Template:Did you know nominations/Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy


 * 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:   by Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:34, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

 * ... that the 1899 first edition of The Merck Manual contained a formula that included true unicorn as an ingredient?


 * ALT1:... that The Merck Manual is the oldest continuously published and best-selling English language medical textbook in the world?
 * Reviewed: Fewer than 5 DYK

5x expanded by N0TABENE (talk). Self-nominated at 22:59, 21 May 2016 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Nominator is QPQ exempt, however, the prose wasn't increased 5x. Before the expansion, the prose was at 2590 characters, and currently the article is at 10204 characters, which is only a 4x expansion. — Chevvin 23:39, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 2590 X 5 = 12950 - 10204 = 2746 characters short.  once an article has been nominated, if it falls short of the required characters, the nominator is given a chance to expand the article.  If you can add 2746 characters of prose to the article, this will meet DYK expansion criteria. — Maile  (talk) 23:58, 29 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg Regrettably, N0TABENE has not edited on Wikipedia since May 24 and has not responded to the issues raised in the review, particularly the expansion size. Under the circumstances, it is time to close this nomination as unsuccessful, though of course a posting here by N0TABENE saying that an additional expansion of at least 2746 prose characters will be posted shortly will short-circuit this closure. N0TABENE, you still do have a chance to qualify for DYK in the future if the article should become a Good Article and is nominated within seven days of being listed. BlueMoonset (talk) 12:09, 19 June 2016 (UTC)