Talk:Rebecca Yahr

A fact from Rebecca Yahr appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 December 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 23:40, 29 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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ALT1... ~~that the lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of Scotland's Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh?~~ https://bioone.org/journals/the-bryologist/volume-103/issue-1/0007-2745(2000)103%5b0134%3aGYSNLA%5d2.0.CO%3b2/Gyalectidium-yahriae-sp-nov-Lichenized-Ascomycetes-Gomphillaceae-from-Florida-and/10.1639/0007-2745(2000)103[0134:GYSNLA]2.0.CO;2.short
- ALT2:... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of Scotland's Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dujanah and Template:Did you know nominations/Mark Wetjen

Created by MerielGJones (talk) and Esculenta (talk). Nominated by SL93 (talk) at 03:06, 24 November 2022 (UTC).[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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: added source link to hook. Review applies to length, refs, quality etc. of both Gyalectidium yahriae and Rebecca Yahr. I've added two inline sources to comply with this. Note that copyvio report features a false positive because of bibliography Bogger (talk) 14:47, 25 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bogger ... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of Scotland's Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh?

Bogger I see that I forgot to sign up above so my ping didn't go through. SL93 (talk) 13:43, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ALT2 approved

Bogger (talk) 18:04, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]