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* ... that British [[animal welfare]] activist '''[[Shirley McGreal]]''' founded the [[International Primate Protection League]], to stop [[animal trafficking]] and traumatic [[animal experimentation]]? <small>Source: “ Inspired, she formed the International Primate Protection League two years later. Combining passion, outrage and relentlessness, the British-born Ms. McGreal became a formidable voice against man-made misery suffered by primates from Asia, Africa and South America. She helped force India to stop exporting rhesus monkeys to the United States for military radiation experiments. She pushed for the U.S. government to close a lab at the University of California, Davis, that used smuggled baby gibbons in cancer virus experiments. She exposed trafficking rings, like one in which a Florida primate dealer smuggled six baby orangutans from Indonesian Borneo in crates marked “birds,” with Moscow expected to be their final destination.” [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/science/shirley-mcgreal-dead.html The New York Times]</small>
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<small>Created by [[User:Thriley|Thriley]] ([[User talk:Thriley|talk]]), [[User:Lamona|Lamona]] ([[User talk:Lamona|talk]]), and [[User:Psychologist Guy|Psychologist Guy]] ([[User talk:Psychologist Guy|talk]]). Nominated by [[User:Thriley|Thriley]] ([[User talk:Thriley|talk]]) at 22:00, 17 January 2022 (UTC).</small>

* I'll review this. [[User:DrThneed|DrThneed]] ([[User talk:DrThneed|talk]]) 23:33, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
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|comments = New enough, long enough. Some things to fix, although I don't think these should be too problematic.

Some copyvio clean up needed, as Earwig shows 15% similarity to Guardian obit and 13% to NY times. Much of that is just organisation names but there are some phrases that need changing e.g. "Shirley studied French and Latin at Royal Holloway, University of London" is direct from the Guardian obituary (also, it should be McGreal not Shirley in the WP article).

The hook says not just that she founded the IPPL (which is sourced to three places in the lead) but that she founded it for a purpose ("to stop animal trafficking and traumatic animal experimentation"), which I don't find in the article or the sources. The NY Times quote you've supplied talks about what the IPPL did but not necessarily that that was its intended purpose, and the "about us" IPPL page does not mention animal experimentation, afaics.

Also, v minor, the article refers to she/her all through the Animal welfare section, until the last paragraph, you could maybe use her name somewhere near the beginning of that section too?

Finally, we are collecting hooks about women for International Women's Day on March 8th, would you consider this DYK being held until then?
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:It looks like the copyvio detector is just picking up proper nouns. There doesn’t appear to be any issues there besides the minor bit about her studies. I’ll think about edits to the hook or perhaps another one entirely. Let’s see what one of the other editors who did a great deal of work on the article has to say. [[User:Thriley|Thriley]] ([[User talk:Thriley|talk]]) 06:15, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
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