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
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by
Joofjoof (
talk) 01:12, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
... that New Zealand geneticist Neil Gemmell(pictured) hunted the
Loch Ness Monster to show how science works? Source: "The main driver of the project was to show how the science process worked."
source
Comment: Scientifically, his work on
sequencing of the
tuatara genome is much more notable but it's very geeky, whereas hunting Nessie would have a much broader appeal (which is why he embarked on that exercise in the first place, I presume).
Created by
Schwede66 (
talk). Self-nominated at 18:48, 3 February 2021 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. The image is suitably licensed, the hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done.
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 10:14, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
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
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by
Joofjoof (
talk) 01:12, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
... that New Zealand geneticist Neil Gemmell(pictured) hunted the
Loch Ness Monster to show how science works? Source: "The main driver of the project was to show how the science process worked."
source
Comment: Scientifically, his work on
sequencing of the
tuatara genome is much more notable but it's very geeky, whereas hunting Nessie would have a much broader appeal (which is why he embarked on that exercise in the first place, I presume).
Created by
Schwede66 (
talk). Self-nominated at 18:48, 3 February 2021 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. The image is suitably licensed, the hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done.
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 10:14, 5 February 2021 (UTC)