Talk:Karim Vahed

A fact from Karim Vahed appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 February 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that entomologist Karim Vahed led the team that found a cricket species in which the testes accounted for 14 percent of the insect's body mass?

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:35, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that entomologist Karim Vahed led the team that found a cricket species in which the testes accounted for 14% of the insect's body ~~weight~~mass? source
- ALT1:~~... that entomologist Karim Vahed studies a potential colony of the extremely rare scaly crickets in Guernsey?~~ source

Reviewed: BECAUSE (conference)

Created by Cisca85 (talk). Nominated by Achaea (talk) at 20:35, 16 January 2020 (UTC).[reply]

New enough. Barely long enough (>1700 chars). Reliable inline citations throughout. Neutral if dryly written. Hook's citation checks out. It's more interesting than ALT1. I assume he is a notable scientist and/or TV personality to have a Wiki article. That said, QPQ is done. GTG. Hybernator (talk) 18:50, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I came by to promote this, but it's very skimpy for a biographical article. I added some leads to personal information and research papers on the talk page. Yoninah (talk) 22:56, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah: Have made some improvements, let me know what you think. Achaea (talk) 06:03, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I have added a Personal life section with a source. Changing "body weight" to "body mass" in the approved hook per the source. Restoring tick per Hybernator's review. Yoninah (talk) 17:40, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Missing biographical information

Where was he born? Who are his parents? Who is his family? Here are some leads:

And what about a selected bibliography?

@Yoninah: Have added in some more info about his work on Guernsey and a selected bibliography, but couldn't find any more information about his birth date and parents etc. The artsbeat gave me a magazine, but I couldn't find the article you were referring to. Hope you're okay with current improvements (but feel free to add stuff if you can). Achaea (talk) 06:03, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]