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A fact from Valerie Cowie appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 September 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that when Valerie Cowie was appointed a senior lecturer, one of her referees wrote that his "only reservation is that the post ... does not adequately do justice to her high academic status"?
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... that Valerie Cowie was once described by a colleague as "one of the stars of modern psychiatry"? Source: "Consultant hailed as 'star of modern psychiatry'". The Times. 9 September 2023. p. 73. Like Valerie, John became a consultant psychiatrist and throughout their 20-year marriage the pair would support each other. Yet it was Valerie who became, as a colleague described her, 'one of the stars of modern psychiatry'.
ALT1: ... that when Valerie Cowie was appointed a senior lecturer, one of her referees wrote that his "only reservation is that the post ... does not adequately do justice to her high academic status"? Source: Illman, John (24 July 2023). "Valerie Cowie: Influential psychiatrist and geneticist". BMJ: 1705. doi:10.1136/bmj.p1705.
Overall: Article is good! I have a slight preference for ALT1 but both are excellent options. ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)Talk to Me! 12:36, 18 September 2023 (UTC)Reply
Article is good! I have a slight preference for ALT1 but both are excellent options. ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)Talk to Me! 12:36, 18 September 2023 (UTC)