Template:Did you know nominations/William Buchan
- 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: rejected by Yoninah (talk) 14:55, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
Not a 5x expansion
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William Buchan
[edit]- ... that Domestic Medicine written by William Buchan was one of the longest standing medical texts? Source: " It was one of the most popular and long lived books in Europe. There were over 80,000 copies and 19 different editions and was translated into almost every major European language. It continued to be printed in Britain until 1846 and in the Americas until 1913."
5x expanded by Lethalbehemoth (talk). Self-nominated at 19:10, 10 March 2017 (UTC).
Nice work expanding this, but I am afraid the DYK rules require a 5-fold expansion, what I see is 380 words for the pre-expansion version, and last month brings it to <1000 words. Second, there are possible WP:COPYPASTE/WP:COPYVIO issues: compare for example article's "Catherine the Great, czar of Russia, was so impressed by the work, she sent Buchan a gold medal and personal letter" to [http://fn.bmj.com/content/83/1/F71 source " Empress of Russia was so pleased with it that she sent Buchan a letter of commendation and a gold medal"; this is borderline but I'll flag it for a review by another DYK reviewer. Third, I am concerned about the hook's claim of "one of the longest standing medical texts". This is again sourced to [1], but which part of the article supports that claim? This needs to be clarified, keeping WP:OR in mind - we need a source that clearly states it was one of the longest standing medical texts in (presumably) world's history. PS. If anyone replies here, pleae WP:ECHO me, thanks. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:43, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
- To be more precise, the article was 2843 prose characters prior to expansion, and 6103 prose characters afterward, a little over a 2x expansion. To attain 5x would require 14215 prose characters, which seems just about impossible. Probably the best route to DYK eligibility would be through the article becoming a Good Article, but the copyvio issues would need to be addressed before that route is attempted. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:13, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Marking for closure: there has been no response from the nominator despite edits elsewhere, and no expansion to the article. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:51, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
