Template:Did you know nominations/Rafael Irizarry (scientist)


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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 13:47, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Rafael Irizarry (scientist)

 * ... that Rafael Irizarry, recipient of the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in bioinformatics, is one of the founders of the Bioconductor project for genomic data analysis? Source: "Dr. Irizarry is one of the founders of the Bioconductor Project, an open source and open development software project for the analysis of genomic data" edX bio
 * ALT1: ... that biostatistician and computational biologist Rafael Irizarry wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the use of statistics in modelling musical signals? Source: Thesis title: Statistics and Music: Fitting a Local Harmonic Model to Musical Sound Signals thesis link
 * Comment: Happy to help modify as required, ALT1 may be more interesting for general audience.
 * Comment: Happy to help modify as required, ALT1 may be more interesting for general audience.

Created/expanded by Amkilpatrick (talk). Self-nominated at 20:23, 12 August 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg Interesting subject!  New and long enough, Earwig detects no copyvios, appears to be second DYK so no QPQ review needed.  The problem is there are almost no third-party sources in the article; nearly all of them are autobiographical, journal articles or other works he's an author on, or published by institutions he's affiliated with.  Of the 15 sources, the only independent ones are the two Benjamin Franklin Award and the one COPSS Presidents' award one.  There needs to be more independent sources for this to be within policy; see WP:SELFPUB for guidance.  ALT1 looks good, and I'd also like to suggest an altered version of the original hook. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 19:57, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ALT2: ... that biostatistician Rafael Irizarry is a founder of Bioconductor, an open-source software project for the analysis of genomic data?
 * Hi, thanks for looking this over, I appreciate it! I've added a couple more references which should hopefully satisfy SELFPUB (I assume that articles in peer reviewed journals are counted as SELFPUB?), see what you think. Thanks again, Amkilpatrick (talk) 11:49, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg You're right that "self-published" and "independent"/"third-party" are not complete opposites; a peer-reviewed journal article by the article subject would not be self-published (because the journal publisher exercises editorial control over the content, for reputable publishers at least), but it would also not be independent (because the article subject is still the author). WP:V says to "base articles on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy."  With the extra third-party sources I'm happy to pass this article.  All three hooks check out but I prefer ALT2 because it is more succinct.  John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 22:01, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks for the clarification, John! Amkilpatrick (talk) 09:09, 5 September 2017 (UTC)