Talk:Arthur Lennox Butler

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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: promoted by 97198 (talk) 13:02, 5 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

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... that naturalist Arthur Lennox Butler was the namesake for four species of reptile, a bird, and an amphibian? Source: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds p. 220; The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles p. 155; The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians p.35

Reviewed: Pumpkin Spice Spam

Created by Enwebb (talk). Self-nominated at 01:37, 30 August 2019 (UTC).Reply

Reviewing

Article in new enough, long enough, well written and supported by appropriate citations. No copyvio on Earwig.
Hook is properly formatted, short enough and supported by inline citation.
I don't think the word 'namesake' is the most appropriate, so I have suggested ALI! below

ALT1 ... that four species of reptile, a bird and an amphibian were named after Arthur Lennox Butler? Source: As above
Minor copyedit done

Looks good to go. Papamac (talk) 08:52, 30 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Iainmacintyre, thanks for the review! Enwebb (talk) 15:07, 30 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

A fact from Arthur Lennox Butler appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 September 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that four species of reptile, a bird, and an amphibian, were named after Arthur Lennox Butler?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2019/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arthur Lennox Butler.

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