Template talk:Did you know/Timema

Timema

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as 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

• ... that some species of the stick insect genus Timema have not had sex for one million years?

• Reviewed: John Rowan (Kentucky)} ([1])

5x expanded by Sharktopus (talk), Obsidian Soul (talk). Self nom at 14:00, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Please add a comment and signature (or just a signature if endorsing) after each aspect you have reviewed:

Timema stick insect

Timema stick insect

Hook

• Length, format, content rules: Tony (talk) 12:55, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
• Source: Tony (talk) 12:55, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
• Interest: Excellent Tony (talk) 12:55, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
• Image suitability: I think unsuitable at 100px: can't make out what it is. The other pic would be better, but still not ideal at tiny size. Tony (talk) 12:55, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
• ALT hooks, if proposed:

Article

• Length: Tony (talk) 12:55, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
• Vintage:
• Sourcing (V, RS, BLP):
• Neutrality: Tony (talk) 12:55, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
• Plagiarism/close paraphrasing:
• Copyvio:
• Obvious faults in prose, structure, formatting: Excellent! Tony (talk) 12:55, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Comment by Sharktopus as per plagiarism and copyvio: Oh, FFS, who the F could I possibly be plagiarizing? There is exactly one popular-level article about these little buggies.[2] Go look at that, you'll see I did not crib it. Aside from that, the article cites 15 different scholarly sources! Do we need the reviewer to go through all 15 in detail to make sure I did not closely paraphrase even one sentence? Give me an effing break, says Sharktopus who has perhaps had too much Jim Beam. Sharktopus ^talk 23:49, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

• LOL... calm down. I don't see any accusations of plagiarism anywhere. The above is a checklist! XD If there is plagiarism, Tony would have placed something after it. I blame the new 'format' for the confusion, though I quite like it... except for its possible unwieldiness. -- Obsidi♠n Soul 02:52, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

*Calm down? El Sharktolino never will calm down! I just meant that the hardest/longest part of the new template is hunting for copyvios. But common sense could perceive in this article that we had little opportunity to steal other people's prose (OPP). That's all I meant. ((Passing Obsidian my bottle of Jim Beam, but hey, I have plenty left in here to bribe some reviewers as well!)) Sharktopus ^talk 03:22, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

That's a discussion for the DYK talk page and the cause of bar brawls. lol.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 03:32, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

Comments/discussion:

• Cropped version and alternate pic added immediately below first pic suggestion for consideration. I can crop further if necessary.-- Obsidi♠n Soul 14:59, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Beautiful! wtg, Obsidian!! Sharktopus ^talk 23:49, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

• Moved to Template:Did you know/Queue/_ on ____ by ____.