Talk:Souleymane Mboup

A fact from Souleymane Mboup appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 July 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Souleymane Mboup and his team discovered HIV-2 in Senegal in 1985?

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I added some categories to your article to help it connect with other articles. Kiboko83 (talk) 12:36, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 12:17, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Souleymane Mboup and his team discovered HIV-2 in 1985 in Senegal?^[1]

Created by Alyce26 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:32, 17 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]

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

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems: - Please address the citation needed tag for the order of merit.

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

QPQ: None required.

Overall: One minor issue, then this is good to go. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:02, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@The Squirrel Conspiracy: It looks the citation needed tag was taken care of on July 1, but the nominator didn't update you here. SL93 (talk) 07:36, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GTG then. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 16:37, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Barin, F et al. “Serological evidence for virus related to simian T-lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of west Africa.” Lancet vol. 2,8469-70 (1985): 1387-9. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(85)92556-5

[1] Barin, F et al. “Serological evidence for virus related to simian T-lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of west Africa.” Lancet vol. 2,8469-70 (1985): 1387-9. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(85)92556-5

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