Template:Did you know nominations/Priddy Meeks

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The result was: promoted by  MPJ-DK  23:21, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Priddy Meeks

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  • ... that the pioneer doctor Priddy Meeks once told sick patients via messenger to "jump all over the city creek, crawl back into your tent and cover up warm"?

5x expanded by Amgisseman(BYU) (talk) and Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk). Nominated by Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) at 20:18, 9 August 2016 (UTC).

  • Hi, I formatted ALT0 and added a link to your QPQ. (If you know the name of the article, just add "Template:Did you know nominations/" in front of it and put links around it.) To answer your question: You did a complete review; even though it failed, it still counts as a QPQ. Best, Yoninah (talk) 00:38, 16 August 2016 (UTC)


General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

  • Adequate sourcing: Yes
  • Neutral: No - Meeks practised Thomsonian medicine which was somewhat controversial and the article should make this clearer. The lead describes him as both a "hero" and "villain" but does not explain this extreme language.
  • Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: Yes
  • Other problems: No - The material is based on Meeks' journal which is autobiographical and so, as a primary source, is potentially unreliable. The article should make it clearer when it's using Meeks' own account.

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: No - I prefer the first hook and haven't checked the others.<

Image eligibility:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The subject is quite interesting and so seems worthy of further effort. I'll see if I can help. Andrew D. (talk) 12:01, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

  • @Amgisseman(BYU): thank you for fixing the lead; I also added to it, and removed the tag. I have one question about the second paragraph under Personal Life. Where does it say that Meeks was 62 when he looked for a second wife? Since this took place during his first marriage, and his first wife died in 1923, when he was about 28, this age can't be right. Yoninah (talk) 19:47, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
  • Yoninah I corrected the wording in the Personal life paragraph. Sarah was his second wife, and she was the wife that encouraged him to find a plural wife. His age was correct, I just made an error in calling her his first wife. Thanks for pointing that out.
  • Andrew D. The lead has now been changed.I tried to supplement some of the autobiographical sources with a book that has a section on Priddy Meeks; however, not all of the information is found there. The rest of the information is only found in his journals. In my opinion I feel like sources are acceptable to use under WP:SELFPUB. Amgisseman(BYU) (talk) 20:28, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
  • New enough and long enough, inline citations and references checks, factual and interesting hooks, close paraphrasing and neutrality is checked as well and approved, Good work, well done! This one is good to go.BabbaQ (talk) 19:33, 10 September 2016 (UTC)