Template:Did you know nominations/William Barnes (entomologist)

{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Talk| 
 * 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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by BlueMoonset (talk) 01:47, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

{{DYK conditions}}

William Barnes (entomologist)

 * ... that at the death of William Barnes in 1930, his collection of butterflies was regarded as the largest and finest in the world with possibly 10,000 species and an estimated 473,000 specimens? It is also the largest collection by number of specimens in the history of the Smithsonian Institution.

Created by Pvmoutside (talk). Self-nominated at 17:59, 5 June 2019 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg Hi Pvmoutside. Unfortunately the article is not currently well enough referenced to qualify to DYK - there needs to be an inline citation at the end of each paragraph as a minimum.  If you can improve this, drop me a line and I will pop back to complete the review.  Thanks - Dumelow (talk) 06:55, 7 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment: Sourcing aside, the hook is far too long and cumbersome. Hooks should be concise! Everything after "finest in the world" should be dropped. --Animalparty! (talk) 06:26, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ALT1 ... that at the time of his death in 1930, William Barnes' s collection of butterflies consisted of over 10,000 species and an estimated 473,000 specimens?
 * How's that? I wanted to include the "largest in the world" wording but I found it hard to do while adhering to the 200 character limit. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 04:03, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Narutolovehinata5. Your proposed hook reads well enough to me but the article is still well under referenced and hasn't been worked on by the nominator since the start of June - Dumelow (talk) 07:32, 25 July 2019 (UTC)


 * In spite of multiple talk page messages, the nominator has been unable to return to this discussion. If they are unable to respond by next Thursday, the nomination will be marked for closure. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 23:30, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Per a discussion on the nominator's talk page, it appears that they will be unable to address the sourcing issues. As such, they have indicated that they will be unable to continue the nomination. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 21:47, 29 July 2019 (UTC) |}}