Template:Did you know nominations/Korean melon

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 Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:53, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Korean melon

(

)

~~... that the seeds from the Korean melon have been researched as a way to control diabetes?~~

Created by LittleT889 (talk). Self nominated at 13:48, 10 July 2014 (UTC).

"researched" sounds a bit off in this use.

ALT1... that the seeds of the Korean melon have been investigated for use in controlling diabetes?

EEng (talk) 03:06, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

New enough. Long enough. NPOV. Looks well-cited, but few of the refs are available online, apart from short abstracts, including the two in support of the hook, although some of the journal ones may be forthcoming. The original hook seems to overstate things and EEng's ALT1 appears more appropriate. However, the article states that it is the hexane in the seeds that may be useful for controlling diabetes, and hexane (per our WP article) seems to be widely and cheaply available from other sources. I'm no chemist, but this claim for the melon seeds doesn't seem to stack up.

Spot checking for close paraphrasing throws up some issues. Looking at source 6, the odd phrases "hen meat" and "wind dampness" are copied, so I'm sceptical about close paraphrasing elsewhere. Looking at source 1, the abstract has "Molecular polymorphism studies suggested that Cucumis melo vars. makuwa and conomon are derived from small seed type melon in east India" The article uses "It has been suggested based on molecular polymorphism studies that the Korean melon originated from a small seed type melon in East India." This is too close. Edwardx (talk) 23:27, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Made a few changes. Hexane extract means hexane was used to extract fat-soluble substances from the seeds (ex. linoleic acid). LittleT889 (talk) 03:31, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

The specific paraphrasing examples noted have been addressed. The article sentence, "Research suggests that the hexane extract of the seeds could be used as a way to control type 2 diabetes." remains unchanged. You will need to expand the article to include the explanation you set out above. Edwardx (talk) 12:22, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

I have expanded the article to explain how hexane extracts can control DMII. Thank you. LittleT889 (talk) 12:51, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for expanding the hexane extraction stuff. I agree with EEng that the original hook seems to overstate the case, so I'm striking it in preference for the ALT1. Edwardx (talk) 13:35, 24 July 2014 (UTC)