Template:Did you know nominations/Crawford Long

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The result was: rejected by Yoninah (talk) 14:48, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
Not a 5x expansion

Crawford Long edit

  • ... that while a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital is credited with the first use of anesthesia, Georgian doctor Crawford Long was the first in 1842 for a neck tumor operation?
    • ALT1:... that Crawford Long was the first physician to use anesthesia?

5x expanded by HHowar12 (talk). Nominated by Cnpacyna (talk) at 04:29, 10 March 2017 (UTC).

  • I am sorry to do this @HHowar12 and Cnpacyna: but this was not expanded five-fold. Since it was sourced prior to expansion the rule is 5x expansion. In December 2016 it had 3761 B of readable prose - now it has 8682 B, which is far from the 18,500-ish bytes needed, it's not even half way to the criteria for DYK. If it was closer to the mark I'd put it on hold and ask for more, but it needs to be more than doubled in size to qualify. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.  MPJ-DK  16:31, 11 March 2017 (UTC)