A fact from Rafflesia meijeri appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 May 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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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.
Overall: Article meets eligibility criteria - newness and length. Article's tone has no issues. Earwig does not show much of a concern. The hook is interesting, however, can we simplify this one for the lay audience? Does the hook mean that only male species of the plant have been discovered so far? If so, just stating it as such would be impactful and interesting. Handing back to nominator for their inputs. QPQ is done. Ktin (talk) 02:49, 8 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Hello @Ktin:! Thank you for taking the time to read the article, I'm not too sure if I want to go there, since I'm not exactly a hundred percent sure as to the situation on the ground for R. meijeri. If you think that an alt hook with the way you have worded it you are welcome to do so, but I myself am not entirely sure. Would an alt hook such as:
ALT1 looks good. Can we add a qualifier in front of Willem Meijer's name? e.g. "Dutch botanist Willem Meijer". Fwiw, I do think that ALT0 is quite powerful if we can simplify "type locality" Ktin (talk) 02:51, 10 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for your help @Ktin:! I hope these hooks are satisfactory, changed ALT2 as per your request, and changed "type locality" to "discovery site"! Ornithoptera (talk) 05:47, 10 May 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks @Ornithoptera:. ALT3 looks good. Would you be alright with a minor reword of ALT2 to ALT2.1 below? i.e. replaced "honours" with "named after".