Template:Did you know nominations/Cynthia Whitchurch

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 16:15, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Cynthia Whitchurch

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• ... that Cynthia Whitchurch was the first woman in over 30 years to be awarded the David Syme Research Prize? Source:https://www.scienceinpublic.com.au/media-releases/davidsymeprize Whitchurch is one of a handful of women to receive the award since its inception in 1906. The last was Professor Suzanne Cory, immediate past president of the Australian Academy of Sciences (1982

• Comment: New editor participating in the Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/Franklin Women 2019 editathon. Gnangarra 07:49, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Created by Annamsweens (talk). Nominated by Gnangarra (talk) at 07:49, 25 July 2019 (UTC).

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Elinor Lupton Centre

• @Annamsweens and Gnangarra:

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: per WP:ELNO, should probably eliminate the links inside the article text itself, and move them to external links section. epicgenius (talk) 23:56, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

•  Done moved the ELs to separate section. Gnangarra 05:34, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
• I have given the article a copyedit to address the concerns of a few sentences that can be reworded Gnangarra 05:49, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

• Great! Should be good to go now. epicgenius (talk) 12:44, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

• Returned to WP:DYKN. I wikified the article, formatted the refs, and added numerous tags for information that is not cited or not clear. Yoninah (talk) 11:09, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

• I have done cleanup to address tags and some expansion and would like to propose another hook: Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 04:26, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

• • ALT1:... that Cynthia Whitchurch's discovery of a novel role for DNA in nature is credited with creating a paradigm shift in the study of biofilms? Source: "Cynthia Whitchurch’s outstanding contribution is her discovery of novel roles for DNA that are unrelated to its genetic functions. Her seminal discovery that extracellular DNA (eDNA) is required for building multicellular bacterial communities called biofilms promoted a paradigm shift in our understanding of biofilm biology and demonstrated a novel role for DNA in nature."

• Thank you, Mary Mark Ockerbloom, for the great improvement. I've added you to the DYK credits. ALT1 is verified and cited inline. Rest of review per epicgenius. ALT1 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 14:23, 23 August 2019 (UTC)