The following discussion 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 Allen3 ^talk 10:12, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

• ... that Mattheus Marinus Schepman's most significant work is "The Prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition", a publication of 494 pages encompassing 212 genera and 1,467 species of snails and slugs?

Created/expanded by Snek01 (talk), 7&6=thirteen (talk), Invertzoo (talk), JoJan (talk). Nominated by Doug Coldwell (talk) at 19:15, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

• Reviewed: Phyllody. --Snek01 (talk) 23:42, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Added other contributors, if nominator Doug Coldwell (talk) has no objection. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:34, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Works for me.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 19:41, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

I don't know anything about DYK procedures, but must point out that I didn't write any of the text of this article, but only added a reference, so I don't want any official credit. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:30, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

• ALT1 ... that Mattheus Marinus Schepman's most significant work, a 494-page publication, encompasses 1,467 species of snails and slugs?

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:39, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

• ALT2 ... that Dutch malacologist Mattheus Marinus Schepman originally described about 450 taxa?

--Snek01 (talk) 21:11, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

I appeal to put it as the main DYK hook, because over a hundred of articles links to this one. Thank you. --Snek01 (talk) 00:31, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

It's not bad. Some issues are that "originally" seems weak, 450 is a lower number than 1,467, two links are side by side ("...When possible, avoid placing links next to each other so that they look like a single link.."), many visitors are more familiar with the word "species" than "taxa", and may not click for that reason, and the malacology link distracts and draws clicks away from the subject. Just my two cents. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:28, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

But, it's shorter, and that's a plus. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:29, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

• ALT3 ... that Mattheus Marinus Schepman's shell collection of 9,000 species was bought by the Zoological Museum Amsterdam in 1920?

Invertzoo (talk) 18:19, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

I like it! :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:57, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

• Needs a full review of the article against DYK criteria; no sign that one has been done in the many comments above. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:14, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

• New enough, long enough, free from copyright issues. I like ALT3. Good to go. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 16:38, 19 November 2012 (UTC)