User:RoySmith/signpost/Brotosaurus

Working title: "The Brontosaurus: citogenesis in the Jurassic period (and the real world)"

In 1972, wiki-paleontologist Anne Elk had a theory about the Brotosaurus: "It is mis-cited at one end, mis-cited much much more in the middle, and then mis-cited again at the far end". We pick up our story in 2023 when Brontosaurus, having achieved if not greatness then at least goodness, drags itself out of a prehistoric swamp and shows up on the doorstep of DYK.

Discovering the moribund nomination, your correspondent innocently suggested a more interesting hook:

ALT1: ... that a Brontosaurus stamp led to the United States Postal Service being accused of "fostering scientific illiteracy"?

in the hopes that would speed the process along. The quote was right out of the In popular culture section of the article, sourced to the gold standard of WP:RS, The New York Times. Sharp-eyed reviewer noticed that The Times only attributed the quote to anonymous "Furious purists" and wondered if that was good enough. So, apropos to the paleontologic theme, I started digging.

Brontosaurus made mention of "Postal Bulletin 21744".