Template:Did you know nominations/David Boswell Reid

David Boswell Reid
Created/expanded by Charles Matthews (talk). Nominated by PFHLai (talk) at 23:13, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
 * ... that the British Houses of Parliament in London, rebuilt after a destructive fire in 1834, include ventilation systems by Scottish physician David Boswell Reid?


 * Symbol question.svg Age, length OK. Offline hook ref AGF. Article is well-developed and interesting. However, a number of references need to be filled out beyond bare URLs. Also, while the hook may be interesting to readers in the British Isles, what do you think about this alt:
 * ALT1: ... that Scottish chemist David Boswell Reid has been called "the grandfather of air-conditioning"? Yoninah (talk) 21:41, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment on URLs: I have filled in the one that was bare. The other ones comply with JSTOR's specified citation style. Charles Matthews (talk) 21:52, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Your citations are very sketchy. "Google Books" is not a publisher, and you have not included any ISBN numbers for the books you cite, which will elicit a tag from a bot somewhere down the line. Using WP:Citation templates, I formatted the websites. I did two books (Porter and Tonge) as an example and left the rest of the books for you to add publishers and ISBN numbers. Best, Yoninah (talk) 22:30, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
 * You're joking. I have articles to write. Charles Matthews (talk) 22:48, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's a DYK requirement to employ citation templates, but it's not a bad idea to make the citations nicer before any articles get featured on MainPage. I unleashed the bots. Hope this helps. --PFHLai (talk) 12:16, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
 * As for the hook, I'd like to avoid any DYK hooks that say "is called", "is considered", "is described as"... etc. I don't won't to put someone's POV on MainPage, unless it's a funny quote. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 12:25, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thanks for the cleanup, PFHLai. First hook verified and good to go. Yoninah (talk) 12:52, 8 January 2012 (UTC)