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A news item involving Waka Nathan was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 30 September 2021.

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A fact from Waka Nathan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 October 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Waka Nathan was nicknamed "the Black Panther" by a French newspaper reporter who was impressed by his ability to pursue opponents like the animal?

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

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He was nicknamed the "Black Panther" when he was at his prime. There was a funny article in the news at the time titled "Black Panther swaps diet from meat to beer" . He was employed as a meat worker, but then got offered a job to work with public relations and sales in the distribution of the local brew. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.230.10.96 (talk) 14:35, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 05:37, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Waka Nathan

... that Waka Nathan (pictured) scored the third-most tries in New Zealand's 1963–64 tour, despite sustaining a broken finger and broken jaw? Source: ESPN (number of tries); New Zealand Rugby (injuries)
- ALT1:... that Waka Nathan (pictured) was nicknamed "the Black Panther" by a French newspaper reporter who was impressed by his ability to pursue opponents like the animal? Source: Stuff

Reviewed: Bridget Burgess (racing driver)
Comment: Eligible per Rule 1d, because it only appeared in the "Recent Deaths" section of ITN and not as a bold link.

5x expanded by Bloom6132 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:48, 30 September 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Bloom6132, review follows: More than 5x since his 24 September death (checked against this version) and nominator has been the major contributor (a number of others contributed but the article has essentially been rewritten since); article is well written; I'm not an expert on rugby sourcing but the sources used appear reliable; inline citations used throughout; hooks are interesting, mentioned in the article and check out to source cited; a QPQ has been carried out. I did a spot check for overly close paraphrasing and found no major issues but think the following two sentences could use a rewrite to move a little further from the wording used in the source:

"He notably scored a last-minute try against Canterbury, enabling his teammate Mike Cormack to convert the try and resulting in Auckland" in article and "scoring a last-minute try against Canterbury to set up his teammate Mike Cormack to convert the try" from the NZ Herald
"Nathan proceeded to debut for the New Zealand Māori in the same year and played for the team until 1966" in article and "He went on to debut for the New Zealand Māori in the same year appearing for the team until 1966." in the Herald

Other than that, looks good to me - Dumelow (talk) 06:57, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot the image review. Not an expert on NZ copyright but licensing looks reasonable to me - Dumelow (talk) 06:59, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Dumelow: thanks for the review! I've reworded the two sentences – hope that works. —Bloom6132 (talk) 10:24, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Bloom6132, looks fine to me - Dumelow (talk) 10:30, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1 to T:DYK/P1 without image