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A fact from Godwin Obasi appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Godwin Obasi has been described as "Africa's gift to the world of climate science"?
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... that Godwin Obasi has been described as "Africa’s gift to the world of climate science"? Source: The Development NewsEnviroNews Nigeria the 1st seems like the original and the other is just a copy with a bif of parphrasing
Overall: Article is new enough, long enough, is well-sourced and neutral. The hook is cited and is interesting. A QPQ is done. I think however there are two things to amend: the Eariwg Copyvio result gives 40.1% likelihood - most of these are due to the long names of the scientific organisations but this sentence - " Professor Obasi was the first member of the Secretariat to be elected as WMO Secretary-General and the first African to be elected head of a UN body." - I do think is too close to the ClimDev source, please could you amend it? Secondly, I added a [when?] into the text, where it wasn't clear what the timeframe was - if you mean today, I'd put "as of 2023". Thanks very much, really interesting article. Lajmmoore (talk) 17:21, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Lajmmoore: thanks again. Amended the sentence with copyvio and fixed the when tag by using "(today's ...)" hope that fixes the problem. Thanks for finding the article interesting. FuzzyMagma (talk) 11:19, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Article is new enough, long enough, is well-sourced and neutral. The hook is cited and is interesting. A QPQ is done. I think however there are two things to amend: the Eariwg Copyvio result gives 40.1% likelihood - most of these are due to the long names of the scientific organisations but this sentence - " Professor Obasi was the first member of the Secretariat to be elected as WMO Secretary-General and the first African to be elected head of a UN body." - I do think is too close to the ClimDev source, please could you amend it? Secondly, I added a [when?] into the text, where it wasn't clear what the timeframe was - if you mean today, I'd put "as of 2023". Thanks very much, really interesting article. Lajmmoore (talk) 17:21, 10 April 2023 (UTC)