Talk:Cow mortality

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. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:56, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that In some herd studies, nearly half of the cows that died did so within the first month after giving birth, often with a large share in just the first few days?

• Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030223000875

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  • Comment: (first ever nomination attempt)

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

SeldomSeldom (talk) 19:47, 17 January 2026 (UTC).

• Comment: @SeldomSeldom: Hi. Welcome to the DYK, thank you for your contributions. You have created a page from multiple study papers, that is good. I will be reviewing your article within a week, currently I am providing short comments only. This is a new enough article and nominated two days after creation, and it requires to be de-orphaned. Earwig copyvio tool shows 0.0%, and QPQ is not required. Hook seems interesting but needs to be rephrased for easy understanding otherwise it may appear confusing; although it is sourced. Thank you and all the best! M. Billoo 09:47, 25 January 2026 (UTC)
• References #3 and #5 are identical, you can consider removing one of them. M. Billoo 06:02, 27 January 2026 (UTC)
• @SeldomSeldom: I was just wondering that the citation and hook you used here are nowhere in the main page. Can you please look into this? Is your page really complete, or is there more to add? Some of your points/clauses appear potentially unsourced; if you believe your page depends upons the references you have used, then please re-order the references ahead of each clause/sentence it supports as per the WP:INLINE citations. Thank you! M. Billoo 02:36, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

• Hi @M. Billoo, thank you for bringing up this issue. When creating the article, I compiled a list of links I might be able use, and ended up not using the (sciencedirect) one during drafting. However, it seems like I forgot which ones WERE used, and deduced that this might be a cool nomination. I will review my article and fit relevant info, using this link and relevant external info. Also, is there a deadline to get to final stages of this process? Thanks for the heads up!

@SeldomSeldom: Do not worry, please see WP:DYKTIMEOUT. Thank you. M. Billoo 18:27, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

@M.Billoo2000:, thanks for the feedback. I’ve now added the ScienceDirect reference, The page (should) now be complete and properly sourced. Any other steps before final submission? SeldomSeldom

@SeldomSeldom: Please use WP:INLINE citations. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) M. Billoo 03:09, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

• @SeldomSeldom: Your reference #2 here is written as Periparturient Dairy Cow Mortality: Timing and Risk Factors, but it actually points to Necropsy-based study on dairy cow mortality—Underlying causes of death. Please correct this.

Most of the citations belong to the studies in the continents of America, but only one is from Finland. Do these really present a worldwide point-of-view? If not, then I think the contents in the article should specifically reflect this, because currently, there is only one mention of a study of pasture‑based dairy farms in Uruguay, and one mention of large surveys in the United States within the article.

When I say WP:INLINE, it means that every claim inside the article, whether a prose/paragraph or a bullet point, should be supported with the respective reference(s) ahead. And currently, you have 14 paragraphs and points, out of which only 7 have an INLINE citation, excluding the MOS:LEAD which generally does not require inline citation because it is extracted from the article body.

You may also consider seeing WP:SYNTH, if it is implying here or not, that multiple different studies have been collected and tried to be presented as one article.

Awaiting your response, thank you! M. Billoo 02:47, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

• @M.Billoo2000: Apologies for the inactivity,, thank you again for reaching out and for the feedback. I’ve decided not to continue with the DYK nomination for now, it’s a bit more challenging than I expected for my first try. I still want the article to be useful and accurate, so should every single issue listed above be corrected to the worldwide view, even if I’m not doing the nomination? Thanks again for your help and patience! SeldomSeldom (talk)
  • Not sure M.Billoo2000 will have seen the above comment, so I'm pinging them again. If they don't stop by soon to respond and mark the nomination for closure, I will close the nomination as withdrawn per SeldomSeldom's post. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:32, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: The article has good knowledge so I do not want to close this on my end... That is why no comments. M. Billoo 17:06, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

@SeldomSeldom: You can ask for any help at WT:Animals and WT:AGRICULTURE, not sure if it is relatable in WP:DEATH. M. Billoo 17:17, 28 February 2026 (UTC)