Talk:Richard W. Wells
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 | A fact from Richard W. Wells appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination edit
- 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: promoted by SL93 (talk) 03:25, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
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- ... that before Richard W. Wells brought several eastern brown snake eggs into a local newspaper office, the species had never been photographed hatching? Source: "...it was the first time an eastern brown had been photographed emerging from the egg" (ref 2, SMH 1980)
Converted from a redirect by Bobamnertiopsis (talk). Self-nominated at 00:48, 12 March 2021 (UTC).
@Bobamnertiopsis: New enough and long enough redirect conversion. QPQ required. Hook fact is in article and checks out (clipped the Newspapers.com citations as well). Seems like quite the quirky chap! No other textual issues. Ping me when you have a QPQ and you'll get a tick. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:24, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the review, Sammi Brie! QPQ done. If you enjoyed this article, you'll probably like tomorrow's FA! Kindly —Collint c 20:43, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Sammi Brie: Is it good to go now? jp×g 20:29, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Yes, sorry for not responding. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 21:24, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Notability edit
Modest Genius, you retagged this article for notability concerns and I think you were right to do so as it stood. However, I think Wells does not fail WP:BLP1E by virtue of his second, later controversy in which his further non-peer-reviewed publications and the names he proposed in the Australian Biodiversity Record are the subject to an ongoing boycott by a number of prominent herpetologists, now in its eighth year. For comparison, during the Wells and Wellington affair, a boycott was never undertaken. I've added a source to expand on this and, I hope, demonstrate Wells's notability beyond the affair. I don't know that I would be able to justify notability for Wellington at this point (he's seemingly done more less controversial herpetology than Wells has at this point, but none so flashy or controversial as Wells's 2000s publications) but I feel confident that Wells merits an article. Thanks, —Collint c 00:36, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
- OK. The new Kaiser (2013) reference does indeed have non-trivial discussion of Wells' work in the 2000s. I can't access the Cogger (2017) ref but I'll assume good faith that it has similar commentary on Wells (not just Hoser). This still seems a bit borderline for notability, but I'll remove the tag. Thanks for addressing! Modest Genius talk 11:39, 26 March 2021 (UTC)