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Featured articleFrances Gertrude McGill is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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July 30, 2018Good article nomineeListed
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January 1, 2021Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 2, 2015.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Frances Gertrude McGill, a Canadian forensic pathologist, was referred to as the "Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan"?
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 21, 2019, and January 21, 2024.
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"Allergologist and allergist"

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The article currently introduces McGill as an "allergologist and allergist." I was not familiar with the word "allergologist", so clicked on it, but was taken to allergy, which did not help. A bit of research off of Wikipedia informed me that an allergologist is a scientist who studies allergies, whereas an allergist is a doctor who treats them, so the terms are not quite synonyms; but "allergologist" is rare enough that it's not in a common online dictionary.

Is there some way, in keeping with the principle of least astonishment, that the article could define this somewhat unusual word, instead of sending curious readers to allergy? Can we link to allergologist on Wiktionary, or is that not appropriate in a FA? —Josiah Rowe (talkcontribs) 15:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Josiah Rowe: Hey Josiah, this is a pretty late response, but I converted the link to a wiktionary link. If the allergy article actually mentioned what an allergologist actually is, I'd think the redirect would be sufficient, but since it's not even mentioned, I think this is the next best thing. bibliomaniac15 19:15, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]