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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 Yoninah (talk22:47, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that Khabzela, a bestselling 2005 biography written by Liz McGregor, is about a South African disc jockey who died of AIDS? Source: Zulu, N.S. (2009). "Challenging Aids Denialism—Khabzela: Life and Times of a South African". Journal of Literary Studies. 25 (1): 53–63. doi:10.1080/02564710802261782. ISSN 0256-4718. p.53. For "bestselling" see Steinberg, Jonny (25 April 2011). "An Eerie Silence—Why is it so hard for South Africa to talk about AIDS?". Foreign Policy.

5x expanded by Alexbrn (talk). Nominated by Muhandes (talk) at 18:11, 14 December 2019 (UTC).[reply]

  • Hi, I came by to promote this, but the article is confusing; the lead says he died of HIV/AIDS, the body starts talking about him being infected with HIV, and the reviews say he died of AIDS. It seems to me that, aside from talking about the HIV virus infection, it should be calling it AIDS all the way through. Yoninah (talk) 20:25, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • He died of some disease (most likely an opportunistic infection or cancer), which was the result of failure of the immune system due to AIDS, which was the result of an HIV infection. I think that in common language, you would say he died of AIDS or HIV/AIDS. I doubt the sources, which are literary by nature, are more accurate than that. If you feel the hook should be more accurate, use AIDS. --Muhandes (talk) 22:28, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]