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Point noted! Hopefully someone who knows more about the subject and has access to scientific literature can help out with that, I struggled to find any online for free. Thanks :) acb314 (talk) 13:42, 8 February 2014 (UTC)