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The result was: promoted by
SL93 (
talk) 03:35, 30 October 2020 (UTC)reply
... that San Baw, chief orthopaedic surgeon of
Mandalay General Hospital, pioneered the use of
ivory protheses to replace ununited fractures of the
femoral neck? Source: (Stafford 2014: 24), (Boden 2018: 41)
Created by
Hybernator (
talk). Self-nominated at 04:49, 20 October 2020 (UTC).reply
New enough and long enough. QPQ present. Hook fact is cited (in the lede) to two offline sources (AGF). Sufficient inline citations (I note one paragraph-ender is a footnote mentioning sources, which seems OK). I don't see other issues. Quite a fascinating pioneer!
Raymie (
t •
c) 22:43, 24 October 2020 (UTC)reply
A fact from San Baw appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 November 2020 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Asia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Asia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to
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Did you know nomination
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
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The result was: promoted by
SL93 (
talk) 03:35, 30 October 2020 (UTC)reply
... that San Baw, chief orthopaedic surgeon of
Mandalay General Hospital, pioneered the use of
ivory protheses to replace ununited fractures of the
femoral neck? Source: (Stafford 2014: 24), (Boden 2018: 41)
Created by
Hybernator (
talk). Self-nominated at 04:49, 20 October 2020 (UTC).reply
New enough and long enough. QPQ present. Hook fact is cited (in the lede) to two offline sources (AGF). Sufficient inline citations (I note one paragraph-ender is a footnote mentioning sources, which seems OK). I don't see other issues. Quite a fascinating pioneer!
Raymie (
t •
c) 22:43, 24 October 2020 (UTC)reply