Talk:Lex Rijger

A fact from Lex Rijger appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Surinamese country singer Lex Rijger was originally a basketball player?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lex Rijger.

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Concerning the guidelines[edit]

Wikipedia:Notability (people): (in a nutshell) "A person is presumed to be notable if they have received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject."
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Substantiation[edit]

As can been seen currently, the article contains nine sources: eight of them are from reliable secundary sources, as a matter of fact quality media of Suriname (newspapers "Dagblad Suriname", "De Ware Tijd"; magazine "Parbode"; "Waterkant" is Surinamese-Dutch from Rotterdam). Leaves one, the recording of the funeral: this one has only been used for the dates of birth and death. For these data primary sources are fairly enough the most reliable sources (at least on Dutch Wikipedia decisive in discussions). Very important to note is that there are three media articles with Lex Rijger as a main subject "Dagblad Suriname" once and "De Ware Tijd" twice (one time as an editorial!; "commentaar" in Dutch language). In Rijger's role as a pater familias, there are two articles extra on his family (both in "Parbode"). So according to the guidelines, I have removed the template, with the motivation that the notability is being demonstrated in the article. Ymnes (talk) 17:55, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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.

The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 21:54, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Surinamese country singer Lex Rijger was originally a basketball player? Source: [1] in Dutch
- ALT1:... that Lex Rijger started a basketball team and a foundation to promote country music? Source: [2] in Dutch

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Singing Brakeman (film)

Created by Joofjoof (talk). Self-nominated at 11:08, 22 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

What an interesting life. I’m glad it will appear in DYK even though the timeframe has passed for ITNRD. Long enough, new enough, and sufficiently referenced, on foreign language sources accepted in good faith. Neutrally written. QPQ provided. No Earwig pings (of course). I like the first hook best. Good to go! Innisfree987 (talk) 23:07, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]