Talk:James Kirkham Ramsbottom

James Kirkham Ramsbottom is currently a Biology and medicine good article nominee. Nominated by Dumelow (talk) at 10:36, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

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Note: Not my usual area of work so I may be wrong but felt it might meet the GA criteria - Dumelow (talk) 10:36, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Short description: English botanist

A fact from James Kirkham Ramsbottom appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 February 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during World War I, James Kirkham Ramsbottom saved the British daffodil industry?

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 00:47, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that during the First World War James Kirkham Ramsbottom saved the British daffodil industry? Source: "James Kirkham Ramsbottom began his study of eelworm at Wisley in 1916 and within two years devised the hot-water cure - just in time to save the young industry from destruction" from: Tompsett, Andrew (2006). Golden Harvest: The Story of Daffodil Growing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Alison Hodge Publishers. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-906720-46-2. "if not for the hot water treatment (HWT) developed by James Kirkham Ramsbottom the narcissus bulb industry would have collapsed altogether" from: Daffodils. Royal Horticultural Society. 1981. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-906603-19-2. and "James Kirkham Ramsbottom (1891-1925), an unsung hero, discovered that heat treatment was effective against narcissus eelworm, thereby saving the British daffodil industry from disaster" from: Biggs, Matthew (6 May 2019). RHS A Nation in Bloom: Celebrating the People, Plants and Places of the Royal Horticultural Society. White Lion Publishing. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-7112-3935-7.
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Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 19:35, 21 January 2023 (UTC).[reply]

Starting review. Zeete (talk) 14:49, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Review: New (moved to main space January 21), long enough (6,960 per DYK check), cited, neutral, Earwig reported Violation Unlikely (34.6%, due to long quotations), QPQ done, hook interesting, length checked ok. Very interesting article. Consider using Template:sfn for the subsequent Tompsett refs. Consider adding a link and paragraph in Narcissus and Ditylenchus dipsaci.

Good to go. Thanks, Zeete (talk) 15:19, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]