Talk:Sibongile Khumalo

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A news item involving Sibongile Khumalo was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 30 January 2021.

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A fact from Sibongile Khumalo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 February 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Sibongile Khumalo, who sang both national anthems at the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final, said that it was "the one and only time I've ever watched a rugby match, at any level, of any kind"?

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

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 Sibongile Khumalo is an authority on South African music, and participated in the fight for an end to apartheid.  Aside from her three publshed ablums, she was also recently was featured in the South African Music Documentary “Amandla!” describing the role of music in the people's fight for freedom.

Kbakerbio (talk) 21:47, 10 October 2009 (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 Joofjoof (talk) 01:49, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Sibongile Khumalo in 2008

... that Sibongile Khumalo (pictured) was nicknamed South Africa's "First Lady of Song" by Nelson Mandela? Source: The New York Times; South African Broadcasting Corporation;
- ALT1:... that Sibongile Khumalo (pictured), who sang both national anthems at the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final, said that was "the one and only time I’ve ever watched a rugby match, at any level, of any kind"? Source: The New York Times

Reviewed: Mandai Wildlife Bridge

5x expanded by Bloom6132 (talk). Self-nominated at 00:00, 4 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Note: Article is eligible has it has only been on recent deaths section of ITN (and so is eligible as per WP:DYKRULES rule 1d clarification on RD)
This doesn't look to have been quite 5x expanded. Excluding the discography section (as bulleted information doesn't count towards the character count), this version had 868 characters, and the current version has 4070 characters, which is short of the 4340 characters that are needed for 5x expansion. Bloom6132 would you be able to add 270 characters or more of text to the article? Joseph2302 (talk) 17:51, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseph2302: It passes 5× expansion, because the November 8, 2020 version (i.e. version immediately before January 28 edits) is 743 characters. That means 3,715 characters are required (already met). I had the same discussion with Yoninah on Template:Did you know nominations/Héctor Suárez. —Bloom6132 (talk) 21:34, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake, the article has been 5x expanded (I was checking a few diffs out from the correct one). Let me do a full review then:
Y Article is long enough (4070 characters), has been 5x expanded, as per above discussion, and nominated in time (expansion started 28 January, nominated 2 February). Article is within policy
Y Hooks are short enough, interesting, in the article and well cited
Y Image is freely licenced (PD), used in the article, and looks decent at low resolution
Y QPQ done
Overall, this nomination passes, congratulations. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:14, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]