Template:Did you know nominations/Parathyroid gland
- 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: promoted by Allen3 talk 11:11, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
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Parathyroid gland
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that the major function of the parathyroid glands is to maintain the body's calcium and phosphate levels within a narrow range, doing this by secreting parathyroid hormone?
- Reviewed: Not a self-nomination
Improved to Good Article status by LT910001 (talk). Nominated by Oceanh (talk) at 10:57, 13 June 2014 (UTC).
- I've simplified the original hook as ALT1. Mindmatrix 18:52, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
- ALT1: ... that the major function of the parathyroid glands is to maintain the body's calcium and phosphate levels within a narrow range by secreting parathyroid hormone?
as recently upgraded to GA status. No QPQ required as not self nominated. Long enough and well cited.
- Can you suggest more interesting hook if possible? -Nizil (talk) 21:03, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
Agree, something more interesting should be readily available. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:03, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
Nizil Shah, this is DYK, not GA. Details that are supposed to be checked in a DYK review can be found at DYK Reviewing guide. Yoninah (talk) 23:00, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
- Can you suggest more interesting hook if possible? -Nizil (talk) 21:03, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
- ALT2: ... that the parathyroids, hormone-producing glands positioned behind the thyroid, were first discovered in the Indian rhinoceros in 1852, and were not identified in humans till 1880? --PFHLai (talk) 19:39, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
- ALT2 looks a tad long, but I can't understand the objection to the original hook and alt, they look fine to me and are informative. Gatoclass (talk) 13:35, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
- ALT2 is only 7 characters more than the original hook, and the word 'positioned' can be removed to make it even shorter. I have no objection to the original hook, but I simply offer an alt that may be somewhat less boring (an accountant, ... does accounting work? a Japanese person, ... by speaking in Japanese?... sigh...) The more important issue is whether Nizil has done what I think Yoninah asked about. --PFHLai (talk) 16:42, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, I know you just offered an ALT based on the preceding discussion, and that's good, my comment wasn't aimed at you. I am simply making the point (albeit somewhat belatedly) that I see nothing wrong with the original hook (ALT1, actually) which explains the purpose of the parathyroid. That seems to me like a worthwhile fact to feature, it's certainly something I didn't know and it made me want to read the article. I think sometimes we get too focussed on finding some quirky or oddball fact when there's a perfectly good one right under our noses. But I just wanted to register some support for ALT1 and am content to leave the choice of hook to the promoter. Gatoclass (talk) 04:15, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
Update review: Yoninah is right that we have to do a full DYK review whether the article is GA or not. Gatoclass is right that all the hooks are hooky enough. So what we need here is a full review to clarify any remaining issues. New enough (GA 13 June, nom 13 June), long enough. Article is objective, neutral, and fully referenced. No QPQ necessary. I have struck the original hook because it is superseded by ALT1. Both remaining hooks are acceptable, hooky enough, and short enough at 161 and 179 characters. ALT1 is repeated in the Function section, sourced to offline citation #7, accepted AGF. ALT2 checks out with online citation #14. Spot checks found no copyvio or close paraphrasing. Good to go with ALT1 or ALT2. --Storye book (talk) 13:31, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, I know you just offered an ALT based on the preceding discussion, and that's good, my comment wasn't aimed at you. I am simply making the point (albeit somewhat belatedly) that I see nothing wrong with the original hook (ALT1, actually) which explains the purpose of the parathyroid. That seems to me like a worthwhile fact to feature, it's certainly something I didn't know and it made me want to read the article. I think sometimes we get too focussed on finding some quirky or oddball fact when there's a perfectly good one right under our noses. But I just wanted to register some support for ALT1 and am content to leave the choice of hook to the promoter. Gatoclass (talk) 04:15, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
