Talk:Scottnema lindsayae

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Did you know... that the southernmost worm species, Scottnema lindsayae, reproduces best at temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F)?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 00:02, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Scottnema lindsayae

... that Scottnema lindsayae is the southernmost worm species? Source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-006-0241-3
- ALT1: ... that Scottnema lindsayae needs temperatures as low as 10 °C (50 °F) to reproduce? Source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00238924
Reviewed: [[]]
Comment: No review; I have only had one DYK previously.

Created by Rusalkii (talk). Self-nominated at 07:02, 14 September 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Good to go! I am basically approving, but I think ALT1 could be phrased even better: As I understand, 10 °C is not the lower, but already an upper bound. So you could say "below 10 °C" and "properly reproduce", right? I can also see both hooks being combined as one, if you want to highlight both facts. If not, I'll approve the current ones. –LordPeterII (talk) 14:10, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a great phrasing, but it isn't quite an upper bound, they did observe some reproduction at 15C and didn't test any temperatures between the two. "... that the Antarctic worm Scottnema lindsayae cannot reproduce at temperatures above 15 °C (59 °F)?" maybe? I don't quite like "cannot", the study found a single one of them managed to mature into an adult at the temperature, but I'm not sure of a pithy way to put it and 15C really does look like the upper limit so "above" doesn't feel misleading to me. I do like this hook better than the other one and can't think of a good way to work both of them into them it a single hook. Rusalkii (talk) 18:11, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, "upper bound" was bad phrasing. I meant that temperatures below 10C were better than those above 10C – at least that's how I read the article (the Wiki one, don't have access to Springer atm). As for a combined hook, I thought of something like this:

ALT2 ... that the reproductive cycle of the southernmost worm species, Scottnema lindsayae, is disturbed at temperatures above 10 °C (50 °F)?

To be fair, "Antarctic" might be just as hooky as "southernmost", I'd leave the decision on that to you.

Also, I see there is now an image in the article (File:NMNH-Scottnema lindsayi-000001.jpg), do you want to run with it? No guarantee it will be shown, but there's no harm in trying. –LordPeterII (talk) 20:50, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh! I looked for an image but couldn't find one, thank you William Avery. I'd love to run with the image. ALT2 looks good to me. Rusalkii (talk) 20:58, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Splendid! I've added the image to the nom.

Need another reviewer to approve ALT2. –LordPeterII (talk) 21:14, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ALT2 is approved and ready to go. The nominated image is also approved - it is in the public domain, good resolution, interesting, and relevant. Thanks, folks! Topshelver (talk) 20:10, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]