Template:Did you know nominations/Brachyanax


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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:48, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Brachyanax

 * ... that the type species of the bee fly genus Brachyanax can be translated as "little chief nipple twister"? Source: "Brachyanax thelestrephones: a fly species, Greek for 'little chief nipple twister'" ; ; "Type of genus. Brachyanax thelestrephones"
 * ALT1:... that the bee fly genus Brachyanax has a type species whose name is Greek for "little chief nipple twister"? Source: ibid
 * ALT2:...that Brachyanax thelestrephones, the type species of the bee fly genus Brachyanax, has been translated as "little chief nipple twister"? Source: ibid
 * ALT3:... that Brachyanax, a genus of bee fly, has a type species whose binomen means "little chief nipple twister"? Source: ibid
 * Reviewed: Did you know nominations/Leucospermum cuneiforme

Created by Umimmak (talk). Self-nominated at 00:27, 4 April 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg New, in time, long enough, sourced, hook fact has an inline citation, no apparent copyvios., QPQ needed, and more importantly, is BOGUS ("Biological and Other Generally Unsupported Statements") a reliable source? --Usernameunique (talk) 01:49, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Will ping when QPQ is done. But yeah I think it's reliable insofar as I'm citing it to say Arnold Menke thought this was "funny or curious" in his list for BOGUS and how Menke translated it. This is the first instance of that particular translation and of people finding the name to be amusing, so it's important to cite. But I've backed up the translation with references to A Greek-English Lexicon and included other refs which followed Menke in viewing the name as amusing and using his translation. Does this answer satisfy you? Umimmak (talk) 02:02, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * , what exactly is the journal? Is it an offshoot of a peer-reviewed journal that's meant to be humorous, or is it a standalone publication? It's described as a humor/parody publication, and the concern there would be whether it fudges (or makes up) the facts for the sake of humor. --Usernameunique (talk) 02:07, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * It was a standalone publication affiliated with the Bishop Museum and published by the entomologist Neal Evenhuis. But I'm only citing the list by the entomologist Arnold Menke to say that Menke included it in his well-known list. The name's existence, translation, and judgement to be funny/curious/etc all appear in other sources as well (see refs 10, 11, and 12). What do you think would have be "made up"? Umimmak (talk) 02:27, 8 April 2018 (UTC)


 * QPQ has been added. Umimmak (talk) 03:02, 8 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Symbol confirmed.svg, all set. My concern was that it was a publication akin to The Onion, but legitimate academics appear to be behind it, and the reason for the hook fact is also backed up by references to a lexicon. --Usernameunique (talk) 16:27, 8 April 2018 (UTC)