Talk:Brain microbiome

Did you know nomination

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 SL93 talk 14:38, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that some scientists hypothesize that a brain microbiome could be responsible for some dementias?

• Source: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/01/the-brain-microbiome-could-understanding-it-help-prevent-dementia

• • Reviewed:

Created by Bluethricecreamman (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Bluethricecreamman (talk) 20:31, 2 February 2025 (UTC).

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: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: The article is new enough and long enough. Additionally, earwig indicates that it is unlikely to contain copyright violations, and while I'm not an expert on the subject, it seems that the sources are from reputable sources and used accordingly in the article. The hook is interesting and properly cited, though to make it less vague, I suggest properly attributing the hypothesis to Richard Lathe, who has his own Wikipedia article, something like:

• ... that some scientists, such as Richard Lathe, hypothesize that a brain microbiome could be responsible for some dementias? JJonahJackalope (talk) 17:18, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
• Comment. Another editor told me on my user talk page about this DYK nomination. I think it's important to note that the hypothesis that the page is about, is regarded by a preponderance of sources as somewhere between unlikely and WP:FRINGE (see, for example: ). That doesn't mean that it fails notability for our purposes, and readers may well be quite interested in it. I also recognize that the nominated page does an adequate job of presenting both sides of the debate; I'll leave it to others whether there should be more sourcing like the one I just linked to, as a matter of NPOV, before putting this on the Main Page. But I will say that any hook has to be clear that this is an attributed opinion, and not a promising scientific hypothesis. I'm also going to put a note about this discussion at WT:NEURO. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:22, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

• agree its between fringe and not probable. i could have done more to change dyk hook to be clear about it, something like:
• ... that some scientists, such as Richard Lathe, speculate that a brain microbiome could exist, despite the blood-brain barrier? Bluethricecreamman (talk) 23:48, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

• Thanks. I actually think you don't need the blood-brain barrier, because "speculate" is a good way to achieve NPOV.
• ALT2:
• ... that some scientists, such as Richard Lathe, speculate that a brain microbiome could exist?
• --Tryptofish (talk) 23:54, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

like alt2 a lot. brain microbiome is really cool and speculative idea on its own to meet interesting criterion for DYK hook, even if its unlikely to be true without significantly more evidence Bluethricecreamman (talk) 00:11, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

• Both the nominator and I have made further edits to the page, and I'm satisfied that all the NPOV issues have been cleared up. Another possible hook occurs to me:

• ALT3:
• ... that scientists debate whether a brain microbiome exists?

I'm fine with either ALT2 or ALT3, and pending any comments on which is preferable, I'm just about ready to put support a green check here. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:50, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

@JJonahJackalope and Bluethricecreamman: Thoughts? --Tryptofish (talk) 23:48, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

leaning more towards alt3 now User:Bluethricecreamman (Talk·Contribs) 00:21, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

@Bluethricecreamman:, ALT3 definitely works for me. -JJonahJackalope (talk) 14:49, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, all. With the original reviewer's consent:

• Good to go, for ALT3. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:57, 13 February 2025 (UTC)