Template:Did you know nominations/Telephone-pole beetle

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The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by AirshipJungleman29 talk 03:08, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Telephone-pole beetle

  • ... that adult telephone-pole beetles are unable to copulate, and adult females do not have the physiological mechanisms to reproduce because they are unable to lay eggs or produce live progeny? Source: Perotti, M. Alejandra; Young, Daniel K.; Braig, Henk R. (June 2016). "The ghost sex-life of the paedogenetic beetle Micromalthus debilis". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 27364. Bibcode:2016NatSR...627364P. doi:10.1038/srep27364
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5x expanded by MichelleLi455 (talk). Self-nominated at 06:05, 1 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Telephone-pole beetle; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

  • Hello MichelleLi455, and thank you for a great article! You have made some excellent improvements to Telephone-pole beetle, but unfortunately it is not eligible for a Did You Know nomination. DYK is meant for brand new content, and while the article has seen massive improvement, it has not been expanded by 5x in size since you started editing last week (4214 bytes to 12000 bytes, about a 3x expansion). However, I think you can go one better than DYK. With just a little more work, I think this has the potential to pass a peer review and become a Good Article, at which point it would be recognized as some of the best content on Wikipedia (and could also be re-nominated for DYK!) If you are interested in that, please let me know and I would be happy to help you through the process. Fritzmann (message me) 18:30, 2 March 2024 (UTC)