Template:Did you know nominations/Akiko Kobayashi (chemist)


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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 10:15, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Akiko Kobayashi (chemist)

 * ... that Akiko Kobayashi got the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for creating a material that is both organic and metallic?
 * Reviewed: QPQ=Henriette Schønberg Erken

Created by Rosiestep (talk), Victuallers (talk). Nominated by Victuallers (talk) at 20:00, 9 March 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg Article was nominated one day after creation, and is about 2200 characters, satisfying date and length criteria. The quotation "for her contribution to the development of molecular conductors and the design and synthesis of a single-component organic metal" has no citation, and cannot be found in the source used preceding it in that sentence. I've added a citation needed tag to that and one other statement. I've also pruned some text, which appeared to be needlessly verbose. I will assume good faith for ref 6, which I cannot access. The phrase "variations based on platinum, silver, zinc and copper have been created" doesn't seem to be supported by the ref; I can only find mention of copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) (and gold (Au), which isn't mentioned in the article) - are platinum and silver mentioned in another source, or have I missed it in this one? QPQ completed. Mind  matrix  00:24, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I've resolved one of the citation issue regarding the quotation. Mind  matrix  00:29, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I've checked the quote which is now reffed. I removed silver (Au(tmdt)2) and platinum (Pt(tmdt)2) as I can't get the pdf to download - although both of these throw up successful google searches. I have also deleted the ref to her being a member of the chemical society etc as she is mentioned so often in relation to her home society that I cannot easily find evidence of her membership. I think this addresses all the points you raised. Victuallers (talk) 15:48, 15 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol voting keep.svg All looks fine now, though I'm curious why you deleted mention of silver and platinum instead of including additional refs for it, which are readily found. (Such as this for gold, and this for platinum). Mind  matrix  20:41, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * DYK doesn't require everything to be cited. I felt that this requirement was not required by the process. If we demand that everything is cited then we will never be able to nominate a discovered article. I was too tired to debate this point and preferred to just delete the information if it was thought to be contentious or difficult to believe. Victuallers (talk) 23:48, 15 March 2014 (UTC)