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A fact from Khabzela: The Life And Times Of A South African appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 January 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Khabzela, a 2005 bestselling biography by Liz McGregor, concerns a South African disc jockey who died of AIDS?

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:47, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... 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.
- ALT1:... that Liz McGregor wrote the bestselling 2005 biography Khabzela because the story, as she put, "got under my skin"? 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.54. 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.

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

Expansion good, source checks out. Hooks interesting and in article - I kind of prefer Alt1 but both are fine. QPQ done, good to go. Nice article. Kingsif (talk) 01:55, 22 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]

That's right. HIV/AIDS is a disease which starts with HIV infection and progresses to a final stage, AIDS. This is all explained in out HIV/AIDS article. Alexbrn (talk) 20:33, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Alexbrn so he died of AIDS, not HIV/AIDS, right? Yoninah (talk) 21:07, 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]

Thank you. Tweaking ALT0 and lead of article. Restoring tick for offline source per Kingsif's review. Yoninah (talk) 22:45, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]