Talk:Darius Dhlomo

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A fact from Darius Dhlomo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 October 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that black South African footballer Darius Dhlomo went missing on his debut for Dutch club Heracles Almelo because he was unaware that blacks and whites were allowed in the same changing room?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/October.

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Wim Coster and Ben Siemerink (2010). Darius Dhlomo / druk 1: de speler met het zwart-witte hart (in Dutch). Arbeiderspers. ISBN 9029567244. ISBN 9789029567244.

It's (currently) due in November. Uncle G (talk) 10:14, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK hook

It would be really helpful to see a date reference in the "Did you know" facility regards this incident otherwise the unfair impression is given that this is still occurs in South Africa today!Semperlibre (talk) 09:49, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK hooks need to be kept short for space, and we are allowed some leeway to word the hooks in the "juiciest" possible manner so that readers are enticed to click through and read the article, as long as it isn't factually incorrect. The article got 4,600 hits on the day, and the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act got 2,300. So it worked! Zunaid 17:13, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Any relationship?

Any relationship to a certain former Wikipedian by the same name?--*Kat* (talk) 21:22, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

He is a man of many talents no doubt, but somehow retiring and taking up WP vandalism in his old age seems a bit of a stretch ;) Probably the user named himself after this person. Zunaid 17:07, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know that the idea is as far fetched as all that. He frequently cites dutch language sources when writing about dutch athletes. He has also written A LOT of articles about footballers. Additionally, if our DD is an Octogenarian that might explain why he A) has had the time to write so many articles over the course of so many years and B) flat refused to listen to anything anybody had to say to him. Really old men aren't known for giving a rat's ass about other people's rules and regulations.

Furthermore to say that DD was a vandal is to say that his contributes lacked merit. Which is simply not true. Despite the amount of work he created for us, WP is, without a doubt, better for his participation. There are many athletes who would not have an article if it weren't for DD. Furthermore, copyright violations or not, the amount of work he did is just staggering. Most of his articles came with color coded tables indicating wins, loses, and other vital/relevant statistics. Granted, these things were pulled from other sources, but converting an HTML table to a wiki-table is no mean feat. Colorcoding it and then (when relevant) adding in the little flag icons to indicate a athelete's nationality is time consuming and tedious work. I'm pretty sure that he spent more time formatting those tables than all of us have spent investigating, talking about, and cleaning up his copyright vios, combined.

Food for thought. --*Kat* (talk) 02:38, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We don't know, and it's largely irrelevant. I did, however, create this article in order that Wikipedia's search engine weight directed people to the real person rather than to the Wikipedia account. Uncle G (talk) 17:35, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Clever move. FWIW, I wholeheartedly approve!--*Kat* (talk) 02:38, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - To that end, I suggest that we don't use this talk page to talk about anything other than the article subject, and continue this discussion at the NOINDEXed CCI page. Uncle G (talk) 11:39, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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