Template:Did you know nominations/Christian Ramsay
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:30, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
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Christian Ramsay edit
Christian Ramsay
- ... that Christian Ramsay (pictured), honorary member of Botanical Society of Edinburgh, was so dedicated to botany that she died with a list of plants in her hand?
Created by Worm That Turned (talk) and Staceydolxx (talk). Nominated by Worm That Turned (talk) at 19:38, 1 January 2016 (UTC).
A nice article that is new enough, has no obvious copyvio, an interesting hook, correcting sourcing, and meets all other DYK criteria. Good to go. LavaBaron (talk) 04:53, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
The hook fact is sourced to footnote 10, page 52, but it does not appear anywhere on this page or in this book. Yoninah (talk) 17:49, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
- It is also unclear why you are calling her "Christian Ramsay" in the hook but writing "Lady Dalhousie" throughout the article. Yoninah (talk) 17:51, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Yoninah. The article is about Christian Ramsay, who held the title of Lady Dalhousie between 1815 and 1839. The majority of sources refer to her under the name of Dalhousie, so we followed that for consistency. However, the article should remain at Christian Ramsay as there have been a number of Lady Dalhousie's over the years. As for the hook, the fact does appear on that page, in that book, in the last sentence of the second paragraph - "Almost her last conversation turned upon the subject [of botany], and the intrusion of death, without even momentary warning, found in her hand a list of plants which she had just prepared as objects of attention during the ensuing season" WormTT(talk) 18:13, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
- Are we looking at the same book? Yoninah (talk) 18:22, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
- Ah, I see what's happened, Yoninah. It's digitized multiple books together. I'm looking at the 1838-9 session, page 52 (about half way through the google book). I'll tweak the sourced to make that clearer. In the meantime, search inside the book for the world "Dalhousie" and it will show as page 52. WormTT(talk) 18:58, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
