User:Aridd/DYK

This is merely to serve as a reference point for my number of DYK contributions as indicated on Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of DYKs.

My 33 DYKs: Lamine Guèye (skier), Trischa Zorn, Pal Szekeres, Niue Star, Ruatara (chief), Mary Ann Müller, Kiribati–Cuba relations, Robert Van Lierop, Fiji and the United Nations, James Tanis, Ralph Regenvanu, Love Patrol, The Maori Merchant of Venice, Tofiri Kibuuka, Lango Sinkamba, Said Gomez, Rhodesia at the 1960 Summer Paralympics, Edward Maalouf, Marathon at the Paralympics, Babatunde Jose, George Ambo, Wara Wara, Law of Vanuatu, Andrew Nori, Ukraine at the Paralympics, Pete Gray (activist), Constituencies for French residents overseas, North Korea–South Korea football encounters, Essential National Industries (Employment) Decree 2011, Mojo Mathers, Fuahea Semi, 1924 Summer Deaflympics, and Tonga at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

To verify that I'm the author, you can check my talk page (which contains notifications of the DYKs), and/or check the articles' edit histories. Below are the DYKs, taken from each article's talk page.

A breakdown of the topics of these thirty-three articles gives some indication as to my fields of interest:

• 18 are biographical articles.

Of those 18 biographies:

8 are about athletes, of which 6 about Paralympic athletes.

8 are about people involved in politics, government or leadership. Of those, 4 are about people who have been elected to political office.

• 3 are about international diplomacy: one about a diplomat, one about bilateral relations between two countries, and one about relations between a country and the United Nations.

• 11 are about the Paralympic Games in some form or other (not counting one about the Deaflympics).

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DYKs

• 7 July 2008

... that Lamine Guèye from Senegal was the first Black African skier to take part in the Winter Olympics?

• 5 September 2008

... that swimmer Trischa Zorn of the United States is the most successful Paralympian with more than 40 gold medals reported?

• 9 September 2008

... that Hungarian fencer Pal Szekeres is the only person ever to have won medals at both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games?

• 4 October 2008

... that the Niue Star, founded in 1993, is Niue's only printed newspaper?

• 18 October 2008

... that Ruatara, chief of the Ngā Puhi, hosted the first Christian mission in New Zealand in 1814?

• 21 October 2008

... that Mary Ann Müller has been described as "New Zealand's pioneer suffragist"?

• 21 October 2008

... that the arrival of Cuban doctors to Kiribati is credited with reducing the child mortality rate in Kiribati by 80%?

• 23 October 2008

... that Robert Van Lierop is an American film director who became one of Vanuatu's senior diplomats in the 1980s?

• 25 October 2008

... that Fiji has been contributing troops to United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world since 1978?

• 13 January 2009

... that former guerrilla James Tanis undertook a trip through some twenty fast-flowing rivers and creeks before being inaugurated as the second President of Bougainville?

• 15 February 2009

... that Ralph Regenvanu has been described as Vanuatu's first anthropologist?

• 28 April 2009

... that Love Patrol is a ni-Vanuatu edutainment soap opera designed to educate viewers about HIV AIDS?

• 19 May 2009

... that The Maori Merchant of Venice was the first Maori language film adaptation of any of William Shakespeare's plays?

• 10 March 2010

... that Tofiri Kibuuka, one of the first blind men to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, was the first African to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games?

• 22 March 2010

... that wheelchair marathon athlete Lango Sinkamba was Zambia's first Paralympian?

• 14 June 2010

... that visually impaired runner Said Gomez, three time Paralympic champion, is the only Panamanian to have won medals at the Paralympic Games?

• 15 June 2010

... that Rhodesia was the only African country to compete at the first Paralympic Games?

• 18 June 2010

... that paraplegic handcyclist Edward Maalouf is the only person to have won medals for Lebanon at the Paralympic Games?

• 6 October 2010

... that marathon events have been held at the Paralympic Games since 1984?

• 6 October 2010

... that Babatunde Jose has been described as the "grandfather of Nigerian journalism"?

• 17 October 2010

... that Papua New Guinean Anglican archbishop Sir George Ambo was "the first South Pacific native to be made a bishop", in 1960?

• 6 November 2010

... that the recently restored Wara Wara (1930) is the only known surviving Bolivian silent feature film?

• 30 January 2011

... that law in Vanuatu combines a legacy of English common law, French law and indigenous customary law?

• 5 February 2011

... that, in 2000, Solomon Islands politician Andrew Nori led the Eagle Force in a coup d'état against Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, taking him hostage at gunpoint and demanding that he resign?

• 30 March 2011

... that Ukraine has been one of the most successful nations at the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games in recent years?

• 14 July 2011

... that the world has been divided into 11 constituencies for French residents overseas to vote in the 2012 legislative election?

• 19 July 2011

... that environmental activist Pete Gray once threw his shoes at former Australian Prime Minister John Howard?

• 25 July 2011

... that the national football teams of North Korea and South Korea have met on numerous occasions?

• 21 September 2011

... that Amnesty International has described Fiji's Essential National Industries (Employment) Decree 2011 as "a breathtaking abuse of fundamental rights"?

• 14 December 2011

... that Mojo Mathers (pictured) became New Zealand's first deaf MP during the 2011 general election?

• 18 February 2012

... that Fuahea Semi, a luger who sought to be the first Tongan at the Winter Olympic Games, used the name of a lingerie firm for more than two years?

• 16 May 2012

... that the First International Silent Games, in 1924, were the first ever international games for athletes with a disability?

• 15 September 2012

... that Tonga was one of the 45 countries that sent only a single athlete for the 2012 Summer Paralympics?