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sourced to Bahrick's article. Any claim about prominence needs a secondary source, and one could argue that secondary sourcing is necessary for a lot more here: that a theory is worthwhile mentioning is in fact what needs to be established with an outside source. I applaud the Davidson students for having tackled this, but if it is to advertise Knowledge on the front page it will need work.
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Maybe, but it needs serious MOS editing--there are inline URLs even in the lead; sections are done with bold print, not with headings; headings themselves have incorrect capitalization; there are punctuation errors (missing after dates)... I also see what looks like OR: see, for instance, the end of
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What I thought were external links were in fact wikilinks done externally--this needs to be corrected. But I see more problems: the first main section claims "The most prominent method for testing and proving the encoding specificity principle was created by Harry P. Bahrick"--and the statement is
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MOS issues, especially relatively trivial ones like bold section headings and inline external links, are not an appropriate reason to reject an article. First of all, they are so easy to fix; secondly, and most to the point, the DYK criteria do not include "MOS compliance". Remember, this is not
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the section called "Encoding Specificity and Advertising". In fact, the entire article reads like an essay, which led me to suspect what I indeed found confirmed on the talk page: an educational assignment.
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On the other hand, if there actually are OR and referencing issues, that is more serious. I have noticed these problems with most school assignments I see (not specifically this class).
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The article needs a good scrubbing by someone familiar with the MOS and a good revision for a more encyclopedic style.
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after 27 days. The article's contributors have failed to respond to the concerns raised below about
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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below.
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suggests students match study and testing environments for the best recall of information?
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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