Talk:Dickwhitea

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A fact from Dickwhitea appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 March 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the fossil fern Dickwhitea was described from a single block of chert?

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 16:19, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the fossil fern Dickwhitea was described from a single block of chert? Source: Karafit et al 2006 Systematics Holotype hic designatus "Rhizome with attached stipe bases and adventitious roots, including slabs, slides, and peels from chert block P1080"
- ALT1: ... that the roots of the fossil fern Dickwhitea have been compared to ginkgo and coast redwood? Source: Karafit et al 2006 pg725 Discission "Because each stipe has paired traces that are derived from adjacent cauline bundles, the vascular architecture of D. allenbyensis is particularly comparable to Ginkgo biloba (Gunckel and Wetmore 1946), Sequoia sempervirens (Namboodiri and Beck 1968a),
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Catodontherium

Moved to mainspace by Kevmin (talk). Self-nominated at 01:09, 20 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Dickwhitea; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Article is new enough, long enough, well sourced, neutral and plafiarism free (Earwig 0.0%). Hook is cited, I prefer ALT0. QPQ is done (only one required since nomination is pre-8 March. Lajmmoore (talk) 07:53, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]