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A fact from Vel blood group appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 August 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Vel blood group was discovered when a patient experienced a severe transfusion reaction, and her blood type was found to be incompatible with all but five out of ten thousand blood donors?

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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:40, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Vel blood group was discovered when a patient's blood was found to be incompatible with all but five out of 10,000 blood donors?

Source: Storry et al, 2017; "The first report of anti-Vel was published in the French journal Revue d’Hematologie by Sussman and Miller in 1952 and concerned a patient in New York who received 2 units of crossmatch-compatible blood... Subsequent screening of 10,000 donors with the patient’s serum in New York revealed only 4 compatible units in addition to the serendipitous compatible unit."
OMIM, 2013: "Sussman and Miller (1952) first described the Vel-negative blood group phenotype in a 66-year-old woman who developed a severe acute intravascular hemolytic episode after a blood transfusion due to antibodies against a newly defined antigen named 'Vel.'"

Reviewed: Not required; 4th nomination
Comment: I'm worried the article might be a bit too technical, so I'd appreciate any feedback on things that can be clarified or explained more fully.
Comment: Suggesting as an alternative ... that the Vel blood group was discovered when a patient experienced a severe transfusion reaction, and her blood type was found to be incompatible with all but five out of 10,000 blood donors?

Moved to mainspace by SpicyMilkBoy (talk). Self-nominated at 20:56, 16 August 2019 (UTC).[reply]

David notMD Your alternative hook sounds good to me. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 22:09, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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ALT1: ... that the Vel blood group was discovered when a patient experienced a severe transfusion reaction, and her blood type was found to be incompatible with all but five out of 10,000 blood donors?

REVIEW: Article is new, long enough, within policy, no copyright infringement, hook and ALT1 are both within 200 characters, the hook and ALT1 are supported by a citation, creator has not yet reached fifth DYK so no QPQ required, and no image. Creator accepts either hook. David notMD (talk) 22:18, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]