This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a
list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the
full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles
This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
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
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Austria, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles about
Austria on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please
join the project.AustriaWikipedia:WikiProject AustriaTemplate:WikiProject AustriaAustria articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Tennis, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles that relate to tennis on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TennisWikipedia:WikiProject TennisTemplate:WikiProject Tennistennis articles
Other : *Sign up as a
member of the project. Tag more articles with our standard
project template. Help with the creation of yearly main articles and drawsheets for every
Open Era ATP and WTA tournament.
A fact from Hans Redl appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 October 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that despite losing his left arm in World War II, Austrian tennis player Hans Redl reached the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1947?
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.
Hi
DeLarge, sounds good. Could you give me a ping when you've replaced the Daily Mail with these new sources, and I'll pop back to complete the review -
Dumelow (
talk)
20:53, 4 October 2022 (UTC)reply
OK
Dumelow, I've replaced the DM source link with the Google Books one. I've also adjusted the DYK hook slightly so that everything's supported by that one reference. DeLarge (
talk)
22:20, 4 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Hi
DeLarge. Unfortunately you'll have to remove all instances of sourcing to the DM. There's a few things not cited also, I've tagged these to indicate -
Dumelow (
talk)
09:53, 5 October 2022 (UTC)reply
DM references now removed. I've cited the ATP as source for his birthdate. Haven't confirmed his exact deathdate so left the tag in place. I'd point out that citing sources for birth/death dates in infoboxes isn't common practice for tennis players on WP; see e.g.
Rafael Nadal,
Novak Djokovic, or some players mentioned in this article, e.g.
Lew Hoad or
Bob Falkenburg. Also, Redl's birth/death dates have been listed on his
French Wikipedia article since it was created seven years ago.
Finally, I simply removed the tag requesting a source for him being right-handed. Again, check other tennis player article infoboxes. If you somehow doubt he's right-handed,
here's some pictures of him at Wimbledon sans his left arm. This article needs a citation for his handedness less than any other on Wikipedia.
Hi
DeLarge. I didn't doubt that he was right handed, the bit that was not cited was that he used backhand, I've just removed this for now (indeed in those photos you linked he seems to be playing forehand, though ). You don't need citations in the infobox if the information is cited in the main text (as it is in those examples you've listed, but wasn't in Redl's article). I've trimmed off his death date, leaving just the year (which is cited); I find death and birthdays are one of those things that tend to be added on one Wikipedia language then spread without citation and are not infallible.
I hope you don't think I've been overly picky on this, I think
WP:Verifiability is our most important policy and whatever we put on the main page should be compliant. The article looks good and the hook is particularly interesting and is stated in the source. I am not familiar with many of the tennis-related sources used but happy to assume on good faith that they are reliable. Article was created 3 October. A QPQ is not required. Looking forward to seeing it on the main page -
Dumelow (
talk)
21:29, 6 October 2022 (UTC)reply