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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Meanderingbartender (talk) 06:27, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Alice Hutchison

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  • ... that the hospital run by Dr. Alice Hutchison had the lowest rate of deaths from typhoid amongst Belgian refugees after the outbreak of the First World War? Source: "the mortality of her patients from typhoid was lower than that in any manrun hospital"[1]

Created by Meanderingbartender (talk). Self-nominated at 16:53, 25 April 2018 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: No - Suggestion—consider changing "amongst" to "among." Include "Dr." in the Wikilink.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nominated 4/25, created 4/20. 2280 characters, Start-class. See CN tag in article. Neutral. Per Earwig's Copyvio Detector, highest overlap 7.4%, and no plagiarism detected upon manual review. Cited hook source does not mention "Belgian refugees after the outbreak of the First World War." However, the Leneman 1994 source in the article specifies the nature of the war, the refugee status of the patients, and their nationality. The hook is interesting and 155 characters (<200). I believe that "among" is more common than "amongst;" consider changing this wording. Additionally, consider including the subject's title (Dr.) in the WL. No picture used. QPQ done. Made a few copyedits to the article. In summary, couple of minor issues, and a fun article to read. ―Biochemistry🙴 20:36, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

@Biochemistry&Love: I don't quite agree that the statement that she was the "one of the first" requires a source as it's hedging already. Sadly, no source says that directly, all of them imply. There's already a source that says she was the first woman doctor sent to France, which in turn, she became the head of a unit. Very few women had been doctors in war-time before the first world war, let alone the head of a hospital. It's very likely she was the first woman doctor to ever lead a hospital unit in war, but because there's no source, I switched it to "one of the first". Meanderingbartender (talk) 17:40, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Likely or not, isn't it considered original research to assert a claim like that, though? ―Biochemistry🙴 00:27, 18 May 2018 (UTC)