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A fact from Josh de Caires appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that English cricketer Josh de Caires, the son of former England captain Michael Atherton, was given his mother's maiden name at birth, and he does not know why?
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.
... that English cricketer Josh de Caires, the son of former England captain Michael Atherton, was given his mother's maiden name at birth, and he doesn't know why? Source: [1]
Overall: I would prefer ALT0 over ALT1. To me personally, ALT0 is quite quirky, as one may expect he would've taken his father's surname to benefit off his fame. Epicgenius (talk) 16:20, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]