Talk:Thambi Naidoo

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

A fact from Thambi Naidoo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 April 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that South African civil rights activist Thambi Naidoo was arrested along with Mahatma Gandhi and sent outside of Transvaal for refusing to register?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Thambi Naidoo.

Wikipedia

Did you know nomination

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 Hilst talk 14:41, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that South African civil rights activist Thambi Naidoo was arrested along with Mahatma Gandhi and sent outside of Transvaal for refusing to register? Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/an-inspiring-saga-of-the-tamil-diasporas-contribution-to-indias-freedom-struggle/article67510190.ece
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/WUXP-TV

Created by Ktin (talk). Self-nominated at 05:14, 17 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Thambi Naidoo; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: ~~My only issue here is with the PD status of the image, which I think is unclear.~~ The article otherwise is very nicely put together and the nominator did some nice work expanding it before its DYK nomination. ~~If better information about the photograph's PD status can't be provided, consider removing it from the DYK nomination.~~ Grnrchst (talk) 12:28, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Grnrchst:. Thanks for the review. Let’s go without the picture. Ktin (talk) 20:43, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok! I removed the image and have now passed the DYK review. --Grnrchst (talk) 09:49, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]