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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 Yoninah (talk) 00:15, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Jennie Smillie Robertson

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  • ... that Canada's first female surgeon Jennie Smillie Robertson performed the country's first major gynecological surgery on the kitchen table of a patient's home, removing an entire ovary...? Source: "her first operation in Toronto was removal of an ovarian tumor carried out on the kitchen table in the patient's home." (Dr. jennie smillie robertson woman surgeon was first to enter practice in canada. (1981, Mar 03). The Globe and Mail.)
    • ALT1:... that Canada's first female surgeon Jennie Smillie Robertson removed a patient's ovary on the kitchen table of their own home? Source: "her first operation in Toronto was removal of an ovarian tumor carried out on the kitchen table in the patient's home." (Dr. jennie smillie robertson woman surgeon was first to enter practice in canada. (1981, Mar 03). The Globe and Mail.)

Improved to Good Article status by Originalmess (talk). Self-nominated at 02:51, 27 January 2019 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: I don't think ALT0 needs "removing an entire ovary" to be interesting, so I suggest removing that part but it's okay either way. To the promoting user: File:Smillie portrait.jpg is a free acceptable picture that imho would really be a good idea to have in the DYK set but I know that pictures are always complicated with only one slot per day. Regards SoWhy 13:26, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

SoWhy thanks for the response and review! For you or the promoting reviewer - does ALT0 or ALT1 sound better? Now that I look over it again, ALT1 just sounds hook-ier to me. originalmesshow u doin that busta rhyme? 22:25, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Yes, ALT1 is snappier. I'm moving this to Women's History Month in March. Yoninah (talk) 20:36, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Awesome, thanks for the feedback! originalmesshow u doin that busta rhyme? 22:56, 19 February 2019 (UTC)